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terror of the zygons

story 80 : season 13 : serial 4F : 4 episodes

Producer: Philip Hinchcliffe
Director: Douglas Camfield
Writer: Robert Banks Stewart
Script Editor: Robert Holmes
Designer: Nigel Curzon

cast information

Tom Baker (Doctor Who); Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith); John Woodnutt (Duke of Forgill / Broton); John Levene (RSM Benton); Lillias Walker (Sister Lamont); Robert Russell (The Caber); Angus Lennie (Angus); Tony Sibbald (Huckle); Hugh Martin (Munro); Bruce Wightman (Radio Operator); Bernard G High (Corporal); Peter Symonds (Soldier); Keith Ashley (Zygon); Ronald Gough (Zygon);

crew information

Rosemary Webb (Assistant Floor Manager); James Acheson (Costumes); Peter Hall (Film Cameraman); Ian McKendrick (Film Editor); Geoffrey Burgon (Incidental Music); Sylvia James (Make-Up); Edwina Craze (Production Assistant); George Gallacio (Production Unit Manager); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); John Dixon (Studio Lighting); Michael McCarthy (Studio Sound); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement); Ron Grainer (Title Music); John Horton (Visual Effects); John Friedlander (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part One 30 August 1975 at 17:45 21'41" 8.4mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
2 Part Two 6 September 1975 at 17:45 25'08" 6.1mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
3 Part Three 13 September 1975 at 17:45 24'09" 8.2mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
4 Part Four 20 September 1975 at 18:20 25'22" 7.2mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
  1. Part One
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  2. Part Two
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  3. Part Three
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  4. Part Four
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster
Written by: Terrance Dicks
Number 040 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1976 Published by Allan Wingate Ltd, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
15 January 1976 Published by Tandem, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 11041 2
1978 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 11041 2
June 1979 Published by Pinnacle Books, USA in paperback
With cover artwork by: David Mann
21 March 1993 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 20391 7

plot synopsis

Arriving back on Earth, following a mayday call from the Brigadier, the TARDIS lands near Loch Ness. The famous 'Nessie' is apparently destroying oil Rigs, and the Doctor's investigations reveal some startling facts; the creature is actually a vast Cyborg, under the control of the Zygons, whose spacecraft is at the bottom of the Loch. They have a shape shifting ability, which they use to full advantage to take over positions of authority, and the Doctor has to thwart their plans to take over the Earth for colonisation. Rather than travel back to UNIT Headquarters in the TARDIS, Harry decides to head back to London with the Brigadier on a train, leaving the Doctor and Sarah to take off on their own.

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