Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet (TV)
1978·United Kingdom·101 min.
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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.
DirectorPennant Roberts
CinematographyElmer Cossey
CastTom Baker·Mary Tamm·Bruce Purchase·Andrew Robertson·Ralph Michael·David Sibley·David Warwick·Primi Townsend·Clive Bennett·Bernard Finch·Adam Kurakin
Original titleDoctor Who: The Pirate Planet (TV)