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nightmare of eden

story 107 : season 17 : serial 5K : 4 episodes

Producer: Graham Williams
Director: Alan Bromly
Writer: Bob Baker
Script Editor: Douglas Adams
Designer: Roger Cann

cast information

Tom Baker (Doctor Who); Lalla Ward (Romana); David Brierley (voice of K-9); Lewis Fiander (Tryst); Geoffrey Bateman (Dymond); David Daker (Captain Rigg); Barry Andrews (Stott); Jennifer Lonsdale (Della); Geoffrey Hinsliff (Fisk); Peter Craze (Costa); Stephen Jenn (Secker); Richard Barnes (Crewman); Sebastian Stride (Crewman); Eden Phillips (Crewman); Annette Peters (Passenger); Lionel Sansby (Passenger); Peter Roberts (Passenger); Maggie Petersen (Passenger);

crew information

Val McCrimmon (Assistant Floor Manager); Rupert Jarvis (Costumes); Dudley Simpson (Incidental Music); Joan Stribling (Make-Up); Carolyn Montagu (Production Assistant); John Nathan-Turner (Production Unit Manager); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Warwick Fielding (Studio Lighting); Anthony Philpott (Studio Sound); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Colin Mapson (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part One 24 November 1979 at 18:00 24'17" 8.7mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
2 Part Two 1 December 1979 at 18:00 22'44" 9.6mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
3 Part Three 8 December 1979 at 18:00 24'06" 9.6mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
4 Part Four 15 December 1979 at 17:55 24'31" 9.4mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
  1. Part One
    » Always held by the FVTL
  2. Part Two
    » Always held by the FVTL
  3. Part Three
    » Always held by the FVTL
  4. Part Four
    » Always held by the FVTL

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who and the Nightmare of Eden
Written by: Terrance Dicks
Number 045 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1980 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Andrew Skilleter
ISBN: 0 491 02118 6
21 August 1980 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Andrew Skilleter
ISBN: 0 426 20130 2

plot synopsis

Emerging from Hyperspace at the same moment, a star liner and a freighter crash in space and fuse. The TARDIS lands on board, and the Doctor and Romana find that huge creatures called Mandrels have escaped from a Continuous Event Transmitter, and are roaming the ship killing the passengers. Mandrels disintegrate into a powder when they die, which is also a highly addictive drug called Vraxoin. The Doctor determines to smash the drug ring that is smuggling the live creatures....

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