"The Quest is the Quest!", as the Fourth Doctor and faithful warrior companion Leela discover when they accompany the intriguing Minyan race on a desperate search for the P7E race banks, from Bob Baker and Dave Martin's production troubled Underworld. It has a decades-long reputation for being dull, but I personally think the story's first two episodes set on the actual Minyan R1C ship are very interesting and good high-concept sci-fi fun.
Despite Underworld's many behind the scenes filming problems and fan hatred, the story was most importantly a big success with 1978 viewers, where ratings went up week by week to eleven million by the story's final episode, and despite then very strong competition on the rival ITV channel on Saturday nights.
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