Survival is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in three weekly parts from November 22 to December 6, 1989. The final story to be transmitted on BBC One as part of the original 26-year run of the series, it marks the final television appearances of Anthony Ainley as the Master. Sylvester McCoy (born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith August 20, 1943) is a Scottish actor. ... The Seventh Doctor is the name given to the seventh incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Rona Munro is a prize-winning British writer. ... Andrew Cartmel Andrew Cartmel is a British science-fiction writer and journalist. ... John Nathan-Turner. ... This is a list of Doctor Who television serials. ... November 22 is the 326th day (327th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... December 6 is the 340th day of the year (341st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Curse of Fenric is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from October 25 to November 15, 1989. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... This is a list of Doctor Who television serials. ... A broadcast of the long-running and popular British science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme (and a 1996 television movie) produced by the BBC. The programme shows the adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as the Doctor, who explores time and space in his TARDIS time ship with his companions, solving problems and... November 22 is the 326th day (327th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... December 6 is the 340th day of the year (341st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... BBC One is the primary television channel of the BBC, and the first in the United Kingdom. ... Anthony Ainley Anthony Ainley (20 August 1932 - 3 May 2004) was an English actor best known for his work on television and particularly for his role as the Master in Doctor Who. ... The Master is a supporting character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Synopsis

The Seventh Doctor brings Ace back to her home town of Perivale. However, her old friends are being kidnapped by a race of alien hunters called the Cheetah People, who were shown the way to Earth by the Doctor's old enemy the Master. The Seventh Doctor is the name given to the seventh incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Ace (given name Dorothy) is a fictional character played by Sophie Aldred in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Perivale is a place in west London in the London Borough of Ealing. ... A 1967 Soviet Union 16 kopeks stamp. ... Adjectives: Terrestrial, Terran, Telluric, Tellurian, Earthly Atmosphere Surface pressure: 101. ... The Master is a supporting character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Plot

The Master under the influence of the Cheetah virus

The Seventh Doctor brings Ace back to her home town of Perivale in the suburbs of North West London. The suburb is not as it should be: a mysterious black cat is wandering around, somehow creating a situation in which humans are hunted down and made to disappear to another dimension. Ace becomes worried when most of her old friends seem to have disappeared, but the Doctor is more preoccupied with the behaviour of the strange cat. It becomes apparent the black cat is being controlled by a strange being in the other dimension, viewing the scenes in Perivale through the cat’s eyes and choosing which humans to chase and transport. An unhappy young man called Stuart becomes his next victim. Ace follows soon afterwards, hunted down by a Cheetah Person on horseback, which seems to have a hunting affinity with the curious cat. Later the Doctor and a keep-fit instructor called Patterson are chosen and teleported to another world, bathed in a blood-red sky, where the Doctor finds his nemesis the Master who greets him. Image File history File links Screenshot from the Doctor Who serial Survival File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Screenshot from the Doctor Who serial Survival File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The Seventh Doctor is the name given to the seventh incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Ace (given name Dorothy) is a fictional character played by Sophie Aldred in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Perivale is a place in west London in the London Borough of Ealing. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The Master is a supporting character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

The renegade is evidently unwell, his eyes and mouth displaying feline characteristics, and is using the black cat (or kitling) to create a dimensional bridge for the Cheetah People to hunt prey on Earth. Quite why he is doing this is unclear, other than he seems keen to keep the Cheetah People occupied somehow. He tells the Doctor that the planet is alive and has a bewitching influence; the indigenous population bred the kitlings and had a great civilisation, but they regressed into animals through the power of the planet. He too is beginning to show changes and needs the Doctor's help to escape from the planet.

Ace has meanwhile made contact with some of her friends, Shreela and Midge, who are hiding in some woods with a young man called Derek. The planet is evidently dangerous as both Stuart and a terrified milkman find out when a Cheetah Person hunts him to the death. Ace and her friends soon find the Doctor and Patterson, and the Time Lord has deduced they are on a very ancient planet which is dying. A Cheetah pack then attacks and during the fight back Midge kills one Cheetah while Ace injures another, called Karra. She begins to form an attachment to Karra and nurses her, tending her injuries, which worries the Doctor greatly. In time Ace’s eyes change and she begins to transform into a Cheetah herself. She abandons the Doctor to go hunting with Karra but he eventually wins her round. Doctor Who. ...

