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Last updated 02 January 2017
The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Movie Version
Broadcast: Saturday 21st August 1999
11:00pm-1:30am MDT (05:00 GMT) < > « »
New Mexico PBS
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Featuring: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Trevor Baxter, Christopher Benjamin, John Bennett

The Doctor and Leela arrive in Victorian London where a number of young women have disappeared. A man's body is lifted from the Thames, covered in the bite marks of a giant rat.


Synopsis Source: Doctor Who Guide
Broadcast Source: TWIDW
 

Report from the This Week in Doctor Who Archive:

Friday 20th August 1999:
KNME 5 Albuquerque, NM
http://www.knmetv.org/
Sat 11PM MDT The Robots of Death movie (more likely The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
The Doctor teaches Leela how to use a yo-yo. A sand miner is being plagued by a series of inexplicable murders. When the Doctor arrives, they think they can just blame him and their troubles will be over.