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See broadcasts for ABCThe Pirate Planet: Movie Length
(incorporating: Part One / Part Two / Part Three / Part Four)

Last updated 13 January 2025
The Pirate Planet: Movie Length
Broadcast: Saturday 19th December 1987
1:00pm AEDT (02:00 GMT) < > « »
(actually broadcast at 14:00:00)
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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: TV Week (BNE), BroaDWcast