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carnival of monsters

story 66 : season 10 : serial PPP : 4 episodes

Producer: Barry Letts
Director: Barry Letts
Writer: Robert Holmes
Script Editor: Terrance Dicks
Designer: Roger Limington

cast information

Jon Pertwee (Doctor Who); Katy Manning (Jo Grant); Leslie Dwyer (Vorg); Cheryl Hall (Shirna); Tenniel Evans (Major Daly); Ian Marter (John Andrews); Jenny McCraken (Claire Daly); Peter Halliday (Pletrac); Michael Wisher (Kalik); Terence Lodge (Orum); Andrew Staines (Captain);

crew information

Karilyn Collier (Assistant Floor Manager); James Acheson (Costumes); Peter Hamilton (Film Cameraman); Peter Evans (Film Editor); Dudley Simpson (Incidental Music); Angela Seyfang (Make-Up); Chris D'Oyly-John (Production Assistant); Brian Hodgson (Special Sounds); Clive Thomas (Studio Lighting); Gordon Mackie (Studio Sound); Ron Grainer (Title Music); John Horton (Visual Effects); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Episode One 27 January 1973 at 17:50 24'46" 9.5mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
2 Episode Two 3 February 1973 at 17:50 25'00" 9.0mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
3 Episode Three 10 February 1973 at 17:50 24'49" 9.0mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
4 Episode Four 17 February 1973 at 17:50 24'10" 9.2mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
  1. Episode One
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  2. Episode Two
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
    » A 71-edit exists also (released on video)
  3. Episode Three
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  4. Episode Four
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
    » Edited version released on video

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters
Written by: Terrance Dicks
Number 008 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1977 Published by Allan Wingate Ltd, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
20 January 1977 Published by Tandem/Wyndham Pub., UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 11025 0
19 April 1979 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 11025 0
20 May 1993 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 11025 0

plot synopsis

With the Doctor's exile on Earth now lifted, he takes Jo on a test flight in the TARDIS, and they land on a cargo ship in 1926, but the crew keep going through the same set of motions again and again, with history repeating itself. They are trapped in a miniscope, on the planet Inter Minor, and have become part of a peepshow. One of the politicians sees his chance to seize power by releasing the deadly Drashigs from the machine, which run riot through the capitol. The Doctor has to fight to stop the carnage

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