DOCTOR WHO REFERENCE GUIDE (TV episodes): DOCTOR 3 TV stories (YOU TUBE IS UNFAIR)
DOCTOR WHO REFERENCE GUIDE (TV episodes): DOCTOR 3 TV stories
Spearhead From Space
Spearhead From
Space
Serial AAA
Producer
Derrick
Sherwin
Script
Editor
Terrance
Dicks
Designer
Paul Allen
Written by Robert Holmes
Directed by Derek Martinus
Incidental Music by Dudley Simpson
Jon
Pertwee (Doctor Who), Caroline John (Liz Shaw), Nicholas
Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart), Hugh Burden
(Channing), Neil Wilson (Seeley) [1-3], Talfryn Thomas
(Mullins) [1], John Breslin (Captain Munro), Antony Webb (Dr.
Henderson) [1-2], Helen Dorward (Nurse) [1], George Lee
(Corporal Forbes) [1-2], Tessa Shaw (UNIT Officer) [1], Ellis
Jones (Technician) [1], Alan Mitchell (Wagstaffe) [1], Prentis
Hancock (2nd Reporter) [1], Hamilton Dyce (Major General
Scobie) [2-4], Henry McCarthy (Dr. Beavis) [2], John Woodnutt
(Hibbert) [2-4], Derek Smee (Ransome) [2-3], Betty Bowden
(Meg) [2-3], Clifford Cox (Sergeant) [3], Edmund Bailey
(Attendant) [4].
NOTE: Each episode has it s title zoom up to the audience.
Exiled to Earth in the late 20th Century by his own people
the
Time Lords the newly regenerated Doctor
arrives in Oxley
Woods alongside a shower of mysterious meteorites.
Investigating these unusual occurrences is the newly-formed
United Nations Intelligence Taskforce
UNIT for short. Led by
Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT are soon
called into action when people and meteorites start going
missing. Most puzzling of all is the attempted kidnapping of a
strange hospital patient a man
with two hearts, who insists
that
he knows the Brigadier...
The
new Doctor soon joins forces with his old friend, UNIT and
the
recently recruited Dr Liz Shaw, but time is running out...
Irregular things are happening at a nearby plastics factory,
while faceless creatures lurk in the woods. The Nestenes have
arrived, and want to conquer the Earth...
Original
Broadcast (UK)
Episode 1 3rd January, 1970 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Episode 2 10th January, 1970 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Episode 3 17th January, 1970 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Episode 4 24th January, 1970 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Notes:
Released on video as a movie compilation. Re-released in the
U.K. and on DVD in episodic format. [+/-]
SPEARHEAD FROM SPACE
U.K. Release: February 1998 / U.S. Release: April
1991
PAL - BBC video 4107
NTSC - CBS/FOX video 5421
NTSC - Warner Video E1163
Compilation movie.
U.K. Release: February 1995
PAL - BBC video BBCV5509
This version is episodic and unedited.
U.K. Release: January 2002 / U.S. Release: August
2002
PAL Region 2 - BBCDVD1033
NTSC Region 1 - Warner DVD E1163
DVD FEATURES:
Commentary by Nicholas Courtney and Caroline John.
UNIT Recruitment Film.
Trailers.
Photo Gallery.
Production Information Subtitles.
Who's Who (Region 1 only).
LINK: The Restoration Team work for Spearhead From
Space DVD.
Novelised as Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion by Terrance
Dicks. [+/-]
Number 6 in the Doctor Who Library.
Paperback Edition - W. H. Allen.
Original Logo on Cover.
First Edition: January 1974. Reprinted in 1974,
1975, 1976.
ISBN: 0 426 10313 0 (also 0 426 11295 4).
Cover by Chris Achilleos.
Illustrations by Chris Achilleos.
Price: 25p.
Hardcover Edition - Allan Wingate.
First Edition: 1974.
ISBN: 85523 035 5.
Cover by Chris Achilleos.
Illustrations by Chris Achilleos.
Price 1.75.
Paperback Edition - W. H. Allen.
Curved Logo on Cover.
First Edition: August 1978. Reprinted in 1980, 1982.
ISBN: 0 426 11295 4.
Cover by Chris Achilleos.
Illustrations by Chris Achilleos.
Price: 40p.
Hardcover Edition - W. H. Allen.
First Edition: November 1981.
ISBN: 0 491 02895 4.
Cover by Andrew Skilleter.
Illustrations by Chris Achilleos.
Price: 4.95.
Paperback Edition - W. H. Allen.
Neon Logo on Cover.
First Edition: 1982. Reprinted in 1983, 1984.
ISBN: 0 426 11295 4.
Cover by Andrew Skilleter.
Illustrations by Chris Achilleos.
Price: 1.50.
Paperback Edition - Virgin Publishing Ltd.
First Edition: March 1991.
ISBN: 0 426 11295 4.
Cover by Alister Pearson.
Illustrations by Chris Achilleos.
Price 2.50.
Retitled: Doctor Who - The Auton Invasion.
FOREIGN EDITIONS: Netherlands, 1974. Doctor Who
en de Invasie
van de Autonen. Publisher:
Unieboek B.V.
Bussum. Translated by J. J. Van
Der
Hulst-Brander.
Turkey, 1975.
Doktor Kim - Ve Otonlar.
Publisher:
Remzi Kitabevi. Translated by Reha
Pinar.
Finland, 1976.
Tohtori Kuka: Ja Autonien
Hy kk ys. Publisher:
Weilin + G s.
Japan, 1980. Oh-ton gundan no shuurai.
Publisher.
Hayakawa Bunko Publishing. Cover and
illustrations
by Michiaki Sato. Translated by
Yukio Sekiguchi.
Portugal, 1983.
Doctor Who e a Inv sao dos
Autones.
Publisher: Editorial Presen a. Cover by
Rui Ligeiro.
Translated by Eduardo Nogueira and
Concei o Jardim.
Doctor Who Magazine Archive: Issue #181.
Episode 1
(drn:
23'38")
During a
routine days work in a UNIT Tracking Station the radar
technician
is suddenly alerted by the sight of a swarm of meteorites
on his
screen, flying in formation they approach the Earth.
Responding
to his Officer, they both watch as the alien matter
appears to
slow down. It is almost as if the mystery objects are
going to
land.
In another
part of the country, Oxley Woods, a poacher, Sam Seeley
dives for
cover as several "thunderballs" crash around him. As the
quiet of
the wood returns so does Sam Seeley's courage and he
investigates. Probing the ground with a stick he finds a
"thunderball". Of an irregular shape the artefact emits a
warbling
sound in
time with a pulsing glow. Touching it Sam recoils as his
"thunderball" is still red hot. He reburies it intending to
collect
it later.
In another part of the woods the wild life is disturbed
yet again,
this time by the sound of some alien engines. Slowly the
TARDIS
materialises and as the doors open an unfamiliar, shabby
Doctor
falls to the ground.
Later that
day a black Ford Executive speeds through London carrying
scientist
Liz Shaw to a secret rendezvous. She has received a
communiqu from Brigadier
Lethbridge-Stewart requesting her presence
at a
meeting regarding the post of Scientific Adviser. Once finished
explaining, about UNIT and the job the Brigadier is surprised by Liz
Shaw's
scepticism and reluctance to help. Only when mentioning the
meteorites
and that another shower had "landed" in exactly the same
spot some
months earlier, did she become interested.
Their
conversation is interrupted by a phone call from Captain
Munro. His
troops have cordoned off Oxley Woods and searching for
the
meteorites have come across an unconscious man beside a Police
Box. The
words Police Box spur the Brigadier into action. Could this
stranger
be the Doctor? A guard is placed around the TARDIS and he
and Miss
Shaw travel down to Ashbridge Conage Hospital to have a
look at
the mystery man.
Meanwhile,
at the hospital our stranger is causing much confusion.
The Doctor
in charge, Henderson, studies some X-rays which show the
injured
man to have two hearts. Going to the phone to check, he in
turn
receives an irate call from a Dr Lomax demanding to know what
Henderson
is playing at sending him non human blood for cross
matching.
Dr Henderson is baffled. He took the blood sample himself.
One of the
hospital porters, Mullings, overhears the telephone
conversation and sells his story to the Daily Chronicle.
By now Sam
Seeley has returned for his "prize". Digging it up he
puts it in
a sack and sets out into avoiding the searching troops.
The
Brigadier and Miss Shaw arrive at the hospital only to find a
large
press reception asking about a man from space. Furious, the
Brigadier
pushes past them to meet Dr. Henderson. Shown into the
room the
Brigadier is disappointed that the man on the bed is not
the
Doctor. Just then the patient stirs and smiles up at the
Brigadier,
greeting an old friend. Seeing the puzzled look the
mystery
man borrows Liz's pocket mirror and examines his face.
Looking
worried he slips back into unconsciousness. Baffled the
Brigadier
orders him to be moved to UNIT HQ as soon as possible.
Out in the
main entrance of the hospital the reporters see the
Brigadier's car speed off. Realising something is afoot they rush to
the phone
where one man is just standing, staring straight ahead. As
the phone
box door is opened, without a word he turns and leaves.
Whatever
he was doing, he certainly was not using the phone.
Meanwhile,
our poacher is getting careless and is caught by the two
soldiers
guarding the TARDIS. They ask if he has seen any
meteorites. Sam acts the fool. They let him go warning him to keep
away from
the area.
Back in
the hospital the celebrity patient suddenly wakes, demanding
his shoes.
The nurse gives them to him and goes oft to fetch Dr
Henderson.
Seconds later they return and the figure on the bed falls
immediately into a deep sleep clutching the shoes desperately to his
chest.
Worried that they may possibly have a mental patient on their
hands Dr
Henderson and the nurse go off to fetch some equipment. As
soon as
they are gone the stranger wakes and shaking the right shoe,
a key
drops out. Holding this tightly he slips into unconsciousness
again.
This time smiling.
A short
while later Dr Henderson returns and waiting for the nurse
sits at
the desk making notes. Silently two figures creep up behind
him. One
hits Dr Henderson on the back of the neck, knocking him out
cold. Then
the two grab the patient, put him into a wheelchair and
put a
strip of elastoplast over his mouth. Hurriedly they push him
out of the
hospital to a waiting ambulance. As they push the
wheelchair
into the ambulance two strangers suddenly twist the
wheelchair
around and dash off down the drive. The kidnappers
quickly
board the ambulance which gives chase and is driven by the
man found
earlier, hogging the phone box.
Just at
this moment Captain Munro finds the dazed Dr Henderson and
rushes
outside just in time to see the speedily retreating
ambulance.
He orders
his men to shoot at the tyres but they miss.
Fortunately the drive is a downward slope and the wheelchair manages
to get up
a fair rate of knots before inevitably crashing into a
grass
embankment. Quickly the stranger staggers off into the woods,
blind
instinct apparently directing him. Minutes later the two
soldiers
guarding the TARDIS, already having heard the firing now
hear
someone crashing through the undergrowth towards them. Calling
he gets no
reply. Raising his gun the nervous private fires just as
the
mystery man appears. Clutching his forehead the patient
collapses
to the ground.
Episode 2
(drn:
24'21")
Only a
superficial wound, the private is nevertheless severely
reprimanded. Dr Henderson takes his charge back to the hospital and
informs
the Brigadier of events. Later while doing an ECG scan it is
revealed
that there is very little brain activity in the patient. Dr
Henderson
believes this to be self induced and nothing to do with
the bullet
wound. The precious key is prised from the stranger's
hand and
given to the Brigadier. He wonders. Could this man be the
Doctor?
First the Police Box, then the key and the stranger's
efforts to
regain the TARDIS.
With the
TARDIS moved to UNIT HQ the guard on the hospital is
doubled.
The searching troopers find shattered pieces of meteorite
which the
Brigadier takes with him for Miss Shaw to analyse. Just as
he is
leaving Captain Munro shows the Brigadier a press photo which
contains a
shot of the leader of the kidnappers. He tells Captain
Munro to
run a check on the suspect.
Returning
from a business trip in the States Ransome goes straight
to his
factory, AutoPlastics Ltd, to find that all the staff have
been
replaced and a notice on his workshop door saying "Out of
Bounds"! Going straight to the Managing Director, Hibbert, he
demands to
know what is going on and why he has been dismissed.
Hibbert
rather feebly explains that the firm has gone into
partnership and that new policies are being implemented. Ransome
protests
but is asked sharply to leave. Shocked that his old friend
could
treat him like this Ransome complies. As he leaves he is
watched by
the new partner, Channing. He was the leader of the
kidnappers!
Meanwhile,
at UNIT HQ Liz Shaw is drawing some conclusions. First,
the
meteorite is not strictly a meteorite as it has been
manufactured in some form of plastic. Fierce scorch marks comply
with the
theory of it travelling through the Earth's atmosphere but
not
conclusively. As for it being part of an alien invasion and the
story of a
Doctor flying through space in a London Police Telephone
Box, sheer
rubbish!
At the
plastics factory Hibbert seems disturbed over Ransome's
dismissal
but a few reassuring words from Channing seems to set him
right. It
is almost as though Channing has some kind of mind control
over
Hibbert. The former says that two energy units are still
missing.
Their pulsation signals will increase soon to aid recovery.
Within the
boundaries of Oxley Woods is Sam Seeley's cottage. In the
back yard
Sam pulls a heavy metal trunk from inside his shed.
Opening it
he reveals his "prize" thunderball. As he watches it
begins to
pulsate more brightly and the warbling noise increases
also. In
the woods nearby a figure stops as though listening. As it
turns, the
blue overalled mannequin sets off in the direction of the
Seeley
cottage.
Interrupting his wonderment Sam's wife Meg returns home. He quickly
hides the
thunderball and she suspiciously asks what he is about.
Satisfying
herself that all is in order she goes into the cottage.
Sam
bundles the meteorite back into the trunk, slams the lid and
pushes it
back in the shed. As the lid slams shut the blue overalled
figure in
the woods seems to lose its direction.
At UNIT HQ
General Scobie, in charge of the regular troops, pays the
Brigadier
an informal visit on his way to the Plastics factory. He
is to have
a plastic replica made of himself for the military
display at
Madame Tussauds. While in the UNIT laboratory General
Scobie
cannot help but to see the TARDIS d enquires what they are
doing with
an obsolete Police Box. Liz is unable to resist telling
him that
it is really a spaceship!
Back at
Ashbridge Cottage Hospital the Doctor awakes to find himself
alone.
Quickly he steals out of the ward and finds a changing room
in which
he hopes to find some clothes. As he searches a top notch
Doctor
enters with Dr Henderson. The visitor has travelled down from
London
especially to see the Doctor. With nowhere to hide the Doctor
dives into
the shower and breaks into song. When the coast is clear
he emerges
and gets dressed in some stolen clothes finishing off the
outfit
with the Specialist's hat and cloak.
In Oxley
Woods the searching troops have had some luck and found a
complete
meteorite. It is put on board a Land Rover and driven to
UNIT HQ.
As the Land Rover passes along the road the mannequin in
the blue
overalls senses the signals from the globe and runs to
intercept
the vehicle.
The Doctor
successfully escapes the hospital and surveying the car
park
chooses the old red Packard in which to make his escape.
Ironically
the car belongs to the London big-wig.
On hearing
of the Doctor's escape the Brigadier is not unduly
concerned.
After all, he has the TARDIS and the key! Even if he
cannot get
the wretched doors open!
The blue
overalled figure finally manages to catch up with the Land
Rover and
promptly steps out directly in font of it. The driver
swerves to
miss the figure and collides with a tree, killing him
instantly.
The mannequin helps himself to the meteorite.
This news
is somehow relayed to Channing who is waiting at the
plastics
factory with Hibbert for the arrival of General Scobie. All
around
them is a mass of new, highly sophisticated machinery.
The Doctor
finally turns up at UNIT HQ by the tuse of a TARDIS
homing
device within his wrist watch. The Brigadier has a barrage of
questions
which are all dispelled by the Doctor's comment; "I'm
sorry,
Brigadier, but I've lost my memory!" Side tracking, the
Brigadier
gets the Doctor's opinion on the meteorites. He
immediately states the obvious that they are not meteorites at all.
From the
shape of the pieces they must have been hollow and
therefore
contained something. As no whole ones have been found it
seems
logical that they have been collected by someone else.
Meanwhile,
General Scobie arrives at the Plastics factory for
'measuring
up'. He is not over impressed by the work done so far.
Elsewhere
in the factory Ransome has returned to investigate and
collect
some of his belongings. Breaking in to his old workshop he
is
astounded by all the new machinery installed there. There is a
main
centre piece, some peripheral gadgets and a line of blue
overalled
mannequins. As Ransome studies the main equipment more
closely he
hears a noise behind him. Turning he is horrified at the
sight of
one of the mannequin figures walking towards him.
Episode 3
(drn:
24'16")
The
fingers of the outstretched mannequin's hand drop away to reveal
a nozzle
from which spits an energy bolt. It misses Ransome by
inches,
scorching pan of the equipment. A game of "hide and seek"
around the
machine results in Ransome escaping down the fire escape,
hotly
pursued by the plastic figure. Almost at the perimeter,
Channing,
Hibbert and General Scobie walk into view. The mannequin
stops
under a glaring look from Channing. The blue overalled figure,
an Auton,
turns and disappears into one of the buildings allowing
Ransome to
escape. Channing and Hibbert see General Scobie out,
informing
him of a preview of his replica before it goes on display.
As soon as
the General has left Channing instructs the Auton in home
in on
Ransome's brain waves, find and destroy him.
A very
frightened and tired Ransome stumbles into the UNIT post set
up in
Oxley Woods. He blurts out his unbelievable story to some
amazed
soldiers.
In the
Seeley household Meg confides in her husband that she is
worried
over recent events. Sam tells her not to be stupid and, to
stop
worrying. He too has been taking a keen interest in all the
local
activities and it occurs to him that his prize "thunderball"
may well
be worth a lot now.
Unsure of
what to make of Ransome the Captain has him sent to the
Brigadier.
Walking dummies is more his cup of tea.
Back in
the UNIT laboratory Liz and the Doctor have been unable to
identify
the meteorite fragments with the Doctor explaining about
the
primitive equipment at his disposal. He explains to an
incredulous Liz that he has an entire laboratory inside the Police
Box, in
which, is what they require right now. A Lateral Molecular
Rectifier.
If Liz could only get the key from the Brigadier.
Believing
the Doctor completely mad, she agrees to procure the
TARDIS key
if only to prove the Doctor's insanity!
Arriving
at the temporary UNIT post Sam Seeley sheepishly asks
Captain
Munro is there is a reward for finding one of the
"thunderballs"?
In
Ransome's old workshop Channing explains to Hibbert that their
wuarry is
temporarily out of range but as soon as he returns he will
be dealt
with. More importantly everything is ready for the final
'Phase'.
Only one energy unit remains to be collected, the swarm
leader.
Unbeknown to Channing this is the unit that Sam Seeley is
concealing.
At UNIT HQ
Ransome relates his story to the Brigadier when Liz
enters to
ask for the key. The Brigadier tells her to come back
later as
he is busy. As she turns to leave she spots the key on the
desk and
expertly palms it on the way out. Within the minute the
Brigadier
notices the key has gone and rushes off after Liz.
In the
laboratory Liz gives the Doctor the key. Thanking her very
much he
goes inside just as the Brigadier arrives. Both he and Liz
watch as
the Police Box emits strange wheezing noises followed by an
explosion
and billows of smoke as the Doctor re-opens the doors. As
he steps
out he mutters something about being marooned on Earth as
the Time
Lords have changed the dematerialisation codes. Not
understanding a word of what the Doctor is babbling about they all
go to see
Ransome. Hearing the story once again the Doctor, Liz and
the
Brigadier plan to visit the factory themselves.
Meanwhile
Sam Seeley has confessed to having a "thunderball" and
Captain
Munro arranges to have it collected.
Meg Seeley
has become concerned over the prolonged absence of her
husband
and goes down to the garden shed to see if he is there.
Finding
the trunk blocking the doorway she tries to move it but it
is too
heavy. Opening it she finds the energy unit still glowing and
chirruping. In the woods the patiently waiting Auton picks up the
signals
and starts moving towards the cottage.
Before
long Meg hears someone crashing about in the cottage. She
thinks Sam
has returned but is terrified at what she sees. The Auton
has
arrived. Running back to the shed she grabs Sam's shotgun and
fires
point bland at the Auton, hitting it squarely in the chest. It
keeps
coming!
In the
factory Channing is guiding the Auton and orders it to search
for the
sphere. On route to the factory the Brigadier, Liz and the
Doctor
stop at the Seeley cottage to investigate the commotion.
Encountering the Auton the Brigadier and Captain Munro fire their
guns at it
but to no effect. Outnumbered, Channing recalls the Auton
leaving
the energy unit behind which the Doctor soon locates.
The
retreating Auton suddenly stops. Picking up Ransome's brain
waves,
obeying its pre-programmed orders advances on the UNIT tent.
Ripping
open the back of the tent the Auton enters and fires two
energy
bolts at Ransome, totally obliterating him. Mission
accomplished the deadly mannequin leaves silently.
At last
the Brigadier and party arrive at the Plastic factory and
see
Hibbert. He laughs at Ransome's absurd story saying it is
probably
an invention to cover his dismissal. The Doctor asks what
it is they
make now. Plastic mannequins for shop window displays!
Back in
UNIT HQ the Brigadier decides to ask for extra troops to
surround
the factory, pending investigations. He phones General
Scobie
while the Doctor and Liz are getting excited over detecting
an
intelligence within the energy unit.
At General
Scobie's home he finishes his conversation with the
Brigadier
commenting that he thought the latter was being a little
alarmist.
However, he will come over and discuss the matter. Putting
the phone
down there is a knock on the door. Answering it he recoils
in shock.
For standing there is an exact replica of himself!
Episode 4
(drn:
24'47")
At UNIT
headquarters the Doctor and Liz are making some headway.
They have
asserted that the contents of the sphere are only part of
a gestalt
without any physical form, explaining the need for the
plastics
factory. The entity exists on a specific frequency. The
Doctor and
Liz are working on a machine to establish this frequency
with the
aim of communicating with their adversary.
The
Brigadier receives a call from General Scobie placing the
Plastics
factory off limits. He promptly hangs up before the
Brigadier
can argue. He informs the Doctor and decides to go over
the
General's head and contact Geneva. The Brigadier also tells the
Doctor of
the General's visit to the factory for the construction of
a plastic
replica for Madame Tussauds. This greatly interests the
Doctor and
both he and Liz plan a visit.
At the
waxworks the Doctor checks with the attendant that the new
models are
in fact made of plastic and not wax. Looking round they
find
General Scobie's replica on show. The Doctor studies the model.
It is
perfect, even down to the detail of a fully wound wrist watch
showing
the correct time - in fact this is the real Scobie! The
Doctor
learns that Channing has replicas of many major political
figures
which are to infiltrate and take over on his command.
Meanwhile
the fake Scobie removes the final energy unit from UNIT HQ
and
delivers it to Channing.
Back at
UNIT HQ, the Doctor and Liz build a machine that they hope
will
disable the Autons - it is a variation on an ECT machine. All
over the
country, shop dummies come alive and burst from department
store
windows, killing anyone in their way.
Hibbert,
struggling to break free of Channing's influence, tries to
destroy
the new machinery installed in the plastics factory.
Channing
has him killed.
Meanwhile
the Doctor, Liz and UNIT break into the factory where they
meet with
the replica Scobie. The Doctor tests his machine on the
fake
general. It works and so the Doctor and Liz head off to find
the
control centre. Taking charge of the regular troops as well as
his own,
the Brigadier is ready to take on the advancing party of
Autons. A
fierce battle ensues with the contemporary weaponry
ineffective against solid plastic.
Liz and
the Doctor, on the other hand, are having more success. Ably
dealing
with the occasional Auton they soon reach Ransome's old
workshop,
the nerve centre of the invasion. Seeing the Doctor,
Channing
turns the machine tank to full power. The seething mass
within
seems almost to burst out. The Doctor approaches the alien
and tells
Liz to switch on. Nothing happens. A fault has developed.
His
attention distracted a writhing tentacle appears from the top of
the tank,
envelops the Doctor's neck and starts to strangle him.
Frantically Liz rectifies the fault, a loose connection, and the
machine
hums into life. Slowly, at first, the Nestene creature
releases
the Doctor. He and Liz watch its death throws before
switching
off. On the far side of the room is the crippled remains
of
Channing. A gestalt, being a communal creature, as the main
entity is
dead so all the other related creatures 'die'. Outside all
the
fighting Autons suddenly collapse as do all the replica
Government
Ministers, etc. The invasion is over.
Back at
UNIT HQ the Brigadier asks the Doctor is the Nestene will
return and
if so can he rely on the Doctor's help. The return of the
Nestene
menace is a possibility and as for his help, the Doctor
would like
to discuss a deal. In return for his assistance he
requires
the full facilities of UNIT's laboratories in order to
repair the
TARDIS. The Brigadier agrees. A full set of papers will
have to be
drawn up. He suddenly realises that he does no even know
the
Doctor's name. "Smith," replies the Doctor. "Doctor John
Smith!"
