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003. Al borde del desastre
Artículo de wikipedia pendiente de que lo traduzca cuando tenga tiempo.
The Edge of Destruction (also referred to as Inside the Spaceship) is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in 2 weekly parts on February 8 and February 15, 1964. The serial is distinguished as a rare "bottle episode", in that the entire story is shot on a single set, with just the main cast. It also serves to resolve several character threads that had been presented over the previous eleven weeks.
[edit][edit]Plot
Synopsis
The Doctor, while attempting to correct the TARDIS's faulty navigation circuits, causes a small explosion. The Doctor, Barbara, Ian and Susan are all temporarily rendered unconscious. After they awake, Ian and Susan appear to have slight cases of amnesia and everyone begins to act strangely. Unexpected events are happening on the TARDIS, the travellers are becoming suspicious of each other's motives, and the Doctor even accuses Ian and Barbara of sabotage. Fearing that they have been taken over by some alien force — or that they have intentionally sabotaged the TARDIS in order to force the Doctor to return them to 1963 — he drugs Barbara and Ian unknowing that Ian is also suspicious and has not taken the drink given to him. The Doctor attempts to explore the problem without interference.
Gradually it becomes clear that the strange events are an attempt by the TARDIS itself to warn the crew that something is wrong. Thanks to Barbara's clue-gathering, the Doctor traces the problem to a broken spring in the Fast Return Switch. The malfunction is causing the TARDIS to head back to the beginning of time; the strange events were just the TARDIS's attempts to warn its passengers before the ship is destroyed. Fixing the switch brings all back to normal. Although the day is saved, Barbara is still affected by the Doctor's harsh words earlier. The Doctor is forced to do what he least enjoys — apologise, and admit that he was wrong about Barbara and Ian.
The story closes with the TARDIS materialising on a snowy landscape, where Susan spots a giant footprint in the snow.
[edit]Continuity
This serial introduces the ideas that the TARDIS console and time column directly harness the energies which drive the ship, and that the TARDIS is "alive" and somewhat self-aware. These ideas would come up again on occasion as the original series progressed, but would become major plot points during the 2005 series, in particular in the episodes "Boom Town" and "The Parting of the Ways".[1]
When Ian examines the injured Doctor, he remarks that "his heart seems fine." However, the Third Doctor serial Spearhead from Space reveals that the Doctor has two hearts. The tie-in novel The Man in the Velvet Mask states (incorporating an explanation for the discrepancy from fan lore) that the Doctor did not grow his second heart until his regeneration into the Second Doctor. However, the canonicity of spin-off media has never been clear. An alternative explanation can be found inThe Mind of Evil, "The Christmas Invasion" and "The Shakespeare Code", in all of which, one of the Doctor's hearts stops due to severe trauma.
This story explicitly states that the Doctor and Susan had visited other worlds before 1963 Earth. Susan mentions that four or five journeys back they had visited the planet Quinnis where the TARDIS had almost been lost. She explains the details of this pre-television tale in the 2010 Big Finish Productions audio drama Quinnis.
The Doctor's extensive wardrobe is first mentioned at the end of the story, with Ian showing off an ulster that the Doctor had received from Gilbert and Sullivan.
The mispronunciation of Ian's last name that began in the previous story, The Daleks, is used in this episode to signify that everything has returned to normal after the climax. Here the Doctor calls Ian "Charterhouse".
The Fast Return Switch is used again in the Eighth Doctor Big Finish Productions audio adventures Seasons of Fear and Neverland.
[edit]Production
This story was written by story editor David Whitaker within two days. It was created as a hasty "filler" story so that the series would fit a thirteen episode run, which was all that had been granted at that stage. Budgetary restrictions meant that only the four regular actors and the TARDIS sets could be used for the filming. Today, this type of production using existing sets and no additional cast is common practice among television productions and is called a "bottle show").
Paddy Russell was originally assigned to direct this serial, but she was unavailable for the recording dates so Mervyn Pinfield was suggested as her replacement. Richard Martin was in the end chosen, but he was unavailable for the second episode so Frank Cox had to take over. The episodes were recorded in Lime Grove studio D 17 and 24 January 1964.
The "fast return" switch label on the TARDIS console appears to be written in felt-tip pen. Exactly why this was done is uncertain; on the DVD, documentary designer Raymond Cusick guesses that it was written during rehearsals as a guide, and producer Verity Lambert surmises that it may have been written so that Hartnell could find the switch. Both agree, however, that the label was probably never intended to be seen. Carole Ann Ford states the she and William Hartnell labeled controls on the TARDIS control panel during rehearsal, and assumed they would be blotted out before production.[1]
[edit]Alternative titles
The two episodes of the serial had individual titles. They were, respectively, "The Edge of Destruction" and "The Brink of Disaster." As was the case with other early Doctor Who serials, there are differences of opinion as to the appropriate umbrella title for this serial.
