Doctor Who Guide: The Mark of the Rani

Last updated 30 December 2020

Part One

Series Episode Number: 631

World Premiere: Sat 2 Feb 1985 - 5:21pm GMT [BBC One] (United Kingdom)
First Broadcast: Sun 6 Apr 1986 - 11:00pm CST [WTTW 11 Chicago]
Running Time: 45 minutes 1 seconds

6.30 Million (UK)

Appreciation Index: 64 (UK)

Chart Position: 111 () (UK)

BBC Genome Project: see entry

People cannot sleep in the town of Killingworth and the Doctor realises it is the work of a renegade Time Lord, the Rani, who has teamed up with the Master to cause chaos

Characters include uncredited
The Doctor		Colin Baker
Peri		Nicola Bryant
The Master		Anthony Ainley
The Rani		Kate O'Mara
Lord Ravensworth		Terence Alexander
Jack Ward		Peter Childs
Luke Ward		Gary Cady
Guard		Richard Steele
Tim Bass		William Ilkley
Edwin Green		Hus Levent
Sam Rudge		Kevin White
Drayman		Martyn Whitby
Young Woman		Sarah James
Older Woman		Cordelia Ditton

Production Team include uncredited
Writer		Pip Baker
Writer		Jane Baker
Director		Sarah Hellings
Producer		John Nathan-Turner
Designer		Paul Trerise
Script Editor		Eric Saward
Title Sequence		Sid Sutton
Costume Designer		Dinah Collin
Make-up Designer		Catherine Davies
Lighting Director		Don Babbage
Studio Sound		Keith Bowden
Technical Coordinator		Alan Arbuthnott
Camera Supervisor		Alec Wheal
Videotape Editor		Hugh Parson
Visual Effects Designer		David Barton
Video Effects		Dave Chapman
Vision Mixer		Jayne Beckett
Production Manager		Tony Redston
Production Associate		Sue Anstruther
Production Assistant		Carolyn Mawdsley
Assistant Floor Manager		Penny Williams
Film Cameraman		Kevin Rowley
Film Sound		Barrie Tharby
Film Editor		Ray Wingrove
Title Music		Ron Grainer
Incidental Music		Jonathan Gibbs
Special Sound		Dick Mills
Special Sound		BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Acknowlegment		Ironbridge Gorge Museum

«« Part One Part Two »»

Vengeance on Varos

The Two Doctors