The Best Episodes Directed By Pennant Roberts

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   10.0/10(1 votes)

   #1 - A Beginning

   S1:E137/16/1975

   Abby is tiring of life at the grange and her thoughts turn to resuming her search for her son. After a row with Greg over the taking in of a sick girl, Ruth. Abby sets off for Waterhouse to find Jimmy Garland. Meanwhile Greg and Arthur make their first attempts towards federating the communities that have sprung up since 'the death'. When Ruth recovers, Greg and Jenny discover she is a former medical student and that she has some startling news for them...

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   9.0/10(1 votes)

   #2 - Mission to Destiny

   S1:E72/13/1978

   The crippled spaceship Ortega presents Blake and his companions with a series of mysteries. Who murdered the pilot and sabotaged the controls ? What happened to the crew and why ? For Avon and Cally, the answers become a matter of life and death.

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   8.5/10(2 votes)

   #3 - The Fourth Horseman

   S1:E14/16/1975

   A virulent flu bug is spreading through the country like wildfire. Abby Grant (Carolyn Seymour) and her husband David (Peter Bowles) are aware that the flu has reportedly claimed millions of people's lives in China, but they don't think that could happen in England. Abby becomes ill and takes to her bed. Meanwhile Jenny Richards (Lucy Fleming) learns from a doctor that this is no flu bug and that hundreds are now dying. Acting on his advice she flees London for the countryside. Abby wakes days later and fears that she may be the only one left alive...

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #4 - Space Fall

   S1:E21/9/1978

   Blake and some criminals attempt to seize control of the prison ship London as it passes a space war where an abandoned ship is found.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #5 - Time Squad

   S1:E41/23/1978

   A ship whose crew had been put in suspended animation is picked up by the Liberator, while Blake attempts to destroy the Federation Communication base on Saurian Major.

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   7.6/10(8 votes)

   #6 - The Pirate Planet (2)

   S16:E610/7/1978

   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?

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   7.5/10(8 votes)

   #7 - The Pirate Planet (3)

   S16:E710/14/1978

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

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   7.4/10(8 votes)

   #8 - The Pirate Planet (4)

   S16:E810/21/1978

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

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   7.3/10(9 votes)

   #9 - The Pirate Planet (1)

   S16:E59/30/1978

   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.

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    7.0/10(7 votes)

    #10 - The Face of Evil (1)

    S14:E131/1/1977

    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?

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Bounty

    S1:E113/13/1978

    The crew land on the planet Lindor, where a deposed leader has been held in exile. Blake and Cally ask him to return to his people. Meanwhile, a ship in distress is helped by the Liberator, only to encounter a group of bounty hunters who seek to turn Blake and the Liberator over to the Federation.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Corn Dolly

    S1:E45/7/1975

    Abby, Greg and Jenny are still searching for Peter. Greg and Jenny are becoming closer. They meet a man called Charles Vaughan (Denis Lill), a self-sufficiency expert, who has sobering theories about the number of survivors of 'the death' and their prospects for the future. He invites them to join his community, but it soon becomes clear that he has a hidden agenda which could involve Abby...

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Starvation

    S1:E76/4/1975

    A young woman called Wendy (Julie Neubert) and an old woman called Emma (Hana Maria Pravda) have foraged since 'the death' but are now going hungry. Wendy meets Tom Price (Talfryn Thomas) and steals his food. Abby meanwhile rescues Emma from a pack of wild dogs, whilst Greg, Jenny and the children draw them off in their minibus. Tom wants his revenge on Wendy but doesn't reckon on Abby's presence. Meanwhile Greg and the others arrive at a deserted country grange, which may be just the place they need...

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    6.8/10(5 votes)

    #14 - The Face of Evil (2)

    S14:E141/8/1977

    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.

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    6.8/10(5 votes)

    #15 - The Face of Evil (4)

    S14:E161/22/1977

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

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    6.8/10(5 votes)

    #16 - The Sun Makers (3)

    S15:E1512/10/1977

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

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    6.7/10(6 votes)

    #17 - The Sun Makers (1)

    S15:E1311/26/1977

    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...

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    6.6/10(5 votes)

    #18 - The Face of Evil (3)

    S14:E151/15/1977

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

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    6.6/10(5 votes)

    #19 - The Sun Makers (2)

    S15:E1412/3/1977

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

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    6.4/10(5 votes)

    #20 - The Sun Makers (4)

    S15:E1612/17/1977

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

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    6.0/10(4 votes)

    #21 - Warriors of the Deep (2)

    S21:E21/6/1984

    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?

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    6.0/10(4 votes)

    #22 - Warriors of the Deep (3)

    S21:E31/12/1984

    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.

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    6.0/10(4 votes)

    #23 - Warriors of the Deep (4)

    S21:E41/13/1984

    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.

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    5.6/10(5 votes)

    #24 - Warriors of the Deep (1)

    S21:E11/5/1984

    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…

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    4.3/10(7 votes)

    #25 - Timelash (2)

    S22:E113/16/1985

    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.

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