Production
| Episode | Broadcast date | Run time | Viewership |
Archive |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Nightmare Begins" | 13 November 1965 (1965-11-13) | 22:55 | 9.1 | Only stills and/or fragments exist |
| "Day of Armageddon" | 20 November 1965 (1965-11-20) | 24:25 | 9.8 | 16mm t/r |
| "Devil's Planet" | 27 November 1965 (1965-11-27) | 24:30 | 10.3 | Only stills and/or fragments exist |
| "The Traitors" | 4 December 1965 (1965-12-04) | 24:42 | 9.5 | Only stills and/or fragments exist |
| "Counter Plot" | 11 December 1965 (1965-12-11) | 24:03 | 9.9 | 16mm t/r |
| "Coronas of the Sun" | 18 December 1965 (1965-12-18) | 24:45 | 9.1 | Only stills and/or fragments exist |
| "The Feast of Steven" | 25 December 1965 (1965-12-25) | 24:36 | 7.9 | Only stills and/or fragments exist |
| "Volcano" | 1 January 1966 (1966-01-01) | 24:42 | 9.6 | Only stills and/or fragments exist |
| "Golden Death" | 8 January 1966 (1966-01-08) | 24:38 | 9.2 | Only stills and/or fragments exist |
| "Escape Switch" | 15 January 1966 (1966-01-15) | 23:37 | 9.5 | 16mm t/r |
| "The Abandoned Planet" | 22 January 1966 (1966-01-22) | 24:34 | 9.8 | Only stills and/or fragments exist |
| "The Destruction of Time" | 29 January 1966 (1966-01-29) | 23:31 | 8.6 | Only stills and/or fragments exist |
The series' soon-to-be regular composer, Dudley Simpson, did not work on this serial owing to a serious dispute with director Douglas Camfield. Sometime after the production of the serial The Crusade, the two had a small falling out. On the next serial that Camfield directed (The Time Meddler), Camfield elected to use percussion music, feeling that it lent to the story's atmosphere. However, Simpson interpreted this as a snub by Camfield, causing the dispute to escalate. By the time this serial had entered production, relations between the two had grown so bad that Camfield refused to even consider Simpson, instead hiring Tristram Cary. The dispute was still unresolved at the time of Camfield's death in 1984.
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