Snakedance [SEP] series
Snakedance
Snakedance is the second serial of the 20th season of the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who", which was first broadcast in four twice-weekly parts on BBC1 from 18 to 26 January 1983.
The serial is set on the planet Manussa 500 years after the 1982 serial "Kinda". In the serial, the Mara takes over the body of Lon (Martin Clunes), the ruler's son, while seeking to manifest itself by using a crystal.
Plot.
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"'s Buddhist and Jungian symbology and related its tropes to Ursula K. Le Guin. The strength of the script for Kinda led to Bailey writing a sequel in 1983, "Snakedance".
Script editor Eric Saward requested that Bailey devise another story idea. The initial outline for "May Time" was commissioned on 24 August 1982 and was about the Doctor and his companions arriving at the court of Byzantium. Full scripts were commissioned on 16 September 1982 with the new title "Man-watch", but the scripts were