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4F
80
30 Aug 75 - 20 Sep 75
4
4H
81
27 Sep 75 - 18 Oct 75
4
4G
82
25 Oct 75 - 15 Nov 75
4
4J
83
22 Nov 75 - 13 Dec 75
4
4K
84
03 Jan 76 - 24 Jan 76
4
4L
85
31 Jan 76 - 06 Mar 76
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Episode 1.
27 September 1975
5:45 p.m.
24.02
10.4
19
Episode 2.
4 October 1975
5:46 p.m.
22.30
9.9
24
Episode 3.
11 October 1975
6:07 p.m.
23.50
9.1
29
Episode 4.
18 October 1975
5:46 p.m.
23.43
10.1
26
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Answering a mayday call, the Doctor and Sarah arrive on Zeta Minor, a planet far out on the edge of the known Universe. A geological expedition from the planet Morestra has 'run into trouble. Only its leader, Professor Sorenson, is still 'alive, all the other crew members having been killed by an invisible entity. A military party from Morestra, led by the Young Controller Salamar, arrives to investigate. The Doctor and Sarah come under suspicion but when the whole party is attacked by the entity they are released. Zeta Minor is a gate to a universe of Anti matter, from which the entity originates. They all leave the planet but Sorenson, disregarding the Doctor's advice, has taken some Anti matter on board. Sorenson turns into an Anti matter monster and the ship is dragged back to the planet. The Doctor manages to collect all the Anti matter mind captures Sorenson. After the substance is returned to the Anti matter universe the ship is freed and Sorenson cured.
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The Doctor:  Tom Baker
Sarah Jane Smith:Elisabeth Sladen

Guest Appearances:
Professor Sorenson: Frederick Jaeger
Vishinsky: Ewen Solon
Salamar: Prentis Hancock
De Haan: Graham Weston
Ponti: Louis Mahoney
Morelli: Michael Wisher
Braun: Terence Brook
Baldwin: Tony McEwan
O'Hara: Haydn Wood
Reig: Melvyn Bedford


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Producer: Phillip Hinchcliffe
Script Editor: Robert Holmes
Writer: Louis Marks
Director: David Maloney
Designer: Roger Murray-Leach
Costume: Andrew Rose
Make up: Jenny Shircore
Visual Effects: David Harvard
Music: Dudley Simpson

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1977 Target edition with cover art by Mike Little1982Target edition with cover art by Andrew Skilleter

Novelized as "Doctor Who and the Planet of Evil" by Terrance Dicks (0 426 11682 8) first published by W H Allen (now Virgin Publishing Ltd) in 1977 with cover by Mike Little. New edition in 1982 with cover by Andrew Skilleter. Target library 47.

Image of the Doctor and Sarah Jane examining a 'dead body'Image of Sarah Jane and the Doctor being taken presented to the commander
Image of De Haan (Graham Weston) and Ponti (Louis Mahoney) confronted by the image of the anti matter monster
Image of 'infected' Professor Sorenson (Frederick Jaeger)
Image of Controller Salamar (Prentis Hancock), Vishinsky (Ewen Solon) and De Haan (Graham Weston)

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Image of Video CoverReleased as "Planet of Evil" UK release January 1994 (BBCV 5180). US release by CBS/Fox Video (# 8370), and by Warner video (# E1319). Video cover by Colin Howard.

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Planet Of Evil was one of several Doctor Who stories directly inspired by script editor Robert Holmes' love of gothic fiction -- in this case, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde.
Designer Roger Murray-Leach designed a detailed, exotic alien jungle set. This proved so successful that it was extensively photographed by the BBC Educational Service, which would use it as an example of excellent set design for years afterward.

All four episodes exist in color on videotape.

Ealing Filming. (June 1975)
Studio recording in Stage TC3. (14-15 July 1975)
Studio recording in Stage TC6. (30 June-1 July 1975)

Episode 3 - The camera wobbles during a conversation between Sorenson and Salamar.
Episode 4 - As the Doctor walks around the Anti-Matter pool, his foot crashes through the set!

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