Season 13 (1975-1976)
Pyramids of Mars
Last Updated 06 May 2013 by Marcus
Pyramids of Mars
Story Number: 82 (4G)
Writer: Lewis Greifer, Robert Holmes
Director: Paddy Russell
Starring: : Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Bernard Archard, Michael Sheard, Gabriel Woolf
No of Episodes: 4
First Broadcast: Sat 25 Oct 1975 - Sat 15 Nov 1975
Running Time: 98 minutes 39 seconds
Average Audience: 10.72 Million Average AI: 60
The TARDIS materialises on Earth in the year 1911 inside an old priory owned by Egyptologist Marcus Scarman. Scarman has been possessed by Sutekh, last survivor of the god-like Osirans, who held prisoner inside a pyramid in Egypt by a signal trasnmitted from one on Mars. Sutekh desires his freedom and instructs Scarman to construct servicer robots - which look like Eygptian mummies - to build a missile with which to destroy the Martian pyramid...
