This article is about a television series. For the deity of Meitei mythology, see Maker of the Sun.
1977 Doctor Who serial
095 – The Sun Makers
Doctor Who serial
Cast
Doctor
Tom Baker – Fourth Doctor
Companions
Louise Jameson – Leela
John Leeson (Voice of K9)
Guest
Henry Woolf – The Collector
Richard Leech – Gatherer Hade
Jonina Scott – Marn
Roy Macready – Cordo
David Rowlands – Bisham
William Simons – Mandrel
Adrienne Burgess – Veet
Michael Keating – Goudry
Carole Hopkin – Nurse
Derek Crewe – Synge
Colin McCormack – Commander
Tom Kelly – Guard
Production
Directed by
Pennant Roberts
Written by
Robert Holmes
Script editor
Robert Holmes and Anthony Read (both uncredited)
Produced by
Graham Williams
Executive producer(s)
None
Music by
Dudley Simpson
Production code
4W
Series
Season 15
Running time
4 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast
26 November – 17 December 1977
Chronology
← Preceded by Image of the Fendahl
Followed by → Underworld
List of episodes (1963–1989)
The Sun Makers is the fourth serial of the 15th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 26 November to 17 December 1977.
The serial is set on Pluto. In the serial, the alien time traveller the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) and his travelling companions Leela (Louise Jameson) and K9 (John Leeson) start a revolution among the humans against an alien corporation which has an economic hold over humanity.
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Hinchcliffe's production, whilst Robert Holmes stayed till TheSunMakers in the next series. Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith...
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subsequently take up the role solely for the next story in production order Underworld (the following transmitted story TheSunMakers having been recorded...
TheSunMakers. He married twice, with Helen Hyslop Uttley and Diane Pearson, and had two children: Sarah-Jane McClelland and Eliza McClelland. The Temptress...
the UK. Her acting credits include: Doctor Who (in the serial TheSunMakers), Blake's 7, Terry and June, Just Good Friends, Dickens of London, The Bill...
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confused writer Mark Gatiss by asking if the episode would be linked to 1977's TheSunMakers, as both were set in the 38th century.[citation needed] On 21...