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Doctor Who The Sun Makers TV Story

The Sun Makers Synopsis

The TARDIS arrives in the future on the planet Pluto where there are now six suns, a breathable atmosphere and a large industrial community. The Company controls the planet and exploits the workers, pays them a pittance and then taxes them on everything imaginable. The Doctor and Leela join forces with an underground band of rebels led by a man named Mandrel…

Story Order

  • Story 95 from Doctor Who
  • Story 4 of 6 from Season 15

Episodes

Saturday
26th November 1977
6:05PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Sun Makers - Part One

Pluto has been made habitable and turned into a giant factory where the ruthless Company exploits its workers.

Saturday
3rd December 1977
6:05PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Sun Makers - Part Two

The Doctor is taken prisoner by the Gatherer and sent to the Correction Centre.

Saturday
10th December 1977
6:05PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Sun Makers - Part Three

The Doctor is free but Leela has been captured by the Gatherer and is sentenced to a grisly death.

Saturday
17th December 1977
6:05PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Sun Makers - Part Four

The Others launch a full-scale uprising against the Gatherer and his Inner Retinue.

Credits

The Sun Makers

Credits
  • Writer Robert Holmes
  • Director Pennant Roberts
  • Producer Graham Williams
  • Script Editor Robert Holmes
  • Doctor Who Tom Baker
  • Leela Louise Jameson
  • Hade Richard Leech
  • Marn Jonina Scott
  • Cordo Roy Macready
  • Mandrel William Simons
  • Goudry Michael Keating
  • Veet Adrienne Burgess
  • Nurse Carole Hopkin
  • Voice of K-9 John Leeson
  • Collector Henry Woolf
  • Bisham David Rowlands
  • Synge Derek Crewe
  • Commander Colin McCormack
  • Guard Tom Kelly