Doctor Who Guide: The Awakening

Last updated 24 March 2024

Part One

Series Episode Number: 607

World Premiere: Thu 19 Jan 1984 - 6:41pm GMT [BBC One] (United Kingdom)
Running Time: 25 minutes 18 seconds

7.90 Million (UK)

Appreciation Index: 65 (UK)

Chart Position: 61 () (UK)

Teacher Jane Hampden is increasingly frustrated by the war games being played around the village, but the Doctor is more alarmed to find a boy transported from the 17th century

Characters include uncredited
The Doctor		Peter Davison
Tegan		Janet Fielding
Turlough		Mark Strickson
Jane Hampden		Polly James
Sir George		Denis Lill
Colonel Wolsey		Glyn Houston
Joseph Willow		Jack Galloway
Will Chandler		Keith Jayne
Trooper		Christopher Saul

Production Teaminclude uncredited
Writer		Eric Pringle
Director		Michael Owen Morris
Producer		John Nathan-Turner
Designer		Barry Newbery
Script Editor		Eric Saward
Title Sequence		Sid Sutton
Costume Designer		Jackie Southern
Makeup Artist		Ann Ailes
Studio Lighting		Peter Catlett
Studio Sound		Martin Ridout
Technical Manager (TM2)		Alan Arbuthnott
Camera Supervisor		Alec Wheal
Videotape Editor		Hugh Parson
Visual Effects Designer		Tony Harding
Video Effects		Dave Chapman
Video Effects		Dave Jervis
Vision Mixer		Paul Wheeler
Film Cameraman		Paul Wheeler
Film Sound		Bryan Showell
Film Editor		M A C Adams
Production Manager		Mike Hudson
Production Manager		Liz Trubridge
Production Associate		June Collins
Production Assistant		Rosemary Parsons
Assistant Floor Manager		Marcus D F White
Title Music		Ron Grainer
Special Sound		Dick Mills
Incidental Music		Peter Howell
Special Sound		BBC Radiophonic Workshop

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