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Doctor Who Robot TV Story

Robot Synopsis

With the newly-regenerated Doctor (Tom Baker) behaving erratically, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and UNIT have to contend with the theft of the plans for the new disintegrator gun by what seems to be a mechanical monster. However, the theft is only the beginning of a plot to hold the world to nuclear ransom.

Story Order

  • Story 75 from Doctor Who
  • Story 1 of 5 from Season 12

Episodes

Saturday
28th December 1974
5:35PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Robot - Part One

UNIT are called in when top secret plans and valuable equipment is stolen from high security establishments.

Saturday
4th January 1975
5:30PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Robot - Part Two

Using the deadly disintegrator weapon, the robot steals the destructor codes.

Saturday
11th January 1975
5:30PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Robot - Part Three

Sealed inside an underground bunker, Miss Winters issues her demands to the world's leaders.

Saturday
18th January 1975
5:30PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Robot - Part Four

The robot, distraught over killing its creator, takes Sarah hostage and goes on a rampage.

Credits

Robot

Credits
  • Writer Terrance Dicks
  • Director Christopher Barry
  • Producer Barry Letts
  • Script Editor Robert Holmes
  • Doctor Who Tom Baker
  • Sarah Jane Smith Elisabeth Sladen
  • Harry Sullivan Ian Marter
  • Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart Nicholas Courtney
  • Sergeant Benton John Levene
  • Miss Winters Patricia Maynard
  • Robot Michael Kilgarriff
  • Professor Kettlewell Edward Burnham
  • Jellicoe Alec Linstead
  • Short Timothy Craven