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9
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31
Oct 63 - 14 Nov 64
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3
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K
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10
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21
Nov 64 - 26 Dec 64
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6
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L
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11
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02
Jan 65 - 09 Jan 65
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2
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M
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12
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16
Jan 65 - 06 Feb 65
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4
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N
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13
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13
Feb 65 - 20 Mar 65
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6
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P
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14
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27
Mar 65 - 17 Apr 65
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4
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Q
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15
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24
Apr 65 - 15 May 65
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4
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R
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16
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22
May 65 - 26 Jun 65
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6
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17
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03
Jul 65 - 24 Jul 65
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1.
The Powerful Enemy.
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2
January 1965
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5:40
p.m.
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26.15
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12.0
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11
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2.
Desperate Measures.
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9
January 1965
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5:41
p.m.
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24.36
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13.0
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8
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The
Doctor lands on the planet Dido in the year 2493. He finds a crashed
spaceship from Earth with two young survivors: a paralyzed man named Bennett
and a young girl, Vicki. Bennett tells the Doctor that the rest
of the crew have been murdered by the locals and Vicki says a native
named Koquillion is protecting them from further wrath of the enraged
Didonians. The Doctor is suspicious of these explanations and challenges
Koquillion - to find that he is Bennett in disguise. Bennett confesses
that he murdered all the spaceship crew and the friendly Didonians to
conceal a murder he had previously committed on the spaceship. He
had planned to take Vicki - she is unaware of his crimes - back to Earth
to testify to his innocence. However, terrified by the two Didonian
survivors, Bennett plunges over a cliff to his death. The Doctor
offers Vicki a chance to join his crew and she accepts.
a
The Doctor: William
Hartnell
Ian Chesterton:
William Russell
Barbara Wright: Jacqueline Hill
Vicki: Maureen O'Brien
a
Guest Appearances:
Bennett, Koquillion: Ray
Barrett
Captain, Sand Monster: Tom Sheridan
Didonians: John Stuart, Colin
Hughes
a
Producer: Verity
Lambert,
Assistant Producer: Mervyn
Pinfield & Dennis Spooner (uncredited).
Script Editor: Dennis
Spooner.
Writer: David
Whitaker.
Director: Christopher
Barry.
Designer: Raymond
P. Cusick.
Costume: Daphne
Dare.
Make up: Sonia Markham,
Music: Tristram Cary (stock) (Reuse
of music composed for "The Daleks")
a
Novelized
as "Doctor Who - The Rescue" by
Ian Marter (0 426 20308 9) first published by W.H. Allen (now Virgin Publishing
Ltd.) in 1987 with cover by Tony Clark. Target library number 124.
a
Released
as "The Rescue / The Romans" box set in UK, September
1994 and in Australia and New Zealand (BBC catalogue #5378). released
in US and Canada 1996, (CBS/FOX catalogue #8338), with cover art by Andrew
Skilleter in episodic format.
.
.
This
episode introduces the first new companion, Vicki who originally was to
be named Tanni.
Although Dennis Spooner was now the story editor, he is not credited for
this and the following story.
The pseudonym for Kocquillion was obtained from the names Sydney Newman
and Donald Wilson, two of the men who created Doctor Who.
Both episodes exist on 16mm telecine recordings. Negative film prints of both episodes were recovered from BBC Enterprises circa 1978.
Ealing
filming. (16-17 November 1964)
Studio recording in Riverside 1. (4, 11 December
1964)
Episode 3 - When Sandy (Vicki's "pet") is seen in its cave just before Barbara kills it, a stagehand is visible moving around behind it to the left.