When the TARDIS is in need of repairs, the Doctor and Peri are forced to land on Varos, a mining planet whose population is entertained and enslaved by a sadistic system of public torture and execution, and find themselves the latest unwilling subjects in this most extreme form of reality TV.

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Cast

Colin Baker

The Doctor

Nicola Bryant

Peri Brown

Martin Jarvis

The Governor

Nabil Shaban

Sil

Nicolas Chagrin

Quillam

Jason Connery

Jondar

Forbes Collins

Chief Officer

Stephen Yardley

Arak

Sheila Reid

Etta

Geraldine Alexander

Areta

Owen Teale

Maldak

Keith Skinner

Rondel