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the three doctors

story 65 : season 10 : serial RRR : 4 episodes

Producer: Barry Letts
Director: Lennie Mayne
Writer: Bob Baker
Writer: Dave Martin
Script Editor: Terrance Dicks
Designer: Roger Limington

cast information

Jon Pertwee (Doctor Who); Katy Manning (Jo Grant); Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart); John Levene (Sergeant Benton); Patrick Troughton (Dr. Who); William Hartnell (Dr. Who); Stephen Thorne (Omega); Rex Robinson (Dr. Tyler); Laurie Webb (Mr. Ollis); Clyde Pollitt (Chancellor); Roy Purcell (President of the Council); Graham Leaman (Time Lord); Denys Palmer (Corporal Palmer); Patricia Prior (Mrs. Ollis);

crew information

Trina Cornwell (Assistant Floor Manager); James Acheson (Costumes); John Baker (Film Cameraman); Jim Walker (Film Editor); Dudley Simpson (Incidental Music); Ann Rayment (Make-Up); David Tilley (Production Assistant); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Clive Thomas (Studio Lighting); Derek Miller-Timmins (Studio Sound); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Michealjohn Harris (Visual Effects); Len Hutton (Visual Effects); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Episode One 30 December 1972 at 17:50 24'39" 9.6mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
2 Episode Two 6 January 1973 at 17:50 24'18" 10.8mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
3 Episode Three 13 January 1973 at 17:50 24'22" 8.8mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
4 Episode Four 20 January 1973 at 17:50 25'07" 11.9mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
  1. Episode One
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  2. Episode Two
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  3. Episode Three
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  4. Episode Four
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release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who -- The Three Doctors
Written by: Terrance Dicks
Number 064 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1975 Published by Allan Wingate Ltd, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
20 November 1975 Published by Tandem, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 10938 4
1976 Published by Tandem, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Jeff Cummins
ISBN: 0 426 11578 3
20 April 1978 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Jeff Cummins
ISBN: 0 426 11578 3
22 August 1991 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 11578 3
1994 Published by Empire Books, Poland in paperback
Translated into Polish by
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 8 386 12601 9

plot synopsis

The Time Lords are under siege, with their power being drained into a world of antimatter where the embittered galactic engineer, Omega, who discovered the energy source in the first place, is absorbing it and planning his revenge. The UNIT Headquarters comes under attack from Omega's shapeless guards, as they hunt the Doctor down and trap him inside the TARDIS. His second incarnation is sent by the Time Lords to help, but their personalities clash, and the first Doctor acts as a mediator, trapped in a time bubble and only able to advise from a monitor screen. They travel to Omega's domain, where they have to combine their wits to try and stop him

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