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the dominators

story 44 : season 6 : serial TT : 5 episodes

Producer: Peter Bryant
Director: Morris Barry
Writer: Norman Ashby
Script Editor: Derrick Sherwin
Designer: Barry Newbery

cast information

Patrick Troughton (Dr. Who); Frazer Hines (Jamie MacCrimmon); Wendy Padbury (Zoe Heriot); Ronald Allen (Rago); Kenneth Ives (Toba); Arthur Cox (Cully); Philip Voss (Wahed); Malcolm Terris (Etnin); Nicolette Pendrell (Tolata); Felicity Gibson (Kando); Giles Block (Teel); Johnson Bayly (Balan); John Hicks (Quark); Gary Smith (Quark); Freddie Wilson (Quark); Sheila Grant (Quark voices); Walter Fitzgerald (Senex); John Cross (Council Member); Ronald Mansell (Council Member); Alan Gerrard (Bovem); Brian Cant (Tensa);

crew information

Barbara Stuart (Assistant Floor Manager); Martin Baugh (Costumes); Peter Hamilton (Film Cameraman); Chris Hayden (Film Editor); Sylvia James (Make-Up); John Bruce (Production Assistant); Brian Hodgson (Special Sounds); Sam Neeter (Studio Lighting); Richard Chubb (Studio Sound); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Ron Oates (Visual Effects); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Episode 1 10 August 1968 at 17:15 24'25" 6.1mil 16mm telerecording
2 Episode 2 17 August 1968 at 17:15 24'07" 5.9mil 16mm telerecording
3 Episode 3 24 August 1968 at 17:15 24'11" 5.4mil 35mm telerecording
4 Episode 4 31 August 1968 at 17:15 23'53" 7.5mil 16mm telerecording
5 Episode 5 7 September 1968 at 17:15 24'19" 5.9mil 16mm telerecording
  1. Episode 1
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
    » Recovered from BFI c.1978
  2. Episode 2
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
    » Recovered from BFI c.1978
  3. Episode 3
    » Recovered from BFI c.1978
  4. Episode 4
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978 (incomplete)
    » Recovered from BFI c.1978 (Incomplete)
    » Clips returned from ABC censors in Australia c.1996 would make print complete
  5. Episode 5
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978 (incomplete)
    » Recovered from BFI c.1978 (incomplete)
    » Complete print recovered c.1994

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who -- The Dominators
Written by: Ian Marter
Number 086 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1984 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Andrew Skilleter
19 July 1984 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Andrew Skilleter
ISBN: 0 426 19553 1
21 February 1991 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 19553 1

plot synopsis

The Dominators have taken over the planet of Dulkis with their robotic Quarks, with a plan to detonate a vast nuclear device in the planet's core that would turn the world into nothing more than radioactive waste. This would then be used to power the Dominators' fleet of spacecraft. The Dulcians are natural pacifists, and so the Doctor must find a way to stop the Dominators' scheme

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