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the moonbase

story 33 : season 4 : serial HH : 4 episodes

Producer: Innes Lloyd
Director: Morris Barry
Writer: Kit Pedler
Writer: Gerry Davis
Script Editor: Gerry Davis
Designer: Colin Shaw

cast information

Patrick Troughton (Dr. Who); Michael Craze (Ben Jackson); Anneke Wills (Polly Wright); Frazer Hines (Jamie MacCrimmon); Patrick Barr (Hobson); Andre Maranne (Benoit); Michael Wolf (Nils); John Rolfe (Sam); Alan Rowe (Voice from Space Control); Mark Heath (Ralph); Alan Rowe (Dr. Evans); Barry Ashton (Scientist); Derek Calder (Scientist); Arnold Chazen (Scientist); Leon Maybank (Scientist); Victor Pemberton (Scientist); Edward Phillips (Scientist); Ron Pinnell (Scientist); Robin Scott (Scientist); Alan Wells (Scientist); Denis McCarthy (Voice of Controller Rinberg); John Wills (Cyberman); Sonnie Willis (Cyberman); Peter Greene (Cyberman); Keith Goodman (Cyberman); Reg Whitehead (Cyberman); Peter Hawkins (Cybermen Voices);

crew information

Lovett Bickford (Assistant Floor Manager); Sandra Reid (Costumes); Mary Woods (Costumes); Daphne Dare (Costumes); Peter Hamilton (Film Cameraman); Ted Walter (Film Editor); Gillian James (Make-Up); Jeanne Richmond (Make-Up); Desmond McCarthy (Production Assistant); Brian Hodgson (Special Sounds); Dave Sydenham (Studio Lighting); Gordon Mackie (Studio Sound); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Episode 1 11 February 1967 at 17:50 24'12" 8.1mil does not exist
2 Episode 2 18 February 1967 at 17:50 24'42" 8.9mil 16mm telerecording
3 Episode 3 25 February 1967 at 17:50 26'11" 8.2mil does not exist
4 Episode 4 4 March 1967 at 17:50 23'28" 8.1mil 16mm telerecording
  1. Episode 1
  2. Episode 2
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  3. Episode 3
  4. Episode 4
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
    » Redundant print returned c.1981

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who and the Cybermen
Written by: Gerry Davis
Number 014 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1975 Published by Allan Wingate Ltd, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
20 February 1975 Published by Universal-Tandem, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 10575 3
June 1975 Published by Remzi Kitabevi, Turkey in paperback
Translated into Turkish by Reha Pinar
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
March 1976 Published by Tandem, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 11463 9
17 August 1978 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 10575 3
1981 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Bill Donohoe
ISBN: 0 491 02915 2
1981 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Bill Donohoe
ISBN: 0 426 11463 9

plot synopsis

The year is 2070, and a machine called the Gravitron, housed on the moon, is controlling the Earth's weather. Exploring the lunar surface, the TARDIS crew head towards the moon base when Jamie is injured. They find the staff on the moon-base under siege from a mysterious illness and sabotage. The Cybermen are revealed to be behind it, with a plan to use the Gravitron to help render the Earth powerless to an invasion attempt. The Doctor has very little time to stop them...

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