The Ark is the fifth serial of the third season of the British science
fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in
four weekly parts from 5 to 26 March 1966.The serial is set at least
ten million years in the far distant future. In the first two episodes
the time traveller the First Doctor (William Hartnell) and his
travelling companions Steven Taylor (Peter Purves) and Dodo Chaplet
(Jackie Lane) arrive on a generation ship that Dodo names "the Ark".
The Doctor searches for a cure for a fever that has spread across the
human and Monoid races on board the ship, who have no immunity to it.
The last two episodes are set 700 years later, and involve the Doctor,
Steven and Dodo working with the Refusian race to stop the Monoids
from wiping out the last of humanity with a bomb.The story constitutes
Dodo's first journey as a companion to the Doctor. It is also the
earliest serial of the third season to exist in its entirety. The Ark (Doctor Who) Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter