This Week in New Zealand
The Pirate Planet: Part One
Last updated 13 January 2025
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Prime (adverts during broadcast)
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:
Prime TV New Zealand http://www.tetrap.com/drwho/nzdwfc/
http://www.primetv.co.nz/
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.
Prime TV New Zealand http://www.tetrap.com/drwho/nzdwfc/
http://www.primetv.co.nz/
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.
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