The Creature from the Pit

A reasonably good romp with Tom Baker as the Doctor and Lalla Ward as Romana, that takes us to a jungle world with a society that coverts the precious scraps of metal with murderous envy and a power-mad dictator that will do anything to cling on to her slender grasp of power by denying the overtures of an alien ambassador that offers as much metals as the peoples of her planet could need in exchange for a portion of the planet's global forest to eat. Faced with losing her power base should metal become a common commodity she imprisons the creature and hopes to starve it to death. Enter the Doctor, Romana & K9, who quickly deduce what is going on and how to save not only the creature but the planet itself as the creature's people have taken a deadly revenge upon the captors of its ambassador. The Doctor saves the day, of course, and is then off on another exciting adventure...