The Ribos Operation

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Doctor Who serial science fiction television episode television story

The Ribos Operation is a 1978 Doctor Who serial that opens the Key to Time season, featuring the Fourth Doctor and new companion Romana in a con-artist plot on a wintry alien world.

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Label Occurrences
The Ribos Operation canonical 7

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Doctor Who serial ⓘ
science fiction television episode ⓘ
television story ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom ⓘ
director George Spenton-Foster ⓘ
featuresCharacter Binro ⓘ
Garron ⓘ
K-9 ⓘ
surface form: K9

Romana ⓘ
The Graff Vynda-K ⓘ
The White Guardian ⓘ
Unstoffe ⓘ
featuresCompanion Romana ⓘ
surface form: Romana I
featuresDoctor Fourth Doctor ⓘ
featuresElement Key to Time ⓘ
featuresVoiceActor John Leeson ⓘ
followedBy The Pirate Planet ⓘ
format serialised television story ⓘ
franchise Doctor Who ⓘ
genre adventure ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ
language English ⓘ
medium television ⓘ
numberOfEpisodes 4 ⓘ
originalAirDateEnd 1978-09-23 ⓘ
originalAirDateStart 1978-09-02 ⓘ
originalAirYear 1978 ⓘ
originalNetwork BBC One ⓘ
partOf Doctor Who ⓘ
Key to Time season ⓘ
plotElement con-artist scheme ⓘ
search for a segment of the Key to Time ⓘ
precededBy The Invasion of Time ⓘ
producer Graham Williams ⓘ
productionCode 5A ⓘ
runtimePerEpisode 25 minutes ⓘ
scriptEditor Anthony Read ⓘ
season Key to Time ⓘ
Season 16 ⓘ
segmentNumberInKeyToTime first segment ⓘ
seriesNumber 16 ⓘ
setting planet Ribos ⓘ
settingDescription wintry alien world ⓘ
stars John Leeson ⓘ
Mary Tamm ⓘ
Tom Baker ⓘ
storyNumber 98 ⓘ
writer Robert Holmes ⓘ

Referenced by (7)

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Romana → firstAppearance → The Ribos Operation ⓘ
Robert Holmes → notableWork → The Ribos Operation ⓘ
White Guardian → firstAppearanceWork → The Ribos Operation ⓘ
White Guardian → appearsIn → The Ribos Operation ⓘ
Romanadvoratrelundar → introducedIn → The Ribos Operation ⓘ
Romanadvoratrelundar → notableStory → The Ribos Operation ⓘ
The Key to Time → comprisesSerial → The Ribos Operation ⓘ