FEATURE BY CHRIS BENTLEY
When trainee intelligence agent Jo Grant stepped out of the TARDIS onto the desolate surface of Uxarieus in the year 2472, it was her first experience of time travel and also her first visit to an alien world. For Doctor Who viewers, it was their first glimpse of the far future in almost exactly two years, since the final episode of The Space Pirates in 1969. But Malcolm Hulke’s 1971 adventure Colony in Space was also the start of a sequence of serials which presented the earliest consistent future history of the Doctor Who universe.
