Doctor Who Guide: Earthshock

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Part One

Series Episode Number: 572

World Premiere: Mon 8 Mar 1982 - 6:56pm GMT [BBC One: Not Wales] (United Kingdom)
First Broadcast: Sun 29 May 1983 - 11:00pm CDT [WTTW 11 Chicago]
Running Time: 24 minutes 22 seconds

9.10 Million (UK)

Chart Position: 45 () (UK)

Recorded on Tue 10 Nov 1981 in Television Centre 8

Deadly androids are protecting a bomb buried beneath the Earth from all investigation. However, the Doctor manages to disable it, alerting its owners � the Cybermen...

Characters include uncredited
The Doctor		Peter Davison
Scott		James Warwick
Kyle		Clare Clifford
Tegan		Janet Fielding
Nyssa		Sarah Sutton
Adric		Matthew Waterhouse
Walters		Steve Morley
Snyder		Suzi Arden
Mitchell		Ann Holloway
First Trooper		Anne Clements
Second Trooper		Mark Straker
Cyber Leader		David Banks

Production Team include uncredited
Writer		Eric Saward
Director		Peter Grimwade
Producer		John Nathan-Turner
Designer		Bernard Lloyd-Jones
Script Editor		Antony Root
Title Sequence		Sid Sutton
Costume Designer		Dinah Collin
Make-up Artist		Joan Stribling
Studio Lighting		Fred Wright
Studio Sound		Alan Machin
Technical Manager		Alan Jeffery
Senior Cameraman		Alec Wheal
Videotape Editor		Rod Waldron
Visual Effects Designer		Steve Bowman
Video Effects		Dave Chapman
Vision Mixer		James Gould
Film Cameraman		Keith Hopper
Film Sound		John Gatland
Film Editor		Mike Houghton
Production Manager		Geoffrey Manton
Production Unit Manager		Angela Smith
Production Assistant		Jane Ashford
Assistant Floor Manager		Nick Laughland
Incidental Music		Malcolm Clarke
Special Sound		Dick Mills

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