The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe become victims of piracy when they materialise on a space beacon, minutes before it is literally blown to pieces. So begins their quest to be reunited with the TARDIS, whilst treading perilously across the paths of the Interstella Space Corps and a gang of murderous bandits. The eccentric prospector Milo Clancey gives the travellers passage in his ageing spaceship, but the old man is himself the focus of Space Corps investigations. Could he possibly be behind the destruction and salvage of so many beacons in the sector? What is the position of Madeleine Issigri, who runs her father’s mining corporation on the planet Ta – and how might a locked room provide the answer to this mystery?
Story Order
- Story 49 from Doctor Who
- Story 6 of 7 from Season 6
Episodes
Saturday
8th March 1969
5:15PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)
Mistaken for pirates, the travellers are attacked by Space Corps soldiers. Then the real space pirates arrive.
Saturday
15th March 1969
5:15PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)
Trapped inside a segment of the beacon, the air supply is running out for the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe.
Saturday
22nd March 1969
5:15PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe join Clancey aboard his ship which is being pursued.
Saturday
29th March 1969
5:15PM
BBC 1 (21 mins)
In the tunnels beneath Ta, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe are rescued from their cell by Milo Clancey.
Saturday
5th April 1969
5:15PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)
The space pirate leader, Caven, has taken the Doctor, Jamie, Zoe and Clancey captive.
Saturday
12th April 1969
5:15PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)
Caven switches off the oxygen supply, then makes his getaway as the Doctor races to defuse a bomb.
Credits
- Dr. WhoPatrick Troughton
- CavenDudley Foster
- General HermackJack May
- Major Ian WarneDonald Gee
- Technician PennGeorge Layton
- Lt. SorbaNik Zaran
- Space GuardAnthony Donovan
- JamieFrazer Hines
- ZoeWendy Padbury
- Milo ClanceyGordon Gostelow
- Madeleine IssigriLisa Daniely
- DervishBrian Peck
- Pirate GuardVictor Maddern
- Dom IssigriEsmond Knight