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The TARDIS has jumped a time track, landing on the planet Xeros where The Doctor and his companions discover the unsettling sight of their own future selves - displayed as exhibits in the Morok museum. The exhibits testify to the galactic conquests of the Morok invaders who now rule the planet.

When time shifts back to normal, The Doctor and his companions embark on a campaign to avert their fate, with Vicki helping the native Xerons to obtain arms with which to launch a revolution against the Moroks.

But will this be enough to secure the time travellers' existence?

Source: BBC VHS Video

General Information

Season:	Two
Production Code:	Q
Story Number:	15
Episode Numbers:	68 - 71
Number of Episodes:	4
Percentage of Episodes Held:	100%
Working Titles:	"The Four Dimensions of Time" (episode 1) and "Zone Seven" (episode 4)
Production Dates:	March - April 1965
Broadcast Started:	24 April 1965
Broadcast Finished:	15 May 1965
Colour Status:	B&W
Studio:	Ealing Television Film Studios and BBC Television Centre (TC4)
Location:	None

Writer:

Glyn Jones

Director:

Mervyn Pinfield

Producer:

Verity Lambert

Story Editor:

Dennis Spooner

Production Assistant:

Snowy White

Assistant Floor Managers:

Caroline Walmsley and John Tait

Designer:

Spencer Chapman

Costume Designers:

Daphne Dare and Tony Pearce (Episode 3)

Make-Up Designer:

Sonia Markham

Lighting:

Howard King

Fights Arranged By:

Peter Diamond

Incidental Music:

From Stock

Special Sounds (SFX Editor):

Brian Hodgson

Studio Sounds:

George Prince and Ray Angel

Title Sequence:

Bernard Lodge

Title Music:

Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Arranged by Delia Derbyshire

Number of Doctors:

The Doctor:

William Hartnell (The First Doctor)

Number of Companions: 3The Companions: Jacqueline Hill (Barbara Wright), William Russell (Ian Chesterton) and Maureen O'Brien (Vicki) Guest Cast: Jeremy Bulloch (Tor) Additional Cast: Peter Sanders (Sita), Peter Craze (Dako), Bill Starkey (Third Xeron), Lawrence Dean, Ken Norris, Salvin Stewart, Peter Diamond, Billy Cornelius (Morok Guards), Richard Shaw (Lobos), Salvin Stewart (Morok Messenger), Peter Diamond (Morok Technician), Ivor Salter (Morok Commander), Michael Gordon, Edward Granville, David Wolliscroft, Bill Starkey (Xerons), Peter Hawkins (Dalek Voice), Murphy Grumbar (Dalek Operator)Setting: Planet Xeros Villains:Lobos and The Moroks

The Episodes

No.	Episodes	Broadcast (UK)	Duration	Viewers (Millions)	In Archive
68	The Space Museum	24 April 1965	23'38"	10.5	16mm telerecording
69	The Dimensions of Time	01 May 1965	22'00"	9.2	16mm telerecording
70	The Search	08 May 1965	23'33"	8.5	16mm telerecording
71	The Final Phase	15 May 1965	22'15"	8.5	16mm telerecording

Total Duration

1 Hour 31 Minutes

Audience Appreciation

Average Viewers (Millions)

9.2

Doctor Who Magazine Poll (1998)	52.63% (Position = 147 out of 159)
Doctor Who Magazine Poll (2009)	50.42% (Position = 190 out of 200)
Doctor Who Magazine Poll (2014)	53.78% (Position = 232 out of 241)
Doctor Who Magazine Poll (2023)	Position = 28 out of 29

Archives

All episodes exist as 16mm telerecordings.

Notes

This story was produced as a low-budget story to accommodate larger budgets for the other stories during Season Two.

This story is one of the few First Doctor stories that uses the overall title story to name one of the episodes, others include: "The Keys of Marinus", "Planet of Giants" and "The Web Planet".

The first episode begins with a brief reprise of the final scenes in the previous story, "The Crusade". This is currently the only surviving film footage of episode 4 of "The Crusade".

The incidental music used for this story came from stock recordings rather than being specially composed.

