Episode Number:

Episode Title:

Transmission Date:

Duration:

Ratings (in Millions):

1

Episode One

31/1/81

24.05

7.6

2

Episode Two

7/2/82

24.50

6.1

3

Episode Three

14/2/82

23.49

5.2

4

Episode Four

21/2/82

25.11

6.1

Season:

Doctor:

Producer:

Script Editor:

Writer:

Director:

Eighteen

Tom Baker

John Nathan-Turner

Christopher Bidmead

John Byrne

John Black

 

  

Tom Baker - (The Doctor)

Matthew Waterhouse - (Adric)

 

  

Sarah Sutton - (Nyssa)

Anthony Ainley - (Tremas/The Master)

Sheila Ruskin - (Kassia)

Denis Carey - (The Keeper)

John Woodnutt - (Seron)

Margot van der Burgh - (Katura)

Robin Soans - (Luvic)

Roland Oliver - (Neman)

Geoffrey Beevers - (Melkur/The Master)

Liam Prendergast, Philip Bloomfield - (Fosters)

 

  

The power of the Keeper is almost ours. Only the Doctor can destroy all that we have planned. He must be found!

 

The empire of Traken has lived in total harmony for over a thousand years, governed by the sacred Keeper and his loyal consuls. Until now. Fading fast, the Keeper calls the Doctor and Adric to Traken, fearing the impending disintegration of his world and the onset of a terrible evil. For the malignant presence of the Melkur lurks close by, growing stronger, plotting to replace the Keeper upon his death.

 

The Doctor must stop it before it gains control of the Source - the energy that sustains the very life of the planet. But just who is controlling the Melkur? The Doctor smells a rat of the very oldest kind...

 

  

Working Title:

N/A

 

Things to look for:

  • Great continuity in the form of the Masters Tardis - (A grandfather clock, first seen in The Deadly Assassin). 

The Doctor Who Archive:

All 4 episodes exist.

 

Bloopers:

Coming Soon

 

  

 

Title Information:

  • The Keeper of Traken
  • Episodic format
  • UK PAL - Released June 1993
  • BBC Video cat.#4973

 

 

 

Title Information:

  • The Keeper of Traken - (released as part of the "New Beginnings" box-set)

  • Released together with Logopolis & Castrovalva

  • Episodic format

  • UK PAL - Released January 2007

  • BBC DVD cat.#1331

 

 

Not yet released on Audio.

 

 

Title Information:

  • Doctor Who and The Keeper of Traken
  • Written by Terrence Dicks
  • Manufactured by Target
  • Published 1982
  • No.37 in the Target, Doctor Who Library.

 

 

Title Information:

  • The Keeper of Traken
  • Written by Terrence Dicks
  • Manufactured by Target
  • Published 1993
  • No.37 in the Target, Doctor Who Library.

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

 

 

Coming Soon...

 

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