The Time Meddler

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*The working title for this story was "The Monk".
*During production of this story, new producer John Wiles began taking over production duties.
*William Hartnell, displeased at the number of changes undergoing the production, play-acted throwing a temper tantrum during the rehearsal of this story.
*Episodes one, three, and four were reported missing from the BBC Film and Videotape Library following an audit in 1978 (see Doctor Who missing episodes). Edited telerecordings of all four episodes were returned to the BBC from Nigeria in 1985, and complete copies of episodes one and three were returned in 1992. A short sequence from episode four remains missing from the otherwise complete print of all four episodes; the announced 2008 Region 2 DVD release included a recreation of this missing sequence, which was removed by censors and runs 12 seconds in duration, depicting an act of violence. [http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EEAZulFkFlpmDkJKkx&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyle]

Casting

*Features a guest appearance by Peter Butterworth - see also Celebrity appearances in Doctor Who.
*William Hartnell does not appear in episode 2 as he was on holiday. A pre-taped recording of his voice is played when the Doctor is locked in a cell.
*Alethea Charlton also appeared in An Unearthly Child as the cavewoman, Hur.

Broadcast and reception

This story was repeated on BBC2 in 1992.

Doctorwhobook
title=The Time Meddler
series=Target novelisations
number=126
featuring=


writer=Nigel Robinson
publisher=Target Books
coverartist=Jeff Cummins
isbn= 0 491 03337 0
set_between=
pages=
date=15th October 1987 (Hardback)March 1988 (Paperback)
preceding=Terror of the Vervoids
following=The Mysterious Planet|

Commercial releases

The story was released on VHS in November 2002. Later, on February 4, 2008, it was released on DVD. The quality of the surviving prints of the later episodes was deemed low enough that the typical VidFIRE process was not applied to the story.

In print

*A novelisation of this serial, written by Nigel Robinson, was published by Target Books in October 1987.

References

External links

*BBCCDW | id=timemeddler | title=The Time Meddler
*Brief |id=s | title=The Time Meddler
*Doctor Who RG | id=who_s | title=The Time Meddler
*OG | id=s | title=The Time Meddler

Reviews

*DWRG | id=timeme | title=The Time Meddler
*OG review | id=s | title=The Time Meddler

Target novelisation

*OG review | id=s-book | title=The Time Meddler | description=novelisation
* [http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~ecl6nb/OnTarget/1988/timemedd/88timeme.htm On Target — "The Time Meddler"]