Four to Doomsday (TV story)

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Synopsis

The TARDIS arrives on board a huge spaceship where the Doctor and his companions encounter the frog-like Urbankans and a population of human androids. The androids are drawn from four different ethnic groups - Greek (led by Bigon), Chinese (led by Lin Futu), Mayan (led by Villagra) and Aboriginal Australian (led by Kurkutji) - and perform regular displays of dance and other rituals termed 'recreationals'.

The Urbankans' leader, Monarch, aided by his ministers Persuasion and Enlightenment, is engaged in a complex scheme to plunder from Earth the raw materials needed to enable him to travel back in time and thereby confirm his belief in his own status as the universe's divine creator.

Monarch has a poison that he intends to use to conquer humanity so that Earth can be repopulated with his androids. The Doctor, however, throws a canister of the poison at Monarch, causing him to shrink away to virtually nothing.

Plot

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Cast

Crew

References

Story Notes

  • This was the first Fifth Doctor story to be filmed.
  • Working title for this story was Day of Wrath.

Ratings

  • Part 1 - 8.4 million viewers
  • Part 2 - 8.8 million viewers
  • Part 3 - 8.9 million viewers
  • Part 4 - 9.4 million viewers

Myths

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Filming Locations

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Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

  • Tegan is able to draw very quickly and incredibly detailed sketches in less than a minute.
  • Tegan is able to speak one of 3000 Aboriginal languages...but also one over 35,000 years old. Maybe she had the use of oral tradition and she was Aborigine-descended

Continuity

  • Human Nature mimics the Doctor's amazing abilities with a cricket ball.

DVD and Video Releases

It will be released on DVD on September 15th 2008.

Target Novelisations

See also

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External Links

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