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{{Infobox Doctor Who episode
| number             = 067
| serial_name        = Frontier in Space
| show               = DW
| type               = serial
| image              = 
| caption            = 
| doctor             = [[Jon Pertwee]] – [[Third Doctor]]
| companion          = [[Katy Manning]] – [[Jo Grant]]
| guests             = 
*[[Roger Delgado]] – [[The Master (Doctor Who)|The Master]]
*[[Vera Fusek]] – President
*[[Michael Hawkins (British actor)|Michael Hawkins]] – General Williams
*[[Ramsay Williams]] – Congressman Brook
*[[John Woodnutt]] – Draconian Emperor
*[[Peter Birrel]] – Draconian Prince
*[[Lawrence Davidson (actor)|Lawrence Davidson]] – Draconian First Secretary (uncredited){{efn|name=fn1|A caption slide from the end credits of Episode One was reused accidentally for Episode Two. This resulted in Lawrence Davison (Draconian First Secretary) and Timothy Craven (Cell Guard) not being credited on-screen, though they were billed in ''Radio Times'', and Louis Mahoney (Newscaster) and Roy Pattison (Draconian Space Pilot) &ndash; both of whom appeared only in Episode One &ndash; being repeated.}}
*[[Roy Pattison]] – Draconian Space Pilot
*[[William Wilde (actor)|Bill Wilde]] – Draconian Captain
*[[Ian Frost]] – Draconian Messenger
*[[Ray Lonnen]] – Gardiner
*[[Barry Ashton]] – Kemp
*[[John Rees (actor)|John Rees]] – Hardy
*[[James Culliford]] – Stewart
*[[Harold Goldblatt]] – Professor Dale
*[[Dennis Bowen (actor)|Dennis Bowen]] – Prison Governor
*[[Madhav Sharma]] – Patel
*[[Richard Shaw (actor)|Richard Shaw]] – Cross
*[[Luan Peters]] – Sheila
*[[Louis Mahoney]], [[Bill Mitchell (actor)|Bill Mitchell]] – Newscasters
*[[Karol Hagar]] – Secretary
*[[Timothy Craven]] – Cell Guard (uncredited){{efn|name=fn1|A caption slide from the end credits of Episode One was reused accidentally for Episode Two. This resulted in Lawrence Davison (Draconian First Secretary) and Timothy Craven (Cell Guard) not being credited on-screen, though they were billed in ''Radio Times'', and Louis Mahoney (Newscaster) and Roy Pattison (Draconian Space Pilot) &ndash; both of whom appeared only in Episode One &ndash; being repeated.}}
*[[Laurence Harrington]] – Lunar Guard
*[[Clifford Elkin]] – Earth Cruiser Captain
*[[Stanley Price (actor)|Stanley Price]] – Pilot of Space Ship
*[[Caroline Hunt (actress)|Caroline Hunt]] – Technician
*[[Rick Lester]], [[Michael Kilgarriff]], [[Stephen Thorne]] – Ogrons
*[[Michael Wisher]] – Dalek Voice
*[[John Scott Martin]], [[Murphy Grumbar]], [[Cy Town]] – Daleks
| director           = [[Paul Bernard (director)|Paul Bernard]]
| writer             = [[Malcolm Hulke]]
| script_editor      = [[Terrance Dicks]]
| producer           = [[Barry Letts]]
| executive_producer = None
| composer           = [[Dudley Simpson]]
| production_code    = QQQ
| series             = [[Doctor Who (season 10)|Season 10]]
| length             = 6 episodes, 25 minutes each
| started            = {{Start date|1973|2|24|df=y}}
| ended              = {{End date|1973|3|31|df=y}}
| preceding          = ''[[Carnival of Monsters]]''
| following          = ''[[Planet of the Daleks]]''
}}
'''''Frontier in Space''''' is the third serial of the [[Doctor Who (season 10)|tenth season]] of the British [[science fiction television]] series ''[[Doctor Who]]''. The serial was first broadcast in six weekly parts on [[BBC One|BBC1]] from 24 February to 31 March 1973. It was the last serial to feature [[Roger Delgado]] as [[The Master (Doctor Who)|the Master]].

The serial is set on the [[Earth]], the [[Moon]], Draconia, and the home planet of the [[Ogron]]s in the 26th century. In the serial, the [[Dalek]]s employ the Master to provoke a war between the human and Draconian galactic empires.