Source:
Archives from Doctor Who Monthly #76 (May 1983), pp.15-18.
Continuity Notes:
The Doctor s exile on 20th Century Earth lasts until The
Three Doctors, but he does accidentally shift into an
alternate universe in Inferno, and the Time Lords do take
control of the TARDIS so the Doctor can act as their agent
in
Colony in Space, The Curse of Peladon, The Mutants and
possibly The Time Monster. The Doctor does also travel to
Earth in the 22nd Century in Day of the Daleks but without
the aid of the TARDIS.
The Doctor deals with the Autons again in Terror of the
Autons, Synthespians , Business
Unusual and Rose.
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Doctor Who and the
Silurians
Doctor Who and
the Silurians
Serial BBB
Producer
Barry
Letts
Script
Editor
Terrance
Dicks
Designer
Barry
Newbery Written by Malcolm Hulke
Directed by Timothy Combe
Incidental Music by Carey Blyton
Jon
Pertwee (Doctor Who), Caroline John (Liz Shaw), Nicholas
Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart), Fulton Mackay (Dr.
Quinn) [1-3], Norman Jones (Major Baker) [1-5], Peter Miles
(Dr.
Lawrence) [1-6], Thomasine Heiner (Miss Dawson) [1-5],
Ian
Cunningham (Dr. Meredith) [1], Roy Branigan (Roberts) [1],
John
Newman (Spencer) [1], Bill Mathews (Davis) [1], Paul
Darrow (Captain Hawkins) [2-7], Nancie Jackson (Doris Squire)
[2],
Gordon Richardson (Squire) [2]; Pat Gorman [2-4], Paul
Barton [4-5,7], Simon Cain [4-7], John Churchill [4-5,7], Dave
Carter [7] (Silurians); Peter Halliday (Silurian Voices)
[2,4-7], Geoffrey Palmer (Masters) [4-6], Richard Steele
(Sergeant Hart) [4,6], Ian Talbot (Travis) [4], Dave Carter
(Old
Silurian) [4-5], Nigel Johns (Young Silurian) [4-7],
Harry Swift (Private Robins) [5], Pat Gorman (Silurian
Scientist) [5-7], Alan Mason (Corporal Nutting) [6-7], Derek
Politt (Private Wright) [6], Brendan Barry (Hospital Doctor)
[6].
While caving in Derbyshire, two pot-holers are attacked by a
huge
creature and one is killed. At the nearby Wenley Moor
nuclear research centre, which is built into the same caves,
there are strange power losses threatening the reactor. Not
only
is everyone is at a loss to explain these incidents but
there is also a high number of breakdowns involving staff
members.
Now
exiled to Earth and working for UNIT, the Doctor and his
assistant Liz are sent for. As the surviving pot-holer begins
to
make cave-paintings in his ward the Doctor discovers not
only
a Tyrannosaurus Rex but a colony of Silurians -
intelligent, walking lizards who have been dormant for
millions of years. Now they have awoken to find that mankind
has
replaced them as the rulers of Earth - and they want it
back.
Can
the Doctor find a way of thwarting their plans or will
humanity be wiped out to usher in a new Age of the Lizards?
Original
Broadcast (UK)
Episode 1 31st January, 1970 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Episode 2 7th February, 1970 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Episode 3 14th February, 1970 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Episode 4 21st February, 1970 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Episode 5 28th February, 1970 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Episode 6 7th March, 1970 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Episode 7 14th March, 1970 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Notes:
Released on video in episodic format. [+/-]
DOCTOR WHO AND THE SILURIANS
U.K. Release: July 1993 / U.S. Release: June 1995
PAL - BBC video BBCV4990 (2
tapes)
NTSC - CBS/FOX video 8256 (2
tapes)
NTSC - Warner Video E1278 (2
tapes)
All episodes survive only as black and white prints.
The colour has been electronically restored. using
off air colour recordings.
Novelised as Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters by Malcolm
Hulke. [+/-]
Number 9 in the Doctor Who Library.
Paperback Edition - W. H. Allen.
Original Logo on Cover.
First Edition: January 1974. Reprinted in 1975,
1976, 1978.
ISBN: 0 426 10292 4 (also 0 436 11471 X).
Cover by Chris Achilleos.
Illustrations by Chris Achilleos.
Price: 25p.
Hardcover Edition - Allan Wingate.
First Edition: February 1974.
ISBN: 85523 036 3.
Cover by Chris Achilleos.
Illustrations by Chris Achilleos.
Price 1.75.
Paperback Edition - W. H. Allen.
Curved Logo on Cover.
First Edition: 1979. Reprinted in 1980, 1982, 1983,
1984.
ISBN: 0 426 11471 X.
Cover by Chris Achilleos.
Illustrations by Chris Achilleos.
Price: 70p.
Paperback Edition - Virgin Publishing Ltd.
First Edition: August 1992.
ISBN: 0 426 20382 8.
Cover by Alister Pearson.
Illustrations by Chris Achilleos.
Price 2.99.
Retitled: Doctor Who - The Silurians.
FOREIGN EDITIONS: Netherlands, 1974. Doctor Who
en de
Holenmonsters. Publisher: Unieboek B.V.
Bussum.
Translated by J. J. Van Der
Hulst-Brander.
Finland, 1976.
Tohtori Kuka: Ja Luolahirvi t.
Publisher:
Weilin + G s.
Japan, 1980.
Senritsu! Chitei Monsutaa.
Publisher.
Hayakawa Bunko Publishing. Cover and
illustrations
by Michiaki Sato. Translated by
Yukio
Sekiguchi.
Portugal, 1983. Douter Who E Os Monstros Das
Cavernas.
Publisher: Editorial Presen a. Cover
by Rui Ligeiro.
Translated by Eduardo Nogueira
and Concei o Jardim.
Doctor Who Magazine Archive: Issue #222.
Episode 1
(drn:
24'15")
Somewhere
in England, two men are descending a metal ladder into a
cave -
"potholing" on their time off. They reach the cave floor and
began to
cautiously explore their surroundings. They hear a strange
distant
roar but shrug it off for the moment. One of them walks
ahead and
takes a turn around a rock wall. Suddenly, the roar sounds
again --
louder. He looks up to find a huge reptilian creature
towering
over him, its massive jaws open as it closes in. He screams
as it
attacks him, knocking him to the ground. His companion flees
for his
very life.
Meanwhile,
the Doctor is happily at work on his newest acquisition.
All that
can be seen are his long legs sticking out from under a
little
yellow roadster -- soon the be known as Bessie. A license
plate
marked WHO1 is at his feet. He is singing happily as he
tinkers
with the Edwardian sports car.
But he is
interrupted by the arrival his assistant Liz Shaw. She's
skeptical
that the car will ever work, but the Doctor is cheerfully
optimistic, eager to take it for his first drive. But before he can
go
joy-riding, she reads out a message. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
has asked
to report "forthwith" to Wenley Moor. At first, the Doctor
refuses to
obey the orders, but Liz tells him the area is famous for
a huge
system of caves. They could go exploring. Intrigued, the
Doctor
agrees to go. He starts up the car (to Liz's astonishment)
and the
two head out, his roadster speeding through London and into
the
countryside.
In Wenley
Moor, an intense middle-aged man (Dr. Lawrence) is
addressing
his staff. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart sits to one side
in his
UNIT uniform. Lawrence tells them to remain calm and assures
them they
will solve their problems -- despite the presence of UNIT.
During his
speech, a soldier enters and summons the Brigadier. He
leaves and
finds that the Doctor and Liz have just arrived. He tells
them they
are in an atomic research center deep in a cave. Before
they can
ask any more questions, he drags them into the conference
room where
Lawrence is concluding his meeting.
Lethbridge-Stewart quickly introduces everyone, including the very
friendly
Dr. Quinn and the rather suspicious and reserved Major
Baker. He
asks Lawrence to brief them on the installation. Lawrence
explains
that they are using a cyclotron to bombard atoms with
subatomic
particles. The goal is to create a source of safe cheap
atomic
energy by converting nuclear energy directly to electricity.
But the
Brigadier notes that there have been two major problems:
personnel
problems involving nervous breakdowns and, of greater
concern,
unexplained power leakages from the reactor. He now wants a
three-pronged attack on these problems -- with Baker working on
security,
Liz investigating the personnel problems and the Doctor
looking
into the reactor problems.
Quinn
agrees to show the Doctor and Liz around. Lawrence tells the
Brigadier
to keep him updated but insists they not disturb the work.
It is
clear there is some tension between Lawrence and the
Brigadier.
He is also highly skeptical the Doctor can help.
After
everyone leaves, Baker asks why UNIT has been called in.
Lethbridge-Stewart replies that these are unusual events --
precisely
what UNIT investigates. Baker believes the problems are
caused by
saboteurs working from the inside.
The
Doctor, Liz and Quinn arrive in the control room. Quinn notes
they are
at the very center of the cyclotron. The Doctor worries
that if a
power leak happened at the wrong time, the reactor could
turn into
a bomb but Quinn tells him that Lawrence is unwilling to
slow down
the research. While they are talking, Liz seems a little
disoriented and the Doctor asks if she's all right. Liz insists
she's fine
and wants to get started on the personnel files.
Quinn and
the Doctor talk about the caves. Quinn likes to explore
them but
is reluctant since an accident involving two technicians.
One was
killed and the other is still in the hospital. The institute
seems to
be keeping it quiet.
The Doctor
asks if there is a pattern in the power losses. Quinn
says there
isn't but the Doctor wants to check for himself. He
examines
the log and finds that pages are missing. Quinn summons
Miss
Dawson and asks her about it. She tells him that Spencer -- the
injured
technician -- was responsible for the log and that explains
the
discrepancy. But the Doctor notices that the pages were ripped
out.
Liz meets
with Dr. Meredith, the physician in charge. He tells her
that
they've had a lot of problems with breakdowns on their staff.
He blames
it on being underground for so long. The Doctor arrives
and asks
to see Spencer. At first Meredith refuses, but the Doctor
is
insistent. Meredith relents but warns the Doctor that it's not
safe.
In one of
the patient rooms, Spencer is crouched on the ground,
drawing on
the walls like cave man. Meredith tells them that
Spencer's
been drawing since he woke up -- with the exception of
attacking
Meredith. The Doctor approaches Spencer slowly and asks
about the
drawings -- particularly one of a strange-looking man with
three
eyes. The technician whirls and attacks him, grunting
incoherently and trying to strangle him. The Doctor manages to calm
Spencer
down and the man resumes his drawing. The Doctor thinks that
some deep
terror has thrown the man's mind back millions of years.
In the
control room, the technicians are testing the cyclotron.
Quinn
sends his assistant Roberts out of the room and Miss Dawson
hurries
over. The two have a frantic whispered conversation. Dawson
asks Quinn
to "tell them to stop, at least while these people are
here." She also asks him to tell the Brigadier or Baker what's
happening
before someone else gets killed. But Quinn in unphased,
telling
her the others wouldn't understand or wouldn't believe him.
He insists
that the knowledge he stands to gain is worth any risk.
Baker
meets again with the Brigadier. He's completed security checks
on
everyone there, but can't find any records on the Doctor. The
Brigadier
deflects him, saying that the Doctor is his personal
responsibility. As if on cue, the Doctor arrives. After Baker
leaves,
the Brigadier tells the Doctor that Baker had a bad slip-up
on his
previous job and ended up at the institute. The Doctor tells
the Brig
that he's discovered enough already to get very worried.
In the
control room, the power up continues. Lawrence pops in for
moment,
insisting that they not delay. Technician Roberts is losing
his
concentration and has to be reminded of the task at hand.
The
Brigadier and the Doctor argue over his discoveries. The
Brigadier
thinks the cave drawing are unimportant but is concerned
about the
log. He tells them Doctor to keep investigating. The
Doctor
petulantly replies that the Brig has hardly been Sherlock
Holmes.
Suddenly, the lights dim. Once again, power is leaking from
the
cyclotron. "Come on, Watson!" says the Brigadier and they rush
off to the
control room.
Lawrence
is steaming that the cyclotron is acting up again while
Quinn is
calmly shutting down the reactor in stages. Soon after the
Brigadier
and the Doctor arrive, Roberts begins shouting and
refusing
to shut down the reactor. The cyclotron starts to get out
of
control. Dawson rushes in to shut it down and Roberts savagely
attacks
her. The Doctor steps in and shuts down the reactor and
while the
Brigadier restrains Roberts.
Some time
later, the Doctor and Liz are in an office. Liz has
finished
her look over the personnel files. She's concerned about a
huge rate
of neuroses -- almost all from people working in the
cyclotron
room. She remembers that she felt strange - almost
terrified
-- when she was there. The Doctor notes that it is the
deepest
room in the institute and closet to the caves. Everything
keeps
pointing back to the caves.
Liz then
remembers that the post-mortem on the dead technician has
been
finished. He died from a blow to the head, but his body was
raked with
huge claw marks. The Doctor is astonished and now
determined
to explore the caves for himself.
Once
again, the metal ladder is dropped into the caves. This time it
is a lone
figure descending it -- the Doctor. As he touches bottom,
he hears a
distant faint roar. He follows in the footsteps of the
last
expedition, finding their abandoned equipment along the way. He
round the
same rock formation and suddenly sees a huge dinosaur
looming
over him, roaring ferociously. He covers his face as it
closes in
for the kill...
Episode 2
(drn:
23'08")
The Doctor
is exploring a cave in Wenley Moor, investigating the
mysterious
events at a top research center. A roar sounds out and he
rounds a
corner to find a huge dinosaur towering over him. The
Doctor
covers his face as the awesome reptile closes in for the
kill.
But before
it can attack, a high-pitched fluting signal rings out
through
the cave. The dinosaur hesitates and then moves away. The
Doctor
sits up and cautiously follows it a little ways, stopping to
examine an
enormous footprint it left on the ground.
The
Brigadier and Liz are standing beside a map of the caves, trying
to
determine where the Doctor may have gone. The Brig is angry that
Liz didn't
tell him the Doctor was headed to the caves, but Liz says
the Doctor
didn't want anyone to know. The Brigadier and Baker are
quickly
organizing a team to search for the missing Time Lord. But
before
they can get going, the Doctor walks in, perfectly all right.
Drs.
Lawrence and Quinn are in the control room, arguing about the
cyclotron
problems. Quinn and Dawson assure Lawrence that the
cylcotron
is mechanically in perfect working order, which Lawrence
can't
believe. He laments that they started out so well but is
somewhat
mollified that at least UNIT is having problems with the
Doctor
missing. After he leaves, Dawson tells Quinn she's worried
that UNIT
might still search the caves.
The Doctor
has described his experience to everyone but they are
skeptical.
Liz tries to discuss it, asking the Doctor if it was
prehistoric and he says it was not like any prehistoric creature he
has seen.
Baker suspiciously asks if he was referring to creatures
he saw in
museums and the Doctor backtracks and says he was. Baker
returns to
the idea of saboteurs -- perhaps they are faking this
monster to
keep people away. The Doctor concedes this is possible
and the
Brigadier decides they should investigate further. Liz is
annoyed
that they will not let her come along. The Doctor is
concerned
that the Brigadier and Baker seem keen on a violent
solution
to the problem.
The Doctor
takes them to the cave but the giant footprint is gone.
Before
they can investigate further, they hear a loud roar. Baker,
Captain
Hawkins and two soldiers run to investigate. Baker hurries
ahead and
sees a man-like shape in the darkness. He opens fire,
wounding
it. But before he can give chase, a roar sounds out and he
turns to
find the allosaur towering over him. It strikes him down
but the
strange fluting tone summons it away before it can do
further
damage.
The
Brigadier and everyone else arrive. Baker is stunned and
confused,
but alive. Hawkins explores further ahead. The Doctor
finds
Baker's gun - bent by the attack - and reconstructs the
events.
Hawkins calls them ahead and shows them ricochet marks and a
trail of
blood. The Brigadier gives chase but the Doctor stays
behind to
investigate the blood. He reminds the Brigadier that he
doesn't
really know what he's going after.
On the
surface, a strange figure emerges into the setting sun. It
stumbles
around in confusion. It vision is strange, seeming to come
from three
eyes, one of them with a red haze over it.
The Doctor
and Liz examine the blood in a microscope. Liz is
surprised
to find that it looks like reptile blood. The Brigadier
returns --
they've lost the creature in the darkness but he will
look again
in the morning with more men. He's worried that Baker may
have shot
some innocent pot-holer. Liz tells him that Baker is hurt,
but
basically all right and the Doctor laments that Baker blazed
away so
eagerly. He reminds the Brigadier that the large dinosaur
was called
off before he or Baker could be killed. He theorizes that
they are
dealing with two creatures: a large ferocious one and small
intelligent one that is not neccesssarily hostile.
The
creature stumbles through the darkness, its breathing labored.
It
approaches a farm and a reptilian hand swims into its vision,
opening a
gate and a barn door. It stumbles into the barn,
collapsing
into the shelter of the hay.
Lawrence,
meanwhile, is angrily confronting Miss Dawson in the
control
room. It seems that Quinn is nowhere to be found. The Doctor
arrives,
also looking for Quinn. Dawson tells them that he's just
gone home,
exhausted from working so hard. But Lawrence is still
angry,
sarcastically wondering if Quinn has gone to his private
cottage to
work on his book. He leaves in a huff. The Doctor is more
pleasant
but still determined to see Quinn about the power losses.
Quinn is
not in his cottage, however. He is in the caves, following
a map,
watched in the distance by a small reptilian creature. A red
light
shines down on him, guides him through a secret door, down a
hall and
into a small room with a chair and a computer. A strange
voice asks
why he's come. He warns them about the Brigadier's search
party.
They reply that his warning is too late. One of them was
attacked
and wounded, fleeing to the surface. They are unconcerned
about
whether any humans were hurt. He asks them to stop stealing
power from
the reactor but they insists they still need it. He tells
them that
it was the power leakages that brought the soldiers and
they ask
him to help with the wounded one. At first, Quinn refuses,
worried
that he will be seen by the hunting soldiers. This angers
the voice
and it says that they will give him the knowledge he wants
if he
helps them. They promise to give him a summoning device and he
sees a
small metal object lying next to him. After he picks it up,
the red
light guides him out again.
It is
morning on the farm. The farmer -- Squire -- head to the barn
and begins
to pitchfork the hay. Suddenly he sees a reptile arm
flailing
in the straw. He runs to the door and tells his wife Doris
to call
the police. The creatures rises up and approaches him, his
image
tripled in its vision. It knocks him to the ground with one
blow. His
wife runs in, sees the creature and screams.
The
Brigadier and Hawkins are organizing their search for the
creature
when Lawrence bursts in. He's irritated that a military
operation
is being run out of his research center. He reminds them
that they
were imposed on him to solve his particular problems and
asks them
what progress they've made. The Brigadier tells him about
Liz's
findings of unusual amounts of stress in the staff, but
Lawrence
dismisses it and wants to know about the power losses. The
Brigadier
tells him the Doctor is checking it out. Lawrence doesn't
believe
the Doctor can find anything with his sonic screwdriver.
The Doctor
arrives and informs Lawrence that the reactor is in
perfect
working order, making Lawrence even angrier. The Doctor
suspects
that some outside influence is affecting it and recommends
the center
be shut down until they figure out what's happening. This
infuriates
Lawrence and he says he will ask the undersecretary to
recall
them. Lawrence storms out and the Doctor call him a pompous
idiot. In
fine sarcastic form, he then ask the Brigadier if he's
ready to
start playing soldier again. Before Lethbridge-Stewart can
answer,
the phone rings. It is the police reporting a dead local
farmer
with claw marks on the body.
The Doctor
goes with him to the farm. He examines the body and find
claw marks
on it, although they are smaller than the ones on the
dead
technician. The Brigadier asks him if still thinks the small
creatures
are not hostile and the Doctor points out the farmer
attacked
the creature with a pitchfork. Besides, the man did not die
from the
claws -- he died of fright!
They hurry
off to see Doris in the hospital, leaving Liz to examine
the scene.
Doris is lying in bed, agitated and frightened. The
Doctor
gets a pen and paper and draw a man with three eyes --
similar to
what Spencer was drawing on his wall. She reacts to the
image with
horror, telling him it killed her husband. Then she tells
him it's
still there in the barn! The Doctor and the Brigadier race
off to
save Liz.
Liz is
examining the hay, putting specimens in a kit. A reptilian
arm
appears in a doorway and the creature looks down on her from
above. He
descends the ladder with only fleeting glimpses of his
reptilian
flesh visible. He approaches Liz from behind as she sits
in the
hay. Liz suddenly hears the creatures, turns to face him and
screams as
a claw grabs at her face.
Episode 3
(drn:
23'16")
Liz Shaw
is carefully investigating the hay where a farm couple were
attacked
by a mysterious creature. Unseen by her, a reptilian shape
emerges
from the hayloft and descends the ladder. It approaches her,
her shape
tripled in its three eyes. She turns and screams as it
knocks her
to the ground. The creature then moves to the barn door,
seeking to
escape. But a policeman is outside. It quickly bolts the
door and
retreats into the darkness of the barn.
Dr. Quinn
is at his cottage when Miss Dawson arrives. She tells him
that
Lawrence has been asking about him, but he dismisses it and
excitedly
shows her the summoning device -- the first product ever
seen from
another civilization. He tells her he hasn't seem them yet
but they
must trust him to ask for his help. Dawson isn't that
impressed.
She mentions that the soldiers are searching for
something
and investigating an attack at a local farm. Quinn quickly
realizes
there is cave opening near the farm and hurries out, again
dismissing
Dawson's concerns about Lawrence.
The Doctor
and the Brigadier arrive at the barn, hurrying to rescue
Liz from
whatever menace still lurks there. They find the door
bolted but
the Brig quickly smashes it open. They find Liz
unconscious on the floor. The soldiers search the barn while the
Doctor
tends to his assistant. Hawkins and the soldiers quickly
return,
reporting that the locked barn is empty.
Liz wakes
up and tells the Doctor "I saw it" although she can only
tell him
that it walked upright. Then Hawkins finds a hole the
creature
broke through the side of the barn to get out. The
Brigadier
orders him to search the entire area.
Dr. Quinn
arrives in the midst of this scene. He explains that he
felt
better after resting at his cottage and was on his way to the
research
center when he noticed the police cars. He asks Liz what
happened
but the Doctor cuts her off, looking at Quinn expectantly.
Quinn
prepares to head out but is stopped by the Brigadier who wants
to know
where someone could hide in the area.
Outside,
the soldiers are searching the area thoroughly, firing
flares as
they clear areas and assisted by a helicopter.
Quinn is
of little help to the Brigadier and prepares to leave
again. The
Doctor asks him if he could give Dr. Shaw a lift but the
evasive
Quinn claims he was actually on his way to the village
because
his car was acting up. After he leaves, Liz points out to
the Doctor
that the farm was miles out of Quinn's way.
Quinn
stops along a deserted stretch of road, steps out and
activates
the signaling device. It gives off a sound exactly like
the one
used to summon away the dinosaur. Dogs bark frantically at
it and the
soldiers notice its eerie tone. A helicopter swoops over
Quinn, who
quickly hides the device, waves and gets back in his car.
The Doctor
and the Brigadier roar up to Hawkins in Bessie. He
mentions
the sighting of Quinn and the funny noise - also having
noticed
that it was the same sound they heard in the cave. The
Doctor and
the Brigadier race off to investigate.
Quinn
stops his car again. The signal is getting more and more
frantic.
The creature approaches him cautiously through the shrubs.
At the
last moment, Quinn turns to face it.
The Doctor
and the Brigadier stop at once, noticing that the noise
has
stopped. The quickly drive to where it seemed to come from and
find biped
footprints and tire tracks.
Liz
arrives at the center and visits Baker in the infirmary. Baker
is eager
to head out and get back in the investigation, but Liz
insists
the Brigadier wants him to stay in bed. She asks him what he
remembers.
He can only recall shooting at someone. He then asks her
again what
the Brigadier is doing about the situation and asks to
see him.
Liz placates him but after she leaves, he takes off his
sling and
hops out of bed.
Quinn is
back at his cottage when the Doctor arrives. The scientist
tries to
get rid of the pesky Time Lord, but the latter keeps asking
him
pointless questions - why he's there, what his cottage is like
--
purposefully not asking him about the missing creature. He
especially
notes how hot it is in the cottage. Quinn tells him the
thermostat
is broken. The Doctor then slyly comments that the
cottage is
like a reptile house and Quinn is clearly alarmed at this
remark. He
demands the Doctor leave. The Doctor does but not before
asking
Quinn if anything is wrong and telling him he could help. As
a parting
shot, he reminds him that they haven't caught the
mysterious
creature.
Later, the
Doctor and Liz are searching Quinn's office, trying to
find out
more about him. The Doctor breaks open a cabinet and finds
a globe in
it. But the continental shapes are strange. They are
bunched
into one landmass -- the way the earth was 200 million years
ago during
the Silurian era.
