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dragonfire

story 151 : season 24 : serial 7G : 3 episodes

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

cast information

Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor); Bonnie Langford (Melanie Bush); Sophie Aldred (Ace); Tony Selby (Glitz); Edward Peel (Kane); Patricia Quinn (Belazs); Tony Osoba (Kracauer); Shirin Taylor (Customer); Ian Mackenzie (Anderson); Stephanie Fayerman (McLuhan); Stuart Organ (Bazin); Sean Blowers (Zed); Nigel Miles-Thomas (Pudovkin); Leslie Meadows (The Creature); Lynn Gardner (Announcer); Miranda Borman (Stellar); Daphne Oxenford (Archivist); Chris MacDonnell (Arnheim);

crew information

Christopher Sandeman (Assistant Floor Manager); Richard Croft (Costumes); Dominic Glynn (Incidental Music); Gillian Thomas (Make-Up); Rosemary Parsons (Production Assistant); Karen King (Production Assistant); Anne Faggetter (Production Associate); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Don Babbage (Studio Lighting); Brian Clark (Studio Sound); Keff McCulloch (Theme Arrangement); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Andy McVean (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part One 23 November 1987 at 19:35 24'01" 5.5mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
2 Part Two 30 November 1987 at 19:35 24'40" 5.0mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
3 Part Three 7 December 1987 at 19:35 24'26" 4.7mil 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 71-edit exists also

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who -- Dragonfire
Written by: Ian Briggs
Number 137 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
16 March 1989 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 20322 4
November 1991 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 20322 4

plot synopsis

Iceworld is renowned as a huge shopping centre, and the Doctor and Mel meet Glitz there, who is embarking on a treasure hunt. They Join him, along with a young girl called Ace. The treasure in question is also being sought by Kane, as it can release him from his prison, and takes the form of a crystal, which is revealed as being stored inside the head of a bio-mechanoid creature that roams the lower ice caverns of the planet. With Kane defeated, Mel decides to travel with Glitz and leave the TARDIS, so Ace takes her place as the Doctor's companion....

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