Various titles used over the years include:
Inside the Spaceship — the only title known to have been used on 1960s production documents, also used by writer David Whitaker in all correspondence throughout his life.
Beyond the Sun — used on the first edition of the 1974 BBC Enterprises sales catalogue A Quick Guide to Dr. Who, although the second edition declines to give any title for the story. It was actually a working title for The Daleks and has also at times been attributed to an unmade story byMalcolm Hulke called The Hidden Planet.
The Brink of Disaster — the title of the second episode, arbitrarily adopted for a fan list in the seeming absence of anything else.
The Edge of Destruction — the title of the first episode, arbitrarily adopted for the 1976 second edition of The Making of Doctor Who in the absence of any other known title, and subsequently used on the novelisation, VHS and DVD releases of the stories.
See: Doctor Who story title controversy
Doctor Who book
The Edge of Destruction
Series Target novelisations
Release number 132
Writer Nigel Robinson
Publisher Target Books
Cover artist Alister Pearson
ISBN 0-426-20327-5
Release date 20 October 1988
Preceded by The Ultimate Foe
Followed by The Smugglers
[edit]Commercial releases
The serial was released on VHS in 2000 as "The Edge of Destruction and Dr. Who: The Pilot Episode". The US/Canada release in 2001 also included "The Missing Years" (see Lost in Time) documentary from 1998 (which was released with "The Ice Warriors" video tape in the United Kingdom). In 2006, it was included on The Beginning DVD box set, along with the previous two serials.
[edit]In print
A novelisation of this serial, written by Nigel Robinson, was published by Target Books on 20 October 1988 under the title The Edge of Destruction. It was the 132nd Doctor Who novelisation by Target Books. The cover was made by Alister Pearson. [4]
[edit]Internet
The BBC has freely uploaded both parts of this episode to Youtube for promotional purposes. [5] [6]
| 003:The Edge of Destruction | |||||
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| Doctor Who serial | |||||
 Barbara, Ian, the Doctor and Susan observe the broken clock inside the TARDIS. | |||||
| Cast | |||||
| Production | |||||
| Writer | David Whitaker | ||||
| Director | Richard Martin (episode 1) Frank Cox (episode 2) | ||||
| Script editor | David Whitaker | ||||
| Producer | Verity Lambert Mervyn Pinfield (associate producer) | ||||
| Executive producer(s) | None | ||||
| Production code | C | ||||
| Series | Season 1 | ||||
| Length | 2 episodes, 25 minutes each | ||||
| Originally broadcast | February 8–15, 1964 | ||||
| Chronology | |||||
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| IMDb profile | |||||
The Edge of Destruction (also referred to as Inside the Spaceship) is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in 2 weekly parts on February 8 and February 15, 1964. The serial is distinguished as a rare "bottle episode", in that the entire story is shot on a single set, with just the main cast. It also serves to resolve several character threads that had been presented over the previous eleven weeks.
[edit][edit]Plot
Synopsis
The Doctor, while attempting to correct the TARDIS's faulty navigation circuits, causes a small explosion. The Doctor, Barbara, Ian and Susan are all temporarily rendered unconscious. After they awake, Ian and Susan appear to have slight cases of amnesia and everyone begins to act strangely. Unexpected events are happening on the TARDIS, the travellers are becoming suspicious of each other's motives, and the Doctor even accuses Ian and Barbara of sabotage. Fearing that they have been taken over by some alien force — or that they have intentionally sabotaged the TARDIS in order to force the Doctor to return them to 1963 — he drugs Barbara and Ian unknowing that Ian is also suspicious and has not taken the drink given to him. The Doctor attempts to explore the problem without interference.
Gradually it becomes clear that the strange events are an attempt by the TARDIS itself to warn the crew that something is wrong. Thanks to Barbara's clue-gathering, the Doctor traces the problem to a broken spring in the Fast Return Switch. The malfunction is causing the TARDIS to head back to the beginning of time; the strange events were just the TARDIS's attempts to warn its passengers before the ship is destroyed. Fixing the switch brings all back to normal. Although the day is saved, Barbara is still affected by the Doctor's harsh words earlier. The Doctor is forced to do what he least enjoys — apologise, and admit that he was wrong about Barbara and Ian.
The story closes with the TARDIS materialising on a snowy landscape, where Susan spots a giant footprint in the snow.
