Warriors' Gate

(Series 18, Episodes 17-20)

Summary: The crew of a spaceship are using the cast of Cats as unwilling navigators, the Doctor makes friends with some very wordy robotic knights and, like all good SatNavs, K9 spends most of his time recalculating.  It’s hard to keep up with time jumping around all over the place but it turns out to be all about slave trading (I think).  Rorvik rather unsportingly tries to strangle the Doctor with his own scarf whilst Romana is left in the void with K9, saving the cat people from enslavement.

Watch it because: Eerily atmospheric direction.  Paul Joyce may not have been practical but he certainly had vision.

Original Air Date: 3 – 24 January 1981.

Doctor: Tom Baker.

Companions: Romana (Lalla Ward), Adric (Matthew Waterhouse) & K9 Mk II (Voiced by John Leeson).

Writer: Stephen Gallagher.

Director: Paul Joyce.

Producer: John Nathan-Turner.