Serial: 6G Episode Nos. 598, 599, 600, and 601. Title: Terminus
On the Black Guardian's orders, Turlough sabotages the TARDIS so that it nearly breaks up. As a failsafe,
it locks onto a nearby spacecraft that is bound for an infamous space station called Terminus that appears to be at the
exact center of the universe. It is infamous for it is where the victims of the Lazar's Disease are sent to die.
When Nyssa contracts the disease herself, the Doctor must try to stop her becoming one of their number,
and at the same time, prevent an explosion on the ship that could destroy the universe, just as once before such an
explosion from this position created it....
This story sees the departure of Sarah Sutton as Nyssa.
starring Peter Davison as the Doctor, Sarah Sutton as Nyssa, Janet Fielding as Tegan, Mark Strickson as Turlough,
and Valentine Dyall as the Black Guardian.
Written by Steve
Gallagher, Produced by John Nathan-Turner, and Directed by
Originally
transmitted from
DVD Features:
- All four episodes of the story with full restoration treatment.
- Graphical menus, episode and scene selection features, and subtitles for the hearing impaired.
- Optional commentary track with actors Peter Davison, Sarah Sutton, and Mark Strickson,
and writer Stephen Gallagher.
- Information Text subtitles option. Displays pop-up production trivia throughout the story.
- Isolated Music option. Plays the entire story with only the incidental music soundtrack playing.
- “Breaking Point” A 23-minute behind-the-scenes featurette about the particularly troubled production
of this story, featuring actors Peter Davison, Mark Strickson, Sarah Sutton, and Martin
Potter (Eirak), camera supervisor Alec Wheal, sound man Scott Talbott, designer Dick Coles,
and director Fiona Cumming.
- “Origins of the Universe” A 6-minute featurette featuring real astronomers Sir Patrick Moore and
John Mason discussing current cosmological thinking about the real Big Bang.
- Unused Model Shots. 3 minutes of model footage that didn’t make it into the finished story.
- CGI Effects Option. Plays the story with some of the special effects replaced by new CGI ones.
- Continuity. 2 minutes of the original BBC intro and outtro announcements from 1983.
- Photo Gallery. 8 minutes of stills taken throughout the production.
- PDF Materials. Place this disc into the DVD-ROM drive of your home computer and you can
view the following files: the original 1983 Radio Times billings, and CGI storyboards.
- Coming Soon trailer advertising the forthcoming release of The Twin Dilemma.
- 2 Easter Eggs. Highlight the area of blank text below
to see how to find them and what they are.
- Egg 1. Go into the first page of Special Features, highlight Audio Options, then press the up arrow.
A Doctor Who logo will appear. Click on this and you will see all four of the
studio countdown
clocks from the master tapes of all four episodes.
- Egg 2. Go into the second page of Special Features and
highlight the Menu button. Press the
Down arrow. A Doctor Who logo will appear. Click on this and you will see another
1-minute
round of trivia from the TARDIS Information System.
