Terror in beta

Terror in beta was a first doctor story in which the doctor and his companions arrived on the human colony station Habitat Beta,and face the deadly psychic robots.

synopsis
Episode one:Terror in Beta The Tardis materialises on a large landing platform,the doctor,Susan,Ian and Barbara step out,they converse for a few minutes pondering where they have landed;the doctor judges by the style of space station they are in the fifty first century.Susan points out of a window and they see that they are in orbit around the earth.The scene is interrupted as the doors open and a huge rocket heads right for them,they all dive out of the way and the nose of the rocket falls short of hitting the Tardis by inches.As they watch a family step out from the rocket carrying a large amount of luggage,from a side door a large man enters and identifies himself to this family as Griff,senior controler of Habitat Beta.Griff is followed by a psychic robot who hands maps of the complex to the family,Griff and his robot lead them out of the docking platform and the doctor's companions emerge from hiding.After a short pause two stocky security guards carrying sonic blasters approach the group,the doctor asks several questions about where they are and the guards are of course surprised that they do not know where they are,they explain that they will be lead to the ship's prison facilities for trespassing. This dialogue is cut to the family being shown around by the station by Griff and his robot,his speech to them gives a lot of information to the audience about how the psychic robots work and what habitat beta's purpose is.Griff turns away to talk to a guard for a second and unknown to him his robot extends an appendage to the family,their faces turn rigid and blue,(or at least they would be blue if this story was not in black and white)they then collapse dead.Griff is shocked and kneels to inspect the bodies,walking along the corridor is the doctor's company being led by the two guards,the doctor and his friends rush over to the body and begin discussing about what could have happened.The doctor performs a mental scan on the robot and the victims and deduces that the psychic transmission of the robot was reversed and it gave the humans an instruction to stop breathing.Griff's robot at this point suddenly runs off of its own accord and the doctor uses this as a distraction to escape the guards,they are very angry that they got away and Griff orders them after them.