Suddenly,
Miss Dawson walks in, catching them in the act. She
threatens
to tell Lawrence but the Doctor confronts her, asking her
what is
going on in the caves. For a moment, she wavers, her concern
for Quinn
outweighing her loyalty. But before she can speak, the
Brigadier
comes in. Dawson clams up and hurries out.
Back in
Quinn's dark cottage, Dawson arrives. She warns him the
Doctor was
searching his office and begs him to tell someone about
what's
going before more people get killed. She thinks he could
trust the
Doctor but Quinn thinks the Doctor would only steal his
discoveries. Dawson replies that the creatures haven't given him a
single
discovery but Quinn is undeterred. He says that now that he
has the
creature, he can demand they tell him what he wants to know.
Back at
the research center, there is staff meeting. The Doctor
continues
to insist that their troubles originate in the caves.
Suddenly,
Baker strides in. He insists that they should storm the
caves to
go after the saboteurs but the Doctor thinks this a
terrible
idea. The Brigadier makes Hawkins escort Baker back to
sickbay
and Lawrence is annoyed that the Brig has essentially
arrested
his security officer. The Doctor praises the Brigadier for
being
sensible, but the latter replies that he somewhat agrees with
Baker and
wants to search the caves with an armed force.
Lawrence
stands up, clearly fed up with UNIT. He tells them that the
undersecretary -- Mr. Masters -- is on his way and will almost
certainly
recall the Brigadier. He then heads out with
Lethbridge-Stewart pursuing him, trying to change his mind.
The Doctor
is frustrated with the entire situation. He decides to
make one
last attempt at pursuading Dr. Quinn to trust him.
It is now
night. The Doctor arrives at the cottage and rings the
bells with
no answer. He opens the door and steps in, calling out to
Quinn. As
he moves into the living room, a reptilian hand appears in
a doorway.
The Doctor
finds Quinn sitting in a chair in the living room. The
scientist
is dead, clutching his precious signal device in his cold
hand. The
Doctor examines it, switching it on. The summoning tone
rings out
and through the doorway strides a man-shaped three-eyed
brown
reptile. The Silurian revealed at last! It stares down the
Doctor as
the summoning device continues its eerie chime.
Episode 4
(drn:
25'00")
The Doctor
has come to Dr. Quinn's cottage, eager for one last
chance to
pursuade the scientist to explain the mysterious events
affecting
the research center. But he is too late. Quinn is dead.
The Doctor
picks up the signal device still clutched in Quinn's hand
and turns
it on. Immediately, a man-shaped reptile enters. The
Silurian
revealed at last!
The Doctor
doesn't panic. Instead he puts out his hand and
introduces
himself. The Silurian is timid and scared but doesn't
attack. It
indicates it can understand him. The Doctor starts asking
it
questions but a passing car startles the creature and it runs
off,
smashing through the cottage door.
Sgt. Baker
is back in the infirmary, scribbling out plans on a piece
of paper.
He calls Sgt. Hart in to help him take off his jacket. The
friendly
soldier helps him but Baker attacks when the sergeant's
back is
turned. He then hurries away.
The
Brigadier chews out the apologetic Hart for not being more
cautious
with Baker. Hart suggests a search but the Brigadier
declines,
sending Hart away. Liz asks about a search as well but the
Brigadier
points out that Baker will be headed to the caves to look
for
saboteurs. They'll find him once they organize their own
expedition.
Baker is
indeed in the caves, following his notes. He turns down a
passage
and steps into a puddle, which bubbles ferociously around
his
ankles, freezing him in place. Silurians swarm around him and he
opens
fire. But he runs out of ammunition before he can hit
anything.
A Silurian closes in and its third eye glows brightly.
Baker
falls to the ground under its gaze.
The
Brigadier and Liz are waiting for more troops. The Brigadiers
asks where
the Doctor has got to and Liz tell him he went to visit
Quinn. The
Doctor arrives but doesn't tell the Brigadier what he
found --
perhaps fearing it will provoke a military action. The
Brigadiers
asks him for suggestions and the Doctor again recommends
shutting
down the reactor. He also recommends a careful
investigation of the caves, not a military action with soldiers
crashing
about. The Brigadier, losing patience with the situation,
hurries
out.
Liz asks
the Doctor what's wrong and he tells her that Quinn was
killed by
a Silurian. He quickly describes his encounter with the
creature.
Liz is surprised it didn't attack him but the Doctor
replies
that the Silurians are clearly an alien life as intelligent
as human
beings and not hostile. Liz reminds him that it attacked
her but
the Doctor points out that it was trying to escape and acted
as any
human would.
The Doctor
is more determined than ever to explore the caves. Liz
insists on
going with him this time, threatening to go the Brigadier
if he
doesn't bring her. The Doctor relents and tells her they will
follow a
map he found in Quinn's cottage.
They
return to the caves. Liz wants to take a shortcut across the
pool, but
the Doctor finds Baker's spent rounds. He throws a rock in
the pool
and it boils up. They decide to stick to the map.
They
finally come to the door Quinn used earlier. As they are
puzzling
out how to open it, Liz sees a Silurian approaching. They
hide and
watch as it opens the door with a summoning device. Liz
touches
the door and finds it hot -- an environment suited to
reptiles.
The Doctor then remembers the device he took from Quinn
and uses
it to open the door.
The two
creep into the Silurians' lair, sneaking around the
creatures.
They find Baker in a cage, yelling defiantly at the
Silurians.
They sneak over and speak to him. When he finds out
they've
come without any troops, he tells them to hurry back and
bring the
Brigadier. He can't escape as the cage has an energy lock.
The
Silurians keeping asking him questions about humans -- their
food,
their weapons. He thinks they are going to invade. The Doctor
advises
him to cooperate a little in order to find out something
about the
creatures.
Then the
lights dim. The Doctor and Liz look into another room. They
see a
large sarcophogus made of stone and glass. It is opening and a
Silurian
is slowing rising out of it. The Doctor guesses that they
are
raising him from some deep hibernation -- perhaps this explains
the power
losses.
Baker
insists that they head out before they get caught. They sneak
out by a
different route and see the allosaur in one room. The
Doctor
hypothesizes that the Silurians are using it as a watchdog,
although
Liz reminds him that the dinosaurs have been extinct for
millions
of years.
Back at
the research center, the personnel are calmly shutting down
the
reactor, which has had yet another mysterious power loss.
Lawrence
arrives and tries to get hold of Quinn or Dawson, but
neither
can be found. The phone rings and Lawrence is told that
undersecretary Masters has arrived. Lawrence managed to straighten
himself up
before the undersecretary walks in.
They
retire to the office. Masters tells Lawrence the Brigadier
wants more
troops. This infuriates Lawrence, who is angry the
Brigadier
wants to chase strange creatures instead of doing
something
about the power failures. Masters tells him the future of
the center
is in question. They've poured in millions of pounds with
no
results.
This
provokes a rambling diatribe from Lawrence. He insists that the
presence
of others is not helping. Everyone has a crazy theory --
Baker
thinks there are saboteurs in the caves while the Brigadier
thinks
there are monsters down there. Lawrence wants the UNIT people
out so he
can work on the power problems. He thinks the Brigadier is
just
trying to make himself look good by exaggerating the situation.
He also
disparages the Doctor, calling him a raving lunatic.
On cue,
the Doctor and Liz arrive. The Doctor asks if there's been
another
power failure and when Lawrence confirms it, he turns to
leave. The
Brigadier arrives and asks Masters about reinforcements.
But
Masters tells him he can't ask for more troops to look for
monsters
in caves. The Brig decides to start his search anyway but
the Doctor
stops him, telling him he knows what's happening.
Meanwhile,
the Silurians are interrogating Baker. He tells them that
humans are
the only intelligent life on the planet. When they ask
about
weapons, he refused to answer. They regard him like an animal,
noting to
each other that "it" is becoming aggressive again. The
Young
Silurian wants to force Baker to answer but the Old Silurian
doesn't
want him hurt. He laments that they killed Quinn since Baker
is
obviously less intelligent. He thinks they need to study the
humans and
learn about their civilization. But the Young Silurian
thinks
they should just wipe the humans out.
At the
center, everyone is incredulous at the Doctor's story. The
Brigadier
starts asking how many Silurians there are and how they
are armed,
but the Doctor doesn't know. He wants Masters to go the
Minister,
but the undersecretary insists that he needs proof of such
a
fantastic story. The Brigadier still wants to go into the caves,
although
he emphasizes that doesn't want to start a war. The Doctor
is adamant
that the presence of armed men will inevitably lead to
violence.
Lawrence, reasonable for once, asks if there is any
alternative. The Doctor says that he wants to go and talk to the
Silurians.
At this
crucial moment, a dazed Miss Dawson arrives. She tells them
she went
to Quinn's cottage and found that he had been killed by the
Silurians.
She admits they knew about the creatures. She tells them
that Quinn
found them while pot-holing and was cooperating to gain
scientific
knowledge from them. They repaid him by killing him. They
Brigadier
is now determined to go into caves, convinced they are
hostile.
He leads Miss Dawson out to get her statement but not
before the
Doctor asks if Quinn knew their intentions. She scoffs
insisting
that "we must destroy them before they destroy us."
As Masters
and Lawerence confer, the Doctor decides to head into the
caves and
warn them about the soldiers. Perhaps they will listen to
reason if
the Brigadier won't.
The
Silurians are working in their computer room when the Doctor
suddenly
appears and announces himself. They drag him into a cage,
opening
and closing it with energy from their third eyes. Baker
wonders
why the Doctor is there as do the Silurians. He warns them
of the
attack, tellng them that if they meet the soldiers in peace,
there
won't be a battle. They ask why he is doing this and the
Doctor
explains that he wants the humans and Silurians to live
together
in peace. This is the humans' planet now. The Silurians
insist
that this has always been their planet.
The
Brigadier and Hawkins are following the map but find an
unexpected
wall. They turn back to find another wall has suddenly
appeared
behind them. They are trapped.
Baker is
furious with the Doctor for revealing the Brigadier's
plans. The
Doctor replies that he had to take the risk to prevent a
massacre.
As they are talking, the Young Silurian returns. The
Doctor
eagerly asks if they've met the humans yet. The Silurian
replies
that he has destroyed them and now he will destroy the
Doctor.
His third eyes glows furiously and the Doctor grimaces in
pain.
Episode 5
(drn:
23'58")
The Doctor
is a prisoner of the Silurians, having come to warn them
of a
pending attack by the Brigadier. Baker is furious that he would
do this,
but the Doctor insists he was just trying to prevent a
massacre.
The Young Silurian arrives and the Doctor asks if they've
met with
the humans yet. He replies, "I have destroyed them. And now
I will
destroy you". His third eye glows and the Doctor grimaces in
pain.
But before
the Young Silurian can kill the Doctor, the Old Silurian
arrives
and stop him. He is angry, telling the Young Silurian he
gave no
orders to kill the humans. Now they will send more soldiers.
He reminds
the Young Silurian that there are millions of the
creatures
but the Young Silurian insists they can wipe them all out.
The UNIT
troops are trying to dig through the walls enclosing them
in the
cave or radio back. But they can't do either. Hawkins and the
Brigadier
debate what to do and realize that they may only a few
hours of
air left.
Liz is in
the research center, talking to Masters. Lawrence keeps
dimissiing
her arguments. He is convinced that the power losses are
a
technical problems and he just needs more money and people. The
phone
rings and Masters answers. The UNIT people are reporting
they've
lost contact with the Brigadier.
The Doctor
tries to tell the Old Silurian that the humans are more
dangerous
than he thinks. Baker tries to violently shut him up but
the Old
Silurian uses his third eye to knock the soldier down. The
Doctor
then pursuades the Old Silurian to let him out of the cage.
The
Brigadier has ordered digging stopped to conserve air. They
notice
that Private Roberts is shaking and hyperventilating, as
though
terrified.
Masters
takes another call. He tells UNIT to continue the search.
Miss
Dawson arrives and argues that the Silurians have probably
killed the
soldiers. She tells Masters they should send more troops
down,
attack the Silurians. Lawrence again scoffs at the idea of
cave
monsters. Liz replies to Dawson, saying they shouldn't attack
the
Silurians. Suddenly, Masters asks where the Doctor has gotten
to. Liz
hesitates.
The Young
Silurian and the Silurian Scientist are talking about the
human
weapons. The Young Silurian thinks they are primitive -- a
fitting
weapon for apes. But the Scientist thinks they have some
ingenuity
and reminds him one of them was wounded. The Young
Silurian
thinks the apes should be wiped out and is concerned their
leader is
talking to one.
Liz
finally caves in and tells everyone the Doctor went into the
caves to
warn the Silurians. Dawson is appalled, believing the
Brigadier
and his men have probably been destroyed. She again
presses to
attack but Masters wants to wait for more information.
The Doctor
tells the Old Silurian that the planet now belongs to
man. The
Old Silurians insists that it is their planet. He explains
that a
small planet was approaching Earth and they calculated it
would draw
off the atmosphere. So they built a shelter and went into
hibernation until the atmosphere returned. The Doctor realizes the
planet
became the Earth's moon and the catastrophe never happened.
Baker
starts yelling for the Doctor, calling him a traitor. The
Doctor
ignores this and asks the Old Silurian why they stayed in
hibernation. The Old Silurians tells him the hibernation mechanisms
was faulty
but when the research center was activated, the energy
surge woke
them up. They now want to wake everyone and retake the
Earth. The
Doctor thinks this would provoke a war.
He now
says that he could persuade the humans to make peace. The two
species
could live together, with the Silurians moving to the hot
regions of
the planet that man can't use. The Old Silurian seems
moved by
this idea. The Doctor presses the advantage, asking him to
release
the soldiers as a sign of good will.
Among the
trapped soldiers, Roberts is carving on the wall. Hawkins
tries to
talk to him but Roberts assaults him, then returns to
carving.
In the Silurian base, the old Silurian uses his third eye
on their
computer. Suddenly, the cave wall opens in front of the
Brigadier.
They hurry to the surface.
The Young
Silurian arrives, furious that the apes have been
released.
He insists the planet belong to them but the Old Silurian
thinks the
humans should be treated as equals. The Young Silurian
stalks
out, repeating his belief that they should wipe the humans
out.
The
Silurian Scientist is comparing images of apes to humans when
the Young
Silurian arrives, still furious that their leader wants to
share the
planet with apes. He wants to wipe them out and thinks the
Old
Silurian is no longer fit to lead. He threatens to kill the
Scientist
if he doesn't help him. The Scientist tells him they once
used a
plague on the apes when they would raid crops. They let Baker
out of his
cage. He tries to escape but they knock him out.
At the
center, everyone is quiet, waiting for news. Lawrence is
getting
angrier by the minute. He sarcastically remarks that maybe
they
should send a search party after the search party. Dawson still
thinks
they should attack. The Brigadier suddenly returns. He tells
his story,
which Lawrence doesn't believe. Masters asks where the
Doctor is.
The Old
Silurians wants assurance that the humans will make peace.
The Doctor
can only agree to try. The Old Silurian tells him to wait
and
leaves, putting a forcefield over the door.
One of the
Silurians leaves Baker lying in the cave and then wakes
him from a
distance. Baker sits up, looks around and then hurries
away,
clearly unaware of anything amiss.
The Old
Silurian is angry that the Young Silurian has released the
disease.
He says the apes are civilized now but the Young Silurian
insists
this only makes them more dangerous. The Young Silurian says
the Old
Silurian is no longer fit to lead. The Old Silurian
threatens
to kill him if he defies him again.
The Doctor
is looking at images of the Silurian civilization on
their
computer. The Old Silurian returns and tells him that Baker
has been
released, but infected with a disease. He insists this was
not of his
doing. He gives the Doctor a sample of the bacteria so
that he
can find a cure and then turns the Doctor loose.
The
Brigadier is preparing another expedition when Baker returns.
Baker
tells them the Doctor has betrayed them. Masters asks Baker
how he
escaped, but Baker is evasive. He tells them they need to
blow up
the caves. But the Doctor arrives at this moment and tells
everyone
to move away from Baker. He tells Baker that he is very
very ill.
Baker tries to arrest him and the Brigadier moves to
intervene,
but the Doctor warns him off again. He tells Baker to
look at
his wrist. Baker reluctantly does and find a horrible rash
on his
arm. He collapses to the floor.
The Young
Silurian is angry that the Old Silurian gave the humans
the
bacteria. The Old Silurian insists that two species can live
together.
The Young Silurian waits until his back is turned and then
uses his
third eye to kill him.
The Doctor
wants to quarantine the research center, but this is only
making
Lawrence angrier. Masters is still skeptical, wondering why
they
should negotiate with the Silurians now that they've released
the
plague. But before the Doctor can respond, Liz arrives with
dreadful
news. Dr. Meredith has sent Baker to the local hospital
over her
objections. The Doctor is horrified and he and the
Brigadier
rush out to intercept the ambulance.
Masters
gets ready to leave for London. He tells Lawrence the center
will be
closed and Lawrence is devastated at the news. As Masters
gets up,
he feels ill. But he thinks he's just tired and heads out
to catch
his car.
The Doctor
and Brigadier race to the hospital in Bessie. They find
Baker
stumbling around. He falls to the ground, dead, his body
covered
with the rash. The Doctor tells the Brig this is just the
first one.
Episode 6
(drn:
24'15")
The Doctor
and the Brigadier race to the hospital, desperate to
contain
the Silurian plague. But they are too late. As they roll up,
Sergeant
Baker collapses to the ground, the first victim of the
plague.
A
physician and nurse hurry out of the hospital to tend to the dead
man, but
the Brigadier forces them away at gunpoint. He agrees to
stay and
quarantine the hospital while the Doctor goes back to the
lab to
work on a cure.
The Doctor
is looking at slide, trying to puzzle out what they are
dealing
with. Liz arrives and confirms they have pumped antibiotics
into
everyone at the research center as a precaution. She wants to
inject the
Doctor as well. He protests that he is not human, but
relents
eventually. The Brig arrives and assures him that he has
cordoned
off the hospital and ordered a sophisticated microscope to
be sent
it. Liz tells him that Dawson, the doctor and nurse at the
hospital
and the ambulance driver have all caught the disease. She
also
mentions that Lawrence and Masters can not be found, then
leaves to
locate and inject them.
The
Brigadier worries that the disease can't be contained. The
Doctor is
no mood to chat though and wants to be left alone to work.
But before
he can get started, Liz returns and tells him that
Masters
left for London. The Brigadier rushes out to stop him.
Masters
arrives at a London train station, feeling progressively
worse. He
leaves and walks down the street, getting more and more
disoriented. He gets into a taxi just as the police arrive to
apprehend
him.
A huge
microscope is delivered to the Doctor as he and
Lethbridge-Stewart worry about Masters. The Brigadier wonders what
the
Silurians will do. The Doctor speculates that they will just
wait for
the plague to do its work. The Brigadier again wonders if
they can
make peace with the Silurians. But the Doctor shoos him
away
again, eager to continue his work.
The Young
Silurian stands over the body of the old one and announces
that he is
now the leader. After asking them to remove the body, he
wonders if
the disease has wiped the humans out yet. The Scientist
reminds
him that the apes are more advanced now. They may resist the
disease or
even cure it. The Young Silurian scoffs but the Scientist
shows him
an image of the Doctor working in the lab. He reminds the
Young
Silurian that this ape is far more intelligent than the
others.
Lawrence
finally turns up, strolling into the office where Liz is
working.
He's frustrated and wants to talk to the Brigadier. He's
angry the
center is at a standstill because of the injections. He
refuses to
get injected, thinking the epidemic is imaginary. Liz
points out
that Baker is dead, but Lawrence will admit nothing and
leaves.
The Brigadier arrives just as the phone rings. He finds out
that the
police missed Masters at the station.
Masters
stumbles out of his taxi, getting ever more disoriented. The
ticket
collector at the train station begins to feel ill.
In the
caves, a UNIT soldier hears a noise and looks into the
darkness.
He tries to call for help but a Silurian steps out and
kills him.
Hawkins rushes to the scene. The Silurian kills another
man and
Hawkins opens fire on it, chasing it away. Back in the
Silurian
base, the Young Silurian notes the soldiers are guarding
the cave
and is frustrated the disease hasn't killed them yet. He
decides to
capture the Doctor to prevent him from finding a cure.
A huge
sample of drugs is brought to the Doctor. He is hopeful that
one or
some combination will cure the Silurian plague and asks Liz
to get a
blood sample for him to work on.
The
tension continues to grow. While the Doctor works and the
Brigadier
organizes the quarantine, people are dropping all over
London
from the disease. Masters is on his last legs as the police
close in
on him. Liz brings the Doctor blood samples and he begins
to try out
the drugs on them. The Brigadier assures the Ministry
that the
Doctor and Liz are working as hard as they can.
The Doctor
is slowly losing confidence, but Liz is optimistic that
they've
narrowed down the solution. Liz swoons a bit, feeling the
effects of
the drugs. The Doctor tells her to inject herself again.
She wants
to inject the Doctor as well but he insists he's fine.
Liz meets
with the Brigadier again and he tells her that Masters is
dead and
the plague is breaking out all over London. Lawrence
stagger
into the office, his face covered in the disease rash. They
ask him to
go the infirmary and he loses it. He shouts that he was
an
important man before UNIT came and now his career is in ruins. He
thinks
everything that happened was a plot to get rid of him. He
yells at
them to leave and then attacks the Brigadier before
collapsing
to the ground, dead.
With a cry
of "Eureka!", the Doctor realizes he has found it -- the
cure to
the Silurian plague!
The
Brigadier wearily reports that the first case abroad has
appeared
in Paris. Liz worries that if they can't contain it to
Britain,
the world is doomed. But the Doctor bursts in and tells
them he's
found the cure. He and Liz hurry to the infirmary to try
it out on
a patient.
The
Scientist leads the Young Silurian to the point in the cave
closest to
the human base. They use their third eyes to melt a
passage
through the rock.
Liz tells
the Doctor that the ambulance driver is responding to the
drugs. He
rushes back to the lab to write down the formula.
Hawkins
reports to the Brigadier that the Silurians are advancing
out of the
caves, attacking the soldiers. The Brigadier hurries back
to his
office where the phone is ringing. But it's just a tabloid
reporter
trying to find out what's going on.
In the
lab, the Doctor is writing out his notes. He hears a noise
but keeps
working. Behind him, the walls begins to glow red hot.
Suddenly,
the Silurians break through and attack him. The Doctor
falls to
the ground under the gaze of their glowing third eyes.
Episode 7
(drn:
22'55")
The Doctor
is working on a cure to the deadly Silurian plague when
the wall
in back of him begins to glow. Suddenly, the Silurians
swarm in
and knock him to the ground with their third eyes.
The
Brigadier is trying desperately to stay on top of the situation
with both
the plague and the Silurians. The Silurians are advancing
against
his troops but at least the plague patient has been cured.
The
Silurians drag the Doctor into the passageway they've burned
into the
research center. A soldier come down the corridor and see
them but
the Young Silurian kills him before he an raise the alarm.
The
Silurians hustle the Doctor away, the Young Silurian closing the
passageway
with his third eye.
The
Brigadier and Liz are handling frantic phone calls. Dr. Meredith
is getting
impatient in the infirmary, wanting to give the plague
cure to
the rest of the patients.
Captain
Hawkins is on his way to report to the Brigadier when he
finds the
dead soldier and a bizarre scorched pattern on the wall.
The
Ministry calls again and Liz decides to see if the Doctor has
the
formula for the cure written down yet. And the Defense Ministry
can't make
up its mind about whether to send the Brig more soldiers.
Liz finds
the Doctor gone. She start frantically looking through his
notes,
trying to find the cure for the disease. The Brigadier
arrives,
demanding to know where either the formula or the Doctor
are. Liz
tells him she has no idea where he's gone and she has no
idea which
is the correct formula. Hawkins then arrives and informs
them that
there has been some kind of raid. They leave as Liz
continues
to look through the Doctor's notes. With a sudden smile,
she finds
it and picks up the phone to call the hospital.
The Young
Silurian is interrogating the Doctor and asks how soon the
apes will
die. The Doctor tells them that the disease has been cured
as their
leader wanted. The Young Silurian smugly informs the Doctor
that he is
now the leader.
The
Brigadier tells LIz that the Silurians have broken in and
abducted
the Doctor. He orders Hawkins to evacuate the research
center and
send every soldier that can be spared to the caves. Liz
tells the
Brig she's given the formula to the hospital. She wants
them to
raid the Silurian base to rescue the Doctor but the
Brigadier
reminds her that they are barely holding off the Silurians
as it is.
The Young
Silurian now decides that they will make the entire planet
uninhabitable for humans by connecting the "disperser" to the
human
generator.
The Doctor informs him that the reactor has been shut
down, but
they are undeterred. They decide to storm the center and
and force
the Doctor to turn the reactor back on.
