7D. Time and the Rani
Writers: Pip and Jane Baker
Director: Andrew Morgan
Designer: Goeff Powell
Incidental Music: Keff McCulloch
TRANSMISSION DETAILS:
654. Part One Mon 07.09.87 7.35pm - 8.00pm 5.1M/71st/58%
655. Part Two 14.09.87 7.35pm - 8.00pm 4.2M/85th/63%
656. Part Three 21.09.87 7.35pm - 8.00pm 4.3M/85th/63%
657. Part Four 28.09.87 7.35pm - 8.00pm 4.9M/86th/59%
CAST:
THE RANI: Kate O'Mara; IKONA: Mark Greenstreet; BEYUS: Donald Pickering; URAK: Richard Gauntlett;
SARN: Karen Clegg (1); FAROON: Wanda Ventham (2-4); BRAIN VOICES: Peter Tuddenham (3-4), Jacki Webb (3-4);
LANISHA: John Segal (3). UNCREDITED: LAKERTYANS/TETRAPS/GENIUSES: Joseph Arland, Suzanne Britten, Russell Brook,
Mark Carroll, Tricia Clark, Paul Cottingham, Les Derrick, Ian Durrant, Karen England, Helen Garton, Amanda Gray, Christopher
Holmes, David Ianson, Cenydd Joeenz, Mandy Lesley, Ricardo Mulhall, Mike Mungarvan, Russ Murray, Tom O'Leary, Paul Page-Hansen,
Oscar Peck, Penny Rigden, Steve Rome, Sara Wishart, Andrew Woodman
STORY:
The TARDIS is attacked by the Rani using a Navigational Guidance System Distorter. So severe is the attack that the Doctor and
Mel are knocked unconcious, causing the Doctor to start regenerating.
The TARDIS lands on the planet Lakertya which is under the control of the Rani. The Rani needs the Doctor's help to repair her
laboratory equipment, and also to boost her understanding of time.
The Rani plans to destroy an asteroid of Strange Matter, but the only detonator is strange matter. Using an atrifical brain, and
the knowledge of kidnapped scientists from Earth, she plans to come up with a substitue detonator. The Doctor manages to free
the Lakertyans, and thwart the Rani's plans.
BLOOPERS:
Episode ?: In one scene, the Rani instructs Urak to get the unconscious Mel from the TARDIS, to which he replies that
she has already left its confines. But wasn't the Rani was watching when Sarn was killed in the bubble-trap (after being scared
by Mel) so she should have already known that Mel wasn't in the TARDIS any more.
STUDIOS:
Television Centre Studio 1, Television Centre Studio 8
LOCATIONS:
Westdown Quarry, Cloford Quarry, Whatley Quarry, all near Frome, Somerset
WORKING TITLE:
Strange Matter
NOTES:
The ninth title sequence (designed by Oliver Elmes) and fourth theme arrangement (by Keff McCulloch) are first used for this story.
Part One opens with a pre-titles sequence containing the regeneration.
NOVELISATION:
Time and the Rani
Pip and Jane Baker
VIDEO:
Time and the Rani
