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the highlanders

story 31 : season 4 : serial FF : 4 episodes

Producer: Innes Lloyd
Director: Hugh David
Writer: Gerry Davis
Writer: Elwyn Jones
Script Editor: Gerry Davis
Designer: Geoff Kirkland

cast information

Patrick Troughton (Dr. Who); Michael Craze (Ben Jackson); Anneke Wills (Polly Wright); Frazer Hines (Jamie MacCrimmon); William Dysart (Alexander); Donald Bisset (The Laird); Hannah Gordon (Kirsty); Michael Elwyn (Lt. Algernon ffinch); Peter Welch (Sergeant); David Garth (Solicitor Grey); Sydney Arnold (Perkins); Tom Bowman (Sentry); Dallas Cavell (Trask); Barbara Bruce (Mollie); Andrew Downie (Willie Mackay); Peter Diamond (Sailor); Guy Middleton (Colonel Attwood);

crew information

Nicholas John (Assistant Floor Manager); Sandra Reid (Costumes); Peter Diamond (Fight Arranger); GIllian James (Make-Up); Fiona Cumming (Production Assistant); Brian Hodgson (Special Sounds); George Summers (Studio Lighting); Ken McGregor (Studio Lighting); Larry Goodson (Studio Sound); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Episode 1 17 December 1966 at 17:50 24'33" 6.7mil does not exist
2 Episode 2 24 December 1966 at 17:50 23'41" 6.8mil does not exist
3 Episode 3 31 December 1966 at 17:50 22'54" 7.4mil does not exist
4 Episode 4 7 January 1967 at 17:50 24'19" 7.3mil does not exist
  1. Episode 1
    » Clips returned from ABC censors in Australia c.1996
  2. Episode 2
  3. Episode 3
  4. Episode 4

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who -- The Highlanders
Written by: Gerry Davis
Number 090 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1984 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Nick Spender
ISBN: 0 491 03193 9
15 November 1984 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Nick Spender
ISBN: 0 426 19676 7

plot synopsis

The TARDIS lands in Scotland during the Battle of Culloden in 1746, and the Doctor and his companions become involved with a group of slave traders. The Doctor sets about freeing the men and arming them, whilst revealing to the English Redcoats the identity of the man behind the operation, a solicitor called Grey. With everything resolved, the TARDIS leaves with an extra occupant, the piper Jamie McCrimmon...

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