[edit]Continuity
This serial introduces the ideas that the TARDIS console and time column directly harness the energies which drive the ship, and that the TARDIS is "alive" and somewhat self-aware. These ideas would come up again on occasion as the original series progressed, but would become major plot points during the 2005 series, in particular in the episodes "Boom Town" and "The Parting of the Ways".[1]
When Ian examines the injured Doctor, he remarks that "his heart seems fine." However, the Third Doctor serial Spearhead from Space reveals that the Doctor has two hearts. The tie-in novel The Man in the Velvet Mask states (incorporating an explanation for the discrepancy from fan lore) that the Doctor did not grow his second heart until his regeneration into the Second Doctor. However, the canonicity of spin-off media has never been clear. An alternative explanation can be found inThe Mind of Evil, "The Christmas Invasion" and "The Shakespeare Code", in all of which, one of the Doctor's hearts stops due to severe trauma.
This story explicitly states that the Doctor and Susan had visited other worlds before 1963 Earth. Susan mentions that four or five journeys back they had visited the planet Quinnis where the TARDIS had almost been lost. She explains the details of this pre-television tale in the 2010 Big Finish Productions audio drama Quinnis.
The Doctor's extensive wardrobe is first mentioned at the end of the story, with Ian showing off an ulster that the Doctor had received from Gilbert and Sullivan.
The mispronunciation of Ian's last name that began in the previous story, The Daleks, is used in this episode to signify that everything has returned to normal after the climax. Here the Doctor calls Ian "Charterhouse".
The Fast Return Switch is used again in the Eighth Doctor Big Finish Productions audio adventures Seasons of Fear and Neverland.
[edit]Production
| Episode | Broadcast date | Run time | Viewership (in millions) | Archive |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Edge of Destruction" | 8 February 1964 | 25:04 | 10.4 | 16mm t/r |
| "The Brink of Disaster" | 15 February 1964 | 22:11 | 9.9 | 16mm t/r |
| [2][3] | ||||
This story was written by story editor David Whitaker within two days. It was created as a hasty "filler" story so that the series would fit a thirteen episode run, which was all that had been granted at that stage. Budgetary restrictions meant that only the four regular actors and the TARDIS sets could be used for the filming. Today, this type of production using existing sets and no additional cast is common practice among television productions and is called a "bottle show").
Paddy Russell was originally assigned to direct this serial, but she was unavailable for the recording dates so Mervyn Pinfield was suggested as her replacement. Richard Martin was in the end chosen, but he was unavailable for the second episode so Frank Cox had to take over. The episodes were recorded in Lime Grove studio D 17 and 24 January 1964.
The "fast return" switch label on the TARDIS console appears to be written in felt-tip pen. Exactly why this was done is uncertain; on the DVD, documentary designer Raymond Cusick guesses that it was written during rehearsals as a guide, and producer Verity Lambert surmises that it may have been written so that Hartnell could find the switch. Both agree, however, that the label was probably never intended to be seen. Carole Ann Ford states the she and William Hartnell labeled controls on the TARDIS control panel during rehearsal, and assumed they would be blotted out before production.[1]
[edit]Alternative titles
The two episodes of the serial had individual titles. They were, respectively, "The Edge of Destruction" and "The Brink of Disaster." As was the case with other early Doctor Who serials, there are differences of opinion as to the appropriate umbrella title for this serial.
Various titles used over the years include:
Inside the Spaceship — the only title known to have been used on 1960s production documents, also used by writer David Whitaker in all correspondence throughout his life.
Beyond the Sun — used on the first edition of the 1974 BBC Enterprises sales catalogue A Quick Guide to Dr. Who, although the second edition declines to give any title for the story. It was actually a working title for The Daleks and has also at times been attributed to an unmade story byMalcolm Hulke called The Hidden Planet.
The Brink of Disaster — the title of the second episode, arbitrarily adopted for a fan list in the seeming absence of anything else.
The Edge of Destruction — the title of the first episode, arbitrarily adopted for the 1976 second edition of The Making of Doctor Who in the absence of any other known title, and subsequently used on the novelisation, VHS and DVD releases of the stories.
See: Doctor Who story title controversy
Doctor Who book
The Edge of Destruction
Series Target novelisations
Release number 132
Writer Nigel Robinson
Publisher Target Books
Cover artist Alister Pearson
ISBN 0-426-20327-5
Release date 20 October 1988
Preceded by The Ultimate Foe
Followed by The Smugglers
[edit]Commercial releases
The serial was released on VHS in 2000 as "The Edge of Destruction and Dr. Who: The Pilot Episode". The US/Canada release in 2001 also included "The Missing Years" (see Lost in Time) documentary from 1998 (which was released with "The Ice Warriors" video tape in the United Kingdom). In 2006, it was included on The Beginning DVD box set, along with the previous two serials.
