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Doctor Who Ghost Light TV Story

Ghost Light Synopsis

The Doctor brings Ace to Gabriel Chase, an old house that she once burnt down in her home town of Perivale. The year is 1883 and the house is presided over by Josiah Samuel Smith, who turns out to be the evolved form of an alien brought to Earth in a stone spaceship that is now in the basement…

Story Order

  • Story 153 from Doctor Who
  • Story 2 of 4 from Season 26

Episodes

Wednesday
4th October 1989
7:35PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Ghost Light - Part One

Ace and the Doctor travel back to Victorian England, to a house she knew in her childhood.

Wednesday
11th October 1989
7:35PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Ghost Light - Part Two

Ace breaks the glowing panel in the spaceship and the Doctor learns of Smith's bizarre evolutionary experiments.

Wednesday
18th October 1989
7:35PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Ghost Light - Part Three

Smith's plans are revealed and the Doctor must convince the light not to destroy all of the life on Earth.

Credits

Ghost Light

Credits
  • Writer Marc Platt
  • Director Alan Wareing
  • Producer John Nathan-Turner
  • Script Editor Andrew Cartmel
  • The Doctor Sylvester McCoy
  • Ace Sophie Aldred
  • Josiah Ian Hogg
  • Mrs Pritchard Sylvia Syms
  • Redvers Fenn-Cooper Michael Cochrane
  • Control Sharon Duce
  • Gwendoline Katharine Schlesinger
  • Reverend Ernest Matthews John Nettleton
  • Nimrod Carl Forgione
  • Mrs Grose Brenda Kempner
  • Inspector Mackenzie Frank Windsor
  • Light John Hallam