Celestial Toymaker

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11 Sep 65 - 02 Oct 65
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09 Oct 65
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16 Oct 65 - 06 Nov 65
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13 Nov 65 - 29 Jan 66
12
W
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05 Feb 66 - 26 Feb 66
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X
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05 Mar 66 - 26 Mar 66
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24
02 Apr 66 - 23 Apr 66
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30 Apr 66 - 21 May 66
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28 May 66 - 18 Jun 66
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25 Jun 66 - 16 Jul 66
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1.  The Celestial Toyroom.
2nd April 1966
5:50 p.m.
24.40
8.0
44
2.  The Hall of Dolls.
9th April 1966
5:50 p.m.
24.45
8.0
49
3.  The Dancing Floor.
16th April 1966
5:50 p.m.
24.10
9.4
32
4.  The Final Test.
23rd April 1966
5:51 p.m.
23.57
7.8
36
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The TARDIS materializes in the domain of the Celestial Toymaker, an evil force who dominates a fantasy world. He is a happy looking mandarin character dressed in a splendid bejeweled coat. He makes the TARDIS intangible to the travelers and 'invites' to play games with him. The Doctor has to play the complex Trilogic Game, while Steven and Dodo are set a series of puzzles, which if they lose will render them subjects of the Toymaker.  They play Blind Man's Bluff - and win. Then they meet the Hearts family and play a macabre game of Musical Chairs. Then, it's Hunt the Key in the kitchen and, after that, they find themselves trying to reach the end of a ballroom dodging dancing dolls. Their last opponent is the obnoxious schoolboy, Cyril.  With him, they play a death-trap dice game across electrified triangles, but manage to reach 'home' first. The Doctor triumphs over the Toymaker by imitating the magician's voice - and the travelers are on their way again.



The Doctor: William Hartnell
Steven Taylor: Peter Purves
Dorothea "Dodo" Chaplet: Jackie Lane

Guest Appearances:
Toymaker: Michael Gough
Joey The Clown, Sgt. Rugg, King of Hearts:  Campbell Singer
Clara the Clown, Mrs. Wiggs, Queen of Hearts:  Carmen Silver
Cyril, Kitchen Boy, Knave of Hearts:  Peter Stevens
Joker: Reg Lever
Dancing Dolls: Beryl Braham, Ann Harrison, Delia Lindon

Producer:  Innes Lloyd.
Script Editor: Gerry Davis.
Writer: Brian Hayles (with Gerry Davis and Donald Tosh, uncredited).
Director: Bill Sellers.
Designer: John Wood.
Costume: Daphne Dare.
Make up: Sonia Markham.
Music: Dudley Simpson



1986 1st Edition with cover by Graham PottsNovelised as "Doctor Who - The Celestial Toymaker"  by Gerry Davis and Alison Bingham (0 426 20251 1) first published by W.H. Allen (now Virgin Publishing Ltd.) in 1986 with cover by Alister Pearson. Target library number 111. Reprinted 3rd December 1992 by Virgin Publishing Ltd. with cover art by Alister Pearson.

 



Image Audio CD CoverComplete audio soundtrack exists. Released April 2001 as a 2-CD set by the BBC Radio Collection, with linking narration by Peter Purves.

Image of The Celestial Toymaker (Michael Gough), Clara (Carmen Silver), Joey (Campbell Singer), and The Doctor Image of Sgt Rugg (Campbell Singer), Steven, and; DodoImage of Steven, Cyril (Peter Stevens), and; DodoImage of The Celestial Toymaker (Michael Gough)
Image Queen and King Hearts (Carmen Silver, Campbell Singer)


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Image of Video Cover Hartnell YearsLimited Availability On Video: Episode 4 'Final Test' Included on "The Hartnell Years" (BBCV 4608) (CBS/FOX catalogue #3403) first released in 1991 with photomontage cover.

 

 

 

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Michael Gough was once married to companion actress Anneke Wills (Polly).
He was chosen to reprise the role in the serial "The Nightmare Fair," which was to be the opening episode in the twenty-third season before the show was put on hold.

Episodes 1-3 are lost. Episode four exist as 16mm telerecording recovered from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in 1984.

Ealing filming. (3 March 1966)
Studio recording in Riverside 1. (18, 25 March; 1, 8 April 1966)

Episode 4 - When the Doctor's disembodied hand plays the Trilogic game, the game pieces on each corner are all nicely lined up with the black triangles on the board. However, during the speeded-up sequences, the pieces at B and C are turned around, and are no longer aligned with the black triangles.
Episode 4 - When Cyril falls off triangle 11, he shouldn't have been electrocuted because he wasn't grounded (simular to how birds can sit on power lines without getting electrocuted).
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