Midge has meanwhile completely fallen to the power of the planet and is turning into an animal. The Master seizes on this and uses Midge to teleport them both back to Earth and away from the dying world. The Doctor persuades Ace to help him get back to Perivale and she does so, also enabling Patterson, Derek and Shreela to flee the strange planet. Patterson denies anything amiss has taken place, falling back on his “survival of the fittest” mantras and his self defence classes. The Doctor and Ace now head around Perivale in search for Midge and the Master. They eventually find them at the youth club, where they have killed Patterson for sport, and Midge too is killed in the Master’s machinations. Karra’s arrival brings comfort to Ace, whose transformation is continuing, but the Master kills Karra too.

The Master transports the Doctor with him back to the Cheetah Planet for a final conflict but the Doctor resists the pull of the planet, turning away from violence, and is transported away from the dying world. However, the Master looks doomed on the planet as it begins to break up. The Doctor has gone back to the TARDIS and Earth, where he finds Ace, whose metamorphosis has reversed, and tells her she will have grown through the experience: the element of the Cheetah Planet, however, will remain within her forever.

Cast

• The Doctor — Sylvester McCoy
• Ace — Sophie Aldred
• The Master — Anthony Ainley
• Karra — Lisa Bowerman
• Paterson — Julian Holloway
• Derek — David John
• Midge — William Barton
• Stuart — Sean Oliver
• Shreela — Sakuntala Ramanee
• Len — Gareth Hale
• Harvey — Norman Pace
• Ange — Kate Eaton
• Woman — Kathleen Bidmead
• Squeak — Adele Silva
• Neighbour — Michelle Martin

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Cast notes

• The part of Karra in this serial is played by Lisa Bowerman, who is now more familiar to fans as the voice of Bernice Summerfield in the Big Finish Productions audio dramas.
• This serial features guest appearances of the comedians Gareth Hale and Norman Pace, and actress Adele Silva (as a 9-year old, in her first television role). See also Celebrity appearances in Doctor Who.

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Continuity

• The gap between Survival and the Doctor Who television movie was filled by British publisher Virgin Publishing, who from 1991 onwards produced a range of novels entitled the New Adventures carrying on the adventures of the Doctor and Ace following the end of Survival.

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Production

• Working titles for this story included Cat-Flap and Blood Hunt.^[1]
• Survival was one of only three Doctor Who serials to be recorded completely on BBC Outside Broadcast video, instead of the mix of OB and studio video that was more usual during the late 1980s, and the mix of film and video that was usual before them. This was probably possible because Ghost Light, the next story in production, was filmed completely in the studio. The other stories to be recorded solely on OB video were The Sontaran Experiment (1975) and The Curse of Fenric (1989).
• The battle at the climax of the story was recorded and is set on the site of the ancient hill fort at Horsenden Hill, Perivale. The majority of location recording was done in and around Perivale, with small sections shot at nearby Ealing, outside and near The Drayton Court pub.
• During the scenes in Midge's flat, Ace grabs War, a gramophone record by pop group U2, and says "are they still going?" as the group apparently had been around for eleven years at the time Ace left Earth in 1987. As of 2007, they have been 'around' for 31 years.

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End of an era

Having already surmised that episode three of Survival was likely to at least be the last episode of Doctor Who for some time, and possibly the last ever, the programme's producer John Nathan-Turner decided close to transmission that a more suitable conclusion should be given to the final episode^[1]. To this end, script editor Andrew Cartmel wrote a short, melancholic closing monologue for actor Sylvester McCoy, which McCoy recorded on November 23, 1989 — by coincidence, the show's twenty-sixth anniversary. "There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke, and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there’s injustice, and somewhere else the tea's getting cold! Come on, Ace — we’ve got work to do!" This was dubbed over the closing scene as the Doctor and Ace walked off into the distance, apparently to further adventures. The Doctor Who production office at the BBC finally closed down, for the first time since 1963, in August 1990. Script Editor is a program included with Mac OS that allows AppleScripts to be written, debugged, and ran. ... Andrew Cartmel Andrew Cartmel is a British science-fiction writer and journalist. ... November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 38 days remaining. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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This story is the last to feature Anthony Ainley as the Master. Ainley was not asked to return as the Master for the 1996 Doctor Who television movie. Instead, Gordon Tipple was cast as the Master for the prologue and Eric Roberts played the Master for the rest of the movie. Ainley reprised the role of the Master for the 1998 computer game Destiny of the Doctors. He continued to be active in Doctor Who, attending conventions and recording a commentary track for the DVD of the 1981 serial The Keeper of Traken. Ainley died in May 2004. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Gordon Tipple is a American actor who has appeared in several television roles including The X-Files, The Outer Limits and the briefest of appearances as the Master in the 1996 Doctor Who telemovie. ... Eric Anthony Roberts (born on April 18, 1956, in Biloxi, Mississippi) is an American film and stage actor. ... Cover of Destiny of the Doctors Destiny of the Doctors is a PC computer game based on the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who; released on 5 December 1997 by BBC Multimedia. ... The Keeper of Traken is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from January 31 to February 21, 1981. ...

