Black Archive 79: The Mysterious Planet

‘There is no fire. There has been no fire for hundreds of years.’ Set both underground in the world of The Immortal and overground in the lands of the Tribe of the Free, The Mysterious Planet (1986) is a story awash with dualities. Jez Strickley examines questions of place and placelessness, locale and location, and topophilia and topophobia, and queries what Robert Holmes’ final Who story tells us about the ecology movement of the time.