The Ark
Joe Siegler
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The Ark
This Story: Season 3, Story 6. Production Code X.
Overall: Story 23, Episodes 107-110
Airdates: 5 March 1966 to 26 March 1966
Written by Paul Erickson and Lesley Scott. Directed by Michael Imison
Episode Titles
- The Steel Sky
- The Plague
- The Return
- The Bomb
Links
[ Wikipedia | Tardis Data Core | SPS Historium | Amazon US DVD | Amazon UK DVD ]
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 107 - "The Steel Sky" (1/4 - Serial "X", Story 23) - 5 Mar 1966. #DoctorWho 1/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) December 3, 2021
First of four of "The Ark", a story that doesn't get enough credit. Was the first story to show repercussions from a visit by the Doctor, and I loved that. The crew land on a pic.twitter.com/bKTImN01MN
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 107 - "The Steel Sky" (1/4 - Serial "X", Story 23) - 5 Mar 1966. #DoctorWho 2/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) December 3, 2021
generational ship. Vicki arrives with a cold, something these people millions of years in the future can't deal with. The human servants are "Monoids", who are silly looking. pic.twitter.com/9mpEKmnVcQ
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 108 - "The Plague" (2/4 - Serial "X", Story 23) - 12 Mar 1966. #DoctorWho 1/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) December 4, 2021
Our crew are arrested for spreading the virus, but eventually help and find a cure. Typical Who where some local in power overreacts, imprisons our crew, and then are let out to pic.twitter.com/bfe9QigLoy
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 108 - "The Plague" (2/4 - Serial "X", Story 23) - 12 Mar 1966. #DoctorWho 2/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) December 4, 2021
save the day. The Monoids are still mostly subservient here, which will change in Ep3. Eventually it's all cured, and our crew leave. They return to the same spot in the future. pic.twitter.com/arS728QQCW
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 109 - "The Return" (3/4 - Serial "X", Story 23) - 19 Mar 1966. #DoctorWho 1/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) December 5, 2021
The Tardis returns to the Ark but 700 years in the future when the Monoids have taken control and enslaved the humans. While I love this turn of the plot, the problem doesn't have pic.twitter.com/I0UdQyXbuA
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 109 - "The Return" (3/4 - Serial "X", Story 23) - 19 Mar 1966. #DoctorWho 2/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) December 5, 2021
a threatening feel due to the silly look of the Monoids. The Doctor & Dodo are sent as a scout party to Refusis. The Monoids plan to blow up the Ark after it lands and they leave. pic.twitter.com/3nGpqwhVKT
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 110 - "The Bomb" (4/4 - Serial "X", Story 23) - 26 Mar 1966. #DoctorWho 1/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) December 6, 2021
Going into this ep, I forgot how the Tardis crew got out of it, so that was nice to "relive it". The Refusians blew up the shuttle by the Monoids. Steven and the Guardians pic.twitter.com/27Zejw6WHX
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 110 - "The Bomb" (4/4 - Serial "X", Story 23) - 26 Mar 1966. #DoctorWho 2/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) December 6, 2021
manage to escape. The Monoids mostly wipe themselves out in a civil war. A Refusian manages to clear the bomb off the ship. The humans move to the planet and our crew leave. pic.twitter.com/PZXpmtdSUU
