Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet

Movie
TitleDoctor Who: The Pirate Planet
User score

6.8

Release dateOct 21, 1978
GenreAction, Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction, TV Movie
DirectorPennant Roberts
Production countryUnited Kingdom
Production companiesBBC
Run time100 min.

The Doctor and Romana learn the second segment of the Key to Time is on the planet Calufrax. Yet they arrive on a planet called Zanak, which has been hollowed out and fitted with hyperspace engines, allowing its insane, half-robot Captain to materialise it around smaller planets and plunder their resources.

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