Tag: science fiction

Watch the complete story of The Tenth Planet – the final First Doctor adventure from 1966. Subscribe to Doctor Who: Classic for more full episodes: https://bbc.in/DWClassicSubscribe The TARDIS arrives in December 1986 at a South Pole Space Tracking station where the personnel, under the command of General Cutler, are engaged in trying to talk down a manned space capsule that has got into difficulty. When things couldn’t get much worse, the base is invaded by a force of Cybermen! The Cybermen’s planet, Mondas, is draining energy from Earth – once its ‘twin planet’ – and the situation will soon become [See More…]

Watch the complete story of State of Decay – a Fourth Doctor adventure from 1980. Subscribe to Doctor Who: Classic for more full episodes: https://bbc.in/DWClassicSubscribe The TARDIS arrives on a planet with a medieval society in which the peasants are kept in a state of ignorance. In the midst of the village is a tower where the three rulers live shrouded in secrecy… but the Doctor soon learns that there is a dark force lurking beneath it. First Broadcast between the 22nd November – 13th December 1980 Starring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor alongside Lalla Ward (Romana), Matthew Waterhouse [See More…]

Watch the complete story of The Web of Fear – a Second Doctor adventure from 1968. Subscribe to Doctor Who: Classic for more full episodes: https://bbc.in/DWClassicSubscribe The Doctor breaks the TARDIS free from a web-like substance in space and lands in a London Underground station. Lurking in the tunnels are the Yeti and a poisonous web of expanding fungus. The Doctor believes the Great Intelligence is behind the crisis, but what does this have to do with a Professor Travers? The original 1968 master recording of episode 3 was lost soon after the programme’s original transmission. However, audio-only recordings have [See More…]

Watch the complete story of Meglos – a Fourth Doctor adventure from 1980. Subscribe to Doctor Who: Classic for more full episodes: https://bbc.in/DWClassicSubscribe The Doctor receives a message from the planet Tigella, where a crystal that powers their entire civilisation is failing. Before the Doctor can reach Tigella, however, he is imprisoned by Meglos, a malevolent cactus-like creature who impersonates him and steals the crystal! When the Doctor escapes and finally arrives on Tigella, he is accused of the theft and sentenced to death! Can Romana prove his innocence and retrieve the crystal in time? First Broadcast between the 27th [See More…]

*Doctor Who is a classic drama which reflects the broadcast standards, language and attitudes of its time. Some viewers may find this content offensive.* Watch the complete story of The Talons of Weng-Chiang – a Fourth Doctor adventure from 1977. Subscribe to Doctor Who: Classic for more full episodes: https://bbc.in/DWClassicSubscribe The Doctor takes Leela to Victorian London, where a series of young women have disappeared… but can an ancient Chinese God really be stalking the fog-cloaked streets of London? First Broadcast between the 26th February – 2nd April 1977. Starring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor alongside Louise Jameson (Leela) [See More…]

Watch the complete story of The Moonbase – a Second Doctor adventure from 1967. Subscribe to Doctor Who: Classic for more full episodes: https://bbc.in/DWClassicSubscribe The TARDIS arrives on the Moon in the year 2070, where a weather control station under the command of a man named Hobson is in the grip of a plague epidemic… which in reality is the result of an alien poison planted by the Cybermen! All but two of the original 1967 master recordings of ‘The Moonbase’ were lost soon after the programme’s original transmission. However, audio-only recordings have survived and have been used to create [See More…]