Doctor Who: The Two Doctors (1985)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 16 February 1985 - 2 March 1985
Number of Episodes: 3
Average Episode Running Times: 44 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Executive Producer: Barry Letts
Producer: John Nathan-Turner
Production Manager: Gary Downie

SCRIPT
Script: Robert Holmes
Story Editor: Eric Saward

DIRECTION
Director: Peter Moffatt

PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Don Babbage
Film Camera: John Walker
Assistant Camera: Paul Carter
Grip: Ian Buckley

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Mike Robotham

MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranger: Peter Howell
Incidental Music: Peter Howell
Guitar Music Performed By: Les Thatcher

SOUND
Sound Recordist: Colin March
Studio Sound: Keith Bowden
Special Sounds: Dick Mills
Sound Assistant: Jonathan Walker

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Catherine Davies
Make Up Assistant: Jane Buxton
Costumes: Jan Wright
Dressers: Sheila Cullen, Dennis Addoo
Scenic Operatives: Francis Ewen, Ted Holbert

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Designer: Steven Drewett

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Set Designer: Tony Burrough
Assistant Designer: Gary Blaymires

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Associate: Sue Anstruther
Production Assistant: Patricia O'Leary
Assistant Floor Manager: Ilsa Rowe

CAST
Colin Baker (The Doctor)
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Nichola Bryant (Peri)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
John Stratton (Shokeye o'the Quancing Grig)
Jacqueline Pearce (Chessene o'the Franzine Grig)
Laurence Payne (Professor Joinson Dastari)
James Saxon (Oscar Botcherby)
Carmen Gomez (Anita)
Tim Raynham (Varl)
Aimee Delamain (Dona Arana)
Nicholas Fawcett (technician)
Clinton Greyn (Group Marshall Stike)
Jacy McGrath (dead Androgum - uncredited)
Fernando Monast (scientist - uncredited)
Laurence Payne (computer voice - uncredited)
Peter Moffat, Jan Wright (people outside restaurant - uncredited)
Mercedes Carnegie (woman on balcony - uncredited)
June Easther, Patrick Edwards, Maria Eldridge, Michael Eriera, Iris Everson, John Holland, Tim Milsom, Nedjet Salih, Glynis Simmons (diners and waiters at Las Cadenas - uncredited)

PLOT SUMMARY

The Second Doctor and Jamie are captured by Sontarans on a space station and taken as captives to Seville in Spain. The Second Doctor is experimented upon giving him the appetites of the cannibalistic Androgums. The Sixth Doctor must help him.

Oh dear. A nice intro in black and white, then downhill from there. Continuity so prevalent three stories ago is now jettisoned. Why introduce The Second Doctor simply rather than weigh him down immediately with baggage that will confuse one part of the audience and alienate the other. With The Second Doctor becoming a comedy Androgum, the programme becomes not the Two Doctors but one Doctor and a comedy character. Pointless and a waste. The story once again is very busy with too many sub-plots. Meant to be set in New Orleans but changed to Spain when location work there was not possible. They apparently had a fun time making it, which was nice.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video

1985
February
16: UK - Part One television broadcast (on BBC1)
23: UK - Part One television broadcast (on BBC1)

March
2: UK - Part One television broadcast (on BBC1)

The Androgum Inheritance
Creation
Seventh Ammendment

BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.476-479
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker)

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

aliens, time travel

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009