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terror of the autons

story 55 : season 8 : serial EEE : 4 episodes

Producer: Barry Letts
Director: Barry Letts
Writer: Robert Holmes
Script Editor: Terrance Dicks
Designer: Ian Watson

cast information

Jon Pertwee (Doctor Who); Katy Manning (Jo Grant); Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart); John Levene (Sergeant Benton); Richard Franklin (Captain Mike Yates); Roger Delgado (The Master); Michael Wisher (Rex Farrel); Harry Towb (McDermott); David Garth (Time Lord); Frank Mills (Radio Telescope Director); Christopher Burgess (Professor Philips); Andrew Staines (Goodge); John Baskcomb (Rossini); Dave Carter (Museum Attendant); Stephen Jack (Farrel Senior); Barbara Leake (Mrs. Farrel); Roy Stewart (Strong Man); Dermot Tuohy (Brownrose); Norman Stanley (Telephone Mechanic); Bill McGuirk (Policeman); Terry Walsh (Auton Policeman); Pat Gorman (Auton Leader); Haydn Jones (Auton Voice);

crew information

HAVOC (Action / Stuntwork); Bruce Best (Assistant Floor Manager); Ken Trew (Costumes); John Baker (Film Cameraman); Geoffrey Botterill (Film Editor); Dudley Simpson (Incidental Music); Jan Harrison (Make-Up); Nicholas John (Production Assistant); Robert Brothers (Provision of Circus Sequences); Brian Hodgson (Special Sounds); Eric Monk (Studio Lighting); Colin Dixon (Studio Sound); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Michealjohn Harris (Visual Effects); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Episode One 2 January 1971 at 17:15 24'36" 7.3mil 16mm b/w telerecording
NTSC U-Matic (colour)
PAL D3 colour restoration
2 Episode Two 9 January 1971 at 17:15 24'48" 8.0mil 16mm b/w telerecording
NTSC U-Matic (colour)
PAL D3 colour restoration
3 Episode Three 16 January 1971 at 17:15 23'28" 8.1mil 16mm b/w telerecording
NTSC U-Matic (colour)
PAL D3 colour restoration
4 Episode Four 23 January 1971 at 17:15 22'10" 8.4mil 16mm b/w telerecording
NTSC U-Matic (colour)
PAL D3 colour restoration
  1. Episode One
    » Film print recovered from Ents c.1978
    » Copy of Domestic USA recording
    » New tape made using the telerecording and NTSC colour source
    » An original PAL colour extract exists from Nationwide
  2. Episode Two
    » Film print recovered from Ents c.1978
    » Copy of Domestic USA recording
    » New tape made using the telerecording and NTSC colour source
  3. Episode Three
    » Film print recovered from Ents c.1978
    » Copy of Domestic USA recording
    » New tape made using the telerecording and NTSC colour source
  4. Episode Four
    » Film print recovered from Ents c.1978
    » Copy of Domestic USA recording
    » New tape made using the telerecording and NTSC colour source

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons
Written by: Terrance Dicks
Number 063 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1975 Published by Allan Wingate Ltd, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Peter Brookes
15 May 1975 Published by Universal-Tandem, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Peter Brookes
ISBN: 0 426 10639 3
March 1976 Published by Tandem, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Peter Brookes
ISBN: 0 426 11500 7
1979 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alun Hood
ISBN: 0 426 11500 7
29 March 1979 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Peter Brookes
ISBN: 0 426 11500 7
1981 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Alun Hood

plot synopsis

A renegade Time Lord called the Master arrives on Earth with a plan to use new Autons to instigate a second Nestene invasion attempt. The Doctor, working alongside his new assistant, Jo Grant, has to contend with all manor of Nestene devices, ranging from lethal plastic daffodils to animated troll dolls, before stopping the Master from allowing the Nestene consciousness to land on Earth

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