The Doctor crashes a space UN meeting where murder is the diplomatic language.
The planet Peladon has applied to join the Galactic Federation, and The Doctor is mistaken for the chairman of the committee sent to assess its application, while Jo is taken for an Earth princess, with the mythical curse of Aggedor apparently striking chancellor Torbis dead, The Doctor must discover who is desperate to stop Peladon joining, but soon he is sentenced to death and his only Allies seem to be Jo and the Ice Warrior Delegates.
Acting
Jon Pertwee's aristocratic Doctor bluffs his way through alien court politics.
Production
Peladon's throne room — all foam rocks and ambition.
Writing
Ice Warriors as sympathetic allies? Subverting four years of villainy.
Director
Lennie Mayne
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
David Troughton (King Peladon) is Patrick Troughton's son — the Second Doctor's kid playing royalty while the Third Doctor bows to him.
This aired January-February 1972, smack in Britain's EEC membership debates; Peladon's Federation bid is barely disguised Brexit-before-Brexit propaganda.
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