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Doctor Who Colony in Space TV Story

The Time Lords discover that the Master has stolen their secret file on the Doomsday Weapon and decide to send the Doctor to retrieve it for them. The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Jo to the desolate planet Uxarieus in the year 2472. There they become involved in a distrute between some beleaguered colonists and the crew of an Interplanetary Mining Corporation (IMC) spaceship over the ownership rights to the planet. The Doctor learns that the indigenous Primitives and their High Priests worship a large machine tended by a creature called the Guardian.

Story Order

  • Story 58 from Doctor Who
  • Story 4 of 5 from Season 8

Episodes

Saturday
10th April 1971
6:10PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Colony in Space - Episode One

The Doctor and Jo arrive on a barren world in the far future where human colonists are scratching a living.

Saturday
17th April 1971
6:10PM
BBC 1 (22 mins)

Doctor Who - Colony in Space - Episode Two

The Interplanetary Mining Corporation, represented by Captain Dent, arrives on the planet.

Saturday
24th April 1971
6:10PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - Colony in Space - Episode Three

When Jo attempts to break into the IMC ship to find incriminating information, she is captured and held hostage.

Saturday
1st May 1971
6:10PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Colony in Space - Episode Four

The Master arrives, posing as an adjudicator from Earth who has come to settle the dispute.

Saturday
8th May 1971
6:10PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - Colony in Space - Episode Five

With Jo held prisoner in his TARDIS, the Master forces the Doctor to take him to the underground city.

Saturday
15th May 1971
6:10PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - Colony in Space - Episode Six

In the underground city, the Doctor and the Master confront the guardian of the doomsday weapon.

Characters

Credits

  • Doctor WhoJon Pertwee
  • Brigadier Lethbridge-StewartNicholas Courtney
  • Jo GrantKaty Manning
  • WintonNicholas Pennell
  • AsheJohn Ringham
  • LeesonDavid Webb
  • Jane LeesonSheila Grant
  • NortonRoy Skelton
  • Mary AsheHelen Worth
  • MartinJohn Line
  • Mrs. MartinMitzi Webster
  • Primitive and VoicePat Gorman
  • Time LordPeter Forbes-Robertson
  • Time LordJohn Baker
  • Time LordGraham Leaman
  • RobotJohn Scott Martin
  • CaldwellBernard Kay
  • DentMorris Perry
  • MorganTony Caunter
  • HoldenJohn Herrington
  • AllenStanley McGeagh
  • LongPat Gorman
  • MasterRoger Delgado
  • Alec LeesonJohn Tordoff
  • GuardianNorman Atkyns
  • PrimitivePat Gorman
  • Alien PriestRoy Heymann
  • The MasterRoger Delgado
  • ColonistPat Gorman