(Series 18,
Episodes 9-12)
Summary: Romana mopes in her room because she
doesn’t want to go back to Gallifrey whilst the Doctor is cheerfully dismissive
of her concerns. Instead of getting back
to Gallifrey, they end up in E-Space where some colonists are living in fear of
swamp monsters. I do admire Romana’s
guts in saying “it’s just a spider” but it is the size of a small dog with
glowing eyes so a little healthy fear wouldn’t go amiss. The Deciders have been
lying to their people just because no one can work out how to fly a spaceship
but, after a lot of indecision for a bunch of deciders, they manage to fly
their ship away. Adric arrives in his
yellow pyjamas with his badge for being good at maths and is so devastated by
the death of his brother that he stows away on the TARDIS.
Watch it because: Don’t we all wish we were
seventeen-year-old Andrew Smith?!
Original Air Date: 25 October – 15 November 1980.
Doctor: Tom Baker.
Companions: Romana (Lalla Ward), Adric (Matthew
Waterhouse) & K9 Mk II (Voiced by John Leeson).
Writer: Andrew Smith.
Director: Peter Grimwade.
Producer: John Nathan-Turner.
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