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Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation {The Key to Time Series, Part 1}

Doctor Who (Original)

Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation {The Key to Time Series, Part 1}

BBC | Warner Home Video (1978)
DVD
Unrated
794051133625
TV Series | Science Fiction
United States | English | Color | 01:39

Having left Leela on Gallifrey, the Doctor and K9 Mark II don't remain footloose for long. The TARDIS is soon intercepted by the White Guardian.The White Guardian sets the Doctor on an urgent mission to locate the six segments of the Ket to Time, which are well disguised and hidden in odd corners of time and space. Once assembled, the key will allow the White Guardian to restore balance to a universe descending into evil and chaos.To assist the Doctor the White Guardian had appointed Romana, fresh out of the Time Lord Academy an none too well traveled. Despite an initial bout of "negative empathy," the Doctor and Romana trace the first segment's signal to Ribos, a remote, backward planet that suffers from 32-year winters. There they are surprised to meet other interplanetary travelers, who include two conmen, Garron and Unstoffe and the Graff Vynda-K, a warlord in the market for an inexpensive planet.


Episodes View details

1 The Ribos Operation (1) 25 min | Sep 02, 1978

The Magellanic Clouds, the planet Ribos, an unknown time. Ordered by the White Guardian to collect the pieces of the omnipotent Key to Time, The Doctor, K-9 and his new assistant Romana arrive. Collecting the first segment is not going to be easy…

Director: George Spenton-Foster
Writer: Robert Holmes
Guest stars: Robert Keegan, Paul Seed, Nigel Plaskitt, Iain Cuthbertson, Cyril Luckham, John Harmill, Oliver Maguire
2 The Ribos Operation (2) 25 min | Sep 09, 1978

Trying to obtain the first segment of the Key to Time, the Doctor and Romana are swept up in an elaborate con. The target – the homicidal Graff Vynda K.

Director: George Spenton-Foster
Writer: Robert Holmes
Guest stars: Paul Seed, Nigel Plaskitt, Iain Cuthbertson, John Harmill, Oliver Maguire, Robert Keegan
3 The Ribos Operation (3) 25 min | Sep 16, 1978

Prisoners of the maniacal Graff Vynda K, the Doctor and Romana must break out and pursue the first segment – even as Unstoff takes it into the most dangerous place on Ribos.

Director: George Spenton-Foster
Writer: Robert Holmes
Guest stars: Iain Cuthbertson, Nigel Plaskitt, Paul Seed, Robert Keegan, Timothy Bateson, Anne Tirard
4 The Ribos Operation (4) 25 min | Sep 23, 1978

Trapped in the catacombs between a mad warlord and ravenous monsters, the Doctor and Romana work desperately to obtain the segement of the Key to Time - and escape alive.

Director: George Spenton-Foster
Writer: Robert Holmes
Guest stars: Nigel Plaskitt, Paul Seed, Robert Keegan, Timothy Bateson, Anne Tirard, Iain Cuthbertson

Cast View all

Tom Baker Doctor Who
William Hartnell Dr. Who
Jon Pertwee Doctor Who
Patrick Troughton Dr. Who
Frazer Hines Jamie
Nicholas Courtney Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart
Pat Gorman Guard
Elisabeth Sladen Sarah Jane Smith
Jacqueline Hill Barbara Wright
William Russell Ian Chesterton
Katy Manning Jo Grant
John Scott Martin Dalek
John Levene Sergeant Benton
Peter Davison The Doctor
Janet Fielding Tegan
John Leeson K9
Terry Walsh Primitive
Gerald Taylor Dalek
Robert Jewell Dalek
Carole Ann Ford Susan Foreman
Peter Hawkins Dalek Voices
Cy Town Dalek Operator
Roy Skelton Daleks
Wendy Padbury Zoe
Sarah Sutton Nyssa

Edition details

Edition Special Edition
Packaging Keep Case
Nr Discs 1
Screen Ratios 1.33:1
Audio Tracks Commentary Dolby Digital 2.0
English Dolby Digital 2.0
Subtitles English
Distributor BBC Warner
Layers Single side, Single layer
Edition Release Date Oct 01, 2002
Regions Region 1