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Tom Baker
Season Fifteen

Tom Baker
Script Editor: Anthony Read

4Y. Underworld

Writers: Bob Baker and Dave Martin
Director: Norman Stewart
Designer: Dick Coles
Incidental Music: Dudley Simpson

TRANSMISSION DETAILS: 

470. Part One                      07.01.78   6.25pm - 6.50pm   8.9M/50th/65%
471. Part Two                      14.01.78   6.25pm - 6.50pm   9.1M/37th/---
472. Part Three                    21.01.78   6.30pm - 6.55pm   8.9M/37th/---
473. Part Four                     28.01.78   6.30pm - 6.55pm  11.7M/27th/---

CAST:

JACKSON: James Maxwell; TALA: Imogen Bickford-Smith; ORFE: Jonathon Newth; HERRICK: Alan Lake; IDMON: Jimmy Gardner (2-4); IDAS: Norman Tipton (2-4); TARN: Godfrey James (2-4); RASK: James Marcus (2-4); GUARD KLIMT: Jay Neill (2); ANKH: Frank Jarvis (3-4); LAKH: Richard Shaw (3-4); VOICE OF THE ORACLE: Christine Pollon (3-4); NAIA: Stacey Tendeter (3-4)

STORY:

The TARDIS mterialises on board a Minyan ship, the R1C, commanded by Jackson. To the Minyans the Time Lords are Gods. In the past the Time Lords helped the Minyans build an advance civilisation. Minyos is now dead, destroyed by warfare.

The crew are on a quest to find the P7E which contains the gene bank of the entire Minyan race. The P7E is entually located - at the centre of a planet which had grown up around it.

Decsendants of the original crew have survived, and are ruled by the computer which has been programmed to protect the race banks, and to robotic Seers.

Jackson thinks he has managed to obtain the race bank, but he has been tricked and in fact has fission grenades. The Doctor disovers the deception and manages to obtain the real race bank, and tricks the Seers into taking back the grenades. The explosion destroys the planet, and the P7E, allowing the R1C to blast free toward Minyos II, with the Minyan descendats on board.

STUDIOS:

Television Centre Studio 3, Television Centre Studio 4, Television Centre Studio 8

NOTES:

Details of the extras who appear in this story are unavailable

NOVELISATION:

The Underworld Terrance Dicks

VIDEO:

The Underworld
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