State of Decay
| 113 State of Decay | |
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| Doctor | Tom Baker (Fourth Doctor) |
| Writer | Terrance Dicks |
| Director | Peter Moffatt |
| Script Editor | Christopher H. Bidmead |
| Producer | John Nathan-Turner |
| Executive Producer(s) | Barry Letts |
| Production Code | 5P |
| Series | Season 18 |
| Length | 4 episodes, 25 mins each |
| Transmission date | November 22 - December 13, 1980 |
| Preceded by | Full Circle |
| Followed by | Warriors' Gate |
State of Decay is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from November 22 to 13 December, 1980. The serial was the second of three loosely connected serials known as the E-Space Trilogy.
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Synopsis
The Doctor and his companions arrive at a planet ruled by three Lords named Zargo, Camilla and Aukon, vampire servants to the last of the Great Vampires.
Plot
Notes
- It was a re-written version of a story called The Witch Lords which Dicks had submitted to the series in 1977, but which had been pulled just before production and replaced with Horror of Fang Rock.
- The serial was novelised as Doctor Who and the State of Decay by Terrance Dicks in 1981.
- The E-Space Trilogy began in the previous serial, Full Circle and concludes in the next serial, Warriors' Gate.
- The Virgin New Adventures spin-off novel Blood Harvest by Terrance Dicks and the Missing Adventure Goth Opera by Paul Cornell are sequels to this serial. Many of the spin-off novels feature references to the war between the Time Lords and the Vampires.