DOCTOR WHO: THE ARK IN SPACE

Details

• Release Year: 1974
• Genre: Adventure, Drama, Science-Fiction
• Plot: The fourth Doctor's first trip in the TARDIS brings him, with Sarah Jane and a very skeptical Harry Sullivan, many thousand years into the future to Nevra, a space station in Earth's orbit.; ; The Doctor is amazed to discover that Nerva is nothing less than an ark for the human race. Having evacuated Earth when solar activity threateded all life on the planet, these few hundred survivors have been drifting in suspended animation for thousands of years.; ; Even more perplexing is the discovery that someone has sabataged Nerva's vital systems. The Doctor reactivates the systems, and one by one, the human race begins to awake from its enforced deep sleep. The future of humankind appears secure until the Doctor learns that the larvae of the Wirrn, a hostile race, are also aboard.
• Cast: Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Ian Marter, Gladys Spencer, Peter Tuddenham, Terry Walsh, Brian Jacobs, Wendy Williams, Kenton Moore, Christopher Masters, Richardson Morgan, John Gregg, Nick Hobbs, Stuart Fell, Rodney Bennett, Robert Holmes
• Director: Rodney Bennett
• Runtime: 1:38
• Company: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), BBC Worldwide Americas, BBC Video, Warner Home Video
• Media Format: Series