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Doctor Who The Awakening TV Story

The Awakening Synopsis

The TARDIS has brought the Doctor Tegan and Turlough to the English country village of Little Hodcombe in 1984 where an alien war machine, the Malus, is affecting its inhabitants. A re-enactment of a civil war battle becomes dangerously real as the Malus gather sufficient psychic energy to re-awake.

Story Order

  • Story 131 from Doctor Who
  • Story 2 of 7 from Season 21

Episodes

Thursday
19th January 1984
6:40PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - The Awakening - Part One

Teacher Jane Hampden is increasingly frustrated by the war games being played around the village.

Friday
20th January 1984
6:40PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Awakening - Part Two

The Malus's influence is asserting itself all over Little Hodcombe, and the war games take an unpleasant turn.

Credits

The Awakening

Credits
  • Writer Eric Pringle
  • Director Michael Owen Morris
  • Producer John Nathan-Turner
  • Script Editor Eric Saward
  • The Doctor Peter Davison
  • Tegan Janet Fielding
  • Turlough Mark Strickson
  • Jane Hampden Polly James
  • Sir George Denis Lill
  • Colonel Wolsey Glyn Houston
  • Joseph Willow Jack Galloway
  • Will Chandler Keith Jayne
  • Trooper Christopher Saul
  • Andrew Verney Frederick Hall