State of Decay is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in four weekly parts from November 22 to 13 December, 1980. It forms the middle story in the E-Space trilogy.

Synopsis

The Doctor and his companions arrive at a planet ruled by three Lords named Zargo, Camilla and Aukon, vampire servants to the last of the Great Vampires.

Notes

1. It was a re-written version of a story called The Witch Lords which Dicks had submitted to the series in 1977, but which had been pulled just before production and replaced with Horror of Fang Rock.
2. The serial was novelised as Doctor Who and the State of Decay by Terrance Dicks in 1981.
3. The E-Space arc began in Full Circle and concludes in Warriors' Gate .
4. The Virgin New Adventures spin-off novel Blood Harvest by Terrance Dicks is a sequel to this serial.

External links

• Cast and Crew list, on the BBC website