Stories Television Doctor Who Season 7 Serial: 1 2 3 4 The Ambassadors of Death Original Story TV Soundtrack Original Story TV Soundtrack 1 image Overview Episodes Characters How to Watch Reviews 8 Statistics Related Stories Quotes 4 Transcript Overview First aired Saturday, March 21, 1970 Production Code CCC Written by David Whitaker, Malcolm Hulke, Terrance Dicks, Trevor Ray Directed by Michael Ferguson Runtime 175 minutes Time Travel Present Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) Black Hole, Stranded on Earth, The Doctor Falls Story Arc (Potential Spoilers!) Exile on Earth, Working for UNIT Inventory (Potential Spoilers!) Bessie Location (Potential Spoilers!) Earth, England Synopsis The Third Doctor joins UNIT's investigation of the mystery surrounding Mars Probe 7. Space Control, headed by Professor Ralph Cornish, has had no contact with the astronauts on board since it started back from Mars seven months ago. Now the Recovery 7 rescue mission has run into similar difficulties. This second ship gets back to Earth, but the astronauts are kidnapped after landing, and Liz Shaw notices that the Geiger counter is at maximum. It transpires that the ship's occupants were not the human astronauts after all but a trio of radiation-dependent alien ambassadors who had swapped places with them. Watch Watched 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 7 Episodes Episode 1 First aired Saturday, March 21, 1970 Runtime 25 minutes Written by David Whitaker Trevor Ray Directed by Michael Ferguson UK Viewers 7.1 million Appreciation Index 60 Synopsis While the Brigadier investigates a loss of contact with Mars Probe 7, the Doctor realises signals coming from the probe are of extra-terrestrial origin. Episode 2 First aired Saturday, March 28, 1970 Runtime 25 minutes Written by David Whitaker Malcolm Hulke Terrance Dicks Directed by Michael Ferguson UK Viewers 7.6 million Appreciation Index 61 Synopsis UNIT retrieve the returned Recovery 7 but then Carrington hijacks it while the Doctor and Liz try to decode the signal he sent. Episode 3 First aired Saturday, April 4, 1970 Runtime 25 minutes Written by David Whitaker Malcolm Hulke Terrance Dicks Directed by Michael Ferguson UK Viewers 8 million Appreciation Index 59 Synopsis Carrington is holding the astronauts at a secret location but when he takes the Doctor, Liz and the Brigadier there they find they have been kidnapped. Episode 4 First aired Saturday, April 11, 1970 Runtime 25 minutes Written by David Whitaker Malcolm Hulke Terrance Dicks Directed by Michael Ferguson UK Viewers 9.3 million Appreciation Index 58 Synopsis Liz has been captured by Reegan's men and the Doctor begins to suspect Taltalian is more involved than he appeared. Episode 5 First aired Saturday, April 18, 1970 Runtime 25 minutes Written by David Whitaker Malcolm Hulke Terrance Dicks Directed by Michael Ferguson UK Viewers 7.1 million Synopsis The Doctor decides to take Recovery 7 back into space to search for the missing astronauts but Reegan sabotages the launch. Episode 6 First aired Saturday, April 25, 1970 Runtime 25 minutes Written by David Whitaker Malcolm Hulke Terrance Dicks Directed by Michael Ferguson UK Viewers 6.9 million Appreciation Index 61 Synopsis The Doctor speaks with the alien captain and learns the astronauts sent to Earth were ambassadors. However, before he can alert the authorities he is kidnapped by Reegan. Episode 7 First aired Saturday, May 2, 1970 Runtime 25 minutes Written by David Whitaker Malcolm Hulke Terrance Dicks Directed by Michael Ferguson UK Viewers 6.4 million Appreciation Index 62 Synopsis Carrington is planning to expose the aliens on live television and call for an interplanetary war and the Brigadier must rescue the Doctor and Liz in time to stop him. Show All Episodes Characters Third Doctor Jon Pertwee Liz Shaw Caroline John The Brigadier Nicholas Courtney UNIT John Benton John Levene Show All Characters (5) How to watch The Ambassadors of Death: Watch on iPlayer DVD The Ambassadors of Death VHS The Ambassadors of Death (VHS) Blu-Ray The