DELTA AND THE BANNERMEN

Written by Malcolm Kohll.

Directed by Chris Clough.

Transmitted originally: 2 November 1987 to 16 November 1987.

"You are not the Happy Hearts Holiday Club from Bolton, but instead are spacemen in fear of an attack from other spacemen?" - Burton.

THE STORY

Chimeron queen, Delta flees from Gavrok and his Bannermen mercenaries, who have destroyed her people. The Doctor sees her board a galactic tour bus en route to Disneyland in 1959. The bus hits a satellite, and instead lands near Shangri-La, a south Wales holiday camp. Delta is carrying with her an egg which hatches a young Chimeron Princess. But the Bannermen locate Delta and slaughter the tourists.

With the help of Billy, a young local mechanic who has fallen in love with Delta, his would-be girlfriend, Ray, Goronwy, a local bee-keeper, Shangri-La's manager Mr Burton and two US secret agents, Hawk and Weismuller, who have been sent to retrieve the satellite, the Doctor foils the mercenaries attempts to capture the Princess. The Bannermen are eventually defeated when the ultrasonic powers of the Princess are broadcast over the camp's public address system. Gavrok is killed by his own booby trap. Billy, who has been ingesting Chimeron food to help him mutate, goes with Delta to help her repopulate her planet.

CAST:

The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy), Mel (Bonnie Langford), Gavrok (Don Henderson), Delta (Belinda Mayne), Billy (David Kinder), Ray (Sara Griffiths), Burton (Richard Davies), Weismuller (Stubby Kaye), Hawk (Morgan Deare), Goronwy (Hugh Lloyd), Murray (Johnny Dennis), Bollit (Anita Graham), Tollmaster (Ken Dodd), Adlon (Leslie Meadows), Keillor (Brian Hibbard), Vinny (Martyn Geraint), Callon (Clive Condon), Arrex (Richard Mitchley), The Lorells (Robin Aspland, Keff McCulloch, Justin Myers, Ralph Salmins), Young Chimeron (Jessica McGough, Amy Osborn), Chimeron Princess (Laura Collins, Carley Joseph), Vocalists (Tracey Wilson, Jodie Wilson), Chimerons (Russell Brook, Ian McClaren, Tim Scott).

FACTS:

The Seventh Doctor's familiar question-mark handle umbrella makes its first appearance in this story.

Comedian Ken Dodd played the Tollmaster of an Intergalactic Toll-gate who was shot by Don Henderson's Gavrok in episode one of the story.

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