Stories Book Target Collection Doctor Who and the Ark in Space 1 image Overview Characters How to Read Reviews Statistics Related Stories Quotes Overview Released Tuesday, May 10, 1977 Written by Ian Marter Pages 144 Time Travel Future Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) Cryogenic Sleep Story Arc (Potential Spoilers!) Nerva Beacon Location (Potential Spoilers!) Nerva Beacon Synopsis At a time in the far-off future, Earth has become uninhabitable. A selection of Humanity is placed, deep-frozen, in a fully automated space station, to await the day of their return to Earth... Thousands of years later, DOCTOR WHO arrives. He finds things going suspiciously wrong, and the station under attack from the giant WIRRN, deadly creatures who, in their lust for power, now threaten the future of the whole Human Race... Read Read Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Edit date completed Custom Date Release Date Archive (no date) Save Characters Fourth Doctor Wirrn Harry Sullivan Sarah Jane Smith Show All Characters (4) How to read Doctor Who and the Ark in Space: Books Doctor Who and the Ark in Space Reviews Add Review Edit Review Submit a Review Statistics AVG. Rating574 members 3.83 / 5 GoodReads AVG. Rating574 votes 3.83 / 5 The Time Scales AVG. Rating4 votes 4.40 / 5 Member Statistics Read 23 Favourited 1 Reviewed 0 Saved 1 Skipped 3 Owned 1 Related Stories Other adaptations of this story: We define an adaptation as a recreation of a similar story but on a different medium or with different characters. Classic Who S12 • Serial 2 · (4 episodes) The Ark in Space Rating: 3.85 Story Skipped Television Reviews(7) More Actions View Sets Close Related Sets Set of Stories: Doctor Who Season 12 Set of Stories: Doctor Who (1963-1996) Set of Stories: Fourth Doctor Add Review Edit Review Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Save to my list Saved Quotes Add Quote Submit a Quote