5L. The Horns of Nimon

TRANSMISSION DETAILS:

522. Part One                      22.12.79   6.10pm - 6.35pm   6.0M/100th/--
523. Part Two                      29.12.79   5.50pm - 6.15pm   8.8M/56th/---
524. Part Three                    05.01.80   6.20pm - 6.45pm   9.8M/40th/---
525. Part Four                     12.01.80   6.05pm - 6.30pm  10.4M/26th/67%

SOLDEED: Graham Crowden; SORAK: Michael Osborne; TEKA: Janet Ellis; SETH: Simon Gipps-Kent; NIMON VOICE: Clifford Norgate; NIMON: Robin Sherringham, Bob Appleby (4), Trevor St John Hacker (4); CO-PILOT: Malcolm Terris (1-3); PILOT: Bob Hornery (1); SEZOM: John Bailey (4). UNCREDITED: ANETHIANS: Zena Daire, Nicholas Draek, Katy Jarret, Daniel Toabori. Rachel Wheeler; ANETHIAN CORPSES: (all 3) Gary Gold, Jane Foot, Debbi Thomson; GUARDS: (all 2-3) Paul Barton, Norman Bradley, David Glen, Terry Gurry, Joe Santo, Derek Suthern, Edmund Thomas; SKONNON ELDERS: (all 2-3) Robert Baker, Roy Brent, Derek Chafer, Jim Delaney, Eric French, Donald Groves, David Harris, Peter Jackson, Ray Lavender, Ronald Mayer, Roy Seeley, Trevor Wedlock

STORY:

The people of Skonnos have been promied that their empire will be restored provided that they supply the alien Nimon with young sacrifices and radioactive hymetusite crystals. The Skonnons have been ontaining these from the nearby planet of Aneth.

The TARDIS is stopped in space for repairs. The TARDIS enounters a Skonnon craft en route from Aneth, and Romana is taken aboard. The Doctor follows the craft in th semi-repaired TARDIS.

The people aboard the Skonnon craft are taken to the Nimons' lair, where the the Doctor and Romana discover that the Nimon are a parasitic race. An ambassador is sent to a planet and offers to help the natives. The hymetusite crystals are used to create a link through with the rest of the race can be transported.

The Doctor manages to destroy the link, and the Nimons are trapped on the last planet they visited - the dying Crinoth.

STUDIOS: Television Centre Studio 3, Television Centre Studio 6

NOTES: The season should have closed with Shada, but a BBC strike resulted in it not being completed

NOVELISATION: The Horns of Nimon Terrance Dicks