Four to Doomsday

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*The working title for this story was "Days Of Wrath".
*Although "Castrovalva" was the first story aired which featured Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor, this story was the first in the season to be produced.
*It was originally decided that after "Castrovalva", the Doctor would only have two companions, Adric and Tegan. As a result, the character of Nyssa was to be written out of the series at the end of this story. However, Peter Davison strongly opposed this move because he felt that Nyssa was the companion who was "most suited to his vision of the Doctor." Given this, producer John Nathan-Turner and the rest of the production team relented and Nyssa was retained. The story for the following story "Kinda" was already developed with two companions and Nyssa was not featured in that narrative as written. Rather than a complete rewrite of "Kinda" to include Nyssa in the narrative, she remains absent much of that serial, said to be resting in the Tardis. This was set-up with Nyssa's collapse at the end of this story.

In print

Doctorwhobook
title=Four to Doomsday
series=Target novelisations
number=77
featuring=


writer=Terrance Dicks
publisher=Target Books
coverartist=
isbn=0 426 19334 2
set_between=
pages=
date=21 July 1983
preceding=Castrovalva
following=Earthshock|A novelisation of this serial, written by Terrance Dicks, was published by Target Books in April 1983.

Broadcast, VHS and DVD release

*This story was released on VHS in September 2001.

* A DVD of the story was released on 15th September 2008, which features a commentary by Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, Matthew Waterhouse & director John Black.

References

External links

*BBCCDW|id=fourtodoomsday|title=Four to Doomsday
*Brief | id=5w | title=Four to Doomsday
*Doctor Who RG | id=who_5w | title=Four to Doomsday

Reviews

*OG review | id=5w | title=Four to Doomsday
*DWRG | id=four | title=Four to Doomsday

Target novelisation

* [http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~ecl6nb/OnTarget/1983/four/83four.htm On Target — "Four to Doomsday"]