Stories Book Target Collection Doctor Who: The Ark 1 image Overview Characters How to Read Reviews Statistics Related Stories Quotes Overview Released Thursday, March 19, 1987 Written by Paul Erickson Pages 144 Time Travel Future Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) Spaceship, Disease, Miniaturisation, Sign Language Location (Potential Spoilers!) Refusis II, Space, The Ark Synopsis It is ten million years in the future and the Earth is about to plunge into the Sun. A gigantic Space Ark has been launched to take the last of humanity to a new life on the planet Refusis II. Accompanying the humans on their journey are the Monoids, strange reptilian creatures from an alien world. When the TARDIS materialises on board, the First Doctor and his friends are greeted with suspicion which soon turns to open hostility when Dodo inadvertently infects the Ark’s crew with a long-forgotten virus. It is an accident which will have a terrible effect on mankind, an effect which will last for seven hundred years… Read Read Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Characters First Doctor Steven Taylor Dodo Chaplet Monoids Refusians Show All Characters (5) How to read Doctor Who: The Ark: Books The Ark Reviews Add Review Edit Review Submit a Review Statistics AVG. Rating199 members 3.40 / 5 GoodReads AVG. Rating199 votes 3.40 / 5 The Time Scales AVG. Rating3 votes 3.65 / 5 Member Statistics Read 11 Favourited 0 Reviewed 0 Saved 0 Skipped 2 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 S3 • Serial 6 · (4 episodes) The Ark Rating: 3.19 Story Skipped Television Reviews(9) More Actions View Sets Close Related Sets Set of Stories: First Doctor Set of Stories: Doctor Who (1963-1996) Add Review Edit Review Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Save to my list Saved Quotes Add Quote Submit a Quote