Episode Number:

Episode Title:

Transmission Date:

Duration:

Ratings (in Millions):

1

Episode One

9/5/70

23.21

5.7

2

Episode Two

16/5/70

22.04

5.9

3

Episode Three

23/5/70

24.34

4.8

4

Episode Four

30/5/70

24.57

6.0

5

Episode Five

6/6/70

23.42

5.4

6

Episode Six

13/6/70

23.32

5.7

7

Episode Seven

20/6/70

24.33

5.5

 

Season:

Doctor:

Producer:

Script Editor:

Writer:

Directors:

Seven

Jon Pertwee

Barry Letts

Terrance Dicks

Don Houghton

Douglas Camfield,

Barry Letts

 

 

  

Jon Pertwee - (The Doctor)

Caroline John - (Liz Shaw)

Nicholas Courtney - (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart)

 

  

Olaf Pooley - (Professor Stahlman / Director Stahlman)

Christopher Benjamin - (Sir Keith Gold)

Derek Newark - (Greg Sutton)

Sheila Dunn - (Petra Williams / Dr. Petra Williams)

John Levene - (Sergeant Benton)

David Simeon - (Private Latimer)

Derek Ware - (Private Wyatt)

Walter Randall - (Harry Slocum)

Ian Fairbairn - (Bromley)

Roy Scammell - (RSF Sentry)

Keith James - (Patterson)

Dave Carter, Pat Gorman, Walter Henry, Philip Ryan, Peter Thompson - (Primords).

 

  

20th Century Earth. An unhinged scientist, Professor Stahlman, is attempting the first penetration of the Earth's crust in a top secret drilling project called Inferno. His purpose? To tap into a new energy source at the core. But at what cost?

 

When the Doctor is called in with his companion Liz Shaw to oversee the project, he soon develops grave misgivings. Things begin to go very wrong when a mysterious green substance leaks from the drillhead. A substance which turns all who come into contact with it into alien primeval creatures called Primords.

 

Meanwhile, the Doctor finds himself transported into a parallel universe identical to 20th Century Earth. The mystery deepens as he finds that although the place, time and people are all the same, no-one seems to know who he is.

 

Only one thing is certain: the drilling must be stopped before the full force of the energy from the core is unleashed, destroying not only this Earth but the one the Doctor has just left behind...

 

  

Working Title:

The Mole-Bore, Operation: Mole-Bore, The Mo-Hole Project, Project Inferno.

 

Things to look for:

  • The TARDIS console used in the Hartnell / Troughton era, makes it's final appearance in this story. 

The Doctor Who Archive:

All 7 episodes exist.

 

Bloopers:

  • Coming Soon

 

  

 

[Click for larger image]- Inferno, episodic format; Released May 1994, PAL (BBC Video cat.#5269).

 

 

Not yet released on DVD.

 

 

Not yet released on Audio.

 

 

- Inferno by Terrance Dicks, Published 1984 - [Target no.89]

 

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