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Mawdryn Undead: Part Four
Broadcast: Wednesday 18th November 1998
11:30pm-12:00am AEDT (12:30 GMT) < > « »
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Featuring: Peter Davison, Nicholas Courtney, Janet Fielding, Mark Strickson, Sarah Sutton, David Collings, Valentine Dyall

As the Doctor's ethics are challenged and the two Brigadiers finally meet, Turlough plots with the Black Guardian to bring the Time Lord down once and for all...


Synopsis Source: Doctor Who Guide

Broadcast notes:

Part of "The Who Files" strand.
www.varos.net lists Arc of Infinity:4 which would more accurately fit the Time Lord theme of this section of the run

Broadcast Source: TWIDW
 

Report from the This Week in Doctor Who Archive:

Friday 13th November 1998:
FOXTEL's UK-TV - cable / satellite channel
Saturday at 1PM, Sunday at 2 and 8AM - The Invasion of Time - all 6 episodes
Monday through Wednesday at 11:30PM - Mawdryn Undead - episodes 2 to 4 of 4
Thursday and Friday at 11:30PM - The Five Doctors - 4 episode version, episodes 1 and 2

In the weekend feature, the 4th Doctor becomes the President of Gallifrey and promptly betrays time and space. Mawdryn Undead features 2 Brigadiers, one young and vibrant, the other older and suffering the results of a nervous breakdown. And the Doctor is partially responsible for it. And then viewers get the first parts of The Five Doctors, the 20th anniversary special.