Episode Number:

Episode Title:

Transmission Date:

Duration:

Ratings (in Millions):

1

Episode One

2/2/85

45.01

6.3

2

Episode Two

9/2/85

44.32

7.3

Season:

Doctor:

Producer:

Script Editor:

Writers:

Director:

Twenty Two

Colin Baker

John Nathan-Turner

Eric Saward

Pip Baker,

Jane Baker

Sarah Hellings

 

  

Colin Baker - The Doctor

Nicola Bryant - Peri

 

  

Anthony Ainley - The Master

Kate O'Mara - The Rani

Terence Alexander - Lord Ravensworth

Peter Childs - Jack Ward

Gary Cady - Luke Ward

Richard Steele - Guard

William Ilkley - Tim Bass

Hus Levent - Edwin Green

Kevin White - Sam Rudge

Martyn Whitby - Drayman

Sarah James - Young Woman

Cordelia Ditton - Older Woman

Gawn Grainger - George Stephenson

 

  

The TARDIS is drawn off course and materialises close to the Killingworth coal pits in the north of England during the early nineteenth century. The Luddite rebellion is in full swing as workers fight to prevent their jobs being taken by machines.

 

The Doctor and Peri quickly learn that they are not the only time travellers in the area - the Doctor's old adversary, the Master, is attempting to disrupt a meeting between some of Britain's foremost scholars and scientists, including George Stephenson and Michael Faraday. The violence among the miners is in part caused by the interference of another renegade Time Lord, the Rani, who is extracting chemicals from their brains to serve her own nefarious purposes.

 

The Doctor must avoid the vicious attacks of the mortals, halt the Rani's immoral experiments and thwart the Master's plot to hijack the industrial revolution...

 

  

Working Title:

Enter the Rani, Too Clever by Far

 

Things to look for:

  • Coming Soon

The Doctor Who Archive:

All 2 Episodes exist.

 

Bloopers:

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Title Information:

  • The Mark of the Rani
  • Episodic format
  • UK PAL - Released July 1995
  • BBC Video cat.#5603

 

 

 

 Title Information:

  • The Mark of the Rani
  • Episodic format
  • UK PAL - Released September 2006
  • BBC DVD cat.#2224

 Special Features:

  • Coming Soon...

 

Not yet released on Audio.

 

 

 

Title Information:

  • The Mark of the Rani
  • Written by Pip & Jane Baker
  • Manufactured by Target
  • Published 1986
  • No.107 in the Target, Doctor Who Library.

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


 

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