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Last updated 02 January 2017
The Sontaran Experiment: Part One
Broadcast: Saturday 18th May 2002
10:00pm-10:30pm EDT (02:00 GMT) < > « »
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Featuring: Tom Baker, Ian Marter, Elisabeth Sladen, Kevin Lindsay

The Doctor, Harry and Sarah find Earth is a desolate wilderness. They meet a group of stranded human colonists who are being hunted by a robot and experimented upon by its master.


Synopsis Source: Doctor Who Guide
Broadcast Source: TWiDW
 

Report from the This Week in Doctor Who Archive:

Friday 17th May 2002:
BBC Kids www.bbckids.ca
Weeknights 7:30PM, 10:30PM, 2AM, 4AM EDT (4:30PM, 7:30PM, 11PM, 1AM PDT)
Saturdays 3:30PM, 10PM EDT (12:30PM, 7PM PDT) - complete stories
Sundays 3:30PM, 10PM EDT (12:30PM, 7PM PDT) - complete stories
Fri The Talons of Weng-Chiang pt 2 of 6
The 4th Doctor suspects that the disappearing women have some connection to the Theatre where Li Hsen Chang is performing. Leela learns about table manners.
Sat The Sontaran Experiment both pts
The 4th Doctor, Sarah, and Harry investigate Earth to see if it is ready for human habitation. Apart from the Sontaran running around the place, it looks just fine.
Sun Genesis of the Daleks all 6 pts
What if you had a chance to change history? A chance to undo your own or someone else's mistakes and lead life on a better course? Would you take it? Would you destroy the past to save the future? Would you prevent the Daleks from existing. The 4th Doctor is forced to choose between his principles of protecting history and saving the universe in one of the best known Doctor Who stories outside of fandom.
Mon-Tue The Talons of Weng-Chiang pts 3 - 4 of 6
The 4th Doctor was right - the Theatre did have something to do with it after all.
New to BBC Kids episodes begin airing next week on Friday, May 24.