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Earthshock: Part Two
Broadcast: Thursday 24th June 1999
11:30pm-12:00am AEST (13:30 GMT) < > « »
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Featuring: Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, Matthew Waterhouse, Beryl Reid, Alec Sabin

With her crew vanishing mysteriously, Captain Briggs assumes the Doctor is the guilty party, but the traitor is closer to home� as are the Cybermen.


Synopsis Source: Doctor Who Guide
Broadcast Source: TWIDW
 

Report from the This Week in Doctor Who Archive:

Friday 18th June 1999:
FOXTEL's UK-TV
http://www.foxtel.com.au/ and
http://varos.simplenet.com/drwho/uktv/
Saturday at 1PM, Sunday at 2 and 8AM The Invasion of Time all 6 episodes
Monday through Tuesday at 11:30PM Warriors' Gate episodes 3 through 4 of 4
Wednesday through Friday at 11:30PM Earthshock episodes 1 through 3 of 4

Over the weekend, the 4th Doctor becomes President of Gallifrey. Can even the Doctor be corrupted by power? As the weekday installments begin, the 4th Doctor and Romana learn the truth about the Tharils, as a dwarf star alloy ship threatens to destroy the gateway between the universes. K9 learns that he will never be able to return to the normal universe. Later in the week, the 5th Doctor stumbles onto a plot to destroy Earth in the 26th Century. An intergalactic conference is due to take place there, where the major power are to decide how to deal with the (censored).