Peter Davison
Season Nineteen

Script Editor: Eric Saward

5Y. Kinda

Writer: Christopher Bailey
Director: Peter Grimwade
Designer: Malcolm Thornton
Incidental Music: Peter Howell

TRANSMISSION DETAILS:

562. Part One                      01.02.82   6.55pm - 7.20pm   8.5M/78th
563. Part Two                      02.02.82   7.05pm - 7.30pm   9.5M/45th
564. Part Three                    08.02.82   6.55pm - 7.20pm   8.7M/67th
565. Part Four                     09.02.82   7.05pm - 7.30pm   9.2M/56th

REPEAT DETAILS:

     Part One                Mon   22.08.83   6.25pm - 6.50pm   4.2M/96th /59%
     Part Two                Tue   23.08.83   6.25pm - 6.50pm   4.3M/91st /59%
     Part Three              Wed   24.08.83   6.35pm - 7.00pm   3.9M/103rd/71%
     Part Four               Thu   25.08.83   6.30pm - 6.55pm   4.8M/75th /61%

CAST:

SANDERS: Richard Todd; TODD: Nerys Hughes; HINDLE: Simon Rouse; ARIS: Adrian Mills; DUKKHA: Jeffrey Stewart (1-2); ANATTA: Anna Wing (1); ANICCA: Roger Milner (1); PANNA: Mary Morris (2-4); KARUNA: Sarah Prince (2-4); THE TRICKSTER: Lee Cornes (3-4). UNCREDITED: THE KINDA: Bob Appleby, Paul Baden, Tobin Mahon Brown, Chris Bradshaw, David Cole, Graham Cole, Ian Ellis, Jonathon Evans, Laurence Ferdinand, Charlie Gray, Gail Griffin, Roy Hatfield, Paul Heasman, Jerry Judge, Rosalind Kendall, Adrienne Lawrence, Barney Lawrence, Camilla Lawrence, Kiki Lawrence, Ann Lee, Jonathan Miller, Mike Mungarvan, Glenn Murphy, Tim Olroyd, Harry Paine, Richard Reid, Stephen Whyment, Alistair Wilkins

STORY:

On the planet Deva Loka the members of an Earth survey team have been disappearing, and only three are left. The TARDIS lands on Deva Loka, and while the Doctor, Adric and Tegan explore, Nyssa remains behind to recover from a mild mental disorientation.

Tegan becomes enchanted by some wind chimes, and falls asleep, and becomes obsessed by the evil force known as the Mara. The natives of the planet are telapathic. They have been attempting to make the humans mentally at one with them, but two of the male officers minds snap, and they become mentally unstable.

One of the Kinda natives falls under the influence of the Mara, but it is drawn out when it is trapped by the Doctor inside a ring of mirrors. The officer's minds are cleared by the Box of Jhana, and the survery team decidces Deva Loka is unsuitable.

BLOOPERS:

Episode 4: In the circle-of-mirrors scene in this episode, it's very clear to see that one of the mirrors is missing. (The one in the bottom-left corner of the high-angle shots). This is because the cameras doing the ground-level shots had to have a wide enough area to shoot the action inside the circle.

Episode ?: Watch out for the incredible bouncy snake.

Episode ?: Look very closely at the forest floors, and you'll be able to see power cords. Apparently JNT saw this during production, and it was decided to just "buy" the shot, and hope it looked like tree roots!

STUDIOS:

Television Centre Studio 8

NOTES:

Sarah Sutton is absent from Parts Two and Three

NOVELISATION:

Kinda Terrance Dicks

VIDEO:

Kinda

Peter DavisonSeason Nineteen