Last updated 17 April 2017


Tomb Ship

Tomb Ship

Series Episode Number: 186

First Broadcast: Sat 31 May 2014 - ~8:00pm UTC (United Kingdom)
Running Time: 120 minutes


Recorded on Tue 10 Dec 2013 in The Moat Studios



The TARDIS brings the Doctor and Nyssa to a vast pyramid, floating in space. A tomb ship – the last resting place of the God-King of the Arrit, an incredibly advanced and incredibly ancient civilisation, long since extinct.

They’re not alone, however. Another old dynasty walks its twisted, trap-ridden passages – a family of tomb raiders led by a fanatical matriarch, whose many sons and daughters have been tutored in tales of the God-King’s lost treasure.

But those who seek the God-King will find death in their shadow. Death from below. Death from above. Death moving them back and forward, turning their own hearts against them.

Because only the dead will survive.