Black Orchid (Doctor Who)

Black Orchid is the fifth serial of the 19th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on BBC1 on 1 and 2 March 1982.

120 Black Orchid
Doctor Who serial
Cast
Doctor
Companions
Others
  • Michael Cochrane – Lord Cranleigh
  • Sarah Sutton – Ann Talbot
  • Barbara Murray – Lady Cranleigh
  • Gareth Milne – The Unknown/George Cranleigh
  • Moray Watson – Sir Robert Muir
  • Ivor Salter – Sergeant Markham
  • Andrew Tourell – Constable Cummings
  • Ahmed Khalil – Latoni
  • Brian Hawksley – Brewster
  • Timothy Block – Tanner
Production
Directed byRon Jones
Written byTerence Dudley
Script editorEric Saward
Produced byJohn Nathan-Turner
Executive producer(s)None
Music byRoger Limb
Production code6A
SeriesSeason 19
Running time2 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast1–2 March 1982
Chronology
 Preceded by
The Visitation
Followed by 
Earthshock

The serial is set in an English estate in 1925. In the serial, the alien time traveller the Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison) investigates the murder of two servants during a fancy dress party.

This story was the first purely historical adventure for the Doctor—featuring no science fiction elements save for the TARDIS and the regular cast—since The Highlanders (1966). Sarah Sutton plays two characters in this story.

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