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Doctor Who: Time-Flight (1982)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 23 March 1982 - 31 March 1982
Number of Episodes: 4
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: John Nathan-Turner

SCRIPT
Script: Peter Grimwade
Story Editor: Eric Saward

DIRECTION
Director: Ron Jones

PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Eric Wallis
Film Cameraman: Peter Chapman

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Mike Houghton

MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranger: Peter Howell
Incidental Music: Roger Limb

SOUNDS
Studio Sound: Martin Ridout
Special Sounds: Dick Mills

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Dorka Nieradzik
Costumes: Amy Roberts

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Peter Logan

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Richard McManan-Smith

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Associate: Angela Smith
Production Assistant: John Elliott
Assistant Floor Manager: Lynn Richards

CAST
Peter Davison (The Doctor)
Janet Fielding (Tegan Jovanka)
Sarah Sutton (Nyssa)
Matthew Waterhouse (Adric)
Leon Ny Taiy (real name: Anthony Ainley) (Kalid / The Master)
Anthony Ainley (The Master)
Richard Easton (Captain Stapley)
Keith Drinkel (Flight Engineer Roger Scobie)
Michael Cashman (First Officer Andrew Bilton)
Judith Byfield (Angela Clifford)
Peter Dahlsen (Clive Horton)
Brian McDermott (Sheard)
John Flint (Captain Urquhart)
Peter Cellier (Jim Andrews)
Nigel Stock (Professor Hayter)
Matthew Waterhouse (Adric)
Hugh Hayes (Anithon)
Andre Winterton (Zarak)
Barney Lawrence (Dave Culshaw - uncredited)
Tommy Winward (security man - uncredited)
Richard Bonehill (flight engineer - uncredited)
Graham Cole (Melkur - uncredited)
Chris Bradshaw (Terileptil - uncredited)
Richard Gregory (puppeteer - uncredited)
Judith Byfield (tannoy voice - uncredited)
Steve Fideli, Martin Grant, Chris Holmes, Graham Jarvis, Mykel Mills, Nigel Tisdall (Plasmatons - uncredited)
Andre Winterton (Plasmaton voice - uncredited)

PLOT SUMMARY

Returning Tegan to Heathrow Airport the Doctor discovers that a Concorde has disappeared. It has been transported back in time to Prehistory in a daring plan hatched by The Master.

CAPSULE REVIEW

Silly plot with an ambitious setting that BBC budgets could never accommodate. Surely the previous story should have ended the season. Tegan bids farewell, for now...

AVAILABILITY

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video

TIMELINE

1982
March

22: UK - Part One television broadcast (on BBC1)
23: UK - Part Two television broadcast (on BBC1)
29: UK - Part Three television broadcast (on BBC1)
30: UK - Part Four television broadcast (on BBC1)

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Xeraphin - working title

REFERENCES

BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.420-422
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker)

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

aliens, time travel

 


Last Updated: 1 January, 2009

 


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