Liz and
the Brigadier are still in the research center when the
lights
turn off and the phones go dead. The Brigadier suddenly
realizes
that by sending all his men to the caves he has left the
research
center defenseless.
The
Silurian Scientist tries to wake more Silurians but there is not
enough
power.
The
Brigadier and Liz try to use the elevator but it is jammed.
Suddenly,
the walls glows and the Silurians walks in with the
Doctor.
They force the Brigadier to put down his weapon. Hawkins is
in the lab
and overhears and begins to sneak up on the Silurians.
They have
decided to go ahead and kill the Brigadier when Hawkins
attacks.
They kill him easily but the Doctor threatens not to help
them if
they kill anyone else. The Young Silurian tells him to
activate
the generator or they will kill everyone.
The
Silurians break into the reactor room and immediately start
killing
the scientists. But the Doctor yells at them to stop. He
then
calmly tells the scientists to re-activate the reactor. The
Brigadier
asks him what he's doing and the Doctor replies that he is
saving
their lives. The Silurians wheel in a large cumbersome device
and roll
it up to the generator. The Doctor asks what it does. At
first they
won't tell him, but then they identify it as a disperser
that will
use microwaves to disperse the van Allen belts. Liz tells
the
Brigadier this will make the Earth uninhabitable to humans, but
fine for
reptiles.
In the
cave, the Silurians try reviving more of their people, but
the power
is still too low.
The
Silurian Scientist tells the Doctor to turn the power up
further.
The Brigadier wants him to stop but Liz tells him to trust
the
Doctor. The Doctor tells Liz to lower all the power rods at once
when he
tells her. They start the reactor and the power slowly
builds.
The Silurians turn on the disperser. The Young Silurians
wants more
power and the Doctor tells Liz to drop all the rods. She
does and
the power spikes, blowing up the disperser. The Young
Silurian
is enraged. He tells them to turn off the reactor but the
controls
blow up before they can.
The Doctor
tells the Young Silurian that the reactor is overloaded
and will
soon explode with a massive amount of radiation, making the
area
uninhabitable for decades. The Young Silurian decides to send
his people
back into hibernation. He will leave the humans to die.
The
Silurians withdraw, leaving their ruined disperser behind.
The
Brigadier starts to congratulate the Doctor, but the Time Lord
replies
that he wasn't really bluffing. They need to get out before
the
reactor explodes. But the Brigadier informs him that the lift is
jammed and
they can't escape.
In the
caves, the Silurians are hurriedly putting their race back
into
hibernation. The Silurian Scientist realizes, however, that
because of
the fault in the hibernation mechanism, one of them must
stay
awake. The Young Silurian volunteers to do it. He will set the
controls
to wake everyone in 50 years. He tells the Silurian
Scientist
to lead when they awake and wipe out all the humans.
The Doctor
is working frantically to shut down the overloaded
reactor.
Nothing is helping until he fuses the controls of the
neutron
flow which blows the console and shuts down the reactor.
Some time
later, the Doctor returns to the Silurian lair. The Young
Silurian
appears and realizes he has been tricked. He will now force
the humans
to revive them -- after he kills the Doctor. His eyes
glows with
menace but the Brigadier appears and guns down the Young
Silurian.
He asks the Doctor what he thinks he's doing. The Doctor
wants to
examine the hibernation machinery. He thinks that if he can
wake them
up one at a time and reason with them, there can still be
a peaceful
solution He marvels at the wealth of knowledge that is in
the
Silurian base. The Brigadier looks strangely guilty and
reticent.
Later that
day, the Doctor returns to the research center. He
reminds
the Brigadier that no one is to go into the base. He and Liz
will
return soon to begin a full exploration. The Brigadier is quiet
and
strangely eager to see them off. After they leave, he asks a
corporal
if everything is set up. When told it is, he instruct the
young
soldier to wait until the Doctor and Liz are away and then set
off the
explosives and seal the Silurian base for good.
The Young
Silurian has stubbornly clung to life and has regained
consciousness. He staggers to his feet and tries desperately to wake
one of his
fellow Silurians using his third eye for power. It glows
weakly as
he gasps for breath.
On the
Moors, Bessie has broken down. While Liz looks on, the Doctor
uncorks a
phial of vile-looking liquid. He pours it into Bessie's
radiator.
Gurgles move through the car, a few drops fall out of the
tailpipe
and she starts up. But before the delighted Doctor can get
going, an
explosion roars out.
In the
Silurian base, the mortally wounded Young Silurian is crushed
as the
cave collapses around him.
The Doctor
looks out onto the Moors, a look of horror on his face as
the
explosions continue. He realizes that the Brigadier has killed
the
Silurians. Liz tells him the government was frightened and must
have given
the Brigadier strict orders to finish off the Silurians.
But the
Doctor thinks it's just plain murder. He sadly gets into the
car, takes
one last look at the smoking caves, and drives off in
silence...
Source: Michael H. Siegel.
Continuity Notes:
The Silurians reappear in Warriors of the Deep, Bloodtide,
and Blood Heat.
In
an alternate timeline created by the Meddling Monk (The
Time Meddler), these events ended with the death of the
Third Doctor at the hands of Silurian Morka, beginning a
decline of Earth until the Seventh Doctor arrives in Blood
Heat.
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The Ambassadors of Death
The Ambassadors
of Death
Serial CCC
Producer
Barry
Letts
Script
Editor
Terrance
Dicks
Designer
David
Mysercough-Jones Written by David
Whitaker*
Directed by Michael Ferguson
Incidental Music by Dudley Simpson
Action by Havoc [1-5,7]
Jon
Pertwee (Doctor Who), Caroline John (Liz Shaw), Nicholas
Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart), Ronald Allen (Ralph
Cornish), Robert Cawdron (Taltalian) [1-2,4], John Abineri
(Carrington / General Carrington)†, Ric Felgate (Van Lyden)
[1-3,6], Michael Wisher (John Wakefield) [1-2,7], Cheryl
Molineaux (Miss Rutherford) [1-2], Ray Armstrong (Grey) [1-2],
Robert Robertson (Collinson) [1-2], Dallas
Cavell (Quinlan)
[2-5]; Bernard Martin
[2], Joanna Ross [5-7], Carl Conway
[5-6] (Control Room Assistant); Juan Moreno (Dobson) [2],
James Haswell (Corporal Champion) [2], Derek Ware (Unit
Sergeant) [2], William Dysart (Reegan) [3-7], Cyril Shaps
(Lennox) [3-5], Gordon Sterne (Heldorf) [3]; Steve Peters
[3-5,7], Neville Simons [3-5,7], Ric Felgate [4-5,7]
(Astronauts); Max Faulkner (Unit Soldier) [4], John Lord
(Masters) [4], Tony Harwood (Flynn) [5]; John Levene (Sergeant
Benton) [5,7], James Clayton (Private Parker) [5], Roy
Scammell (Technician) [5], Peter Noel Cook (Alien Space
Captain) [6-7], Peter Halliday (Aliens' Voices) [6-7], Steve
Peters (Lefee) [6], Neville Simons (Michaels) [6], Geoffrey
Beevers (Private Johnson) [7].
NOTE: Each episode’s opening titles go as far as the logo.
This
is then followed by a scene from the story. In the case
for
Episodes 2 to 7, this is a reprise of the previous
episode’s ending. Then, after the scene, the opening titles
resume with the words ‘The Ambassadors’. Then the words ‘of
Death’ appear followed by the writer credit and episode
number.
*
Trevor Ray wrote the final version of Episode 1 and Malcolm
Hulke that of Episodes 2 to 7, both uncredited. David Whitaker
wrote nothing in script form beyond Episode 3.
†
Credited as Carrington for Episodes 1-3 and General
Carrington for Episodes 4-7.
When
all communication is lost from Mars Probe 7 shortly after
it
leaves Mars and begins its trip back to Earth, a second
craft is launched to investigate. As Recovery 7 docks in
space, it too loses all communication...
The
Doctor and UNIT are given the task of investigating the
mystery, as Recovery 7 returns to Earth. It appears that no
one
can be trusted, as the space capsule is hijacked from its
UNIT
convoy with military precision. What has happened to the
missing astronauts? Could this be a secret invasion from Mars,
or
is the enemy much closer to home?
As
the Doctor plans a daring space mission of his own, his
assistant Liz Shaw goes missing. Who is working against UNIT
in
order to bring mankind into conflict with an alien race...?
Original
Broadcast (UK)
Episode 1 21st March, 1970 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Episode 2 28th March, 1970 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Episode 3 4th April, 1970 5h20pm - 5h45pm
Episode 4 11th April, 1970 5h45pm - 6h10pm
Episode 5 18th April, 1970 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Episode 6 25th April, 1970 5h25pm - 5h50pm
Episode 7 2nd May, 1970 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Notes:
Released on video in episodic format. [+/-]
THE AMBASSADORS OF DEATH
U.K. Release: May 2002 / U.S. Release: October 2003
PAL - BBC video BBCV7265 (2
tapes)
NTSC - Warner Video E1863 (2
tapes)
Only episode 1 and restored episode 5 exist as
quality colour prints. Restoration of the other
episodes has been only partially possible because
the colour signal available is too poor.
The North American release is also included in The
End of the Universe Collection.
Novelised as Doctor Who and the Ambassadors of Death by
Terrance Dicks. [+/-]
Number 121 in the Doctor Who Library.
Hardcover Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: May 1987.
ISBN: 0 491 03712 0.
Cover by Tony Masero.
Price: £7.50.
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: October 1987.
ISBN: 0 426 20305 4.
Cover by Tony Masero.
Price: £1.95.
Paperback Edition - Virgin Publishing Ltd.
First Edition: March 1991.
ISBN: 0 426 20305 4.
Cover by Alister Pearson.
Price: £2.50.
Doctor Who Magazine Archive: Issue #252.
Episode 1
(drn:
24'33")
Alone in
space, astronaut Charles Van Lyden pilots the Recovery
Seven
space capsule, guided by the calm voice of Professor Ralph
Cornish at
Space Control. Van Lyden is now 580 miles (or seven
minutes
three seconds) from Mars Probe Seven. There is no contact
with the
probe yet; there hasn’t been for seven months.
‘How do we
know they’re still alive?’ asks Van Lyden. ‘They took off
from Mars
manually,’ Cornish replies. ‘They must have been alive
then.’
‘Something took off from Mars,’ says Van Lyden grimly.
Cornish
tells his bearded French colleague, Doctor Bruno Taltalian,
that Van
Lyden is closing on Mars Probe Seven, but that the
astronaut
is a bit edgy. ‘Can you blame him?’ Taltalian asks. ‘It is
possible
he has gone up to rendezvous with a flying coffin.’
Brigadier
Lethbridge-Stewart, who stands nearby, asks Cornish if he
thinks the
astronauts on Mars Probe Seven are dead. Cornish is not
hopeful,
because in seven months they should have been able to fix a
defective
radio. Taltalian is concerned that the astronauts’ death
could turn
public opinion against the space programme. ‘What are you
going to
tell the public?’ asks the Brigadier. ‘That’s - not my
job,’
Cornish replies.
It is the
job of reporter John Wakefield, who sits a short distance
away,
saying to a television camera: ‘In a few minutes we shall know
the answer
to the question that has been occupying the minds of
everyone
here at Space Control since Mars Probe Seven took off on
its return
journey from the red planet nearly eight months ago: what
has
happened to astronauts Frank Michaels and Joe Lefee?
Communications remained perfect on the long outward journey to the
red planet
and throughout the difficult landing. For a full twelve
hours they
sent back pictures and reports from the surface of Mars.
Both then
seemed in perfect health. Then - silence. The world
assumed
that disaster had overtaken the mission. But when all hope
was gone,
radio astronomers at Cambridge reported that Mars Probe
Seven had
blasted off and was heading back to Earth.’
The
Doctor, who has been listening to this report in his laboratory,
turns the
sound down on his television. He moves across to the
TARDIS
control console, which, removed from the TARDIS itself,
stands
incongruously in the middle of the lab. He operates various
controls.
Liz asks him what he is doing. ‘Well I’m trying to
reactivate
the TARDIS’s time vector generator,’ he tells her. He
warns Liz
that if this component starts working again, it could send
her into
the future, particularly if she remains where she is now
standing.
She is characteristically sceptical, but sure enough
disappears
with a brief dematerialisation sound - followed closely
by the
Doctor, as he moves around to the same spot. Liz reappears,
disorientated, then disappears again; finally the Doctor and then
Liz
reappear. The Doctor tells her they were both caught up in the
time warp
field and projected into the future, but only by about
fifteen
seconds; from Liz’s point of view, the Doctor explains, he
seemed to
be the only one who vanished, because she went into the
future and
he wasn’t there yet. Liz seems bemused by all this. But
the time
vector generator has packed up again anyway.
The Doctor
is surprised to see the Brigadier on television, and
wonders
what he could be doing at Space Control. ‘Something’s
happened
to the Mars probe,’ Liz tells him. ‘Mm, the Brigadier
thinks
it’s his business,’ says the Doctor drily. ‘Ah well, I
suppose
he’s got to do something to occupy his mind now that he’s
blown up
the Silurians.’ Liz turns the sound back up on the
television, and Wakefield is heard saying: ‘You can see from the
radar
screen - that’s the screen just to the left of Professor
Cornish
there - that the recovery capsule and Mars Probe Seven are
on
convergence. This is a tricky moment for Space Controller Ralph
Cornish
and his team. The two craft will be linking up in a moment
or two,
and then we shall know the answer to the mystery that has
baffled
the world’s scientists for seven months.’
Cornish
operates a control, and Van Lyden’s face appears on a large
screen in
front of him. The astronaut does not have visual contact
with the
probe yet. He adjusts the attitude of his capsule. Now he
sees the
probe, and prepares to link up with it. Cornish reassures
him that
everything looks good. The Brigadier is insistent that
Cornish
should ask Van Lyden to confirm it really is Mars Probe
Seven. Van
Lyden gives confirmation - he can see the markings on the
probe. But
he cannot hear anything from it. Cornish tells Van Lyden
to try to
make contact one more time before link-up. Cornish
speculates
that the astronauts’ transmitter might be too weak to
reach
Earth.
‘Recovery
Seven to Mars Probe - do you read me?’ asks Van Lyden
tensely.
‘I’m about to initiate link-up. Do you read me?’ There is
still no
response. Cornish gives the go-ahead for link-up, and Van
Lyden
expertly executes the manoeuvre, docking his recovery capsule
with the
larger ship. (In the Doctor’s lab, Liz hands the Doctor a
drink as
he follows the action intently on television; he
absent-mindedly hands the mug back to her.) Van Lyden injects air
into the
tunnel between the two spacecraft and confirms that the air
pressure
is okay. As he undoes the clamps on the hatch to the
tunnel, he
believes he can hear something from the Mars probe: ‘I
think
they’re opening their hatch. Yes - it’s them!’ Having released
the fourth
and final clamp, he opens the hatch, and moves through
into the
tunnel beyond, slightly hampered by weightlessness. His
mouth
opens in a silent scream, and a piercing unearthly sound fills
the air -
deafening also those at Space Control. Cornish urgently
asks Van
Lyden to respond, but there is no answer.
The Doctor
has also heard the bizarre sound, on his television.
‘That
sound,’ he tells Liz grimly. ‘I’ve heard it somewhere before.’
But to his
frustration he cannot remember when: ‘It’s all up here in
my mind,
the information’s here but I can’t reach it.’ He tells Liz
to
accompany him to the Space Centre, which is not far away.
At the
Centre, Cornish’s assistant Miss Rutherford tells him that a
complete
check on all their circuits has shown there is no trouble
at Space
Control end. The Brigadier asks Cornish if he could send up
a second
recovery capsule to investigate. Cornish tells him this
cannot be
done immediately, and continues to try to contact Van
Lyden,
without success. An irritable Taltalian tells Wakefield there
is a
possibility the sound they heard was ‘some kind of static’,
although
it is clear he has never heard static like that before.
‘But will
you confirm that all radio contact has been lost with the
recovery
capsule?’ Wakefield asks him. ‘For the time being yes, but
temporary
loss of communication is not unusual. For instance, when
the
capsules go behind the moon -’ ‘But those two capsules are not
behind the
moon.’ ‘You can rest assured that everything possible is
being
done. Now, if you will excuse me!’ Taltalian storms off, and
Wakefield
turns to camera: ‘Well as you see there appears to be no
apparent
explanation for the sudden breakdown in communication, and
until the
situation becomes clearer the world must wait and hope.’
Driving in
‘Bessie’, the Doctor and Liz gain entry to the restricted
area of
the Space Centre by nipping under a barrier that was opened
for the
car in front of them.
While
Cornish continues his fruitless attempts to contact Van Lyden
in
Recovery Seven, Miss Rutherford tells the Brigadier that the two
ships have
kept their position, and suggests that the problem might
be due to
an excess of electricity in Mars Probe Seven’s solar
batteries.
If Lefee and Michaels died on take-off from Mars, there
would have
been no one to control the build-up of power in the
batteries.
‘And that would have affected Recovery on link-up?’ asks
the
Brigadier. ‘When the capsules were joined, the electric circuits
linked
automatically,’ Miss Rutherford tells him. ‘Excess
electricity in one could have blown all the circuits of the other.’
Van Lyden
might have survived, but communication would have been
lost.
The Doctor
arrives with Liz, blustering his way past security. As
his reason
for not having a pass, he says he doesn’t believe in
them. The
Brigadier says he can vouch for the Doctor and Liz. The
Doctor
wants to know if the sound has been heard again - it hasn’t,
but he is
convinced it will be. He asks Cornish if he has a
recording
of the sound, which he believes is a message. ‘I’ve no
time to
talk to the press,’ Cornish tells him. ‘Quite right, neither
have I.
But that sound - have you got a recording of it?’ Cornish
says that
everything at the Space Centre is recorded. The Brigadier
introduces
the Doctor to Cornish as ‘one of my associates,’ but
Cornish
just wants him removed. ‘Now you listen to me,’ says the
Doctor.
‘That sound was some kind of a message. And it’s going to be
repeated.’
‘Will you please get this man out of here,’ Cornish
repeats.
‘We’re trying to save the lives of three astronauts.’
‘Nonsense,
man, you’re doing nothing of the sort. There’s nothing
you can
possibly do -’
At this
moment the unearthly sound comes again, and everyone covers
their ears
in pain - except the Doctor, who is determined to listen
to it.
‘High frequency accelerated impulses,’ he diagnoses. He
announces
that he will need multiple copies of the recording,
unlimited
computer time, somewhere to work, and Liz’s help. He tells
Cornish he
knew the sound would be repeated, because it is a message
that has
not been replied to: ‘Now we’ve got to break down that code
and answer
them.’ ‘Answer who?’ Cornish asks. ‘The man’s a fool!’
exclaims
the Doctor impatiently. ‘How can I possibly tell who the
message is
from until I know what it says?’ He starts to patronise
Cornish
with a simplified explanation, but the Brigadier steps in to
try to
cool things down, suggesting to the Professor that he might
find the
Doctor quite useful, and reminding the Doctor that Cornish
is the one
in charge. The Doctor sees sense and apologises to
Cornish
for his intrusion, but insists that he be allowed to decode
the
‘messages’. Cornish agrees, recognising the necessity of trying
everything.
Now the
sound apparently comes for a third time, but this time the
Doctor
identifies a difference - this is not a repetition of the
original
sound, but a reply to it. He tells the Brigadier he will
need
worldwide triangulation immediately, to locate the source of
this new
sound. ‘The message was repeated,’ the Doctor tells
Cornish.
‘Perhaps the reply will be. All we can do now is wait.’
Wakefield
is keeping his television audience informed: ‘The mystery
of Mars
Probe Seven has deepened. Seven and a half months of total
silence,
and now these strange transmissions for which scientists
here have
no explanation. One theory is that it may be some kind of
distress
signal. As it is now some hours since the last signal from
the
capsules, it’s difficult to see what can be done, short of
sending up
another recovery craft.’
While the
Doctor and the Brigadier, standing at a large wall-map of
the world,
work on locating the source of the reply message,
Taltalian
gives Cornish his analysis of factors involved in sending
up a
second recovery capsule. The minimum time until blast-off would
be ten
days. ‘That’s impossible,’ says Cornish.
The Doctor
says that if the reply message came from Earth, they
should now
be able to identify which country it came from; but they
still need
to pinpoint the exact location. The Brigadier says that
every
national radio service is standing by with monitors: ‘wherever
that
signal’s coming from, we’ll find it,’ he promises confidently.
Taltalian
tells Cornish that Recovery Eight was not scheduled for
launch
until three months from now. Cornish wants the project
speeded
up, but Taltalian reminds him of the problems with the new
fuel
injection system. The reply message comes again, cutting
through
their debate. With the help of Liz, who speaks on the
telephone
to a contact in France, the Doctor and the Brigadier are
now able
to establish that the reply message is coming from London.
To the
Doctor’s frustration, the large screen on the wall can show
surface
maps of every surveyed planet but cannot show him a map of
London
(‘Useless gadgets!’) But in any case the map is no longer
needed;
the Brigadier gets off the phone and announces the results
of a local
triangulation carried out by UNIT. The exact location of
the source
of the signal: ‘an abandoned warehouse seven miles from
here.’
In the
warehouse, a senior army officer (later to be identified as
General
Carrington) tells one of his men (Grey) to run the message
again,
this time with all available power.
Three UNIT
vehicles filled with armed soldiers, including the
Brigadier,
arrive at the warehouse. Under the Brigadier’s direction,
the UNIT
troops pile into the warehouse.
General
Carrington tells his subordinate that someone is sure to be
monitoring
them, but that it may not be so easy for that someone to
find them.
But at this very moment another of the General’s team,
Sergeant
Collinson, a big man in civilian clothes, enters with the
news that
UNIT is outside. ‘That’s very efficient of them,’ says the
General.
‘Keep them off as long as you can,’ he orders. ‘Don’t kill
anyone
unless absolutely necessary.’ But Collinson has a pistol at
the ready
anyway.
The UNIT
troops enter the main area of the warehouse and begin a gun
battle
with Carrington’s waiting men. Meanwhile Carrington orders
the
sending of the final transmission - there will be enough time
while
Collinson keeps the Brigadier’s troops at bay.
Collinson
guns down a UNIT soldier. There is a ferocious exchange of
gunfire,
the two groups of men blasting at each other from the cover
of
warehouse containers. The opposing sides emerge from cover, and
gunplay
partly gives way to hand-to-hand fighting. The Brigadier,
right in
the thick of the action, shoots at targets on all sides. As
the
fighting rages, the Brigadier points his gun at the escaping
Collinson:
‘You can stop right there.’ There is a standoff, the two
men aiming
their guns at each other. ‘You kill me, my men kill you,’
says the
Brigadier, keeping his voice calm and clear. ‘Pointless
really.’ A
UNIT soldier swings a piece of hanging warehouse
equipment
at Collinson - and Collinson runs from it, straight into
the
Brigadier, who drops his gun. Collinson races up a flight of
metal
steps and draws his own gun on the Brigadier. He smirks
triumphantly; there is an agonising pause while the unarmed
Brigadier
waits to see if he will be shot; but then Collinson,
apparently
thinking better of it, lets his gun fall to the floor and
saunters
down the steps with his hands raised in surrender. He is
escorted
out by UNIT troops, along with other captured members of
Carrington’s team.
Carrington
orders Grey to trigger the self-destructor on the
message-transmitting device. Carrington follows Grey out after
firing
some shots to lure UNIT into the room. The Brigadier bursts
into the
vacated room with two UNIT soldiers. The device explodes.
At Space
Control, the Doctor complains to Cornish that he needs the
use of a
computer to decode the messages. Cornish refers him to
Taltalian,
but the Doctor says Taltalian has been totally
non-cooperative. Over a video link, Cornish orders Taltalian to give
the Doctor
full cooperation.
There are
more problems for the space mission: Houston cannot get in
contact
with the astronauts either, and Athens have reported the
build-up
of a massive solar flare which will occur some time within
the next
twenty-four hours. Miss Rutherford points out that the
astronauts
cannot survive solar flare radiation, and will have to be
brought
down on remote control. But they are locked on manual
control;
there is nothing that Cornish or anyone else can do. He
sends
another message to Recovery Seven, warning about the solar
flare
build-up and instructing the astronauts to unlock manual
control.
But from the two linked spacecraft there is still only the
same stony
silence.
The Doctor
and Liz go into the computer room. Taltalian is hiding
behind the
door. He closes it, shutting all three of them into the
room - and
then pulls a gun on the Doctor and Liz.
Episode 2
(drn:
24'39")
Taltalian
demands that the Doctor hand over the reel of
computer-tape he is carrying. ‘Do you realise the importance of it?’
the Doctor
asks. ‘Rather more than you, Doctor,’ Taltalian replies.
‘So - you
understood the message.’ ‘Hand it over!’ Taltalian orders.
The Doctor
holds out the reel of tape towards Taltalian - and it
vanishes
into thin air. Taltalian, obviously thrown by this,
instructs
the Doctor to put his hands up. He demands to know what he
has done
with the tape. ‘Perhaps he sent it into the future,’ says
Liz
playfully, remembering the earlier mishap with the TARDIS
console.
