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Doctor Who Season 19 Synopsis


NINETEENTH SEASON

PRODUCER SCRIPT EDITORS
John Nathan-Turner Eric Saward
Anthony Root

5Z 4 January 1982 to 12 January 1982
CASTROVALVA (4 episodes)
Writer Director
Christopher H. Bidmead Fiona Cumming
Regular Cast: Peter Davison (the Doctor); Janet Fielding (Tegan); Sarah
Sutton (Nyssa); Matthew Waterhouse (Adric). Guest Cast: Anthony Ainley
(the Master). Cast: Anthony Ainley (Portreeve); Frank Wylie (Ruther);
Michael Sheard (Mergrave); Derek Waring (Shardovan); Dallas Cavell (Head
of Security); Souska John (child). Story: After the Doctor's
regeneration, the Master kidnaps Adric and forces him to set the TARDIS
coordinates to the creation of the Universe - the Big Bang, or Event
One. The Doctor is forced to rest in the TARDIS Zero Room while his
dendrites heal. The Doctor instructs Tegan and Nyssa to jettison 25
percent of the TARDIS so as to push them away from danger. In doing so
they accidentally jettison the Zero Room. The TARDIS takes them to
Castrovalva, a Zero environment planet. The Master has forced Adr ic to
create a city on this planet out of Block Transfer Computations. The
Master is posing as a Castrovalvan scientist and wise man. The Doctor
saves Adric and escapes with Tegan and Nyssa while the Castrovalvan
people, actually part of the Block Transfer, attack the Master.
Castrovalva the city crumbles and disappears. By the time the Doctor
and crew return to the TARDIS, he has completely recovered from his
regeneration. Book: Castrovalva, by Christopher H. Bidmead.

5W 18 January 1982 to 26 January 1982 FOUR TO DOOMSDAY (4 episodes)
Writer Director Terence Dudley
John Black Regular Cast: see 5Z above. Cast: Philip Locke (Bigon);
Stratford Johns (Monarch); Annie Lambert (Enlightenment); Paul Shelley
(Persuasion); Burt Kwouk (Lin Futu); Nadia Hamman (Villagra); Illario
Bisi Pedro (Kurkutji). Story: The TARDIS lands on an Urbankan spaceship
headed for Earth. Monarch, the Urbankan leader, has robotised four
people from four different cultures and promised them leadership of
their respective cultures upon arrival at Earth. In reality Monarch is
planning to take over the Earth for himself and the Urbankans. Tegan,
hoping to warn Earth, tries to escape in the TARDIS by herself but ends
up hopelessly stuck hovering outside the spaceship. The Doctor finally
makes it back to the TARDIS after destro ying Enlightenment and
Persuasion, Monarch's assistants. He returns the TARDIS to the ship and
destroys Monarch with the same poison with which Monarch was going to
wipe out the Earth's population. When safely aboard the TARDIS and on
their way again, Nyssa suddenly collapses. Book: Four to Doomsday, by
Terrance Dicks.

5Y 1 February 1982 to 9 February 1982
KINDA (4 episodes)
Writer Director
Christopher Bailey Peter Grimwade
Regular Cast: see 5Z above.
Cast: Richard Todd (Sanders); Nerys Hughes (Todd); Simon Rouse (Hindle);
Roger Milner (Anicca); Anna Wing (Anatta); Jeffrey Stewart (Dukkha);
Adrian Mills (Aris); Mary Morris (Panna); Sarah Prince (Karuna); Lee
Cornes (Trickster). Story: The TARDIS is on Deva Loka, a lush green
planet inhabited by the Kinda, a telepathic and intelligent tribe, and a
scientific colony set up to investigate possible colonisation. Nyssa is
left behind to rest while Tegan falls asleep in the forest. The Doctor
and Adric are taken to the colony. Sanders, the man in charge, goes off
exploring while leaving Hindle, who has very recently gone mad, in
charge. Hindle immediately imprisons Adric, the Doctor, and Todd, the
science officer . Sanders returns b ut now has the mind of a young
child. The Doctor and Todd escape to find Panna, the blind wise woman
of the Kinda. Meanwhile, Tegan finds herself imprisoned in her dream
world by Dukkha, a man possessed by the Mara, a snake-like entity,
within him. Tegan inherits the Mara and passes it to Aris, a Kinda.
The Doctor gets the tribe to help him set up mirrors which will defeat
the Mara, explaining that the one thing that evil cannot face is itself.
After manifesting its elf as a giant snake, the Mara disapp ears, and
Aris is saved. Hindle and Sanders both revert back to normalcy. When
the Doctor and crew get back to the TARDIS, Nyssa has fully recovered.
Book: Kinda, by Terrance Dicks.

5X 15 February 1982 to 23 February 1982
THE VISITATION (4 episodes)
Writer Director
Eric Saward Peter Moffat
Regular Cast: see 5Z above.
Cast: Michael Robbins (Richard Mace); Michael Melia (Terileptil Leader); John Savident (Squire John) Calf (Charles); Valerie Fyfer (Elisabeth); Peter van Dissel (Android); Richard Hampton (Vilae) ae hrlton (Miller); Neil West (Poacher); Eric Dodson (head man).
Story: In 1666 England, a Terileptil spaceship crash-lands, stranding the three Terileptils and thei. The Doctor and crew arrive looking for Heathrow Airport but finding a forest instead. Th eietl ae already set up a base in London. The Doctor meets Richard Mace, a highwayman and ctr. Te erleti lader captures Adric and Tegan, whereby the Terileptils learn that they can ecap Eath n te Dcto's ARDS. The Terileptils meanwhile are planning their conquest of Earth b givng

plague-carrying rats immortality. The Doctor is then captured and the Terileptil destroys his soniiver. The Terileptils return to their base in London and the Doctor follows them in the TARI fe ys as destroyed the android by high vibration. A fight ensues and the Terileptils are iledina ir tatesalates into the Great Fire of London. The Doctor gives a circuit board to Mce s akeesak.
Book: The Visitation, by Eric Saward.