==Plot==
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The [[Third Doctor]] and [[Jo Grant|Jo]] arrive on an [[Earth]] cargo ship in the 26th century after a near hyperspace collision. In this time the Empire of Earth is on the verge of war with the Draconian Empire, after cargo ships on both sides claim that the other side is raiding said cargo ships. After a piercing noise in the air the crew of the cargo ship are indeed attacked, but while the crew envisions the Draconian forces, they are actually being attacked by the [[Ogron]]s, who were previously under the employ of the [[Dalek]]s. They gut the ship of all cargo and steal the [[TARDIS]].

The Doctor and Jo are blamed by the crew of the cargo ship, and are taken into custody. They undergo Interrogation through the mind probe and various escape and rescue attempts by the Draconians at first and then the Ogrons themselves, that all fail. Soon afterwards the Doctor is sent to a prison on the Moon without Jo.

Diplomatic relations break down, and the Draconian Ambassador is ordered back to Draconia to report to his father the Emperor. Meanwhile a representative of an Earth dominion arrives to take Jo into custody with a full criminal record for her and the Doctor, this officer of the law is actually [[The Master (Doctor Who)|the Master]] who is the one behind the Ogron attacks with a device that amplifies the fear centers of the mind.

After an unsuccessful attempt by himself to escape the prison, the Doctor is also transferred to the "custody" of the Master, who intends to escort the Doctor and Jo to the Ogron planet, but before this is accomplished, they are intercepted by a real Draconian ship that diverts their course to Draconia and their Emperor, where the Master's plot has been exposed due to a failed attempt by the Ogrons to rescue both Time Lords. An Ogron is left behind.

With the assistance of the Draconian Ambassador, they intend to reveal the Ogron to the President of Earth to reveal the Truth, but the Master intercepts them, rescues the Ogron, and abducts Jo after an Earth ship arrests the Doctor and the Ambassador. Brought before the President of Earth, who is not disposed to the idea of an all out war, they, along with one General Williams (who is responsible for a previous conflict), regrettably decide to mount an expedition to the Ogron planet.  

Resisting the control of the Master through hypnosis and the fear device, Jo sends a distress signal that the Doctor and the expedition follow to the Ogron planet. It is revealed that the Ogrons along with the Master are under the employ of the Daleks who are pushing for the war between the two empires before launching an invasion force they've been preparing. The Doctor helps General Willams and the Draconian Ambassador escape the Orgon planet to inform their respective empires of the truth.  

Jo leads the Doctor to where the Master has kept the TARDIS, but he, along with the Ogrons, holds them at gunpoint. The Doctor uses the fear device and a dangerous clash of guns between the Master and Ogrons to cause an escape plan, though the Doctor is injured in the scuffle.

The Doctor, barely conscious, asks Jo to help him into the TARDIS. He staggers over to the console, de-materialising the ship then using the [[telepathy|telepathic]] circuits, sends a message to the [[Time Lord]]s, in an effort to follow the Daleks.

==Production==
The titles for ''Frontier in Space'' were prepared, alongside the previous serial, ''[[Carnival of Monsters]]'', with a new arrangement of the [[Doctor Who theme music|theme music]] performed by Paddy Kingsland on a synthesiser. Known as the "Delaware" arrangement (the [[BBC Radiophonic Workshop]] was based on Delaware Road in west London), it proved unpopular with BBC executives, so the original [[Delia Derbyshire]] theme was restored, although an early edit of episode 5 still contains the "Delaware" music and was used for the VHS release. This early edit of episode 5 with the Delaware theme featured a longer reprise at the beginning of the episode compared to the broadcast version of episode 5.

The 3 Daleks which appear in the final episode were the same props which had been used in Day of the Daleks.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5CxMkbsMPZq2XCjtgmKrgNP/the-fourth-dimension |title=BBC One - Doctor Who, Season 10, Frontier in Space - the Fourth Dimension}}</ref>

The final sequence in the Master's headquarters was intended to contain the giant Ogron-eating monster, but director [[Paul Bernard (director)|Paul Bernard]] did not like the costume and omitted it, leaving the scene with just frightened Ogrons running away from something unseen. Producer [[Barry Letts]] and script editor [[Terrance Dicks]] felt the sequence lacked impact and a new ending was filmed in the TARDIS as part of the first production block of the following story, ''[[Planet of the Daleks]]''. ''Frontier in Space'' was Paul Bernard's last ''Doctor Who'' work.

