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Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet (TV)

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Original title

Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet

Year

1978

Running time

101 min.

Country

United Kingdom

Director

Pennant Roberts

Screenwriter

Douglas Adams, Sydney Newman

Cast

Music

Ron Grainer, Dudley Simpson

Cinematography

Elmer Cossey

Producer

BBC

Genre

Sci-Fi. Adventure | TV Movie. Space Adventure. Aliens. Doctor Who

Movie Groups

Doctor Who

Synopsis

The tracer detects the second segment on the planet Calufrax. The TARDIS makes a bumpy landing, and the Doctor and Romana soon discover that they are not on Calufrax at all. They are in fact on Zanak, a planet that has been hollowed out and fitted with engines so that it can transmat through space and materialise around others - such as Calufrax - to plunder their mineral wealth, leaving them as shrunken husks held by gravitational forces in a 'trophy room'. Ostensibly in charge is the Captain, whose body has been partially replaced with robotic parts following a near-fatal crash, but he is merely a puppet controlled by his nurse - a projection of Zanak's original ruler, the aged Queen Xanxia.

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Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet (TV)

1978

Pennant Roberts