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088 – The Deadly Assassin | |||
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Doctor Who serial | |||
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Directed by | David Maloney | ||
Written by | Robert Holmes | ||
Script editor | Robert Holmes (uncredited) | ||
Produced by | Philip Hinchcliffe | ||
Executive producer(s) | None | ||
Music by | Dudley Simpson | ||
Production code | 4P | ||
Series | Season 14 | ||
Running time | 4 episodes, 25 minutes each | ||
First broadcast | 30 October 1976 | ||
Last broadcast | 20 November 1976 | ||
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The Deadly Assassin is the third serial of the 14th season of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 30 October to 20 November 1976. It is the first serial in which the Doctor is featured without a companion, and the only such story for the classic era.
In the serial, the renegade alien Time Lord the Master (Peter Pratt) seeks to restore his life force by disrupting a power source that would destroy the planet Gallifrey along with his archenemy the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker).