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Colin Baker
Season Twenty Two

Colin Baker

6Y. Timelash

Writer: Glen McCoy
Director: Pennant Roberts
Designer: Bob Cove
Incidental Music: Liz Parkerm

TRANSMISSION DETAILS:

636. Part One                      09.03.85   5.20pm - 6.05pm   6.7M/69th/66%
637. Part Two                      16.03.85   5.20pm - 6.05pm   7.4M/79th/64%

CAST:

MALIN TEKKER: Paul Darrow; MYKROS: Eric Deacon; VENA RENIS: Jeananne Crowley; THE BORAD (MEGELEN): Robert Ashby; KENDRON: David Ashton; HERBERT GEORGE WELLS: David Chandler; COUNCILLOR BRUNNER: Peter Robert Scott; SEZOM: Dicken Ashworth; KATZ: Tracy Louise Ward; OLD MAN: Denis Carey; ANDROID: Dean Hollingsworth; VOICE OF BANDRIL AMNASSADOR: Martin Gower (uncredited for 1); GUARDOLIER: James Richardson; MALIN RENIS: Neil Hallett (1); TYHEER: Martin Gower (1); ARAM: Christine Kavanagh (1); GAZAK: Steven Mackintosh. UNCREDITED: GUARDOLIERS: Richard Bonehill, Peter Gates Fleming, Kevin O'Brien, James Richardson; YOUNG KARFELON: Chris Bradshaw; REBELS: Brian Melloy, Mike Nagel.

STORY:

The planet Karfel, visited by the Doctor in his third incarnation, is now ruled over by a mutated scientist known as the Borad. Rebels are banished into the Timelash - a time tunnel. When the sixth Doctor and Peri visit Karfel they find a very different world.

The Doctor is used by the Karfellans to bring back a girl, Vena, from Earth after she accidentally fell into the Timelash with an important amulet. Whislt on Eartha writer by the name of Herbet G. Wells stows away in the TARDIS.

The Borad has a plan to provoke a war with the neighbouring Bandrils. This would exterminate all Karfellons, leaving the planet unpopulated. The Borad would then populate the planet with mutants like himself. For that he would need a partner, and he plans to recreate the accident that mutated him, only this time the victim would be Peri.

The Doctor makes peace with the Bandrils, and exiles the Borad to a 12th century Scottish lake.

BLOOPERS:

Episode 1: Peri pronounces "Daleks" with an English accent.

Episode 1: Watch for the moment when Maylin Renner (one of the Karfellans) accidentally pulls a slider switch from the computer console. But being a professional, he quickly reattaches it without looking at it or drawing a great deal of attention to it.

Episode 1: The Doctor says he is travelling light this time after Tekker's enquiry as to whether Peri is his only companion. But the last time he was here (as the Third Doctor), he only had Jo Grant with him - so he was travelling light then too.

Episode 2: After the robots have attacked and there are several unconscious guards on the floor, one of them quite noticeably shuffles his legs.

Episode ?: In one scene when the Doctor and Peri (or possibly Herbert) enter the TARDIS, as the inner doors open, you can see one of them bounces off the console room wall and starts to close again..

STUDIOS:

Television Centre Studio not known

WORKING TITLE:

Conquest of the Daleks (originally planned as a Dalek story)

NOTES:

The painting of the third Doctor seen behind the smashed panelling was by American fan artist Gail Bennett

NOVELISATION:

Timelash Glen McCoy

VIDEO:

Timelash


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