Season 21 (1984)

Frontios: Part Two

Last Updated 06 May 2013 by Marcus

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Part Two

5.80 Million

Part Two

Series Episode Number: 610

First Broadcast: Fri 27 Jan 1984 - 06:41:17pm
Running Time: 24 minutes 35 seconds

Appreciation Index: 69

Chart Position: 115

Trying to discover why Frontios is being attacked from both above and below, the Doctor faces the malevolent Tractators while revolution brews in the colony

Characters
The Doctor		Peter Davison
Tegan		Janet Fielding
Turlough		Mark Strickson
Norna		Lesley Dunlop
Brazen		Peter Gilmore
Range		William Lucas
Plantagenet		Jeff Rawle
Gravis		John Gillett
Cockerill		Maurice O'Connell
Tractator		William Bowen
Tractator		George Campbell
Tractator		Hedi Khursandi
Tractator		Michael Malcolm
Tractator		Stephen Speed

Production Team include uncredited
Writer		Christopher H Bidmead
Production Unit Manager		June Collins
Assistant Floor Manager		Joanna Guritz
Production Assistant		Valerie Letley
Special Sound		Dick Mills
Assistant Floor Manager		Ed Stevenson
Director		Ron Jones
Designer		David Buckingham
Make-up Designer		Jill Hagger
Incidental Music		Paddy Kingsland
Producer		John Nathan-Turner
Costume Designer		Anushia Nieradzik
Studio Sound		Martin Ridout
Studio Lighting		John Summers
Visual Effects Designer		Dave Havard
Script Editor		Eric Saward
Title Sequence		Sid Sutton

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