Doctor Who Guide: The Caves of Androzani

Last updated 24 March 2024

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Part Four

Series Episode Number: 622

World Premiere: Fri 16 Mar 1984 - 6:41pm GMT [BBC One] (United Kingdom)
First Broadcast: Fri 22 May 2015 - 8:30pm EDT [Retro TV]
Running Time: 25 minutes 37 seconds

7.80 Million (UK)

Appreciation Index: 68 (UK)

Chart Position: 62 () (UK)

Morgus is ruined and Jek goes on a murderous rampage. Back in the TARDIS, the 'dying' Doctor manages to cure Peri's spectrox toxaemia and then regenerates...

Characters include uncredited
The Doctor		Colin Baker
The Doctor		Peter Davison
Peri		Nicola Bryant
Sharaz Jek		Christopher Gable
Morgus		John Normington
Salateen		Robert Glenister
Stotz		Maurice Roëves
Krelper		Roy Holder
General Chellak		Martin Cochrane
Timmin		Barbara Kinghorn
Soldier		Ian Staples
The Master		Anthony Ainley
Adric		Matthew Waterhouse
Nyssa		Sarah Sutton
Tegan		Janet Fielding
Turlough		Mark Strickson
Voice of Kamelion		Gerald Flood

Production Team include uncredited
Writer		Robert Holmes
Director		Graeme Harper
Producer		John Nathan-Turner
Designer		John Hurst
Script Editor		Eric Saward
Title Sequence		Sid Sutton
Costume Designer		Andrew Rose
Make-up Designer		John Nethercot
Make-up Designer		Shirley Stallard
Studio Lighting		Don Babbage
Studio Sound		Scott Talbott
Technical Co-ordinator		Alan Arbuthnott
Camera Supervisor		Alec Wheal
Videotape Editor		Steve Newnham
Visual Effects Designer		Jim Francis
Visual Effects Designer		Stuart Brisdon
Video Effects		Dave Chapman
Vision Mixer		Diana Long
Design Effects		John Peyre
Film Cameraman		John Walker
Film Sound		Malcolm Campbell
Film Editor		Roger Guertin
Production Manager		Elizabeth Trubridge
Production Manager		Corinne Hollingworth
Production Unit Manager		June Collins
Production Assistant		Juley Harding
Assistant Floor Manager		Sue Hedden
Title Music		Ron Grainer
Incidental Music		Roger Limb
Special Sound		Dick Mills
Sound/Music		BBC Radiophonic Workshop

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