State of Decay

State of Decay is the fourth serial of the 18th season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 22 November to 13 December 1980. In the serial, three vampire lords rule over a village deliberately kept at a low development level for a thousand years. The lords intend to revive their giant leader vampire the "Great One" that converted them from humans after their spaceship crashed on the planet. State of Decay is the second of three loosely connected serials set in another universe known as E-Space.