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151[1]The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Doctor Who serial
Cast
Doctor
  • Sylvester McCoy – Seventh Doctor
Companion
  • Sophie Aldred – Ace
Others
  • T. P. McKenna – Captain Cook
  • Jessica Martin – Mags
  • Ricco Ross – Ringmaster
  • Ian Reddington – Chief Clown
  • Peggy Mount – Stallslady
  • Gian Sammarco – Whizz Kid
  • Daniel Peacock – Nord
  • Christopher Guard – Bellboy
  • Deborah Manship – Morgana
  • Chris Jury – Deadbeat
  • Dee Sadler – Flowerchild
  • Dean Hollingsworth – Bus Conductor
  • David Ashford – Dad
  • Janet Hargreaves – Mum
  • Kathryn Ludlow – Little Girl
Production
Directed byAlan Wareing
Written byStephen Wyatt
Script editorAndrew Cartmel
Produced byJohn Nathan-Turner
Executive producer(s)None
Music byMark Ayres
Production code7J
SeriesSeason 25
Running time4 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast14 December 1988 (1988-12-14)
Last broadcast4 January 1989 (1989-01-04)
Chronology
← Preceded by
Silver Nemesis
Followed by →
Battlefield
List of Doctor Who episodes (1963–1989)

The Greatest Show in the Galaxy is the fourth and final serial of the 25th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 14 December 1988 to 4 January 1989.

The serial is set on the planet Segonax. In the serial, visitors to the Psychic Circus are forced to put on acts for the amusement of their evil hosts.

  1. ^ From the Doctor Who Magazine series overview, in issue 407 (pp26-29). The Discontinuity Guide, which counts the four segments of The Trial of a Time Lord as four separate stories and also counts the unbroadcast serial Shada, lists this story as number 155. Region 1 DVD releases follow The Discontinuity Guide numbering system.

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