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Doctor Who: Pyramids Of Mars

Doctor Who (1963)

Doctor Who: Pyramids Of Mars

BBC Home Video (Oct 25, 1975)
TV Series | Action | Adventure | Science Fiction
USA | English | Color | 01:37
Digital
1 disc
Region 1

The TARDIS materialises on Earth in the year 1911 inside an old priory owned by Egyptologist Marcus Scarman. Scarman has been possessed by Sutekh, last survivor of the god-like Osirans, who is held prisoner inside a pyramid in Egypt by a signal transmitted from one on Mars. Sutekh desires his freedom and instructs Scarman to construct servicer robots - which look like Egyptian mummies - to build a missile with which to destroy the Martian pyramid. The Doctor foils this plan by blowing up the missile.

He then falls under Sutekh's control himself and is made to transport Scarman to Mars in the TARDIS. Scarman cuts off the signal but the Doctor, now freed of Sutekh's influence, realises that there will be a short delay before it ceases to have effect, owing to the time taken for it to reach Earth.

He rushes back and uses the time control from the TARDIS to move the end of the space-time tunnel that links the priory to the Egyptian pyramid into the far future. Sutekh, travelling down the tunnel, is unable to reach the end in his lifetime, and dies.


Cast View all

Tom Baker Doctor Who
Elisabeth Sladen Sarah Jane Smith
Bernard Archard Marcus Scarman
Michael Sheard Laurence Scarman
Peter Copley Dr. Warlock
Peter Mayock Namin
Michael Bilton Collins
Vic Tablian Ahmed
Nick Burnell Mummy
Melvyn Bedford Mummy
Kevin Selway Mummy
Oscar Charles Egyptian Laborer

Episodes View details

9 Pyramids of Mars (1) 25 min | Oct 25, 1975

England, 1911. The TARDIS is drawn off-course and lands in the country house of archaeologist Marcus Scarman. But what did Scarman unearth on his last visit to Egypt, and how can the Doctor defeat his most powerful foe yet - Sutekh, the God of Destruction?

Director: Paddy Russell
Writer: Robert Holmes, Lewis Greifer
Guest stars: Peter Copley, Peter Mayock, Michael Bilton, Vic Tablian, Nick Burnell, Kevin Selway
10 Pyramids of Mars (2) 25 min | Nov 01, 1975

England, 1911. The TARDIS is drawn off-course and lands in the country house of archaeologist Marcus Scarman. But what did Scarman unearth on his last visit to Egypt, and how can the Doctor defeat his most powerful foe yet - Sutekh, the God of Destruction?

Director: Paddy Russell
Writer: Robert Holmes, Lewis Greifer
Guest stars: Peter Copley, Peter Mayock, George Tovey, Nick Burnell, Kevin Selway
11 Pyramids of Mars (3) 25 min | Nov 08, 1975

England, 1911. The TARDIS is drawn off-course and lands in the country house of archaeologist Marcus Scarman. But what did Scarman unearth on his last visit to Egypt, and how can the Doctor defeat his most powerful foe yet - Sutekh, the God of Destruction?

Director: Paddy Russell
Writer: Robert Holmes, Lewis Greifer
Guest stars: Gabriel Woolf, Nick Burnell, Kevin Selway
12 Pyramids of Mars (4) 25 min | Nov 15, 1975

England, 1911. The TARDIS is drawn off-course and lands in the country house of archaeologist Marcus Scarman. But what did Scarman unearth on his last visit to Egypt, and how can the Doctor defeat his most powerful foe yet - Sutekh, the God of Destruction?

Director: Paddy Russell
Writer: Robert Holmes, Lewis Greifer
Guest stars: Gabriel Woolf, Nick Burnell, Kevin Selway