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The Trial of a Time Lord (The Mysterious Planet): Part One
Broadcast: Saturday 22nd August 1998
7:00pm-7:30pm PDT (02:00 GMT) < > « »
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Featuring: Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Lynda Bellingham, Tom Chadbon, Michael Jayston, Tony Selby, Joan Sims

Placed on trial by his peers, the Doctor is forced to watch events from his past, beginning with an incident on Ravolox involving the curiously named Marb Arch.


Synopsis Source: Doctor Who Guide

Broadcast notes:

Timing approximate, TWIDW missing for this week's broadcast
Broadcast Source: TWIDW
 

Report from the This Week in Doctor Who Archive:

Friday 21st August 1998:
KBTC /KCKA 28/15 in Tacoma Park, Washington is airing Doctor Who pledge free, but only with half the broadcasts. The Monday installments are being shelved for pledge drives. Saturday, viewers get the same 2 episodes at 7PM and 12:30AM. This week, they offer the first 2 episodes of Trial Of A Timelord: The Mysterious Planet, a 6th Doctor story. The Doctor has been taken out of time and placed on trial for meddling by a Gallifreyan court. The Valeyard replays a recent adventure of the Doctor to prove his case. In the court footage, the Doctor and Peri (mysteriously absent from the courtroom) land on a planet in the far future eerily similar to Earth.