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Classic Who S19 • Serial 5 · (2 episodes)

Black Orchid

Sets:
Doctor Who (1963-1996)
Fifth Doctor

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Novelisation: "Doctor Who: Black Orchid"

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First aired Monday, March 1, 1982
Production Code 6A
Written by Terence Dudley
Directed by Ron Jones
Runtime 50 minutes
Time Travel Past
Tropes: (Potential Spoilers!) Companion Doppelgänger Mistaken Identity Pure Historical Doctor Who?
Locations Cranleigh England Earth
Synopsis

The TARDIS arrives on Earth in 1925 where, due to a case of mistaken identity, the Fifth Doctor ends up playing in a local cricket match. The travellers accept an invitation to a masked fancy dress ball, but events take on a more sinister tone as murders are perpetrated at the country home of their host, Lord Charles Cranleigh.

2 Episodes:

First aired Tuesday, March 2, 1982
Runtime 25 minutes
Written by Terence Dudley
Directed by Ron Jones
UK Viewers 9.9 million
Synopsis

The TARDIS arrives on Earth in 1925 where, due to a case of mistaken identity, the Doctor ends up playing in a local cricket match, but events take on a more sinister tone at the country home of their host Lord Cranleigh.

First aired Tuesday, March 2, 1982
Runtime 25 minutes
Written by Terence Dudley
Directed by Ron Jones
UK Viewers 10.1 million
Synopsis

Ann escapes her Harlequin-clad abductor but it's The Doctor whom she accuses. Strangled bodies mount and The Doctor is arrested along with "accessories" Tegan, Nyssa and Adric. Will Lady Cranleigh's secret come out?

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