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Doctor Who: The Two Doctors
Starring: Patrick Troughton
Directed by: Peter Moffatt
Produced by: John Nathan-Turner
Written by: Robert Holmes
While investigating unauthorized experiment in time travel aboard Space Station Camera, the Second Doctor and Jamie come under attack from the warlike Sontarans.
Item Number: 11032
- Format:
- DVD Fullscreen
- Region:
- 1 - More Details
- Run time:
- About 1 1/4 Hours
- Number of Discs:
- 2
- Closed Captions / Subtitles:
- This Product contains Closed Captions.
- Special Features:
Commentary by actors Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Frazer Hines, Jacqueline Pearce and director Peter Moffatt
A Fix with Sontarans starring Colin Baker and Janet Fielding (from Jim’ll Fix It 2/23/85)
Beneath the Lights – 25-minute featurette on studio recording of The Two Doctors
Beneath the Sun – 35-minute featurette on Spanish location filming of The Two Doctors
Adventures in Time and
Music Only Option
Production Note Option
Photo Gallery
Easter Egg
While investigating unauthorized experiment in time travel aboard Space Station Camera, the Second Doctor and Jamie come under attack from the warlike Sontarans. Not long afterward, the Sixth Doctor and Peri pay a visit to Camera. The space station appears to be abandoned until they discover Jamie hiding in the air ducts. Half-crazed, he insists that the Doctor has been murdered!
The second Doctor and Jamie are sent by the Time Lords to space station Camera in order to put a stop to unauthorised time travel experiments being carried out there under the auspices of the head of projects, Dastari.
Dastari has been biologically augmenting Androgums, a race
of voracious gourmands, including the chatelaine Chessene who has secretly
allied herself with Group Marshal Stike of the Ninth Sontaran Battle Group. The
Sontarans raid the station, killing almost all aboard. They capture the second
Doctor and take him to Earth, imprisoning him in a hacienda near the Spanish
city of
The sixth Doctor and Peri rescue Jamie from the station and
then follow the trail to
Chessene destroys the Sontarans and, reverting to base instincts, kills Dastari. She herself then dies through molecular disintegration when she attempts to time travel without the Imprimature.
| The Doctor | --- | Colin Baker |
| The Doctor | --- | Patrick Troughton |
| Jamie | --- | Frazer Hines |
| Peri | --- | Nicola Bryant |
| Anita | --- | Carmen Gomez |
| Chessene | --- | Jacqueline Pearce |
| Dastari | --- | Laurence Payne |
| Do-a Arana | --- | Aimee Delamain |
| Oscar | --- | James Saxon |
| Shockeye | --- | John Stratton |
| Stike | --- | Clinton Greyn |
| Technician | --- | Nicholas Fawcett |
| Varl | --- | Tim Raynham |
Directed by Peter Moffatt
Written by Robert Holmes
Costumes by Jan Wright
Film Editing by Mike Rowbotham
Incidental Music by Peter Howell
Make-Up by Catherine Davies
Produced by John Nathan-Turner
Script Editing by Eric Saward
Title Music by Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, arranged by Peter Howell
Visual Effects by Steven Drewett
The opening moments of the first episode, featuring the second Doctor and Jamie in the TARDIS, are in black and white - recalling the stories of the second Doctor's own era.
Jacqueline Pearce, better known as the evil Servalan in the BBC science fiction series Blake's 7, appears here as Chessene.
