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broadcast date= [[11th September]] - <br/>[[2nd October]] [[1965]] |
broadcast date= [[11th September]] - <br/>[[2nd October]] [[1965]] |
format= 4 25-minute Episodes <br/>[[Four Hundred Dawns]]<br/>[[Trap of Steel]] <br/>[[Air Lock]]<br/>[[The Exploding Planet]]|
format= 4 25-minute Episodes <br/>[[Four Hundred Dawns]]<br/>[[Trap of Steel]] <br/>[[Air Lock]]<br/>[[The Exploding Planet]]|
production code= [[T]]|
production code= [[List of production codes|T]]|
previous story= [[The Time Meddler (TV story)|The Time Meddler]]|
previous story= [[The Time Meddler (TV story)|The Time Meddler]]|
next story= [[Mission to the Unknown]]|
next story= [[Mission to the Unknown]]|

Revision as of 23:29, 12 February 2007


Summary

The Doctor, Vicki, and Steven land on an unknown planet inhabited by the hideous Rills with their Chumbley robots and the beautiful Drahvins. The Drahvins try to enlist the Doctor's help to destroy the "evil" Rills, but who are the real villains? (For a more detailed summary click here)

Cast & Characters

Uncredited Cast

Crew

Notes

  • The working title for this story was The Chumblies
  • All 4 episodes of this story have been lost, with only very limited material being held in the BBC archive
  • 6 minutes worth of footage exists from Four Hundred Dawns.
  • This story was nearly saved by negotiations for the story to be screened at a convention
  • The surviving clips come from a number of sources including a "Lively Arts" documentary "Whose Doctor Who"
  • The soundtrack for the serial is intact and has been released commercially, with linking narration provided by Peter Purves
  • The BBC partly own the rights to the Drahvins as they were jointly credited to William Emms and Verity Lambert

Influences

Ratings

  • Four Hundred Dawns - 9.0m viewers
  • Trap of Steel - 9.5m viewers
  • Air Lock - 11.3m viewers
  • The Exploding Planet - 9.9m viewers

Myths

  • A late change to the casting of the voice actor meant that Anthony Paul was credited in the Radio Times as providing the voice of the Rills for episode 3 (Robert Cartland was correctly named in the Radio Times)
  • William Emms was a school teacher who wrote in his spare time (Although he had been a school teacher he had been working as a full time writer for the 4 years before writing Doctor Who)

Location Filming

All epsiodes were filmed at BBC Television Centre TC4, London, UK

Continuity

Discontinuity

To be added

Quotes

Rill - "It is easy to help others when they are so willing to help you. Though we are beings of separate planets, you from the solar system and we from another space, our ways of thought, at times, do not seem all that different. It has been an honour to know you and serve you."

Story Arcs

None

Similar stories

References

To be added

More Info

Public Releases

  • DVD Release - This story has not yet been released on DVD.
  • Video Release - This story has not been released on video due to the limited material which remains available
A reconstruction of this story has been made using the available images and audio by Loose Cannon Productions. For more information on this reconstruction and the material available click here

External Links

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