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delta and the bannermen

story 150 : season 24 : serial 7F : 3 episodes

Producer: John Nathan-Turner
Director: Chris Clough
Writer: Malcolm Kohll
Script Editor: Andrew Cartmel
Designer: John Asbridge

cast information

Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor); Bonnie Langford (Melanie Bush); Don Henderson (Gavrok); Belinda Mayne (Delta); Stubby Kaye (Weismuller); Morgan Deare (Hawk); Ken Dodd (Tollmaster); Richard Davies (Burton); David Kinder (Billy); Sara Griffiths (Ray); Johnny Dennis (Murray); Brian Hibbard (Keillor); Tim Scott (Chima); Anita Graham (Bollitt); Leslie Meadows (Adlon); Robin Aspland (The Lorells); Keff McCulloch (The Lorells); Justin Myers (The Lorells); Ralph Salmins (The Lorells); Tracey Wilson (Vocalist); Jodie Wilson (Vocalist); Hugh Lloyd (Goronwy); Martyn Geraint (Vinny); Clive Condon (Callon); Richard Mitchley (Arrex); Jessica McGough (Young Chimeron); Amy Osborn (Young Chimeron); Laura Collins (Chimeron Princess); Carley Joseph (Chimeron Princess);

crew information

Christopher Sandeman (Assistant Floor Manager); Kim Wilcocks (Assistant Floor Manager); Richard Croft (Costumes); William Dudman (Film Cameraman); Keff McCulloch (Incidental Music); Gillian Thomas (Make-Up); Alastair Mitchell (OB Cameraman); Chas Snare (OB Cameraman); Rosemary Parsons (Production Assistant); Anne Faggetter (Production Associate); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Roy Scammell (Stunt Arranger); Keff McCulloch (Theme Arrangement); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Andy McVean (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part One 2 November 1987 at 19:35 24'47" 5.3mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
2 Part Two 9 November 1987 at 19:35 24'23" 5.1mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
3 Part Three 16 November 1987 at 19:35 24'22" 5.4mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
  1. Part One
    » Always held by the FVTL
    » A 71-edit exists also
  2. Part Two
    » Always held by the FVTL
    » A 71-edit exists also
    » A 72-edit exists also
  3. Part Three
    » Always held by the FVTL
    » A 71-edit exists also

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who -- Delta and the Bannermen
Written by: Malcolm Kohll
Number 135 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
19 January 1989 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 20333 X
21 November 1991 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 20333 X

plot synopsis

The Bannermen are hunting the last of the Chimerons, a queen, after eradicating her entire race, and follow her as she joins a group of Navarino tourists. Disguised as humans, they are on their way to a holiday camp on Earth during the 1950s. The space travelling coach they're in crash-lands in Wales outside the 'Shangri-La' camp, where they decide to stay while the Doctor helps Murray, the coach Driver, repair the damaged engines. The Bannermen arrive and kill the Navarinos, and the Doctor has to fight to save Delta and her new, rapidly growing daughter from them.

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