Doctor Who Guide: Nightmare of Eden

Last updated 24 March 2024

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Part One

Series Episode Number: 518

World Premiere: Sat 24 Nov 1979 - 6:01pm GMT [BBC One] (United Kingdom)
First Broadcast: Sun 1 Nov 1981 - 11:00pm CST [WTTW 11 Chicago]
Running Time: 24 minutes 17 seconds

8.70 Million (UK)

Chart Position: 41 () (UK)

Recorded on Sun 12 Aug 1979 in Television Centre 6

A terrible hyperspace accident results in two starships becoming locked together. The Doctor arrives and discovers that the incident may have also released a deadly menace.

Characters include uncredited
Doctor Who		Tom Baker
Romana		Lalla Ward
Tryst		Lewis Fiander
Rigg		David Daker
Dymond		Geoffrey Bateman
Della		Jennifer Lonsdale
Secker		Stephen Jenn
Crewman		Richard Barnes
Voice of K-9		David Brierley

Production Team hide uncredited
Writer		Bob Baker
Director		Alan Bromly
Producer		Graham Williams
Designer		Roger Cann
Script Editor		Douglas Adams
Costume Designer		Rupert Jarvis
Make-up Artist		Joan Stribling
Visual Effects Designer		Colin Mapson
Video Effects		A J Mitchell
Vision Mixer		Nigel Finnis
Videotape Editor		Rod Waldron
Studio Lighting		Warwick Fielding
Studio Sound		Anthony Philpott
Technical Manager		Terry Brett
Senior Cameraman		Peter Hider
Production Assistant		Carolyn Montagu
Production Unit Manager		John Nathan-Turner
Director's Assistant		Monica Rodger
Assistant Floor Manager		Val McCrimmon
Incidental Music		Dudley Simpson
Special Sound		Dick Mills
Floor Assistant		Alison Barnett (uncredited)
Grams Operator		Andrew Hunter (uncredited)
Make-Up Assistant		Elizabeth Hardiment (uncredited)
Design Assistant		Carol Smith (uncredited)
Prop Buyer		Robert Fleming (uncredited)
Show Working Supervisor		Chick Hetherington (uncredited)
K9 Operator		Steve Cambden (uncredited)
Title Music		Ron Grainer (uncredited)
Title Music		BBC Radiophonic Workshop (uncredited)
Title Music Arranger		Delia Derbyshire (uncredited)
Title Sequence		Bernard Lodge (uncredited)

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