Colony in Space

058 – *Colony in Space*
058 – Colony in Space
Doctor Who serial
Cast
	Doctor Jon Pertwee – Third Doctor;
	Companion Katy Manning – Jo Grant;
	Others Nicholas Courtney – Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart; Roger Delgado – The Master; Graham Leaman, Peter Forbes-Robertson, John Baker – Time Lords; John Ringham – Ashe; Helen Worth – Mary Ashe; David Webb – Leeson; Sheila Grant – Jane Leeson; John Tordoff – Alec Leeson; Nicholas Pennell – Winton; John Line – Martin; Mitzi Webster – Mrs Martin; Roy Skelton – Norton; Morris Perry – Captain Dent; Bernard Kay – Caldwell; John Herrington – Holden; Tony Caunter – Morgan; Stanley McGeagh – Allen; Pat Gorman – Long/Primitive/Voice; John Scott Martin – Robot; Roy Heymann – Alien Priest; Norman Atkyns – The Guardian;
Production
Directed by	Michael E. Briant
Written by	Malcolm Hulke
Script editor	Terrance Dicks
Produced by	Barry Letts
Executive producer(s)	None
Music by	Dudley Simpson
Production code	HHH
Series	Season 8
Running time	6 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast	10 April 1971
Last broadcast	15 May 1971
Chronology
← Preceded by; The Claws of Axos	Followed by →; The Dæmons
	List of episodes (1963–1989)

Colony in Space is the fourth serial of the eighth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 10 April to 15 May 1971.

The serial, written by Malcolm Hulke, is set on the mineral-rich human colony world of Uxarieus in 2472. In the serial, the alien time traveller the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) and his travelling companion Jo Grant (Katy Manning) are sent by the Time Lords to Uxarieus, where they discover a mining corporation has been faking attacks by monsters on the colonists. The Master (Roger Delgado) later arrives in search of an ancient doomsday weapon created by the natives of the planet.