[edit]In print
A novelisation of this serial, written by Nigel Robinson, was published by Target Books on 20 October 1988 under the title The Edge of Destruction. It was the 132nd Doctor Who novelisation by Target Books. The cover was made by Alister Pearson. [4]
[edit]Internet
The BBC has freely uploaded both parts of this episode to Youtube for promotional purposes. [5] [6]
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122 - Time Flight
Artículo de Wikipedia pendiente de traducir cuando tenga tiempo.
Synopsis
Missing Concordes lead the Fifth Doctor on a curious mission back in time where a deadly foe is seeking to seize control of the ancient powers of the Xeraphin.
Plot
On a standard flight from New York to London, Concorde Golf Victor Foxtrot is nearing Heathrow Airport when its signal begins to break up. Before long all trace of the aircraft is lost - the Concorde has disappeared. Arriving at Heathrow shortly afterward, though still grieving for the death of Adric (Earthshock), the Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan, are enlisted by Department C19 to help in the investigation of the missing craft.
The trio board a similar Concorde, Golf Alpha Charlie, and follow the same flight path to try and discover the cause of the disappearing Concorde. The TARDIS is stowed on board. Stapley, the Captain of the Concorde, and his senior crew welcome them aboard. The Doctor finds traces of disturbance and, although they arrive safely at Heathrow (as shown in the picture above), they discover that they have travelled 140 million years into the past. The crew believe they have landed in modern Heathrow until the Doctor and Nyssa urge them to challenge this perception and realise the reality of the empty landscape, which has been distorted by huge amounts of psychokinetic energy. They soon spy Victor-Foxtrot on the empty plain, and an impressive citadel beyond it in the far distance, with the remains of an alien spacecraft nearby. When the Doctor and his friends discover the crew and passengers of the first Concorde they are moving his TARDIS toward the Citadel on the instructions of an alien entity, all totally immersed in the illusion of a modern Heathrow. All, that is, apart from one passenger, Professor Hayter, who has resisted the illusion. Bilton and Scobie, Stapley’s flight crew, are less lucky and succumb to the illusion, heading off for the Citadel with the TARDIS and the other confused passengers. Their progress is marshalled by the Plasmatons - blobs of protein agglomeration from the atmosphere assembled of random particles, which are held together by the same kinetic energy.
The force in charge of this strange domain is Kalid, a seemingly oriental mystic who uses a glowing green globe to control vast amounts of psychokinetic energy and shape the prehistoric landscape of Earth. Nyssa too has a particular empathywith this energy and starts getting visions and voices in her head that are so unwelcome to Kalid that he tries to cut her off from the others with a protoplasmic shield. Tegan stays with Nyssa while the Doctor ventures on to the Citadel with Hayter and Stapley. There they find the crew of Victor-Foxtrot, blindly trying to remove the walls to a sealed chamber. Stapley and Hayter work on trying to free the others from the mental illusion while the Doctor heads to the heart of the Citadel and encounters Kalid. The green-tinged magician has evidently brought a slave force to prehistoric Earth, tapping into the already existent psychokinetic powers of the place. He then channels the energies into menacing Hayter, Stapley and the others to try to secure the Doctor’s cooperation in getting into his TARDIS.
This exertion has broken Kalid’s mental hold over the plasmatons around Nyssa and they disperse. Nyssa and Tegan follow the former’s instincts as they enter the Citadel and they are soon provided access to the chamber that has been closed to Kalid and the mentally deluded passengers. Nyssa acts on instinct and throws an artefact into the centre of a tank-like structure in the centre of the sealed room, and the results are immense. Kalid’s mental channelling is interrupted and he collapses in agony, his disguise falling away to reveal the Master. The renegade is trapped in this time zone, having damaged his TARDIS while escaping from their previous encounter on Castrovalva, and needs a new source of power to escape this time zone. The power in the closed chamber could provide an alternative source, but the Master is frustrated that the passengers are taking so long to break down the walls and access it. He forces the Doctor to give him the key to the TARDIS and steals the craft to try to enter the chamber another way, and the Doctor and Hayter race off to the Chamber to try to reach it first. Their arrival coincides with the Concorde passengers finally breaking through the wall.
Inside the sanctum the Doctor and Hayter are reunited with Nyssa and Tegan. The sarcophagus at its centre contains a being of immense power but a split personality, which has let itself be used by the Master and Nyssa respectively. Nearby are small shrunken bodies which the Doctor identifies as a missing species, the Xeraphin, a race of ancient beings believed destroyed in the crossfire during the Vardon/Kosnax war. Instead, the entire race seems to have transformed itself into a single gestalt intelligence within the tank which has phenomenal psychic abilities. Hayter sacrifices himself to the creature to provide it with a means to communicate and is absorbed into the entity. The Xeraphin manifest itself in the being Anithon, who explains the entity came to Earth in the crashed spaceship on the plains to escape the war, but were so plagued with radiation they shed their bodies and became a single bioplasmic entity. The Xeraphin built the Citadel and planned to re-emerge from the sarcophagus once the radiation danger was over. The Master’s arrival disturbed the balance of the Xeraphin and has caused the gestalt to develop a split personality of good and evil, each side competing for their tremendous power while yearning to become a proper species once again.
