Episode Number:

Episode Title:

Transmission Date:

Duration:

Ratings (in Millions):

1

Episode One

23/2/84

24.26

7.4

2

Episode Two

24/2/84

24.20

6.1

3

Episode Three

1/3/84

23.57

7.4

4

Episode Four

2/3/84

24.44

7.0

Season:

Doctor:

Producer:

Script Editor:

Writers:

Director:

Twenty One

Peter Davison

John Nathan-Turner

Eric Saward

Peter Grimwade

Fiona Cumming

 

  

Peter Davison - The Doctor

Mark Strickson - Turlough

Nicola Bryant - Peri

 

  

Peter Wyngarde - Timanov

Anthony Ainley - The Master

Barbara Shelley - Sorasta

James Bate - Amyand

Dallas Adams - Professor Howard Foster

Gerald Flood - Voice of Kamelion

Edward Highmore - Malkon

Jonathon Caplan - Roskal

Michael Bangerter - Curt

Simon Sutton - Lookout

Max Arthur - Zuko

John Alkin - Lomand

 

  

A strange signal from Earth draws the TARDIS to the island of Lanzarote. While the Doctor tries to track the source of the signal, his companion Turlough rescues a young girl, Peri, from drowning. She is holding an artefact made from platinum bearing a strange symbol - the same symbol that Turlough himself carries on his arm, branded into the flesh...

 

It is the artefact that is emitting the signal, leading them all to the planet Sarn, a world ravaged by volcanoes and yet holding the secret of eternal life. But an old foe of the Doctor's is desperate for this elixir, and will stop at nothing to gain it.

 

What is Turlough's link to the artefact? What is the nature of Sarn's mythical god, Logar, and how is it linked to the ruined spaceship crashed on a mountainside? As age-old systems of belief begin to break down, will anyone escape from the planet of fire with their life?

 

  

Working Title:

Planet of Fear

 

Things to look for:

  • A slight change to the 5th Doctors usual costume (waistcoat & trousers). 

The Doctor Who Archive:

The complete unedited reel exists.

 

Bloopers:

Coming Soon

 

  

 

 

Title Information:

  • Planet of Fire
  • Episodic format
  • UK PAL - Released September 1998
  • BBC Video cat.#6567

 

 

Not yet released on DVD.

 

 

Not yet released on Audio.

 

 

 

Title Information:

  • Planet of Fire
  • Written by Peter Grimwade
  • Manufactured by Target
  • Published 1983
  • No.93 in the Target, Doctor Who Library.

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


 

 

 

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