On a distant, barren planet, Storm Mine 4 trawls across bleak deserts and through fierce duststorms in search of rare and valuable metals. Onboard the Sandminer is a small skeleton crew, who alternate between indulgent relaxation and skilled mining work. The mundane, day-to-day duties of the mine are attended to by a much larger complement of servile robots. This is a society that is dependent on robots for all areas of life, the people comforted by the knowledge that the strictest safeguards are built into each and every robot's programming. So when one of the Sandminer crew is murdered, suspicion falls on two new arrivals... The Doctor and Leela arrive on board, and are immediately accused of being the suspects. But the Doctor deduces that the killer is possibly not human. More deaths occur - can he persuade the remaining crew members that the killer may be a robot? This story was first broadcast in the UK on BBC1 between 29th January and 19th February 1977.
This is great,although the basic robot that can talk is slightly pointless in my opinion.This was Tom Baker's second episode with new companion Leela(Louise Jameson),but they already seem quite close.Leela's character was a good idea,but her character never really developed properly before her departure in the Invasion of Time.This is a good example of what a good companion she is,and a good story too.
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