5V. Logopolis

TRANSMISSION DETAILS:

550. Part One                      28.02.81   5.10pm - 5.35pm   7.1M/ 84th/---
551. Part Two                      07.03.81   5.10pm - 5.35pm   7.7M/ 57th/61%
552. Part Three                    14.03.81   5.10pm - 5.35pm   5.8M/102nd/---
553. Part Four                     21.03.81   5.10pm - 5.35pm   6.1M/ 97th/65%

     Part One                Mon   30.11.81   5.40pm - 6.05pm   5.5M/11th
     Part Two                Tue   01.12.81   5.40pm - 6.00pm   5.0M/15th
     Part Three              Wed   02.12.81   5.40pm - 6.05pm   6.0M/ 7th
     Part Four               Thu   03.12.81   5.40pm - 6.05pm   5.4M/12th

THE MASTER: Anthony Ainley; DETECTIVE INSPECTOR: Tom Georgeson (1-2): AUNT VANESSA: Dolores Whiteman (1); THE MONITOR: John Fraser (2-4); SECURITY GUARD: Christopher Hurst (4); :NEW DOCTOR: Peter Davison (4); TEGAN JOVANKA: Janet Fielding. UNCREDITED: THE WATCHER: Adrian Gibbs; POLICEMEN: (all 1-2) Ray Knight, Peter Roy, Derek Suthern; LOGOPOLITANS: George Ballantine, Douglas Bather, Jim Delaney, Billy Gray, Jimmy Mac, Brynchan Powell, Terry Randle, Evan Ross, Roy Seeley, Charles Stewart, Colin Thomas, John Tucker, Walter Turner, Peter Whitaker, Bill Whitehead; PHAROS TECHNICIAN: Robin Squire (4)

STORY:

The Doctor has an idea that may repair the chameleon circuit. For this the Doctor needs the exact measurements of a police box, and there is one on the Barnett Bypass in 1981. But before the Doctor can materialise around it, someone else already has done.

In the same lay-by two women have car trouble. While Tegan enters the police box, thinking it is real, someone else has emerged, and Tegan's aunt has been shrunk. In order to get rid of whatever has entered the TARDIS, the Doctor plans to materlaise underwater and open the doors. The TARDIS misses, and materialises aboard a ship, where Doctor meets the Watcher.

Now that the Doctor has the measurements for a police box the TARDIS materialises on Logopolis. They have the necessary skills to recalculate the block transfer computation, but the calculations are interfered with, and when applied the TARDIS shrinks.

The Watcher has also sent for Nyssa, and the Doctor, Adric, Tegan and Nyssa find that the culprit is the Master, who plans to hold the Universe to ransom. The plan backfires and entropy destroys the Traken Union, and Logopolis.

Logopolitians had copied the Pharos project on Earth. The fix the problem the Doctor, his companions, and the Master, travel to Earth. The Doctor manages to halt the entropy, but in a battle with the Master falls from a radar dish and triggers his regeneration ...

STUDIOS: Television Centre Studio 3, Television Centre Studio 6

LOCATIONS: Henley-On-Thames, Oxon; A40 lay-by, Barnet bypass, Denham, Bucks; Cadogan Pier, river Thames, London; Albert Bridge, River Thames, London; Caversham, Berks

NOTES: Sarah Sutton does not appear in Part One. Although she was credited as a companion in the previous story she doesn't really travel with the Doctor until this adventure
This story sees the departure of Tom Baker and Barry Letts
The story features the first extensive flashback sequence (in Part Four). The clips are: The Master (The Deadly Assassin 1), a Dalek (Destiny of the Daleks 4), The Pirate Captain (The Pirate Planet 2), the Cyberleader (Revenge of the Cybermen 3), Davros (Genesis of the Daleks 5), a Sontaran (The Invasion of Time 5), a Zygon (Terror of the Zygons 3), the Black Guardian (The Armageddon Factor 6), Sarah (Terror of the Zygons 2), Harry (The Sontaran Experiment 2), the Brigadier (Invasion of the Dinosaurs 2), Leela (Robots of Death 1), K-9 (The Armageddon factor 2), the first Romana (The Stones of Blood 1) and the second Romana (Full Circle 1)

NOVELISATION: Logopolis Christopher H. Bidmead

VIDEO: Logopolis