Episode Number:

Episode Title:

Transmission Date:

Duration:

Ratings (in Millions):

1

Episode One

24/2/73

23.17

9.1

2

Episode Two

3/3/73

24.10

7.8

3

Episode Three

10/3/73

24.00

7.5

4

Episode Four

17/3/73

23.35

7.1

5

Episode Five

24/3/73

23.57

7.7

6

Episode Six

31/3/73

24.44

8.9

 

Season:

Doctor:

Producer:

Script Editor:

Writer:

Director:

Ten

Jon Pertwee

Barry Letts

Terrance Dicks

Malcolm Hulke

Paul Bernard

 

 

  

Jon Pertwee - (The Doctor)

Katy Manning - (Jo Grant)

 

  

Roger Delgado - (The Master)

Vera Fusek - (President of Earth)

Michael Hawkins - (General Williams)

Peter Birrell - (Draconian Prince)

Ray Lonnen - (Gardiner)

Barry Ashton - (Kemp)

John Rees - (Hardy)

James Culliford - (Stewart)

Louis Mahoney - (Newscaster)

Roy Pattison - (Draconian Space Pilot)

Karol Hagar - (Secretary)

Lawrence Davidson - (Draconian First Secretary)

Timothy Craven - (Cell Guard)

Harold Goldblatt - (Professor Dale)

Madhav Sharma - (Patel)

Dennis Bowen - (Prison Governor)

Richard Shaw - (Cross)

Luan Peters - (Sheila)

Caroline Hunt - (Technician)

Lawrence Harrington - (Lunar Guard)

Bill Wilde - (Draconian Captain)

John Woodnutt - (Draconian Emperor)

Ian Frost - (Draconian Messenger)

Clifford Elkin - (Earth Cruiser Captain)

Stephen Thorne - (First Ogron)

Michael Kilgariff - (Second Ogron)

Rick Lester - (Third Ogron)

Ramsay Williams - (Congressman Brook)

Bill Mitchell - (Newscaster)

Stanley Price - (Pilot of Space Ship)

John Scott Martin, Murphy Grumbar, Cy Town - (Daleks)

Michael Wisher - (Dalek Voice)

 

  

It is the twenty-sixth century. Known space is divided between the great empires of Earth and Draconia. A fragile peace exists between the humans and the lizard-like Draconians, a peace that is put in jeopardy when each race claims that its cargo vessels are being raided by the other's warships.

 

When the TARDIS accidentally brings the Doctor and Jo aboard Earth cargo ship C982, they find it under attack. As the ship is boarded, a strange pulsing sound fills the air. The crew believe their attackers to be Draconians, but the Doctor and Jo see only Ogrons - brutish, simian mercenaries who steal the cargo, including the TARDIS, and head off into space.

 

The Doctor's investigations take him to Earth, the Moon and then to Draconia itself. He discovers that the Ogrons are employed by his sworn enemy, the Master, who is attempting to provoke a war between the space empires. The Doctor suspects the scale of the plan is too grand for the Master, but even he is shocked to discover the identity of the far deadlier foe waiting in the wings...

 

  

Working Title:

Frontiers in Space

 

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Click for larger image- Frontier in Space, edited episodic format, Released August 1995; PAL (BBC Video cat.#5640).

 

 

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Not yet released on Audio.

 

 

- Doctor Who and The Space War, written by Malcolm Hulke, Published 1976 - [Target no.57]

- Doctor Who and The Space War, written by Malcolm Hulke, Published 1979 - [Target no.57]

 

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