Review The Robots of Death (1977)

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Your thoughts on this story.....

The TARDIS materialize aboard a sandminer, a mining ship on a desert planet run by a robot labor force headed by a fairly small but sniping human crew. As one crewman is discovered strangled to death, the Doctor and Leela arrive just in time to become the prime suspects.

On to the next story....

THE TALONS OF WENG-CHIANG....

https://www.imdforums.com/threads/talons-of-weng-chiang-1977.5370/


Back to the previous story....

THE FACE OF EVIL....

https://www.imdforums.com/threads/the-face-of-evil-1977.5368/

 

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This was such a brisk read as a novelisation that I loved this story to bits.

And D84 should sooooo have become a companion.

I have perhaps never fully recovered from that tragic ending. "Goodbye my friend!"

 

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Tom Baker on being Doctor Who - Doctor Who: Robots of Death Event | BFI

Tom Baker on being Doctor Who - Doctor Who: Robots of Death Event | BFI.

 

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Doctor Who - Blue Peter, 17 May 1979 -Absailing the BBC East Tower (Voc Robot)

A brief clip from Blue Peter, transmitted on 17 May 1979 showing Chris Wenner absailing the East Tower at the BBC Television Centre and meeting a Voc Robot.