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silver nemesis

story 154 : season 25 : serial 7K : 3 episodes

Producer: John Nathan-Turner
Director: Chris Clough
Writer: Kevin Clarke
Script Editor: Andrew Cartmel
Designer: John Asbridge

cast information

Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor); Sophie Aldred (Ace); Fiona Walker (Lady Peinforte); Anton Diffring (De Flores); Gerard Murphy (Richard); Leslie French (Mathematician); Metin Yenal (Karl); Martyn Read (Security Guard); David Banks (Cyber Leader); Courtney Pine (Jazz Quartet); Adrian Reid (Jazz Quartet); Ernest Mothle (Jazz Quartet); Frank Tontoh (Jazz Quartet); Mark Hardy (Cyber Lieutenant); Chris Chering (Skinhead); Symond Lawes (Skinhead); Brian Orrell (Cyberman); Dolores Gray (Mrs Remmington);

crew information

Lynn Grant (Assistant Floor Manager); Jeremy Fry (Assistant Floor Manager); Richard Croft (Costumes); Keff McCulloch (Incidental Music); Dorka Nieradzik (Make-Up); Barry Chaston (OB Cameraman); Alan Jessop (OB Cameraman); Jane Wellesley (Production Assistant); June Collins (Production Associate); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Paul Heasman (Stunt Arranger); Nick Gillard (Stunt Arranger); Keff McCulloch (Theme Arrangement); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Perry Brahan (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part One 23 November 1988 at 19:35 24'31" 6.1mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
2 Part Two 30 November 1988 at 19:35 24'12" 5.2mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
3 Part Three 7 December 1988 at 19:35 24'36" 5.2mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
  1. Part One
    » Always held by the FVTL
    » A 71-edit exists also
  2. Part Two
    » Always held by the FVTL
    » A 71-edit exists also
  3. Part Three
    » Always held by the FVTL
    » A 72-edit exists also

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who -- Silver Nemesis
Written by: Kevin Clarke
Number 143 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
16 November 1989 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 20340 2
16 September 1993 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 20340 2

plot synopsis

When the Doctor and Ace are attacked, while they are quietly listening to some live jazz at a riverside Inn, they realise someone is controlling the men responsible. The mystery deepens as the Cyber men, the 17th century Lady Peinforte and her man servant Richard, and a group of modern-day Nazis, led by De Flores, all congregate in England, 1988, in search of the nemesis statue. The statue is a validium based Gallifreyan artefact that is, in effect, a powerful living metal. The Doctor and Ace have to out manoeuvre all three parties to ensure the statue does not fall into the wrong hands. .

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