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the smugglers

story 28 : season 4 : serial CC : 4 episodes

Producer: Innes Lloyd
Director: Julia Smith
Writer: Brian Hayles
Script Editor: Gerry Davis
Designer: Richard Hunt

cast information

William Hartnell (Dr. Who); Michael Craze (Ben Jackson); Anneke Wills (Polly Wright); Terence de Marney (Churchwarden); George A Cooper (Cherub); David Blake Kelly (Jacob Kewper); Mike Lucas (Tom); Paul Whitsun-Jones (Squire); Derek Ware (Spaniard); Michael Godfrey (Captain Pike); Elroy Josephs (Jamaica); John Ringham (Blake); Jack Bligh (Gaptooth);

crew information

John Hansen (Assistant Floor Manager); Tony Gilbert (Assistant Floor Manager); Maggie Saunders (Assistant Floor Manager); Daphne Dare (Costumes); Derek Ware (Fight Arranger); Jimmy Court (Film Cameraman); Colin Eggleston (Film Editor); Sonia Markham (Make-Up); John Hobbs (Production Assistant); Brian Hodgson (Special Sounds); Cyril Wilkins (Studio Lighting); Leo Sturgess (Studio Sound); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Episode 1 10 September 1966 at 17:50 24'36" 4.3mil does not exist
2 Episode 2 17 September 1966 at 17:55 24'27" 4.9mil does not exist
3 Episode 3 24 September 1966 at 17:50 23'55" 4.2mil does not exist
4 Episode 4 1 October 1966 at 17:50 23'37" 4.5mil does not exist
  1. Episode 1
    » Clip returned from ABC censors in Australia c.1996
  2. Episode 2
  3. Episode 3
    » Clips returned from ABC censors in Australia c.1996
  4. Episode 4
    » Clip returned from ABC censors in Australia c.1996

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who -- The Smugglers
Written by: Terrance Dicks
Number 133 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1988 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 491 03148 3
17 November 1988 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 20328 3
18 February 1993 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 20328 3

plot synopsis

Arriving on the Cornish Coast in the 17th Century, a seemingly harmless message from a church warden leads the TARDIS crew into a confrontation with some Pirates. The Doctor has to persuade Customs and Excise Officers to help him defeat Captain Pike, who is in league with the local Squire, before sentence is passed on Ben and Polly, who have been framed for the murder of the now dead Church warden...

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