The misguided High Priest Hepesh (Geoffrey Toone) prepares to unleash The Curse of Peladon.
1972 was a great year for new and long-term fans eager to see our exiled to Earth Time Lord hero going back into space for his adventures. After a brief dip in the waters with Colony in Space, which proved a solid ratings success, The Curse of Peladon, from Brian Hayles, would prove bigger, bolder and much more interesting, as the Doctor and Jo must save the planet Peladon from backwards superstition and murderous conspiracy so as to ease it into joining the benevolent Galactic Federation, a storyline echoing the offscreen real-life entry by England into the Common Market at that time.
Original Radio Times episode listings.
The dutiful but ever worried Alpha Centauri (operated by Stuart Fell, voiced by Ysanne Churchman).
Ice Warrior Ssorg (Sonny Caldinez).
Delegates Arcturus and Ice Lord Izlyr (Alan Bennion).
With the return of old favourite monsters the Ice Warriors (this time in a benevolent phase in their warrior history), this story also saw the largest collection of intriguingly designed alien creatures seen in the series since the mid-sixties, and was, as part of this finely crafted four-parter as a whole, a terrific and memorable treat for fans both then and now with its fiftieth anniversary.
The Doctor and Jo newly arrived in the Peladon Royal Court.
A brief romance begins between Jo and King Peladon (David Troughton).
The Doctor tends to the sabotaged alien Arcturus.
In her role as 'Princess Josephine of TARDIS', Jo mediates with Alpha Centauri and Izlyr.
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