Colony in Space (TV story)

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Synopsis

The Time Lords discover that the Master has stolen their secret file on the Doomsday Weapon and decide to send the Doctor to retrieve it for them.

Plot

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Cast

Crew

References

Organizations

  • IMC has a mining contract for Uxarieus.

Planets

  • The Doctor recognises the planet Uxarieus.
  • Earth during this period is home to 100 billion people, and is polluted, with a repressive government.
That would be not too far off from the description given of the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire in DW: The Long Game.
  • In a discussion between the Doctor and the Master, it is revealed that the Earth's sun will explode about 10,000,000,000 years from the point of this story.
As the Master is specifically referring to the moment the Sun explodes, this figure may or may not be in conflict with other episodes' statements about the Solar System's future. In particular, one might wonder how this figure compares to the one given in The End of the World and The Ark.

Story Notes

  • David Tennant was born the day after the original broadcast of Episode 2.

Ratings

  • Episode 1 - 7.6 million viewers
  • Episode 2 - 8.5 million viewers
  • Episode 3 - 9.5 million viewers
  • Episode 4 - 8.1 million viewers
  • Episode 5 - 8.8 million viewers
  • Episode 6 - 8.7 million viewers

Myths

  • The main action of this story takes place on the planet Exarius. (The name given to the planet in Malcolm Hulke's script for Episode One is Uxarieus.)

Filming Locations

Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

  • The manner of TARDIS dematerialization and rematerialization is quite different to how it had been depicted during the 1960s. Both TARDISes in this story "pop" in and out of frame, rather than fading in and out. Given that TARDISes would return to "fading" after this serial, the depiction here can be seen as an error.

Continuity

  • This is the first time since DW: The War Games that the TARDIS traveled to another planet.
  • From the Brigadier's perspective, the Doctor and Jo were only away from UNIT headquarters for a matter of seconds. It is thus the only televised example of Rose Tyler's admonition to her mother in World War Three that the TARDIS is "a time machine. I could go traveling around suns and planets and all the way out to the end of the universe, and by the time I get back, ten seconds would've passed. Just ten seconds."
  • This story gives us a glimpse of Time Lords on Gallifrey. Time Lords are again depicted as wearing black and white robes, as they were in The War Games.
  • The Doctor and Jo gain entry to the Master's TARDIS using the key the Doctor obtained in Terror of the Autons. However, the Doctor appears not to have the key at the conclusion of this story.
  • This is the first time Jo Grant sees the interior of the Doctor's TARDIS. Much of the first half of episode one revolves around Jo's adjustment to her new status as a time/space traveller. Though having been the Doctor's companion for some time, she reveals that she never really believed that the Doctor could travel in time and space until this story. Thus, this story has many features of the traditional "first story" for a new companion.
  • Although The Daemons followed this story in broadcast order, in many ways Day of the Daleks provides real continuity with Colony. Indeed, it is not until Day, the Season 9 opener, that we find out that the Doctor's TARDIS has not, in fact, been fixed. Because the Doctor was more interested in tinkering with Bessie at the top of Daemons, viewers had to wait across the season break to discover that Colony was just a one-off ride in the TARDIS.
  • The Adjudicators are expanded upon in NA: Lucifer Rising and Original Sin.

DVD, Video and Other Releases

Video Releases

Released as Doctor Who: Colony in Space

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Novelisation

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Main article: Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon

External Links

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According to one account, the Master had the appearance of Roger Delgado while on Gallifrey. According to another, he had Anthony Ainley's likeness. According to another one, the one with James Dreyfus's appearance was the incarnation who ran away from Gallifrey.

Divided Loyalties, A Brief History of Time Lords and The Legions of Death feature, or otherwise acknowledge, the War Chief, but in the process contradicted the notion put forward by other stories that he was an incarnation of the Master.

One account suggests that the incarnation portrayed by Roger Delgado may be the same as the one portrayed by Peter Pratt while some others distinguish them.

According to one account, the incarnation portrayed by Gordon Tipple is the one portrayed by Anthony Ainley, while some others state that the Ainley one was already lost by then.

While fighting to extend his life at the end of his regeneration cycle, many bodies were possessed by the Beevers incarnation, but all kept somehow reverting to his real being until he finally regenerated into the MacQueen one. Hence, these sections cannot be strictly chronological
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