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planet of giants

story 9 : season 2 : serial J : 3 episodes

Producer: Verity Lambert
Director: Mervyn Pinfield
Director: Douglas Camfield
Writer: Louis Marks
Script Editor: David Whitaker
Designer: Raymond Cusick

cast information

William Hartnell (Dr. Who); William Russell (Ian Chesterton); Jacqueline Hill (Barbara Wright); Carole Ann Ford (Susan); Alan Tilvern (Forester); Frank Crawshaw (Farrow); Reginald Barratt (Smithers); Rosemary Johnson (Hilda); Fred Ferris (Bert);

crew information

Dawn Robertson (Assistant Floor Manager); Val McCrimmon (Assistant Floor Manager); Mervyn Pinfield (Associate Producer); Daphne Dare (Costumes); Dudley Simpson (Incidental Music); Jill Summers (Make-Up); Sonia Markham (Make-Up); Morman Stewart (Production Assistant); Brian Hodgson (Special Sounds); Howard King (Studio Lighting); Alan Fogg (Studio Sound); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Planet of Giants 31 October 1964 at 17:15 23'15" 8.4mil 16mm telerecording
2 Dangerous Journey 7 November 1964 at 17:15 23'40" 8.4mil 16mm telerecording
3 Crisis 14 November 1964 at 17:15 26'35" 8.9mil 16mm telerecording
  1. Planet of Giants
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978
    » Arabic print also held
  2. Dangerous Journey
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978
    » Arabic print also held
  3. Crisis
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978
    » Arabic print also held

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who -- Planet of Giants
Written by: Terrance Dicks
Number 145 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
18 January 1990 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 20345 3

plot synopsis

The Doctor finally manages to land on modern day earth, but the TARDIS is only an inch high, and the miniaturised crew try to foil the schemes of Forrester, an insecticide maker, facing all kinds of dangers along the way...

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