143c[1] – The Trial of a Time Lord: Terror of the Vervoids
Doctor Who serial
Cast
Doctor
Colin Baker – Sixth Doctor
Companion
Bonnie Langford – Mel Bush
Guest
Lynda Bellingham – The Inquisitor
Michael Jayston – The Valeyard
Honor Blackman – Professor Sarah Lasky
Malcolm Tierney – Doland
David Allister – Bruchner
Michael Craig – Commodore Travers
Denys Hawthorne – Rudge
Yolande Palfrey – Janet
Arthur Hewlett – Kimber
Sam Howard – Atza
Tony Scoggo – Grenville/Enzu
Leon Davis – Ortezo
Simon Slater – Edwardes
Barbara Ward – Mutant/Ruth Baxter
Peppi Borza – First Vervoid
Bob Appleby – Second Vervoid
Mike Mungarvan – Duty Officer
Hugh Beverton – Guard/First Guard
Martin Weedon – Second Guard
Production
Directed by
Chris Clough
Written by
Pip and Jane Baker
Script editor
John Nathan-Turner (uncredited)
Produced by
John Nathan-Turner
Music by
Malcolm Clarke
Production code
7C[2]
Series
Season 23
Running time
4 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast
1 November 1986 (1986-11-01)
Last broadcast
22 November 1986 (1986-11-22)
Chronology
← Preceded by The Trial of a Time Lord: Mindwarp
Followed by → The Trial of a Time Lord: The Ultimate Foe
List of episodes (1963–1989)
Terror of the Vervoids is the third serial of the larger narrative known as The Trial of a Time Lord which encompasses the whole of the 23rd season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 1 to 22 November 1986. The title Terror of the Vervoids is never used on screen and was first used in relation to these episodes for the 1987 novelisation, with the four episodes that comprise the season being referred to as The Trial of a Time Lord Parts Nine to Twelve. This serial is the first appearance of Bonnie Langford as the companion Mel Bush.
In the serial, the alien time traveller the Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker) is put on trial by his people, the Time Lords, and is accused of meddling in the affairs of other worlds. Much of the story consists of video testimony presented by the Doctor, his own defence, of his own future where the last of a race of plants called Vervoids on board a spaceliner in 2986 plot to wipe out all animal life on board for their own survival.
^From the Doctor Who Magazine series overview, in issue 407 (pp26-29). The Discontinuity Guide, which counts the unbroadcast serial Shada, lists this segment of The Trial of a Time Lord as an individual story, number 146. Region 1 DVD releases follow The Discontinuity Guide numbering system.
^Pixley, Andrew (1992). "Archive Feature Serial 7C The Ultimate Foe". Doctor Who Magazine (Winter Special 1992). London: Marvel UK: 43–49. ISSN 0957-9818.
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