Doctor Who Guide: Black Orchid

Last updated 24 March 2024

Part One

Series Episode Number: 570

World Premiere: Mon 1 Mar 1982 - 6:56pm GMT [BBC One: Not Wales] (United Kingdom)
First Broadcast: Sun 22 May 1983 - 11:00pm CDT [WTTW 11 Chicago]
Running Time: 24 minutes 56 seconds

9.90 Million (UK)

Chart Position: 57 () (UK)

Recorded on Tue 20 Oct 1981 in Television Centre 3

A murder is committed in Cranleigh Hall. The Cranleighs ask the Doctor to play cricket and then join them for a masked ball, enabling the killer to hide in plain sight.

Characters hide uncredited
The Doctor		Peter Davison
Nyssa		Sarah Sutton
Ann		Sarah Sutton
Tegan		Janet Fielding
Adric		Matthew Waterhouse
Lady Cranleigh		Barbara Murray
Sir Robert Muir		Moray Watson
Lord Cranleigh		Michael Cochrane
Brewster		Brian Hawksley
Tanner		Timothy Block
Latoni		Ahmed Khalil
The Unknown		Gareth Milner
Double for Nyssa/Ann		Vanessa Paine (uncredited)
Guest		Caron Heggie (uncredited)
Guest		Charlie Millward (uncredited)
Guest		Brychan Powell (uncredited)
Guest		Derek Hunt (uncredited)
Guest		Frederick Woolf (uncredited)
Guest		David Wilde (uncredited)
Guest		Amanda Carlson (uncredited)
Dancer		Rosemary Lyford (uncredited)
Dancer		Sheila West (uncredited)
Dancer		Lisa Clifton (uncredited)
Dancer		Lindy Salmon (uncredited)
Dancer		Jane Sherbourne (uncredited)
Dancer		Adrian Gibbs (uncredited)
Dancer		Christine Kendall (uncredited)
Dancer		Nola Haines (uncredited)
Dancer		Annette Lyons (uncredited)
Cricketer		Gus Roy (uncredited)
Cricketer		Rory O'Connor (uncredited)
Cricketer		Douglas Stark (uncredited)
Cricketer		Derek Southern (uncredited)
Cricketer		Stuart Myers (uncredited)
Cricketer		Nick Joseph (uncredited)
Cricketer		Lionel Sandsby (uncredited)
Cricketer		Alan Talbot (uncredited)
Cricketer		Michael Horner (uncredited)
Cricketer		Kevin O'Brian (uncredited)
Cricketer		Bernard Monast (uncredited)

Production Teamhide uncredited
Writer		Terence Dudley
Director		Ron Jones
Producer		John Nathan-Turner
Designer		Tony Burrough
Script Editor		Eric Saward
Title Sequence		Sid Sutton
Costume Designer		Rosalind Ebbutt
Makeup Designer		Lisa Westcott
Studio Lighting		Fred Wright
Studio Sound		Alan Machin
Technical Manager (TM2)		Alan Jeffery
Senior Cameraman		Alec Wheal
Videotape Editor		Rod Waldron
Visual Effects Designer		Tony Auger
Video Effects		Dave Chapman
Vision Mixer		Carol Johnson
Film Cameraman		Peter Chapman
Film Sound		Ron Blight
Film Editor		Mike Houghton
Production Manager		Jim Capper
Production Associate		Angela Smith
Production Assistant		Juley Harding
Assistant Floor Manager		Val McCrimmon
Incidental Music		Roger Limb
Special Sound		Dick Mills
Choreographer		Gary Downie (uncredited)
Title Music		Ron Grainer (uncredited)
Title Music Arranger		Peter Howell (uncredited)
Nyssa created by		Johnny Byrne (uncredited)

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