Collection Season 7 (Limited Edition Packaging) Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Date (Newest First) Date (Oldest First) Likes (High-Low) Likes (Low-High) Rating (High-Low) Rating (Low-High) Word count (High-Low) Word count (Low-High) Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 8 reviews 4 April 2025 · 32 words Review by Scottybguud It's action-packed but also slow in places. Was different having the aliens, not the villains, but being used by corrupt humans. It's my least favourite of season 7. Still, it's a good watch Scottybguud View profile Like Liked 0 27 March 2025 · 28 words Review by Azurillkirby This serial started off good and then kept getting better for seven episodes. The tension and mystery in this story was top notch. Just all around incredible. A+. Azurillkirby View profile Like Liked 0 16 January 2025 · 21 words Review by connorpurnell99 This is 175 minutes of the Doctor slowly coming to realise things that we (as an audience) have already known for ages. connorpurnell99 View profile Like Liked 0 7 January 2025 · 99 words Review by WhoTheoryYT Spoilers This review contains spoilers! The general may seem a bit insane wanting to nuke the aliens, but he is in reality, just any modern day politician. Jokes aside, I enjoyed this one, the music was especially nice compared the the odd Kazoo thing from the previous story, however the pacing was still slightly slow in my opinion (either that or 7 parts is too long for a modern audience lol). I'm really enjoying Pertwee as the Doctor, and I feel the these unit based stories are a really nice change from earlier stuff, so I'm liking the sort of genre of these a lot. WhoTheoryYT View profile Like Liked 0 17 November 2024 · 16 words Review by Rock_Angel 1 WHAT HAPPENED S7 I used to like you now my views have changed for the worse Rock_Angel View profile Like Liked 1 Show All Reviews (8) Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating487 members 3.57 / 5 Trakt.tv AVG. Rating646 votes 3.70 / 5 Member Statistics Watched 876 Favourited 76 Reviewed 8 Saved 3 Skipped 1 Related Stories Virgin Missing Adventures Who Killed Kennedy Rating: 4.01 Story Skipped Book More Actions View Sets Close Related Sets Set of Stories: Virgin Missing Adventures Add Review Edit Review Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Save to my list Saved The Companion Chronicles S7 • Episode 4 The Last Post Rating: 4.42 Story Skipped Audio Book Reviews(4) More Actions View Sets Close Related Sets Set of Stories: The Companion Chronicles Add Review Edit Review Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Save to my list Saved 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. Target Collection Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death Rating: 3.38 Story Skipped Book More Actions View Sets Close Related Sets Set of Stories: Target Collection Add Review Edit Review Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Save to my list Saved Other variations of this story We define a variation as another way of experiencing the exact same story - like an autiobook, a reconstruction or an omnibus edition. BBC Audio Soundtracks The Ambassadors of Death (BBC Audio Soundtrack) Rating: ??? Story Skipped Soundtrack Reviews(1) More Actions View Sets Close Related Sets Set of Stories: BBC Audio Soundtracks Add Review Edit Review Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Save to my list Saved Quotes Add Quote Link to Quote Favourite Tags: Funny (Liz dematerialises.) DOCTOR: Liz! Good grief! — The Ambassadors of Death Show All Quotes (4) Open in new window Transcript Needs checking Episode One [Space Control] (On the big wall screen, a man in a ribbed space suit is making fine adjustments to the path of a space capsule. His control unit is labelled Van Lyden.) TALTALIAN [OC]: (French) And one degree. How are you reading?VAN LYDEN [on screen]: I'm reading okay. One degree. Now. Manoeuvre completed.CORNISH: You overshot, Charlie. Make a two second correction to port. (It's Ronald Allen, again.) Show Full Transcript Open in new window
