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the space museum

story 15 : season 2 : serial Q : 4 episodes

Producer: Verity Lambert
Director: Mervyn Pinfield
Writer: Glyn Jones
Script Editor: Dennis Spooner
Designer: Spencer Chapman

cast information

William Hartnell (Dr. Who); William Russell (Ian Chesterton); Jacqueline Hill (Barbara Wright); Maureen O'Brien (Vicki); Peter Sanders (Sita); Peter Craze (Dako); Bill Starkey (Third Xeron); Lawrence Dean (Morok Guard); Ken Norris (Morok Guard); Salvin Stewart (Morok Guard); Peter Diamond (Morok Guard); Billy Cornelius (Morok Guard); Richard Shaw (Lobos); Jeremy Bulloch (Tor); Salvin Stewart (Morok Messenger); Peter Diamond (Morok Technician); Ivor Salter (Morok Commander); Michael Gordon (Xeron); Edward Granville (Xeron); David Wolliscroft (Xeron); Bill Starkey (Xeron); Peter Hawkins (Dalek Voice); Murphy Grumbar (Dalek Operator);

crew information

Caroline Walmsley (Assistant Floor Manager); John Tait (Assistant Floor Manager); Daphne Dare (Costumes); Tony Pearce (Costumes); Peter Diamond (Fight Arranger); Sonia Markham (Make-Up); Snowy White (Production Assistant); Brian Hodgson (Special Sounds); Howard King (Studio Lighting); George Prince (Studio Sound); Ray Angel (Studio Sound); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 The Space Museum 24 April 1965 at 17:40 23'38" 10.5mil 16mm telerecording
2 The Dimensions of Time 1 May 1965 at 17:50 22'00" 9.2mil 16mm telerecording
3 The Search 8 May 1965 at 18:00 23'33" 8.5mil 16mm telerecording
4 The Final Phase 15 May 1965 at 17:40 22'15" 8.5mil 16mm telerecording
  1. The Space Museum
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978
    » Redundant print returned c.1981
  2. The Dimensions of Time
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978
  3. The Search
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978
  4. The Final Phase
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who -- The Space Museum
Written by: Glyn Jones
Number 117 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1987 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: David McAllister
ISBN: 0 491 03295 1
18 June 1987 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: David McAllister
ISBN: 0 426 20289 9

plot synopsis

On the planet Xeros, in a museum of the Morok Empire, the TARDIS crew find it mysterious that neither the Moroks nor the subservient Xerons can see them, and are alarmed when they find a museum exhibit containing themselves. The Doctor deduces that time shifts experienced as they arrived have put them on a different time track, slightly in their own future, but this is suddenly rectified and a fight to avoid their future enslavement begins...

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