The Ark (Doctor Who)

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023 – The Ark
Doctor Who serial
The inhabitants of the Ark discover that they have uninvited guests.
Cast
Doctor William Hartnell – First Doctor
Companions Peter Purves – Steven Taylor Jackie Lane – Dodo Chaplet
Others Eric Elliott – Commander Inigo Jackson – Zentos Roy Spencer – Manyak Michael Sheard – Rhos Kate Newman – Mellium Ian Frost – Baccu Stephanie Heesom, Paul Greenhalgh – Guardians Edmund Coulter, Frank George, Ralph Carrigan, John Caesar – Monoids Roy Skelton, John Halstead – Monoid Voices Terence Woodfield – Maharis Brian Wright – Dassuk Eileen Helsby – Venussa Terence Bayler – Yendom Richard Beale – Refusian Voice
Production
Directed by	Michael Imison
Written by	Paul Erickson Lesley Scott
Script editor	Gerry Davis
Produced by	John Wiles
Executive producer(s)	None
Music by	Tristram Cary[a]
Production code	X
Series	Season 3
Running time	4 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast	5 March 1966 (1966-03-05)
Last broadcast	26 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 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, which 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.
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