Episode Number:

Episode Title:

Transmission Date:

Duration:

Ratings (in Millions):

1

Episode One

1/3/82

24.56

9.9

2

Episode Two

2/3/82

24.41

10.1

Season:

Doctor:

Producer:

Script Editor:

Writer:

Director:

Nineteen

Peter Davison

John Nathan-Turner

Eric Saward

Terence Dudley

Ron Jones

 

  

Peter Davison - The Doctor

Matthew Waterhouse - Adric

Janet Fielding - Tegan

Sarah Sutton - Nyssa

 

  

Sarah Sutton - Ann

Barbara Murray - Lady Cranleigh

Moray Watson - Sir Robert Muir

Michael Cochrane - Lord Cranleigh

Brian Hawksley - Brewster

Timothy Block - Tanner

Ahmed Khalil - Latoni

Gareth Milne - The Unknown / George Cranleigh

Ivor Salter - (ergeant Markham

Andrew Tourell - Constable Cummings

 

  

Landing in Cranleigh Halt in England in 1925, the Doctor and his companions receive a warm reception from the local inhabitants and an invitation to a masked ball at the house of Lady Cranleigh and her son Charles.

 

It is there that Nyssa discovers her startling resemblance to Charles' fiancee Ann. Then events take a more sinister turn when Ann is attacked and two servants murdered. Will the Doctor and his companions stand accused of murder?

 

  

Working Title:

The Beast

 

Things to look for:

  • Coming Soon

The Doctor Who Archive:

All 2 Episodes exist.

 

Bloopers:

Coming Soon

 

  

 

 

Title Information:

  • Black Orchid
  • Released together with The Visitation as a double video pack.
  • Episodic format
  • UK PAL - Released July 1994
  • BBC Video cat.#5349

 

 

Coming Soon to DVD.

 

 

Not yet released on Audio.

 

 

 

Title Information:

  • Black Orchid
  • Written by Terence Dudley
  • Manufactured by Target
  • Published 1987
  • No.113 in the Target, Doctor Who Library.

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


 

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