This story was also the last to entirely feature Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor. McCoy returned briefly to the role in 1996 at the beginning of the American television movie continuation of the series, Doctor Who, to regenerate into the Eighth Doctor. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The Eighth Doctor is the name given to the eighth incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ...

Finally, this story was the last to feature Sophie Aldred as Ace. Aldred would have continued in her role had the series been renewed for Season 27; however, Aldred's contract was set to expire at the middle part of that season. As a result, the character of Ace was set to be written out of the series in an Ice Warrior story called Ice Time (1990) by Marc Platt.^[2] According to various interviews with the production team, the new companion would have been a female safecracker whom the Doctor would have taken under his wing, with her gangster father as a recurring character.^{[citation needed]} For details on Doctor Who during the 1990s, see History of Doctor Who. The Ice Warriors is the name given to a fictional extraterrestrial race of reptile-like beings in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Marc Platt Marc Platt is a British writer. ... Safe-cracking is the process of opening a safe, generally without the combination. ... The Doctor Who diamond logo, used in the shows opening titles from 1973 to 1980 Doctor Who is a British television science-fiction series, produced and screened by the British Broadcasting Corporation on their BBC One channel from 1963 to 1989 in its original form, with a new series...

Doctor Who eventually returned to production as a BBC television series in 2004, produced by BBC Wales. "Rose", the first episode of the new series, aired on March 26, 2005. As the new series is produced as 45-minute episodes, this makes Survival the final serial to date to be produced in 25-minute instalments, which had been the standard for the series (except for a one-season experiment with 45-minute episodes in 1985) since 1963. BBC Wales (Welsh: ) is a division of the British Broadcasting Corporation for Wales. ... Rose is an episode in the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who that was first broadcast on 26 March 2005. ... March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (86th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In print

Doctor Who book
Survival
Series	Target novelisations
Release number	150
Writer	Rona Munro
Publisher	Target Books
Cover artist	Alister Pearson
ISBN	0 426 20352 6
Release date	18 October 1990
Preceded by	Ghost Light
Followed by	The Curse of Fenric

A novelisation of this serial, written by Rona Munro, was published by Target Books in October 1990. Munro becomes only the third woman to write a Doctor Who novelisation. Although this was the final televised story, Target (and its successor, Virgin Books) would continue to publish novelisations based on earlier televised serials until 1993. Image File history File links Doctor_Who_Survival. ... by David Whitaker, published in 1964, was the very first Doctor Who novelisation. ... Rona Munro is a prize-winning British writer. ... Target Books was a British publishing imprint, established in 1973 by Universal-Tandem Publishing Co Ltd, a paperback publishing company. ... Alister Pearson is an English illustrator. ... Ghost Light is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in three weekly parts from October 4 to October 18, 1989. ... The Curse of Fenric is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from October 25 to November 15, 1989. ... Rona Munro is a prize-winning British writer. ... Target Books was a British publishing imprint, established in 1973 by Universal-Tandem Publishing Co Ltd, a paperback publishing company. ...

Broadcast, VHS and DVD releases

• Although there was no public indication that this was to be the final regular instalment of Doctor Who, unlike previous season-ending stories there was no voice-over on the closing credits of the final episode to tell viewers that the programme would return for a new series for the following year.
• This story was released on VHS in October 1995.
• It was later released on DVD on April 16, 2007 as a 2-disc set.

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References

1. ^ ^{a b} Survival at Doctor Who: A Brief History Of Time (Travel)
2. ^ http://home.earthlink.net/~qstnmark/melted/ice_time.htm

External links

• Survival episode guide on the BBC website
• Survival at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• Survival at Outpost Gallifrey

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Reviews

• Survival reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
• Survival reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide

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Target novelisation

• On Target — Survival