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The Pirate Planet: Movie Format
Broadcast: Saturday 19th October 2002
12:20am EDT (04:20 GMT) < > « »
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Featuring: Tom Baker, John Leeson, Mary Tamm, Bruce Purchase, Andrew Robertson

The Doctor, Romana and K9 face new dangers searching for the second segment to the Key to Time. What has happened to the planet it is hidden on?

Instead of landing on Calufrax as originally intended, they arrive on a different planet and encounter the Mentiads, and the strange Captain.


Synopsis Source: Doctor Who Guide
Broadcast Source: TWIDW
 

Report from the This Week in Doctor Who Archive:

Wednesday 16th October 2002:
KERA/K44FI Dallas/Wichita Falls, TX http://www.kera.org
analog 13,44
digital 14-1
DirecTV 13,889 Dish 8406,13
Late Fri 12:20AM CDT The Pirate Planet movie
A planet travels through space, crushing other planets and extracting the minerals for its own use. And it's just crushed the planet where the tracer claims the 4th Doctor and Romana can find the 2nd segment of the Key To Time. Looks like the Doctor will have to teach the rulers of the planet not to go around doing things like this. This was the first Doctor Who story written by Douglas Adams (The Hitch-hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, one good sequel, one ok sequel, two pieces of utter dreck published as sequels, and the unfinished 6th book in said series).