‘Doctor,’ says Taltalian, ‘are you trying to force me to
shoot
you?’
The
Brigadier now walks into the computer room, and finds himself
right in
the middle of another dangerous confrontation. The Doctor
warns the
Brigadier that Taltalian is frightened. Brandishing his
gun,
Taltalian calls Liz over to him, then grabs her and holds the
gun to her
head. He backs towards the doorway, then pushes her
forwards
into the room and makes his escape. The Brigadier goes
after him,
calling for guards.
The Doctor
helps Liz to her feet. He reassures her that Taltalian
can safely
be left to the Brigadier. She asks the Doctor what he did
with the
tape, and with a magician’s aplomb he pulls it back out of
the air in
front of her eyes. He did not send it into the future; it
was
‘simply transmigration of object - there’s a great deal of
difference
between that and pure science, you know.’ Now they need
to get to
work decoding the tape. Liz identifies the
analogue-digital converter among Taltalian’s equipment. Liz takes
the reel
of tape from the Doctor, obviously capable of operating
this
machine herself.
The
Brigadier returns with the news that Taltalian got away: ‘this
place is
like a rabbit warren.’ He also tells the Doctor that they
found the
transmitter at the warehouse, and took several prisoners,
one of
whom knows a great deal more than he is saying. The Doctor
says he
would like to speak to this prisoner.
Collinson
is languishing in a cell, guarded by a UNIT corporal. The
Doctor and
the Brigadier are shown in, and the Brigadier asks
Collinson
if he has decided to talk yet. Collinson does not reply.
‘Why
didn’t you shoot me when you had the chance?’ asks the
Brigadier.
The prisoner remains silent; but when the Doctor urbanely
invites
him to sit down, he does so. The Doctor realises that
Collinson
was under orders not to harm the Brigadier, and asks him
who gave
him those orders. Collinson states that he cannot answer
any
questions. The Brigadier tells the Doctor that Collinson’s
pockets
were empty, and that all the labels in his clothes were cut
out.
‘You’ve been very thorough, haven’t you?’ says the Doctor to
Collinson.
The Brigadier warns his prisoner that he is in very
serious
trouble: ‘I can hold you here on security charges for a very
long
time.’ ‘Don’t you realise that the men that you were working
with were
seriously interfering with our space project - and thereby
endangering the lives of three astronauts?’ the Doctor asks
Collinson.
The Brigadier demands answers, but the Doctor advises him
that he is
wasting his time - the prisoner does know something, but
he is not
going to tell them what it is. But on his way out of the
cell, the
Doctor springs a trick on Collinson: he asks him politely
if he is
being properly looked after, and has had a cup of tea; and
when
Collinson casually replies ‘yes thanks’, the Doctor roars at
him in the
manner of a furious army officer: ‘Stand to attention
when
you’re talking to me and call me sir!’ Collinson instinctively
leaps to
his feet. ‘Just as I thought,’ says the Doctor. ‘Sergeant,
aren’t
you?’ Collinson is a soldier - not a deserter, but acting
under
orders. A message arrives for the Brigadier, and he asks the
Doctor to
accompany him from the cell.
John
Wakefield explains to his television audience: ‘There has been
another
extraordinary development in the mystery of Mars Probe
Seven. The
two space capsules, Mars Probe Seven and Recovery Seven,
which have
been locked together in radio silence, have now
separated.
But there is still no communication from Charles Van
Lyden, nor
from astronauts Michaels and Lefee.’
Professor
Cornish is still trying to communicate with Recovery
Seven, to
no avail. A tracking report announces that the two
capsules
are now approximately seven miles apart. ‘Eleven minutes
from
scheduled re-entry burn,’ Miss Rutherford reports. The distance
between
the capsules continues to increase: nine miles…thirteen
miles…twenty-five miles… ‘It’s started!’ says Miss Rutherford. ‘Ten
minutes
too soon!’ Cornish responds. ‘What does he think he’s
doing?’
The Doctor
assures the Brigadier that there is nothing else they can
do for the
moment - a re-entry attempt will require at least one
orbit of
Earth first. In the mean time, the Doctor will check on
Liz’s
progress with decoding the message, and the Brigadier will run
a security
trace on the prisoner.
‘Tracking
report,’ announces the tannoy voice. ‘Recovery Seven speed
now
eighteen thousand miles per hour and increasing. Capsule will
leave our
radar range within three minutes, closing to two point
nine
five.’ Cornish orders that the capsule be tracked every second
from now
on.
The UNIT
corporal guarding Collinson is attacked outside the cell -
a gun is
poked into his side and then the mug of hot drink he is
carrying
is knocked over him. Collinson gratefully makes his escape
from the
cell; a gloved hand pulls the door shut behind them.
The Doctor
can make no sense of the attempted translation of the
sound from
the capsule: ‘It’s nonsense!’ ‘Perhaps because we’re
feeding it
nonsense,’ suggests Dobson, Taltalian’s chief assistant.
‘Maybe
that sound from the capsule was just freak static.’ Liz
suggests
that there may be a computer malfunction. Dobson says this
is
impossible because of the self-checking mechanism, but Liz points
out that
even that could go wrong, and says she will feed the
computer a
standard test programme. The Doctor suggests that,
instead,
she should simply ask it what two and two make. The Doctor
asks
Dobson how long he has known Taltalian; Dobson says he has been
Taltalian’s chief assistant for two years. The machine’s answer
comes back
as ‘five’. ‘Ah, it’s typical,’ says the Doctor. ‘I never
did trust
those stupid things.’ But Liz realises that Taltalian must
have
deliberately sabotaged the computer.
The
Recovery Seven is due to reappear in the Northern hemisphere in
ten
seconds; a tracking report from Massachusetts gives its height
as one
hundred miles and its speed as twenty thousand (miles an
hour) and
reducing…eight…seven…six…five…four…three…two…one…zero. The
capsule is
now in tracking and control range of the Space Centre.
Cornish
instructs main control to start transmitting. A control room
assistant
confirms they have contact. Everyone waits tensely, but
there is
no response from Recovery Seven. A second attempt to
transmit
to the capsule, with boosted power, also receives no reply.
It is now
at a height of ninety miles and reducing, with a speed of
twenty
thousand and holding. ‘It’ll burn up,’ gasps the Brigadier.
Miss
Rutherford now receives a response from the capsule. Cornish
orders a
resumption of the transmission, and firing of retro-jets in
five
seconds. On-screen radar contact is established. Recovery Seven
is at a
height of eighty-five miles and still reducing, but its
speed is
down to eighteen thousand and reducing to seventeen
thousand…sixteen thousand…
Outside,
vast radar dishes monitor the capsule’s descent to Earth.
‘Well,’
announces Wakefield, ‘after what was a pretty rough re-entry
by
present-day standards, astronauts Van Lyden, Michaels and Lefee
will soon
be experiencing the buffeting of Earth’s atmosphere when
their huge
parachutes lower them on the last few miles of their
descent.
Under normal circumstances, with two or three Earth orbits
as a
run-up, Controller Cornish could bring them to within one
hundred
yards of their scheduled landing place. As it is, all we
know is
that the space capsule is about to land somewhere in the
south of
England.’
The
capsule is dropping at a speed of thirty miles an hour and still
slowing
down, while drifting south-southwest two degrees with a rate
of drift
of three knots. The ground-level preparations are
completed,
and the Brigadier announces that the area will be
cordoned
off as soon as the capsule lands. Civil aeroplanes have
been
diverted to avoid its descent. It is now falling at twenty-two
miles an
hour, reducing to eighteen, at a height of one mile with a
drift rate
of three knots. Radar contact is now lost, but as the
Doctor
explains to the Brigadier, that is normal in the last few
seconds
before landing. ‘We’ve made it,’ says Miss Rutherford. The
Doctor and
the Brigadier congratulate Cornish, but his concern now
is whether
or not the astronauts are alive.
A short
while later, the Doctor, the Brigadier and Cornish arrive at
the
Recovery Seven capsule’s landing place in the countryside, where
UNIT
troops are already waiting. Cornish uses a radio transmitter to
tell the
astronauts inside the sealed capsule that they are safe and
have
landed; but there is still no answer from inside, and the hatch
does not
open. Meanwhile General Carrington and one of his men
observe
from the cover of trees. Cornish speculates that the
astronauts
may be unconscious. The Brigadier suggests that they try
to open
the capsule themselves. But this seems impossible: the
mechanism
has been jammed, or (as the Doctor suggests) the
astronauts
have locked it from the inside. The Brigadier now
suggests
they cut the capsule open, but Cornish says that that would
be too
dangerous for the astronauts. The Doctor’s proposal is to
take the
capsule back to the Space Centre. With Carrington’s man
listening
in on headphones, the Brigadier orders over his radar
transmitter that UNIT Control clear a route between the capsule and
the Space
Centre. ‘Excellent,’ says Carrington. ‘Couldn’t be
better.’
Cornish
heads off back to the Space Centre, while the Brigadier
stays with
the convoy that will transport the capsule there. The
capsule is
hoisted by crane onto the back of a large transporter
vehicle.
‘See you at the Space Centre,’ the Brigadier calls to the
Doctor,
who is fiddling with Bessie’s engine. ‘If you make it.’ The
Doctor
looks up furiously at this aspersion on his car’s
reliability. The Brigadier gets into the transporter vehicle. The
Doctor
gets Bessie started, but she sounds distinctly unwell. The
convoy
moves off with the capsule. Bessie’s engine cuts out before
she even
completes the turn necessary to follow the convoy. The
convoy
moves slowly over a bridge, flanked by motorcycle outriders.
After a
delay, the Doctor gets Bessie started and follows.
A
helicopter moves in low over the convoy. The pilot wears dark
glasses
and a kind of gas mask. Smoke bombs rain down from the
helicopter, throwing the transporter driver and the motorcycle
outriders
into confusion. The helicopter sets down, and some of
Carrington’s men emerge from it brandishing hairdryer-like weapons
that
function as stun guns. The helicopter lifts off again as a
battle
ensues. The Brigadier is felled by a blast from a stun gun.
This time
UNIT comes off worse, as Carrington’s men make short work
of the
motorcyclists with their stun guns. The transporter vehicle
is
captured. One UNIT soldier clings to the door of the departing
helicopter, but is pushed off it and falls to the ground. Both the
helicopter
and the captured vehicle bearing the capsule are able to
leave the
scene without further resistance from UNIT.
Bessie is
now making better progress. In the cabin of the
transporter vehicle, Collinson removes his gas mask. General
Carrington
sits beside him. Confronted by the oncoming transporter,
the Doctor
thinks quickly and brings Bessie to a stop in the middle
of the
road, blocking its path. The transporter comes to a halt, and
the Doctor
explains, in a rather fragile elderly-sounding voice,
that if
the men want his car shifted they will have to help him move
it.
Carrington and Collinson get out, and obligingly push Bessie to
the side
of the road. But before they take their hands off the rear
of the
car, the Doctor quickly flips a switch labelled ‘anti thief
device’.
The two men find their hands stuck to the back of the car
as if
glued to it. ‘Thank you very much,’ says the Doctor. ‘Don’t
worry,
it’ll switch itself off - eventually.’ The men are helpless
to
intervene as the Doctor gets into the transporter vehicle and
drives off
with the capsule.
At the
Space Centre, the Brigadier is explaining to Cornish about
the
hijacking of the capsule, and the disappearance of the Doctor.
He is
astonished when he sees both the capsule and the Doctor safely
installed
at the Centre. ‘I brought it here,’ says the Doctor
proudly.
The Brigadier has found Bessie, but with no villains
attached.
‘Can’t have got that force-field strong enough yet,’ the
Doctor
muses. Liz telephones the Doctor to say that she thinks she
is making
progress with the decoding, and he leaves to join her.
Equipment
is being connected that may enable Cornish to make contact
with the
astronauts inside the capsule.
The Doctor
is with Liz and Dobson, checking Liz’s work: ‘You’re
right Liz,
this is a definite attempt at pictographic
communication.’ The repetition of certain symbols shows that it is
not just a
series of random patterns. The Doctor suspects that the
symbols
come from ‘an alien intelligence so different this is the
only way
they can communicate.’ Before Liz can draw him into further
explanation, the Doctor announces that it is ‘high time the
Brigadier
and I had a talk to the top man.’ Liz leaves with the
Doctor.
Left behind, Dobson makes a mysterious telephone call:
‘They’ve
started to crack the code.’
The ‘top
man’, government minister Sir James Quinlan, is giving the
Doctor and
the Brigadier a hearing in his office, but appears
hostile
and unhelpful. The Brigadier explains about Taltalian’s
treacherous behaviour, which was in spite of the fact that Taltalian
was
checked and double-checked like everyone else on the project.
Quinlan
claims to be amazed because he has known Taltalian for
years.
‘The question is, who else is involved?’ says the Doctor
impatiently. Quinlan reminds them that at least they have the
capsule
back; but the Doctor points out that the astronauts still
refuse to
come out. Quinlan promises the Brigadier that he will
‘initiate
a top-level investigation immediately,’ and the Doctor
recognises
that they have been fobbed off. The Brigadier gets the
Doctor out
of Quinlan’s office before the Doctor becomes too rude.
After
their departure, Quinlan summons Taltalian out of hiding.
‘Won’t you
sit down?’ Quinlan asks.
As the
Doctor and the Brigadier arrive back at the Space Centre, Liz
and
Cornish are trying unsuccessfully to make contact with the
astronauts
inside the capsule. For a second time, the Brigadier
suggests
that they cut the capsule open; Cornish says he has men
standing
by with thermal lances. Suddenly Liz starts to receive a
signal
from inside the capsule.
Taltalian
is worried that UNIT have the capsule; Quinlan knows they
have
started to crack the code as well. But Quinlan assures
Taltalian
that the UNIT problem has already been dealt with:
‘They’ve
got quite a surprise coming.’
At the
Space Centre, Charles Van Lyden’s voice finally comes through
on the
transmitter, but it sounds curiously flat and monotonous:
‘This is
Recovery Seven. Will you clear us for re-entry.’ Cornish
excitedly
tells Van Lyden that the capsule is safely back at Space
Control.
Overcome with emotion, he tells Van Lyden to open the
capsule.
But from inside the capsule comes only another request for
clearance
for re-entry. Cornish asks Van Lyden what is wrong, and
tells him
again to open the hatch; from inside the capsule comes the
same bland
message. The Doctor asks Van Lyden to name the capital of
Australia:
‘We are not cleared for re-entry.’ He asks him how many
beans make
five: ‘Hello Space Control, this is Recovery Seven. Will
you clear
us for re-entry.’ Finally he just calls Van Lyden’s name:
‘Not
cleared for re-entry.’ ‘Right,’ says the Doctor, ‘cut it open!’
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The
capsule is cut open with thermal lances. A section is lifted
away, and
Cornish climbs up a ladder to look inside. ‘It’s empty!’
he
exclaims. The Doctor climbs up a second ladder and sees that this
is true.
The Doctor grimly asks Liz to try communicating with the
astronauts
again. She does so, and the deadpan voice of Van Lyden is
heard
again - coming from a tape recorder inside the capsule. The
recording
was triggered by the speech of the people outside. ‘Then
where are
the astronauts?’ asks the Brigadier. ‘Someone wanted us to
believe
they were still inside there,’ says the Doctor. He checks
with
Cornish that the tape recorder is not a standard part of the
astronauts’ equipment - someone put it there to delay the opening of
the
capsule. ‘Now suppose the astronauts were still in there when it
landed,’
suggests the Doctor, ‘and later they were removed.’ The
Brigadier
dismisses this as impossible, because the capsule has been
guarded
all the time, but it soon comes to light that this is not
true:
Cornish and Liz explain that earlier they were sent back to
the
control room while UNIT men performed a security check of the
area. But
the security check was a phoney, the Brigadier having
given no
such order. ‘Well there you are then,’ says the Doctor.
‘The bogus
patrol turns up, clears the area, and removes the
astronauts
at their leisure.’ ‘Who would want to kidnap three
astronauts?’ asks Cornish. The Doctor suggests it might well be the
same
people who replied to the message. The Brigadier sets off to
have a
word with his guard commander. The Doctor is on the point of
leaving
with him when Liz calls him back: ‘The Geiger counter - it’s
on
maximum,’ she says. ‘The interior’s radioactive. If anyone was in
there,
they’re as good as dead.’
Three
space-suited figures lie side by side behind a transparent
screen in
a laboratory. Having had a look at them through the
screen,
Carrington is informed by a white-coated scientist,
Professor
Heldorf, that the space-suited bodies contain ‘two million
rads -
scientifically they should be dead.’ But they are not.
Heldorf
tells Carrington that they resisted violently when an
attempt
was made to remove their helmets, and Carrington angrily
reminds
Heldorf that he was ordered not to remove their protective
clothing.
‘General Carrington,’ Heldorf protests, ‘these men have
received
massive doses of radiation. They need total blood
transfusions immediately. They need antibiotics, cortisone
injections. You don’t understand the situation. We must reduce the
radiation.’ Carrington tells him to increase it. ‘Are you mad, that
would be
murder.’ Carrington tells Heldorf that ‘the radiation which
affects
these men is something totally new to us. To survive it,
they have
become dependent on it.’ As a scientist Heldorf finds this
hard to
believe, but Carrington gives his order: ‘You must feed them
radiation.
Otherwise they will die.’ ‘No no no, you can’t ask me to
do that.’
‘I’m not asking you,’ Carrington says.
‘I don’t
think you can sweep all this under the ministry carpet, Sir
James,’
the Doctor is saying to Quinlan, confronting him in his
office
along with the Brigadier and a flamboyantly dressed Liz.
‘Someone
in authority has done this.’ Quinlan points out that the
astronauts
were in the Brigadier’s charge; but the Brigadier replies
that they
were taken from the Space Centre by two army officers with
genuine
authorisation papers, passes made out in the names of two
non-existent officers, plus a platoon and an army vehicle of the
latest
design: ‘Not the sort of thing you buy from an army surplus
store.’
Quinlan compliments the Brigadier on his thoroughness, but
remarks it
is a pity that he has no explanation to offer. The Doctor
tells
Quinlan they have not come to offer explanations, but to
demand
them - from him. Quinlan says that he will introduce the
Doctor,
Liz and the Brigadier to the man who can explain the truth
of the
situation. He calls into his office none other than -
‘General
Carrington, head of the newly formed Space Security
Department,’ Quinlan announces. Liz recalls that Carrington was an
astronaut on Mars Probe Six. Carrington
confirms this, then invites
the
Brigadier (who has stood to attention in the presence of a
superior
officer) to sit back down.
Carrington
offers his apologies: ‘I can only ask you to believe that
everything
I have done has been for the good of us all.’ The Doctor
wants to
know whether this includes sending coded messages to Mars
Probe
Seven and kidnapping three astronauts; and Liz would like an
explanation for being held at gunpoint by Taltalian. Carrington
explains
that Taltalian was under strict orders to make sure they
did not
have access to the computer. ‘You see,’ he explains, ‘every
astronaut
is issued with an emergency code, only to be used in the
ultimate
emergency - the code you’ve been trying to crack. The
message we
received from Mars Probe Seven told us that the
deep-space
capsule had passed through a hitherto unsuspected
high-density radiation belt on its way back to Earth orbit.’
Carrington
explains that for security reasons Space Control were not
informed.
‘Then why wasn’t I informed - sir?’ asks the Brigadier.
Carrington
replies: ‘UNIT is an international organisation, and the
Government
wanted to keep this in its own hands.’ ‘But why all this
extraordinary behaviour?’ asks the ever-sceptical Doctor. ‘Well,
surely
radiation is a normal hazard of space travel.’ ‘We believe
this
radiation to be a different kind,’ says Carrington. ‘We believe
it to be
self-sustaining and highly contagious, and that it could
spread
like a plague, contaminating the entire planet.’ Quinlan
states
that they do not want the public to become panic-stricken. At
first the
Doctor seems to accept, along with the Brigadier and Liz,
that all
that has occurred is a breakdown of communication; but then
he reveals
he is still not satisfied: ‘I should like to take a look
at these
mysteriously radiated astronauts for myself, if I may.’
Carrington
dismisses this as unnecessary, but when the Doctor
insists,
Quinlan agrees. Carrington says he will take the Doctor to
see them
now - ‘but I can assure you they’re perfectly safe.’
The three
space-suited figures are being marched at gunpoint out of
the
laboratory by a group of three thugs. Heldorf’s protests are
ignored.
On his way out, the thugs’ leader, Reegan, tells the other
two men to
go back by the direct route - ‘when you’ve finished
here.’
After Reegan’s departure, Heldorf tries to put up a fight,
but is
brutally shot down. After the briefest of scuffles, so is his
fellow
scientist.
Outside,
the three space-suited figures climb into the back of a
tradesman’s van. Reegan tells his two companions to ride in the back
with them:
‘They won’t hurt you. You’ve got guns, haven’t you?’ The
two men
reluctantly climb in, and Reegan gets into the driver’s
seat. The
van drives away.
Seconds
later, the Doctor arrives in Bessie with Carrington, the
Brigadier
and Liz. Carrington opens up the outer door of the lab,
and all go
in. Inside, Heldorf and his colleague lie dead. The
Doctor
kneels at Heldorf’s side and gently closes the dead man’s
eyes. The
Brigadier asks Carrington where the telephone is, and
Carrington
directs him to it. While the Brigadier makes his phone
call to
announce a yellow alert, the Doctor challenges Carrington:
‘Perfectly
safe, were they?’ Carrington claims he cannot understand
what has
happened. Liz has found the radiation records for the
‘missing
astronauts’: over two million rads. ‘They couldn’t possibly
have
survived that amount,’ she says.
Reegan’s
van stops at a vast gravel pit, with cranes, lakes, and
mountains
of gravel. Having donned a radiation suit, he drags his
two dead
colleagues out of the back of the van, and dumps their
bodies and
their guns unceremoniously on a gravel slope. He tucks
something
inside the right jacket pocket of each dead man, then
makes his
way with difficulty backwards up the gravel hill, pushing
gravel
down with his feet to cover the bodies. Overhead, heavy
gravel-shifting machinery swings through the air; it will not be
long
before Reegan’s work is finished for him and the two bodies are
buried
completely. He drives away in the van. After a short while he
stops
again on the road, and at the touch of a control he changes
the van’s
registration plates (from ‘KBF979H’ to ‘YLD259H’) and its
advertising side-panels (from ‘Hayhoe Launderers Ltd.’ to ‘Silcock
Bakeries’). Then he moves off again.
UNIT
troops have arrived at Heldorf’s lab and are working alongside
the Doctor
and Liz. Liz confirms the exact radiation figures as
2,102,462
(rads). Carrington appears anxious that the Doctor should
realise
the importance of retrieving the missing astronauts; the
Doctor
says he does, and for that reason must be allowed to continue
his work
undisturbed. The General apologises. ‘You know, it’s the
most
extraordinary thing,’ the Doctor says to Liz, looking at the
readings.
‘Those astronauts were emitting radiation like walking
reactors.’
‘But radiation destroys human tissue,’ says Liz. ‘Yes,’
says the
Doctor enigmatically, ‘I know.’ The Brigadier comes in and
tells
Carrington that the radioactive trace goes to just outside the
building
and then it vanishes. Carrington concludes that the
astronauts
were taken away in a vehicle. The Brigadier asks the
General
why anyone should kidnap them. ‘Contagious radiation,’
Carrington
replies. ‘Could be a terrible weapon in the hands of a
foreign
power.’ The General tells the Brigadier that only his
immediate
staff knew the location of the laboratory. ‘And Sir James
Quinlan,’
adds the Brigadier meaningfully. ‘And his immediate
staff.’
‘Well I can tell you where your three astronauts are,’ the
Doctor
announces. ‘They’re still in orbit.’ ‘But they came down in
the
capsule,’ Carrington protests. ‘They were here, I saw them.’
‘No, you
saw three space suits,’ says the Doctor. ‘I don’t know what
came down
in Recovery Seven - but it certainly wasn’t human.’
The three
space-suited figures once again lie side by side behind a
transparent screen, this time in the laboratory of a timid,
diminutive
white-coated scientist, Lennox. ‘They must be dying,’ he
says
anxiously to Reegan. ‘I don’t think so,’ Reegan replies coolly.
Lennox
says the astronauts should be in a hospital intensive care
unit, but
Reegan tells him: ‘You’ve got your instructions, Lennox.’
Lennox
insists on being addressed as ‘Doctor Lennox’. ‘I thought
they took
that away from you,’ Reegan takes pleasure in reminding
him.
Reegan reports over the telephone that all is well: ‘Lennox is
looking
after them. No, no trouble at all. I just dropped those two
off on the
way.’
At the
Space Centre, the Doctor has explained to Cornish that he
believes
the three astronauts are still in orbit in Mars Probe
Seven. The
astronauts’ life support systems will be running down,
and
another recovery capsule must be sent up as quickly as possible.
