Tag: Doctor Who

March 12, 1999: Doctor Who in “The Curse of Fatal Death”

The Curse of Fatal Death was a Comic Relief segment created for part of 1999’s Red Nose Day Celebration.

The Master corners the Doctor and Emma on Tersurus, prepared to unleash the deadly vengeance of deadly revenge!

First broadcast March 12, 1999 on BBC One at 8.00pm; four parts

Notable Cast & Crew

  • Rowan Atkinson – “The Doctor”
  • Richard E Grant – “The Doctor”
  • Jim Broadbent – “The Doctor”
  • Hugh Grant – “The Doctor”
  • Joanna Lumley – “The Doctor”
  • Julia Sawalha – “Emma”
  • Jonathan Pryce – “The Master”

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March 8, 1969: Doctor Who in “The Space Pirates”

Season 6 – “The Seeds of Death”

Season 6 – “The War Games”

The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find themselves inside a space beacon being attacked by space pirates. The travellers are separated from the TARDIS and flung into the depths of space.

First broadcast March 8 – April 12, on BBC 1 at 5.15pm; six parts

Notable Cast & Crew

  • Patrick Troughton – “Dr Who”
  • Frazer Hines – “Jamie McCrimmon”
  • Wendy Padbury – “Zoe Heriot”
  • Jack May – “General Hermack”
  • Donald Gee – “Major Ian Warne”
  • George Layton – “Technician Penn”
  • Robert Holmes – writer

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Novelised as The Space Pirates

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January 25, 1969: Doctor Who in “The Seeds of Death”

Season 6 – “The Krotons”

Season 6 – “The Space Pirates”

The TARDIS arrives on Earth where T-Mat has revolutionised travel. However, the Ice Warriors have seized control and use T-Mat to distribute Martian seed pods across the world.

First broadcast January 25 – March 1, 1969 on BBC 1 at 5.15pm; six parts

Notable Cast & Crew

  • Patrick Troughton – “Dr Who”
  • Frazer Hines – “Jamie McCrimmon”
  • Wendy Padbury – “Zoe Heriot”
  • Ronald Leigh-Hunt – “Radnor”
  • Brian Hayles – writer

Soundtrack

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Novelised as The Seeds of Death

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January 20, 1979 at 6.25pm on BBC 1: Doctor Who – “The Armageddon Factor”

Last Adventure: The Power of Kroll

Next Adventure: Destiny of the Daleks

Season 16, Serial 6

In search of the final segment of the Key to Time, the TARDIS takes the Doctor, Romana and K-9 to the planet Atrios which is engaged in a war with its neighbouring planet, Zeos.

Find out more at the TARDIS Data Core.

Notable Cast

  • Tom Baker, “Doctor Who“
  • Mary Tamm, “Romana”
  • John Leeson, Voice of “K9”
  • John Woodvine, “Marshal”
  • Lalla Ward, “Princess Astra”
  • William Squire, “The Shadow”
  • Barry Jackson, “Drax”
  • Valentine Dyall, “The Guardian”

Episodes

Find out more in the BBC’s Doctor Who episode guide.


  • Part 1:
    Looking for the final segment of the Key to Time, the Doctor and Romana arrive on the planet Atrios which is in a major nuclear war with the neighbouring world of Zeos.

  • Part 2:
    The Marshal demands that the Doctor devise the ultimate deterrent against the attacking Zeons. But who are theZeons? The Doctor and Romana begin to suspect that the Marshal is being manipulated.

  • Part 3:
    Journeying to Zeos by transmat, the Doctor finds that it is an empty world. As the Marshal prepares to launch his final attack, the Doctor meets the commander of Zeos’s forces.

  • Part 4:
    With the Marshal poised to fire upon Zeos and the Mentalis computer on a countdown to destruction, the Doctor resorts to desperate measures to prevent a cataclysm.

  • Part 5:
    The Doctor and Romana arrive in the lair of the Shadow, servant of the Black Guardian, who also seeks the Key to Time.

  • Part 6:
    The tragic truth of the sixth segment of the Key to Time is revealed and if the Black Guardian can control the Key, the whole of time and space will be plunged into eternal chaos.

Novelised as Doctor Who and the Armageddon Factor.

January 20, 1979: Doctor Who in “The Armageddon Factor”

Season 16 – “The Power of Kroll”

Season 17 – “Destiny of the Daleks”

In search of the final segment of the Key to Time, the TARDIS takes the Doctor, Romana and K-9 to the planet Atrios which is engaged in a war with its neighbouring planet, Zeos.

First broadcast January 20 – February 24, 1979 on BBC 1 at 6.25/6.20/6.30pm; six parts

Notable Cast & Crew

  • Tom Baker – “Doctor Who”
  • Mary Tamm – “Romana”/”Princess Strella”
  • John Leeson – Voice of “K9”
  • John Woodvine – “Marshal”
  • Lalla Ward – “Princess Astra”
  • Barry Jackson – “Drax”
  • Valentine Dyall – “The Guardian”
  • Bob Baker and Dave Martin – writers

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Novelised as Doctor Who and the Armageddon Factor

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January 19, 1989: Doctor Who – “Delta and the Bannermen” published by Target Books

Delta and the Bannermen was a novelisation by Malcolm Kohll, based on the 1987 Doctor Who television serial Delta and the Bannermen.

As the billionth customers at a space tollport the Doctor and Mel win the Grand Prize – a place on the Fabulous Fifties Coach Tour to Disneyland, Planet Earth.
Unfortunately, they don’t quite make it there … Knocked off-course by a wayward satellite the coach party arrives instead at Shangri-la, a remote Welsh holiday camp.
But the peace and quiet of the countryside are soon shattered by the arrival of an army of marauding Bannermen soldiers, led by the ruthless Gavrok. They are tracking down Delta, the last of the Chimeron, with only one thought in mind – her destruction…

Publisher’s summary, 1989 edition

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