Episode
Doctor Who: Warriors' Gate (3)
Overview
While Biroc leads the Doctor to a view of the Tharil's lordly past, Romana learns more about the damaged freighter and the coldheartedness of its crew. Meanwhile Commander Rorvik, confounded by the time mirror inside the universal center gateway, ignores evidence that it's no simple mirror and decides to blast it, imperiling the lives of everyone.
Details
- Series
- Doctor Who
- Season
- Season 18
- Episode
- Episode 19
- Air date
- 1981-01-17
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
Warriors' Gate (3) is Episode 19 in Season 18 of Doctor Who. It aired on 1981-01-17. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 18: Warriors' Gate (2)
When Rorvik learns that Romana is a time sensitive, he takes her prisoner, forcing her to find a way out of the void. The Doctor attempts to discover what lies beyond the mirror.
Episode 20: Warriors' Gate (4)
The Doctor deduces that the freighter is a slave ship loaded up with Tharils to be sold as time machine components, but the immense weight of Rorvik's damaged ship, designed to contain the Tharils, is now collapsing the fragile void of the micro-universe in which they're all stuck, pulling everything inside ever closer.
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Episode 22: The Keeper of Traken (2)
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