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Doctor Who: Time and the Rani
Starring: Sylvester McCoy , Bonnie Langford
Directed by: Andrew Morgan
Produced by: John Nathan-Turner
Written by: Pip Baker
The TARDIS crashes onto the Rani's planet Lakertia. Imprisoning the seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy), the villainous Rani deceives the Doctor into helping her achieve her audacious plan. Just what is the Rani up to, and why has she enslaved Albert Einstein and other geniuses? Digitally remastered. Audio commentaries.
Item Number: 15996
- Format:
- DVD Fullscreen
- Region:
- 1 - More Details
- Run time:
- About 1 2/3 Hours
- Number of Discs:
- 1
- Special Features:
English Subtitles for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired
• Audio Commentary with actors
• Photo Gallery (x mins)
• PDF materials: Radio Times Listings
• Production Note Subtitles
• Digitally remastered picture and sound quality
Violently wrenched out of time, the TARDIS is brought crashing down onto the planet Lakertya by the villainous Rani. Caught within the maelstrom, the Doctor is forced to regenerate.
Imprisoning the Doctor in her stronghold, the Rani seizes upon his vulnerable state. By impersonating his friend Mel, the Rani deceives the unwitting Doctor into helping her achieve her audacious plan.
Just what is she up to? Why has she enslaved Albert Einstein and a host of geniuses? And as an asteroid composed of Strange Matter approaches Lakertya, can a weakened Doctor save the universe when he has little idea of who he really is?
The Rani has taken control of the planet Lakertya and forced the peaceful Lakertyans to build a rocket silo-cum-laboratory base into a cliff face. She is aided by the Tetraps, a race of bat-like creatures, and plans to fire a rocket loaded with loyhargil, a substance with the same properties as strange matter, at an asteroid completely composed of the latter.
As a preliminary to this she has created a huge artificial brain and kidnapped a number of geniuses - including Pasteur and Einstein from Earth - to imbue it with the ability first to identify and then to calculate the correct way to create loyhargil for her in the laboratory. The newly-regenerated Doctor and Mel manage to stop her and the planet is saved. The Rani is captured by the Tetraps, who decide to take her as a prisoner back to their home world.
| Sylvester McCoy | --- | The Doctor |
| Bonnie Langford | --- | Melanie |
| Donald Pickering | --- | Beyus |
| Wanda Ventham | --- | Faroon |
| Mark Greenstreet | --- | Ikona |
| John Segal | --- | Lanisha |
| Karen Clegg | --- | Sarn |
| Peter Tuddenham | --- | Special Voice |
| Jacki Webb | --- | Special Voice |
| Kate O'Mara | --- | The Rani |
| Richard Gauntlett | --- | Urak |
Directed by Andrew Morgan
Written by Pip Baker, Jane Baker
Produced by John Nathan-Turner
Original Music by Keff McCulloch
Costume Design by Ken Trew
First Transmitted
1 - 07/09/1987 19:35
2 - 14/09/1987 19:35
3 - 21/09/1987 19:35
4 - 28/09/1987 19:35
There is a new title sequence and theme music arrangement. An early version of the new opening titles is erroneously featured at the beginning of Part Four, with Sylvester McCoy's face much less distinct than in the final version approved by John Nathan-Turner. (The final version is however substituted on the BBC video release of the story.)
'Loyhargil' is an anagram of 'holy grail'.
