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023 – The Ark | |||
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Doctor Who serial | |||
![]() The inhabitants of the Ark discover that they have uninvited guests. | |||
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Production | |||
Directed by | Michael Imison | ||
Written by | Paul Erickson Lesley Scott | ||
Script editor | Gerry Davis | ||
Produced by | John Wiles | ||
Executive producer(s) | None | ||
Music by | Tristram Cary[a] | ||
Production code | X | ||
Series | Season 3 | ||
Running time | 4 episodes, 25 minutes each | ||
First broadcast | 5 March 1966 | ||
Last broadcast | 26 March 1966 | ||
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The Ark is the sixth serial of the third season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 5 to 26 March 1966.
The serial is set at least ten million years in the far distant future. In the first two episodes the time traveller the First Doctor (William Hartnell) and his travelling companions Steven Taylor (Peter Purves) and Dodo Chaplet (Jackie Lane) arrive on a generation ship that Dodo names "the Ark". The Doctor searches for a cure for a fever that has spread across the human and Monoid races on board the ship, who have no immunity to it. The last two episodes are set 700 years later, and involve the Doctor, Steven and Dodo working with the Refusian race to stop the Monoids from wiping out the last of humanity with a bomb.
The story constitutes Dodo's first journey as a companion to the Doctor. It is also the earliest serial of the third season to exist in its entirety.[1]
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