- This article is about the Doctor Who serial. For the character, see Celestial Toymaker.
The Celestial Toymaker is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from April 2 to April 23, 1966.
| 024 - The Celestial Toymaker | |||
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| Cast | |||
| Production | |||
| Directed by | Bill Sellars | ||
| Written by | Brian Hayles Donald Tosh | ||
| Script editor | Gerry Davis | ||
| Produced by | Innes Lloyd | ||
| Executive producer(s) | None | ||
| Production code | Y | ||
| Series | Season 3 | ||
| Running time | 4 episodes, 25 mins each | ||
| First broadcast | April 2 - April 23, 1966 | ||
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Synopsis
The First Doctor and his companions arrive in a strange ___domain presided over by the Celestial Toymaker — an enigmatic, immortal entity who forces them to play a series of games, failure at which will render them his playthings. The Doctor has to solve the Trilogic game while Steven and Dodo are faced with defeating a succession of apparently child-like but potentially lethal animated toys.
Plot
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Notes
- Working titles for this story included The Toymaker and The Trilogic Game.
- The episodes of this serial had individual titles. They were, respectively, "The Celestial Toyroom", "The Hall of Dolls", "The Dancing Floor" and "The Final Test".
- Features a guest appearance by Michael Gough as the Celestial Toymaker. Gough would return to the programme to play Time Lord Councillor Hedin in the Fifth Doctor serial, Arc of Infinity. See also Celebrity appearances in Doctor Who.
- All episodes of this story, except Episode 4, are missing from the BBC archives. Episode 4 was released on DVD in the UK in November of 2004 in a three-disc set titled Doctor Who - Lost in Time: A Collection of Rare Episodes.
- Brian Hayles was unavailable to do neccesary rewrites, so then-script editor Donald Tosh performed them. As Tosh would no longer be script editor by the time the story was transmitted, he agreed with Hayles to take the writer's credit, with Hayles being credited for the idea. After Tosh finished work on the scripts, his successor, Gerry Davis was forced to make further rewrites due to a budget shortfall. Tosh was unhappy with the rewrites and refused to be credited, while Davis could not take a credit because he was the series' script editor. As a result of this, Hayles was the sole credited author on the final serial, despite the fact that he had not worked on it in three months and the final scripts bore little to no resemblance to what he wrote.
- In episode 2, the King of Hearts recites a version of the children's rhyme Eeny, meeny, miny, moe which includes the word nigger. On the audio release, the offending word is masked by Peter Purves's narration.
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