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5L. Doctor Who - Horns Of Nimon (Season Seventeen)

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;

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:
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

Ep.TitleDateViewersPosition
522.Part One (BBC 1) Sat 22/12/1979 18:10 - 18:35 6.0M100th
523.Part Two (BBC 1) Sat 29/12/1979 17:50 - 18:15 8.8M56th
524.Part Three (BBC 1) Sat 05/01/1980 18:20 - 18:45 9.8M40th
525.Part Four (BBC 1) Sat 12/01/1980 18:20 - 18:45 10.4M26th

Repeat Transmissions

This programme has not been repeated

Bloopers

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

Locations

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

Studios

Television Centre Studio 3; Television Centre Studio 6;

Notes / Trivia

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

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