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: Great Encounters Find out which ancient heroes the Doctor has met …
: Great Encounters Find out which ancient heroes the Doctor has met …


==DVD Release (with cover blurb)==
==DVD release (with cover blurb)==


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:: Everybody knows that robots are prevented by their prime directive from harming any humans. So when a murderer strikes aboard Storm Mine 4, an isolated sandminer crawling its way across a desert planet, it doesn’t occur to a single member of the crew that one of their robots might be a killer. Only the Doctor and Leela suspect the truth: the robots are rising up to slay their human masters, and a terrifying revolution is about to begin. As the pair uncover a conspiracy of secrets and lies they realise it may already be too late to stop the robots of death …
:: Everybody knows that robots are prevented by their prime directive from harming any humans. So when a murderer strikes aboard Storm Mine 4, an isolated sandminer crawling its way across a desert planet, it doesn’t occur to a single member of the crew that one of their robots might be a killer. Only the Doctor and Leela suspect the truth: the robots are rising up to slay their human masters, and a terrifying revolution is about to begin. As the pair uncover a conspiracy of secrets and lies they realise it may already be too late to stop the robots of death …


==Notable information==
==Notable Information==
* A reference to [[Grimwade's Syndrome]] (a fear of robots) in the story ''[[The Robots of Death]]'', is an in-joke reference to the stories production manager [[Peter Grimwade]].
* A reference to [[Grimwade's Syndrome]] (a fear of robots) in the story ''[[The Robots of Death]]'', is an in-joke reference to the stories production manager [[Peter Grimwade]].
* [[The Robots of Death]] includes the literary reference “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes…” (from [[William Shakespeare]]’s ‘Macbeth’) and is also an [[Agatha Christie]] novel title ‘By the Pricking of My Thumbs’.
* [[The Robots of Death]] includes the literary reference “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes…” (from [[William Shakespeare]]’s ‘Macbeth’) and is also an [[Agatha Christie]] novel title ‘By the Pricking of My Thumbs’.

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The Doctor Who DVD Files –“The Ultimate Build-up Doctor Who Encyclopaedia” in fortnightly issues.

Contents

Collectable loose leaf pages divided into seven categories that could be filed accordingly.

Part 54 Lonely Wanderer Read about the Tenth Doctor’s solo adventures …
Vincent Van Gogh Find out more about the life of this great artist talks about her time in the TARDIS
Reapers Duck! The winged creatures from the Vortex are coming!
Major Stike Meet the Sontaran who tried to travel in time …
Part 54 Wild Thing! Ex-companion Louise Jameson
Voc Robot Look inside one of the robots that manned Storm Mine 4
The Robots of Death The Fourth Doctor is accused of murder!
Segonax Visit the planet that was home to the famed Psychic Circus
Great Encounters Find out which ancient heroes the Doctor has met …

DVD release (with cover blurb)

Each issue came with a DVD release.
Reversible DVD sleeves enabled the collector to display one of two designs featuring either the Doctor and his enemies or his companions.
"Robots cannot kill! "
Everybody knows that robots are prevented by their prime directive from harming any humans. So when a murderer strikes aboard Storm Mine 4, an isolated sandminer crawling its way across a desert planet, it doesn’t occur to a single member of the crew that one of their robots might be a killer. Only the Doctor and Leela suspect the truth: the robots are rising up to slay their human masters, and a terrifying revolution is about to begin. As the pair uncover a conspiracy of secrets and lies they realise it may already be too late to stop the robots of death …

Notable Information

Credits

External links