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Planet of the Spiders: Part Six
Broadcast: Saturday 10th April 1999
3:30pm-4:00pm AEST (05:30 GMT) < > « »
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Featuring: Tom Baker, Jon Pertwee, Nicholas Courtney, Elisabeth Sladen, George Cormack, John Dearth, Richard Franklin, Gareth Hunt, John Kane

The Doctor takes the blue crystal and returns to Metebelis 3 where he must face the spider ruler, the Great One. But it is an encounter that triggers his second regeneration..


Synopsis Source: Doctor Who Guide
Broadcast Source: TWIDW
 

Report from the This Week in Doctor Who Archive:

Friday 9th April 1999:
FOXTEL's UK-TV
http://www.foxtel.com.au/
Saturday at 1PM, Sunday at 2 and 8AM Planet of the Spiders all 6 episodes
Monday through Thursday at 11:30PM The Ark In Space episodes 1 through 4 of 4
Friday at 11:30PM The Aztecs: The Temple of Evil ep 1 of 4

The Who-Files just keep on rolling and rolling. Over the weekend, relive Jon Pertwee's swan song as the 3rd Doctor. A monastery inadvertently brings giant spiders to Earth - spiders who are willing to kill to retrieve something the Doctor took from their world. Most of the weeknight episodes go to 'The Ark In Space', an early 4th Doctor story, where the Wirrn insects have decided to feast on the last survivors of humanity. On Friday, flip back to the very first season of the series. The TARDIS lands inside an Aztec tomb, and Barbara is mistaken for a god.