The Doctor Who Episode Guide: 1982 Season
- Publication: Starlog
- Date: number 64 (November 1982)
- Author: David Hirsch
- Page:
- Language: English
As a follow-up to issue 62's interviews with the new cast of Dr. Who, this month we present a guide to Peter Davison's first season as the Doctor.
CASTROVALVA (4 Parts)
Airdates: Jan. 4,5,11,12, 1982
Writer: Christopher H. Biedmead
Director: Fiona Cumming
Guest Cast: Anthony Ainley, Frank Wylie, Michael Sheard
After saving the galaxy from destruction by the Master (Ainley), the Doctor has fallen from a high gantry at the Pharos Project on Earth. In an effort to save his life, the Doctor's body regenerates, taking on the form of a blond, younger man. With his mind disoriented by the change, it is up to Adric, Nyssa and Tegan to help him escape the Pharos guards so that he can get back to the TARDIS where the Zero Room will help him safely survive the traumatic regeneration. The Master, however, sees this as the perfect chance to destroy his enemy once and for all. As the three companions await the Doctor's recovery, the TARDIS is hurled back to Event One—the creation of the Universe—at a time wherein the TARDIS could not exist!
FOUR TO DOOMSDAY (4 Parts)
Airdates: Jan. 18,19,25,26,1982
Writer: Terrance Dudley
Director: John Black
Guest Cast: Stratford Johns, Annie Lambert, Paul Shelley, Philip Locke, Burt Kwouk
The TARDIS lands aboard a giant alien star-ship that is on a heading for Earth. The craft is under the command of the green-skinned Monarch (Johns) and his assistants, Persuasion (Shelley) and Enlightenment (Lambert). The Doctor discovers a terrifying secret when he befriends Bigon (Locke), a member of the Urbankan crew. It is a secret that could spell disaster for the populace of Earth.
KINDA (4 Parts)
Airdates: Feb. 1,2,8,9,1982
Writer: Christopher Bailey
Director: Peter Grimwade
Guest Cast: Nerys Hughes, Richard Todd, Simon Rouse, Jeffrey Stewart
As Nyssa rests in the TARDIS after a brief illness, the Doctor, Adric and Tegan explore a new planet where they chance upon Wind-chimes, a bizarre natural formation that intrigues Tegan. As the Doctor and Adric continue on, Tegan finds herself drawn into a bizarre world of darkness. There she meets Dukkha (Stewart), a strange humanoid creature that demands Tegan to allow him to experience the outside world through her body. Meanwhile, the Doctor and Adric have been captured by a robot-like device that escorts them back to its owners, a group of alien explorers (Todd, Rouse, Hughes). The aliens believe that the inhabitants of the planet, Deva Loka, are responsible for the disappearance of the rest of their party. One of the aliens, Hindle, is unhinged, and when the commander disappears as well, he ruthlessly takes command, threatening to kill the Doctor.
THE VISITATION (4 Parts)
Airdates: Feb. 15,16,22,23,1982
Writer: Eric Saward
Director: Peter Moffatt
Guest Cast: Peter Van Dissel, Michael Robbins, James Charlton, Valerie Fyfer
The time travellers land in England in the mid-Seventeenth Century, when the dreaded Plague ravaged the populace. But Plague is not all there is to fear as the Doctor and his companions encounter a race of alien monsters and Nyssa must use all her cunning and skill to defeat an alien android.
BLACK ORCHID (2 Parts)
Airdates: March 1,2, 1982
Writer: Terence Dudley
Director: Ron Jones
Guest Cast: Gareth Milne, Ahmed Khalil, Michael Cochrane, Barbara Murray
Doctor Who's first historical drama in 16 years finds the travellers in 1925 England. Through a case of mistaken identity, they are invited into the home of Lord Cranleigh (Cochrane). To Nyssa's amusement, she discovers that she bares a striking resemblance to Cranleigh's fiance, Ann Talbot (Sutton in a dual role). As a lark, the girls decide to dress in identical costumes at the evening's fancy dress ball, unaware that a killer is after Ann.
EARTHSHOCK (4 Parts)
Airdates: March 8,9,15,16,1982
Writer: Eric Saward
Director: Peter Grimwade
Guest Cast: Clare Clifford, James Warwick, Steve Morley, Mark Hardy, David Banks, Beryl Reid
While exploring a vast cave system beneath 25th Century Earth, a group of Paleontologists are ruthlessly slaughtered by an unseen enemy. The team leader, Professor Kyle (Clifford), escapes and manages to reach Lt. Scott (Warwick) and his security force troopers. Under Kyle's guidance, the troopers are led into the tunnel system in an effort to route out the murderer. Meanwhile, the TARDIS has landed nearby while Adric programs the craft for a trip into the Universe know as E-Space, where Adric's homeworld is. Unknown to anyone, the Doctor's old enemies are about to strike again—the Cybermen are on the move!
TIME FLIGHT (4 Parts)
Airdates: March 22,23,29,30,1982
Writer: Peter Grimwade
Director: Ron Jones
Guest Cast: Anthony Ainley, John Flint, Peter Dahlsen, Judith Byfield
When a Concorde supersonic passenger jet vanishes into thin air, the Doctor and his companions follow and find themselves on another planet for yet one more battle with the Master.
CAST:
The Doctor Peter Davison
Adric Matthew Waterhouse
Nyssa Sarah Sutton
Tegan Jovanka Janet Fielding
CREW:
Producer John Nathan-Turner
Main Title Music Ron Grainier
Caption: Left: Peter Davison as the Doctor. Right: Davison, Sutton, Fielding and Waterhouse clown on the
set of "Black Orchid."
Caption: Far left: The Doctor takes aim in "Earthshock." Left: Off on another adventure. Below left: In "Four to Doomsday" the Doctor and Adric try to reason with the alien leader, Monarch. Below right: The time travellers land on another alien planet in "Kinda." Bottom left: Adric and the Doctor try to diffuse a cyberbomb (built by model maker Martin Bower) in "Earthshock." Bottom right: Nyssa borrows the Doctor's sonic screwdriver for a plan of her own in "Four to Doomsday."
Spelling correction: Christopher H. Bidmead
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