![]() Commissioned in March 1980, this was Gallagher's first script for Doctor Who and had the working title Dream Time. Stephen Gallagher, who had written a number of radio plays, was called upon for a replacement, resulting in Warriors' Gate. Originally, the fifth story of season 18 was Sealed Orders by novelist Christopher Priest before being abandoned. The Tharils, in exchange, provide the Doctor with information on how to leave the void back to N-Space. The Doctor gives her K9, as passing through the mirror will restore his memory but he will be unable to return. The TARDIS crew flee to the TARDIS as Rorvik initiates his plan-the blast from the engines is reflected by the mirrors back onto the ship, destroying it and its crew.Īs the saved Tharils pass through the mirror, Romana announces that she will be staying with them, having become empathetic to their plight and not wanting to return to Gallifrey. While the Doctor warns that this action will be as doomed as the previous ones, Romana regroups with Lazlo and Adric, and together they free the remaining Tharils on the slaver ship. With the gateway and ship in visible distance of each other, Rorvik resorts to one last attempt to break the mirrors by using the exhaust of the ship's engines against them. Rorvik has ordered the crew to try to blast through the mirrors in gateway, believing it to be the way out, but the mirrors resist all attacks. Rorvik's crew realise that the null space is shrinking as the distances between the gateway, the TARDIS, and slaver ship continue to decrease. The Doctor and Romana are returned to the null space, and are immediately captured by Rorvik. A repentant Biroc explains they were the slave masters, travelling on the winds of time in order to ravage other planets and subjugate their populations as slaves until the Gundan revolt. On the other side of the mirror, the Doctor and Romana are reunited with Biroc in a stable, time-locked universe. Romana rejoins Lazlo, and takes her to the gateway and through the mirror, while Adric remains aboard the ship. K9 arrives, and informs the two of dimensional instability in the null space, which they attribute to the alloy, causing the space to collapse in on itself. She encounters Adric the two work out that the ship is made from an incredibly dense dwarf star alloy that can contain the Tharils. Rorvik demands an explanation from the Doctor, revealing he has Romana captive, but the Doctor's only response is to walk through the mirror himself.Īboard the slaver ship, Romana is freed by another Tharil named Lazlo, and she hides in the hull. ![]() During a stand-off between the crew and the Doctor, another Gundan activates and walks through the seemingly-solid mirror. The Doctor's work is disrupted when Rorvik and several of his men arrive. ![]() When Romana does not return, Adric and K9 leave to recover her, but get separated Adric eventually makes it to the ship and hides aboard, while K9 reunites with the Doctor and aids in repairing the Gundan, after which he learns from it that they were built by slaves and used to overthrow their masters in a violent battle. Rorvik, believing Romana to be time-sensitive like the Tharils, dupes her into returning to their ship to examine the engines. Meanwhile, Rorvik and his crew have discovered the TARDIS. He encounters some robots, called Gundans. The Doctor leaves on his own to explore the null space. K9's memory wafers are shredded by the winds of time, leaving him functional but lacking long-term memories. Biroc warns the TARDIS crew of Rorvik's treachery before disappearing. On becoming stuck, the current navigator, Biroc, escapes the ship and makes his way to the TARDIS on the winds of time. It uses members of the leonine Tharil race as their navigators. Elsewhere in the void, a slave vessel, run by Captain Rorvik, has also become trapped. Inside the TARDIS, the Fourth Doctor, Romana, Adric, and K9, while travelling between E-Space and the normal universe (N-Space), become trapped in a white null space between the universes. It is the last serial to feature Ward as Romana and the last regular appearance of John Leeson as the voice of K9. Warriors' Gate is the last of three loosely connected serials set in E-Space. In the serial, the Doctor and his travelling companion Romana ( Lalla Ward) seek to free the time-sensitive Tharils from a group of slavers led by Captain Rorvik ( Clifford Rose). The serial is set at an intersection between the universe of E-Space and the home universe of the alien time traveller the Fourth Doctor ( Tom Baker). It was written by Stephen Gallagher and was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 3 to 24 January 1981. Warriors' Gate is the fifth serial of the 18th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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