Into The Time Vortex Podcast - Episode 69 - Doctor Who - The Creature From the Pit

Doctor Who writer David Fisher has died

David Fisher who wrote four Tom Baker stories died on January 10th 2018.  The four stories he wrote were for the later Tom Baker years and they are the 1978 stories The Stones of Blood and The Androids of Tara, the 1979 story The Creature from the Pit and the 1980 story The Leisure Hive.  He also had a hand in the story The City of Death which he couldn't finish due to person reasons and handed it over to Douglas Adams to finish.   You can read more at the Doctor Who news page.
http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2018/01/david-fisher-1929-2018.html

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: The Creature From The Pit

Doctor Who: 

The Creature From The Pit  

By David Fisher

“Mister McGregor. He's chasing Peter Rabbit. He's got a sieve. He's going to pop it on top of Peter!”

The Doctor and Romana respond to a distress call that takes them to the planet Chloris.  There The Doctor finds an egg that is the source of the distress signal.  The Doctor and Romana are captured by Lady Adrasta’s guards and are heading to see her when all of a sudden they are attacked by a band of thieves who are obsessed with metal.   The Doctor meets Adrasta and the proceed to head to the pit. 

While there Romana escapes the thieves with the aid of K – 9 when they meet The Doctor at the pit and watched the execution.  You see something in the mines of Chloris is living in there and is hungry for humans.  So the Doctor jumps in the pit to see what it is and what he finds is a huge creature that has no ways of communicating.