Ghost Light (Doctor Who)

153^[1] – *Ghost Light*
153 – Ghost Light
Doctor Who serial
Cast
	Doctor Sylvester McCoy – Seventh Doctor;
	Companion Sophie Aldred – Ace;
	Others Ian Hogg – Josiah Samuel Smith; Michael Cochrane – Redvers Fenn-Cooper; Carl Forgione – Nimrod; Sharon Duce – Control; John Nettleton – Reverend Ernest Matthews; Katharine Schlesinger – Gwendoline; Frank Windsor – Inspector Mackenzie; Brenda Kempner – Mrs Grose; Sylvia Syms – Mrs Pritchard; John Hallam – Light;
Production
Directed by	Alan Wareing
Written by	Marc Platt
Script editor	Andrew Cartmel
Produced by	John Nathan-Turner
Music by	Mark Ayres
Production code	7Q
Series	Season 26
Running time	3 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast	4 October 1989
Last broadcast	18 October 1989
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.

^ 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.

[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.

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