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The Pirate Planet: Movie Format
Broadcast: Saturday 2nd December 2000
~10:00pm-10:25pm CST (~04:00 GMT) < > « »
Lakeshore Public Television
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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 notes:

This was an unscheduled broadcast.

Broadcast Source: TWiDW
 

Report from the This Week in Doctor Who Archive:

Friday 1st December 2000:
WYIN 56 Gary, IN (Chicago, IL)
http://www.wyin.org/
No episode this week. Next episodes December 9.
ยป As it turned out, they did show something - this was originally thought to be an unscheduled broadcast of National Doctor Who Night instead, but actually turned out to be The Pirate Planet!