Robot (Doctor Who)
| 075 - Robot | |
|---|---|
| Doctor | Tom Baker (Fourth Doctor) |
| Writer | Terrance Dicks |
| Director | Christopher Barry |
| Script Editor | Robert Holmes |
| Producer | Barry Letts |
| Executive Producer(s) | None |
| Production Code | 4A |
| Series | Season 12 |
| Length | 4 episodes, 25 mins each |
| Transmission date | December 28, 1974 - January 18, 1975 |
| Preceded by | Planet of the Spiders |
| Followed by | The Ark in Space |
Robot is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from December 28, 1974 to January 18, 1975. It opened Season 12 and was the first full serial to feature Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor.
Synopsis
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart has to contend with the theft of the plans for a disintegration gun by a giant robot. With the newly regenerated Doctor behaving erratically, can UNIT prevent the sinister organisation Think Tank from holding the world to nuclear ransom?
Notes
- The 1975 novelisation of the serial was titled Doctor Who and the Giant Robot, by Terrance Dicks. In 1992 it was reprinted as Doctor Who - Robot.
- This was the first Doctor Who serial to have location as well as studio material shot on videotape, as opposed to the more usual BBC television drama practice of the time of shooting studio interiors on videotape and location exteriors on film. This was due to the large number of video effects involving the eponymous robot required in exterior scenes, which were easier and more convincing to marry to videotape than to film.