The Visitation (Doctor Who)

119[1]The Visitation
Doctor Who serial
Cast
Others
Production
Directed byPeter Moffatt
Written byEric Saward
Script editorAntony Root
Produced byJohn Nathan-Turner
Executive producer(s)None
Music byPaddy Kingsland
Production code5X
SeriesSeason 19
Running time4 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast15 February 1982 (1982-02-15)
Last broadcast23 February 1982 (1982-02-23)
Chronology
← Preceded by
Kinda
Followed by →
Black Orchid
List of episodes (1963–1989)

The Visitation is the fourth serial of the 19th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was first broadcast in four twice-weekly parts on BBC1 from 15 to 23 February 1982.

The serial is set in and near London in the 17th century. In the serial, a group of fugitive aliens called Terileptils plot to make the Earth their new home by spreading a deadly plague among humanity.

  1. ^ From the Doctor Who Magazine series overview, in issue 407 (pp26-29). The Discontinuity Guide, which counts the unbroadcast serial Shada, lists this as story number 120. Region 1 DVD releases follow The Discontinuity Guide numbering system.


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