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Steve Gallagher, Doctor Who - Warriors' gate

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TitleDoctor Who - Warriors' gate
Artist(s):Steve Gallagher
Category:BBC - BBCDVD (Click on this button to view other releases of BBC - BBCDVD DVD's.)
Label and catalogue number:Picture of images/labels/BBC DVD.jpg labelBBC DVD - BBCDVD 1835C
Format:Disc DVD's
Country:UK UK flag
Released:1980
Genre:Dramas - Sci-fi View all other tracks listed as Dramas - Sci-fi.
Run-off codes:A0101039887-A911 17 IFPI L556 Sony DADC
Item deleted?No
Distributed / printed byPicture of images/labels/2 entertain.jpg label2 entertain
Page views:9082 times since 20th May, 2017, global rank is 123, rank in dvds is 14.
My rating:*****
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Cover conditionNear mint
Record conditionNear mint
BBC records label code-
Number have1
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Tracks

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Side & track noTrack and ArtistLength
A1Part 122.54
A2Part 223.47
A3Part 322.15
A4Part 424.53
A5The dreaming - The story of Warriors' Gate27.10
A6The boy with the golden star - Matthew Waterhouse19.42
A7Lalla's wardrobe - A frockumentory18.59
A8Extended and deleted scenes4.12
A9Continuity1.59
A10Photo gallery4.46
A11Radio Times billings [PDF]
A12Coming soon - The rescue and The Romans1.14
Total length of media 2:51:51.

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Extra notes on cover, middle (gatefold sleeve) and any inserts


Starring



Tom Baker (Fourth Doctor)

Lalla Ward (Romana)

Matthew Waterhouse (Adric)

John Leeson (Voice of K-9 Mk. II)

Clifford Rose - Rorvik

Kenneth Cope - Packard

David Kincaid - Lane

Harry Waters - Royce

Vincent Pickering - Sagan

Freddie Earlle - Aldo

David Weston - Biroc

Jeremy Gittins - Lazlo

Robert Vowles - Gundan


Written by



Steve Gallagher


Produced by



John Nathan-Tiurner


Directed by



Paul Joyce


Synopsis



Still lost in E-Space, the TARDIS is hijacked by a time-sensitive creature. It brings the Doctor, Romansa, Adric and K-9 to a crumbling ruin in a lonely white void, where another ship is also stranded and in trouble. Will the TARDIS and its crew ever escape this strange otherworld? The answer lies inside the Gateway, but as the Doctor is about to discover, not everyone wants to go home ...


Background



Warriors' Gate is the final part of the E-Space trilogy. A complex and ambitious story, it rounds off the Doctor's trip into a strange universe and uses one of the cheapest sets in the history of Doctor Who - a massive greensceen studio with nothing in it!

Writer Steve Gallagher's script is heavily influenced by the French writer and director Jean Cocteau, in particular his films Le Belle et la Bete (1946) and Orphee (1950), and although the four episodes are a fine example of Doctor Who, it was trying to push the boundaries in a BBC studio, tried the patience of producer John Nathan-Turner, leading to much conflict on the set.

This story is the last to feature Lalla Ward's Romana. After two years on the show, it was time for the Time Lady to leave the TARDIS. Romana may have left the Doctor, but Lalla Ward went on to marry Tom Baker. The marriage, however, was short-lived.

It was also time to say goodbye to robot dog K-9. His departure was much-publicised at the time and after several false starts that season - being blown up in Brighton, mistreated on Tigella, beheaded on Alzarius and left in the TARDIS for most of State of Decay - K-9 trundled off into the (black and white) distance with Romana at the end of the fourth episode.

Surreal, clever and ultimately moving, Warriors' Gate is the end of the E-Space trilogy, and sets the scene perfectly for Tom Baker's final two adventures as the Doctor.

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