Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death

8/25/2024

The "Brigadier" (Nicholas Courtney) is having trouble contacting the returning Mars probe so drafts in the "Doctor" (Jon Pertwee) and "Miss Shaw" (Caroline John) to try and get to the bottom of the mystery. With a bit of help from the space centre director "Cornish" (Ronald Allen) he quickly concludes that there is some extra-terrestrial shenanigans going on - especially when the crew do, eventually, arrive and seem to need enormous amounts of radiation in order to survive. A return trip to space to retrace their steps seems to be in order, but there appears to be an uncanny number of obstacles being thrown in the path of his scientific investigations. Is there someone on the inside who knows more than they are letting on - and is there an ulterior motive? This is another rather plodding s