TMDb Rating
7.0/10
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Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet (1978)
ActionAdventureDramaScience FictionTV Movie
100 min
Plot Summary
The Doctor and Romana learn the second segment of the Key to Time is on the planet Calufrax. Yet they arrive on a planet called Zanak, which has been hollowed out and fitted with hyperspace engines, allowing its insane, half-robot Captain to materialise it around smaller planets and plunder their resources.
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ActionAdventureDramaScience FictionTV MoviePennant RobertsTom BakerMary Tamm1978
Director
Pennant Roberts
Top Cast
Tom BakerMary TammJohn LeesonBruce PurchaseAndrew Robertson
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