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The Web Planet: Escape to Danger
Broadcast: Tuesday 10th August 1999
7:30am-8:00am EDT (11:30 GMT) < > « »
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Featuring: William Hartnell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, William Russell, Roslyn de Winter

The alien intelligence, the Animus, coerces the Doctor into tracking down the Menoptra. Ian escapes the Carsinome and joins forces with Vrestin, but the Zarbi are in pursuit.


Synopsis Source: Doctor Who Guide
Broadcast Source: TWIDW
 

Report from the This Week in Doctor Who Archive:

Friday 6th August 1999:
SPACE: The Imagination Station
http://www.hwcn.org/~an933/spacedw.htm and
http://www.spacecast.com/
Sat 7:30AM EDT The Romans: Inferno ep 4 of 4
Sun-Fri 7:30AM EDT The Web Planet eps 1-6 of 6 (The Web Planet, The Zarbi, Escape To Danger, Crater Of Needles, Invasion, The Centre)

On Saturday, the TARDIS crew try to reunite at Nero's palace on the night when it burned to ashes. The rest of the week goes to The Web Planet, a mysterious place where the normal laws of physics mean nothing. Once a garden paradise, the planet is now being destroyed by a monstrous creature that has taken control of the TARDIS.