100 – The Stones of Blood | |||
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Directed by | Darrol Blake | ||
Written by | David Fisher | ||
Script editor | Anthony Read | ||
Produced by | Graham Williams | ||
Executive producer(s) | None | ||
Music by | Dudley Simpson | ||
Production code | 5C | ||
Series | Season 16 | ||
Running time | 4 episodes, 25 minutes each | ||
First broadcast | 28 October – 18 November 1978 | ||
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The Stones of Blood is the third 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 28 October to 18 November 1978. Part 4 was broadcast during the week of the show's fifteenth anniversary.
The serial is set in and around an English stone circle and on a prison spaceship in hyperspace. In the serial, the criminal Cessair of Diplos (Susan Engel) is hiding on Earth after escaping the ship before being prosecuted for stealing the Great Seal of Diplos, the third segment of the powerful Key to Time.