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  • The Sontaran Experiment (TV story)
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  • Script editor Robert Holmes was not a fan of six-part stories, believing that they were padded, so for season twelve, he decided to have one four-part story and one two-part story. With Christopher Langley's "Space Station" already in the works, he looked to Bob Baker and Dave Martin to fill the gap. As an outline, Holmes asked them to set it on Earth and bring back the Sontarans. This would help them capitalise on the costly ship interior and Sontaran costume used in The Time Warrior.
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Epcount
  • 2
made next
  • The Ark in Space
story number
  • 77
broadcast date
  • --02-22
made prev
  • Robot
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Doctor
  • Fourth Doctor
Enemy
  • Field Major Styre
Series
Producer
Name
  • The Sontaran Experiment
Production code
  • 4.0
Season Number
Format
  • 2
Companions
Setting
PREV
  • The Ark in Space
Script
  • The Scripts: Tom Baker 1974/5
NEXT
  • Genesis of the Daleks
Writer
  • Bob Baker and Dave Martin
Director
Network
novelisation
  • Doctor Who and the Sontaran Experiment
abstract
  • Script editor Robert Holmes was not a fan of six-part stories, believing that they were padded, so for season twelve, he decided to have one four-part story and one two-part story. With Christopher Langley's "Space Station" already in the works, he looked to Bob Baker and Dave Martin to fill the gap. As an outline, Holmes asked them to set it on Earth and bring back the Sontarans. This would help them capitalise on the costly ship interior and Sontaran costume used in The Time Warrior. Baker and Martin were commissioned to write the script on 23 May and asked to deliver episode one shortly after, on 5 June. Part two was in by 6 July and Holmes re-wrote it extensively, removing a sub-plot in which Vural was revealed to be a victim of mind-control. Despite Holmes' earlier intentions, a new Sontaran costume was made for Kevin Lindsay. The previous one had exacerbated his heart condition, an illness that would kill him six months later.