Planet of Fire is the fifth serial of the 21st season in the British
science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first
broadcast in four twice-weekly parts on BBC1 from 23 February to 2
March 1984.In the serial, the Doctor's old enemy, the renegade Time
Lord the Master (Anthony Ainley), plots to use the volcanic gases on
the planet Sarn to renew his body after accidentally shrinking himself
in an experiment.Peter Davison's penultimate serial as the Doctor, it
marks the departure of Mark Strickson as Vislor Turlough (who makes a
brief reappearance in a dream sequence at the end of Davison's final
story) and introduces Nicola Bryant as Peri Brown. It is also the
second and final appearance of the shapeshifting robot Kamelion, who
is played at various points throughout the serial by Gerald Flood,
Dallas Adams, and Ainley.On the desert world of Sarn, robed natives
worship the fire god Logar and follow the Chief Elder, Timanov, who
demands obedience. Dissenters are known as Unbelievers and two of
them, Amyand and Roskal, cause unrest when they claim to have ventured
to the top of the sacred fire mountain but not found Logar. One of the
Sarns, Malkon, is known as the Chosen One because of the unusual
double triangle symbol burnt into his skin: he is also unusual for
having been found as a baby on the slopes of the sacred fire mountain. Planet of Fire Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter