City of Death
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Template:Doctorwhobox City of Death is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from September 29 to October 20 1979. The story is set in Paris, and was the first Doctor Who serial to feature footage filmed on location in a foreign country.
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Synopsis
While taking in the sights of Paris, the Doctor and Romana sense that someone is tampering with time. Who is the mysterious Count Scarlioni? Why does he seem to have counterparts scattered through time? And just how many copies of the Mona Lisa did Leonardo da Vinci paint?
Plot
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The face of Scaroth.
Notes
- The script is credited to "David Agnew", a pseudonym for producer Graham Williams, script editor Douglas Adams and original writer David Fisher. Fisher was undergoing a divorce at the time and was unable to complete the serial, so Williams and Adams rewrote it. Due to Adams's influence the script has his distinctive dialogue and several Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy references. Adams reuses part of the story's plot for Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (see also Shada).
- Romana mentions a great art gallery of the galaxy named the Braxiatel Collection. The owner of this collection, a Time Lord named Irving Braxiatel, first appears in the spin-off novel Theatre of War by Justin Richards and thereafter in several of the Bernice Summerfield novels.
- Due to the ongoing ITV strike, all episodes of this serial, along with the previous Destiny of the Daleks, received very high ratings. This reached a peak with Episode 4, which got 16.1 million viewers, making it the highest rated Doctor Who episode ever.
External links
- Cast and Crew list, on the BBC website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/episodeguide/cityofdeath/castcrew.shtml)