William Hartnell did not appear in the third episode, "The Search", except in the previous episode's reprise as he was on holiday during the recording of this episode.

Author Glyn Jones was also an actor and he appeared in the Fourth Doctor story "The Sontaran Experiment".

Peter Craze, who plays Dako, is the younger brother of Michael Craze, who played companion Ben Jackson (during the First Doctor and the Second Doctor eras) from 1966 to 1967.

Jeremy Bulloch is famous for for his role as bounty hunter Boba Fett in two of the Star Wars films - "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi". He would later return to Doctor Who in the 1974 Third Doctor story "The Time Warrior".

Richard Shaw, who played the part of Governor Lobos, later appeared as Cross in the 1973 Third Doctor story "Frontier in Space".

This story contains an amusing scene in which The Doctor hides inside a Dalek casing - an exhibit in the Moroks' museum.

Ian is seen to use Barbara's cardigan (and the Minotaur legend) in an attempt to find a way out of the museum.

During the sequence in which Lobos tries to interrogate The Doctor using a machine that displays his prisoner's thoughts on a screen, The Doctor feeds the device a series of amusing false images, including a photograph of himself wearing a Victorian bathing costume.

At the end of this story The Doctor finds (and is given) the a Time Space Visualiser that is used in the next story, "The Chase".

First and Last

The Firsts:

The first time that The Doctor and his companions see a possible future which they have to prevent from occuring.

The first Doctor Who story to be written by Glyn Jones.

Story Images

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A Surprised Vicki

Vicki Tries to Explain to The Doctor

Vicki is Very Worried

The Doctor is Captured by the Moroks

The Doctor Hides Inside a Dalek

Ogrok and Governor Lobos

Vicki

The Doctor

The Xerons

Governor Lobos

Tor

Return of the Daleks

Quote of the Story

'I fought them all. I am The Master.'

The Doctor

Release Information

Format	Title	Release Date (UK)	Code Number	Cover Art	Remarks
VHS	The Crusade and The Space Museum	July 1999	BBCV 6888	Photo-montage	Part of a Limited Edition Box Set (BBCV 6805)
CD	The Space Museum	May 2009		Photo-montage	Narrated by Maureen O'Brien (Vicki)
DVD	The Space Museum and The Chase	March 2010	BBCDVD 2809	Photo-montage	Box Set Released along with "The Chase"
CD	The Space Museum	September 2013		Photo-montage	Part of the "Doctor Who: The TV Episodes: Collection Six" Box Set Narrated by Maureen O'Brien (Vicki)
Blu-Ray	Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 2 (Limited Edition)	December 2022	BBCBD 0479	Photo-montage	Blu-Ray Limited Edition boxed set containing 9 specially restored stories

In Print

Format	Title	Release Date (UK)	Publisher	Author	Cover Art	Remarks
Novel	The Space Museum	June 1987	Target No. 117	Glyn Jones	David McAllister	ISBN: 0-426-20289-9
CD	The Space Museum	February 2016	Target No. 117	Glyn Jones	David McAllister	Audio version of the Target Novel read by Maureen O'Brien (Vicki).

Doctor Who CMS Magazine (An Adventure in Space and Time)	Issue 15
Doctor Who Weekly	Issue 19 (Released: February 1980)
Doctor Who Magazine - Time Team	Issue 288 (Released: March 2000)
Doctor Who Magazine - Archive	Issue 316 (Released: May 2002)
Doctor Who Magazine - The Fact of Fiction	Issue 606 (Released: August 2024)

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The Doctor and Companions

The First Doctor

Barbara Wright

Ian Chesterton

Vicki

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The TV Episodes: Collection Six CD Cover

AUDIO

The Collection Season 2 Limited Edition Blu-Ray Cover

VIDEO

In Print

Target Book Cover

NOVEL

Target Audio CD Cover

Magazines

Doctor Who CMS Magazine (An Adventure in Space and Time): Issue 15

Doctor Who Weekly: Issue 19

Doctor Who Magazine - Time Team: Issue 288

Doctor Who Magazine - Archive: Issue 316

Doctor Who Magazine - The Fact of Fiction: Issue 606

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