Episode Number:

Episode Title:

Transmission Date:

Duration:

Ratings (in Millions):

1

Episode One

29/11/86

24.42

4.4

2

Episode Two

6/12/86

29.30

5.6

Season:

Doctor:

Producer:

Script Editors:

Writers:

Director:

Twenty Three

Colin Baker

John Nathan-Turner

Eric Saward,

John Nathan-Turner

Robert Holmes,

Pip Baker,

Jane Baker

Chris Clough

 

  

Colin Baker - The Doctor

Bonnie Langford - Mel

 

  

Michael Jayston - The Valeyard

Lynda Bellingham - The Inquisitor

Tony Selby - Glitz

Anthony Ainley - The Master

Geoffrey Hughes - Popplewick

James Bree - Keeper of the Matrix

 

  

Snatched out of time and place and brought before the Time Lords of Gallifrey, the Doctor is on trial for his life.

 

While the Doctor asserts that the evidence of the Matrix, the repository of all Time Lord knowledge, has been tampered with, the mysterious and vengeful prosecuting council, the Valeyard, is confident that the Doctor will be sentenced to death.

 

In a dramatic intervention the Valeyard’s true identity is revealed but he escapes from the Courtroom into the Matrix, and it is into this nightmare world that the Doctor must follow - to his face his ultimate foe...

 

  

Working Title:

Time Inc.

 

Things to look for:

  • Coming Soon

The Doctor Who Archive:

All 2 Episodes exist.

 

Bloopers:

Coming Soon

 

  

 

 

 

 

Title Information:

  • The Trial of a Time Lord: The Ultimate Foe
  • Released as part of The Trial of a Time Lord, Limited Edition Tin Box-set, together with The Mysterious Planet, Mindwarp & Terror of the Vervoids.
  • Episodic format
  • UK PAL - Released October 1993
  • BBC Video cat.#5008

 

 

Coming Soon to DVD.

 

 

Not yet released on Audio.

 

 

 

Title Information:

  • The Ultimate Foe
  • Written by Pip & Jane Baker
  • Manufactured by Target
  • Published 1988
  • No.131 in the Target, Doctor Who Library.

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


 

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