Jon Pertwee considered the Draconians to be his favourite monster as the rubber and latex masks used allowed the actors playing them to employ a full range of facial expressions.<ref name="PertweeHowe1">{{cite book |last1=Pertwee |first1=Jon |last2=Howe |first2=David J. |title=I am the Doctor:Jon Pertwee's Final Memoir |date=1996 |publisher=Doctor Who Books, Virgin Publishing Ltd |location=London |isbn=1-85227-621-5|pages=81 & 97}}</ref> Recalling the production of this story he noted that filming near the [[Hayward Gallery]] at the [[South Bank]] was made difficult due to a number of "homeless people and drunks" lying around the area. According to Pertwee, Paul Bernard asked the stuntmen and actors who were on location in costume as Ogrons to ask these people to move to allow filming to proceed.<ref name="PertweeHowe2">{{cite book |last1=Pertwee |first1=Jon |last2=Howe |first2=David J. |title=I am the Doctor:Jon Pertwee's Final Memoir |date=1996 |publisher=Doctor Who Books, Virgin Publishing Ltd |location=London |isbn=1-85227-621-5|page=98}}</ref>

When the wiping of episodes ended in 1978 it was discovered that episodes 1, 2, 3 & 6 had only survived as black and white telerecordings for overseas sales. In 1983, [[PAL]] copies were returned from [[ABC Television (Australian TV network)|ABC Television]] in Australia.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://missingepisodes.blogspot.com/p/timeline.html | title=The Destruction of Time: Timeline }}</ref>

===Cast notes===
This would be the last appearance of Roger Delgado as the Master, his final scene being the confusion outside the TARDIS with his shooting the Doctor, perhaps accidentally, then disappearing with the panicking Ogrons. Roger Delgado was killed in a car crash in Turkey less than three months after this episode's UK broadcast.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2010-01-27/frontier-in-space/ |title = Frontier in Space ★★★★}}</ref>

John Woodnutt had previously played Hibbert in ''[[Spearhead from Space]]'' (1970) and would later play the dual roles of Broton and the Duke of Forgill in ''[[Terror of the Zygons]]'' (1975) as well as Seron in ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'' (1981). Luan Peters had previously appeared in ''[[The Macra Terror]]'' (1967) under her stage name Karol Keyes. Caroline Hunt previously appeared in ''[[The Reign of Terror (Doctor Who)|The Reign of Terror]]'' (1964). Louis Mahoney later appeared as Ponti in ''[[Planet of Evil]]'' (1975) and as Billy Shipton in ''[[Blink (Doctor Who)|Blink]]'' (2007).

Harold Goldblatt had previously appeared with Jon Pertwee in a 1938 radio production in Belfast entitled ''Lillibullero'', which was one of Pertwee's earliest radio performances.<ref name="PertweeHowe2"/>

==Broadcast and reception==
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According to the BBC's Audience Research Report, ''Frontier in Space'' was well received by viewers at the time of broadcast.<ref name="television companion"/> [[Paul Cornell]], [[Martin Day (writer)|Martin Day]], and [[Keith Topping]] wrote of the serial in ''The Discontinuity Guide'' (1995), "Worthy, very well directed and designed to the hilt with a solid costuming policy for both empires. However, it's obviously padded in parts."<ref name="discontinuity">{{cite book |title=[[The Discontinuity Guide]] |last1=Cornell |first1=Paul |author-link1=Paul Cornell |last2=Day |first2=Martin |author-link2=Martin Day (writer) |last3=Topping |first3=Keith |author-link3=Keith Topping |year=1995 |publisher=[[Virgin Books]] |location=London |isbn=0-426-20442-5 |chapter=Frontier in Space|chapter-url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/frontierinspace/detail.shtml }}</ref> In ''The Television Companion'' (1998), [[David J. Howe]] and [[Stephen James Walker]] stated that the story worked "brilliantly", with the production design "[putting] the whole thing on a suitably grand scale".<ref name="television companion">{{cite book | author = [[David J. Howe|Howe, David J]] & [[Stephen James Walker|Walker, Stephen James]] | year = 1998 | title = Doctor Who: The Television Companion | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/frontierinspace/detail.shtml/detail.shtml | edition = 1st | location = London | publisher = [[BBC Books]] | isbn = 978-0-563-40588-7 }}{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 