As a result of the Doctor leaving the coordinate override switched on, and some sabotage by Captain Stapley, the TARDIS fails to take the Master into the central Chamber. His next gambit is to build an induction loop which he uses to remotely access the sarcophagus and exert his will over it. The bad Xeraphin responds and within moments the sarcophagus is transported into the centre of the Master’s own TARDIS to serve as a new power source. The Master attempts to flee in his ship, taking those passengers still deluded with him as a slave crew, leaving the Doctor and his friends stranded. But due to the earlier sabotage by the Captain, the Master is unable to leave prehistoric earth. After some to-ing and fro-ing over missing parts, the Doctor manages to gain the release of all the passengers and some parts stolen from his own TARDIS in return for the Master getting a new temporal limiter.
There is now a mass departure from prehistoric Earth. First, the second Concorde is made serviceable and transports Stapley, his crew and the passengers from the other Concorde back to Heathrow. The Doctor reverses the track of the time contour and brings the plane back to Heathrow along with his TARDIS. The Doctor programmed the temporal limiter that he provided the Master with to arrive after he did, so when the Master attempts to land, the Doctor's TARDIS is already in the spot. He bounces the Master's TARDIS away from its intended destination, and the evil Time Lord is sent back to modern-day Xeriphas, where the Doctor hopes the Xeraphin will exact their revenge.
In a rush to leave, the Doctor and Nyssa head off in his TARDIS, assuming that now Tegan is back in her beloved Heathrow she will be happy to stay. Her sadness as she sees the TARDIS dematerialise tells a different story.
[edit]Cast notes
In order to hide the Master's involvement in this story, the first episode did not credit Anthony Ainley as the Master. Instead, the credits and Radio Times listed "Leon Ny Taiy" (an anagram of "Tony Ainley") as playing Kalid.
Continuity
The Master's reasons for disguising himself as a vaguely Arabian magician are never made clear in the story.
The Doctor name-drops UNIT early in the story, and is recruited to help deal with the missing aircraft situation as a result. UNIT does not otherwise feature in the story.
In this episode, the Doctor activated a feature in the TARDIS to shift the interior of the ship so it is the right way up. Nyssa mentions that she wished that they knew about this feature back on Castrovalva.
The Doctor wishes he'd brought his scarf, a piece of clothing he wore predominantly in his previous incarnation.
When Nyssa and Tegan see the image of Adric, they realise he's an illusion as he's wearing a badge the Doctor had destroyed in the previous story.
Nyssa and Tegan also see the images of Melkur from The Keeper of Traken and a Terileptil from The Visitation.
122[1]:Time-Flight | |||||
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Doctor Who serial | |||||
 Little knowing they have travelled 140 million years into the past, Captain Stapley of Concorde Golf Victor Charliewelcomes the Doctor to Heathrow as he steps out of theBritish Airways supersonic airliner. | |||||
Cast | |||||
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Executive producer(s) | None | ||||
Production code | 6C | ||||
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Length | 4 episodes, 25 minutes each | ||||
Originally broadcast | March 22–March 30, 1982 | ||||
Chronology | |||||
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Synopsis
Missing Concordes lead the Fifth Doctor on a curious mission back in time where a deadly foe is seeking to seize control of the ancient powers of the Xeraphin.
Plot
On a standard flight from New York to London, Concorde Golf Victor Foxtrot is nearing Heathrow Airport when its signal begins to break up. Before long all trace of the aircraft is lost - the Concorde has disappeared. Arriving at Heathrow shortly afterward, though still grieving for the death of Adric (Earthshock), the Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan, are enlisted by Department C19 to help in the investigation of the missing craft.
