Sep 1, 2010
Whilst in flight the TARDIS is attacked by the evil Rani, a renegade Time-Lady. The TARDIS crash-lands on the planet Lakertya. On the floor of the console room, the Doctor begins his sixth regeneration. In his post-regenerative confusion the Doctor is separated from his young companion Mel and tricked into assisting the Rani in her megalomaniac scheme to construct a giant time manipulator. Lost on the barren surface of the planet, Mel has to avoid the Rani's ingenious traps and her monstrous, bat-like servants, the Tetraps. She joins forces with a rebel faction among the Lakertyans, desperate to end the Rani's control of their planet. The Doctor must recover his wits in time to avoid becoming a permanent part of the Rani's plan to collect the genius of the greatest scientific minds in the Universe, of which she has captured many including Einstein, in order that she can create a time manipulator, which would allow the Rani to control time anywhere in the universe, at the expense of all life on Lakertya. The Doctor manages to foil her plan and free the Lakertyans of her evil control. The Rani, however, escapes in her TARDIS but it has been commandeered by the Tetraps who take her prisoner. The Doctor takes all the captured geniuses on board the TARDIS so that he can return them home.
Episode | Broadcast date | Run time | Viewership (in millions) |
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"Part One" | 7 September 1987 | 24:44 | 5.1 |
"Part Two" | 14 September 1987 | 24:36 | 4.2 |
"Part Three" | 21 September 1987 | 24:23 | 4.3 |
"Part Four" | 28 September 1987 | 24:38 | 4.9 |
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The story was released on VHS in July 1995. The story is also to be released on DVD on September 13th 2010. It features a commentary by Sylvester McCoy, Bonnie Langford, Pip and Jane Baker.
Doctor Who book | |
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Time and the Rani | |
Series | Target novelisations |
Release number | 128 (initial printings erroneously have it numbered 127) |
Writer | Pip and Jane Baker |
Publisher | Target Books |
ISBN | 0-491-03186-6 |
Release date |
December 1987 (Hardback) 5th May 1988 (Paperback) |
Preceded by | The Mysterious Planet |
Followed by | Vengeance on Varos |
A novelisation of this serial, written by Pip and Jane Baker, was published by Target Books in December 1987.
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