Peter Davison
Season Twenty

6E. Arc of Infinity

Writer: Johnny Byrne
Director: Ron Jones
Designer: Marjorie Pratt
Incidental Music: Roger Limb

TRANSMISSION DETAILS:

580. Part One                Mon   03.01.83   6.45pm - 7.10pm   7.2M/74th/69%
581. Part Two                Wed   04.01.83   6.50pm - 7.15pm   7.3M/66th/70%
582. Part Three              Tue   11.01.83   6.45pm - 7.10pm   6.9M/89th/67%
583. Part Four               Wed   12.01.83   6.45pm - 7.10pm   7.2M/82nd/66%

CAST:

LORD PRESIDENT BORUSA: Leonard Sachs; OMEGA: Ian Collier (credited as The Renegade for 1-3) Peter Davison (4 - uncredited); THE CASTELLAN: Paul Jerricho; DAMPN: Neil Daglisg; CHANCELLOR THALIA: Elspet Gray; CARDINAL ZORAC: Max Harvey; ROBIN STUART: Andrew Boxer; COLIN FRAZER: Alastair Cumming; THE ERGON: Malcolm Harvey; COUNCILLOR HEDIN: Michael Gough (1-3); COMMANDER MAXIL: Colin Baker (1-3); TALOR: John D Collins (1); HOTEL RECEPTIONISTS: Maya Woolfe (1,4), Guy Groen (4). UNCREDITED: WAITRESS: Barbie Denham (2); CUSTOMERS: (all 2) Peter Daysan, Judith Jeffrey, John Kroeune; GUARDS: Chris Andrews, Glenn Bexfield, Kevin O'Brien, Terry Phillips; STUDENTS: David Cole, Julia James, Thomas Stein; MAN STANDING BEHIND TELEPHONE BOX: John Nathan-Turner (4)

STORY:

Using the Arc of Infinity and anti-matter creature has passed over into the normal Universe. In order to be able to co-exist it needs a physical presence - and the Doctor's bio-data extract is chosen. Using the bio-data extract the creature enters the TARDIS and bonds with the Doctor.

On Gallifrey the High Council decide that the only way to destroy the creature would be to terminate the Doctor, to which he relucantly agrees.

Meanwhile on Earth Tegan, who got the sack from her job, visits Amsterdam to find her cousin, Colin Frazer, to find that he has disappeared. Visiting the crypt where he had been staying Tegan finds the Ergon.

On Gallifrey the traitor is revealed to be Councillor Hedin, and the creature is revealed to be Omega. The Doctor finds that Omega is on Earth, and travels there in the TARDIS, where he finds Tegan again. The bonding with the Doctor is incomplete, and if it is not finished there will be an anti-matter explosion.

The Doctor uses the Ergon's matter convertor against Omega as he wills his own destruction, and he fades away as Tegan rejoins the crew.

BLOOPERS:

Episode 3: Leonard Sachs as Borusa stutters most amusingly on the word 'permit' while uttering the line: "Only the gravest emergency would permit me to do as you want."

Episode 4: JNT can be seen passing behind the telephone box as the Doctor is consulting the phone book. (He's the guy in the sheepskin coat.) This qualifies as a blooper because it was apparently accidental, they say he was shooing away tourists.

STUDIOS:

Television Centre Studio not known

LOCATIONS:

Amsterdam, Holland

NOTES:

Janet Fielding does not appear in Part One

NOVELISATION:

The Arc of Infinity Terrance Dicks

VIDEO:

Arc of Infinity

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