In 2010, Patrick Mulkern of ''[[Radio Times]]'' awarded it four stars out of five and recalled that it was "surprising and exciting" on first viewing, though in retrospect it seemed to be "a lumbering wannabe-epic with screeds of padding, duff cliffhangers and endless scenes of the Doctor and Jo banged up". He praised the Draconians and Ogrons, but felt that "the fact that the heroes spend perhaps two-thirds of the story locked up is tiresome and cannot be overlooked".<ref name="Radio Times">{{cite web|first=Patrick|last=Mulkern|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2010-01-28/frontier-in-space|title=Doctor Who: Frontier in Space|work=[[Radio Times]]|date=28 January 2010|access-date=3 March 2013}}</ref> [[DVD Talk]]'s John Sinnott noted that the story was "talky" and had a lot of padding, but that it got "much better" when the Master was revealed.<ref name="DVD Talk">{{cite web|first=John|last=Sinnott|url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/40637/doctor-who-dalek-war-planet-of-the-daleks/?___rd=1|title=Doctor Who Dalek War: Frontier in Space & Planet of the Daleks|publisher=[[DVD Talk]]|date=23 February 2010|access-date=3 March 2013}}</ref> In the book ''Doctor Who: The Episode Guide'', Mark Campbell awarded it four out of ten, describing it as "an overlong and uninteresting [[space opera]]—a genre ''Doctor Who'' has never done well. Delgado's exit is particularly badly handled."<ref>{{cite book |last=Campbell |first=Mark |title=Doctor Who: The Episode Guide |date=2010 |publisher=Pocket Essentials |isbn=978-1842433485 |edition=4th |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pe2MAgAAQBAJ&q=an+overlong+and+uninteresting+space+opera&pg=PT62 |access-date=26 April 2020}}</ref>

[[Peter Capaldi]], who played the [[Twelfth Doctor]], has said it is one of his favourite serials of the classic seasons.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cultbox.co.uk/features/lists/peter-capaldi-reveals-his-favourite-doctor-who-eps-to-watch-on-a-rainy-day/2|title = Peter Capaldi reveals his 10 favourite 'Doctor Who' eps to watch on a rainy day - Page 2 of 3|date = 26 July 2015}}</ref>

==Commercial releases==

===In print===
{{Infobox book
| name              = Doctor Who and the Space War
| image             = Doctor Who and the Space War.jpg
| border            = yes
| caption           = 
| author            = [[Malcolm Hulke]]
| cover_artist      = [[Chris Achilleos]]<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://chrisachilleos.co.uk/achilleos_1975_drwho_spacewar-1170/ | title=Chris Achilléos &#124; the Space War }}{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
| series            = ''[[Doctor Who]]'' book:<br />[[List of Doctor Who novelisations|Target novelisations]]
| release_number    = 57
| release_date      = 23 September 1976
| publisher         = [[Target Books]]
| pages             = 
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A novelisation of this serial, written by [[Malcolm Hulke]], was published by [[Target Books]] in September 1976 under the title ''Doctor Who and the Space War''. This was the last time Target would give a novelisation a substantially different title than that of the serial on which it was based. The novel abandons the cliffhanger ending of the televised program and has the Doctor simply leaving the Master on the Ogron world to pursue the Daleks. An unabridged reading of the novelisation by actor [[Geoffrey Beevers]] was released on CD in February 2008 by BBC Audiobooks.

===Home media===
The story was released on [[VHS]] in August 1995. Episode 5 uses the "Delaware" music mentioned above. The final episode of this story was also issued on ''The Pertwee Years'' VHS release, along with the final episodes of both ''[[Inferno (Doctor Who)|Inferno]]'' (1970) and ''[[The Dæmons]]'' (1971). The serial was released on DVD on 5 October 2009 as part of the box set "Dalek War", alongside ''Planet of the Daleks''.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5CxMkbsMPZq2XCjtgmKrgNP/the-fourth-dimension |title = BBC One - Doctor Who, Season 10, Frontier in Space - the Fourth Dimension}}</ref> It was released on Blu-ray as part of "The Collection - Season 10" boxed set in July 2019.

==Notes==
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==References==
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<ref name="ArchiveStatus">{{cite web|url = http://gallifreyone.com/episode.php?id=qqq|title = Frontier in Space|publisher = Outpost Gallifrey|last = Lyon|first = Shaun|date = 31 March 2007|access-date = 30 August 2008|display-authors = etal|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20041212053649/http://gallifreyone.com/episode.php?id=qqq|archive-date = 12 December 2004}}</ref>
<ref name="AllRatings">{{cite web|title=Ratings Guide |url=http://guide.doctorwhonews.net/info.php?detail=ratings&type=date |website=Doctor Who News |access-date=28 May 2017}}</ref>
}}

==External links==
{{wikiquote|Third Doctor}}
*{{BBCCDW | id=frontierinspace | title=Frontier in Space}}

===Target novelisation===
*{{Isfdb title|id=10633|title=Doctor Who and the Space War}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20020104150750/http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~ecl6nb/OnTarget/1976/spacewar/76space.htm On Target — ''Doctor Who and the Space War'']

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