sentences:  The story was repeated on BBC1 on four consecutive Thursdays from 12 July – 2 August 1979, achieving viewing figures of 2.8, 4.0, 3.3 and 2.9 million respectively.Paul Cornell, Martin Day, and Keith Topping wrote of the serial in "The Discontinuity Guide" (1995), "An inventive story, The Pirate Planet has matured into a satisfying mixture of the clever and the absurd.