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Search Out Space (TV story)

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Search Out Space was a special episode of Search Out Science, a children's education programme in which Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred appeared as the Seventh Doctor and Ace. John Leeson provided the voice of K9 for the first time since The Five Doctors. Despite an apparently fourth-wall-breaking setup, the story would later be contextualised in regular Doctor Who continuity by the short story Storm in a Tikka as an in-universe quiz show.

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Synopsis

The Doctor, Ace, K9 and Cedric are taking part in a game show to see who can win The Ultimate Challenge - the biggest gameshow in the universe.

They will show you the Earth and its Solar System.

Plot

The Seventh Doctor is acting as the host of a game show called The Ultimate Challenge.

The contestants are his companion Ace, former companion K9 and an alien named Cedric.

The contestants are forced to answer fairly basic questions about space, with severe punishments if they get it wrong. K9 fails to answer on time and is transported to outer space, where he almost ends up being pulled into the sun. The Doctor saves him in the TARDIS, but only just manages to dematerialise before the TARDIS is also pulled into the sun.

Eventually, Ace deduces that there is no answer to one of the questions. The Doctor says this is the right answer, and bizarrely produces an ice cream as if by magic.

Cast

Crew

References

TARDIS

People

  • Cedric is the most intelligent inhabitant of the planet Quirk.

Culture

  • The Ultimate Challenge is the biggest game show in the universe.

Earth

  • Ace explains that the Earth is shaped like a sphere.

K9

Story notes

 
The Ultimate Challenge title card.

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