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vengeance on varos

story 139 : season 22 : serial 6V : 2 episodes

Producer: John Nathan-Turner
Director: Ron Jones
Writer: Philip Martin
Script Editor: Eric Saward
Designer: Tony Snoaden

cast information

Colin Baker (The Doctor); Nicola Bryant (Peri Brown); Martin Jarvis (Governor); Nabil Shaban (Sil); Jason Connery (Jondar); Nicholas Chagrin (Quillam); Forbes Collins (Chief Officer); Stephen Yardley (Arak); Sheila Reid (Etta); Geraldine Alexander (Areta); Graham Cull (Bax); Owen Teale (Maldak); Keith Skinner (Rondel); Hugh Martin (Priest);

crew information

Sophie Neville (Assistant Floor Manager); Anne Hardinge (Costumes); Jonathan Gibbs (Incidental Music); Cecile Hay-Arthur (Make-Up); Dorka Nieradzik (Make-Up); Jane Whittaker (Production Assistant); Pat Greenland (Production Assistant); Sue Anstruther (Production Associate); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Dennis Channon (Studio Lighting); Andy Stacey (Studio Sound); Peter Howell (Theme Arrangement); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Charles Jeanes (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part One 19 January 1985 at 17:20 44'42" 7.2mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
2 Part Two 26 January 1985 at 17:20 44'43" 7.0mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
  1. Part One
    » Always held by the FVTL
    » Also held in 25 minute format by Ents
  2. Part Two
    » Always held by the FVTL
    » Also held in 25 minute format by Ents

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who -- Vengeance on Varos
Written by: Philip Martin
Number 106 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
16 June 1988 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: David McAllister
ISBN: 0 491 03502 0
16 June 1988 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: David McAllister
ISBN: 0 426 20291 0
21 January 1993 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 20291 0

plot synopsis

With a continual stream of executions and scenes of torture broadcast directly into their homes keep the population of Varos subdued, the Governor of the planet is fighting to save the economy, negotiating with the slug-like Galatron Mining delegate, Sil, over the price he is willing to pay for Zyton Seven, an ore natural to the planet. The Doctor needs some of the same mineral to power the TARDIS, and arrives on Varos to get some, but gets caught up with a band of rebels in the punishment dome and has to convince the Governor to take the upper hand in bartering for his planet's export materials.

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