The BEST episodes directed by Pennant Roberts

#1 - A Beginning

Survivors - Season 1 - Episode 13

Abby is tiring of life at the grange and her thoughts turn to resuming her search for her son. After a row with Greg over the taking in of a sick girl, Ruth. Abby sets off for Waterhouse to find Jimmy Garland. Meanwhile Greg and Arthur make their first attempts towards federating the communities that have sprung up since 'the death'. When Ruth recovers, Greg and Jenny discover she is a former medical student and that she has some startling news for them...

#2 - Corn Dolly

Survivors - Season 1 - Episode 4

Abby, Greg and Jenny are still searching for Peter. Greg and Jenny are becoming closer. They meet a man called Charles Vaughan (Denis Lill), a self-sufficiency expert, who has sobering theories about the number of survivors of 'the death' and their prospects for the future. He invites them to join his community, but it soon becomes clear that he has a hidden agenda which could involve Abby...

#3 - The Face of Evil (2)

Doctor Who - Season 14 - Episode 14

The Sevateem launch another attack to try to free Xoanon as the Doctor tries to figure out his role in their past. But his only chance to win their trust is to face a deadly test.

#4 - Space Fall

Blake's 7 - Season 1 - Episode 2

Blake and some criminals attempt to seize control of the prison ship london as it passess a space war where an abandoned ship is found.

#5 - The Sun Makers (3)

Doctor Who - Season 15 - Episode 15

Now Leela is the prisoner of the Collector. He knows of the Doctor and is determined to rid himself of both of them.

#6 - The Sun Makers (1)

Doctor Who - Season 15 - Episode 13

Pluto, the distant future. The planet has been terraformed and is now orbited by artificial suns, provided by the rapacious company who ruthlessly exploit the relocated human workforce. The Doctor, Leela, and K9 arrive and befriend a luckless drone worker, but they must flee with him to the dark undercity...

#7 - The Face of Evil (3)

Doctor Who - Season 14 - Episode 15

The Doctor has broken through the barrier and found the Tesh. But he comes to an awful realization about Xoanon.

#8 - The Face of Evil (1)

Doctor Who - Season 14 - Episode 13

An unnamed planet, the distant future. Arriving in a place that seems oddly familiar, the Doctor finds the savage Sevateem tribe battling to free their captive god, Xoanon, from the Evil One and his Tesh servants. But can the whole situation really be the Doctor's fault?

#9 - The Sun Makers (4)

Doctor Who - Season 15 - Episode 16

The Doctor now moves to completely overthrow the Company. But the Collector has one last trump card to play.

#10 - The Face of Evil (4)

Doctor Who - Season 14 - Episode 16

The Doctor tries to fix the mad computer Xoanon. But it is determined to stop him – even if it must destroy the entire world!

#11 - Mission to Destiny

Blake's 7 - Season 1 - Episode 7

The crew find a ship flying in a circle they investigate and find the crew asleep and the control smashed. Someone has destroyed the controls and is killing the crew one by one trying to get their hands on the priceless neutrotope.

#12 - Lights of London (2)

Survivors - Season 2 - Episode 4

Greg and Charles arrive at the London settlement and are reunited with Ruth. She tells them she can't leave the sick there and come back to Whitecross, especially as her assistance will be needed if the community is to be re-located to the Isle of Wight as planned. When Ruth learns from Nessie that Manny has no intention of taking the community out of London, she agrees to an escape attempt with Greg and Charles...

#13 - Bounty

Blake's 7 - Season 1 - Episode 11

The crew land on the planet Lindor, where a deposed leader has been held in exile. Blake and Cally ask him to return to his people. Meanwhile, a ship in distress is helped by the Liberator, only to encounter a group of bounty hunters who seek to turn Blake and the Liberator over to the Federation.

