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Writer: Philip Martin
Director: Gary Russell
Starring: Paul McGann as the Doctor, India Fisher as Charley and introducing Conrad Westmaas as C'rizz
Release Date: January 2004
Recorded: 13 & 14 May 2003
Post-Production, Sound Design & Music:
David Darlington
Production Code: 8P The Interzone is a fearsome nether-world protecting a zone ruled by the Kromon. Theirs is an arid land of dust and dying trees. Across the landscape are spheres that look like giant anthills. The Doctor believes that within one of these structures lie the clues that will lead him to his lost TARDIS. The spheres are ruled by the insect-like Kromon who covet the TARDIS. When Charley is captured she is forced to metamorphosise into a hybrid-insect Queen and so to save her, the Doctor must barter his knowledge of space-travel technology, all the while knowing that he risks opening up all the realms of space to a rapacious race whose creed is not to create, only to plunder. This story takes place after the TV movie. Cast List | The Doctor | | Paul McGann | | Charley | | India Fisher | | C'rizz | | Conrad Westmaas | | The Oroog |
| Brian Cobby | | The Kro'ka |
| Stephen Perring | | L'da |
| Jane Hills | | Kromon Voices | | Daniel Hogarth
Stephen Perring | "Philip Martin is a writer I have greatly admired since his ground-breaking 1970s TV series Gangsters. I asked him for a straightforward, four-part Doctor Who romp with insectoid aliens. My only other criteria was that I didn't want it to feature Sil. Philip was overjoyed - so he told me at the start of his writing - to be back working with Doctor. Hopefully by the end of the writing process, I hadn't put him off for life! "It was good fun recording this one - we were joined by Brian Cobby, who for the last fifteen or more years has been the voice you hear when dialling the Speaking Clock hear in Britain. We thought getting in the man who talks about time ("sponsored by Accurist", obviously) into Doctor Who was a great idea. We then learned that Brian also went "5-4-3-2-1 - Thunderbirds Are Go!" for however many episodes of Thunderbirds there were. The man's a cultural icon! "On top of this, it gave me the chance (like I really needed one) to be thoroughly evil to Steve Perring and Dan Hogarth whilst they were being the Kromon characters. The Kromon drink a lot of water, so we thought it'd be a good idea to get a wildtrack of them slurping, burping, and generally drinking water in the most unatractive ways possible. They thought I wanted about fifteen seconds' worth (which indeed I did). We kept them doing it for at least four minutes. They were both very wet and very fed up of water by the end. But we got our wildtracks. Well, all right, you had to be there, I suppose. But at least neither of them wore eyepatches!"
- Producer / Director, Gary Russell
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