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Classic Who S22 • Serial 2 · (2 episodes)

Vengeance on Varos

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Doctor Who (1963-1996)
Sixth Doctor

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Novelisation: "Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos"

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First aired Saturday, January 19, 1985
Production Code 6V
Written by Philip Martin
Directed by Ron Jones
Runtime 90 minutes
Time Travel Future
Tropes: (Potential Spoilers!) Reality TV
Locations Varos
Synopsis

Seeking the rare mineral Zeiton-7 to repair his TARDIS, the Doctor arrives on Varos, a world where political prisoners and their guards are all subjected to sadistic tortures and executions which the colony's inhabitants view and vote on through interactive television. Accused of being alien infiltrators helping the colony's rebel factions, the Doctor and Peri find themselves the latest unwilling subjects in this most extreme form of reality TV.

2 Episodes:

First aired Saturday, January 19, 1985
Runtime 45 minutes
Written by Philip Martin
Directed by Ron Jones
UK Viewers 7.2 million
Appreciation Index 63
Synopsis

The former prison planet Varos, the future. The downtrodden population of miners are kept happy by real-life violence and murder broadcast live from the Punishment Dome. But then the TARDIS materialises inside the Dome..

First aired Saturday, January 26, 1985
Runtime 45 minutes
Written by Philip Martin
Directed by Ron Jones
UK Viewers 7 million
Appreciation Index 65
Synopsis

The Governor forces the Doctor to tell him the true value of zeiton-7 but Sil attempts to derail his plans by subjecting Peri and Areta to an enforced mutation.

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