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Season 16 (The Key to Time) | EP 5
"Well, I've had a happy life. Can't complain. Nearly seven hundred and sixty. Not a bad age"
Episode Title | Premiere Date |
Episode 1 | 23/12/1978 |
Episode 2 | 30/12/1978 |
Episode 3 | 06/01/1979 |
Episode 4 | 13/01/1979 |
Searching for the fifth segment of the Key to Time, the tracer leads the TARDIS to treacherous swamps on the third moon of the planet Delta Magna. The Doctor and Romana soon uncover a plot to wipe out the Swampies, the local inhabitants, by the duplicitous crew of a gas refinery. Meanwhile, a massive creature is stirring beneath the waters, and the primitive Swampies believe the only way to calm the powerful monster is human sacrifice.
The Doctor: Tom Baker
Romana: Mary Tamm
Thawn: Neil McCarthy
Ranquin: John Abineri
Fenner: Philip Madoc
Rohm-Dutt: Glyn Owen
Dugeen: John Leeson
Producer: Graham Williams
Director: Norman Stewart
Scriptwriter: Robert Holmes