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First on BBC One, a little later than originally billed...

Overview

The Doctor visits his old Time Lord friend Chronotis in Cambridge, 1979. But the ruthless Skagra has also arrived to retrieve a book that will help unlock one of the Time Lords' greatest secrets: what is Shada? Filming for this story was never finished, and in this version the unfilmed material is completed via animation.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Tom Baker

    The Doctor

  2. Cast 1

    Lalla Ward

    Romana (voice)

  3. Cast 1

    David Brierly

    K9 (archive footage) (voice)

  4. Cast 1

    Christopher Neame

    Skagra (voice)

  5. Cast 1

    Daniel Hill

    Chris Parsons (voice)

  6. Denis Carey

    Professor Chronotis (archive footage)

  7. Cast 1

    Victoria Burgoyne

    Clare Keightley (voice)

  8. Cast 1

    Gerald Campion

    Wilkin (archive footage)

  9. Cast 1

    Shirley Dixon

    The Ship (voice)

I have a friend who was involved in the commissioning of these hybrid animation versions of the old missing or incomplete "Dr. Who" series' and I think my scepticism was probably borne out with this rather curiously spliced story. With industrial action hitting the production with a week's worth of filming still to do, the animators have tried to visualise the gaps whilst the "Doctor" (Tom Baker) and "Romana" (Lalla Ward) have returned to revoice the additional bits as the story takes us to the planet of "Shada". It's a prison that holds - well it used to hold - the devious "Skagra" (Christoph...

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