Jon Pertwee
Season Ten

PPP. Carnival of Monsters

Writer: Robert Holmes
Director: Barry Letts
Designer: Roger Liminton
Incidental Music: Dudley Simpson

TRANSMISSION DETAILS:

334. Episode One                   27.01.1973   5.50pm - 6.15pm   9.5M/29th
335. Episode Two                   03.02.1973   5.50pm - 6.15pm   9.0M/36th
336. Episode Three                 10.02.1973   5.50pm - 6.15pm   9.0M/44th
337. Episode Four                  17.02.1973   5.50pm - 6.15pm   9.2M/38th

REPEAT DETAILS:

(All as part of the BBC2 "Five Faces of Doctor Who" season - positions just for that channel)

     Episode One             Mon   16.11.1981   5.40pm - 6.05pm   4.9M/12th
     Episode Two             Tue   17.11.1981   5.35pm - 6.00pm   4.5M/14th
     Episode Three           Wed   18.11.1981   5.40pm - 6.05pm   5.6M/ 8th
     Episode Four            Thu   19.11.1981   5.40pm - 6.05pm   6.0M/ 5th

CAST:

MAJOR DALY: Tenniel Evans; LT JOHN ANDREWS: Ian Marter; CLAIRE DALY: Jenny McCracken; VORG: Leslie Dwyer; SHIRNA: Cheryl Hall; CHAIRMAN PLETRAC: Peter Halliday; COMMISIONER KALIK: Michael Wisher; COMMISIONER ORUM: Terence Lodge; CAPTAIN: Andrew Staines (3). UNCREDITED: FUNCTIONARY: Stuart Fell (1); OGRON: Rick Lester (2); CYBERMAN: Terence Denville (2); DOUBLE FOR THE DOCTOR: Terry Walsh; DOUBLE FOR JO: Linda Regan; WALK-ONS: Bon Banebia, Norman Commins, Aldwin Davies, George Howard, Jagdesh Kumar, Bill Lodge, Albert Moses, Murphy Grumbar, Jo Murphy, Rudolph Ramil, Mohammed Shamsi

STORY:

Now that the Doctor has had his freedom returned to him, along with his knowledge of time travel, he takes Jo on a test flight, and the TARDIS materialises on the Bernice, a cargo ship crossing the Indian Ocean in 1926. But all is not what it seems.

The TARDIS has actually landed inside the Miniscope, a form of minitaturised landscape in which specimens exists in a loop, and are watched by other people. The Doctor and Jo manage to find a way into other areas of the Miniscope and run into the ferocious Drashigs.

Eventually the Doctor makes his way out of the scope and is returned to full size. The Doctor runs into the two owners of the Miniscope - Vorg and Shirna, who are trying to make money by putting on a show to the local Minorians. Their problems get worse when the Doctor escapes from inside.

Two locals - Kalik and Orum - plan to overthrow their leader Zarb by releasing the Drashigs. Vorg manages to destroy the Drashigs, and the Doctor manages to return all the specimens by linking the TARDIS. Now full size, Jo materialises beside the wrecked machine.

BLOOPERS:

Episode 1: As Jo sneaks across Major Daly's "office" (while Daly is asleep) to retrieve the 'Illustrated London News', you can hear a pencil being dropped and rolling across the floor!

STUDIOS:

Television Centre Studio not known

LOCATIONS:

Tillingham Marshes, Howe Farm; RIA Robvert Dundas Naval Dockyard, Chatham

WORKING TITLES:

Peepshow, Out of the Labyrinth

NOTES:

As with the other Barry Letts directed Pertwee stories, there is no producer credit
Many Australian transmissions of Episode Two use a new arrangement of the theme tune that was originally intended for this season but then scrapped
The video release has the new arrangement of the theme tune included
The 1981 repeat of Episode Three was slightly cut

NOVELISATION:

The Carnival of Monsters Terrance Dicks

VIDEO:

The Carnival of Monsters

Jon PertweeSeason Ten