Episode
Doctor Who: The Exploding Planet
Overview
The Doctor and Vicki enlist the aid of the Chumblies to rescue Steven from the Drahvins and then find a way off the planet before its destruction.
Details
- Series
- Doctor Who
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 1965-10-02
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
The Exploding Planet is Episode 4 in Season 3 of Doctor Who. It aired on 1965-10-02. The runtime is 25 min.
Previous / Next
Episode 3: Air Lock
The Doctor and Vicki encounter the Rills and learn the situation is more complex than they thought while Steven finds the Drahvins' hospitality ever more perilous.
Episode 5: Mission to the Unknown
Whilst The Doctor, Steven and Vicki are traveling to their next destination. On the planet Kembel, Marc Cory, a Space Security Service agent discovers The Daleks are attending a secret meeting with their allies. Where Cory discovers the Dalek's evil plan, which sets the stage for the epic 12-part adventure "The Dalek Master Plan".
More episodes from this season
Episode 2: Trap of Steel
With the knowledge that the planet will be destroyed in two days, the Drahvins instruct the Doctor to help them steal the Rills' ship.
Episode 6: Temple of Secrets
The TARDIS lands in the middle of the Trojan War, where the Doctor is mistaken for the god Zeus.
Episode 1: Four Hundred Dawns
After an encounter with a hostile robot called a Chumblie, the Doctor and his companions are rescued by a group of female Drahvins.
Episode 7: Small Prophet, Quick Return
While Odysseus forces the Doctor to find a way to win the war, Steven decides to get himself taken prisoner in order to enter Troy and find Vicki and the TARDIS.
Episode 8: Death of a Spy
With Steven and Vicki being held prisoner by the Trojans, the Doctor's only hope of seeing them again is to suggest the idea of the Trojan Horse.
Episode 9: Horse of Destruction
The Doctor waits inside the Trojan Horse for a chance to reach his companions but Steven's assumed identity as a Greek soldier and Vicki's growing feelings for Troilus endanger their escape.
Episode 10: The Nightmare Begins
The Doctor runs afoul of the Daleks and Special Security Agent Bret Vyon on the planet Kembel.
Episode 11: Day of Armageddon
The Doctor infiltrates the Daleks' conference to try and discover their plans, leaving Steven, Katarina and Bret to find a way off the planet.
Episode 12: Devil's Planet
The Doctor and his friends escape Kembel in the Spar ship but the Daleks force them down on the planet Desperus, where they are threatened by a group of convicts.
Episode 13: The Traitors
With Katarina being held hostage, the Doctor, Steven and Bret are in danger of having to given in to Kirksen's demands, while, on Earth, Chen has them listed as traitors.