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On a distant,
barren planet, Storm Mine 4
trawls across bleak deserts
and through fierce dust-storms
in search of rare and valuable
metals. On board the Sandminer
is a small skeleton crew, who
alternate between indulgent
relaxation and skilled mining
work. The mundane, day-to-day
duties of the mine are attended
to by a much larger complement
of servile robots.
This is a society
that is dependant on robots
for all areas of life, the people
comforted by the knowledge that
the strictest safeguards are
built into each and every robot's
programming. So when one of
the miner crew is murdered,
suspicion falls on two new arrivals...
The Doctor and
Leela arrive on board, and are
immediately accused of being
the prime murder suspects. But
the Doctor soon realises that
perhaps the killer isn't human.
More deaths occur - can he persuade
the remaining crew-members that
the killer may be a robot? |
