Doctor Who: Snakedance
1983, English. Directed by Fiona Cumming.
Tegan falls once more under the influence of the Mara and directs the TARDIS to the planet Manussa. There, the Federator's son Lon and his mother Tanha are preparing for a ceremony to celebrate the banishment of the Mara five hundred years earlier. The Mara takes control of Lon and uses him and Tegan to obtain from Ambril, the Director of Historical Research, the 'Great Crystal' - the large blue stone that originally brought it into being by focusing energy from the minds of the planet's one-time inhabitants. The Mara now plans to use the crystal during the ceremony to bring about its return to corporeal existence.
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- 1h 40m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- English
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- Released
- 26 January 1983
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Written by
- Christopher Bailey
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Doctor Who: Snakedance isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 26 January 1983. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed Doctor Who: Snakedance?
Doctor Who: Snakedance (1983) was directed by Fiona Cumming and stars Peter Davison, Sarah Sutton, Janet Fielding.