Time and the Rani

144[1]Time and the Rani
Doctor Who serial
Cast
Others
Production
Directed byAndrew Morgan
Written byPip and Jane Baker
Script editorAndrew Cartmel
Produced byJohn Nathan-Turner
Music byKeff McCulloch
Production code7D
SeriesSeason 24
Running time4 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast7 September 1987 (1987-09-07)
Last broadcast28 September 1987 (1987-09-28)
Chronology
← Preceded by
The Trial of a Time Lord: The Ultimate Foe
Followed by →
Paradise Towers
List of episodes (1963–1989)

Time and the Rani is the first serial of the 24th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 7 to 28 September 1987. It was the first to feature Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor.

In the serial, the renegade Time Lady the Rani (Kate O'Mara) brings the greatest geniuses from time and space to her laboratory on the planet Lakertya so she can use their minds to power her time manipulator.

  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 148. Region 1 DVD releases follow The Discontinuity Guide numbering system.