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Doctor Who Underworld TV Story

Underworld Synopsis

The TARDIS arrives on a Minyan space craft, the R1C, commanded by a man named Jackson. Jackson and his crew are on a long quest to recover the Minyan race banks from a ship called the P7E which left their planet centuries ago. The Doctor helps to free the R1C after it becomes buried in a meteorite storm, but it then crashes into another newly-formed planet.

Story Order

  • Story 96 from Doctor Who
  • Story 5 of 6 from Season 15

Episodes

Saturday
7th January 1978
6:25PM
BBC 1 (22 mins)

Doctor Who - Underworld - Part One

The TARDIS lands on a spaceship which is crewed by the survivors of the planet Minyos.

Saturday
14th January 1978
6:25PM
BBC 1 (21 mins)

Doctor Who - Underworld - Part Two

Tthe Minyan survivors discover what they have been searching for. But their arrival is not welcomed.

Saturday
21st January 1978
6:25PM
BBC 1 (22 mins)

Doctor Who - Underworld - Part Three

The Doctor and Leela attempt to penetrate the Citadel of the Seers to rescue Idas's father.

Saturday
28th January 1978
6:25PM
BBC 1 (22 mins)

Doctor Who - Underworld - Part Four

The Minyans are eager to recover the race banks that they have waited so long to find.

Credits

Underworld

Credits
  • Writer Bob Baker
  • Writer Dave Martin
  • Director Norman Stewart
  • Producer Graham Williams
  • Script Editor Anthony Read
  • Doctor Who Tom Baker
  • Leela Louise Jameson
  • Jackson James Maxwell
  • Herrick Alan Lake
  • Orfe Jonathan Newth
  • Tala Imogen Bickford-Smith
  • Voice of K-9 John Leeson
  • Rask James Marcus
  • Tarn Godfrey James
  • Idmon Jimmy Gardner
  • Idas Norman Tipton
  • Guard Klimt Jay Neill
  • Ankh Frank Jarvis
  • Lakh Richard Shaw
  • Naia Stacey Tendeter
  • Voice of the Oracle Christine Pollon