The Enemy Within (serial)

The Enemy Within was the third story of Season 30. It was written by Christopher Priest, directed by Marcus Mortimer, featured Richard Griffiths as the Doctor, Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield and John Banks as Henrick.

Synopsis
The TARDIS, the Doctor’s best and oldest friend; what powers it though? Many have different theories but the Doctor’s is the most important: fear that is what he claims powers his beloved time and space machine. Somewhere inside the TARDIS was the one the Doctor feared the most.

The Physic Tension between the two powers the machine. But will the Doctor have to eventually confront and defeat his greatest fear?

Part 1
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Part 2
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Richard Griffiths
 * Bernice Summerfield - Lisa Bowerman
 * Henrick - John Banks

Crew

 * Writer - Christopher Priest
 * Producer - Ian Fraser
 * Script Editor - Ben Aaronovitch
 * Director - Marcus Mortimer
 * Lighting -  John King
 * Designer - Ken Ledsham
 * Visual Effects Designers - Malcom James, Dave Chapman
 * Make-Up Designer - Helen Barrett
 * Casting Director - Anne Henderson
 * Music - Mark Ayres
 * Costume Designer - Phoebe De Gaye
 * Edited by - Dave King
 * Vision Mixer - Julie Mann
 * Original Theme Music - Ron Grainer
 * Title Music - Mark Ayres
 * Title Sequence by CAL Video

Memorable Quotes
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Development

 * This story was initially penned to be for Season 19 as a four-part story following the same concept. Despite sending in the scripts for the story, Christopher Priest had not heard anything from the production office regarding them or his payment. He eventually contacted the producer of the time, John Nathan-Turner. He was told that the scripts were unusable and that he would not be paid.
 * After a bitter dispute Priest was paid and both Nathan-Turner and Eric Saward forced to pen a letter of apology over their treatment of the writer. The script was replaced by Saward's script Earthshock.
 * As incumbent producer Ian Fraser was in the rough stages of setting up the 30th-anniversary special, The Lords of Time, he looked backed on previous scripts that would be used for filler. After coming across the initial version of the story, he asked Priest to rewrite the story as a two-parter which would simply consist of the Eighth Doctor, Bernice and Henrick in the TARDIS throughout. The benefit of the newer version was that it saved money for the need for additional set designs or additional actors due to it being set only in the TARDIS which helped to cover the costs.

Pre-Production
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Production
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Post-Production
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Reaction

 * Official BARB ratings: 8.1m for Part One and 8.4m for Part Two.
 * In 2014, Doctor Who: Magazine ran a poll consisting of every broadcast Doctor Who story at the time, and "The Enemy Within" was voted 26th out of 323 stories.

Story Notes

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Continuity

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