Back Das Urteil: Vervoid Terror German Terror of the Vervoids Spanish Terror of the Vervoids French Террор вервоидов Russian Terror of the Vervoids Turkish Jeik elas Vervoid Volapuk
| 143c[1] – The Trial of a Time Lord: Terror of the Vervoids | |||
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| Directed by | Chris Clough | ||
| Written by | Pip and Jane Baker | ||
| Script editor | John Nathan-Turner (uncredited) | ||
| Produced by | John Nathan-Turner | ||
| Music by | Malcolm Clarke | ||
| Production code | 7C[2] | ||
| Series | Season 23 | ||
| Running time | 4 episodes, 25 minutes each | ||
| First broadcast | 1 November 1986 | ||
| Last broadcast | 22 November 1986 | ||
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Terror of the Vervoids is the third serial of the larger narrative known as The Trial of a Time Lord which encompasses the whole of the 23rd season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 1 to 22 November 1986. The title Terror of the Vervoids is never used on screen and was first used in relation to these episodes for the 1987 novelisation, with the four episodes that comprise the season being referred to as The Trial of a Time Lord Parts Nine to Twelve. This serial is the first appearance of Bonnie Langford as the companion Mel Bush.
In the serial, the alien time traveller the Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker) is put on trial by his people, the Time Lords, and is accused of meddling in the affairs of other worlds. Much of the story consists of video testimony presented by the Doctor, his own defence, of his own future where the last of a race of plants called Vervoids on board a spaceliner in 2986 plot to wipe out all animal life on board for their own survival.
- ^ From the Doctor Who Magazine series overview, in issue 407 (pp26-29). The Discontinuity Guide, which counts the unbroadcast serial Shada, lists this segment of The Trial of a Time Lord as an individual story, number 146. Region 1 DVD releases follow The Discontinuity Guide numbering system.
- ^ Pixley, Andrew (1992). "Archive Feature Serial 7C The Ultimate Foe". Doctor Who Magazine (Winter Special 1992). London: Marvel UK: 43–49. ISSN 0957-9818.