The Pirate Planet is the second serial of the 16th season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 30 September to 21 October 1978. It forms the second serial of the Key to Time story arc. It was written by Douglas Adams and features some of his humour.
The tyrant Queen Xanxia (a dual role played by Vi Delmar and Rosalind Lloyd) and the Captain (Bruce Purchase) use the hollow planet Zanak as a spaceship that surrounds smaller planets, including Calufrax, the second segment of the powerful Key to Time in disguise, to plunder the planets' resources that help keep Xanxia alive.
ThePiratePlanet is the second serial of the 16th season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four...
planet Calufrax, shrunk to miniature size by the space-hopping pirateplanet of Zanak. The third is the Great Seal of Diplos, a jewelled pendant which...
Doctor Who serial ThePiratePlanet, where pirates move a hollow planet through space. The 1980s also brought Captain Zargon, a space pirate, and a representation...
sent the script for the HHGG pilot radio programme to the Doctor Who production office in 1978, and was commissioned to write ThePiratePlanet. He had...
include: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, (as Lucy), Doctor Who (in the serial ThePiratePlanet), Within These Walls, and Only Fools and Horses in the 1982...
actress. She was a cast member on the sitcom Lame Ducks and is known for her role in the Doctor Who serial ThePiratePlanet. Other TV credits include: Z-Cars...
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of the title try to destroy the peaceful planet Dulkis, as a fuel source for their fleet, by sending a seed device into theplanet's core. ThePirate Planet...
episodes of the series, including The Seeds of Death and ThePiratePlanet. He also appeared in many other television series' such as Taxi!, The Forsyte Saga...
of space pirate Captain Flint and his ability to strike suddenly and disappear without a trace, hiding his loot on the fabled "Treasure Planet". Twelve...
four of the six episodes of The Seeds of Death in reality, but since Brian Hayles is the only name to appear on screen he receives the credit. The notes...
by Ted Cassidy) – A native of theplanet Meteorus. Meteor Man is distinguished by his ability to increase or decrease the size of any part of his body...
a turkey when the creature bursts out of it and runs away. On their next planet, Jason and Roscoe are reunited with their fellow pirates, Maida and Zeno...
form from theplanet Ogros. The Doctor constructs a projector to cross into hyperspace, leaving Emilia and K9 to guard it. On the spacecraft, the Doctor...
references Treasure Island and Treasure Planet in the annotations for his screenplay draft for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, which...
introduces Mary Tamm as the companion Romana. The serial is set on the primitive and superstitious planet Ribos. In the serial, the exiled Emperor of Levithia...
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