Back Black Orchid Spanish Black Orchid French Black Orchid Hungarian Чёрная орхидея (Доктор Кто) Russian Black Orchid (Doctor Who) Turkish Lorkid Blägik Volapuk
| 120[1] – Black Orchid | |||
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| Directed by | Ron Jones | ||
| Written by | Terence Dudley | ||
| Script editor | Eric Saward | ||
| Produced by | John Nathan-Turner | ||
| Executive producer(s) | None | ||
| Music by | Roger Limb | ||
| Production code | 6A | ||
| Series | Season 19 | ||
| Running time | 2 episodes, 25 minutes each | ||
| First broadcast | 1–2 March 1982 | ||
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Black Orchid is the fifth serial of the 19th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on BBC1 on 1 and 2 March 1982.
The serial is set in an English estate in 1925. In the serial, the alien time traveller the Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison) investigates the murder of two servants during a fancy dress party.
This story was the first purely historical adventure for the Doctor—featuring no science fiction elements save for the TARDIS and the regular cast—since The Highlanders (1966). Sarah Sutton plays two characters in this story.
- ^ From the Doctor Who Magazine series overview, in issue 407 (pp26-29). The Discontinuity Guide, which counts the unbroadcast serial Shada, lists this as story number 121. Region 1 DVD releases follow The Discontinuity Guide numbering system.