The Best Episodes Directed By Pennant Roberts

Planet Zanak, unknown time. The Doctor and Romana are seeking the planet Calufrax where the second segment waits. They are in the right place and the right time… but on the wrong planet.

Director: Pennant Roberts

Writer: Douglas Adams

The Doctor begins to investigate the mysteriously wealthy planet Zanak. Mentiads, a deranged Captain, strange omens, miraculous mines – what does it all mean? And what does it have to do with the Key to Time?

Director: Pennant Roberts

Writer: Douglas Adams

The Mentiads take the Doctor, Romana and Kimus to a reunion with K9 and Mula, where they set about trying to defeat the Captain.

Director: Pennant Roberts

Writer: Douglas Adams

The Captain and Xanxia work toward their secret goals. Both depends on the pirate planet consuming one more victim - Earth.

Director: Pennant Roberts

Writer: Douglas Adams

The Sevateem launch another attack to try to free Xoanon as the Doctor tries to figure out his role in their past. But his only chance to win their trust is to face a deadly test.

Director: Pennant Roberts

Writer: Chris Boucher

Now Leela is the prisoner of the Collector. He knows of the Doctor and is determined to rid himself of both of them.

Director: Pennant Roberts

Writer: Robert Holmes

An unnamed planet, the distant future. Arriving in a place that seems oddly familiar, the Doctor finds the savage Sevateem tribe battling to free their captive god, Xoanon, from the Evil One and his Tesh servants. But can the whole situation really be the Doctor's fault?

Director: Pennant Roberts

Writer: Chris Boucher

Pluto, the distant future. The planet has been terraformed and is now orbited by artificial suns, provided by the rapacious company who ruthlessly exploit the relocated human workforce. The Doctor, Leela, and K9 arrive and befriend a luckless drone worker, but they must flee with him to the dark undercity...

Director: Pennant Roberts

Writer: Robert Holmes

The Doctor tries to fix the mad computer Xoanon. But it is determined to stop him – even if it must destroy the entire world!

Director: Pennant Roberts

Writer: Chris Boucher

The Doctor has broken through the barrier and found the Tesh. But he comes to an awful realisation about Xoanon.

Director: Pennant Roberts

Writer: Chris Boucher

The Doctor has been captured by the Gatherer. Leela works to free him but the Gatherer is already laying his own plans…

Director: Pennant Roberts

Writer: Robert Holmes

The Doctor now moves to completely overthrow the Company. But the Collector has one last trump card to play.

Director: Pennant Roberts

Writer: Robert Holmes

Just as the Doctor gains a tentative trust from the humans, a Silurian battle cruiser approaches. The Doctor warns Commander Vorsha to hold his fire and find out what they want, but is the level-headed commander one who'll listen?

Director: Pennant Roberts

Writer: Johnny Byrne

As Vorshak's crew are cut down by Sauvix's Sea Devil Warriors, the Doctor is running out of ways to broker a peace between the opposing species.

Director: Pennant Roberts

Writer: Johnny Byrne

With Silurians in control of the base, Icthar reveals his plan for a final solution to Earth's human problem, which presents the Doctor a great moral dilemma.

Director: Pennant Roberts

Writer: Johnny Byrne

Earth's ocean floor, 2084. With two superpowers poised on the brink of a devastating photonic war, a missile base comes under attack from the reptilian Sea Devils and Silurians, intent on eradicating the upstart human race and reclaiming the planet…

Director: Pennant Roberts

Writer: Johnny Byrne

The planet Karfel, in the distant future. The tyrannical Borad rules with an iron fist, and any who oppose him are cast into the Timelash - a space-time tunnel leading to the past of an alien world called Earth...

Director: Pennant Roberts

Writer: Glen McCoy

The Borad accepts no opposition and enables Maylin Tekker to expose the rebels and trap Peri with the Morlox. The Doctor tries to avert a war between Karfel and the Bandrils.

Director: Pennant Roberts

Writer: Glen McCoy