Galaxy 4 (TV story)

Summary
The Doctor, Vicki, and Steven land on an unknown planet inhabited by the hideous Rills with their Chumbley robots and the beautiful Drahvins. The Drahvins try to enlist the Doctor's help to destroy the "evil" Rills, but who are the real villains? (For a more detailed summary click here)

Cast & Characters

 * The Doctor - William Hartnell
 * Steven Taylor - Peter Purves
 * Vicki - Maureen O'Brien
 * Maaga - Stephanie Bidmead
 * Drahvin One - Marina Martin
 * Drahvin Two - Susanna Carol
 * Drahvin Three - Lyn Ashley
 * Chumblies - Jimmy Kaye
 * Chumblies - William Shearer
 * Chumblies - Angelo Muscat
 * Chumblies - Pepi Poupee
 * Rill Voice - Robert Cartland
 * Chumblies - Tommy Reynolds
 * Garvey - Barry Jackson

Uncredited Cast

Crew

 * Writer - William Emms
 * Director - Derek Martinus
 * Producer - Verity Lambert
 * Script Editor - Donald Tosh
 * Designer - Richard Hunt
 * Assistant Floor Manager - Marjorie Yorke
 * Assistant Floor Manager - Sue Willis
 * Costumes - Daphne Dare
 * Make-Up - Sonia Markham
 * Production Assistant - Angela Gordon
 * Special Sounds - Brian Hodgson
 * Studio Lighting - Derek Hobday
 * Studio Lighting - Ralph Walton
 * Studio Sound - George Prince
 * Theme Arrangement - Delia Derbyshire
 * Title Music - Ron Grainer

Influences

 * Morality plays
 * Beauty and the Beast
 * Brave New World
 * Queen of Outer Space
 * Journey into Space
 * Lysistrata

Ratings

 * Four Hundred Dawns - 9.0m viewers
 * Trap of Steel - 9.5m viewers
 * Air Lock - 11.3m viewers
 * The Exploding Planet - 9.9m viewers

Myths

 * A late change to the casting of the voice actor meant that Anthony Paul was credited in the Radio Times as providing the voice of the Rills for episode 3 (Robert Cartland was correctly named in the Radio Times)
 * William Emms was a school teacher who wrote in his spare time (Although he had been a school teacher he had been working as a full time writer for the 4 years before writing Doctor Who)

Location Filming
All epsiodes were filmed at BBC Television Centre TC4, London, UK

Continuity

 * Vicki refers to their trip to Xeros (The Space Museum)

Discontinuity
To be added

Quotes
Rill - "It is easy to help others when they are so willing to help you. Though we are beings of separate planets, you from the solar system and we from another space, our ways of thought, at times, do not seem all that different. It has been an honour to know you and serve you."

Story Arcs
None

Similar stories

 * The Savages

More Info

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Public Releases

 * DVD Release - This story has not yet been released on DVD.
 * Video Release - This story has not been released on video due to the limited material which remains available
 * A reconstruction of this story has been made using the available images and audio by Loose Cannon Productions. For more information on this reconstruction and the material available click here