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producer= [[Verity Lambert]] |
producer= [[Verity Lambert]] |
broadcast date= [[20th June]] - <br/> [[1st August]] [[1964]] |
broadcast date= [[20th June]] - <br/> [[1st August]] [[1964]] |
format= 6 25-minute Episodes <br/>[[Strangers In Space]] <br/>[[The Unwilling Warriors]] <br/>[[Hidden Danger]] <br/>[[A Race Against Death]] <br/>[[Kidnap]] <br/>[[A Desperate Venture]] |
format= 6 25-minute Episodes |
production code= [[G]] }}
production code= [[G]]|
previous story= [[The Aztecs (TV story)|The Aztecs]] |
next story= [[The Reign of Terror (TV story)|The Reign of Terror]] }}





Revision as of 23:03, 15 October 2006


Summary

The Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan arrive in the TARDIS on board a spaceship. Their initial concern is for the ship's human crew who are suffering from telepathic interference from the Sensorites, but Susan communicates with the Sensorites and finds that the aliens are fearful of an attack from the humans and are just defending themselves. Travelling to the Sense Sphere (the Sensorites' planet) the Doctor then seeks to cure an illness the Sensorites and Ian have succumbed to, but finds that this has been caused by deliberate poisoning. The political maneuvering of the Sensorite City Administrator adds an additional threat to the TARDIS crew as he seeks to discredit and implicate them


Cast & Characters


Crew


Notes

Ratings

  • Strangers in Space - 7.9m viewers
  • The Unwilling Warriors - 6.9m viewers
  • Hidden Danger - 7.4m viewers
  • A Race Against Death - 5.5m viewers
  • Kidnap - 6.9m viewers
  • A Desperate Venture - 6.9m viewers


Myths

  • The Humans responsible for poisoning the water supplies were part of a group called INEER. (The initials INEER were meant to be the end of the word Engineer.)
  • Arthur Newall appeared in Doctor Who as a Dalek. (He in fact appeared in this story as a Sensorite.)


Location filming

Continuity

  • Dialogue suggests the Doctor has only 1 heart at this stage of his life.
  • Despite travelling together for years the Doctor and Susan have never argued.
  • Dialogue seems to confirm Susan and the Doctor are from the same planet, indicating that she was born on Gallifrey.
  • Susan has telepathic abilities which the Doctor is not aware of however it is suggested that many of those on Gallifrey have such abilities as the Doctor suggests her skills could be perfected if she gets home.
  • Gallifrey is similar to Earth but the sky at night is burnt orange and the tree leaves are bright silver.
  • The Doctor once argued with Henry VIII as he wanted to be sentenced to theTower of London where the TARDIS was located.
  • The Doctor and Susan encountered telepathic plants on the planet Esto.


Discontinuity

  • During episode 1 while the Doctor is delivering his lines the camera hits the table in front of him.
  • The drill marks are visible before Maitland starts to use the drill.
  • It is stretching credibility to the extreme to suggest that the Sensorites can only recognise each other by the sashes they wear.
  • Despite this story being set in the 28th Century the astronauts wore contemporary looking space suits. Not a trend which is seen in other stories set in this time period.

Story novelisation

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  • The story novelisation was published as Doctor Who: The Sensorites in July 1987 ISBN 0426202953. The story was written by Nigel Robinson and was number 118 in the series of 156 Doctor Who novels published by Target Books.


DVD, video, and audio releases

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  • Video Release - Released as Doctor Who: The Sensorites
UK Release: June 2000 / US Release: October 2003
PAL - BBC Video BBCV7276
NTSC - Warner Video E1852
Released as part of The First Doctor Collection boxset in the UK - BBCV7278.
Released as part of The End of the Universe Collection in the US.

External links

BBC Episode Guide Page with video clips

Story synopsis at the Doctor Who Reference Guide

A Brief History of Time Travel

Encylopedia of Fantastic Film and Television

BBC Production Information

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