Climb aboard for another galactic odyssey with Doctor Who, one of the most popular science fiction characters in the world.  He’s a Time Lord who crisscrosses time and space in the TARDIS, a spaceship one could easily mistake for an ordinary phone booth.   An advanced being, the Doctor has already regenerated himself on five occasions and has been portrayed by five different actors.  On this trip, Dr. Who (Tom Baker) and Leela (Louise Jameson) find themselves on a desert planet rich in the highly valuable ore, Lucanol.  The miners here are served by robots who have always been obedient and loyal.  But now they begin to kill off the miners as they suddenly start serving a new master bent on seizing complete power.  Will the Doctor short circuit the robots’ rebellion and save mankind from a horrible fate, or will the mutinous machines run rampant and enslave the universe?

• "The Robots of Death" is one of the first stories that attempts to explain why the TARDIS is bigger on the inside than out.  At the end of the lesson, a dazed Leela looks at the Doctor and says, "That's silly..."

• David Collings (Poul) makes his second of three memorable appearances in Doctor Who.  His first role on Doctor Who was as Vorus in "Revenge of the Cybermen."  His third and final guest spot was as Mawdryn in the Peter Davison story "Mawdryn Undead."

• If the actor playing Borg looks at all familiar that would be due to his role as Travis on the popular British sci-fi series Blake's 7.

• **Omnibus Format**  Unfortunately, this story was originally released in an edited "movie" (or Omnibus) format.  This means that individual episodes have been cut and pasted together into one viewing.  The BBC released Doctor Who videos like this until the early 90's.  Since then they have gone back and issued "re-releases" of virtually all of their omnibus versions.   Unfortunately, the U.S. (i.e. CBS/Fox at first, and then later Warner Home Video) hasn't been eager to follow suite, as they have only done two re-releases "The Brain of Morbius" back in 1997 and  "Terror of the Zygons" in 2000.  Additionally, many stories first released in the late 80's and early 90's are seeing re-release on DVD.  Unedited titles such as "Spearhead from Space," "The Ark in Space" and "Robots of Death" are all available now in their unedited formats.

• The U.K. re-released "The Robots of Death" on VHS in its unedited episodic format in 1995.

• This story is available on DVD.