Episode Number:

Episode Title:

Transmission Date:

Duration:

Ratings (in Millions):

1

Episode One

22/11/80

22.24

5.8

2

Episode Two

29/11/80

23.16

5.3

3

Episode Three

6/12/80

24.13

4.4

4

Episode Four

13/12/80

24.54

5.4

Season:

Doctor:

Producer:

Script Editor:

Writer:

Director:

Eighteen

Tom Baker

John Nathan-Turner

Christopher H Bidmead

Terrance Dicks

Peter Moffatt

 

  

Tom Baker - (The Doctor)

Matthew Waterhouse - (Adric)

John Leeson - (Voice of K9)

 

  

Emrys James - (Aukon)

Rachel Davies - (Camilla)

William Lindsay - (Zargo)

Clinton Greyn - (Ivo)

Rhoda Lewis - (Marta)

Thane Bettany - (Tarak)

Iain Rattray - (Habris)

Arthur Hewlett - (Kalmar)

Stacy Davies - (Veros)

Dean Allen - (Karl)

Stuart Fell - (Roga)

Stuart Blake - (Zoldaz)

 

  

Searching for a way out of E-Space, the Doctor and Romana, joined by a young stowaway, land on a planet eerily similar to Medieval Earth. Its people live in fear, under the thumb of the Three Who Rule, cruel lords who suppress all learning to keep their subjects ignorant and helpless.

 

The Doctor falls in with a group of rebels and discovers a cache of advanced technology banned by the Three Who Rule. But who are these ruthless monarchs?

 

Meeting the lords and exploring their tower, he and Romana uncover a chilling secret. The Doctor realizes an ancient evil is rising once again, a terrible threat to the universe fought by his own race long ago, and one that only he can destroy now.

 

  

Working Title:

The Wasting, The Vampire Mutations, The Witch Lords

 

Things to look for:

  • Coming Soon

The Doctor Who Archive:

All 4 episodes exist.

 

Bloopers:

Coming Soon

 

  

 

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Title Information:

  • State of Decay
  • Episodic format
  • UK PAL - Released October 1997
  • BBC Video cat.#6231
  • Released as part of the E-Space Trilogy box-set, together with Full Circle & Warriors' Gate.

 

 

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Not yet released on DVD.

 

 

Title Information:

  • State of Decay
  • Abridged version of the Novel, read by Tom Baker
  • Manufactured by Ditto
  • Tape Format - Released 198

 

 

Title Information:

  • State of Decay
  • Abridged version of the Novel, read by Tom Baker
  • Manufactured by Pickwick
  • Tape Format - Released 1991

 

 

Title Information:

  • State of Decay
  • Written by Terrance Dicks
  • Manufactured by Target
  • Published 1982
  • No.18 in the Target, Doctor Who Library.

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

 

 

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