#14 - The Sun Makers (2)

Doctor Who - Season 15 - Episode 14

The Doctor has been captured by the Gatherer. Leela works to free him but the Gatherer is already laying his own plans…

#15 - Time Squad

Blake's 7 - Season 1 - Episode 4

A ship whose crew had been put in suspended animation is picked up by the Liberator, while Blake attempts to destroy the Federation Communication base on Saurian Major.

#16 - Warriors of the Deep (1)

Doctor Who - Season 21 - Episode 1

Seabase 4 is on alert as a strange craft approaches. But the crew has been infiltrated by the enemy, so Commander Vorshak's solutions are scuppered at every turn.

#17 - Warriors of the Deep (4)

Doctor Who - Season 21 - Episode 4

Earth's ocean floor, 2084. With two superpowers poised on the brink of a devastating photonic war, a missile base comes under attack from the reptilian Sea Devils and Silurians, intent on eradicating the upstart human race and reclaiming the planet...

#18 - Warriors of the Deep (2)

Doctor Who - Season 21 - Episode 2

The Silurians and Sea Devils send in the Myrka to spearhead their invasion of the Seabase. Meanwhile, Nilson and Doctor Solow work to bring the entire Bloc down...

#19 - Warriors of the Deep (3)

Doctor Who - Season 21 - Episode 3

As Vorshak's crew are cut down by Sauvix's Sea Devil Warriors, the Doctor is running out of ways to broker a peace between the opposing species.

#20 - In the Public Interest

The Professionals - Season 2 - Episode 5

A virtual police state has been imposed by a local Chief Constable, resulting in a supposedly almost crime-free city. But that is because all the crime is taking place behind the scenes by the police officers themselves - who will think of nothing of imposing on suspects' rights in their pursuit of 'zero tolerance'. Bodie and Doyle become hunted men when they visit the city and begin to question the rather unorthodox methods of action taken by the local constabulary.

#21 - New Arrivals

Survivors - Season 2 - Episode 11

Ruth invites members of a failed community to join the Whitecross settlement, despite the fact that they have been exposed to a disease. When Arthur and Jack contract the illness she fears she may have made an error in judgement. Meanwhile, the self appointed leader of the young new arrivals, Mark Carter (Ian Hastings), advises Charles on where he is going wrong agriculturally and draws up a new plan for him to examine...

#22 - Timelash (1)

Doctor Who - Season 22 - Episode 10

The planet Karfel, in the distant future. The tyrannical Borad rules with an iron fist, and any who oppose him are cast into the Timelash - a space-time tunnel leading to the past of an alien world called Earth...

#23 - By Bread Alone

Survivors - Season 2 - Episode 8

When a former vicar, Lewis Fearns (Roy Herrick), arrives at Whitecross and reveals his occupation, community life is disrupted. Charles becomes worried that the distractions caused by Lewis may be very damaging given the hard work that is required to sustain the settlement. Is there a place for God and a return to religion in the new order of things..?

#24 - The Fourth Horseman

Survivors - Season 1 - Episode 1

A virulent flu bug is spreading through the country like wildfire. Abby Grant (Carolyn Seymour) and her husband David (Peter Bowles) are aware that the flu has reportedly claimed millions of people's lives in China, but they don't think that could happen in England. Abby becomes ill and takes to her bed. Meanwhile Jenny Richards (Lucy Fleming) learns from a doctor that this is no flu bug and that hundreds are now dying. Acting on his advice she flees London for the countryside. Abby wakes days later and fears that she may be the only one left alive...

#25 - Timelash (2)

Doctor Who - Season 22 - Episode 11

#26 - Waiting for a Knighthood

Doomwatch - Season 3 - Episode 4

The episode begins with a vicar, the Reverend Frank Simpson giving a sermon to a half full congregation, one of whom is Dr. Anne Tarrant who begins to notice how the man is starting to ramble, and become incoherent. He looks drunk. He comes from the pulpit and starts to wander around... By the time he collapses, a party of school children are being escorted out by their teacher. Anne asks for an ambulance, watched by the vicar's concerned wife...

#27 - Enquiry

Doomwatch - Season 3 - Episode 8