6W. The Two Doctors
Writer: Robert Holmes
Director: Peter Moffat
Designer: Tony Burrough
Incidental Music: Peter Howell
TRANSMISSION DETAILS:
633. Part One 16.02.85 5.20pm - 6.05pm 6.6M/92nd/65%
634. Part Two 23.02.85 5.20pm - 6.05pm 6.0M/90th/62%
635. Part Three 02.03.85 5.20pm - 6.05pm 6.9M/66th/65%
CAST:
THE 2ND DOCTOR: Patrick Troughton; JAMIE McCRIMMON: Frazer Hines; SHOKEYE O' THE QUANCING GRIG: John
Stratton; CHESSENE O' THE FRANZINE GRIG: Jacqueline Pearce; PROFESSOR JOINSON DASTARI: Laurence Payne; OSCAR
BOTCHERBY: James Saxon; ANITA: Carmen Gomez; VARL: Tim Raynham; DONA ARANA: Aimee Delamain (1);
TECHNICIAN: Nicholas Fawcett (1); GROUP MARSHAL STIKE: Clinton Greyn (2-3). UNCREDITED: DEAD ANDROGUM:
Jacy McGrath (1); SCIENTIST: Fernando Monast (1); COMPUTER VOICE: Laurence Payne (1); PEOPLE OUTSIDE
RESTAURANT: Peter Moffat (3), Jan Wright (3); WOMAN ON BALCONY: Mercedes Carnegie (3); DINERS AND WAITERS AT LAS
CADENAS: (all 3) June Easther, Patrick Edwards, Maria Eldridge, Michael Eriera, Iris Everson, John Holland, Tim Milsom,
Nedjet Salih, Glynis Simmons
STORY:
The Time Lords send the second incarnation of the Docctor, and his companion Jamie, to investigate time travel experiments
being conducted at Space Station J7. Whilst talking to his old friend Dastari the station is attacked and the Doctor is
kidnapped whilst Jamie escapes into maintenance sections.
The sixth Doctor, after feeling the pain of his second self, decides to visit his old friend Dastari, but find the station in
ruins. Security defences stop the Doctor and Peri from venturing to a different section of the station. To do so they have to
travel through the maintenance section, where they find Jamie.
The Doctor learns of his other self's capture, and follows him to Spain, where Dastari, the second Doctor, two Androgums, and
two Sontaram scouts are located. The Sontarans plan to use the Kartz -Reimer time travel module, which the second Doctor was
sent to investigate. However, a series of double crosses mean that instead of helping the Sontarans, Chessene tries to destroy
them, but not before they killed Dastari.
The Doctor meanwhile, has left a trap in the Kartz-Reimer module, and Chessene is destroyed when she uses it. The second
Androgum was killed by the Doctor. Peri and the sixth Doctor continue travelling whilst the second and Jamie return to their
own timestreams.
BLOOPERS:
Episode 1: When the second Doctor materializes the TARDIS on the research station, he and Jamie head for the TARDIS
door, with every intention of leaving, but the door isn't open, nor has the Doctor gone to open it. He then quite conveniently
remembers that he should "take the recall disk" from the control console. It was a prop needed for the story, so it wasn't just
an excuse for going back to open the door (there is dialogue during this as well). He walks back to take it, and opens the
door.
Episode 3: The knife Shockeye uses to stab Oscar has a surprisingly total lack of blood on it.
Episode 3?: When the Second Doctor is running to hail down the lorry, he slips slightly on the gravel of the roadway.
STUDIOS:
Television Centre Studio 1, Television Centre Studop 6
LOCATIONS:
Santa Cruz streets; Restaurant del Laurel; villa near Gerena; stream; roadside. All Seville, Spain
WORKING TITLES:
Seventh Ammendment, The Androgum Inheritance, Creation
NOTES:
The opening moments of the story, with the second Doctor and Jamie in an old style TARDIS console room, are seen in black and
white, gradually fading to colour
The guitar music heard in the story was played by Les Thatcher
NOVELISATION:
The Two Doctors
Robert Holmes
VIDEO:
The Two Doctors
