Doctor Who/The Claws of Axos

The Claws of Axos
Season 8, Serial 3
Airdate	March 13, 1971
Production Number	GGG
by	Bob Baker & Dave Martin
Directed by	Michael Ferguson
← 8x02 The Mind of Evil	8x04 → Colony in Space
Doctor Who — Season Eight

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The Claws of Axos is the third serial of the eighth season of Doctor Who, and the fifty-seventh serial overall.

Episode One: Jon Pertwee (Doctor Who), Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart), Roger Delgado (The Master), Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Richard Franklin (Captain Mike Yates), John Levene (Sergeant Benton), Peter Bathurst (Chinn), Paul Grist (Filer), Donald Hewlett (Hardiman), David Savile (Winser), Derek Ware (Pigbin Josh), Bernard Holley (Axon Man), Michael Walker (1st Radar Operator), David G. March (2nd Radar Operator), Fernanda Marlowe (Corporal Bell), Patricia Gordino (Axon Woman), John Hicks (Axon Boy), Debbie Lee London (Axon Girl)

Episode Two: Jon Pertwee (Doctor Who), Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart), Roger Delgado (The Master), Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Richard Franklin (Captain Mike Yates), John Levene (Sergeant Benton), Peter Bathurst (Chinn), Paul Grist (Filer), Donald Hewlett (Hardiman), David Savile (Winser), Bernard Holley (Axon Man), Tim Pigott-Smith (Captain Harker), Michael Walker (1st Radar Operator), David G. March (2nd Radar Operator), Patricia Gordino (Axon Woman)

Episode Three: Jon Pertwee (Doctor Who), Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart), Roger Delgado (The Master), Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Richard Franklin (Captain Mike Yates), John Levene (Sergeant Benton), Peter Bathurst (Chinn), Paul Grist (Filer), Donald Hewlett (Hardiman), Bernard Holley (Axon Man), Kenneth Benda (The Minister), Tim Pigott-Smith (Captain Harker)

Episode Four: Jon Pertwee (Doctor Who), Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart), Roger Delgado (The Master), Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Richard Franklin (Captain Mike Yates), John Levene (Sergeant Benton), Peter Bathurst (Chinn), Paul Grist (Filer), Donald Hewlett (Hardiman), Bernard Holley (Axon Man), Royston Farrell (Technician)

Trivia

The Show

• This marks the first time the interior of the Doctor's TARDIS is seen in colour.

Behind the Scenes

• Originally titled The Vampire from Space, it began as a story envisaged to be a seven-part serial for The Second Doctor.

• Corporal Bell noting that the arrival of Axos had prompted "freak weather conditions" was added to explain the varying range of the weather during filming. It went from snow at the start of the week, through fog and finally to sunshine on the last day. It got so cold that Nicholas Courtney recalled that half of his fake moustache kept falling off and Katy Manning nearly suffered from frostbite through her thing boots, with the cast and crew keeping warm over open vehicle bonnets with the engines running.