Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World (1967 - 1968)

Dates of Original Broadcast: 23 December 1967 - 27 January 1968
Number of Episodes: 6
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: black and white
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Innes Lloyd

SCRIPT
Script: David Whitaker
Story Editor: Peter Bryant

DIRECTION
Director: Barry Letts

PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Howard King
Film Cameraman: Fred Hamilton

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Philip Barnikel

MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranged By: Delia Derbyshire

SOUND
Studio Sound: Tony Millier
Special Sounds: Brian Hodgson

COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up: Sylvia James
Costumes: Martin Baugh

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Christopher Pemsel

OTHER CREW
Production Assistant: Martin Lisemore
Assistant Floor Manager: Edwina Verner

CAST
Episode 1
Patrick Troughton (Dr Who)
Frazer Hines (Jamie)
Deborah Watling (Victoria)
Henry Stamper (Anton)
Rhys McConnochie (Rod)
Simon Cain (Curly)
Mary Peach (Astrid)
Bill Kerr (Giles Kent)
Colin Douglas (Donald Bruce)

Episode 2
Patrick Troughton (Dr Who/Salamander)
Frazer Hines (Jamie)
Deborah Watling (Victoria)
Mary Peach (Astrid)
Bill Kerr (Giles Kent)
Colin Douglas (Donald Bruce)
Milton Johns (Benik)
George Pravda (Denes)
David Nettheim (Fedorin)
Carmen Munroe (Fariah)
Gordon Faith (guard captain)

Episode 3
Patrick Troughton (Dr Who/Salamander)
Frazer Hines (Jamie)
Deborah Watling (Victoria)
Mary Peach (Astrid)
Bill Kerr (Giles Kent)
Colin Douglas (Donald Bruce)
Milton Johns (Benik)
George Pravda (Denes)
David Nettheim (Fedorin)
Carmen Munroe (Fariah)
Gordon Faith (guard captain)
Bill Lyons (guard on Denes)
Reg Lye (Griffin the chef)

Episode 4
Patrick Troughton (Dr Who/Salamander)
Frazer Hines (Jamie)
Deborah Watling (Victoria)
Mary Peach (Astrid)
Bill Kerr (Giles Kent)
Colin Douglas (Donald Bruce)
Milton Johns (Benik)
Carmen Munroe (Fariah)
Elliott Cairnes (guard captain)
Andrew Staines (Segeant to Benik)
Bob Anderson (fighting guard)
William McGuirk (guard in corridor)
Christopher Burgess (Swann)
Adam Verney (Colin)
Margaret Hickey (Mary)

Episode 5
Patrick Troughton (Dr Who/Salamander)
Frazer Hines (Jamie)
Deborah Watling (Victoria)
Mary Peach (Astrid)
Bill Kerr (Giles Kent)
Colin Douglas (Donald Bruce)
Milton Johns (Benik)
Elliott Cairnes (guard captain)
William McGuirk (guard in corridor)
Christopher Burgess (Swann)
Adam Verney (Colin)
Margaret Hickey (Mary)

Episode 6
Patrick Troughton (Dr Who/Salamander)
Frazer Hines (Jamie)
Deborah Watling (Victoria)
Mary Peach (Astrid)
Bill Kerr (Giles Kent)
Colin Douglas (Donald Bruce)
Milton Johns (Benik)
Elliott Cairnes (guard captain)
William McGuirk (guard in corridor)
Christopher Burgess (Swann)
Adam Verney (Colin)
Margaret Hickey (Mary)
Dibbs Mather (guard in caravan)

PLOT SUMMARY

In a near future Australia, the Doctor discovers that he is the double of a politician scientist named Salamander who has developed a revolutionary technique for storing and distributing solar energy. but is Salamander everything he seems - and who or what is behind the series of earthquakes, floods and other natural disasters that are coming close to destroying the world. To determine the truth, teh Doctor goes undercover impersonating Salamander.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC

1967
November
5: UK - location filming takes place
6: UK - location filming takes place
7: UK - location filming takes place
8: UK - location filming takes place
9: UK - location filming takes place
10: UK - location filming takes place; studio filming at Ealing, London, UK
11: UK - studio filming at Ealing, London, UK
13: UK - studio filming at Ealing, London, UK

December
2: UK - studio recording at BBC Lime Grove D, London, UK
9: UK - studio recording at BBC Lime Grove D, London, UK
16: UK - studio recording at BBC Lime Grove D, London, UK
23: UK - episode 1 television broadcast; studio recording at BBC Lime Grove D, London, UK
30: UK - episode 2 television broadcast; studio recording at BBC Lime Grove D, London, UK

1968
January
6: UK - episode 3 television broadcast; studio recording at BBC Lime Grove D, London, UK
13: UK - episode 4 television broadcast
20: UK - episode 5 television broadcast
27: UK - episode 6 television broadcast

BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Handbook: The Second Doctor pp.117-124
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe, Mark Stammers, Stephen James Walker)

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.139-141
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker)

KEYWORDS

aliens; time travel; scientists; politicians; undergroun; bunkers; floods; earthquakes; solar power; australia; the future

Last Updated: 10 October, 2009