Doctor Who Guide: The Ark

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The Return

Series Episode Number: 109

World Premiere: Sat 19 Mar 1966 - 5:15pm GMT [BBC One] (United Kingdom)
First Broadcast: Thu 11 Sep 2014 - 8:00pm EDT [Retro TV]
Running Time: 24 minutes 19 seconds

6.20 Million (UK)

Appreciation Index: 51 (UK)

Chart Position: 85 () (UK)

Recorded on Fri 04 Mar 0196 in Riverside 1
Archive State: 16mm t/r

When the TARDIS returns to the Ark at the end of its centuries long voyage, the travellers discover that the humans have been enslaved by their former servants, the Monoids.

Characters hide uncredited
Dr. Who		William Hartnell
Dodo		Jackie Lane
Steven Taylor		Peter Purves
Maharis		Terence Woodfield
Monoid Two		Ralph Carrigan
Yendom		Terence Bayler
Monoid One		Edmund Coulter
Dassuk		Brian Wright
Venussa		Eileen Helsby
Monoid Three		Frank George
Monoid Voices		Roy Skelton
Monoid Voices		John Halstead
Refusian Voice		Richard Beale
Monoid		Eric Blackburn (uncredited)
Monoid		Chris Webb (uncredited)
Monoid		Raymond Byrom (uncredited)
Monoid		Bernard Barnsley (uncredited)
Monoid		Denis Marlow (uncredited)
Slave Guardian		John Moycs (uncredited)
Slave Guardian		Paul Linley (uncredited)
Slave Guardian		Royston Farrell (uncredited)
Slave Guardian		Victor Munt (uncredited)
Slave Guardian		Alan Norburn (uncredited)
Slave Guardian		Michael Osborne (uncredited)
Slave Guardian		Sara Negus (uncredited)
Slave Guardian		Andrea Beddows (uncredited)
Slave Guardian		Rosemary Chalmers (uncredited)
Slave Guardian		Gloria Williams (uncredited)
Slave Guardian		Rosemary Lord (uncredited)
Slave Guardian		Deryn Fisher (uncredited)

Production Team include uncredited
Writer		Paul Erickson
Writer		Lesley Scott
Director		Michael Imison
Producer		John Wiles
Designer		Barry Newbery
Incidental Music		Tristram Cary
Story Editor		Gerry Davis
Title Music		Ron Grainer
and the		BBC Radiophonic Workshop

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