After picking up Leela in the far flung future savage land, the TARDIS lands in a not too far future luxury sand miner with lots of robots... of death. Capitalizing on the extreme fish out of water aspect of Leela's character in various settings, the "future" is first up. While the Doctor usually explains everything to the companion, we now have the Doctor explaining even more to the simple savage. From dimensional transcendentalism to robots, the Doctor keeps lobbing concepts at Leela to digest.
This story is one that sticks out in my memory from childhood for a number of reasons. First, the idea of killer robots kind of scared me as a kid. But they looked so cool! Which leads to my second reason- the production design on this story was so fantastic from costumes to the robots to the bridge of the sand miner. Overall it's a great murder mystery in the great tradition of the Murder on the Orient Express.
The other fun anecdote of the story is the actress Pamela Salem who plays Toos. Pamela returns to Doctor Who in 1988 in Remembrance of the Daleks playing Professor Rachel Jensen. In my mind with the help of Russell T. Davies, I can imagine the Rachel Jensen is the ancestor of Toos. Thank you RTD!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robots_of_Death
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