Doctor Who Guide: Robot

Last updated 24 March 2024

Part Four

Appreciation Index: 51 (UK)

Chart Position: 30 () (UK)

Recorded on Fri 07 Jun 1974 in TC3 / 7

The Doctor races to avert a nuclear holocaust. The robot, distraught over killing its creator, takes Sarah hostage and goes on a rampage.

Characters hide uncredited
Doctor Who		Tom Baker
Sarah Jane Smith		Elisabeth Sladen
Harry Sullivan		Ian Marter
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart		Nicholas Courtney
Sergeant Benton		John Levene
Miss Winters		Patricia Maynard
Robot		Michael Kilgarriff
Professor Kettlewell		Edward Burnham
Jellicoe		Alec Linstead
(extra)		Ray Knight (uncredited)
(extra)		Allan Hinton (uncredited)
(extra)		Allan Bioini (uncredited)
(extra)		Bill Bingham (uncredited)
(extra)		Brian Fellows (uncredited)
(extra)		Christopher Carrington (uncredited)
(extra)		Colin Hamilton (uncredited)
(extra)		David Parker (uncredited)
(extra)		David Patterson (uncredited)
(extra)		Douglas Read (uncredited)
(extra)		Fred Garratt (uncredited)
(extra)		George Bayliss (uncredited)
(extra)		Gordon Wall (uncredited)
(extra)		Jack Parker (uncredited)
(extra)		John Milner (uncredited)
(extra)		Norman Colson (uncredited)
(extra)		Norman Littlejohns (uncredited)
(extra)		Peter Isley (uncredited)
(extra)		Raymond Savage (uncredited)
(extra)		Richard Martin (uncredited)
(extra)		Roger Squires (uncredited)
(extra)		Steve Rivers (uncredited)

Production Teamhide uncredited
Writer		Terrance Dicks
Director		Christopher Barry
Producer		Barry Letts
Designer		Ian Rawnsley
Script Editor		Robert Holmes
Costume Designer		James Acheson
Makeup		Judy Clay
Visual Effects Designer		Clifford Culley
Sound		Trevor Webster
Sound		Vic Godrich
Lighting		Nigel Wright
Lighting		John Mason
Incidental Music		Dudley Simpson
Special Sound		Dick Mills
Production Assistant		Peter Grimwade
Production Unit Manager		George Gallaccio
Title Music		Ron Grainer
and		BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Sequence		Bernard Lodge
Assistant Floor Manager		David Tilley (uncredited)
Title Music Arranger		Delia Derbyshire (uncredited)
Director's Assistant		Joy Sinclair (uncredited)
Technical Manager (TM2)		Derek Thompson (uncredited)
Grams Operator		Gordon Phillipson (uncredited)
Vision Mixer		Fred Law (uncredited)
Floor Assistant		Geoffrey Posner (uncredited)
Inlay Operator		Dave Jervis (uncredited)