Ghost Light (Doctor Who)

153[1]Ghost Light
Doctor Who serial
Cast
Others
Production
Directed byAlan Wareing
Written byMarc Platt
Script editorAndrew Cartmel
Produced byJohn Nathan-Turner
Music byMark Ayres
Production code7Q
SeriesSeason 26
Running time3 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast4 October 1989 (1989-10-04)
Last broadcast18 October 1989 (1989-10-18)
Chronology
← Preceded by
Battlefield
Followed by →
The Curse of Fenric
List of episodes (1963–1989)

Ghost Light is the second serial of the 26th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in three weekly parts on BBC1 from 4 to 18 October 1989.

Set in a mansion house in Perivale in 1883, Josiah Smith (Ian Hogg), a cataloguer of life forms from another planet, seeks to assassinate Queen Victoria and take over the British Empire.

  1. ^ From the Doctor Who Magazine series overview, in issue 407 (pp26-29). The Discontinuity Guide, which counts the four segments of The Trial of a Time Lord as four separate stories and also counts the unbroadcast serial Shada, lists this story as number 157. Region 1 DVD releases follow The Discontinuity Guide numbering system.