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The Sontaran Experiment: Movie Version
Broadcast: Saturday 1st January 2000
7:00am-8:00am EST (12:00 GMT) < > « »
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Featuring: Tom Baker, Ian Marter, Elisabeth Sladen, Kevin Lindsay

The Doctor, Harry and Sarah find Earth is a desolate wilderness. They meet a group of stranded human colonists who are being hunted by a robot and experimented upon by its master.


Synopsis Source: Doctor Who Guide
Broadcast Source: TWIDW
 

Report from the This Week in Doctor Who Archive:

Thursday 30th December 1999:
BBC America http://www.bbcamerica.com/
The Sontaran Experiment movie
Sat 7AM EST Eastern Feed (4AM SFMT); Sat 7AM PST Pacific Feed (7AM SFMT)

The Doctor and company teleport to Earth to see if it has sufficiently recovered from solar flares to be inhabitable again. It appears that not only is Earth inhabitable, but it is already inhabited! Next week - part 1 of The Seeds of Doom, and the show moves into new time slots.