by Terence Dudley
- UK
- Hardback
- WH Allen
- September 1986
Other Editions
Doctor Who: Black Orchid
UK / Paperback / Target Books / February 1987 / No. 113
Back Cover Blurb — Target Books (1987)
On a lazy June afternoon in 1925 the TARDIS materialises at the tiny railway station of Cranleigh Halt. Warmly welcomed by the local gentry, the time-travellers look forward to a well-deserved rest from their adventures.
After a stunning performance at a friendly cricket match, the Doctor, together with Tegan, Adric and Nyssa, is invited to a splendid masked ball by Lady Cranleigh and her son, Charles.
But a dark menace haunts the secret corridors of Cranleigh Hall. And before the ball is over, the quiet summer will be shattered by the shocking discovery of a brutal murder...
Television Story
Black Orchid
Script Writer: Terence Dudley
2 × 25 Minutes / BBC1 / Colour
01/03/82 Part One
02/03/82 Part Two
All episodes exist and have been released on Region 2 DVD in the UK. The story is due to be released on Region 1 DVD in the United States in August 2008.
Regular Characters
Fifth Doctor / Adric / Nyssa / Tegan Jovanka
Audio Book
- UK
- BBC Audiobooks
- 4 × CD / Download
- 5 hours 12 minutes
- June 2008
Unabridged reading of the novelisation, narrated by Michael Cochrane who played
Lord Cranleigh in the television story.
Notes
- Black Orchid was the second of Terence Dudley's three television stories, and was his second and final Doctor Who novelisation based on his own stories (Four to Doomsday was novelised by Terrance Dicks).
- Black Orchid was the final novelisation based on a Fifth Doctor story to be released, leaving Resurrection of the Daleks as the only one of the twenty stories never to be novelised.