Cornish
has to telephone Quinlan for permission, and the Doctor is
unhappy
about this. Sure enough, Quinlan does not agree to the
launch of
another recovery capsule, on the grounds that it is not
certain
that the astronauts are still in space, and ‘the Government
simply
will not authorise the expenditure on so little evidence.’
‘We’re not
talking about money, we’re talking about human life,’
Cornish
protests. ‘Sir James, I am going to start preparations now.
Unless I
get your full backing, I’ll call a press conference and
tell them
the entire story.’ ‘I would advise you not to do that,’
says
Quinlan. ‘Then you’ll have to make sure that I don’t have to,’
replies
Cornish, and hangs up - leaving Quinlan to stew, along with
Carrington, who is with Quinlan listening in to the call. Quinlan is
unsure
what to do to stop the second recovery capsule.
In
Lennox’s laboratory, one of the captive figures comes to the
transparent screen, and presses the palms of its hands against it.
Lennox
wants to go in to examine ‘those men’, but Reegan reminds him
that that
would be against orders. Lennox is puzzled because the
radiation
count has dropped drastically, yet far from showing signs
of
recovery, one of their captives has collapsed. Reegan points out
that he
was hired simply to get them here. ‘You weren’t hired to let
them die,’
Lennox says. ‘Do you think you’ll get your money if
they’re
dead?’ This hits home, and Reegan decides to go in and have
a look at
the space-suited figures. He puts on protective gloves,
but no
other protective clothing, as the radiation has dropped and
he does
not intend to spend long with them. He goes in and helps the
collapsed
figure get up. But it knocks him effortlessly aside, and
emerges
into the main part of the lab to confront Lennox. Ignoring
Lennox’s
protests that he just wants to help the astronauts, the
figure
advances remorselessly upon him without uttering a word.
Terrified,
Lennox scurries up the laboratory steps to escape, but
finds the
door at the top locked. The figure closes on him, and he
screams as
it raises its right hand menacingly to his face. But at
the last
moment the figure seems to lose all its strength, and
collapses.
Reegan rejoins Lennox, and the terrified Lennox rebukes
him for
locking the door. Reegan tells Lennox to shut up and to help
him get
the collapsed captive back in with the others. The telephone
rings;
Reegan answers and agrees to ‘take care of them’. ‘Listen,
about
those astronauts,’ he adds. ‘Isotopes? Well you’d better get
them over
here.’ Reegan tells Lennox: ‘I’ve found out what’s wrong
with these
fellas. They don’t need less radiation - they need more!’
At the
gravel pit, a workman makes an unpleasant discovery.
In the
sealed-off part of the lab, Lennox, wearing protective
clothing,
provides the ‘astronauts’ with radioactive isotope. He
emerges
morosely.
At the
Space Centre, Cornish gets off the telephone and reports
irritably
to the Brigadier and the Doctor that ‘everything’s taking
just that
little bit longer than it should.’ He suspects that
Quinlan
may have something to do with the delays, but says that he
could not
prove it.
Lennox
tells Reegan he feels as if he has just murdered the
‘astronauts’. Reegan tells him just to keep doing as he is told. The
telephone
rings again; Reegan answers and says he will open the
front
door. Lennox sees that the space-suited figures are starting
to revive.
‘I told you they’d be all right,’ says Reegan. ‘They
thrive on
the stuff.’
The
Brigadier receives a telephone message saying that two bodies
have been
found in a gravel pit in Hertfordshire; they died from
radiation.
‘You’re a
kind of a scientist,’ Reegan says grudgingly to Lennox.
‘Do you
know these two?’ He shows him photographs of the Doctor and
Liz. ‘Yes,
I - I think I met the girl once. She was doing research
at
Cambridge. Why?’ ‘Seems like they’re getting in the way,’ Reegan
answers.
‘I’ll need to deal with them.’
The Doctor
takes another reading inside the Recovery Seven capsule
and
announces that, to his surprise, the radioactive contamination
has almost
vanished. ‘If you can’t get Recovery Eight ready in time,
you can
use this capsule,’ he suggests. ‘Providing we can get the
three
thousand tons of rockets to go underneath it,’ says Cornish. A
UNIT
soldier brings Liz a written message, apparently from the
Brigadier:
‘He wants us to go down to Hertfordshire to look at those
bodies,’
says Liz. The Doctor says that rather than go with Liz, he
will stay
at the Space Centre and get the capsule fully operational.
Liz drives
out of the Space Centre complex in Bessie. As she drives
along,
another car emerges from a side road and starts to follow
her.
The
Brigadier disturbs the Doctor’s work on the capsule. ‘You’re
back
soon,’ the Doctor observes. The Brigadier says that he started
back an
hour ago. The Doctor tells the Brigadier about the message
they just
received; the Brigadier did not send it. ‘I’ll get after
her,’ the
Brigadier says, and hurries away.
An anxious
Liz is being chased by the other car at hair-raising
speed. She
weaves from side to side in Bessie with her pursuer right
behind
her. Finally the pursuing car manages to overtake her and
screeches
to a halt in front of Bessie, forcing Liz to stop too. Liz
gets out
of Bessie as two men get out of the other car, and the
chase
continues on foot across a field. The two men chase Liz along
the
walkway on top of a weir spanning a wide noisy river. One of the
men closes
with Liz and she knocks him off the weir. But the other
man
catches up with her, and Liz is flipped over the low barrier
towards
the racing waters below…
Episode 4
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24'37")
The man
whom Liz pushed off the walkway manages to get back on to
it, and,
surprisingly, helps his companion pull Liz to safety. She
is
frog-marched away between the two men.
A short
time later, Reegan forces Liz roughly down the stairs into
Lennox’s
laboratory. ‘I’ve brought you some company,’ he tells
Lennox.
Reegan explains that he could not get the Doctor because he
did not
keep the appointment, but that Liz is a scientist and can
give
Lennox a hand. Liz recognises Lennox, and seems horrified to
see him
here. Lennox informs Reegan that the space-suited captives
are
surviving, but only just. Reegan tells Liz to start making
herself
useful. ‘What if I don’t?’ she responds gamely. ‘I might
just lock
you in there with them,’ Reegan replies, with a movement
of his
head towards the radiation-soaked ‘astronauts’.
The
Brigadier tells Carrington that he has issued Liz’s description
to every
police force in the country. Carrington is scathing about
this
measure, but the Brigadier assures him that it was just a
formality.
Carrington has been examining the items planted by Reegan
on the two
bodies at the gravel pit - a newspaper cutting in a
foreign
language, and a comb with the maker’s imprint on it in the
same
language - which nicely support the General’s story of the
astronauts
having been kidnapped by a foreign power. The Doctor
carefully
examines the comb, using (in his right eye) one of the
eye-pieces
normally used for scrutinising precious stones. ‘Very
remiss of
them, keeping this,’ he remarks sceptically. The Brigadier
suggests
that it could have been planted. ‘No,’ says Carrington,
‘the only
people who could set up an organisation of this size would
be foreign
agents with enormous resources behind them.’ The Doctor
looks
unconvinced. ‘And hair combs,’ he adds. ‘They want to use the
radiated
astronauts as a weapon,’ says the General. The Doctor
reminds
him that the astronauts are actually still in orbit.
Carrington
dismisses this as ridiculous. The Doctor tells him: ‘When
your
Professor Heldorf had the aliens in his care, he started to
record
some sort of radio communication impulses.’ ‘Astronauts do
have
walkie-talkies in their helmets, you know,’ replies Carrington.
‘Then why
didn’t Heldorf talk to them?’ ‘Yes, well perhaps he was
recording
the level of radioactivity in their bodies,’ Carrington
suggests
uncertainly. But the Doctor does not think so. He wants to
go to the
Space Centre to use their computer: ‘I trust your man
Taltalian
won’t hold a gun on me this time.’ Carrington tells the
Doctor
that there is nothing to be gained by deciphering the
impulses;
their objective should be to find the missing astronauts.
The Doctor
has to tell Carrington for a third time that the
astronauts
are still in orbit: ‘My objective is to find out what
these
aliens are trying to say to us.’ Carrington looks very unhappy
about
this.
At the
Space Centre, Taltalian is working with Cornish, planning the
launch of
a new recovery mission. 1,297 tons of conventional ‘K’
fuel are
available, and a further 2,000 tons of liquid fuel are in
production; but the liquid fuel is the highly volatile new M3
variant,
which was not intended for manned space-flight. Cornish
says that
they have will have to use it. If the liquid fuel is used
alone, the
astronaut will be crushed at lift-off, so he suggests
reducing
the G-force by mixing M3 with the conventional fuel.
Taltalian
says he will compute this idea, but adds that Cornish will
still have
to get his rocket built. Cornish says that Quinlan is
putting up
every possible objection. ‘What do you expect?’ asks
Taltalian.
‘This Doctor’s theory is ridiculous.’ Cornish challenges
Taltalian:
‘Do you intend to commit more sabotage?’ Taltalian
irritably
reminds Cornish that earlier he was simply following
Carrington’s orders: ‘And I have computed the assembly of the rescue
rocket as
you asked me.’
The Doctor
walks in quietly behind Taltalian. He pulls a pencil from
his left
breast pocket and pokes it into Taltalian’s back. ‘You’re
not armed,
I hope,’ he says mischievously. Taltalian assures him
that he
would not have used the gun on a fellow scientist. The
Doctor
says he is much relieved, and requests the use of the
computer.
Cornish agrees: ‘And I’m sure Doctor Taltalian will be
only too
pleased to help you,’ he adds ironically. ‘When you have a
moment I’d
like to see you in the control room about the recovery
capsule,’
Cornish says to the Doctor, and leaves. The Doctor tells
Taltalian
he wants to programme the radio communication impulses
into the
computer; he suspects some sort of pattern in the impulses.
Taltalian
warns the Doctor that this could take a long time, but the
Doctor
replies that it mustn’t. Taltalian is insisting to the Doctor
that he is
not trying to be obstructive when the telephone rings.
Taltalian
answers, but the caller wants to speak to the Doctor; they
do not
give their name, but threaten to kill Liz if the Doctor does
not stop
interfering. Having told Taltalian the gist of the call,
the Doctor
advances menacingly towards him - then stops and
cheerfully
suggests they get back to work.
‘Two
million rads,’ reports Liz, seated at a computer panel in
Lennox’s
lab. ‘Dropping to two million minus fifty thousand.’ Lennox
carefully
writes this down. He glances round at the three
‘astronauts’, one of whom is slumped over, and tells Reegan’s thug
(Will
Masters) to tell Reegan there is only one canister of the
isotope
left. Masters appears reluctant to move. ‘Well? Do you want
them to
die?’ Lennox asks him, and Masters goes out of the lab. Liz
hurries up
the stairs to the other door, but finds it locked. She
comes back
down the stairs dejectedly. ‘Are you a prisoner?’ she
asks
Lennox. He is evasive, but she insists on an answer. ‘I can
come and
go as I please,’ he replies, ‘but I haven’t got anywhere to
go.’ Liz
reminds him that he was once a respected scientist.
‘Grossly
underpaid!’ he retorts defensively. He asks for Liz’s help
putting on
the headgear of his radiation suit. He takes out a key
and puts
it down next to Liz. ‘I lost my key somewhere,’ he says
meaningfully. ‘For that door up there.’ Tacitly he gives Liz her
instructions: ‘They’ll find me in the cubicle. Locked and bolted
from the
outside, do you understand?’ Liz asks Lennox if he wants to
go with
her; but as he said, he has nowhere to go. She puts the
protective
headgear on him, and takes the key. Then she seals him
into the
cubicle with the ‘astronauts’, and heads for the way out.
The Doctor
realises that the impulses are a mathematical formula for
building
an electronic device; he tells Taltalian that he will have
to build
the device to find out what it is. The Doctor seems
unconcerned about the threat to Liz, because the people who made it
will not
know what he is up to - ‘unless somebody tells them’. ‘Who
would do
that?’ laughs Taltalian. ‘You, for instance?’ suggests the
Doctor.
Liz creeps
out of a back door of the laboratory building, and has a
good look
around before running away.
Taltalian
accuses the Doctor of being ‘most insulting’; the Doctor
accuses
him of being ‘continually obstructive’. Taltalian claims
again to
have been merely acting under General Carrington’s
instructions, but the Doctor wonders whether Taltalian could be
involved
with the people who are really behind the plot: ‘the people
who
kidnapped Miss Shaw, who kidnapped the three astronauts’. The
Doctor
tells Taltalian that he has not shared his suspicions with
the
Brigadier because he has an alternative to offer to him. He
stares at
him and sets out the two options: ‘A ruthless
investigation by the Brigadier, or a few quiet words with me and
your name
kept out of things.’ ‘I don’t know what you are talking
about,’
says Taltalian. ‘I think you do, Taltalian. And I’m going to
give you a
little time to think it over.’ The Doctor leaves the room
to see
about building the machine, telling Taltalian to think over
what he
has said. Left alone, Taltalian goes to a cupboard and takes
out a
small electronic device.
The
fleeing Liz arrives at a country road. The first car she tries
to flag
down fails to stop for her. The second car does, but its
driver is
Taltalian. He pulls a gun on her and tells her to get in.
She does
so, and they drive away.
Back at
Lennox’s laboratory, Liz protects Lennox by telling Reegan
that no
one helped her to escape; ‘that door was left open,’ she
says.
Reegan points out that she might have killed Lennox by locking
him in
with ‘those things’, but Liz pretends not to care. Reegan
orders her
back to work with Lennox, and Masters gives her a shove
to help
her on her way. Reegan tells Masters to make sure the door
is kept
locked. Taltalian gives Reegan the electronic device,
together
with operating instructions and the communication code.
Reegan is
suspicious that it seems ‘a little too simple’; ‘I need to
talk to
those things,’ he tells Taltalian. ‘You have a list of
simple
signals and commands,’ Taltalian replies. ‘Transmit and they
will
obey.’ ‘And if they don’t?’ ‘You threaten to cut off their
supply of
radiation - there is a signal for that too.’ Taltalian
confirms
that there is also a machine for translating the replies,
but it is
in his computer room, and Reegan will not need it. ‘I’m
the one
dealing with these creatures,’ Reegan points out. ‘You will
use these
creatures to carry out a series of raids on carefully
chosen
targets,’ says Taltalian. ‘You know enough to do your job,
but I have
further instructions for you….your call to the Doctor
threatening the girl’s life was stupid,’ he adds. Far from slowing
the Doctor
down, ‘it merely made him more determined and suspicious
-
suspicious of me.’ ‘Too bad,’ Reegan replies. Taltalian says that
the Doctor
has to be ‘put out of the way permanently’; he is about
to
discover how to build another machine of the type Taltalian just
gave
Reegan. Reegan agrees to deal with the Doctor. ‘And since your
own skin’s
in danger,’ he tells Taltalian, ‘you can help me.’
‘Taltalian
- do you have any proof?’ the Brigadier asks the Doctor.
‘No, not a
scrap,’ confesses the Doctor, drinking his cup of tea.
‘Then why
accuse him?’ The Doctor attributes it to intuition,
something
even Taltalian’s computers don’t have. The Brigadier
reminds
the Doctor that Taltalian was acting under Carrington’s
orders, as
Quinlan explained. The Doctor remembers, but is
completely
unconvinced: ‘First they try keeping us in the dark
altogether, and when that didn’t work, they fall back on some
prepared
cover story - contagious radiation indeed!’ The Doctor does
not know
what is going on, but thinks he might know more after
having
built the device. He shows the Brigadier a list of the
advanced
electronic equipment he needs to make it, and says he needs
the
equipment at once; the Brigadier agrees to see to it. On his way
out to his
laboratory, the Doctor asks the Brigadier if there is any
news of
Liz, but there is not. ‘We’re doing all we can,’ the
Brigadier
assures him.
Lennox
whispers his thanks to Liz for keeping quiet about his role
in her
earlier escape. She is clearly developing a new escape plan:
‘If at
first you don’t succeed…’ Lennox tells her she will not get
another
chance. ‘We’ll see,’ she replies. He asks how Liz was
caught. ‘I
ran into an old friend,’ she tells him.
Reegan
joins Taltalian, who insists impatiently that he has to get
back.
‘It’s a delicate operation,’ Reegan tells him. He shows
Taltalian
the interior of a briefcase, which contains a bomb. ‘It’s
quite
simple. All you have to do is set the dial to the time you
require.
How long do you need to get clear of the building?’ ‘Ten
minutes,
maybe more.’ ‘Let’s say quarter of an hour,’ says Reegan.
‘We can’t
have you taking risks.’ He sets the dials accordingly and
closes the
briefcase. ‘Now, you leave the case as near to the Doctor
as you
possibly can. You slide these catches together, and that
starts the
mechanism. Fifteen minutes later - no more Doctor.’
Reegan
explains that if the Doctor tries to open the case ahead of
time, the
result will be the same, just a little earlier. Taltalian
is
concerned about the risk, but Reegan reminds him that it is him
the Doctor
is after. While Masters helps Taltalian on with his coat,
Reegan -
unseen by Taltalian - opens the briefcase and makes a quick
adjustment
to the dials inside, then closes the briefcase again. He
hands the
case to Taltalian, who takes it carefully. ‘Do as you’re
told,’
Reegan tells him, ‘and your troubles will be over.’
Cornish is
complaining to the Doctor about the sudden suspicious
lack of
available astronauts. A variety of excuses has been given:
‘not fit;
transferred to other duties; waiting for security
clearance.’ ‘Is that all?’ asks the Doctor, and he offers to take
the rocket
up himself. Cornish thanks him, but suggests the Doctor
does not
realise what this would entail. ‘My dear man,’ replies the
Doctor,
‘I’ve spent more time in space than any astronaut on your
staff -
not, I’ll admit, in the rather primitive contraptions that
you use,
but I’ll manage…I can also withstand considerably more
G-force
than most people, even though I do say so myself.’ Cornish
accepts.
The Doctor will have to take certain tests, but he readily
agrees to
this: ‘When that recovery capsule is ready, I’ll take it
up.’
Taltalian
now comes in, with the briefcase, to join the Doctor and
Cornish.
He tells Cornish that he has the computations for lift-off,
all but
the final phase. Cornish asks Taltalian to let him have them
as soon as
possible, and leaves to see about the tests the Doctor
will have
to take. A tense atmosphere reigns once Taltalian and the
Doctor are
left alone. Taltalian goes to the cupboard. The Doctor
asks him
if he has thought over what he spoke to him about. ‘I will
tell you
everything,’ Taltalian says, ‘if you will give me a chance
to get
away.’ The Doctor agrees to this. Taltalian goes across to
the
briefcase, which lies flat on a work-surface a few feet away
from the
Doctor. He tells the Doctor that the information he needs
is in his
car, and that he will go and fetch it; ‘you will wait for
me here?’
The Doctor agrees. Taltalian has a nervous look across at
the
Doctor, and slides the catches on the briefcase - which
immediately explodes in his face. Taltalian recoils with a horrible
scream.
At
Lennox’s laboratory, Liz believes she has got the communication
device to
work. Reegan tells her to send the signal ‘stand up’, and
she does
so; behind the transparent screen, the three space-suited
figures
get to their feet. Liz sends the signal ‘forward’, and each
figure
moves slowly forward. ‘Send “stop”,’ says Reegan, and again
the three
captives silently obey. Liz tells Reegan that the device
might be
simple enough for even him to be able to use it. He takes
the
device. Liz asks Reegan about the briefcase he gave to
Taltalian.
‘You could say it was a way of killing two birds with one
stone,’ he
replies.
In the
smoky, bomb-damaged computer room, the Brigadier concedes to
the Doctor
that he seems to have been right about Taltalian. ‘Lot of
good it
did me - and him,’ says the Doctor. Taltalian having been
killed by
the full force of the blast, the Doctor has escaped with a
minor
facial injury; there is a dressing on his right cheek. The
Brigadier
assumes that the mechanism of the time-bomb was faulty,
but the
Doctor is not sure that it was: the remains of the mechanism
show that
the timer was set to zero, so that the bomb would go off
instantaneously. ‘So whoever gave it to him wanted to get rid of
both of
you,’ says the Brigadier. The Doctor concludes that
Taltalian
was a weak link, whose employers wanted him out of the way
- it seems
like another dead end. The Doctor finds, in Taltalian’s
cupboard,
a small device very similar to the one he is trying to
build:
‘Taltalian had one all the time.’
Quinlan
tells Carrington that time is running out: the new recovery
rocket is
almost ready to go up. ‘You were supposed to stop him,
sir,’ says
Carrington. But Quinlan has tried every possible delay,
and now
the Doctor has even volunteered to pilot the rocket. ‘He
must be
stopped,’ Carrington tells Quinlan. Quinlan suggests telling
him the
truth, but Carrington says that they know too little about
him.
‘There may be no alternative,’ Quinlan replies. ‘There’s got to
be,’ says
Carrington. ‘If that rocket goes up, it means disaster for
the entire
world.’
With his
feet up on the desk in Lennox’s laboratory, Reegan is
talking on
the telephone, assuring a superior that everything is
going
fine, but expressing his regret that the Doctor survived the
bomb:
‘This Doctor fellow must have nine lives.’ He agrees to
organise a
mysterious something ‘tonight’. He instructs Masters to
go and get
the van, and tells Lennox that their three captives are
going on
‘a little excursion’. A reluctant Lennox opens the door to
the
captives’ area of the laboratory. Reegan asks Liz if the
communication device can work the other way round, so that the three
captives
can talk to them; she says no, but confirms that there
could be a
machine to perform this reverse function. ‘I think I’ll
be paying
two visits tonight,’ Reegan says thoughtfully. He uses the
signalling
device, and the figure clad in Van Lyden’s space suit
emerges
into the main part of the lab.
A short
while later, in the dazzling light of the setting sun, the
space-suited figure approaches the perimeter of the Space Centre
complex. A
UNIT soldier on guard duty shouts to the approaching
figure to
halt. It ignores this, and a second shout of ‘Halt or I’ll
fire!’ The
soldier fires six bullets from his handgun at the
approaching figure, with no effect. It arrives at the perimeter
barrier
and takes hold of it; a wave of energy races along the
length of
the barrier and kills the soldier at the other end. The
creature
in Van Lyden’s space suit lifts the barrier and continues
its
remorseless approach into the complex.
Inside,
the creature arrives in the computer room, where two
scientists
are working. A touch of its left hand kills the younger
scientist
in a sizzling blast of energy; the older man tries to put
up a fight
but is felled in the same way. The intruder advances to
the
cupboard and reaches inside it. A UNIT soldier appears in the
doorway
with a much more substantial gun than the perimeter guard’s;
but this
too is ineffective against the creature, which kills him
with a
touch to the neck.
‘I tell
you it converts radio impulses into human speech,’ the
Doctor is
explaining to the Brigadier. ‘The aliens in Heldorf’s
laboratory
were trying to communicate with him.’ ‘So you were
right,’
says the Brigadier, ‘they aren’t human.’ ‘I never believed
they
were,’ says the Doctor. He would now like to build the other
half of
the device in order to be able to contact the creatures, but
the
electronic parts that he ordered are taking a while to arrive,
most of
them needing to come from Japan. Quinlan telephones the
Doctor to
ask him if he still intends to pilot the recovery rocket;
he does.
‘I can’t persuade you that your action will be disastrous?’
asks
Quinlan. ‘You might,’ replies the Doctor, ‘if you were to tell
me the
truth, Sir James - the whole truth.’ Left with no choice,
Quinlan
invites the Doctor to come to see him at once. The Brigadier
is keen to
accompany the Doctor.
A
space-suited figure enters Quinlan’s office, and kills him with
one touch;
he falls back across his desk. The creature moves to
Quinlan’s
safe by the door. The safe’s lock explodes at its touch.
It opens
the safe and touches the contents, which flare up and
disintegrate. The Doctor arrives and sees Quinlan’s body lying on
the desk.
As he leans over the body, listening in vain for a
heartbeat,
the unseen space-suited creature advances upon him from
behind,
reaching out its right hand towards him…
Episode 5
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24'17")
The Doctor
sees the creature bearing down on him, but it is too late
to move
out of the way. He remains lying across Quinlan’s body as
the
creature’s hand reaches slowly for his face. But the Brigadier
has
appeared in the doorway of the office; he draws his gun and
fires at
the space-suited figure. The Doctor yells to the Brigadier
to stop,
but the Brigadier has saved his life - the creature turns
away from
the Doctor without making contact with him. It starts to
head for
the doorway, and the Doctor warns the Brigadier not to try
to stop
it. A UNIT soldier rushes in, and the Doctor’s warning comes
too late -
the space-suited figure brushes the soldier aside,
killing
him instantly, and then walks out of the office, closing the
door
behind it. The lock mechanism bursts into flames, sealing the
door shut.
The Brigadier tries the door handle in vain. ‘No, there’s
no point
in trying to follow him,’ says the Doctor. ‘There’s nothing
we can
do.’
