The Ribos Operation [SEP] series
The Ribos Operation
The Ribos Operation is the first serial of the 16th season of the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who", which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 2 to 23 September 1978. This serial introduces Mary Tamm as the companion Romana.
The serial is set on the primitive and superstitious planet Ribos. In the serial, the exiled Emperor of Levithia, Graff Vynda-K (Paul Seed), seeks a piece of the rare element jethrik on the planet. At the
most difficult to reconcile with the rest of the series.
By the time of "The Brain of Morbius", the Fourth Doctor was stated to be 749 years old ("something like 750 years" in the prior "Pyramids of Mars"). In "The Ribos Operation" (1978), Romana said the Doctor was 759 years old and had been piloting the TARDIS for 523 years, making him 236 when he first "borrowed" it. When the Doctor encounters his old friend Drax in "The