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Season 03 / Story 018 / Production code T
Galaxy 4
The Doctors?: William Hartnell
The Companions: Vicki Pallister | Steven Taylor
Other Main Characters:
William Emms: Writer
Derek Martinus: Director
Verity Lambert: Producer
The Doctor, Vicki and Steven arrive on an arid planet in Galaxy 4, where they meet the occupants of two crashed spaceships: the beautiful Drahvins and the hideous Rills. Confounding expectations, the latter prove to be friendly, compassionate explorers while the former are a group of mindless cloned soldiers terrorised by a warlike matriarch, Maaga. Both ships were damaged when the Drahvins precipitated a confrontation in space, but whereas the Rills' is almost ready to take off again - having been repaired by their robot drones, which Vicki names Chumblies - the Drahvins' is irreparable.
When the planet is discovered to be on the point of disintegration, Maaga tries to force the time travellers to help her steal the Rills' ship. Instead, the Doctor allows the Rills to draw power from the TARDIS in order to refuel and escape, leaving the Drahvins to their fate.
4 episodes:
- Four Hundred Dawns - 11 September 1965
- Trap of Steel - 18 September 1965
- Air Lock - 25 September 1965
- The Exploding Planet - 02 October 1965
Script available in print from Titan Books.
