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099 – The Pirate Planet
Doctor Who serial

Romana, while examining the damaged field integrator, talks about the Doctor to the Captain. Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC.
Cast
Doctor Tom Baker (Fourth Doctor)
Companions John Leeson (K-9 Mk. II)
Mary Tamm (Romana I)
Production
Writer Douglas Adams
Director Pennant Roberts
Script editor Anthony Read
Producer Graham Williams
Executive producer(s) None
Production code 5B
Series Season 16
Length 4 episodes, 25 mins each
Originally broadcast September 30–October 21, 1978
Chronology
← Preceded by Followed by →
The Ribos Operation The Stones of Blood

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Contents

Synopsis

The Doctor and Romana find that the second segment to the Key to Time is on the planet Calufrax. The Doctor is the central character in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who, and also features in Romana, short for Romanadvoratrelundar, is a Fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor This is a list of planets fictional or otherwise that are mentioned in the British Science fiction Television series Doctor Who and its spinoff Yet they arrive on a planet called Zanak, which has been hollowed out and fitted with hyperspace engines, allowing its insane half-robot Captain to materialise it around other smaller planets and plunder their resources. This is a list of planets fictional or otherwise that are mentioned in the British Science fiction Television series Doctor Who and its spinoff Hyperspace is a fictional Plot device sometimes used in Science fiction. This is a list of villains from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Plot

The Key to Time tracer points the Doctor and Romana to the cold and boring planet of Calufrax, but when they arrive they find an unusual civilisation that lives in perpetual prosperity. In both the original run and since the 2005 revival long-running British science fiction television programme Doctor Who has featured a number A strange band of people with mysterious powers known as the Mentiads are feared by the society, but the Doctor discovers that they are good people but with an unknown purpose. He instead fears the Captain, the planet's leader and benefactor. After meeting the Captain on the bridge he learns that they are actually on a hollowed-out planet named Zanak, which has been materialising around other planets to plunder their resources. The bridge of a Ship is an area or room from which the ship can be commanded

After repairing Zanak's engines, which were damaged when the planet materialised in the same place as the TARDIS, the Captain plans to take Zanak to Earth. The TARDIS ( T ime A nd R elative D imension(s I n S pace is a time machine and Spacecraft in the The Doctor finds the true menace controlling the Captain is the ancient tyrant Queen Xanxia, disguised as the Captain's nurse, who uses the resources mined from planets in an attempt to gain immortality. This is a list of villains from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Despite the Captain's apparent insanity, he is a calculating person who plans to destroy Xanxia. The Mentiads learn that their psychic powers are strengthened by the destruction of entire worlds beneath their feet. Parapsychology is a discipline that seeks to demonstrate the existence and causes of Psychic abilities and life after death using the Scientific method

Throughout Zanak, the Key to Time locator has been giving odd signals that seem to indicate that the segment is everywhere. Once the Doctor and Romana see the Captain's trophy room of planets, they conclude that Calufrax is the segment that they are looking for. They use the TARDIS to once again disrupt Zanak's materialisation around Earth while the Mentiads sabotage the engines. Xanxia kills the Captain when he finally turns against her. The Doctor, Romana, and the Mentiads destroy Zanak's bridge and Queen Xanxia, ending the devastation caused by Zanak's travels.

Cast

Cast notes

Vi Delmar, who played Queen Xanxia (uncredited) asked for extra payment to remove her false teeth in her scenes. The Doctor is the central character in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who, and also features in Thomas Stewart "Tom" Baker (born 20 January 1934 is an English Actor. Romana, short for Romanadvoratrelundar, is a Fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Mary Tamm (born 22 March 1950 in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire) is an English Actress of Estonian descent perhaps K-9, or K9, is the name of several fictional Robotic dogs in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor John Leeson (born March 1943 in Leicester, England) is a British Actor who although having had a varied stage and television career spanning This is a list of villains from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Bruce Purchase ( October 2, 1938 – June 5, 2008) was a New Zealand -born actor known for his roles on stage and Television This is a list of henchmen, Fictional characters serving villains and/or monsters and aliens in the long-running British science Andrew Robertson is a British actor remembered for his performance in The Cement Garden and other roles on Television. This is a list of villains from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Rosalind Lloyd is a British film and television actress The daughter of Film producer Euan Lloyd and actress Jane Hylton, her film credits David Warwick is a British actor popular in the 1970s best known for his recurring role in BBC television Sitcom, The Fall and Rise of Reginald David Sibley, is an English Actor, best known for character roles in several Cult television series as twisted radio DJ Tom Everett in BBC television Ralph Michael ( 26 September 1907 &ndash 9 November 1994) was an English actor Primi Townsend is a British actress She was a regular cast member on the Sitcom Lame Ducks and is also remembered for her role in the This is a list of villains from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Continuity

Production

Outside references

In print

The unofficial novelisation by David Bishop
The unofficial novelisation by David Bishop

This is one of five Doctor Who serials that were never novelised by Target Books as they were unable to come to an agreement with Douglas Adams that would have allowed him or another writer to adapt the script. David Bishop is an award-winning screenwriter and author Born in New Zealand, he was a UK comics editor during the 1990s running such titles as the Judge Dredd Target Books was a British Publishing Imprint, established in 1973 by Universal-Tandem Publishing Co Ltd, a paperback publishing company Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 &ndash 11 May 2001 was an English author comic Radio dramatist A fan group in New Zealand published an unofficial novelisation of the story in 1990, later republishing it as an online eBook titled Doctor Who and the Pirate Planet.

Broadcast, VHS and DVD release

References

  1. ^ "DVD News", BBC, 18 May 2007. Events 1152 - Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.  

External links

Reviews

Fan novelisation

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