The Ark (Doctor Who)

023 – The Ark
Doctor Who serial
The inhabitants of the Ark discover that they have uninvited guests.
Cast
Others
Production
Directed byMichael Imison
Written byPaul Erickson
Lesley Scott
Script editorGerry Davis
Produced byJohn Wiles
Executive producer(s)None
Music byTristram Cary[a]
Production codeX
SeriesSeason 3
Running time4 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast5 March 1966 (1966-03-05)
Last broadcast26 March 1966 (1966-03-26)
Chronology
← Preceded by
The Massacre
Followed by →
The Celestial Toymaker
List of episodes (1963–1989)

The Ark is the sixth serial of the third season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 5 to 26 March 1966.

The serial is set at least ten million years in the far distant future. In the first two episodes the time traveller the First Doctor (William Hartnell) and his travelling companions Steven Taylor (Peter Purves) and Dodo Chaplet (Jackie Lane) arrive on a generation ship that Dodo names "the Ark". The Doctor searches for a cure for a fever that has spread across the human and Monoid races on board the ship, who have no immunity to it. The last two episodes are set 700 years later, and involve the Doctor, Steven and Dodo working with the Refusian race to stop the Monoids from wiping out the last of humanity with a bomb.

The story constitutes Dodo's first journey as a companion to the Doctor. It is also the earliest serial of the third season to exist in its entirety.[1]


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  1. ^ "The Ark ★★★".