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The Pirate Planet: Part One
Broadcast: Thursday 19th April 2001
6:00pm-6:30pm NZST (06:00 GMT) < > « »
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Featuring: Tom Baker, John Leeson, Mary Tamm, Bruce Purchase, Andrew Robertson

The Doctor, Romana and K9 face new dangers searching for the second segment to the Key to Time. What has happened to the planet it is hidden on?

Instead of landing on Calufrax as originally intended, they arrive on a different planet and encounter the Mentiads, and the strange Captain.


Synopsis Source: Doctor Who Guide
Broadcast Source: TWiDW
 

Report from the This Week in Doctor Who Archive:

Friday 13th April 2001:
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Sun-Wed 6PM The Ribos Operation eps 1 - 4 of 4
Last rerun in 1987. On the planet Ribos, a scheme to cheat a warlord into buying a planet goes hideously wrong. Oops.
Thu-Fri 6PM The Pirate Planet eps 1 - 2 of 4
Last rerun in 1987. To the Doctor's horror, Romana decides to handle the TARDIS controls and attempt a landing. His fear - that she will be able to do it just fine.