The Awakening (TV story)

Synopsis
The Doctor, Tegan, and Turlough arrive in Little Hodcombe, where the townspeople's' re-enactments of English Civil War battles are causing a dormant entity, the Malus, to re-awaken.

Plot
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Peter Davison
 * Tegan - Janet Fielding
 * Turlough - Mark Strickson
 * Jane Hampden - Polly James
 * Sir George Hutchinson- Denis Lill
 * Colonel Wolsey - Glyn Houston
 * Joseph Willow - Jack Galloway
 * Will Chandler - Keith Jayne
 * Trooper - Christopher Saul
 * Andrew Verney - Frederick Hall

Crew

 * Assistant Floor Manager - Marcus D F White
 * Costumes - Jackie Southern
 * Designer - Barry Newbury
 * Film Cameraman - Paul Wheeler
 * Film Editor - M A C Adams
 * Incidental Music - Peter Howell
 * Make-Up - Ann Ailes
 * Producer - John Nathan-Turner
 * Production Assistant - Rosemary Parsons
 * Production Associate - June Collins
 * Script Editor - Eric Saward
 * Special Sounds - Dick Mills
 * Studio Lighting - Peter Catlett
 * Studio Sound - Martin Ridout
 * Theme Arrangement - Peter Howell
 * Title Music - Ron Grainer
 * Visual Effects - Tony Harding

Story Notes

 * This story had the working titles of; War Game, Poltergeist.
 * A scene involving the Doctor's robotic companion, Kamelion, was filmed for this serial but cut before transmission. It would have been the character's first appearance since The King's Demons; ultimately the character would not appear again until Planet of Fire.
 * Will Chandler was considered to be a new companion, but Eric Saward and John Nathan-Turner felt viewers might become tired of him.

Ratings

 * Part One - 7.9 million viewers
 * Part Two - 6.6 million viewers

Myths

 * The Awakening was originally written as a four-part story featuring the Daleks. (It wasn't.)

Filming Locations

 * Tarrant Monkton, Dorset
 * Shapwick, Dorset
 * Martin, Hampshire
 * Damer's Farm, Martin Cross, Hampshire
 * St Bartholomew's Church, Shapwick, Dorset
 * Bishops Court Farm, Dorset
 * Martin Down, Martin, Hampshire
 * BBC Television Centre (TC6), Shepherd's Bush, London

Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

 * As Tegan notes, the Doctor seems to forget the reason that they went to the town in the first place.

Continuity

 * The Malus, and its companion probe craft hinted at in the dialogue of the story, are reintroduced later in PDA: The Hollow Men and Last of the Gaderene.

DVD and Video Releases
Released on video in episodic format along side Frontios, not yet released on DVD.

Novelisation

 * Main article: The Awakening (novelisation)


 * Novelised by Eric Pringle in 1985.