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Season 20 (1983)


Mawdryn Undead

Last Updated 06 May 2013 by Chuck Foster

Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead

Mawdryn Undead

Story Number: 125 (6F)

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Writer: Peter Grimwade
Director: Peter Moffatt

Starring: : Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Mark Strickson, Sarah Sutton, David Collings, Nicholas Courtney, Valentine Dyall

No of Episodes: 4
First Broadcast: Tue 01 Feb 1983 - Wed 09 Feb 1983
Running Time: 97 minutes 41 seconds


Average Audience: 7.28 Million       Average AI: 68


The Black Guardian recruits a young man named Turlough to assassinate the Doctor. Although outwardly an ordinary pupil at a boys' private boarding school, Turlough is in fact an alien who believes that the Guardian will return him home if he succeeds.