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See broadcasts for UKTV GoldRobot: Omnibus
(incorporating: Part One / Part Two / Part Three / Part Four)

Last updated 02 January 2017
Robot: Omnibus
Broadcast: Sunday 24th January 1999
9:30am-11:20am GMT < > « »
UKTV Gold (adverts during broadcast)
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Featuring: Tom Baker, Nicholas Courtney, Ian Marter, Elisabeth Sladen, Patricia Maynard

UNIT are called in when top secret plans and valuable equipment is stolen from high security establishments. The newly regenerated Doctor suggests that the thief may not be human.


Synopsis Source: Doctor Who Guide
Broadcast Source: TWiDW
 

Report from the This Week in Doctor Who Archive:

Friday 22nd January 1999:
UK Gold - satellite / cable
Friday from 12:00 to 2:30 AM - The Sensorites - movie version
Sunday from 9:30 to 11:20AM - Robot - movie version

In The Sensorites, the TARDIS crew encounter a semi-paralyzed human crew on a spaceship orbiting the Sense-Sphere. But it seems that the Doctor and his companions may be stranded forever when he discovers that the TARDIS lock has been stolen. Will the Doctor be able to retrieve in time or go mad trying? And in the first Tom Baker story, the Doctor, after having recently regenerated joins UNIT in investigating the disappearance of top secret plans and equipment. His investigation leads to a scientist named Professor Kettiwell who is working for the Think Tank. Can the Doctor stop Kettiwell's creation in time?