Colony in Space

The Time Lords discover that the Master has stolen secret files revealing the location of the dreaded Doomsday Weapon. They summon the Doctor out of his exile on Earth and send him five centuries into the future to the planet Uxarieus to retrieve and safeguard this vital information.

Arriving on Uxarieus, the Doctor and Jo encounter a group of Earth colonists whose very existence is under threat due to failing crops and low morale. Representatives of the ruthless Interplanetary Mining Corporation are disputing the colonists’ claim to the planet.

Their only hope is placed on the imminent arrival of an Adjudicator from Earth to resolve the dispute. Meanwhile, the Doctor pursues his mission, but first he must deal with giant lizards, killer robots, and deadly primitive tribesmen – knowing all the while that the Master cannot be far away.

• Another Pertwee/Delgado classic, "Colony in Space" is the fourth story in an entire seasons worth of Doctor Who/Master storylines. 

• This story is also unusual in that the Doctor gets a short reprieve from his exile on Earth.  The move was a deliberate attempt on the producer's part to break up the Earth vs. Alien Menace (T.M.) stories that dominated that era.

• "Colony in Space" is part of the Master Box Set due for U.K. release this November.  The other Master story included in the box set is "The Time Monster."

• It's amazing how relevant this story has remained since it's first airing 30 years ago.  This was one of the earliest "environmentally" themed stories to come out of the Pertwee era.

• You will likely notice a drop in quality between episodes as some are the original broadcast tapes, while at others are copies of episodes screened in America (thus having gone through a conversion process to be able to be viewed in the U.S.), returned to the BBC when the originals were junked, reconverted back to the PAL standard, and then once again converted back to our NTSC version for this video release.  Needless to say, the quality of these episodes does suffer.