Doctor Who: The Highlanders (1966 - 1967)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 17 December 1966 - 7 January 1967
Number of Episodes:
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: black and white
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Innes Lloyd

SCRIPT
Script: Elwyn Jones, Gerry Davis
Story Editor: Gerry Davis

DIRECTION
Director: Hugh David

PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: George Summers, Ken McGregor (uncredited)

MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer, The BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranger: Delia Derbyshire

SOUND
Studio Sound: Larry Goodson
Special Sound: Brian Hodgson

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Gillian James
Costumes: Sandra Reid

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Geoffrey Kirkland

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Fiona Cumming
Assistant Floor Manager: Nicholas John

STUNTS
Fight Arranger: Peter Diamond

CAST
Episode 1
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Anneke Wills (Polly)
Michael Craze (Ben)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
William Dysart (Alexander McClaren)
Donald Bissett (The Laird)
Hannah Gordon (Kirsty McClaren)
Michael Elwyn (Lt Algernon Ffinch)
Peter Welch (Sergeant)
David Garth (Solicitor Grey)
Sydney Arnold (Cedric Perkins)

Episode 2
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Anneke Wills (Polly)
Michael Craze (Ben)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Donald Bissett (The Laird)
Hannah Gordon (Kirsty McClaren)
Michael Elwyn (Lt Algernon Ffinch)
Peter Welch (Sergeant)
David Garth (Solicitor Grey)
Sydney Arnold (Cedric Perkins)
Tom Bowman (sentry)
Dallas Cavell (Captain Jebb Trask)
Barbara Bruce (Mollie)

Episode 3
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Anneke Wills (Polly)
Michael Craze (Ben)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Donald Bissett (The Laird)
Hannah Gordon (Kirsty McClaren)
Michael Elwyn (Lt Algernon Ffinch)
Peter Welch (Sergeant)
David Garth (Solicitor Grey)
Sydney Arnold (Cedric Perkins)
Dallas Cavell (Captain Jebb Trask)
Andrew Downie (Willie MacKay)

Episode 4
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Anneke Wills (Polly)
Michael Craze (Ben)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Donald Bissett (The Laird)
Hannah Gordon (Kirsty McClaren)
Michael Elwyn (Lt Algernon Ffinch)
Peter Welch (Sergeant)
David Garth (Solicitor Grey)
Sydney Arnold (Cedric Perkins)
Dallas Cavell (Captain Jebb Trask)
Andrew Downie (Willie MacKay)
Peter Diamond (sailor)
Guy Middleton (Colonel Attwood)

UNCREDITED PERFORMERS
Ken McGarvie (drummer)
Eric Mills (wounded Highlander)
Nancy Gabriel (woman at inn)
Reg Dent (English horseman)
Andree Cameron (double for Kirsty)
Extras: Gerry Alexander, Barry Ashton, Dennis Balcombe, Leslie Bates, Bill Beesley, Mike Britton, Derek Calder, Anthony Case, Gordon Craig, Jim Delaney, Pat Donohue, John Doye, Jack Duggan, Barry Du Pre, Jim Fitzgerald, Eden Fox, Keith Goodman, Pat Gorman, Dennis Haywood, Emmett Hennessy, Walter Henry, James Holbrook, Ernest Jennings, John Knott, Gordon Lang, Tony Lang, Jimmy Mack, Arthur Maguire, Derek Martin, Leon Maybank, Michael Mulcaster, Michael Owen, Paul Phillips, Dennis Plenty, Peter Roy, Patrick Scott, Donald Sinclair, Dennis Stanley, Harry Swift, Vic Taylor, Alan Troy, Hein Viljoen, James Walsh, David Waterman, Bob Wilyman (all uncredited)

PLOT SUMMARY

The TARDIS lands in the Highlands of Scotland in the aftermath of the battle of Culloden and The Doctor wins the trust of a group of fleeing Highlanders. But a platoon of Redcoats capture The Doctor, Ben and the Scots and pass them on to a crooked solicitor who plans to sell them into slavery in the West Indies. It's up to Polly and the Laird's daughter Kirsty to try to save them while The Doctor tries to smuggle arms to the Highglanders and effect his own escape.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video

1966
November
2: UK - Frazer Hines is placed under contract
11: UK - studio filming takes place at Ealing Stage 3 A/B
14: UK - location filming takes place
15: UK - location filming takes place
16: UK - studio filming takes place at Ealing Stage 3 A/B
21: UK - location filming takes place

December
3: UK - studio recording takes place at Riverside Studio 1, Hammersmith, London
10: UK - studio recording takes place at Riverside Studio 1, Hammersmith, London
17: UK - Episode 1 television broadcast (on BBC1); studio recording takes place at Riverside Studio 1, Hammersmith, London
24: UK - Episode 2 television broadcast (on BBC1); studio recording takes place at Riverside Studio 1, Hammersmith, London
31: UK - Episode 3 television broadcast (on BBC1)

1967
January
7: UK - Episode 4 television broadcast (on BBC1)

Culloden - working title

MAGAZINES

Doctor Who Magazine no.292 (28 June 2000) pp.32-39 (UK)
illustrated credits, production notes (Archive: The Highlanders by Andrew Pixley)

BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Handbook: The Second Doctor pp.46-52
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe, Mark Stammers, Stephen James Walker)

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.111-114
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker)

KEYWORDS

aliens, highlanders, ships, slavery, time travel

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009