Peter Stephens – Cyril / Knave of Hearts / Kitchen Boy
Campbell Singer – Joey / King of Hearts / Sergeant Rugg
Carmen Silvera – Clara / Queen of Hearts / Mrs Wiggs
Reg Lever – Joker
Beryl Braham, Ann Harrison, Delia Lindon – Dancers
Production
Directed by
Bill Sellars
Written by
Brian Hayles Donald Tosh (uncredited)
Script editor
Gerry Davis
Produced by
Innes Lloyd
Executive producer(s)
None
Music by
Dudley Simpson
Production code
Y
Series
Season 3
Running time
4 episodes, 25 minutes each
Episode(s) missing
3 episodes (1–3)
First broadcast
2 April 1966 (1966-04-02)
Last broadcast
23 April 1966 (1966-04-23)
Chronology
← Preceded by The Ark
Followed by → The Gunfighters
List of Doctor Who episodes (1963–1989)
The Celestial Toymaker is the mostly missing seventh serial of the third season in the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 2 to 23 April 1966.
In this serial, the alien time traveller the First Doctor (William Hartnell) and his travelling companions Steven Taylor (Peter Purves) and Dodo Chaplet (Jackie Lane) are pitted against a powerful adversary called The Toymaker (Michael Gough). The Toymaker separates the Doctor from his companions to play the Trilogic Game, while Steven and Dodo are forced to win a series of seemingly childish but deadly games before they can be reunited with the Doctor and return to the TARDIS.
Only the last episode of this story, "The Final Test", is held in the BBC archives; the other three remain missing. "The Final Test" has been released on VHS and DVD, and the story has been novelised. A fully animated version was released on DVD and Blu-Ray in 2024.
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