| "Black Orchid" Part One | |
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| Air date | March 1st, 1982 |
| Writers | David Fisher Douglas Adams Graham Williams |
| Director | Michael Hayes |
| Producers | Graham Williams |
| Starring | Tom Baker; Lalla Ward |
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"Black Orchid (Part 1)" is the first part of the "Black Orchid" storyline, which ran through episodes 17-18 in season 19 of Doctor Who. The episodes originally aired on BBC1 from March 2nd to March 3rd, 1982. 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.