5K. Nightmare of Eden

TRANSMISSION DETAILS:

518. Part One                      24.11.79   6.00pm - 6.25pm   8.7M/41st/---
519. Part Two                      01.12.79   6.05pm - 6.30pm   9.6M/31st/---
520. Part Three                    08.12.79   6.00pm - 6.25pm   9.6M/32nd/---
521. Part Four                     15.12.79   5.55pm - 6.20pm   9.4M/32nd/65%

PROFESSOR TRYST: Lewis Fiander; CAPTAIN DYMOND: Geoffrey Bateman; DELLA: Jennifer Lonsdale (1,2,4); CAPTAIN RIGG: David Dakar (1-3); CREWMEN: Richard Barnes (1,3), Sebastion Stride (3-4), Eden Phillips (4); NAVIGATOR SECKER: Stephen Jenn (1); STOTT: Barry Andrews (2-4); WATERGUARD FISK: Geoffrey Hinsliff (2-4); LANDING OFFICER COSTA: Peter Craze (2-4); PASSENGERS: Maggie Petersen (2-3), Annette Peters (2), Peter Roberts (2), Lionel Sansby (2). UNCREDITED: STEWARDESS: Sally Sinclair (1-2); COMPUTER VOICE: Pamela Ruddock (1); PA ANNOUNCER: Geoffrey Hinsliff (1); PASSENGER: Billy Gray (3); MANDRELS: Robert Goodman (2-4), David Korff (2-4), James Muir, Jan Murzynowski (3-4), Derek Suthern (2-4); MEDICS: Gary Dean, Reg Turner; CREWMEN EXTRAS: (all 1,2,4) David Cole, Terence Creasy, Mark Kirby, Simon Sutton; PASSENGER EXTRAS: (all 1-3) Jean Channon, Derek Hunt, Pat Judge, Ann Garry Lee, Greg Marlowe, Jay Roberts, Jenny Roberts, Judy Roger, Audrey Searle, Madelaine Simpson

STORY:

A freak accident causes two ships - the Empress and the Hecate - to become locked togeether after emerging from Hyperspace. The Doctor, Romana and K-9 go down to see if they can assist.

On board the Empress are scientists Tryst and Della. Tryst had devised the Continuous Event Transmuter, a device which is able to take, and store, land masses from planets and preserve them, allowing the observers to watch any specimens in their native habitats.

The CET has become unstable as a result of the crash, and some of the specimens, the Madrels, have escaped. At the same time someone has been smuggling Vraxoin, a deadly drug. The Empress captain had taken the drug which was the reason for the collision.

The Doctor discovers that Tryst was the one smuggling the drug which is manufactured from the material that is left behind from a decomposing Mandrel. The Doctor manages to stop Tryst, and separate the two ships.

STUDIOS: Television Centre Studio 6

NOVELISATION: The Nightmare of Eden Terrance Dicks

VIDEO: Nightmare of Eden