The trio board a similar Concorde, Golf Alpha Charlie, and follow the same flight path to try and discover the cause of the disappearing Concorde. The TARDIS is stowed on board. Stapley, the Captain of the Concorde, and his senior crew welcome them aboard. The Doctor finds traces of disturbance and, although they arrive safely at Heathrow (as shown in the picture above), they discover that they have travelled 140 million years into the past. The crew believe they have landed in modern Heathrow until the Doctor and Nyssa urge them to challenge this perception and realise the reality of the empty landscape, which has been distorted by huge amounts of psychokinetic energy. They soon spy Victor-Foxtrot on the empty plain, and an impressive citadel beyond it in the far distance, with the remains of an alien spacecraft nearby. When the Doctor and his friends discover the crew and passengers of the first Concorde they are moving his TARDIS toward the Citadel on the instructions of an alien entity, all totally immersed in the illusion of a modern Heathrow. All, that is, apart from one passenger, Professor Hayter, who has resisted the illusion. Bilton and Scobie, Stapley’s flight crew, are less lucky and succumb to the illusion, heading off for the Citadel with the TARDIS and the other confused passengers. Their progress is marshalled by the Plasmatons - blobs of protein agglomeration from the atmosphere assembled of random particles, which are held together by the same kinetic energy.
The force in charge of this strange domain is Kalid, a seemingly oriental mystic who uses a glowing green globe to control vast amounts of psychokinetic energy and shape the prehistoric landscape of Earth. Nyssa too has a particular empathywith this energy and starts getting visions and voices in her head that are so unwelcome to Kalid that he tries to cut her off from the others with a protoplasmic shield. Tegan stays with Nyssa while the Doctor ventures on to the Citadel with Hayter and Stapley. There they find the crew of Victor-Foxtrot, blindly trying to remove the walls to a sealed chamber. Stapley and Hayter work on trying to free the others from the mental illusion while the Doctor heads to the heart of the Citadel and encounters Kalid. The green-tinged magician has evidently brought a slave force to prehistoric Earth, tapping into the already existent psychokinetic powers of the place. He then channels the energies into menacing Hayter, Stapley and the others to try to secure the Doctor’s cooperation in getting into his TARDIS.
This exertion has broken Kalid’s mental hold over the plasmatons around Nyssa and they disperse. Nyssa and Tegan follow the former’s instincts as they enter the Citadel and they are soon provided access to the chamber that has been closed to Kalid and the mentally deluded passengers. Nyssa acts on instinct and throws an artefact into the centre of a tank-like structure in the centre of the sealed room, and the results are immense. Kalid’s mental channelling is interrupted and he collapses in agony, his disguise falling away to reveal the Master. The renegade is trapped in this time zone, having damaged his TARDIS while escaping from their previous encounter on Castrovalva, and needs a new source of power to escape this time zone. The power in the closed chamber could provide an alternative source, but the Master is frustrated that the passengers are taking so long to break down the walls and access it. He forces the Doctor to give him the key to the TARDIS and steals the craft to try to enter the chamber another way, and the Doctor and Hayter race off to the Chamber to try to reach it first. Their arrival coincides with the Concorde passengers finally breaking through the wall.
Inside the sanctum the Doctor and Hayter are reunited with Nyssa and Tegan. The sarcophagus at its centre contains a being of immense power but a split personality, which has let itself be used by the Master and Nyssa respectively. Nearby are small shrunken bodies which the Doctor identifies as a missing species, the Xeraphin, a race of ancient beings believed destroyed in the crossfire during the Vardon/Kosnax war. Instead, the entire race seems to have transformed itself into a single gestalt intelligence within the tank which has phenomenal psychic abilities. Hayter sacrifices himself to the creature to provide it with a means to communicate and is absorbed into the entity. The Xeraphin manifest itself in the being Anithon, who explains the entity came to Earth in the crashed spaceship on the plains to escape the war, but were so plagued with radiation they shed their bodies and became a single bioplasmic entity. The Xeraphin built the Citadel and planned to re-emerge from the sarcophagus once the radiation danger was over. The Master’s arrival disturbed the balance of the Xeraphin and has caused the gestalt to develop a split personality of good and evil, each side competing for their tremendous power while yearning to become a proper species once again.
As a result of the Doctor leaving the coordinate override switched on, and some sabotage by Captain Stapley, the TARDIS fails to take the Master into the central Chamber. His next gambit is to build an induction loop which he uses to remotely access the sarcophagus and exert his will over it. The bad Xeraphin responds and within moments the sarcophagus is transported into the centre of the Master’s own TARDIS to serve as a new power source. The Master attempts to flee in his ship, taking those passengers still deluded with him as a slave crew, leaving the Doctor and his friends stranded. But due to the earlier sabotage by the Captain, the Master is unable to leave prehistoric earth. After some to-ing and fro-ing over missing parts, the Doctor manages to gain the release of all the passengers and some parts stolen from his own TARDIS in return for the Master getting a new temporal limiter.
