The Awakening (Doctor Who)

131^[1] – *The Awakening*
131 – The Awakening
Doctor Who serial
Cast
	Doctor Peter Davison – Fifth Doctor;
	Companions Janet Fielding – Tegan Jovanka; Mark Strickson – Vislor Turlough;
	Others Polly James – Jane Hampden; Denis Lill – Sir George Hutchinson; Glyn Houston – Colonel Ben Wolsey; Jack Galloway – Joseph Willow; Keith Jayne – Will Chandler; Frederick Hall – Andrew Verney; Christopher Saul – Trooper;
Production
Directed by	Michael Owen Morris
Written by	Eric Pringle
Script editor	Eric Saward
Produced by	John Nathan-Turner
Music by	Peter Howell
Production code	6M
Series	Season 21
Running time	2 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast	19 January 1984
Last broadcast	20 January 1984
Chronology
← Preceded by; Warriors of the Deep	Followed by →; Frontios
	List of episodes (1963–1989)

The Awakening is the second serial of the 21st season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was originally broadcast on BBC1 on 19 and 20 January 1984.

The serial is set in the fictional English village of Little Hodcombe in 1984. In the serial, a psychic alien creature called the Malus takes control of Sir George Hutchinson (Denis Lill) to feed and awaken it with the help of deadly re-enactments of the English Civil War.

^ 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 132. 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 unbroadcast serial Shada, lists this as story number 132. Region 1 DVD releases follow The Discontinuity Guide numbering system.

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