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Slipback

Slipback
Doctor Who radio play
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Cover of the CD release
Cast
Others
Production
Written by Eric Saward
Produced by Paul Spencer
Executive producer(s) Jonathan James-Moore
Production code N/A
Series N/A (aired between Series 22 and 23)
Length 6 episodes, 10 minutes each
Originally broadcast 25 July–8 August 1985
List of Doctor Who serials
Slipback
Slipback novel.jpg
Author Eric Saward
Cover artist Paul Mark Tams
Series Doctor Who book:
Target novelisations
Publisher Target Books
Publication date

21 August 1986 (Hardback)

15 January 1987 (Paperback)
Pages 144
ISBN

Slipback is a radio audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, produced by the BBC and first broadcast in six episodes on BBC Radio 4 from 25 July to 8 August 1985, as part of a children's magazine show called Pirate Radio Four. It was later released on cassette and CD, most recently by BBC Audio and free with the 27 April 2010 edition of The Daily Telegraph newspaper via WHSmith.

The Sixth Doctor and Peri arrive on a mysterious space liner, where intergalactic policemen are investigating art thefts, a computer is suffering from a split personality and the Captain's disease threatens every living thing on the ship…

Slipback was broadcast on BBC Radio 4, four months after the final episode of Doctor Who's twenty-second season, during the programme's enforced hiatus, the next season not airing for another a year and a half. It was the first Doctor Who serial produced as a radio play (an earlier audio production, The Pescatons, was released as a story record). No further radio productions were mounted until the mid-1990s when Jon Pertwee reprised his role as the Third Doctor in two productions.

The story was written by series script writer Eric Saward, whose writing credits include The Visitation, Earthshock, Resurrection of the Daleks and Revelation of the Daleks.


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