5L. Horns Of Nimon

  • Script Editor: Douglas Adams;
  • Writer: Anthony Read;
  • Produced by: Graham Williams;
  • Director: Kenny McBain;
  • Designer: Graeme Story;
  • Incidental Music: Dudley Simpson;

Programme Description

The people of Skonnos have been promised that their empire will be restored provided that they supply the alien Nimon with young sacrifices and radioactive hymetusite crystals. The Skonnons have been obtaining these from the nearby planet of Aneth.

The TARDIS has been stopped in space for repairs and encounters a Skonnon craft en route from Aneth, and Romana is taken aboard. The Doctor follows the craft in the semi-repaired TARDIS.

The people aboard the Skonnon craft are taken to the Nimons' lair, where the the Doctor and Romana discover that the Nimon are a parasitic race. An ambassador is sent to a planet and offers to help the natives. The hymetusite crystals are used to create a link through with the rest of the race can be transported.

The Doctor manages to destroy the link, and the Nimons are trapped on the last planet they visited - the dying Crinoth.

Regular Cast

  • Voice of K-9: David Brierley;
  • Romana: Lalla Ward;

Guest Cast

  • Soldeed: Graham Crowden;
  • Sorak: Michael Osbourne;
  • Teka: Janet Ellis;
  • Seth: Simon Gipps-Kent;
  • Nimon: Robin Sherringham, Bob Appleby (4), Trevor St John Hacker (4);
  • Co-Pilot: Malcolm Terris (1-3);
  • Pilot: Bob Horney (1);
  • Sezom: John Bailey (4);

  • UNCREDITED CAST:
  • Anethians: Nicholas Draek, Katy Jarret, Daniel Toabori. Rachel Wheeler;
  • Anethian Corpses: (all 3) Gary Gold, Jane Foot, Debbi Thomson;
  • Guards: (all 2-3) Paul Barton, Norman Bradley, David Glen, Terry Gurry, Joe Santo, Derek Suthern, Edmund Thomas;
  • Skonnon Elders: (all 2-3) Robert Baker, Roy Brent, Derek Chafer, Jim Delaney, Eric French, Donald Groves, David Harris, Peter Jackson, Ray Lavender, Ronald Mayer, Roy Seeley, Trevor Wedlock;

Transmissions

ChannelEpisodeTitleDateViewersPosition
BBC 1 522 Part One Sat 22 Dec 1979 2218:10 - 18:35 6.0M 100th
BBC 1 523 Part Two Sat 29 Dec 1979 2917:50 - 18:15 8.8M 56th
BBC 1 524 Part Three Sat 5 Jan 1980 518:20 - 18:45 9.8M 40th
BBC 1 525 Part Four Sat 12 Jan 1980 1218:20 - 18:45 10.4M 26th

Repeat Transmissions

This programme has not been repeated.

Locations

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

Studios

  • Television Centre Studio 3;
  • Television Centre Studio 6;

Bloopers and Mistakes

This programme has no bloopers or mistakes. It's probably not perfect, just that they haven't been found or pointed out yet

Notes and Trivia

The season should have closed with Shada, but a BBC strike resulted in it not being completed.

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