‘Do you
really think they’re not human?’ Lennox asks Liz. This is
what she
wants to find out. She asks where Reegan has taken the
third
creature. Lennox says he does not know, and tells her not to
ask so
many questions. But she asks one more: ‘Is Reegan in charge?’
Lennox
says no; Reegan works for ‘someone high up’. Liz says that
Reegan has
to be stopped. ‘You won’t get away again,’ warns Lennox.
‘But you
might,’ she replies.
In
Quinlan’s office, the Brigadier shows the Doctor the bullets that
have been
fired at the intruder; they have been flattened by the
impact.
‘Deflected by some kind of force field, I should think,’ the
Doctor
surmises. ‘So there’s no way of stopping them,’ says the
Brigadier.
‘Not with bullets,’ replies the Doctor, as if this should
have been
obvious. Benton (last seen in The Invasion) comes in to
report
that there is a strong radioactive trace as far as the road
outside,
and then nothing. Clearly the creatures were taken away in
a vehicle.
‘Somebody’s using these creatures, Brigadier,’ the Doctor
says.
‘They’re not free agents. They were brought to Earth for some
purpose.’
‘Conquest?’ asks the Brigadier. ‘Possibly,’ says the
Doctor.
‘Or is that what we are supposed to think?’
Controlled
by Reegan’s signalling device, the creature in Van
Lyden’s
space suit descends the stairs into Lennox’s laboratory.
At the
Space Centre, Cornish tells the Doctor that for the first two
and a half
minutes, the rate of fuel consumption will be fifteen
tons per
second. The mixture of standard fuel and M3 variant that
they are
going to use has never been tried before, but enough of the
standard
fuel will not be available in time. Quinlan’s death has
made
things harder, not easier: ‘everything’s wrapped up in red tape
until they
appoint a successor,’ says Cornish. Cornish has the
Doctor’s
medical report, which he describes as ‘incredible’. The
Doctor
forestalls any awkward questions about his non-human
physiology
with bluster: ‘I told you everything’d be all right.’
In the
sealed-off section of Lennox’s laboratory, the space-suited
creature
which has just returned collapses to the floor, but Lennox,
dressed in
his protective suit, is there to fortify it with
radioactive isotope. Lennox emerges into the main part of the lab.
Liz asks
Reegan what he has done to the creature. ‘It’s had a busy
time,’
Reegan replies. ‘Busy?’ asks Lennox. ‘Doing what?’ ‘Killing,’
says
Reegan. He tells Liz that some of her friends from UNIT were
among the
targets - not the Brigadier, just some of the other ranks.
‘One touch
from him, and down they go,’ says Reegan delightedly. Liz
expresses
surprise that no one resisted. ‘They tried,’ Reegan says.
‘Bullets
just bounce off them. With these three you can do anything
- walk
into Fort Knox and help yourself.’ Liz asks if that is what
he intends
to do with the creatures. ‘I might,’ he replies. ‘Keep
feeding
them radiation, I’ve got a lot more work for him to do.’ He
leaves,
telling his thug Tony (Flynn) to lock the main door at the
top of the
stairs and then confirm sealing. ‘You’re working for a
murderer,’
Liz tells Lennox. Lennox dismisses Reegan’s statements as
mere
boasting, but Liz knows he does not believe this. ‘Look it’s
got
nothing to do with me, Miss Shaw! I’m paid to look after them!’
‘You are
just as guilty as if you’d killed those people yourself,’
Liz
insists. She asks Lennox what he is going to do about it, but he
says he is
too much involved to do anything. She says he could go to
UNIT and
tell them the location of the lab - the Brigadier will give
him
protective custody. Lennox points out that he cannot leave
anyway,
because Reegan has taken his key to the door. ‘Then you’ll
just have
to talk your way out,’ says Liz.
At the
Space Centre, General Carrington tells the Doctor and Cornish
that he
absolutely forbids the new rocket launch. Cornish tells
Carrington
that he does not have the authority to forbid it. ‘What
have you
got against it?’ asks the Doctor. ‘Sir James Quinlan
murdered,’
replies Carrington. ‘Alien creatures attacking the Space
Centre.
The sudden death of Doctor Taltalian. This is obviously just
the
beginning.’ ‘The beginning of what?’ asks Cornish. ‘An alien
invasion
with the collaboration of a foreign power.’ The Doctor
suggests
that this is all the more reason for him to make the trip.
Carrington
now questions the use of the Doctor as an astronaut, but
the Doctor
is insistent on knowing why Carrington is opposed to the
launch.
The General believes that the rocket should be used to carry
a nuclear
warhead rather than the Doctor. ‘Since we don’t know
what’s up
there, wouldn’t it be more intelligent to carry a man
rather
than a bomb?’ the Doctor asks. Carrington points out that he
is
responsible for space security, but Cornish points out that he is
responsible for the Space Centre. Carrington reminds them that the
launch was
against Quinlan’s wishes; the Doctor suggests that the
General
take the matter up with Quinlan’s successor - ‘when he’s
been
appointed’. ‘I shall go to the highest authority to have you
stopped,’
warns Carrington. ‘Then you’d better get on with it,
General,’
replies Cornish, unruffled. ‘We blast off in two hours’
time.’
The
collapsed space-suited creature in Lennox’s laboratory is
recovering. Liz tells Lennox that he is the only one who can stop
Reegan
ordering more murders: she wants him to make a telephone
call, but
Lennox points out that all the calls are monitored. ‘Then
you’ll
have to go yourself,’ she says. The thug Flynn returns. In a
hushed
voice, Liz tells Lennox to demand to see Reegan on the
pretext
that more isotopes are needed. After some initial
reluctance, Lennox tells Flynn that he needs to see Reegan urgently.
Flynn is
uninterested, saying that Reegan is in London having ‘a
meeting
with the boss’. Liz says the creatures are dying. Flynn
looks
through the transparent screen at the figures, which are all
standing.
‘How can you tell?’ he asks. Liz directs him to the
readings
on the computer console. Flynn, of course, has no idea what
he is
looking for. Lennox points to a dial and says it should be at
maximum,
then says he needs to go and get more isotopes. ‘No one is
to leave
here,’ Flynn says. ‘Then you’ll be responsible if they
die,’
replies Liz. She and Lennox tell Flynn that there is no time
to
telephone Reegan - Lennox must leave immediately. Lennox says he
is not a
prisoner; Reegan took his key because Liz tried to escape:
‘You’re
supposed to be guarding her, not me.’ He orders Flynn to
open the
door, and Flynn does so. On his way out Lennox adds a touch
of realism
by telling Flynn to keep an eye on Liz. This makes her
smile.
A female
control room assistant at the Space Centre reports that
forty per
cent of fuel is now loaded into the rocket that will carry
the Doctor
into space; ‘will switch to M3 variant at sixty-five per
cent,’ she
adds. Cornish acknowledges the fuel injection report with
his usual
stoic calm. Everything is in ‘go’ condition. Cornish tells
the Doctor
that it is time he was in the preparation room. The
Doctor
explains to the Brigadier that the lift-off time has been
advanced
because of official opposition to the mission. The
Brigadier
is interested to learn that Carrington is trying to
prevent
the launch. The Doctor sets off for the preparation chamber.
Sergeant
Benton telephones the Brigadier to report the unexpected
arrival of
Lennox, who seems very agitated. Lennox has said that he
knows
something about the missing astronauts, but has insisted on
speaking
only to the Brigadier in person. Benton reports that Lennox
‘seems
frightened - scared out of his wits’. He has requested
protective
custody. The Brigadier tells Benton to put Lennox into
one of the
cells, and says that he will be back to see Lennox as
soon as
possible, when he has finished his security checks.
Benton
shows Lennox into a cell. ‘You can’t be safer than in a
cell,’
Benton explains gently. He asks Lennox what he is so
frightened
of, but Lennox repeats that he can speak only to the
Brigadier.
Benton offers Lennox a cup of tea and something to read,
but he
declines, asking Benton to lock the door on his way out.
Puzzled,
Benton does so.
The female
control room assistant reports to Cornish that the Doctor
is now
ready and is proceeding through the quarantine area to the
Recovery
Seven capsule. The Brigadier is waiting to see the Doctor
off when
the Doctor walks in, wearing a space suit minus helmet and
gloves.
The Doctor finds the ‘waiting room’ rather unimpressive for
one’s last
sight of Earth. The control room assistant’s voice
instructs
the Doctor to proceed to the capsule, and the Brigadier
wishes the
Doctor good luck and shakes his hand. The Doctor leaves
through
sliding double-doors like those of a lift.
Reegan is
reprimanding Flynn for letting Lennox leave the
laboratory. In his defence, Flynn explains that both Lennox and Liz
told him
the creatures were dying. ‘So you put him up to this,’
Reegan
says angrily to Liz, and grabs her arm roughly. ‘There’s
nothing
wrong with them.’ Liz sticks to the story that Lennox has
gone for
more isotopes. ‘You’re lying,’ says Reegan, pulling out his
handgun.
‘Did you send him to see your friends at UNIT, is that it?
Answer
me!’ With Reegan’s gun jammed against her chin, Liz confesses
that
Lennox has gone to see the Brigadier. ‘You’re too late,’ she
tells him.
‘Don’t you believe it,’ retorts Reegan, and shoves her
across to
Flynn. Flynn orders Liz not to try anything. ‘It’s all
right, I
won’t hurt you,’ she tells the huge man. Reegan gets on the
telephone
and requests a direct line. He tells whoever is on the
other end
that Lennox has gone to UNIT. ‘All right,’ he agrees, ‘you
take care
of Lennox and I’ll take care of the Doctor.’
Fifty per
cent of the fuel is now loaded. Cornish asks the Doctor,
who is now
installed in the capsule, if he has completed his
instrument
check. ‘Everything seems to be working all right,’
confirms
the Doctor. Thirty minutes remain before lift-off. The
Doctor
asks if fuel injection can be hurried up, but Cornish says no
because
the M3 variant is highly volatile. The Doctor still believes
a higher
proportion of M3 could be added: ‘And remember, the extra
G-force
wouldn’t worry me.’ But Cornish is more concerned about the
risk of
the rocket exploding on lift-off: ‘I’m not taking the risk,’
he says.
Near a
notice reading ‘Space Control Centre/Fuel Bay/No Smoking/No
Naked
Lights/Danger’, a UNIT soldier quizzes Reegan, who has turned
up in
workman’s clothes claiming to have been requested to do some
work. The
soldier asks to see Reegan’s pass. Reegan gives him
something
to read, but then quickly doubles him up with a punch to
the
stomach, and then carries the prone soldier swiftly out of
sight.
Reegan climbs up a ladder amidst a vast structure of piping
and metal.
Spotting a technician at work, he inches down towards him
and kicks
him off the structure. Reegan races up steps, higher and
higher in
the structure. He adjusts a control on a pipe and hurries
away,
leaving steam pouring out of the sabotaged mechanism.
A male
control room assistant reports to Cornish that life support
systems
are at go. But the female assistant announces that there is
a fuel
injection malfunction. Cornish anxiously orders the Fuel Bay
staff to
check all fuel injection circuits; but he allows his voice
to betray
none of his anxiety as he reports the situation to the
waiting
Doctor. The female assistant states that the fuel injection
systems
are now functioning normally, and Cornish passes this on to
the
Doctor.
Reegan is
still making his escape. He encounters another member of
the Space
Centre’s staff but quickly floors him with a two-footed
kick,
using the railing for support. He turns various valves to
deliver
too much M3 variant into the mixture of fuels. Then he races
away down
the steps.
Lennox is
snoozing in his cell when someone comes in with a tray:
‘I’ve
brought you some food.’ Lennox thanks him. He asks his visitor
to lock
the door on his way out, and the visitor does so. Left
alone,
Lennox removes the cover from his plate and sees with horror
that
instead of food, he has been given a radioactive isotope
cylinder -
and he is trapped in the room with it.
The
Brigadier drives into the Space Centre complex in a UNIT
land-rover. The soldier who was attacked by Reegan tells the
Brigadier
that his assailant went to the fuel bay. The Brigadier
gets out
of the land-rover and heads for the fuel bay, where he sees
the
outpouring of steam resulting from Reegan’s sabotage.
‘Final
check completed,’ reports the female control room assistant.
‘All
systems now go.’ Cornish checks that the Doctor is all set, and
announces
lift-off in fifteen seconds. ‘About time too,’ says the
Doctor.
The male assistant begins the final countdown from ten. At
‘four’ the
Brigadier races into the control room and tells Cornish
he must
stop the countdown, but it is too late - the count reaches
zero and
the rocket lifts off. The rocket soars up through the
atmosphere. In the capsule, the Doctor’s face is distorted by the
enormous
G-force. ‘Lift-off speed twenty per cent in excess and
rising,’
reports the female assistant. The fuel burn rate cannot be
reduced
from a highly dangerous forty-eight per cent. ‘Reduce flame
apertures,’ orders Cornish. If something is not done quickly, the
Doctor
risks blowing himself out of Earth’s orbit and going into the
sun.
‘Apertures will not close on automatic owing to excessive
heat,’
says the female assistant. ‘Lift-off speed now thirty per
cent in
excess.’ Cornish tells the Doctor to operate the flame
apertures
manually to reduce his speed. Pinned agonisingly into his
seat by
the G-force, the Doctor says he will try. The lift-off speed
is now
thirty-seven per cent in excess, and the computer calculates
the
capsule will go into the sun’s orbit in fifteen minutes. The
controls
do not respond to the Doctor; he recommends that Cornish
jettison
Stage One prematurely. ‘If we do that you may never get
into orbit
at all,’ replies Cornish. But the Doctor insists: the
excessive
momentum from jettisoning Stage One may put him into
Earth’s
orbit, and anything is better than going into orbit around
the sun.
So Cornish gives the order, and Stage One is jettisoned,
exploding
immediately after separation. The Doctor, relieved of the
crushing
pressure of the G-force, thanks Cornish. The rocket’s speed
reduces to
normal. The Doctor asks Cornish what went wrong, and the
Professor
tells him it was sabotage. ‘They’re very persistent,
aren’t
they?’ says the Doctor. Stage Two is jettisoned. A
thirty-second burn on the Stage Three rocket will now put the Doctor
into
Earth’s orbit.
The Doctor
cannot see Mars Probe Seven yet. However, he is within
half a
mile of the probe, and converging with it. Cornish tells the
Doctor to
change the attitude of the capsule three degrees
starboard;
the Doctor, unfamiliar with such a primitive space
vehicle,
takes a moment to comply. The Doctor sees Mars Probe Seven,
and starts
to manoeuvre Recovery Seven to link up with it. He
completes
the manoeuvre beautifully. ‘Moving through into Mars Probe
Seven
now,’ reports the Doctor, and unclips himself from his seat.
‘Doctor,
be careful,’ warns Cornish. ‘We don’t really know what’s in
there.’
‘Nonsense man, your three astronauts are in there.’ The
Doctor
operates a control to eject air into the tunnel between the
two
spacecraft.
A new
message comes from the female assistant: ‘Large unidentified
object
converging with Mars Probe Seven on collision course.
Estimated
speed, seven thousand miles per hour but decreasing.’
Cornish
passes this message on to the Doctor, and tells him to take
evasive
action. The Doctor looks out of a window in the capsule, and
sure
enough, he sees a vast glowing shape heading straight towards
him…
Episode 6
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The Doctor
tells Cornish that the object is an enormous spaceship.
The Doctor
sets about trying to evade collision, but Cornish and the
Brigadier,
watching the two blobs of light approaching each other on
their
monitor screen at the Space Centre, see that he does not have
the speed
necessary to avoid the huge ship; Recovery Seven is
hampered
by being still linked to Mars Probe Seven. Furthermore, the
Doctor has
precious little fuel to execute the manoeuvre, and what
he has he
will need for re-entry. ‘It’s closing in too fast!’
exclaims
the Doctor’s voice from a speaker. ‘I can’t - ’ Then radio
contact is
lost. On the monitor screen, the two blobs of light
converge
and the smaller one disappears. ‘They’ve collided,’ says
the
Brigadier to Cornish. ‘If they had, the capsules would be
smashed to
fragments,’ Cornish replies.
As the
Doctor lies back in his seat in Recovery Seven, a bizarre,
harsh
alien voice tells him: ‘You are not in danger.’ He asks where
he is.
‘You are on board our spacecraft,’ says the voice. ‘Open your
hatch and
leave the capsule.’ The Doctor asks what has happened to
the three
astronauts. The voice tells him they are unharmed, and
repeats
its instruction to open the hatch and leave the capsule. The
Doctor
agrees and picks up his space helmet, but the voice tells him
he will
not need his life support systems: ‘An environment has been
prepared
for you.’
The
Recovery Seven capsule materialises in a vast glowing tunnel.
The Doctor
opens the hatch and leaves the capsule, then drifts to
the tunnel
floor in apparently reduced gravity. ‘Go to the light,’
the voice
instructs him, and the Doctor starts to make his way
towards
the light at the end of the tunnel.
The three
astronauts, Van Lyden, Michaels and Lefee, are seated
around a
futuristic oval device. Its screen shows only patterns of
light, but
the three men appear to believe they are watching a
football
match, cheerfully arguing about the progress of the game.
The Doctor
walks in. ‘Do you happen to know how long we’re going to
be kept
here?’ Lefee asks him urbanely. ‘What are you talking
about?’
asks the Doctor. Lefee is puzzled by this, and asks for the
device
they think is a television to be turned off - their team is
losing
anyway. Michaels switches it off. Van Lyden asks the Doctor
if he
knows when they are going to see their families. The Doctor
looks at
him thoughtfully, then asks: ‘Do you know where you are?’
Van Lyden
is bemused, and the Doctor has to repeat the question.
‘Yes of
course,’ says Van Lyden. ‘I brought these two fellows back
from Mars
Probe Seven, they slapped us in extended quarantine.’ ‘You
think
you’re on Earth - at the Space Centre?’ asks the Doctor,
surprised.
This is greeted with laughter. ‘What do you think that
is?’ asks
Lefee, pointing as if out of a window. Michaels asks the
Doctor
what he wants. ‘I came to take you back to Earth,’ says the
Doctor.
The astronauts treat this as a joke. ‘Now please, listen to
me,’ the
Doctor tries to explain. ‘You’re not on Earth, nor are you
at the
Space Centre. You’re prisoners in an alien spaceship.’ He
tells Van
Lyden: ‘You came up here in Recovery Seven but you never
made the
journey back. Something happened.’
At this
point a high-pitched hypnotic sound issues from the oval
device,
and the three men sit back down in a kind of trance. The
Doctor
snaps his fingers in front of Michaels’ face and passes his
hand in
front of Van Lyden’s, without effect. ‘They cannot hear
you,’ says
the alien voice; the voice’s owner is now seen, though
rather
indistinctly, on a large monitor screen. ‘You’ve conditioned
their
minds,’ says the Doctor reproachfully. ‘It was necessary for
their
health,’ states the alien, making peculiar gestures with its
arms.
‘They were deteriorating.’ The Doctor asks why the astronauts
have been
taken prisoner. The creature answers his question with
another:
‘Why have you not returned our ambassadors?’ ‘Ambassadors?’
asks the
Doctor. ‘An agreement was made. You have betrayed us.
Unless our
ambassadors are returned, we shall destroy your world.’
‘Ambassadors!’ breathes the Doctor, as everything finally falls into
place for
him.
At the
Space Centre, the female control room assistant has received
information from Jodrell Bank that the spaceship is discoid and half
a mile in
diameter. The Brigadier thinks that such a large object
must be a
meteor, but Cornish knows that meteors do not stand still.
General
Carrington is also present; he says that the object is
obviously
an alien spacecraft, and must be attacked and destroyed.
The
Brigadier is concerned for the Doctor, but Carrington’s argument
is that he
must be dead by now anyway. ‘We could use missiles with
atomic
warheads,’ he says. Cornish objects, but for the General the
matter is
closed. ‘I’ve got a plane to catch,’ he says. ‘There’s an
emergency
meeting of the Security Council in Geneva in an hour’s
time.’ The
object has been spotted by observers all over the world,
and the
General intends to recommend an immediate all-out attack on
it: ‘We
must defend ourselves while there is still time.’ ‘The man’s
mad,’
remarks Cornish after Carrington’s departure. ‘Not
necessarily,’ says the Brigadier. ‘We don’t know what that thing is
there.’
Cornish is in favour of finding out, but the Brigadier
believes
that someone may have found out already: ‘I have a feeling
that
General Carrington knows a great deal more than he’s telling
us. He
went on a Mars probe himself, remember. Perhaps he discovered
something.’ The Brigadier definitely does not support Carrington’s
plan to
attack blindly: ‘I think we should wait. But there’s only
one hope
left to us - that the Doctor is still alive.’
‘What you
tell me is appalling,’ says the Doctor to the alien on the
screen.
‘The authorities on Earth had no knowledge of this.’ ‘That
is
difficult to believe,’ replies the creature. ‘Nevertheless, you
must
believe me. Now let me go back to Earth, and I will give you my
personal
assurance that your ambassadors will be returned to you.’
‘But you
do not even know where they are.’ ‘From the information
that
you’ve given me, I’ll find them,’ says the Doctor. ‘Now please,
you must
let me try.’ ‘Very well. But if our ambassadors are not
returned,
we shall use our weapons to destroy your world.’ ‘These
three men
- can I take them back with me?’ ‘They will remain here
until our
ambassadors are returned. Now you can go back to your
spaceship.’ The image of the alien fades from the screen.
The
hypnotic sound fades away and the three astronauts emerge from
their
trance. ‘Something happened?’ asks Van Lyden, carrying
straight
on from where his earlier conversation with the Doctor left
off.
‘Yes,’ says the Doctor. Playing along with the illusion, he
tells the
men that he will see what he can do about getting them out
of
quarantine as soon as he possibly can. They seem pleased about
this.
Michaels asks the Doctor to send something in for them to
read. The
Doctor leaves, and they turn the oval device back on to
catch the
end of the football game: ‘That’s better, one all!’
‘The
American Space Agency are now preparing to launch an unmanned
capsule to
observe the unidentified object,’ reports the female
control
room assistant. The male assistant reports that radio pulses
have been
detected being emitted by the object at a frequency
similar to
those emitted by pulsars. The American unmanned capsule
will be
launched in an estimated six hours. The Brigadier returns
with the
news that Lennox has been murdered. ‘In your own
headquarters?’ asks Cornish incredulously. ‘Someone put an isotope
in his
cell,’ says the Brigadier. The Brigadier concedes that he is
not having
a great deal of success. ‘The astronauts are still
missing,’
Cornish points out. ‘Miss Shaw kidnapped. Doctor Taltalian
killed.
And now this man Lennox murdered under your very nose.’
However,
UNIT has identified the two radioactive bodies that were
found in
the gravel pit in Hertfordshire: they were not foreign
agents,
but petty London criminals. The Brigadier also now knows
that the
explosive which killed Taltalian was ‘the new H37 compound,
which
hasn’t even been issued to the army yet.’ ‘Then our own people
could be
involved,’ Cornish concludes. ‘That was the Doctor’s
theory,’
says the Brigadier. In addition, forensics have found
elements
of insecticide in the mud on Lennox’s shoes, indicating
where he
might have been recently; UNIT is now checking all the
areas
where this insecticide is used. The isotope that killed Lennox
was part
of a consignment sold some months ago to ‘a bogus company
with an
address that doesn’t even exist.’ Cornish congratulates the
Brigadier
on the thoroughness of his investigations, but the
Brigadier
is aware that they do not seem to have got him anywhere.
The radio
pulses being emitted by the alien spaceship have now
ceased. On
the monitor screen, two blobs of light are again visible,
indicating
the departure of Recovery Seven from the alien ship. The
Doctor
re-establishes contact with Space Control, and his image
appears on
the huge wall-screen. The Doctor confirms that he is all
right, and
reports to Cornish that the astronauts are safe and well.
‘I’m not
going to say any more at the moment, it’s not safe…I shall
maintain
radio silence until the necessary landing instructions.’ He
tells the
Brigadier to put all his men on standby, and says he will
explain
everything when he lands. Cornish wants to know what
happened
to his astronauts, but the Doctor is saying nothing more
for the
moment. The Brigadier advises Cornish that he is wasting his
time
pressing the Doctor to talk before he wants to, and says he
must get
on to UNIT headquarters. Recovery Seven is now approaching
re-entry
orbit.
In the
protected section of the laboratory of the late Doctor
Lennox,
Liz is providing the space-suited aliens with isotope. She
gets up to
leave and one of the aliens blocks her way; another
slowly
removes its helmet. Its face is nightmarishly hideous, wide
and lumpy
and all the more grotesque by being framed by human-like
hair. Liz,
utterly terrified, beats against the transparent screen
of this
section of the lab, apparently not realising in her panic
that she
can simply run out of the door and into the main part of
the lab -
which she then does. Shaken, she starts removing her
protective
headgear. Reegan returns to the lab and sees the state
Liz is in:
‘What’s the matter with you?’ ‘Look!’ she replies simply,
and points
at the creature behind the screen. ‘Ugly looking fellow
isn’t he?’
