Black Orchid (Doctor Who)

120 – *Black Orchid*
120 – Black Orchid
Doctor Who serial
Cast
	Doctor Peter Davison – Fifth Doctor;
	Companions Matthew Waterhouse – Adric; Sarah Sutton – Nyssa; Janet Fielding – Tegan Jovanka;
	Others Michael Cochrane – Lord Cranleigh; Sarah Sutton – Ann Talbot; Barbara Murray – Lady Cranleigh; Gareth Milne – The Unknown/George Cranleigh; Moray Watson – Sir Robert Muir; Ivor Salter – Sergeant Markham; Andrew Tourell – Constable Cummings; Ahmed Khalil – Latoni; Brian Hawksley – Brewster; Timothy Block – Tanner;
Production
Directed by	Ron Jones
Written by	Terence Dudley
Script editor	Eric Saward
Produced by	John Nathan-Turner
Executive producer(s)	None
Music by	Roger Limb
Production code	6A
Series	Season 19
Running time	2 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast	1–2 March 1982
Chronology
← Preceded by; The Visitation	Followed by →; Earthshock

Black Orchid is the fifth serial of the 19th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on BBC1 on 1 and 2 March 1982.

The serial is set in an English estate in 1925. In the serial, the alien time traveller the Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison) investigates the murder of two servants during a fancy dress party.

This story was the first period adventure for the Doctor—featuring no science fiction elements save for the TARDIS and the regular cast. Although it is rumoured that Black Orchid is the first purely historical story since The Highlanders (1966), this is not the case: it is set in the 1920s, but is not based around any historical event and features no characters from history.

Sarah Sutton plays two characters in this story: Nyssa and Ann Talbot.