Doctor Who Guide: Snakedance - Part Four

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Part Four

Series Episode Number: 587

World Premiere: Wed 26 Jan 1983 - 6:44pm GMT [BBC One] (United Kingdom)
First Broadcast: Tue 28 Apr 2015 - 8:30pm EDT [Retro TV]
Running Time: 24 minutes 29 seconds

7.40 Million (UK)

Appreciation Index: 67 (UK)

Chart Position: 74 () (UK)

The Doctor and the original snakedancer Dojeen work to rid the planet of the malign Mara once and for all, but it has the whole of Manussa in its psychic grip now

Characters hide uncredited
The Doctor		Peter Davison
Tegan		Janet Fielding
Nyssa		Sarah Sutton
Ambril		John Carson
Tanha		Colette O'Neil
Dojjen		Preston Lockwood
Lon		Martin Clunes
Chela		Johnathon Morris
Dugdale		Brian Miller
Megaphone Man		Brian Grellis
Lon's Bodyguard		Bob Mills (uncredited)
Tanha's Bodyguard		Barney Lawrence (uncredited)
Ambril's Attendent		Chris Holmes (uncredited)
Snakedancer		Ray Lavender (uncredited)
(extra)		Derek Holt (uncredited)
(extra)		Fred Redford (uncredited)
(extra)		Jean Channon (uncredited)
(extra)		Sheila Vivian (uncredited)
(extra)		Derek Hunt (uncredited)
(extra)		Brian Moorhead (uncredited)
(extra)		John Beardmore (uncredited)
(extra)		Derek Suthern (uncredited)
(extra)		Douglas Auchterlonie (uncredited)
(extra)		Stephen Whyment (uncredited)
(extra)		Geoffrey Whitestone (uncredited)
(extra)		April Love (uncredited)
(extra)		Lionel Sansby (uncredited)
(extra)		Peter Roy (uncredited)
(extra)		Terry Sartain (uncredited)
(extra)		Delphine (uncredited)
(extra)		Linda Carroll (uncredited)
(extra)		Victor Reynolds (uncredited)
(extra)		Tina Winter (uncredited)
(extra)		Sally Gardener (uncredited)
(extra)		Karen Burch (uncredited)
(extra)		Kenneth Goodfellow (uncredited)
(extra)		Monique Briant (uncredited)
(extra)		Nancy Adams (uncredited)
(extra)		Pamela Dale (uncredited)
(extra)		Mary Rennie (uncredited)
(extra)		Patricia Roy (uncredited)
(extra)		Mark Allington (uncredited)
(extra)		Gaenor Rees (uncredited)
(extra)		Angela Delaney (uncredited)
Child		Jamie Farrar (uncredited)
Child		Cye Humphries (uncredited)
(extra)		Patrick Shephard (uncredited)
(extra)		Lee Fyles (uncredited)
(extra)		Paul de Gallier (uncredited)
(extra)		Hazel Cave (uncredited)
(extra)		Alan Talbot (uncredited)
(extra)		Elaine Hopkins (uncredited)
(extra)		Dale Warren (uncredited)
(extra)		Rosemary Smith (uncredited)
(extra)		Robert Smythe (uncredited)
(extra)		Penny Lambirth (uncredited)
(extra)		Alison Neil (uncredited)

Production Team include uncredited
Writer		Christopher Bailey
Director		Fiona Cumming
Producer		John Nathan-Turner
Designer		Jan Spoczynski
Script Editor		Eric Saward
Title Sequence		Sid Sutton
Costume Designer		Ken Trew
Make-up Artist		Marion Richards
Lighting		Henry Barber
Sound		Martin Ridout
Technical Manager		Derek Thompson
Senior Cameraman		Alec Wheal
Videotape Editor		Rod Waldron
Visual Effects Designer		Andrew Lazell
Video Effects		Dave Chapman
Vision Mixer		Carol Johnson
Film Cameraman		John Baker
Film Sound		Ron Blight
Film Editor		Alastair Mackay
Production Manager		Margot Heyhoe
Production Associate		Angela Smith
Production Assistant		Rita Dunn
Assistant Floor Manager		Maggy Campbell
Incidental Music		Peter Howell
Special Sound		Dick Mills
Production Unit Manager		June Collins

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