Doctor Who Guide: Frontios

Last updated 24 March 2024

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Series Episode Number: 610

World Premiere: Fri 27 Jan 1984 - 6:41pm GMT [BBC One] (United Kingdom)
First Broadcast: Wed 13 May 2015 - 8:30pm EDT [Retro TV]
Running Time: 24 minutes 35 seconds

5.80 Million (UK)

Appreciation Index: 69 (UK)

Chart Position: 115 () (UK)

Trying to discover why Frontios is being attacked from both above and below, the Doctor faces the malevolent Tractators while revolution brews in the colony

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

Production Team hide 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
Assistant Floor Manager		Ed Stevenson (uncredited)
Grams Operator		Gordon Phillipson (uncredited)
Senior Studio Engineer		John Billett (uncredited)
Senior Studio Engineer		Ron Frith (uncredited)
Senior Studio Engineer		John Mersh (uncredited)
Floor Assistant		Brenda Thomas (uncredited)
Show Working Supervisor		Ray Davis (uncredited)
Lighting Chargehand		Terry Smith (uncredited)
Visual Effects Assistant		Perry Brahan (uncredited)
Props Buyer		Robert Fleming (uncredited)
Design Assistant		Maggie Carroll (uncredited)
Design Assistant		Matthew Lorrimer (uncredited)
Make-Up Assistant		Damelza Rogers (uncredited)
Make-Up Assistant		Susan Kirkham (uncredited)
Make-Up Assistant		Helen Johnson (uncredited)
Dresser		Frances Miles (uncredited)
Dresser		Sue Clayton (uncredited)
Dresser		Derek Sumner (uncredited)
Dresser		Philip Winter (uncredited)
Production Secretary		Sarah Lee (uncredited)
Title Music		Ron Grainer (uncredited)
Title Music Arranger		Peter Howell (uncredited)

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