Two of the Sensorites as they appear in the serial. Critics praised their design and characterisation.[1][2][3]
Cast
Doctor
William Hartnell – First Doctor
Companions
William Russell – Ian Chesterton
Jacqueline Hill – Barbara Wright
Carole Ann Ford – Susan Foreman
Guest
Stephen Dartnell – John
Ilona Rodgers – Carol
Lorne Cossette – Maitland
John Bailey – Commander
Martyn Huntley – First Human
Giles Phibbs – Second Human
Ken Tyllsen – First Sensorite/First Scientist
Joe Greig – Second Sensorite/Second Scientist/Warrior
Peter Glaze – Third Sensorite/City Administrator
Arthur Newall – Fourth Sensorite
Eric Francis – First Elder
Bartlett Mullins – Second Elder
Anthony Rogers, Gerry Martin – Sensorites
Production
Directed by
Mervyn Pinfield (1–4)
Frank Cox (5–6)
Written by
Peter R. Newman
Script editor
David Whitaker
Produced by
Verity Lambert
Music by
Norman Kay
Production code
G
Series
Season 1
Running time
6 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast
20 June 1964 (1964-06-20)
Last broadcast
1 August 1964 (1964-08-01)
Chronology
← Preceded by The Aztecs
Followed by → The Reign of Terror
List of episodes (1963–1989)
The Sensorites is the seventh serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Written by Peter R. Newman and directed by Mervyn Pinfield and Frank Cox, the serial was first broadcast on BBC1 in six weekly parts from 20 June to 1 August 1964. In the serial, the First Doctor (William Hartnell), his granddaughter Susan Foreman (Carole Ann Ford), and her teachers Ian Chesterton (William Russell) and Barbara Wright (Jacqueline Hill) visit a planet known as the Sense-Sphere to find the cure to a disease afflicting the alien race the Sensorites.
Newman's story for the serial was inspired by 1950s films set during World War II, exploring the notion of soldiers who continued to fight after the war. Pinfield was chosen to direct the first four episodes due to his directing style, while Cox directed the final two episodes. Designer Raymond Cusick avoided the use of right angles in his set designs, recalling Antoni Gaudí's work on the Sagrada Família. The serial premiered with 7.9 million viewers but failed to maintain these figures due to the holiday sports season. Retrospective response for the serial was generally positive, and it later received several print adaptations and home media releases.
^Muir 1999, pp. 91–92.
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believe that the humans can help with the disease that is currently killing many Sensorites. When their first plot is foiled by other Sensorites, they continue...
Barry, and Frank Cox; the exception is experienced director Mervyn Pinfield, who directed the first four episodes of TheSensorites. Filming started in...
that of theSensorites from the First Doctor serial TheSensorites (1964), as he suggests the races are similar in some respects. In "Planet of the Ood"...
the Doctor Who serial TheSensorites (1964); and in The Sweeney episode "Big Spender" (1975) as Joe Spratt. Glaze also played the actor supplying the...
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Susan's War depicting her service in the War. She helps the Time Lords form an alliance with theSensorites to gain the aid of their telepathic circuits-...
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TheSensorites, and would later appear in The Horns of Nimon. According to the short BBC Video documentary The Dalek Factor about the making of the story...
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box-set containing the final three complete Hartnell-era serials to be released in this format (the others being TheSensorites and The Time Meddler) in...
of episode 6 of TheSensorites on 25 November 1966). As a result of these episode recoveries only two episodes (parts 4 and 5, "The Tyrant of France"...
War. When Susan is recruited for the Time War and given a diplomatic mission to form an alliance with theSensorites, she requests Ian's help as an ambassador...
episodes one to four of TheSensorites, all four episodes of The Space Museum and episodes one and two of Planet of Giants for the series, and worked as...
produced by the BBC since 1963. Hundreds of novelisations of the series have been published by various publishers, the majority based on the original 1963–1989...
a mineralogist who has been driven to mania, in TheSensorites. Dartnell also made appearances in the 1960 feature films Circle of Deception and Oscar...
orange sky at night in the serial TheSensorites (1964). This casts an amber tint on anything outside the city, as seen in The Invasion of Time. However...
criminals, the mugshots he is seen accessing include a Sensorite (from the 1964 serial TheSensorites), a Terileptil (from the 1982 serial The Visitation)...
to the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Launched in 1979 as Doctor Who Weekly, the magazine became a monthly publication the following...
spin offs from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who produced by Big Finish Productions. These are the season and episode...
Terror of the Zygons, was produced by the RNIB in 1978 and was available only to the registered blind through the RNIB and libraries. The first audiobook...
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