Warriors' Gate

113 – Warriors' Gate
Doctor Who serial
Rorvik and his crew find the Doctor in their midst, put back into his own time by the Tharils' visions.
Cast
Doctor Tom Baker (Fourth Doctor)
Companions Lalla Ward (Romana) Matthew Waterhouse (Adric) John Leeson (Voice of K-9 Mk. II)
Others Clifford Rose – Rorvik Kenneth Cope – Packard David Kincaid – Lane Harry Waters – Royce Vincent Pickering – Sagan Freddie Earlle – Aldo David Weston – Biroc Jeremy Gittins – Lazlo Robert Vowles – Gundan
Production
Directed by	Paul Joyce Graeme Harper (uncredited)
Written by	Stephen Gallagher
Script editor	Christopher H. Bidmead
Produced by	John Nathan-Turner
Executive producer(s)	Barry Letts
Incidental music composer	Peter Howell
Production code	5S
Series	Season 18
Length	4 episodes, 25 minutes each
Originally broadcast	3 January – 24 January 1981
Chronology
← Preceded by Followed by → State of Decay The Keeper of Traken

Doctor Who and Warriors' Gate

Author	Stephen Gallagher
Cover artist	Andrew Skilleter
Series	Doctor Who book: Target novelisations
Release number	71
Publisher	Target Books
Publication date	15 April 1982
ISBN

Warriors' Gate is the fifth serial of the 18th season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was written by the English author Stephen Gallagher and first broadcast in four weekly parts from 3 January to 24 January 1981. The serial is the last of three loosely connected serials known as the E-Space trilogy and the last regular to feature Lalla Ward as Romana. John Leeson would return as the voice of K-9, but not as a permanent companion.

The TARDIS and its crew of the Doctor, Romana, Adric, and K-9, while traveling between E-space and the normal universe (n-space), becomes trapped in a white null space between the universes. Elsewhere in the void, another spacecraft, run by Commander Rorvik, has also become trapped. The ship is a slave vessel, using members of the leonine Tharil race as their navigators. On becoming stuck, the current navigator, Biroc, escapes the ship and makes his way to the TARDIS on the winds of time. Biroc warns the TARDIS crew of Rorvik's treachery before disappearing. K-9's memory wafers are shredded by the winds of time, leaving him functional but lacking long-term memories.

The Doctor leaves on his own to explore the null space, finding a large stone gateway. Beyond it is a large banquet hall, a large mirror on one of its walls, and the corpses of several beings and the husks of primitive robots strewn about. He discovers one of the robots is still functioning, and asks it questions as he works at repairing it; the robots, called Gundans, were built by slaves and used to overthrow their masters in a violent battle.