Time and the Rani

144^[1] – *Time and the Rani*
144 – Time and the Rani
Doctor Who serial
Cast
	Doctor Sylvester McCoy – Seventh Doctor;
	Companion Bonnie Langford – Mel Bush;
	Others Kate O'Mara – The Rani; Mark Greenstreet – Ikona; Donald Pickering – Beyus; Wanda Ventham – Faroon; Karen Clegg – Sarn; Richard Gauntlett – Urak; John Segal – Lanisha; Peter Tuddenham, Jacki Webb – Special Voices;
Production
Directed by	Andrew Morgan
Written by	Pip and Jane Baker
Script editor	Andrew Cartmel
Produced by	John Nathan-Turner
Music by	Keff McCulloch
Production code	7D
Series	Season 24
Running time	4 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast	7 September 1987
Last broadcast	28 September 1987
Chronology
← Preceded by; The Trial of a Time Lord: The Ultimate Foe	Followed by →; Paradise Towers
	List of episodes (1963–1989)

Time and the Rani is the first serial of the 24th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 7 to 28 September 1987. It was the first to feature Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor.

In the serial, the renegade Time Lady the Rani (Kate O'Mara) brings the greatest geniuses from time and space to her laboratory on the planet Lakertya so she can use their minds to power her time manipulator.

^ From the Doctor Who Magazine series overview, in issue 407 (pp26-29). The Discontinuity Guide, which counts the four segments of The Trial of a Time Lord as four separate stories and also counts the unbroadcast serial Shada, lists this story as number 148. Region 1 DVD releases follow The Discontinuity Guide numbering system.

[1] From the Doctor Who Magazine series overview, in issue 407 (pp26-29). The Discontinuity Guide, which counts the four segments of The Trial of a Time Lord as four separate stories and also counts the unbroadcast serial Shada, lists this story as number 148. Region 1 DVD releases follow The Discontinuity Guide numbering system.

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