There is now a mass departure from prehistoric Earth. First, the second Concorde is made serviceable and transports Stapley, his crew and the passengers from the other Concorde back to Heathrow. The Doctor reverses the track of the time contour and brings the plane back to Heathrow along with his TARDIS. The Doctor programmed the temporal limiter that he provided the Master with to arrive after he did, so when the Master attempts to land, the Doctor's TARDIS is already in the spot. He bounces the Master's TARDIS away from its intended destination, and the evil Time Lord is sent back to modern-day Xeriphas, where the Doctor hopes the Xeraphin will exact their revenge.
In a rush to leave, the Doctor and Nyssa head off in his TARDIS, assuming that now Tegan is back in her beloved Heathrow she will be happy to stay. Her sadness as she sees the TARDIS dematerialise tells a different story.
[edit]Cast notes
In order to hide the Master's involvement in this story, the first episode did not credit Anthony Ainley as the Master. Instead, the credits and Radio Times listed "Leon Ny Taiy" (an anagram of "Tony Ainley") as playing Kalid.
Continuity
The Master's reasons for disguising himself as a vaguely Arabian magician are never made clear in the story.
The Doctor name-drops UNIT early in the story, and is recruited to help deal with the missing aircraft situation as a result. UNIT does not otherwise feature in the story.
In this episode, the Doctor activated a feature in the TARDIS to shift the interior of the ship so it is the right way up. Nyssa mentions that she wished that they knew about this feature back on Castrovalva.
The Doctor wishes he'd brought his scarf, a piece of clothing he wore predominantly in his previous incarnation.
When Nyssa and Tegan see the image of Adric, they realise he's an illusion as he's wearing a badge the Doctor had destroyed in the previous story.
Nyssa and Tegan also see the images of Melkur from The Keeper of Traken and a Terileptil from The Visitation.
Production
Serial details by episode
The working titles for this story were Zanadin, Xeraphin and Time into Flight.
Doctor Who was the first television show allowed to film at Heathrow Airport. The TARDIS crew had previously visited Heathrow in the 1982 serial The Visitation, but that visit was 300 years in the past. As for airports, the 1967 serial The Faceless Ones was filmed, and took place, at Gatwick.
The Concorde used for the production was G-BOAC, the flagship of the BA fleet. The registry can be read from the radar screen in the ATC scenes. The other registry, G-BAVF, is nonexistent.
Although Adric had been killed in the previous episode, Matthew Waterhouse's contract extended into the filming of Time-Flight, the reason for Adric's illusory appearance in Part Two.
Tegan's apparent departure from the series was never intended to be permanent. It was planned to provide a sort of cliffhanger ending to the season. She returned in the second episode of the next story, "Arc of Infinity".
Serial details by episode
| Episode | Broadcast date | Run time | Viewership (in millions) |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Part One" | 23 March 1982 | 24:56 | 10.0 |
| "Part Two" | 24 March 1982 | 23:58 | 8.5 |
| "Part Three" | 30 March 1982 | 24:29 | 8.9 |
| "Part Four" | 31 March 1982 | 24:30 | 8.1 |
| [2][3][4] | |||
Doctor Who was the first television show allowed to film at Heathrow Airport. The TARDIS crew had previously visited Heathrow in the 1982 serial The Visitation, but that visit was 300 years in the past. As for airports, the 1967 serial The Faceless Ones was filmed, and took place, at Gatwick.
The Concorde used for the production was G-BOAC, the flagship of the BA fleet. The registry can be read from the radar screen in the ATC scenes. The other registry, G-BAVF, is nonexistent.
Although Adric had been killed in the previous episode, Matthew Waterhouse's contract extended into the filming of Time-Flight, the reason for Adric's illusory appearance in Part Two.
Tegan's apparent departure from the series was never intended to be permanent. It was planned to provide a sort of cliffhanger ending to the season. She returned in the second episode of the next story, "Arc of Infinity".
Broadcast, VHS and DVD releases
This story was released on VHS in July 2000.
A double-pack DVD featuring both Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity was released on 6 August 2007. The Commentary for this story featured Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton and Script Editor Eric Saward.
This story was released on VHS in July 2000.
A double-pack DVD featuring both Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity was released on 6 August 2007. The Commentary for this story featured Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton and Script Editor Eric Saward.
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Esta me la salté. Al menos, como ocurre en Gallyfrey, este pequeño "hipo" no va a afectar a la lectura.
domingo, 27 de junio de 2010
miércoles, 7 de abril de 2010
5º Doctor: Peter Davison - índice de episodios
Quinto Doctor
El Quinto Doctor fue interpretado por Peter Davison.
Temporada 19 (1982)
Antony Root recibió el cargo de editor de guión de manos de Bidmead para "Cuatro hacia el apocalipsis" y "La Visita", tras los que fue reemplazado por Eric Saward. La serie pasó de su emisión habitual una vez a la semana a ser emitida dos veces por semana los Lunes y los Martes.
