Doctor Who Guide: The Space Pirates

Last updated 24 March 2024

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Episode One

Series Episode Number: 238

World Premiere: Sat 8 Mar 1969 - 5:15pm BST [BBC One] (United Kingdom)
Running Time: 24 minutes 11 seconds

5.80 Million (UK)

Appreciation Index: 57 (UK)

Chart Position: 96 () (UK)

Recorded on Fri 21 Feb 1969 in Lime Grove D
Archive State: Missing

The TARDIS arrives on a space beacon in the far future. Mistaken for pirates, the travellers are attacked by Space Corps soldiers. Then the real space pirates arrive.

Characters include uncredited
Dr. Who		Patrick Troughton
Caven		Dudley Foster
General Hermack		Jack May
Major Ian Warne		Donald Gee
Technician Penn		George Layton
Lt. Sorba		Nik Zaran
Space Guard		Anthony Donovan
Jamie		Frazer Hines
Zoe		Wendy Padbury

Production Team hide uncredited
Writer		Robert Holmes
Director		Michael Hart
Producer		Peter Bryant
Designer		Ian Watson
Script Editor		Derrick Sherwin
Title Music		Ron Grainer
and the		BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Incidental Music		Dudley Simpson
Costumes		Nicholas Bullen (uncredited)
Make-up		Sylvia James (uncredited)
Lighting		Peter Winn (uncredited)
Sound		David Hughes (uncredited)
Visual Effects Designer		John Wood (uncredited)
Film Cameraman		Peter Hall (uncredited)
Film Editor		Martyn Day (uncredited)
Assistant Floor Manager		Liam Foster (uncredited)
Special Sound		Brian Hodgson (uncredited)
Floor Assistant		John Turner (uncredited)
Production Assistant		Noel Snowy (uncredited)
Title Music Arranger		Delia Derbyshire (uncredited)
Title Sequence		Bernard Lodge (uncredited)

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