Doctor Who Guide: Frontios

Last updated 24 March 2024

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Part Four

Series Episode Number: 612

World Premiere: Fri 3 Feb 1984 - 6:41pm GMT [BBC One] (United Kingdom)
First Broadcast: Thu 14 May 2015 - 8:30pm EDT [Retro TV]
Running Time: 24 minutes 26 seconds

5.60 Million (UK)

Appreciation Index: 65 (UK)

Chart Position: 112 () (UK)

The Doctor manipulates the Gravis into restoring the TARDIS. But he must find a way to break the Tractators' hold over Frontios before they wipe out all life on the surface.

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

Production Team include uncredited
Writer		Christopher H Bidmead
Director		Ron Jones
Producer		John Nathan-Turner
Designer		David Buckingham
Script Editor		Eric Saward
Title Sequence		Sid Sutton
Costume Designer		Anushia Nieradzik
Make-up Designer		Jill Hagger
Lighting		John Summers
Sound		Martin Ridout
Vision Mixer		Paul Wheeler
Videotape Editor		Hugh Parson
Technical Manager		Alan Arbuthnott
Camera Supervisor		Alec Wheal
Visual Effects Designer		Dave Havard
Video Effects		Dave Chapman
Production Manager		Alex Gohar
Production Associate		June Collins
Production Assistant		Valerie Letley
Assistant Floor Manager		Joanna Guritz
Incidental Music		Paddy Kingsland
Special Sound		Dick Mills
Special Sound		BBC Radiophonic Workshop

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