Doctor Who Guide: The Celestial Toymaker

Last updated 16 June 2024

The Dancing Floor

Series Episode Number: 113

World Premiere: Sat 16 Apr 1966 - 5:49pm BST [BBC One] (United Kingdom)
Running Time: 24 minutes 10 seconds

Appreciation Index: 44 (UK)

Chart Position: 32 () (UK)

Recorded on Fri 01 Apr 1966 in Riverside 1
Archive State: Missing

The Doctor is taunted by the Toymaker as he plays the Trilogic game, and Steven and Dodo play hunt the thimble in a bid to recover the TARDIS key.

Characters include uncredited
Dr. Who		William Hartnell (credit only)
Steven Taylor		Peter Purves
Dodo		Jackie Lane
Toymaker		Michael Gough
Sergeant Rugg		Campbell Singer
Mrs Wiggs		Carmen Silvera
Kitchen Boy/Cyril		Peter Stephens
Dancer		Beryl Braham
Dancer		Ann Harrison
Dancer		Delia Lindon

Production Team hide uncredited
Writer		Brian Hayles
Writer		Donald Tosh (uncredited)
Writer		Gerry Davis (uncredited)
Director		Bill Sellars
Producer		Innes Lloyd
Designer		John Wood
Story Editor		Gerry Davis
Incidental Music		Dudley Simpson
Title Music		Ron Grainer
with the		BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Costumes		Daphne Dare (uncredited)
Make-up		Sonia Markham (uncredited)
Make-Up Assistant		Sylvia James (uncredited)
Special Sound		Brian Hodgson (uncredited)
Lighting		Frank Cresswell (uncredited)
Sound		Alan Fogg (uncredited)
Choreographer		Tutte Lemkow (uncredited)
Assistant Floor Manager		Elisabeth Dunbar (uncredited)
Production Assistant		N (Snowy) Lidiard-White (uncredited)
Title Music Arranger		Delia Derbyshire (uncredited)
Title Sequence		Bernard Lodge (uncredited)