  
Episode: Time and the Rani
Serial : 7D
Number of Viewers: 5.1m
First Transmitted: 07/09/87
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Story by: Pip and Jane Baker
Director: Andrew Morgan
Producer: John Nathan Turner
Regular Cast
Cast
Kate O'Mara (The Rani)
Mark Greenstreet (Ikona)
Wanda Ventham (Faroon)
Donald Pickering (Beyus)
Karen Clegg (Sarn)
Richard Gauntlett (Urak)
John Segal (Lanisha)
Peter Tuddenham (Special Voice)
Jacki Webb (Special Voice)
Story Synopsis
After being attacked by the evil Rani, the TARDIS crash-lands on the planet Lakertya. On the floor of the console room, the Doctor begins his sixth regeneration...
In his post-regenerative confusion the Doctor is seperated from his young companion Mel and tricked into assisting the Rani in her megalomanic scheme to construct a giant time manipulator.
Lost on the barren surface of the planet, Mel has to avoid the Rani's ingenious traps and her monstrous, bat-like servants, the Tetraps. She joins forces with a rebel faction among the Lakertyans, desperate to end the Rani's control of their planet.
The Doctor must recover his wits in time to avoid becoming a permanent part of the Rani's plan to collect the genius of the greatest scientific minds in the Universe...
Working Titles
Strange Matter
Locations
Westdown Quarry, Cloford Quarry and Whatley Quarry, all near Frome, Somerset
Television Studios
Television Centre Studio 1 & Television Centre Studio 8
Notes
The first time the ninth title sequence (designed by Oliver Elmes) and fourth theme arrangement (by Keff McCulloch) are used.
Part One opens with a pre-titles sequence that ends with the Doctor's regeneration.
The Rani Returns
Sylvester makes his debut
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