Doctor Who Guide: The Ribos Operation

Last updated 09 January 2020

Part Three

Series Episode Number: 482

World Premiere: Sat 16 Sep 1978 - 6:31pm BST [BBC One] (United Kingdom)
Running Time: 24 minutes 42 seconds

Chart Position: 38 () (UK)

The Doctor and Romana's search for the first segment of the Key to Time is hampered when the Graff Vynda-K takes them prisoner.

Characters include uncredited
Doctor Who		Tom Baker
Romana		Mary Tamm
Garron		Iain Cuthbertson
Unstoffe		Nigel Plaskitt
Graff Vynda K		Paul Seed
Sholakh		Robert Keegan
Binro		Timothy Bateson
The Seeker		Ann Tirard
Captain		Prentis Hancock
Shrieve		Oliver Maguire
Voice of K-9		John Leeson
Shrivenzale		Stuart Fell
Shrivenzale		Nick Wilkinson

Production Teaminclude uncredited
Writer		Robert Holmes
Director		George Spenton-Foster
Producer		Graham Williams
Designer		Ken Ledsham
Script Editor		Anthony Read
Costume Designer		June Hudson
Makeup Artist		Christine Walmesley-Cotham
Visual Effects Designer		Dave Havard
Electronic Effects Operator		Dave Chapman
Videotape Editor		John Turner
Studio Lighting		Jim Purdie
Studio Sound		Richard Chubb
Production Assistant		Jane Shirley
Production Unit Manager		John Nathan-Turner
Incidental Music		Dudley Simpson
Special Sound		Dick Mills