Episode Number:

Episode Title:

Transmission Date:

Duration:

Ratings (in Millions):

1

Four Hundred Dawns

11/9/65

22.21

9.0

2

Trap of Steel

18/9/65

24.51

9.5

3

Airlock

25/9/65

24.19

11.3

4

The Exploding Planet

2/10/65

24.47

9.9

 

Season:

Doctor:

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Writer:

Directors:

Three

William Hartnell

Verity Lambert

Donald Tosh

William Emms

Derek Martinus,

Mervyn Pinfield

 

 

  

William Hartnell - (The Doctor)

Maureen O' Brien - (Vicki)

Peter Purves - (Steven)

 

  

Stephanie Bidmead - (Maaga)

Marina Martin - (Drahvin One)

Susanna Caroll - (Drahvin Two)

Lyn Ashley - (Drahvin Three)

Jimmy Kaye, William Shearer, Angelo Muscat, Pepi Poupée, Tommy Reynolds - (Chumblies)

Robert Cartland - (Rill Voices)

Barry Jackson - (Garvey)

 

  

Following a skirmish in deep space, two alien spacecraft have crashlanded on a barren planet. The Drahvins are a race of beautiful females, led by the imperious Maaga. The Rills are hideous tusked monstrosities, accompanied by their robotic servants, the Chumblies.

 

When the Doctor arrives, he discovers that the planet will explode in two days' time. The Drahvins desperately ask for his help in escaping the planet and the hostile Rills.

 

But things are not always as they seem.

 

  

Working Title:

The Chumblies

 

Things to look for:

  • Coming Soon.

 

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Bloopers:

  • Coming Soon

 

  

 

Not yet released on Video.

 

 

Not yet released on DVD.

 

 

- UK release June 2000. Galaxy Four  (BBC ISBN cat.#0 563 47700 8)

 

 

- Galaxy Four, written by William Emms, Published 1986 - [Target no.104]

 

 

**For further information on the Target Books, please visit On Target.

 

 

 

 

- Doctor Who The Scripts: Galaxy Four, published by Titan Books 1994.

 

 


 

 

 

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