Doctor Who: The Enemy Of The World (TV Soundtrack)

THE PROGRAMME: The Enemy of the World was the exception to the rule in Doctor Who's fifth season, an era otherwise characterised by a prevalence of marauding Cybermen, Yeti, Ice Warriors and weed creatures. Whilst the central figure of Salamander can be said to be monstrous in his own way, writer David Whitaker (who had been the programme's original story editor from 1963-1964) provided something of a respite from alien attack with these six episodes. With explosive action scenes, a continent-spanning storyline, glamorous but deadly females and a despotic villain with designs on ruling the planet, The Enemy of the World is in many ways Doctor Who's nod to the James Bond series of films, the latest of which in 1967 was You Only Live Twice. Barry Letts, here undergoing his first directorial assignment for Doctor Who, would later become the series' producer when Peter Bryant (taking over from Innes Lloyd at the end of Enemy...) bowed out. Location filming, primarily of the Australian beach scenes, took place at Littlehampton, West Sussex, in November 1967. Production then moved to Ealing Film Studios, where a split-screen technique was employed to facilitate the Doctor's climactic confrontation with Salamander. Most of the remaining interior scenes for each episode were then rehearsed week by week and videotaped at the BBC's Lime Grove studios. As Salamander, Patrick Troughton was distinguished by both a heavy accent and careful make-up to give him a leaner, more tanned facial appearance. Stock music for the story was taken from recordings of two works by composer Bela Bartok, The Miraculous Mandarin and Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste - the latter piece underscoring Salamander's dark, underground secret. The programme enjoyed a healthy degree of Radio Times coverage during the serial's run, including a full-colour cover devoted to it for the 20-26 January issue. Somewhat ironically during the run of a serial featuring no aliens, the caption 'The Monstrous World of Doctor Who' headlined an article about the behind-the-scenes genesis of assorted alien adversaries. A few weeks earlier, a piece entitled 'Who Sets the Fashion?' claimed that the adventure was set 'fifty years ahead' in 2017. The TARDIS crew's plight at the end of this story leads directly into the opening moments of the next, The Web of Fear, also available on BBC Audio.

THE PROGRAMME: The Enemy of the World was the exception to the rule in Doctor Who's fifth season, an era otherwise characterised by a prevalence of marauding Cybermen, Yeti, Ice Warriors and weed creatures. Whilst the central figure of Salamander can be said to be monstrous in his own way, writer David Whitaker (who had been the programme's original story editor from 1963-1964) provided something of a respite from alien attack with these six episodes. With explosive action scenes, a continent-spanning storyline, glamorous but deadly females and a despotic villain with designs on ruling the planet, The Enemy of the World is in many ways Doctor Who's nod to the James Bond series of films, the latest of which in 1967 was You Only Live Twice. Barry Letts, here undergoing his first directorial assignment for Doctor Who, would later become the series' producer when Peter Bryant (taking over from Innes Lloyd at the end of Enemy...) bowed out. Location filming, primarily of the Australian beach scenes, took place at Littlehampton, West Sussex, in November 1967. Production then moved to Ealing Film Studios, where a split-screen technique was employed to facilitate the Doctor's climactic confrontation with Salamander. Most of the remaining interior scenes for each episode were then rehearsed week by week and videotaped at the BBC's Lime Grove studios. As Salamander, Patrick Troughton was distinguished by both a heavy accent and careful make-up to give him a leaner, more tanned facial appearance. Stock music for the story was taken from recordings of two works by composer Bela Bartok, The Miraculous Mandarin and Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste - the latter piece underscoring Salamander's dark, underground secret. The programme enjoyed a healthy degree of Radio Times coverage during the serial's run, including a full-colour cover devoted to it for the 20-26 January issue. Somewhat ironically during the run of a serial featuring no aliens, the caption 'The Monstrous World of Doctor Who' headlined an article about the behind-the-scenes genesis of assorted alien adversaries. A few weeks earlier, a piece entitled 'Who Sets the Fashion?' claimed that the adventure was set 'fifty years ahead' in 2017. The TARDIS crew's plight at the end of this story leads directly into the opening moments of the next, The Web of Fear, also available on BBC Audio.