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Episode 1

Series Episode Number: 265

World Premiere: Sat 21 Mar 1970 - 5:16pm BST [BBC One] (United Kingdom)
First Broadcast: Mon 13 Oct 1975 - 6:30pm CDT [WTTW 11 Chicago]
Running Time: 24 minutes 33 seconds

7.10 Million (UK)

Appreciation Index: 60 (UK)

Chart Position: 60 () (UK)

Recorded on Fri 13 Feb 1970 in Television Centre 3
Archive State: PAL 2 VT

Contact has been lost with Mars Probe 7. When contact is also lost with the recovery ship, UNIT is called in and the Doctor learns that someone is sending messages to the vessel.

Characters include uncredited
Doctor Who		Jon Pertwee
Liz Shaw		Caroline John
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart		Nicholas Courtney
Ralph Cornish		Ronald Allen
Taltalian		Robert Cawdron
Carrington		John Abineri
Van Lyden		Ric Felgate
John Wakefield		Michael Wisher
Miss Rutherford		Cheryl Molineaux
Grey		Ray Armstrong
Collinson		Robert Robertson

Production Team hide uncredited
Writer		David Whitaker
Writer		Trevor Ray (uncredited)
Writer		Malcolm Hulke (uncredited)
Writer		Terrance Dicks (uncredited)
Director		Michael Ferguson
Producer		Barry Letts
Designer		David Myerscough-Jones
Script Editor		Terrance Dicks
Special Sound		Brian Hodgson (uncredited)
Special Sound		BBC Radiophonic Workshop (uncredited)
Costumes		Christine Rawlins
Make-up		Marion Richards
Action by		HAVOC
Visual Effects Designer		Peter Day
Film Cameraman		A A Englander
Film Editor		Don Godden
Incidental Music		Dudley Simpson
Title Music		Ron Grainer
and		BBC Radiophonic Workshop (uncredited)
Studio Lighting		Geoff Shaw (uncredited)
Studio Sound		Gordon Mackie (uncredited)
Technical Manager		Bernard Fox (uncredited)
Vision Mixer		John Barclay (uncredited)
Grams Operator		Andy Stacey (uncredited)
Inlay Operator		Alan Gomery (uncredited)
Production Assistant		Nicholas John (uncredited)
Assistant Floor Manager		Margot Hayhoe (uncredited)
Floor Assistant		John Turner (uncredited)
Assistant		Pauline Silcock (uncredited)
Location Make-Up		Teresa Wright (uncredited)
Film Sound		Doug Mawson (uncredited)
Assistant Sound Recordist		Mervin Broadway (uncredited)
Film Camera Assistant		Roger Twyman (uncredited)
Film Camera Assistant		Nigel Walters (uncredited)
Videotape Editor		Jeff Higgs (uncredited)
Videotape Editor		Ron Bowman (uncredited)
Design Assistant		Dick Coles (uncredited)
Production Secretary		Sandra Brenholz (uncredited)
Director's Assistant		Kate Nemet (uncredited)
Artist Booking		Barbara Buchanan (uncredited)
Dresser		Arthur Funge (uncredited)
Dresser		Jean Holder (uncredited)
Title Music Arranger		Delia Derbyshire (uncredited)
Title Sequence		Bernard Lodge (uncredited)

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