Frontios [SEP] series
Frontios
Frontios is the third serial of the 21st season of the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who", which was first broadcast in four twice-weekly parts on BBC1 from 26 January to 3 February 1984.
Set in the far future, the serial involves the alien Gravis (John Gillett) enslaving the last surviving humans to mine the planet for use as a spaceship for the Gravis.
Plot.
The TARDIS lands in the far future, on the planet Frontios, where some of the last
Sixth Doctor The originally planned season 23 In the Hollows of Time.
Commissioned as a two-part story from Christopher H. Bidmead on 21 November 1984. After the news of the hiatus, Bidmead was asked by the production team to continue with the story but as four 25 minute episodes. It was later adapted as "The Hollows of Time" by Bidmead for Big Finish as part of their "The Lost Stories" series in June 2010. The story would feature the return of the Tractators last seen in Frontios.