NNN. The Mutants
Writers: Bob Baker and Dave Martin
Director: Christopher Barry
Designer: Jeremy Bear
Incidental Music by: Tristram Cary
TRANSMISSION DETAILS:
318. Episode One 08.04.1972 5.50pm - 6.15pm 9.1M/29th
319. Episode Two 15.04.1972 5.50pm - 6.15pm 7.8M/38th
320. Episode Three 22.04.1972 5.50pm - 6.15pm 7.9M/36th
321. Episode Four 29.04.1972 5.50pm - 6.15pm 7.5M/44th
322. Episode Five 06.05.1972 5.50pm - 6.15pm 7.9M/44th
323. Episode Six 13.05.1972 5.50pm - 6.15pm 6.5M/67th
CAST:
MARSHAL: Paul Whitsun-Jones; KY: Garrick Hagon; COTTON: Rick James; STUBBS:
Christopher Coll (1-5); VARAN: James Mellor (1-4); VARAN'S SON: Jonathan Sherwood (1-2);
ADMINISTRATOR: Geoffrey Palmer (1); JAEGER: George Pravda (2-6); SONDERGAARD: John
Hollis (3-6); OLD MAN: Sidney Johnson (3); SOLOS GUARDS: Roy Pearce (4), Damon Saunders
(5); GUARD WARRIOR: David Arlen (4); MUTT: John Scott Martin (5); INVESTIGATOR:
Peter Howell (6). UNCREDITED: OLD MAN: David J Graham; GUARD WARRIOR: Ian Elliott;
EARTH CONTROL GUARDS: (all 6) Gary Dean, Barry Hooper, Keith Urry, Mick Urry; ADVISORS:
Ken Nazarin, Evan Ross; MUTTS: Laurie Goode, Bill Gosling, Nick Thompson Hill, Mike Mungarvan,
Rick Newby, Eddie Sommer, Mike Torres; SKYBASE GUARDS: Keith Ashley, Ali Baba, Dave Carter,
Ronald Gough, Atley Harvey, Dennis Plenty, Ron Tingley, Terry Walsh, David Waterman SOLONIANS:
Reg Cranfield, Brychan Powell, Vic Taylor, Peter Whitaker; GUARD LEADERS: Damon Sanders, Martin
Taylor; WARRIORS: Derek Chafer, Alex Hood, Steven Ismay, Terry Sartain, Terry Walsh.
STORY:
The Time-Lords send the Doctor and Jo on a mission to deliver a sealed message pod to an unknown party on board
the Skybase orbiting Solos in the 30th century. Solos hopes to gain independence from Earth, but the Marshal is
determined to stop this from happening.
The Marshal has the Earth administrator killed, and a Solonnian named Ky is blamed. Ky flees to Solos with Jo
as a hostage. The Doctor follows them to Solos and meets them inside a thaesium mine. Ky is the intended
recipient of the Time Lord pod, and it opens for him, revealing stone tablets with carved inscriptions.
They meet up with an Earth scientist who was investigating the mutating disease that affects the Solonnians. He
has found that the thaesium radiation is in fact part of the natural life cycle. The Doctor returns with a
crystal back to the Skybase, where he is captured by the Marshal, and forced to work on a machine that will
destroy Solos's atmosphere.
The Marshal is killed when Ky first transforms into a mutant, and then into an ethereal being, which is the
final stage in the life cycle.
BLOOPERS:
Episode 1: The Doctor tells Jo that he couldn't open the package if he wanted to twice in the same
speech!
STUDIOS:
Television Centre Studio not known
LOCATIONS:
Chislehurst Caves, Kent; Finsbury Caves, Stonehouse Farm, Kent
NOTES:
Episodes One and Two are only held as film prints and NTSC recordings
NOVELISATION:
The Mutants Terrance Dicks
VIDEO:
The Mutants
