The Robots of Death (VHS)

In 1986, The Robots of Death was released on VHS.

Cover blurb
The Doctor faces a horrific army of merciless machines in another exciting feature-length space adventure from the longest-running SF series in the world.

On a desolate planet rich in metal ores a huge sandminer crawls over the barren wastes scraping the surface for lucanol, one of the most valuable substances in the Universe. The skeleton crew are served by their robot staff; efficient, expendable and totally obedient. Until now.

One by one the human crew are brutally and mysteriously eliminated and suspicion shifts from the crew members themselves to the Doctor and Leela, who have accidentally landed on the planet. But, as the true enemy is revealed, the Doctor, Leela and the remains of the terrified crew find themselves prey to a horde of killer robots answerable only to an evil scientist determined to see them seize absolute power.

Specifications

 * Encoding: PAL
 * Aspect ratio: 4:3
 * Running time: 91 mins approx

Specifications

 * Encoding: NTSC
 * Aspect ratio: 4:3
 * Running time: 91 mins approx

Cover blurb
The master of space faces machines of destruction!

Climb aboard for another galactic odyssey with Doctor Who, one of the most popular science fiction characters in the world. He's a Time Lord who crisscrosses time and space in the Tardis, a spaceship one could easily mistake for an ordinary phone booth. An advanced being, the Doctor has already regenerated himself on five occasions (and has been portrayed by five different actors).

On this trip, Dr. Who (Tom Baker) and Leela (Louise Jameson) find themselves on a desert planet rich in the highly valuable ore, lucanol. The miners here are served by robots who have always been obedient and loyal. But now they begin to kill off the miners as they suddenly start serving a new master bent on seizing complete power.

Will the doctor short circuit the robots' rebellion and save mankind from a horrible fate, or will the mutinous machines run rampant and enslave the universe?

Specifications

 * Encoding: NTSC
 * Aspect ratio: 4:3
 * Running time: 91 mins approx

Cover blurb
The Doctor faces a horrific army of merciless machines in another exciting feature-length space adventure from the longest-running SF series in the world.

On a desolate planet rich in metal ores a huge sandminer crawls over the barren wastes scraping the surface for lucanol, one of the most valuable substances in the Universe. The skeleton crew are served by their robot staff; efficient, expendable and totally obedient. Until now.

One by one the human crew are brutally and mysteriously eliminated and suspicion shifts from the crew members themselves to the Doctor and Leela, who have accidentally landed on the planet. But, as the true enemy is revealed, the Doctor, Leela and the remains of the terrified crew find themselves prey to a horde of killer robots answerable only to an evil scientist determined to see them seize absolute power.

Specifications

 * Encoding: PAL
 * Aspect ratio: 4:3
 * Running time: 91 mins approx

Cover blurb
The Doctor faces a horrific army of merciless machines in another exciting feature-length space adventure from the longest-running SF series in the world.

On a desolate planet rich in metal ores a huge sandminer crawls over the barren wastes scraping the surface for lucanol, one of the most valuable substances in the Universe. The skeleton crew are served by their robot staff; efficient, expendable and totally obedient. Until now.

One by one the human crew are brutally and mysteriously eliminated and suspicion shifts from the crew members themselves to the Doctor and Leela, who have accidentally landed on the planet. But, as the true enemy is revealed, the Doctor, Leela and the remains of the terrified crew find themselves prey to a horde of killer robots answerable only to an evil scientist determined to see them seize absolute power.

Specifications

 * Encoding: PAL
 * Aspect ratio: 4:3
 * Running time: 91 mins approx

Cover blurb
On a distant, barren planet, Storm Mine 4 trawls across bleak deserts and through fierce duststorms in search of rare and valuable metals. On board 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 dependant 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 miner crew is murdered, suspicion falls on two new arrivals...

The Doctor and Leela arrive on board, and are immediately accused of being the prime murder suspects. But the Doctor soon realises that perhaps the killer isn't human. More deaths occur - can he persuade the remaining crewmembers that the killer may be a robot?

Originally transmitted 29th January - 19th February 1977.

Specifications

 * Encoding: PAL
 * Aspect ratio: 4:3
 * Running time: 91 mins approx

Cover blurb
The master of space faces machines of destruction!

Climb aboard for another galactic odyssey with Doctor Who, one of the most popular science fiction characters in the world. He's a Time Lord who crisscrosses time and space in the Tardis, a spaceship one could easily mistake for an ordinary phone booth. An advanced being, the Doctor has already regenerated himself on five occasions (and has been portrayed by five different actors).

On this trip, Dr. Who (Tom Baker) and Leela (Louise Jameson) find themselves on a desert planet rich in the highly valuable ore, lucanol. The miners here are served by robots who have always been obedient and loyal. But now they begin to kill off the miners as they suddenly start serving a new master bent on seizing complete power.

Will the doctor short circuit the robots' rebellion and save mankind from a horrible fate, or will the mutinous machines run rampant and enslave the universe?

Specifications

 * Encoding: NTSC
 * Aspect ratio: 4:3
 * Running time: 91 mins approx