4W. The Sun Makers
Writer: Robert Holmes
Director: Pennant Roberts
Designer: Tony Snoaden
Incidental Music: Dudley Simpson
TRANSMISSION DETAILS:
466. Part One 26.11.1977 6.05pm - 6.30pm 8.5M/48th/---
467. Part Two 03.12.1977 6.05pm - 6.30pm 9.5M/36th/---
468. Part Three 10.12.1977 6.05pm - 6.30pm 8.9M/35th/68%
469. Part Four 17.12.1977 6.05pm - 6.30pm 8.4M/42nd/59%
REPEAT DETAILS:
Part One Thu 10.08.1978 6.20pm - 6.45pm 3.2M/117th
Part Two 17.08.1978 7.10pm - 7.35pm 6.5M/ 50th
Part Three 24.08.1978 7.10pm - 7.35pm 6.5M/ 49th
Part Four 31.08.1978 6.45pm - 7.10pm 7.1M/ 53rd
CAST:
GATHERER HADE: Richard Leech; MARN: Jonina Scott; CORDO: Roy Macready; MADREL: William Simons; GOUDRY:
Michael Keating; VEET: Adrienne Burgess; NURSE: Carole Hopkin (1); COLLECTOR: Henry Woolf (2-4); BISHAM:
David Rowlands (2-4); SYNGE: Derek Crewe (3-4); COMMANDER: Colin McCormack (3-4); GUARD: Tom Kelly (4).
UNCREDITED: COMPUTER VOICE: John Leeson (3-4); GUARD: Stuart Fell (4); EXTRAS: Norman Bacon (1-3), Simon Barratt,
Barbara Bermel (1,4), Chris Balcombe (3-4), Paul Barton (3-4), Roy Brent (3-4), Peter Clare, David Cleeve, Alan Crisp (1-2), David Downes,
John Dryden (1-2), David Eynon (1-3), Max Faulkner (2-4), Louis Giboin (3-4), Gill Goldstone (3-4), Ronald Goodale (3-4), Patricia Gorino
(2), Elizabeth Havelock, Ann Higgins (1-3), Dave Holland (1-2), David Honeyball (2-4), Leonie Jessell (3-4), Malcolm Johns (4), Stephen
Kane (3-4), Robert Lee (2-4), Andrew Lord, David Ludwig (2-4), Valero Martinez (3-4), Keith McDonald (3-4), Josephine McEvoy (3-4),
Charles Molton, James Muir (2), Keith Norrish (2), Ton Northan (3-4), Stephen Phillips (3-4), David Richens (2-4), Roy Rosen (1-3), Peter
Roy (2-3), Harry Sharples (3-4), Jan Shilling (1-3), Barry Summerford (3-4), Ken Taylor, Angela Towner, Clifford Tozer, Alan Thompson
(2-4), Cy Town (2), Harry Van Engel (4), Kelly Varney (1-2), Adrian Varcoe, Mario Venn, Jeff Waine (3-4), Gerald Webb, Jennie Weston
STORY:
The TARDIS materialises in the future on the planet Pluto, and he finds things have changed: There is now a breathable atmosphere,
amd the Doctor is surprised top find a human colony living unde the light of six artificial suns.
The Doctor and Leela fall in with a group of rebels, and the he finds that the Suns have been manufactured by the Company, headed
by an Usurian nown as the Collector, and represented by a human, Gatherer Hade.
The Usurians enslave planets through economic means and continue by charging extortinate taxes. The citizens are kept under control
by PCM gas which is pumped throughout the complex.
The Doctor aids the rebels by leading them to the PCM plant. With gas production ceased the rebels rise up against the Company
and hurl Gatherer Hade to his death. The Doctor reporgrams the Company's computer, and unable to cope with the loss of profit
the Collector reverts to his natural form and is rendered harmless.
STUDIOS:
Television Centre Studio 3, Television Centre Studio 6
LOCATIONS:
Hartcliffe Wills Tobacco Factory, Bristol, Avon; Camden Town Deep Tube Shelters, Camden, London
NOTES:
There is no script editor credited for this story
NOVELISATION:
The Sunmakers Terrance Dicks
VIDEO:
The Sunmakers