"Castrovalva" junto con los dos seriales anteriores "El Guardián de Traken" y "Logópolis" forman una suerte de trilogía dedicada al regreso de El Amo. Se sacaron a la venta en DVD con el título "Nuevos comienzos" (New Beginnings).
Season 20 (1983)
To commemorate the twentieth season, the stories in this season involve the return of previous villains. Mawdryn Undead, Terminus and Enlightenment involve the Black Guardian's plot to kill the Doctor; they were released individually on VHS as parts of The Black Guardian Trilogy.
Special (1983)
Season 21 (1984)
La temporada 21 continúa con las aventuras del Sexto Doctor.
El Quinto Doctor fue interpretado por Peter Davison.
Temporada 19 (1982)
Antony Root recibió el cargo de editor de guión de manos de Bidmead para "Cuatro hacia el apocalipsis" y "La Visita", tras los que fue reemplazado por Eric Saward. La serie pasó de su emisión habitual una vez a la semana a ser emitida dos veces por semana los Lunes y los Martes.
"Castrovalva" junto con los dos seriales anteriores "El Guardián de Traken" y "Logópolis" forman una suerte de trilogía dedicada al regreso de El Amo. Se sacaron a la venta en DVD con el título "Nuevos comienzos" (New Beginnings).
| No | Título | Código | Episodios | Guionistas | Director | Emisión Original |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 116 | Castrovalva | 5Z | 4 episodios | Christopher H. Bidmead | Fiona Cumming | 4–12 Enero 1982 |
| 117 | Cuatro hacia el apocalipsis (Four to Doomsday) | 5W | 4 episodios | Terence Dudley | John Black | 18–26 Enero 1982 |
| 118 | Kinda | 5Y | 4 episodios | Christopher Bailey | Peter Grimwade | 1–9 Febrero 1982 |
| 119 | La Visita (The Visitation) | 5X | 4 episodios | Eric Saward | Peter Moffatt | 15–23 Febrero 1982 |
| 120 | Orquídea Negra (Black Orchid) | 6A | 2 episodios | Terence Dudley | Ron Jones | 1–2 Marzo 1982 |
| 121 | Shock en la Tierra (Earthshock) | 6B | 4 episodios | Eric Saward | Peter Grimwade | 8–16 Marzo 1982 |
| 122 | Vuelo Temporal (Time-Flight) | 6C | 4 episodios | Peter Grimwade | Ron Jones | 22–30 Marzo 1982 |
To commemorate the twentieth season, the stories in this season involve the return of previous villains. Mawdryn Undead, Terminus and Enlightenment involve the Black Guardian's plot to kill the Doctor; they were released individually on VHS as parts of The Black Guardian Trilogy.
| No | Title | Code | Episodes | Writer | Director | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 123 | Arc of Infinity | 6E | 4 episodes | Johnny Byrne | Ron Jones | 3–12 January 1983 |
| 124 | Snakedance | 6D | 4 episodes | Christopher Bailey | Fiona Cumming | 18–26 January 1983 |
| 125 | Mawdryn Undead | 6F | 4 episodes | Peter Grimwade | Peter Moffatt | 1–9 February 1983 |
| 126 | Terminus | 6G | 4 episodes | Stephen Gallagher | Mary Ridge | 15–23 February 1983 |
| 127 | Enlightenment | 6H | 4 episodes | Barbara Clegg | Fiona Cumming | 1–9 March 1983 |
| 128 | The King's Demons | 6J | 2 episodes | Terence Dudley | Tony Virgo | 15–16 March 1983 |
| No | Title | Code | Episodes | Writer | Director | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20th Anniversary Special | ||||||
| 129 | The Five Doctors | 6K | 90-minute special | Terrance Dicks | Peter Moffatt | 23 November 1983 (USA) 25 November 1983 (UK) |
| No | Title | Code | Episodes | Writer | Director | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 130 | Warriors of the Deep | 6L | 4 episodes | Johnny Byrne | Pennant Roberts | 5–13 January 1984 |
| 131 | The Awakening | 6M | 2 episodes | Eric Pringle | Michael Owen Morris | 19–20 January 1984 |
| 132 | Frontios | 6N | 4 episodes | Christopher H. Bidmead | Ron Jones | 26 January–3 February 1984 |
| 133 | Resurrection of the Daleks | 6P | 2 episodes (45 minutes each)[h] | Eric Saward | Matthew Robinson | 8–15 February 1984 |
| 134 | Planet of Fire | 6Q | 4 episodes | Peter Grimwade | Fiona Cumming | 23 February–2 March 1984 |
| 135 | The Caves of Androzani | 6R | 4 episodes | Robert Holmes | Graeme Harper | 8–16 March 1984 |
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