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Doctor Who: Meglos
Starring: Tom Baker , Lalla Ward
Directed by: Terence Dudley
Produced by: John Nathan-Turner
Written by: John Flanagan
The Dodecahedron, a mysterious artifact that provides Tigella's energy, leads the Savants and Deons to a crippling stalemate. Tigellan leader Zastor seeks the Doctor's (Tom Baker) help, but the Doctor and Romana (Lalla Ward) are trapped by Meglos, who will stop at nothing to steal the Dodecahedron. Digitally remastered picture and sound. Many extras.
Item Number: 15994
- Format:
- DVD Fullscreen
- Region:
- 1 - More Details
- Run time:
- About 1 1/2 Hours
- Number of Discs:
- 1
- Special Features:
English Subtitles for the deaf and Hearing Impaired
Extras TBC
• Audio Commentary
• Meglos Men
• The Scene Sync Story
• Jacqueline Hill - A Life in Pictures
• Entropy Explained
• Easter egg
• Isolated Music Score
• PDF materials: Radio Times listings
• Production Notes Subtitle Option
The Doctor is invited to visit the planet Tigella by its leader, Zastor, who has become concerned about disputes between his people's two opposing factions, the religious Deons and the scientist Savants.
The TARDIS is intercepted by the megalomaniacal xerophyte Meglos, last survivor of the planet Zolfa-Thura, and trapped in a chronic hysteresis - a time loop - but the Doctor and Romana manage to free it.
Meglos, using the body of a kidnapped Earthling, transforms himself into a duplicate of the Doctor and steals the Tigellans' power source - a mysterious dodecahedron. He plans to use this to power an apocalyptic device with which he intends to destroy Tigella.
The Doctor, although hindered by the activities of a group of Gaztak mercenaries hired by Meglos, ultimately brings about the xerophyte's destruction by tampering with the dodecahedron's controlling computers.
First Transmitted
1 - 27/09/1980 18:15
2 - 04/10/1980 18:15
3 - 11/10/1980 17:40
4 - 18/10/1980 17:45
| Tom Baker | --- | The Doctor |
| Lalla Ward | --- | Romana |
| John Leeson | --- | Voice of K9 |
| Colette Gleeson | --- | Caris |
| Crawford Logan | --- | Deedrix |
| Christopher Owen | --- | Earthling |
| Bill Fraser | --- | General Grugger |
| Jacqueline Hill | --- | Lexa |
| Frederick Treves | --- | Lieutenant Brotadac |
| Simon Shaw | --- | Tigellan Guard |
| Edward Underdown | --- | Zastor |
Directed by Terence Dudley
Written by John Flanagan, Andrew McCulloch
Produced by John Nathan-Turner
Executive Produced by Barry Letts
Original Music by Paddy Kingsland
Costume Design by June Hudson
With the obvious exceptions of season one's Inside the Spaceship and single episode stories (season three's Mission to the Unknown, the twentieth anniversary special The Five Doctors and the 1996 television movie), this is the only story in the series' history in which all the credited cast members appear in all the episodes.
Jacqueline Hill plays the leading Deon, Lexa. Hill had played the first Doctor's companion Barbara Wright in seasons one and two.
The sound effect created for the approach of the Fendahl in season fifteen's Image of the Fendahl is re-used as background atmosphere for the Tigellan jungle.
The scenes set on the surface of Zolfa-Thura were realised by way of a new effects technique referred to as scene-sync - a development of the established CSO process. This involved two cameras being electronically synchronised to follow identical movements so that they could be made to track in unison and maintain the composite image (created in the usual way), whereas previously CSO shots had almost invariably been static.
