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the tenth planet

story 29 : season 4 : serial DD : 4 episodes

Producer: Innes Lloyd
Director: Derek Martinus
Writer: Kit Pedler
Writer: Gerry Davis
Writer: Pat Dunlap
Script Editor: Gerry Davis
Designer: Peter Kindred

cast information

William Hartnell (Dr. Who); Michael Craze (Ben Jackson); Anneke Wills (Polly Wright); Patrick Troughton (Dr. Who (uncredited)); Robert Beatty (General Cutler); Dudley Jones (Dyson); David Dodimead (Barclay); Alan White (Schultz); Earl Cameron (Williams); Shane Shelton (Tito); John Brandon (American Sergeant); Steve Plytas (Wigner); Christopher Matthews (Radar Technician); Reg Whitehead (Krail); Reg Whitehead (Jarl); Harry Brooks (Talon); Harry Brooks (Krang); Gregg Palmer (Shav); Gregg Palmer (Gern); Ellen Cullen (Geneva Technician); Glenn Beck (T.V. Announcer); Roy Skelton (Cyberman Voice); Peter Hawkins (Cyberman Voice); Christopher Dunham (R/T Technician); Cullen Angelo (Terry Cutler);

crew information

Jenny McArthur (Assistant Floor Manager); Sandra Reid (Costumes); Gillian James (Make-Up); Edwina Verner (Production Assistant); Brian Hodgson (Special Sounds); Howard King (Studio Lighting); Adrian Bishop-Laggett (Studio Sound); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Episode 1 8 October 1966 at 17:50 23'08" 5.5mil 16mm telerecording
2 Episode 2 15 October 1966 at 17:50 23'15" 6.4mil 16mm telerecording
3 Episode 3 22 October 1966 at 17:50 23'31" 7.6mil 16mm telerecording
4 Episode 4 29 October 1966 at 17:50 24'02" 7.5mil does not exist
  1. Episode 1
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  2. Episode 2
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  3. Episode 3
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  4. Episode 4
    » Clip exists from Blue Peter
    » Clips exist in the form of an 8mm home movie reel shot off a television set

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet
Written by: Gerry Davis
Number 062 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1976 Published by Allan Wingate Ltd, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
19 February 1976 Published by Tandem, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 11068 4
1978 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 11068 4
18 December 1993 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 11068 4

plot synopsis

At a tracking station on the South Pole, radars pick up signals from a new planet heading into orbit, which drains the energy from a space shuttle, and then starts to do the same to the Earth. Its inhabitants are revealed to be the Cybermen, who need the energy to carry out their plan to turn humans into their own kind. A first invasion force is defeated, and after the Doctor manages to overcome a second, Mondas (Earth's long-lost twin world) is blown up. The experience seems to age the Doctor, and on returning to the TARDIS, Ben and Polly can only watch as he collapses and starts to regenerate...

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