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trial of a time lord (terror of the vervoids)

story 146 : season 23 : serial 7C1 : 4 episodes

Producer: John Nathan-Turner
Director: Chris Clough
Writer: Pip Baker
Writer: Jane Baker
Script Editor: Eric Saward
Designer: Dinah Walker

cast information

Colin Baker (The Doctor); Bonnie Langford (Melanie Bush); Lynda Bellingham (The Inquisitor); Michael Jayston (The Valeyard); Honor Blackman (Professor Lasky); Michael Craig (Commodore); Denys Hawthorne (Rudge); Yolande Palfrey (Janet); Malcolm Tierney (Doland); David Allister (Bruchner); Tony Scoggo (Grenville/Enzu); Arthur Hewlett (Kimber); Simon Slater (Edwardes); Sam Howard (Atza); Leon Davis (Ortezo); Hugh Beverton (Guard/First Guard); Mike Mungarvan (Duty Officer); Martin Weedon (Second Guard); Barbara Ward (Mutant/Ruth Baxter); Peppi Borza (First Vervoid); Bob Appleby (Second Vervoid);

crew information

Karen Little (Assistant Floor Manager); Andrew Rose (Costumes); Malcolm Clarke (Incidental Music); Shaunna Harrison (Make-Up); Jane Wellesley (Production Assistant); June Collins (Production Associate); Jenny Doe (Production Associate); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Don Babbage (Studio Lighting); Brian Clark (Studio Sound); Dominic Glynn (Theme Arrangement); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Kevin Molloy (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part Nine (Part One) 1 November 1986 at 17:45 24'56" 5.2mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
2 Part Ten (Part Two) 8 November 1986 at 17:45 24'18" 4.6mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
3 Part Eleven (Part Three) 15 November 1986 at 17:45 24'07" 5.3mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
4 Part Twelve (Part Four) 22 November 1986 at 17:45 24'45" 5.2mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
  1. Part Nine (Part One)
    » Always held by the FVTL
    » A 71-edit exists also
    » A 72-edit exists also
  2. Part Ten (Part Two)
    » Always held by the FVTL
    » A 71-edit exists also
  3. Part Eleven (Part Three)
    » Always held by the FVTL
    » A 71-edit exists also
  4. Part Twelve (Part Four)
    » Always held by the FVTL
    » A 71-edit exists also

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who -- Terror of the Vervoids
Written by: Pip & Jane Baker
Number 125 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1988 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Tony Masero
18 February 1988 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Tony Masero
ISBN: 0 426 20313 5

plot synopsis

It is now the Doctor's turn to present his defence, and although still in shock from witnessing Peri's apparent death, he selects events from his future, which appear on the screen... Something is murdering the passengers on the Hyperion III space liner. Three Botanists unwittingly unleash the deadly plant life forms, the Vervoids, who start to slaughter any humans they find, and the Doctor and his 'new' companion, Mel, have to fight off the creatures and stop the ship from being destroyed by entering a black hole.

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