Right away, the production was hit hard by record inflation, resulting in the design staff working day and night and inventing new techniques and processes to complete the story on time. Read commissioned Bob Baker and Dave Martin to write Underworld, the penultimate story of the season. Tensions between the two eased over the course of the season. According to Jameson, the tension came to a head during the recording of Fang Rock, when she finally confronted Baker over multiple takes of a scene caused by him entering early and cutting her off. īaker had found it difficult to accept the violent Leela character since her introduction, contributing to growing tensions between himself and Louise Jameson. Holmes recalled, 'it used to drive Tom spare, and more often than not, he'd kick it out of frustration.' Holmes agreed to write The Sun Makers, and while the story was meant to follow K-9's introduction and establish him as a regular character, scheduling problems-resulting in the shelving of scripts that Fang Rock had to replace-required the story order to change, with Fendahl preceding it. While Tom Baker enjoyed working with John Leeson (the voice of K-9) in rehearsals, he disliked the prop. Image of the Fendahl fell to Read, who had to hastily write K-9 into the story when Holmes made him a regular character. Holmes completed Horror of Fang Rock and The Invisible Enemy, before leaving due to creative exhaustion. Read, an experienced director and producer, had only agreed to the position of Script Editor because he was intrigued by the chance to work on Doctor Who. Robert Holmes remained to work on the three stories he had commissioned, while his successor, Anthony Read, trailed him in preparation of taking over the position. Bob Holmes was stuck on Weng-Chiang for ages. Williams remarked, 'I had to try and find some new ones, and that wasn't the least of the problems. Philip Hinchcliffe's departure coincided with the loss of a number of long-time contributors to the show as Graham Williams took over as Producer. Season fifteen proved to be a difficult transition period.

However, the Doctor is doing this to prevent a Vardan instigated disaster. He orders Leela expelled from the Capitol Citadel. The Doctor returns to Gallifrey, having claimed the Presidency. The Doctor must help them to find the hidden race banks that will save their dying race. The remnants of the Minyans have an old link to the Time Lords. However, the heat is available only to the ruling classes. In the far future, the planet Pluto is habitable, heated by several miniature suns. Scientists investigating an ancient skull unwittingly start to revive the Fendahl, an ancient life-form feared even by the Time Lords. When the Doctor answers the distress call, he is infected as well. Three lighthouse men face their fears when something comes in from the sea, which brings death to all it touches.Ī shuttle crew encounters a cloud in space that infects them with an intelligent virus. The season took a short transmission break of two weeks over the Christmas 1977 period, between the broadcasts of The Sun Makers and Underworld. Robert Holmes was replaced as script editor by Anthony Read, during The Sun Makers.

Graham Williams took over as producer from Philip Hinchcliffe. See also: List of Doctor Who episodes (1963–1989)

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