Above from top: Director Fiona Cumming; Nicola Bryant as Peri; Kamelion adopts the form of Howard; Mark Strickson and Peter Davison on location in Lanzarote.
Holidaying in the Canary Islands over Christmas 1982, director Fiona Cumming had petitioned John Nathan-Turner with postcards, proposing Lanzarote as a possible location for the series. Eventually, Nathan-Turner agreed.