BBCDVD 2851C Doctor Who - The horns of Nimon by Anthony Read


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Catalogue numberBBCDVD 2851C
TitleDoctor Who - The horns of Nimon
Artist(s)Anthony Read
Cover conditionNear mint
Record conditionNear mint
BBC records label code-
Item deleted?No
Released1979
Distributed / printed by2 entertain
Country of originUK UK flag
Media typePrimary
Media genreDramas - Sci-fi
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Run-off codes / Shop bar codesA0101528784-A911 136 IFPI L556 Sony DADC
My rating*****
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Side & trackTrack and ArtistLength
A1Part 125.41
A2Part 225.00
A3Part 323.26
A4Part 426.45
A5Who Peter - Partners in time 1963-198929.57
A6Read the writer - Anthony Reed6.29
A7Peter Howell - Music demos (from part 2)2.58
A8Photo gallery7.53
A9Radio Times listings [PDF]
A10Coming soon - The creature from the pit0.41
Total length of media 2:28:50.

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Starring


Tom Baker (Fourth Doctor)
Lalla Ward (Romana)
David Brierley (Voice of K-9 Mk. II)
Graham Crowden - Soldeed
Michael Osborne - Sorak
Malcolm Terris - Co-Pilot
Bob Hornery - Pilot
Simon Gipps-Kent - Seth
Janet Ellis - Teka
John Bailey - Sezom
Robin Sherringham, Bob Appleby, Trevor St John Hacker - Nimons
Clifford Norgate - Voice of the Nimon

Written by


Anthony Read

Produced by


Graham Williams

Directed by


Kenny McBain

Synopsis


When the TARDIS collides with a spaceship en route to the planet Skonnos, the Doctor, Romana and K9 soon uncover the horrific truth about its cargo. The ship is carrying young sacrifices for a powerful, horned creature called the Nimon.

But why is the creature so desperate for the delivery, and what other dangers await the time travellers? All will be revealed at the centre of the labyrinthine Power Complex on Skonnos ...

Background


The Horns of Nimon brought the seventeenth season of Doctor Who to an untimely end. The planned and part-filmed finale was never shown when industrial action at the BBC interrupted studio recording and left Shada, the incomplete story, to itself become the stuff of myths and legends.

Shown over Christmas 1979, the studio-bound The Horns of Nimon is inspired by the Greek legend about a young boy named Theseus and a part-bull, part-man creature called the Minotaur - but with a science-fiction twist. It is definitely an unsubtle homage to a famous legend, but no attempt is ever made to hide this fact. Characters and names are deliberately similar, the Nimon can be found in a labyrinth, and the Doctor even refers to the legend within the story.

The Horns of Nimon has many 'lasts' associated with it. It is producer Graham William's last Doctor Who story and also the final script that Douglas Adams script-edited. David Brierly gets his last credit as the robot dog K9's voice (John Leeson returned in the next series). It is the last time viewers get to see the iconic time-tunnel title sequence and hear Delia Derbyshire's version of the theme tune. Composer Dudley Simpson, who had worked on the series since 1964, composed his last score for these episodes, too.

This is also the end of Doctor Who in the 1970s. When the series returned under new producer John Nathan-Turner in August 1980, the style, tone and production values looked dramatically different ...
 

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[dvds]BBCDVD 2851Doctor Who - Myths and Legends

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