BBCDVD 2614A Doctor Who - Frontier in space by Malcolm Hulke


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Catalogue numberBBCDVD 2614A
TitleDoctor Who - Frontier in space
Artist(s)Malcolm Hulke
Cover conditionNear mint
Record conditionNear mint
BBC records label code-
Item deleted?No
Released1973
Distributed / printed by2 entertain
Country of originUK UK flag
Media typePrimary
Media genreDramas - Sci-fi
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Run-off codes / Shop bar codesA0101378337-A912 04 IFPI L556 Sony DADC
A0101378338-B922 04 IFPI L556 Sony DADC
My rating*****
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Tracks

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Side & trackTrack and ArtistLength
A1Part 123.27
A2Part 224.10
A3Part 324.00
A4Part 423.35
A5Part 523.57
A6Part 624.44
The perfect scenario
B1 Lost frontiers30.04
B2The space war17.58
Roger Delgado
B3 The Master31.46
Stripped for action
B4 The Third Doctor16.06
B5Photo gallery6.10
B6Radio Times billings [PDF]
B7BBC Enterprises sales literature [PDF]
B8Coming soon - The King's demons / Planet of fire1.17
Total length of media 4:07:14.

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Starring


Jon Pertwee (Third Doctor)
Katy Manning (Jo Grant)
Roger Delgado - The Master
Vera Fusek - President
Michael Hawkins - General Williams
Ramsay Williams - Congressman Brook
John Woodnutt - Draconian Emperor
Peter Birrel - Draconian Prince
Lawrence Davidson - Draconian First Secretary
Roy Pattison - Draconian Space Pilot
Bill Wilde - Draconian Captain
Ian Frost - Draconian Messenger
Ray Lonnen - Gardiner
Barry Ashton - Kemp
John Rees - Hardy
James Culliford - Stewart
Harold Goldblatt - Professor Dale
Dennis Bowen - Prison Governor
Madhav Sharma - Patel
Richard Shaw - Cross
Luan Peters - Sheila
Louis Mahoney, Bill Mitchell - Newscasters
Karol Hagar - Secretary
Timothy Craven - Cell Guard
Laurence Harrington - Lunar Guard
Clifford Elkin - Earth Cruiser Captain
Stanley Price - Pilot of Space Ship
Caroline Hunt - Technician
Rick Lester, Michael Kilgarriff, Stephen Thorne - Ogrons
Michael Wisher - Dalek Voice
John Scott Martin, Murphy Grumbar, Cy Town - Daleks

Written by


Malcolm Hulke

Produced by


Barry Letts

Directed by


Paul Bernard

Synopsis


It is the year 2450, and a fragile peace exists between the great empires of Earth and Draconia. The TARDIS materialises aboard an Earth cargo ship which comes under attack. Arrested and accused of espionage, the Doctor is sentenced to life imprisonment on the Moon, but salvation arrives in an unexpected form ... Can the Doctor and Jo stop the Master's plans to provoke a galactic war and reveal the deadly enemy waiting for the chance to destroy both empires?

Background


Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks had made grand plans for the tenth anniversary season of Doctor Who. Not only would it feature the reappearance of William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton alongside Jon Pertwee in The Three Doctors, but there would also be an epic 12-part story to rival The Daleks' Master Plan (1965/5).

In the event, two linked six part stories were commissioned. Frontier in Space, the first of these stories, is an ambitious project realised through extensive model work, careful scripting, inventive use of locations and impressive design. It presents a future permeated with 1970s Cold War sensibilities, bleak, unfriendly and distrustful, where two galactic empires teeter on the brink of war. But this future is far from black and white. As in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970) and The Sea Devils (1972), Malcolm Hulke portrays two morally ambiguous adversaries and highlights the fear and latent aggression on both sides as they are manipulated by a third party.

Perhaps unexpectedly, it is the presence of the Master that brings humour and lightness to the story. Roger Delgado's performance is beguiling, playfully master minding the escalation of tension and relishing being in control. Given that this was Delgado's last appearance as the Master before his untimely death, it is all the more tragic that his final moments on screen are edited to a rather hasty and unsatisfactory conclusion.

Conceived with great ambition, Frontier in Space is somewhat compromised in its climax by the need to dovetail into Planet of the Daleks, but remains a first-class space opera realised on a grand scale.

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