Season 8 (1971)
Colony In Space
Last Updated 06 May 2013 by Chuck Foster
Colony In Space
Story Number: 58 (HHH)
Writer: Malcolm Hulke
Director: Michael E Briant
Starring: : Jon Pertwee, Katy Manning, Tony Caunter, Nicholas Courtney, Roger Delgado, Bernard Kay, Morris Perry, John Ringham, Helen Worth
No of Episodes: 6
First Broadcast: Sat 10 Apr 1971 - Sat 15 May 1971
Running Time: 146 minutes 53 seconds
Average Audience: 8.53 Million
The Time Lords discover that the Master has stolen their secret file on the Doomsday Weapon and decide to send the Doctor to retrieve it for them. The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Jo to the desolate planet Uxarieus in the year 2472. There they become involved in a dispute between some beleaguered colonists and the crew of an Interplanetary Mining Corporation (IMC) spaceship over the ownership rights to the planet. The Doctor learns that the indigenous Primitives and their High Priests worship a large machine tended by a creature called the Guardian.