6A 1 March 1982 to 2 March 1982
BLACK ORCHID (2 episodes)
Writer Director
Terence Dudley Ron Jones
Regular Cast: see 5Z above.
Cast: Sarah Sutton (Ann Talbot); Michael Cochrane (Lord Cranleigh);
Barbara Murray (Lady Cranleigh); Moray Watson (Sir Robert Muir); Gareth
Milne (George Cranleigh); Ahmed Khalil (Latoni); Timothy Black (Tanner);
Brian Hawksley (Brewster); Ivor Salter (Sgt. Markham); Andrew Tourell
(Cst. Cummings). Story: The TARDIS lands in 1920's England and the crew
are taken to Lord Cranleigh's estate. Ann Talbot, Nyssa's look-alike,
had been engaged to George Cranleigh, the famous explorer, before he was
killed during an exploration in Brazil. She became engaged to Lord
Cranleigh, George's brother, afterwards. A fancy dress ball is held and
the Doctor gets lost inside the estate while a disfigured George
Cranleigh, who had actually been saved by a Brazilian indian named
Latoni, steals his cost ume. George take s Ann in the house. The
servant that answers her cries of alarm is killed by George. George
returns the Doctor's costume and when the Doctor returns to his room and
puts the costume on he is promptly accused of murder. He convinces the
police of his innocence when they see the TARDIS. When they all return
to the estate, George grabs Nyssa, thinking it to be Ann, and climbs to
the roof. The Doctor manages to get her back to safety but George
accidentally falls t o his death. The Doctor stays for the fun eral and
Lady Cranleigh gives him a copy of George's book, "Black Orchid".

6B 8 March 1982 to 16 March 1982
EARTHSHOCK (4 episodes)
Writer Director
Eric Saward Peter Grimwade
Regular Cast: see 5Z above.
Cast: Beryl Reid (Briggs); James Warwick (Lt. Scott); Clare Clifford
(Kyle); David Banks (Cyberleader); Mark Hardy (Cyberlieutenant); June
Bland (Berger); Alec Sabin (Ringway); Ann Holloway (Mitchell); Steve
Morley (Walters); Suzi Arden (Snyder); Chris Wittingham (Carson); Mark
Fletcher (Vance); Anne Clements (Bane); Mark Straker (Carter); Carolyn
Mary Simmonds, Barney Lawrence (androids). Story: Once again the TARDIS
lands on Earth, this time in a cavern in which a geology team has
recently been attacked by androids. The androids are programmed to
defend a bomb set by the Cybermen to destroy Earth. A rescue team
destroys the androids and the Doctor defuses the bomb. They all go in
the TARDIS up to a freighter from where the Cybermen radio signal
originates. The Captain of the freighter thinks she is carrying a cargo
of mineral ores but she is ac tually carrying thousands of Cybermen!
The Doctor defeats the Cybermen but Adric is left on the freighter when
it crashes into the Earth, killing him and the remaining Cyberarmy. The
explosion created by the freighter's crash causes the extinction of
dinosaur life on the prehistoric Earth. End title music for episode four
was eliminated. Book: Earthshock, by Ian Marter.

6C 22 March 1982 to 30 March 1982
TIME-FLIGHT (4 episodes)
Writer Director
Peter Grimwade Ron Jones
Regular Cast: Peter Davison (the Doctor); Janet Fielding (Tegan); Sarah
Sutton (Nyssa). Guest Cast: Anthony Ainley (the Master). Cast: Anthony
Ainley (Kalid); Richard Easton (capt. Stapley); Michael Cashman
(Bilton); Keith Drinkel (Scobie); Nigel Stock (Prof. Hayter); Peter
Dahlson (Horton); Brian McDermott (Sheard); Hugh Hayes (Anithon); Andrew
Winterton (Zarak); Judith Byfield (Angela Clifford); John Flint (Capt.
Urquhart); Barney Lawrence (Dave Culshaw); Matthew Waterhouse (Adric);
Graham Cole (Melkur); Chris Bradshaw (Terileptil); Peter Cellier
(Andrews); Judith Byfield (ta nnoy voice); Tommy Winward (security
guard). Story: A Concorde jet has disappeared and the Doctor commandeers
another to follow. They find themselves back in time to prehistoric
Earth where they find the other Concorde. A strange oriental creature
is commanding the passengers and crew of the first plane to steal the
Doctor's TARDIS. The Doctor confronts the oriental and he reveals
himself to be the Master! He has been stuck here since he left
Castrovalva and he needs parts from the Doctor's TARDIS in order to
leave. He based himself in th e Citade l of the Xeriphin, once a
powerful race but since reduced to nothing but a power source of immense
psychic energy, which the Master hopes to use to power his TARDIS. The
Doctor manages to get the crews of both Concordes back to the 20th
century and returns to Earth just before the Master arrives not under
his own power. He sends the Master to Xeriphas where he is hopefully
stranded once again. The Doctor, to avoid a clash with Heathrow
Security, leaves abruptly. T egan watches the TARDIS dematerialise wi
th tears in her eyes. Book: Time-Flight, by Peter Grimwade.

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Format copyright © 1981 Jean-Marc Lofficier.
 
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