Doctor Who Guide: The Armageddon Factor

Last updated 18 August 2023

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Part One

Series Episode Number: 500

World Premiere: Sat 20 Jan 1979 - 6:25pm GMT [BBC One] (United Kingdom)
First Broadcast: Sun 27 Sep 1981 - 11:00pm CDT [WTTW 11 Chicago]
Running Time: 24 minutes 39 seconds

7.50 Million (UK)

Appreciation Index: 65 (UK)

Chart Position: 93 () (UK)

Recorded on Sun 05 Nov 1978 in Television Centre 3

Looking for the final segment of the Key to Time, the Doctor and Romana arrive on the planet Atrios which is in a major nuclear war with the neighbouring world of Zeos.

Characters include uncredited
Doctor Who		Tom Baker
Romana		Mary Tamm
Marshal		John Woodvine
Princess Astra		Lalla Ward
Shapp		Davyd Harries
Merak		Ian Saynor
Voice of K-9		John Leeson
'Hero'		Ian Liston
'Heroine'		Susan Skipper
Guard		John Cannon

Production Team hide uncredited
Writer		Bob Baker
Writer		Dave Martin
Director		Michael Hayes
Producer		Graham Williams
Designer		Richard McManan-Smith
Script Editor		Anthony Read
Costume Designer		Michael Burdle
Make-up Artist		Ann Briggs
Visual Effects Designer		John Horton
Electronic Effects Operator		Dave Chapman
VT Editor		Rod Waldron
Studio Lighting		Mike Jefferies
Studio Sound		Richard Chubb
Production Assistant		Ann Aronsohn
Production Unit Manager		John Nathan-Turner
Incidental Music		Dudley Simpson
Special Sound		Dick Mills
Title Music		Ron Grainer (uncredited)
Assistant Floor Manager		Steve Goldie (uncredited)
Title Music Arranger		Delia Derbyshire (uncredited)
Title Sequence		Bernard Lodge (uncredited)
Title Music		BBC Radiophonic Workshop (uncredited)

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