| "The Mark of the Rani (Part 1)" | |
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| Series Doctor Who Season 22, Episode 5 | |
| File:Doctor Who 22x05 001.jpg | |
| Air date | February 2nd, 1985 |
| Writers | David Fisher Douglas Adams Graham Williams |
| Director | Michael Hayes |
| Producers | Graham Williams |
| Starring | Tom Baker; Lalla Ward |
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"VThe Mark of the Rani (Part 1)" is the first part of the "The Mark of the Rani" storyline, which ran through episodes 5-6 in series 22 of Doctor Who. The episodes originally aired on BBC1 from February 2nd to February 9th, 1985. It was directed by Michael Hayes and written by David Fisher, Douglas Adams and Graham Williams, all credited under the single pseudonym of David Agnew. In this episode, Scaroth captures Romana and blackmails her into completing Kerensky's work on his time machine. The Doctor fails to prevent him from activating it, and must follow him back to Earth's primordial past to stop him from preventing the development of the human race.