Doctor Who: Frontier In Space (1973)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 24 February 1973 - 3 March 1973
Number of Episodes: 6
Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Barry Lets

SCRIPT
Script: Malcolm Hulke
Story Editor: Terrance Dicks

DIRECTION
Directors: Paul Bernard, David Maloney (uncredited - final moments of Episode Six only)

PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Ralph Walton
Film Camera: John Tiley

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: John Bush

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

SOUND
Studio Sound: Brian Hiles
Special Sounds: Dick Mills

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Sandra Shepherd
Costumes: Barbara Kidd

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Bernard Wilkie, Rhys Jones

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Cynthia Klujço

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Nicholas John
Assistant Floor Manager: John Bradburn

CAST
Jon Pertwee (The Doctor)
Katy Manning (Jo Grant)
Vera Fusek (President Of Earth)
Michael Hawkins (General Williams)
Peter Birrel (Draconian prince)
Karol Hagar (secretary)
Roy Lonnen (Captain Gardiner)
Barry Ashton (Lt Kemp)
John Rees (Hardy)
Culliford (Stewart James)
Louis Mahoney (first newscaster Louis Mahoney)
Roy Pattison (Draconian space pilot)
Roger Delgado (The Master)
Harold Goldblatt (Professor Dale)
Richard Shaw (Cross)
Dannis Bowen (prison governor)
Madhav Sharma (Patel)
Luan Peters (Sheila)
Caroline Hunt (technician)
Laurence Harrington (lunar guard)
Bill Wilde (Draconian captain)
Stephen Thorne (first Ogron)
Michael Kilgarriff (second Ogron)
Rick Lester (third Ogron)
Ian Frost (Draconian messenger)
John Woodnutt (Draconian emperor)
Clifford Elkin (Earth cruiser captain)
Ramsay Williams (Congressman Brook)
Stanley Price (pilot of space ship)
Bill Mitchell (second newscaster)
Murphy Grumbar, John Scott Martin, Cy Town (Daleks)
Michael Wisher (Dalek voices)
Bill Burridge (The Doctor as Draconian)
Dennis Plenty (battle cruiser guard)
Lawrence Davison (Draconian first secretary)
Timothy Craven (cell guard)
David Billa, Terry Denville, Emmett Hennessey, Derek Hunt, Ray Millar, Kevin Moran, Brian Nolan, Dennis Plenty, George Ribitt, Terry Sartain, Ken Wade, Geoff Witherick (Earth prison guards)
Bill Burridge, Terry Sartain (Draconian guards at embassy)
John Hughman, David Layton, Fred Looker, George Mcfarlane, John Moore, Clinton Morris, Michael Mulcaster, John St Louis, Steve Tierney, Wolf Van Jurgen, Ian Yardley (lunar guards and prisoners)
Nancy Gabrielee, Nelly Griffiths, Monika (female lunar prisoners)
Leslie Bates, Gary Dean, Laurence Held, Richard King (lunar guards)
Andy Devine, Bill Matthews (Draconian guards)
Pat Gorman (Sea Devil)
Leslie Bates, Richard King, Steve Tierney, David Waterman (Earth guards on Ogron planet)
Terry Walsh (Double for the Doctor)
Terry Denville, Jamie Griffin, Emmett Hennessey, Geoff Witherick (Presidential guards)
Maurice Bush, Steve Kelly, Maurice Purvis, Chris Stevens, Geoff Todd, Bruce Wells (Ogrons)
Leslie Bates, Rodney Cardiff, Jim Delaney, Pat Gorman, Jamie Griffin, Steve Ismay, Richard King, Clinton Morris, Stewart Myers, Steve Tierney, Wolf Van Jurgen, Ken Wade (Draconians and Earth guards)

PLOT SUMMARY

The TARDIS landed on a spaceship in the future which is attacked. The regal Draconians are blamed but the Doctor realises it is an old enemy the Ogrons. But behind it all lurks The Master.

Pertwee's favourite monsters, the Draconians look great. Plus there's the Ogrons again, The Master in fine form and a shock ending (well at the time - the following serial title rather gives it away). So why isn't it very good? Well a plot would have been nice. Roger Delgado died in a car crash shortly after filming and this is his Master's last story.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video

1973
February
24: UK - Episode One first television broadcast (on BBC1)

March
3: UK - Episode Two first television broadcast (on BBC1)
10: UK - Episode Three first television broadcast (on BBC1)
17: UK - Episode Four first television broadcast (on BBC1)
24: UK - Episode Five first television broadcast (on BBC1)
31: UK - Episode Six first television broadcast (on BBC1)

BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.241-244
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker)

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

aliens, time travel

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009