DOCTOR WHO: THE ROBOTS OF DEATH

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• Release Year: 1975
• Genre: Adventure, Drama, Science-Fiction
• Plot: On a distant, barren planet, Storm Mine 4 trawls across bleak deserts and through fierce duststorms in search of rare and valuable metals. Onboard the Sandminer is a small skeleton crew, who alternate between indulgent relaxation and skilled mining work. The mundane, day-to-day duties of the mine are attended to by a much larger complement of servile robots.; ; This is a society that is dependent on robots for all areas of life, the people comforted by the knowledge that the strictest safeguards are built into each and every robot's programming. So when one of the Sandminer crew is murdered, suspicion falls on two new arrivals...; ; The Doctor and Leela arrive on board, and are immediately accused of being the suspects. But the Doctor deduces that the killer is possibly not human. More deaths occur - can he persuade the remaining crew members that the killer may be a robot?;
• Cast: John Abineri, Louise Jameson, Michael Wisher, Peter Davison, John Leeson, Maureen O'Brien, Harry Fielder, Walter Randall, Jean Marsh, Anneke Wills, Sheila Dunn, Terry Walsh, Kevin Stoney, Cy Town, Sophie Aldred, Pat Gorman, Derek Newark, Ralph Carrigan, Elisabeth Sladen, Dave Carter, Lalla Ward, Nicola Bryant, Steve Peters, Philip Madoc, Milton Johns, David Brierly, John Levene, Sylvester McCoy, Mark Strickson, Mike Mungarvan, Clare Jenkins, Ian Marter, Roy Skelton, Derek Ware, Sarah Sutton, Edward Brayshaw, Deborah Watling, Monique Bryant, Bernard Kay, Tom Baker, Michael Jayston, Gerald Taylor, William Hartnell, Mary Tamm, Caroline John, Anthony Ainley, Bernard Archard, Janet Fielding, Valentine Dyall, Stuart Fell, Ian Elliot, David Graham, Gordon Stothard, Rex Robinson, Jack Watling, Nicholas Courtney, Jackie Lane, Richard Beale, David Savile, Tony Harwood, Graham Leaman, Derek Suthern, James Muir, Katy Manning, Michael Craze, Peter Purves, Colin Baker, Kevin Manser, Jacqueline Hill, John Ringham, Peter Hawkins, Jack Pitt, Matthew Waterhouse, Peter Halliday, David Collings, Hubert Rees, Sonny Caldinez, Barry Summerford, Carole Ann Ford, Peter Roy, Robert Sidaway, Reg Whitehead, Pamela Salem, Ian Fairbairn, Dallas Cavell, Richard Franklin, Alan Bennion, Christopher Benjamin, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Bonnie Langford, William Russell, Peter Miles, Robert Jewell, Murray Grumbar, Wendy Padbury, Michael Sheard, Frazer Hines, Roger Delgado, John Scott Martin, Michael Briant, Chris Boucher, Philip Hinchcliffe, Dudley Simpson
• Director: Michael Briant
• Runtime: 1:35
• Company: Warner Bros. Pictures
• Media Format: Series