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Last updated 13 January 2025
The Pirate Planet: Omnibus
Broadcast: Saturday 14th July 2001
9:05am-11:00am BST (08:05 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:

Friday 13th July 2001:
UK Gold http://www.sceneone.co.uk/s1/tv/listings
Sat 9:05-11AM BST The Pirate Planet movie
The first story written by the late Douglas Adams to be used for Doctor Who. A marauding planet has taken the place of Calufrax, the place where the Doctor and Romana were heading to in order to locate the second segment of the Key To Time.
Sun 9:05-11AM BST The Stones of Blood movie
Romana has trouble seeing the Doctor's attachment towards Earth. Meanwhile, eccentric professor Amelia Rumford helps the Doctor investigate an ancient stone circle, which seems to have an ever-changing number of stones.