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 Doctor Who: Inferno (1970)
Date(s) of Broadcast:
9 May 1970 - 20 June 1970
Number of Episodes: 7
Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Barry
Letts
SCRIPT
Script: Don Houghton
Story Editor: Terrance Dicks
DIRECTION
Director: Douglas Camfield, Barry
Letts (uncredited)
PHOTOGRAPHY
Film Camera: Fred Hamilton
Studio Lighting: John Green
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Martyn Day
MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranged By: Delia Derbyshire
Incidental Music: stock
SOUND
Studio Sound: John Staple
Special Sounds: Brian Hodgson
MAKE UP AND
COSTUMES
Make Up: Marion Richards
Costumes: Christine Rawlins
VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Len Hutton
DESIGN AND SET
CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Jeremy Davies
MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Chris D'Oyley-John
Assistant Floor Manager: Sue Hedden
STUNTS
Action: Havoc
CAST
Jon Pertwee (The Doctor)
Caroline John (Liz Shaw)
Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart)
Olaf Pooley (Professor Eric Stahlman)
Sheila Dunn (Petra Williams)
Derek Newark (Greg Sutton)
John Levene (Sergeant Benton)
Ian Fairbairn (John Bromley)
Christopher Benjamin (Sir Keith Gold)
Derek Ware (Private Wyatt)
David Simeon (Private Latimer)
Walter Randall (Harry Slocum)
Roy Scammell (RSF Sentry)
Dave Carter, Pat Gorman, Walter Henry, Philip Ryan, Peter Thompson
(Primords)
Keith James (Patterson)
Ian Fairbairn (loudspeaker voice - uncredited)
Jon Pertwee (radio voice - uncredited (Australian version only))
Keith Ashley, Barry Ashton, Alistair Baine, Robert Birmingham, Valerie
Bland, Norton Clarke, Alan Clements, Richard Cooper, Michael Earl,
Marcelle Elliot, Ronald Gough, Bertie Green, June Grey, Joan Harsant,
Derek Hunt, Colin James, Richard King, Sheila Knight, Richard Lawrence,
Natalia Lindley, Patricia Matthews, Keith Norrish, Sue Patterson,
Judith Pollard, Corinne Skinner, Harry
Tierney, Steve Tierney, Cy Town (technicians)
Marc Boyle, Alan Chuntz, Les Conrad, Ian Elliott, Royston Farrell,
Billy Horrigan, Roy Street, Terry Walsh (soldiers)
PLOT SUMMARY
A drilling project that is attempting to tap
into the Earth's core breaches its safety margins and releases a gas
that turns people into primeval creatures. The Doctor in attempting
to find a solution is sent into an alternate dimension where familiar
people have changed into very unfamiliar types.
CAPSULE REVIEW
Excellent story that gets around its length
problem by dropping a totally different story into its middle. Again
Quatermass is the basis for the main plot and the alternate reality
is fun. The Doctor uses the TARDIS console on it own because, as The
Doctor was exiled to Earth, no standing TARDIS interior set had been
built.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video
TIMELINE
1970
May
9: UK - Episode 1 first television broadcast (on BBC1)
16: UK - Episode 2 first television broadcast (on BBC1)
23: UK - Episode 3 first television broadcast (on BBC1)
30: UK - Episode 4 first television broadcast (on BBC1)
June
6: UK - Episode 5 first television broadcast (on BBC1)
13: UK - Episode 6 first television broadcast (on BBC1)
20: UK - Episode 7 first television broadcast (on BBC1)
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
The Mo-Hole Project
Project Inferno
REFERENCES
BOOKS
Doctor
Who: The Television Companion pp.192-196
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker)
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits KEYWORDS
aliens, monsters,
mutations, parallel dimensions, scientists
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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