Doctor Who: Shada

The Doctor visits his old Time Lord friend Chronotis in Cambridge, 1979. But the ruthless Skagra has also arrived to retrieve a book that will help unlock one of the Time Lords' greatest secrets: what is Shada? Filming for this story was never finished, and in this version the unfilmed material is completed via animation.

Cast

Tom Baker

as The Doctor

Lalla Ward

as Romana (voice)

David Brierly

as K9 (archive footage) (voice)

Christopher Neame

as Skagra (voice)

Daniel Hill

as Chris Parsons (voice)

Denis Carey

as Professor Chronotis (archive footage)

Victoria Burgoyne

as Clare Keightley (voice)

Gerald Campion

as Wilkin (archive footage)

Shirley Dixon

as The Ship (voice)

Derek Pollitt

as Dr. Caldera (archive footage)

Reviews

CinemaSerf

I have a friend who was involved in the commissioning of these hybrid animation versions of the old missing or incomplete "Dr. Who" series' and I think my scepticism was probably borne out with this rather curiously spliced story. With industrial action hitting the production with a week's worth of ...

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