Tom Baker
Season Fourteen

4R. The Robots of Death

Writer: Chris Boucher
Director: Michael E Briant
Designer: Kenneth Sharp
Incidental Music: Dudley Simpson

TRANSMISSION DETAILS:

444. Part One                      29.01.1977   6.20pm - 6.45pm  12.8M/14th/62%
445. Part Two                      05.02.1977   6.20pm - 6.45pm  12.4M/17th/---
446. Part Three                    12.02.1977   6.20pm - 6.45pm  13.1M/15th/---
447. Part Four                     19.02.1977   6.25pm - 6.50pm  12.6M/18th/57%

REPEAT DETAILS:

     Part One (1-2)            Sat 31.12.1977   6.25pm - 7.15pm  10.0M/29th    
     Part Two (3-4)            Sun 01.01.1978   4.45pm - 5.30pm   7.0M/80th

CAST:

COMMANDER UVANOV: Russell Hunter; PILOT TOOS: Pamela Salem; CHIEF FIXER DASK/TAREN CAPEL: David Bailie; CHIEF MOVER POUL: David Collings; SV7: Miles Fothergill; D84: Gregory de Ponlay; V14/V21/V46/D62: Mark Blackwell Baker; V16/V19/V68: John Bleasdale; V6/V32: Mark Cooper; D33/D39/D64: Peter Langtry; V2/V4/V9/V17/V28: Jeremy Ranchev; V3/V5/V8/V45: Richard Seager; BORG: Brian Croucher (1-2); ZILDA: Tania Rogers (1-2); CASS: Tariq Yunus (1-2); CHUB: Rob Edwards (1). UNCREDITED: KERRIL: Peter Sax (1)

STORY:

The TARDIS materialises inside an intacke duct on board the Sandminer, a mining and refinery vehicle. With no obvious way out the Doctor and Leela are almost torn to peices during a sandstorm, but the duct is closed just in time.

Returning to the TARDIS they find it has been moved to another part of the vehicle. The Doctor and Leela are captured and accused of the murders of crew members.

Why is it that every body that is found has a red corpse marker on it? What does it symbolise? The Doctor discovers that the robots that serve the crew are slowly being reporgrammed to kill, and one of the non-speaking Dumb robots, D84, is actually a spy and can speak.

The Doctor manages to uncover the person who is in charge of the reprogramming, and is saved from death by D84. The Doctor hides Leela in a ventilation duct with a canister of helium. As she lets the gas escape the man voice of the man doing who had been doing the reprogramming, Taren Capel, chages pitch. The robots, not recognising his voice print, turn on him.

STUDIOS:

Television Centre Studio not known, Ealing Film Studios

WORKING TITLE:

War of the Robots

NOTES:

With the exception of SV7 and D84, the robots are not credited individually

Tom BakerSeason Fourteen