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Part One

Series Episode Number: 576

World Premiere: Mon 22 Mar 1982 - 6:57pm GMT [BBC One: Not Wales] (United Kingdom)
First Broadcast: Sun 5 Jun 1983 - 11:00pm CDT [WTTW 11 Chicago]
Running Time: 24 minutes 56 seconds

10.00 Million (UK)


Chart Position: 26 () (UK)

Recorded on Mon 19 Jan 1981 in Television Centre 8



When a Speedbird Concorde disappears back through a crack in time, the Doctor takes another Concorde to follow its trail, unaware that a mysterious conjuror, Kalid, waits for him.


Characters hide uncredited
The DoctorPeter Davison
NyssaSarah Sutton
TeganJanet Fielding
Captain StapleyRichard Easton
Flight Engineeer ScobieKeith Drinkel
First Officer BiltonMichael Cashman
HortonPeter Dahlsen
SheardBrian McDermott
Captain UrquhartJohn Flint
AndrewsPeter Cellier
Angela CliffordJudith Byfield
KalidLeon Ny Taiy
American PassengerJack Horton (uncredited)
American PassengerJohn Dair (uncredited)
BusinessmanBrychan Powell (uncredited)
BusinessmanCharles Milward (uncredited)
BusinessmanEdward Fraser (uncredited)
BusinessmanJay Roberts (uncredited)
BusinessmanJim Morris (uncredited)
BusinessmanLeslie Adama (uncredited)
BusinessmanLeslie Weekes (uncredited)
BusinessmanRichard Atherton (uncredited)
BusinessmanSimon Joseph (uncredited)
Chief Terminal Duty OfficerRon Gregory (uncredited)
Female PassengerBerverly Jennings (uncredited)
Female PassengerHazel Cave (uncredited)
Female PassengerJackie Noble (uncredited)
Female PassengerLiz D'Estere (uncredited)
Female PassengerMaggie Pilleau (uncredited)
Flight CrewDavid Rogue (uncredited)
Flight CrewRichard Bonehill (uncredited)
PhotographerKevin O'Brian (uncredited)
Plane extraAlison McGuire (uncredited)
Plane extraClark Stephens (uncredited)
Plane extraDan Long (uncredited)
Plane extraGeorge Romanov (uncredited)
Plane extraJane Bough (uncredited)
Plane extraLionel Sansby (uncredited)
Plane extraPaul Heasman (uncredited)
Plane extraTony Snell (uncredited)
PlasmatonChris Holmes (uncredited)
PlasmatonGiles Melville (uncredited)
PlasmatonGraham Jarvis (uncredited)
PlasmatonMartin Grant (uncredited)
PlasmatonSteve Fideli (uncredited)
PolicemanJames Muir (uncredited)
PolicemanPat Gorman (uncredited)
Security ManJohn Cannon (uncredited)
Security ManReg Woods (uncredited)
Security ManRidgewell Hawkes (uncredited)
Security ManSteve Ismay (uncredited)
Security ManTommy Winward (uncredited)
StewardBarney Laurence (uncredited)
SupervisorDouglas Stark (uncredited)
SupervisorKen Sedd (uncredited)