Peter Davison
Season Twenty

Turlough: Mark Strickson

6F. Mawdryn Undead

Writer: Peter Grimwade
Director: Peter Moffat
Designer: Stephen Scott
Incidental Music: Paddy Kingsland

TRANSMISSION DETAILS:

588. Part One                      01.02.83   6.50pm - 7.15pm   6.5M/103rd/67%
589. Part Two                      02.02.83   6.45pm - 7.10pm   7.5M/ 83rd/70%
590. Part Three                    08.02.83   6.50pm - 7.15pm   7.4M/ 84th/67%
591. Part Four                     09.02.83   6.45pm - 7.10pm   7.7M/ 78th/66%

CAST:

BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Nicholas Courtney; THE BLACK GUARDIAN: Valentine Dyall; HIPPO IBBOTSON: Stephen Garlick (1-2); HEADMASTER: Angus MacKay (1-2); DR RUNCIMAN: Roger Hammond (1,4); MATRON (MISS CASSIDY): Sheila Gill (1); MAWDRYN: David Collings (2-4); FIRST MUTANT: Peter Walmsley (3-4); SECOND MUTANT: Brian Darnley (3-4). UNCREDITED: MUTANTS: (all 3-4) David Cole, Ian Craig, Mitchell Horner, Michael Leader, Richard Olley; CHILD NYSSA: Lucy Baker (4); CHILD TEGAN: Sian Pattenden (4); DOUBLE FOR THE BRIGADIER: Richard Sheeker (4)

STORY:

At a public school in England, 1983, a school-boy prank goes drastically wrong: Two boys take the Brigadier's classic car for a spin, but end up driving it off the road to avoid a collision. Both are thrown clear. It is at this time that the Black Guardian takes the opportunity to recruit Turlough to the task of killing the Doctor.

Meanwhile the Doctor quickly materialises the TARDIS on board a ship stuck in warp drive to avoid a collision. The Doctor finds a transmat device, and beams down to Earth whilst Nyssa and Tegan follow in the TARDIS. However, whilst the Doctor arrives in 1983, Tegan and Nyssa arrive in 1977.

In 1977 they find a person with serious injuries in the transmat capsule and believe it to be the Doctor suffering from a regeneration. Tegan seeks help, and finds Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. At the persons behest they return to the warp craft. In 1983 the Doctor finds Turlough, and a later version of the Brigadier. He tells the Doctor what happened during 1977, but something made him lose his memory. The Doctor, along with Turlough and the later Brigadier, returns to the warp craft.

Their they find seven people who tried to turn themselves into Time Lords and have condemned themselves to eternal agony. The Doctor reluctantly offers to help, although it would mean he could no longer regenerate. However, at the point of transference of energy the energy didn't come from the Doctor, but from the two Brigadiers when they met. The people finally die, the Brigadiers are returned to their time streams. The ship explodes, and everyone wonders where Turlough is, until they find him in the TARDIS.

BLOOPERS:

Episode 1: When the Doctor and Turlough are about to leave the TARDIS to disable the T-Mat signal on Earth, the Doctor has to hold the red door lever up, because it wouldn't stay in the "door open" position. Every time Peter Davison tried to move his hand away, it'd start sliding back, and he'd have to hold it again.

Episode ?: There's a scene where Nyssa is running towards the TARDIS in a clearing. See if you can notice Sarah Sutton's total misunderstanding of where the camera is, or indeed which camera she is on.

STUDIOS:

Television Centre Studio 8

LOCATIONS:

Middlesex Polytechnic and obelisx, Trent Park, Cockfosters

NOTES:

Part Two features another flashback sequence; the clips are: the Brigadier (The Three Doctors 2), a Yeti (The Web of Fear 1), a Cyberman (The Invasion 5), The Second Doctor (The Three Doctors 2), an Axon (The Claws of Axos 4), a Dalek (Day of the Daleks 4), The Third Doctor (Spearhead from Space 3), The First Doctor (The Three Doctors 2), the K-1 Robot (Robot 2), a Zygon (Terror of the Zygons 2), The Fourth Doctor (Terror of the Zygons 4) and the Brigadier (The Three Doctors 2)

NOVELISATION:

Mawdryn Undead Peter Grimwade

VIDEO:

Mawdryn Undead

Peter DavisonSeason Twenty