Terminus

Terminus is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was originally broadcast in four twice-weekly parts from February 15 to February 23, 1983. The serial was the second of three loosely connected serials known as the Black Guardian Trilogy, and was the last to feature Sarah Sutton as Nyssa. The sabotaged TARDIS has to make an emergency landing on a ship that docks with a derelict space station at the centre of ... more

Terminus is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was originally broadcast in four twice-weekly parts from February 15 to February 23, 1983. The serial was the second of three loosely connected serials known as the Black Guardian Trilogy, and was the last to feature Sarah Sutton as Nyssa. The sabotaged TARDIS has to make an emergency landing on a ship that docks with a derelict space station at the centre of the known universe. However, it turns out that the station is not as derelict as it appears. It is Terminus, the last stop and receiving point of the ship's cargo of lepers. And as the saying goes, nobody returns from Terminus. Under the Black Guardian's instructions, Turlough sabotages the TARDIS, causing parts of it to dissolve. As the field of instability threatens to engulf Nyssa's room, a door appears behind her and the Fifth Doctor tells her to go through it. The TARDIS, to save itself, has materialized aboard a spaceship heading for an... less