Season 22, Episode 4 | 3 parts | First broadcast: 16 February – 2 March 1985 | Writer: Robert Holmes | Director: Peter Moffatt
Cast
- Colin Baker as the Doctor
- Nicola Bryant as Peri Brown
- Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor
- Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon
- John Stratton as Shockeye
Summary
The Doctor is drawn into a dangerous mystery when he discovers that a past incarnation of himself, the Second Doctor, has been kidnapped alongside his companion Jamie by the sinister Time Lord agency the Sontarans are colluding with. Investigating on Earth and the space station Camera, the two Doctors must team up to stop the monstrous gourmet Shockeye and his associates from using time travel technology to unleash a horrific culinary experiment upon the galaxy.
Interesting Facts
- This story reunites Patrick Troughton’s Second Doctor and Frazer Hines’s Jamie with Colin Baker’s Sixth Doctor, one of several multi-Doctor specials produced during the classic series.
- It was filmed partly on location in Seville, Spain, making it one of the few classic series stories to shoot outside the United Kingdom.
- Writer Robert Holmes originally conceived a much bleaker ending, though the broadcast version retains a notably dark thread involving cannibalism as a plot device.
- The story’s violence, including a graphic throat-cutting scene, drew criticism from moral campaigner Mary Whitehouse and contributed to wider scrutiny of the show’s content at the time.
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