Thinking he has mastery of his TARDIS, the exiled Third Doctor and a travel-wary Jo Grant soon find themselves caught up in a battle for control of a near dead world between a relatively new human colony and the greedy machination of the bullying Interplanetary Mining Core. As if all that wasn't enough, a disguised the Master has also turned up, looking for 'the ultimate weapon', hidden within a lost alien city, capable of conquering or destroying the galaxy!
This time out, Delgado's crafty and determined villain gets to hold Jo Grant hostage in the kind of deadly life-size test tube normally reserved for one of the captured heroes of Land in the Giants, communicates with alien intelligences to achieve his universal power goals, and stirs up the distraction hostility (when needed) between two sets of conflicting human parties. He even offers his mortal enemy The Doctor a half share of the universe, no less- what a happily bad and confident mood our great icon renegade is in during this lively six-part story that takes the series back into outer space!
With no official images seemingly taken of the Master in his adjudicator costume, Lee Binding's composite of a Terror of the Autons headshot with a likely upscaled screen grab of the costume worked well enough for the UK/US DVD sleeve art of a few years back.
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| Colony in Space is part of the recently released The Collection - Season 8, out now on Blu-ray. |
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