Doctor Who/The Robots of Death

The Robots of Death
Season 14, Serial 5
Airdate	January 29, 1977
Production Number	4R
by	Chris Boucher
Directed by	Michael E. Briant
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Doctor Who — Season Fourteen

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The Robots of Death is the fifth serial of the fourteenth season of Doctor Who, and the ninetieth serial overall.

Part One: Tom Baker (Doctor Who), Louise Jameson (Leela), Russell Hunter (Uvanov), Pamela Salem (Toos), David Bailie (Dask), David Collings (Poul), Brian Croucher (Borg), Tania Rogers (Zilda), Tariq Yunus (Cass), Rob Edwards (Chub), Gregory de Polnay (D.84), Miles Fothergill (S.V.7), Mark Blackwell Baker, John Bleasdale, Mark Cooper, Peter Langtry, Jeremy Ranchev, Richard Seager (Robots)

Part Two: Tom Baker (Doctor Who), Louise Jameson (Leela), Russell Hunter (Uvanov), Pamela Salem (Toos), David Bailie (Dask), David Collings (Poul), Brian Croucher (Borg), Tania Rogers (Zilda), Tariq Yunus (Cass), Gregory de Polnay (D.84), Miles Fothergill (S.V.7), Mark Blackwell Baker, John Bleasdale, Mark Cooper, Peter Langtry, Jeremy Ranchev, Richard Seager (Robots)

Part Three: Tom Baker (Doctor Who), Louise Jameson (Leela), Russell Hunter (Uvanov), Pamela Salem (Toos), David Bailie (Dask), David Collings (Poul), Gregory de Polnay (D.84), Miles Fothergill (S.V.7), Mark Blackwell Baker, John Bleasdale, Mark Cooper, Peter Langtry, Jeremy Ranchev, Richard Seager (Robots)

Part Four: Tom Baker (Doctor Who), Louise Jameson (Leela), Russell Hunter (Uvanov), Pamela Salem (Toos), David Bailie (Dask), David Collings (Poul), Gregory de Polnay (D.84), Miles Fothergill (S.V.7), Mark Blackwell Baker, John Bleasdale, Mark Cooper, Peter Langtry, Jeremy Ranchev, Richard Seager (Robots)

Trivia

The Show

• Grimwade's syndrome is referred to as the irrational fear of robots. This was an in-joke reference to production assistant Peter Grimwade who had bemoaned the fact that the stories on which he was assigned to almost always involved robots.

Behind the Scenes

• In the scene where Leela throws her knife at the attacking robot, on one take Jameson wasn't holding it correctly, which caused it to fly off in the wrong direction and very nearly stab a cameraman in the back. In future serials, the knife had to be blunt to prevent this from happening again.