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Writer: Terry Nation
Director: John Gorrie
Script Editor: David Whitaker
Producer: Verity Lambert, Mervyn Pinfield (associate producer)
Executive Producer(s): None
Originally Broadcast: 1th April - 16th May 1964
Writer: Terry Nation
Director: John Gorrie
Script Editor: David Whitaker
Producer: Verity Lambert, Mervyn Pinfield (associate producer)
Executive Producer(s): None
Originally Broadcast: 1th April - 16th May 1964
Episodes: 6
Duration: 25 mins each episode
Production Code: E
Series: 1
Story Number: 5
Enemy: Voords
Setting: Marinus (year unknown)
Synopsis
The planet Marinus is under threat from the evil Voords. The only hope of stopping them is to recover the keys to a machine known as the Conscience of Marinus, which have been hidden around the planet.
The First Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara are forced to search for the keys, transported round the planet by the elderly Arbitan, Keeper of the Conscience. On their travels they face numerous dangers, eventually recovering all the keys. However, Arbitan has been killed by the evil Yartek, leader of the Voords. Ian fools him by giving him a fake key, and the machine explodes, killing Yartek and putting an end to the Voord threat.
Duration: 25 mins each episode
Production Code: E
Series: 1
Story Number: 5
Enemy: Voords
Setting: Marinus (year unknown)
Synopsis
The planet Marinus is under threat from the evil Voords. The only hope of stopping them is to recover the keys to a machine known as the Conscience of Marinus, which have been hidden around the planet.
The First Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara are forced to search for the keys, transported round the planet by the elderly Arbitan, Keeper of the Conscience. On their travels they face numerous dangers, eventually recovering all the keys. However, Arbitan has been killed by the evil Yartek, leader of the Voords. Ian fools him by giving him a fake key, and the machine explodes, killing Yartek and putting an end to the Voord threat.
Cast
William Hartnell - The Doctor
Companions Carole Ann Ford - Susan Foreman
Jacqueline Hill - Barbara Wright
William Russell - Ian Chesterton
George Coulouris - Arbitan
Martin Cort - Voord / Warrior / Ice Soldier / Aydan
Peter Stenson - Voord / Ice Soldier / Second Judge
Gordon Wales - Voord
Robin Phillips - Altos
Katherine Schofield - Sabetha
Heron Carvic - Voice of Morpho
Edmund Warwick - Darrius
Francis de Wolff - Vasor
Michael Allaby - Ice Soldier / Larn
Alan James - Ice Soldier / First Judge / Guard
Anthony Verner - Ice Soldier
Henley Thomas - Tarron
Raf de la Torre - Senior Judge
Fiona Walker - Kala
Donald Pickering - Eyesen
Stephen Dartnell - Yartek
Dougie Dean - Eprin
Story Notes
- All episodes exist as 16mm telerecordings.
- Negative film prints of all episodes were recovered from BBC Enterprises in 1978.
- An Arabic print of "The Sea of Death" is held by the BBC.
- Terry Nation wrote this story as a replacement to The Red Fort, a story that was to be set during the Indian Mutiny.
- William Hartnell does not appear in The Screaming Jungle or The Snows of Terror as the actor was on holiday during the filming of these episodes.
- This story contains a controversial scene in which it appears that Vasor attempts to rape Barbara.
- Darrius is never referred to by name but his name appears in the show's credits.
- Stephen Dartnell was cast as Yartek, the Voord leader. A few weeks later, he appeared in The Sensorites as the troubled astronaut John.
- Initially it was hoped that the Voords would catch on with young viewers in the same way the Daleks had inspired Dalekmania, with toys, books, and other merchandise. This, however, did not come to pass.
- This is the first story to feature a model TARDIS materialisation.
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