5Y. Kinda

  • Script Editor: Eric Saward;
  • Produced by: John Nathan-Turner;
  • Writer: Christopher Bailey;
  • Director: Peter Grimwade;
  • Designer: Malcolm Thornton;
  • Incidental Music: Peter Howell;

Programme Description

On the planet Deva Loka the members of an Earth survey team have been disappearing, and only three are left. The TARDIS lands on Deva Loka, and while the Doctor, Adric and Tegan explore, Nyssa remains behind to recover from a mild mental disorientation.

Tegan becomes enchanted by some wind chimes, and falls asleep, and becomes obsessed by the evil force known as the Mara. The natives of the planet are telepathic. They have been attempting to make the humans mentally at one with them, but two of the male officers minds snap, and they become mentally unstable.

One of the Kinda natives falls under the influence of the Mara, but the Mara is drawn out when it is trapped by the Doctor inside a ring of mirrors. The officer's minds are cleared by the Box of Jhana, and the survey team decides Deva Loka is unsuitable.

Regular Cast

  • Adric: Matthew Waterhouse;
  • Nyssa: Sarah Sutton;
  • Tegan Jovanka: Janet Fielding;

Guest Cast

  • Sanders: Richard Todd;
  • Todd: Nerys Hughes;
  • Hindle: Simon Rouse;
  • Aris: Adrian Mills;
  • Dukkha: Jeffrey Stewart (1-2);
  • Anatta: Anna Wing (1);
  • Anicca: Roger Milner (1);
  • Panna: Mary Morris (2-4);
  • Karuna: Sarah Prince (2-4);
  • The Trickster: Lee Cornes (3-4);

  • UNCREDITED CAST:
  • The Kinda: Bob Appleby, Paul Baden, Tobin Mahon Brown, Chris Bradshaw, David Cole, Graham Cole, Ian Ellis, Jonathon Evans, Laurence Ferdinand, Charlie Gray, Gail Griffin, Roy Hatfield, Paul Heasman, Jerry Judge, Rosalind Kendall, Adrienne Lawrence, Barney Lawrence, Camilla Lawrence, Kiki Lawrence, Ann Lee, Jonathan Miller, Mike Mungarvan, Glenn Murphy, Tim Olroyd, Harry Paine, Richard Reid, Stephen Whyment, Alistair Wilkins;

Transmissions

ChannelEpisodeTitleDateViewersPosition
BBC 1 562 Part One Mon 1 Feb 1982 118:55 - 19:20 8.5M 78th
BBC 1 563 Part Two Tue 2 Feb 1982 219:05 - 19:30 9.5M 45th
BBC 1 564 Part Three Mon 8 Feb 1982 815:55 - 16:20 8.7M 67th
BBC 1 565 Part Four Tue 9 Feb 1982 919:05 - 19:30 9.2M 58th

Repeat Transmissions

ChannelTitleDateViewersPosition
BBC 1 Part One Mon 22 Aug 1983 18:25 - 18:50 4.2M 96th
BBC 1 Part Two Tue 23 Aug 1983 18:25 - 18:50 4.3M 91st
BBC 1 Part Three Wed 24 Aug 1983 18:35 - 19:00 3.9M 103rd
BBC 1 Part Four Thu 25 Aug 1983 18:30 - 18:55 4.8M 75th

Locations

This programme has not been filmed on location or the locations are not known

Studios

  • Television Centre Studio 8;

Bloopers and Mistakes

Watch out for the incredible bouncy snake.

Look very closely at the forest floors and you'll be able to see power cords. Apparently JNT saw this during production, and it was decided to just "buy" the shot and hope it looked like tree roots!

In the circle-of-mirrors scene it is very clear that one of the mirrors is missing. (The one in the bottom-left corner of the high-angle shots). The cameras doing the ground-level shots had to have a wide enough area to shoot the action inside the circle.

Notes and Trivia

Nyssa is absent from Parts Two and Three.

Working Titles

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