The Ribos Operation is the first serial of the 16th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four...

Key to Time, began on 2 September 1978 with The Ribos Operation, and ended with The Armageddon Factor. The arc was originally conceived by producer Graham...

16 (1978–79). Romana first appears in The Ribos Operation, and was intended as a contrast to her predecessor, the savage Leela. Romana is initially haughty...

including The Avengers, The Cadfael Chronicles, Doctor Who (in the serial entitled "The Ribos Operation") and Labyrinth. He also provided the voices for...

Garron in the Doctor Who story The Ribos Operation. He also appeared in: Diamond Crack Diamond, The Onedin Line (BBC), Survivors (BBC), Scotch on the Rocks...

1970s - Spearhead from Space and Planet of the Daleks with Jon Pertwee, and Planet of Evil and The Ribos Operation with Tom Baker. Other TV appearances include...

humans in The Seeds of Doom and "Planet of the Ood" and even Romana in The Ribos Operation, and in "42", the Tenth Doctor states he is able to survive...

criticized the confusing ending, which suggests that the White Guardian who sent the Doctor on his quest to find the Key to Time in The Ribos Operation had been...

The Shadow of the Tower, Space: 1999, The Venturers, 1990, Doctor Who (in the serial The Ribos Operation), Dennis Potter's play Double Dare, and The Professionals...

registration prefix 5A) 5A, the production code for the 1978 Doctor Who serial The Ribos Operation Zeolite 5A, a calcium-type molecular sieve. A5 (disambiguation)...

played the White Guardian in the long running science fiction television series Doctor Who. He appeared in The Ribos Operation, the first serial in The Key...

wrote the first story, The Ribos Operation (1978), and the writing team of Bob Baker and Dave Martin handled what would be the final story of the season...

revealed to be 756 in The Ribos Operation (1978), and approximately half a century since Revelation of the Daleks (1985) in which the Sixth Doctor stated...

"soon be middle-aged"). In The Ribos Operation (1978), Romana said the Doctor was 759 years old and had been piloting the TARDIS for 523 years, making...

return as Salamar in Planet of Evil (1975) and as the Shrieve Captain in The Ribos Operation (1978). The serial was repeated on BBC One on Friday evenings...

Unstoffe in the four-part Doctor Who science-fiction serial The Ribos Operation in 1978. In British television advertisements, Plaskitt appeared as the character...

balance in the universe, first seen in The Ribos Operation (1978), where the White Guardian appeared before the Doctor and asked him to re-assemble The Key to...

script at the time of his death. Books Doctor Who and the Ark in Space Doctor Who and the Sontaran Experiment Doctor Who and the Ribos Operation Doctor Who...

remained for the first two serials of season 4. The Second Doctor featured for the remainder of the season from the third serial, The Power of the Daleks....

introduced in the serial The Ribos Operation (1978) The Polyphase Avatron, the Captain's robot parrot in the serial The Pirate Planet (1978) The Taran Androids...

initial productions, namely "The Ribos Operation" (1978) and "The Creature from the Pit" (1979), garnered commendation from the series' producer, Graham Williams...

became the youngest commissioned officer in the entire British army during the Second World War. The fact that he lied about his age to get into the army...

adventures with, the Doctor. In most Doctor Who stories, the primary companion acts as an audience surrogate by providing the lens through which the viewer is...

police series The Link Men. For the BBC, Spenton-Foster directed two Doctor Who stories: Image of the Fendahl (1977) and The Ribos Operation (1978). He also...

brought on as the voice of K9 in Doctor Who for 1977's The Invisible Enemy. Producer Graham Williams liked the character so much that the decision was...

The Invasion of Time is the sixth and final serial of the 15th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast...

The Pirate Planet is the second serial of the 16th season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four...

first actually appears on-screen in The Ribos Operation (1978). More mobile than his predecessor, Mark II exhibited the ability to sense and warn others...

Spearhead from Space (1970) and Planet of the Daleks (1973). He would later appear in The Ribos Operation (1978). Frederick Jaeger (Professor Sorenson)...

was founded at the Eton Mission church in 1959 in Hackney Wick. Hackney Wick is mentioned in an exchange of dialogue in The Ribos Operation, a 1978 episode...