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For the United States Navy ship, see USS Shada (SP-580); for the Arabic emphasis sign, see Shadda; for the village in Azerbaijan, see Şada.
Shada
Doctor Who Serial
Shada, the prison planetoid of the Time Lords.
Cast
Doctor
Tom Baker (Fourth Doctor)
Companions
Lalla Ward (Romana)
David Brierley (Voice of K-9 Mk. II)
Others
Christopher Neame — Skagra
Denis Carey – Professor Chronotis
Daniel Hill – Chris Parsons
Victoria Burgoyne – Clare Keightley
Gerald Campion – Wilkin
Derek Pollitt – Dr Caldera
John Hallet – Police Constable
David Strong – Passenger
Shirley Dixon – Voice of the Ship
James Coombes – Voice of the Krargs
James Muir, Lionel Sansby, Derek Suthern, Reg Woods – Krargs
Production
Writer
Douglas Adams
Director
Pennant Roberts (original)
Script editor
Douglas Adams
Producer
Graham Williams (original) John Nathan-Turner (video)
Production code
5M
Series
Season 17
Length
Incomplete (original) 6 episodes, 25 minutes each (intended)
Originally broadcast
Unaired (original) 6 July 1992 (video release)[1]
Chronology
← Preceded by
Followed by →
The Horns of Nimon
The Leisure Hive
Shada is an unaired serial of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was intended to be the final serial of the 1979-80 season (Season 17), but was never completed due to a strike at the BBC during filming. In 1992, its recorded footage was released on video using linking narration by Tom Baker, the Doctor to complete the story.
The script, with adaptions, was later produced by Big Finish Productions as an audio play, with animation and was made available on BBCi and the BBC website in 2003. This version saw Paul McGann take on the role of the Doctor, with Lalla Ward reprising her role as Romana II, with an otherwise different cast.
A novelisation of the story written by Gareth Roberts and returning the action to the Fourth Doctor and Romana was released in March 2012.[2]
Contents
1 Synopsis
1.1 Continuity
2 Production
2.1 Original television version
2.1.1 Levine animated version
2.2 Big Finish version (2003)
2.2.1 The Cast
2.2.2 Outside references
3 In print
4 VHS, Webcast and DVD releases
5 References
6 Bibliography
7 External links
7.1 Reviews
7.2 Fan novelisation
7.3 Webcast
Synopsis
The story revolves around the lost planet Shada, on which the Time Lords built a prison for defeated would-be conquerors of the universe. Skagra, an up-and-coming would-be conqueror of the universe, needs the assistance of one of the prison's inmates, but finds that nobody knows where Shada is anymore except one aged Time Lord who has retired to Earth, where he is masquerading as a professor at St. Cedd's College, Cambridge. Luckily for the fate of the universe, Skagra's attempt to force the information out of Professor Chronotis coincides with a visit by the professor's old friend, the Doctor.
Continuity
In an unfilmed scene in Episode 5, a listing of prisoners kept on Shada included a Dalek, a Cyberman, and a Zygon. Instead of these, aliens bearing resemblance to Ice Warriors were seen.
In 1983, clips from Shada were used in The Five Doctors, the 20th-Anniversary special. Tom Baker, the fourth actor to play the Doctor, had declined to appear in the special, and the plot was reworked to explain the events in the clips.[3]
In the book, various references are made to past and future Doctor Who. In particular past rebellious Time Lords are mentioned including, the Master, the Rani, the Meddling Monk and Morbius.
For the Big Finish version, Tom Baker was originally approached to reprise the role of the Doctor, but declined. The Eighth Doctor was then substituted and the story reworked accordingly.
Although working from the original Adams script, portions of the Big Finish version were reworked by Gary Russell to make the story fit into Doctor Who continuity. This included a new introduction, and a new explanation for the Fourth Doctor and Romana being "taken out of time" during the events of The Five Doctors; the Eighth Doctorhas come to collect Romana and K-9 because he has begun to have a feeling that there was something they should have done at that time. In addition to this –
Romana is referred to as Madam President by Skagra in Episode 5.
In Episode 6 it is Romana, using her Presidential powers, who decides that Chronotis should be allowed to return to Cambridge.
When the policeman enters Chronotis' room, the Doctor can be heard talking about a "terrible way to see in the New Year" in a possible reference to that Doctor's first adventure.
Various other minor dialogue changes throughout, mostly relating to the Eighth Doctor reflecting that he has missed Romana and K-9 since they left him and how much he enjoyed their company in the past.
When Skagra is investigating the...
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