Reegan observes nonchalantly. ‘You knew they weren’t
human,’
says Liz. She asks him why he has got them here. He answers
that he
was paid to, but says it doesn’t matter by whom; he has a
few ideas
of his own, such as committing any robbery he likes. ‘Is
that what
this boss of yours wants you to do?’ asks Liz. ‘Doesn’t
matter
what he likes,’ says Reegan. ‘We’ve got them.’ ‘We?’ Liz
asks.
‘There’s a vacancy,’ Reegan tells her. ‘Doctor Lennox met with
an
accident at Headquarters.’ ‘You killed him,’ says Liz furiously.
‘I never
laid a finger on him,’ Reegan replies. ‘Well?’ he asks her.
‘Are you
offering me a job?’ she asks in disbelief. He tells her
that the
alternative is that he kills her and buys himself another
scientist.
The telephone rings and he picks it up. ‘Oh it’s you
sir,’ he
says. ‘Doctor’s on his way down, is he? I did my best to
stop him
going up. You’re sure you want him dead? He could be useful
to us. All
right. I’ll see to him.’ He puts the telephone down.
‘Your
friend the Doctor’s on his way back from a little journey. I’m
going to
be his reception committee.’
At the
Space Centre, the Doctor’s perfect descent to Earth is being
monitored;
he is due to land in four and a half minutes. The
Brigadier
wants to go and meet the Doctor, and is alarmed to hear
from
Cornish that the Doctor’s decontamination will take not much
less than
an hour. ‘Think yourself lucky,’ says Cornish. ‘Used to
take two
days.’ The Doctor’s drop-speed reduces to twenty-two miles
per hour,
then eighteen; his height is one mile, with a drift rate
of three
knots and still on course. Radar contact is lost, and the
capsule
approaches the touchdown pad.
Reegan
drives into the Space Centre Complex in the ‘Silcock
Bakeries’
van, getting past the UNIT sentry at the main gate by
showing
him a pass.
The
capsule touches down, and Cornish orders its parachutes
disconnected.
Reegan
parks near a sign reading ‘Decontamination Unit Ventilation
System’.
He unpacks a length of tube attached to a machine in the
back of
the van, and takes the other end up to the pipe system that
ventilates
the Decontamination Unit. He starts to undo a nut with a
spanner.
The
Doctor’s entry to the Decontamination Unit is announced. Cornish
tells the
Brigadier he can relax.
The Doctor
comes into the Decontamination Unit wearing a striped
dressing-gown, and prepares to get dressed.
Outside,
Reegan hurries back to the van, and turns the handle that
will feed
gas into the Decontamination Unit.
The
Doctor, now fully dressed, hangs up the dressing-gown and
announces
into a microphone that he is ready to come out. Cornish
tells him
to stay where he is just a few minutes more, while the
final test
results are awaited. The Doctor agrees, then sits down,
lies back
and closes his eyes. Then he begins to cough, and is
swiftly
overcome by the gas pouring into the room through the
ventilation system.
Reegan
checks his watch and shuts the gas off again.
The Doctor
is lying unconscious on the floor when Reegan comes in,
wearing
protective mask and glasses. He starts to pick the Doctor
up.
All the
decontamination tests have come up negative. Cornish tells
the Doctor
over the intercom that he is cleared, but receives no
reply. The
Brigadier tries, but receives no answer either, and he
sets off
for Decontamination.
Reegan
drives away in the van.
The
Brigadier finds the gas-filled room deserted. He uses the
microphone
to tell Cornish to seal off all the gates.
Reegan, in
the disguised van, is cheerfully allowed out by the UNIT
sentry at
the main gate an instant before Cornish’s call arrives.
Reegan
grins as he drives away.
Carrington
suggests that the Doctor might have left of his own
accord
rather than having been abducted; the gas cylinder linked to
the
ventilation system could be ‘a blind to make us think he’d been
kidnapped.’ Cornish is as sceptical about this as the Brigadier, but
Carrington
points out that ‘all these troubles only started when
this
Doctor came on the scene.’ The Brigadier respectfully but
firmly
denies this. ‘He insists on going up in Recovery Seven,’ says
Carrington. ‘Makes contact with the alien vessel. Then disappears as
soon as he
lands. Can you explain that?’ ‘Do you really think that
the Doctor
is one of the people behind all this?’ asks Cornish.
Carrington
asks Cornish what he knows about the Doctor. ‘Only that
he’s an
associate of the Brigadier,’ Cornish is forced to concede.
‘Well,
Brigadier,’ asks Carrington, ‘where does this man come from?’
‘That’s
difficult to explain, sir.’ ‘How long have you known him?’
‘Several
years - on and off.’ ‘On and off!’ repeats Carrington
scornfully. ‘What’s his job, exactly?’ ‘He’s given my organisation a
great deal
of help in the past,’ the Brigadier replies. ‘You’re
being
deliberately unhelpful, Brigadier!’ exclaims Carrington. ‘I
intend to
have this “Doctor” investigated!’ ‘We shall have to find
him first,
sir,’ replies the Brigadier drily. ‘The sooner you do
that, the
better,’ says the General. ‘If he has any explanation to
offer as
to what that object is, we need to know it at once. Contact
me as soon
as you find him.’ Cornish asks Carrington how the
Security
Council meeting in Geneva went. Carrington says it was a
complete
waste of time - the council members are still debating,
when they
should be arming every available missile with atomic
warheads
and blasting the object out of the skies. ‘Isn’t that a bit
extreme?’
asks Cornish. ‘It’s our moral duty,’ says Carrington with
absolute
conviction, then turns and leaves. ‘I think the General’s a
bit
overwrought,’ the Brigadier remarks. ‘I think he’s insane,’ says
Cornish.
‘No
trouble at all,’ says Reegan into the telephone in Lennox’s lab,
while the
Doctor lies on the floor. ‘Your Doctor friend’s as dead as
a
doornail.’ He hangs up. ‘Why do you say he’s dead?’ asks Liz,
kneeling
by the Doctor. ‘Because it suits me,’ Reegan replies. ‘How
is he?’
The Doctor is slowly coming round. ‘I’m none the better for
your
attentions,’ he answers. He is, however, delighted to see Liz.
Liz tells
the Doctor that she has not been hurt, although she
doesn’t
much care for the company. The Doctor sympathises. With
Liz’s
help, he gets to his feet. Fascinated, he sees the aliens
behind the
transparent screen. ‘Doctor, they’re a completely alien
species,’
says Liz. He tells her he has been aboard their spaceship
and talked
to their captain. ‘How did you talk to them?’ asks
Reegan.
The Doctor says they have a kind of translation machine.
‘Like
this?’ Reegan asks, and shows the Doctor the small translation
device.
‘Oh no,’ says the Doctor. ‘No, that’s a much simpler model.
That would
only receive one-way signals.’ ‘Could you build me a
better
one, so I could really talk to them?’ ‘I dare say, if I had
the proper
equipment,’ the Doctor replies. The Doctor is surprised
that
Reegan expects him to help him. ‘It would keep you both alive,’
says
Reegan. The Doctor says that he will need a lot of expensive
equipment.
Reegan tells him to make a list, and politely helps him
into a
chair so that he can start writing it. Reegan sets off up the
steps
leading to the door out of the lab. The Doctor doesn’t waste
much time
in getting up to make his escape, but Reegan has waited at
the top of
the steps to warn him not to try it. Reegan leaves.
The Doctor
looks thoughtful. He asks Liz if there is a way out. ‘I
got out
once but they caught me,’ she says. ‘Now they’ve doubled the
guards.’
With no other option, the Doctor sits down to make his
list. ‘If
we can’t get out to the Brigadier, we must bring the
Brigadier
to us,’ he says. Carrington, carrying a handgun, enters
the lab.
‘General Carrington!’ Liz exclaims. ‘How on Earth did you -
find us?’
Her last two words trail off as the Doctor looks grimly at
her. ‘I
think the General knew all along,’ says the Doctor. ‘You’re
not
surprised to see me,’ Carrington observes. ‘Not particularly,
no,’
replies the Doctor without looking up from his list. ‘I’m
surprised
to see you, Doctor, my instructions were that you were to
be
killed.’ ‘Then somebody disobeyed your instructions, didn’t
they?’ the
Doctor replies suavely. ‘I’ll have to attend to the
matter
myself,’ says Carrington. ‘I’m sorry, Doctor.’ He cocks the
gun. ‘It’s
my moral duty.’ The Doctor looks up and sees Carrington’s
gun
pointing into his face.
Episode 7
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‘What are
you doing?’ asks Reegan, descending the steps into the
laboratory. Carrington, keeping his gun trained on the Doctor,
rebukes
Reegan for disobeying his order to kill the Doctor. ‘I
thought it
was for the best,’ says Reegan. ‘You’re not paid to
think,
Reegan!’ barks the General. Reegan points out that only the
Doctor can
make a machine that will allow them to talk to the
aliens;
Reegan’s device only sends limited one-way signals. ‘Look,
if I’m
going to carry out your orders,’ Reegan explains to
Carrington, ‘I’ll have to give them some pretty complicated
information. Still, suit yourself. You want to kill him - kill him.’
After a
pause, Carrington puts away his gun. ‘Could you make us a
better
machine?’ he asks the Doctor. ‘Given the necessary equipment,
yes,’ the
Doctor replies. ‘And you’re willing to help us?’ ‘Depends
on what
you’re trying to do.’ Liz steps in, anxious that the Doctor
should not
try to push his luck any further, but the Doctor silences
her.
‘Well, General?’ he asks. ‘We must alert the world to the
menace of
an alien invasion,’ says Carrington. ‘When do you expect
this
invasion?’ asks the Doctor. ‘At any time,’ says Carrington.
‘They told
me that their intentions were peaceful,’ says the Doctor,
‘that
these three beings here were ambassadors.’ ‘Ambassadors!’
exclaims
Carrington. ‘That was just to put us off our guard.’
‘You’re
convinced their intentions are hostile, then?’ ‘Why else
should
they invade the galaxy? They were on Mars before we were.’
‘Oh,’ says
the Doctor, and gets up from his chair. ‘So that’s when
you met
them. When you were on a previous Mars probe.’ ‘Yes,’ says
Carrington
grimly. ‘They killed Jim. Jim Daniels, fellow astronaut -
simply by
touching him.’ ‘Yes, but they didn’t know that their touch
would kill
human beings.’ ‘Now they’ve walked into my trap!’
Carrington
declares. ‘I knew that once I got them here, I’d make
them
reveal their true natures.’ ‘So it was you who sent for those
three
ambassadors, was it?’ ‘And hired Reegan to kidnap them and use
them as
killers?’ adds Liz. ‘It was the only way to arouse public
opinion,’
says the General. ‘Was Sir James Quinlan in on this?’ asks
the
Doctor. ‘No - he just wanted the political glory of being the
first to
arrange contact with an intelligent alien species. He
didn’t
know of my plan to save the world. He wouldn’t have
understood.’ ‘And what about Van Lyden and the other astronauts -
the human
ones?’ asks Liz. ‘They didn’t know either,’ replies
Carrington. ‘It was the only way.’ ‘Well,’ says the Doctor
thoughtfully. ‘I must say, you’ve been very thorough, General.’ ‘It
was the
only way,’ insists Carrington. ‘You do understand that,
don’t you
Doctor?’ ‘Yes,’ says the Doctor gently. ‘Yes, I
understand. You had to do what you had to do.’ ‘Exactly!’ says
Carrington. ‘We must protect the world, it’s our moral duty. Will
you help
us?’ ‘Yes,’ says the Doctor. ‘Yes, I’ll build your machine
for you.’
‘Splendid!’ exclaims Carrington delightedly. ‘This man can
be of use
to us,’ he says to Reegan. ‘Give him everything he needs.’
Reegan
agrees. ‘I’m going to take one of those creatures with me,’
says
Carrington to Reegan. ‘I’ve brought a shielded van. Kindly ask
one of
them to come out.’
At the
Space Centre, news arrives that the American Space Agency’s
unmanned
observation satellite is now within three miles of the UFO.
Its
cameras cannot provide a picture, however, because of the radio
signals
emitted by the object. The American Space Agency prepares to
manoeuvre
the satellite down to one mile from the alien ship.
Carrington
tells Reegan that he is to raid a number of isotope
stores. He
hands Reegan the information he will need. ‘Just follow
your
orders,’ says the General fiercely, and heads out of the
laboratory.
The
American observation satellite is no longer sending any signals,
and is
thought to have disintegrated. The Brigadier is informed over
the
telephone that Carrington’s men have captured an alien
astronaut.
‘He’s going to bring it here,’ the Brigadier tells
Cornish.
Reegan
comes back into the laboratory with a henchman, and asks the
Doctor how
long it is going to take to build the communication
device.
‘Look - I’m not building a crystal set you know,’ says the
Doctor
irritably. The henchman releases the remaining two aliens
from their
section of the lab. The Doctor asks Reegan how he is
going to
test the device if the aliens are let out, but Reegan
ignores
him, watching the aliens emerge into the main part of the
lab.
‘They’ll be back,’ he tells the Doctor eventually. ‘What, more
killing?’
asks the Doctor angrily. ‘Only if we have to,’ Reegan
replies.
‘Get on with it, I want that machine finished by the time I
get back.’
Reegan leaves and the Doctor sits back down to work.
‘You’re
not just going to do as he tells you?’ Liz asks. ‘Come on
Liz, let’s
get on with it,’ says the Doctor. ‘We haven’t got much
time, you
know.’
Reegan
drives the ‘Silcock Bakeries’ van up to the large metal front
gates of
an isotope factory, dons the headgear of his radiation
suit, and
releases the two aliens from the van. The aliens approach
the gates;
a security guard approaches the gates from the other
side.
Reegan sends a message using his one-way signalling device,
and one of
the aliens grasps a bar of the gates, instantly killing
the guard
on the other side. Terrified, the other security guard
runs
inside to the telephone. A touch from an alien’s left index
finger
destroys the lock on the gates, and the aliens open them for
Reegan to
drive the van in, as an alarm siren sounds.
At the
Space Centre, Carrington has the third alien imprisoned
inside two
large concentric translucent cylinders. ‘We’ll be ready
for your
live telecast very soon, General,’ says reporter John
Wakefield.
‘Splendid,’ Carrington replies. ‘Are you sure your men
will be
able to remove the helmet?’ asks Wakefield. ‘Quite sure,’
says
Carrington. Wakefield is concerned that if there is indeed
‘some sort
of alien creature’ inside the space suit, world panic
could
result.
Reegan’s
theft of radioactive isotope is in progress. A police car
races to
the scene with its siren blaring. Reegan drives a low
transporter vehicle with the crate of isotope on the back; then he
and his
colleague start to transfer the crate to the bakery van. The
police car
arrives and is met by the two space-suited aliens. Reegan
uses the
signalling device again, and the two policemen are floored
by the
creatures’ touch. The aliens get into the bakery van. One of
the
policemen, not killed by contact with the aliens, must get out
of the way
hurriedly as Reegan drives the van away.
The
Brigadier tells Carrington the news that the aliens have raided
an isotope
factory, causing several deaths. ‘You see,’ says
Carrington. ‘They’ve already landed. These creatures need radiation
to live,
and they’re prepared to rob and murder to get it.’ The
Brigadier
points out that there were men helping the aliens.
‘Traitors,’ says Carrington. ‘Collaborators, like your friend, the
Doctor.’
‘That is an unjustified assumption, sir,’ insists the
Brigadier.
Wakefield wants to know exactly what the General intends
to say in
his worldwide telecast. ‘I shall call on the nations of
the world
to unite in an attack on the aliens and their spacecraft,’
says
Carrington. ‘It must be obliterated!’
The two
aliens that were used to raid the isotope factory are back
at the
laboratory, where the Doctor and Liz are completing work on
the
communication device. Liz switches on the power, ostensibly to
test the
device. The Doctor tells Liz he has boosted the signal as
much as he
possibly can. He tells her to watch the aliens for a
reaction
while he attempts to signal to them, then begins to tap
away at
the machine. But the Doctor’s words are only for the benefit
of the
guard watching over them - he is actually signalling a Morse
code
message to UNIT.
At UNIT
HQ, Sergeant Benton receives the message: ‘SOS’. He is
surprised,
because this signal has not been used for years.
‘Everybody’s picking it up, Sarge,’ says the UNIT radio operator.
‘Taxis,
police cars, fire engines. It’s on a high impulse blanket
frequency.’ Benton tells him to try to get a triangulation on the
signal.
‘Save Our Souls,’ Benton muses.
Wakefield
is practising for the telecast: ‘This is John Wakefield,
talking to
you live from the heart of Britain’s Space Control
headquarters. This telecast is being received in homes all over the
world by
communication satellite relay.’ He breaks off to give
instructions to his camera crew. Cornish asks Wakefield if he really
thinks he
should go ahead with the broadcast - General Carrington is
going to
call on the nations of the world to blast the UFO out of
the sky
with missiles.
At the
laboratory, the Doctor tells Reegan that they are just about
to test
the communication device. Liz stays at the controls of the
device
while the Doctor goes up to the transparent screen behind
which the
two space-suited aliens can be seen. He speaks into a
microphone: ‘Now we are trying to convert our speech into your radio
impulses.
Can you understand me?’ There is no response from the
aliens, so
the Doctor repeats his message: ‘We are trying to convert
our human
speech into your radio impulses, can you understand me?’
Still no
response. ‘It doesn’t work,’ says Reegan menacingly. ‘Can
you
understand me, please try to answer,’ says the Doctor into the
microphone. Finally, the two aliens turn towards the transparent
screen and
move slowly towards it, facing out into the main part of
the
laboratory. An alien voice, like the one the Doctor heard aboard
the alien
craft, is heard in the lab: ‘Why are we kept prisoners?
Why do you
make us kill?’ Reegan grabs the microphone from the
Doctor and
tells the creatures that if they do not obey his orders,
they will
be allowed to die. ‘We are ambassadors and came in peace,’
protests
one of the aliens. ‘If you want to live, you’ll do exactly
what
you’re told,’ says Reegan. He congratulates the Doctor on the
success of
the device: ‘Now I can make a few plans.’ But he tells
the Doctor
to leave the device alone.
The alien
ship transmits a message to the Space Centre; an image of
the alien
captain appears on the huge screen, watched by the
Brigadier
and Cornish. ‘Only a little time remains to you,’ the
creature
warns. ‘We have powers to destroy your planet totally,
which we
shall use if our ambassadors are not returned.’ ‘Now we
know where
we stand, gentlemen!’ declares Carrington. ‘We must
attack
first.’
At the
laboratory, Liz and the Doctor stare grimly back at the thug
holding
them at gunpoint.
Carrington
wants to make his television broadcast at once. Wakefield
tells him
that the worldwide hook-up will not be ready for another
hour, but
the General tells Wakefield he must speed it up - ‘this is
an
emergency’. A worried Cornish asks Wakefield what he is going to
do, and
the reporter replies that he is going to do as the General
asks. The
Brigadier is informed by telephone that UNIT HQ is picking
up SOS
radio signals, which he suspects may be from the Doctor. He
tells
Carrington that he would like to follow this up, but the
General,
seeming to grow more paranoid by the moment, calls him
back: ‘You
think I don’t know what’s been going on, don’t you?…that
Doctor of
yours is in league with these creatures. And you’ve been
helping
him!’ Carrington calls two security guards, and has the
Brigadier
placed under close arrest. Under protest, the Brigadier
hands over
his revolver to one of the guards. ‘I’ve suspected you
for some
time,’ Carrington tells the Brigadier. ‘All your UNIT
people
have been locked up, and replaced by men I can trust.’ The
Brigadier
is marched away. Cornish is about the telephone the
ministry,
but Carrington tells him it is too late: ‘All
communications are under my control.’ ‘This Space Centre is under my
control,’
Cornish retorts. ‘Not any longer,’ Carrington tells him.
In a
shadowy tunnel leading out of the Space Centre complex, the
Brigadier
is marched along by the two security guards. Suddenly he
overpowers
them and hurries to a staff car, then drives away as one
of the
felled guards shoots after him. His car is allowed through
the
perimeter gateway just before the call arrives to alert the exit
guards of
his escape.
The UNIT
radio operator tells Sergeant Benton that Space HQ have cut
themselves
off; Benton tells him to keep trying. The Brigadier
arrives,
and Benton reports that the SOS signals have cut out
suddenly,
but that they have managed to pin down the location of
their
source to a disused firing range quite near the Space Centre.
There are
only one or two available men at UNIT HQ, as most of the
men are on
duty at the Centre. The Brigadier says he will take what
men there
are. He tells Benton to keep the radio manned, and to get
him a
revolver and lay on a jeep. But all the transport is over at
the Space
Centre, and the engine of the staff car that the Brigadier
‘borrowed’
is too badly damaged by bullets. Benton suggests using
the
Doctor’s car…
…and with
no other option, Bessie is soon racing through the
woodlands
with the Brigadier at the wheel and a handful of UNIT
troops in
the passenger seats. They stop, and the Brigadier spies
Reegan’s
‘Silcock Bakeries’ van through his binoculars. They set off
again, and
pull up outside the laboratory building in time to engage
in a
fierce gun battle with two of Reegan’s heavies, who shoot from
behind the
cover of the van. This time there are no casualties. When
Reegan’s
men run out of bullets, the Brigadier orders his men to
apprehend
them. The two thugs emerge from behind the van with their
hands up,
but the two UNIT soldiers who move forward to arrest them
are
careless, and allow themselves to be overpowered. Now one of the
thugs has
a UNIT rifle. The Brigadier hurries forward and grabs him.
They
exchange blows, but the Brigadier ends the fight by knocking
the man
down a hill. The other man is easily apprehended.
Inside the
laboratory, Reegan is examining a plan of a vault, and
telling
the Doctor about his scheme for using the aliens to blast it
open.
‘Look, how many times must I tell you?’ asks the Doctor. ‘I am
not
joining you in a programme of bank robbery.’ ‘I’m offering you
an equal
share, Doctor,’ Reegan points out. Gunshots are heard, and
Reegan
sends his man up the laboratory steps to investigate. The
Brigadier
bursts through the door at the top of the steps and guns
the man
down. Reegan pulls out his own gun, but the Brigadier shoots
it out of
his hand. ‘Make yourselves at home,’ says Reegan suavely.
‘What kept
you?’ asks the Doctor. ‘I see you’re all right, Doctor,’
says the
Brigadier. ‘Miss Shaw?’ ‘Just get me out of here,’ says
Liz. The
Brigadier tells the Doctor that Carrington has taken over
the Space
Centre, and plans to make a telecast urging the world to
attack the
alien spaceship. The Doctor wants to stop him
immediately, but the Brigadier points out that it will not be easy
now that
Carrington has arrested all the UNIT men and replaced them
with his
own troops. ‘We’ve got to get in there somehow,’ says the
Doctor.
‘Why don’t you use them?’ asks Reegan, nodding towards the
two
space-suited aliens. ‘You know, I think he’s right,’ says the
Doctor.
‘You won’t forget I thought of it?’ asks Reegan, looking
after
Number One to the very end. The Brigadier orders him arrested.
The Doctor
uses the communication device to say to the two aliens:
‘Now we’re
going to return you to your own people. But first we need
your help
to prevent a catastrophe.’
Bessie and
the ‘Silcock Bakeries’ van arrive outside the main
gateway
leading into the Space Centre complex. The Brigadier gets
out of
Bessie and, using a megaphone, orders Carrington’s men to
open the
gates. They ignore him; he repeats the order; they continue
to ignore
him. So now the two aliens are released from the van. The
Doctor
uses the communication device to instruct the aliens to open
the gates.
‘Please try not to harm anyone,’ he adds. Carrington’s
men begin
firing on the advancing space-suited figures. The Doctor,
Liz and
the Brigadier take cover. The Doctor uses the megaphone to
tell
Carrington’s men that the aliens are invulnerable to their
bullets;
‘they will not harm you, but you will die if you touch
them,’ he
warns. Carrington’s men, still firing, get out of the way
as one of
the creatures raises the barrier and both advance towards
the
complex. The Doctor’s party gets into Bessie. Each of the aliens
touches
half of the locking mechanism on the huge double doors
leading
into the complex, and the mechanism is destroyed. The doors
swing
inwards, and Bessie and the van are able to pass through.
Inside the
Space Centre, Carrington is planning his television
broadcast
with Wakefield’s team: ‘When I move across to here,’ he
says, ‘get
your camera in close on this creature, and my man will
forcibly
remove his helmet. I want the world to know what these
monsters
look like.’ Wakefield agrees. Cornish urges Carrington not
to make
the broadcast, as it risks bringing down total destruction
on Earth.
‘You have no concept of moral duty!’ declares the General.
When
Cornish continues to protest, Carrington has his security men
remove
him. ‘Five seconds to go, General,’ says Wakefield. Grimly
dignified,
Carrington gets ready.
Wakefield
begins the broadcast: ‘This is John Wakefield, speaking to
you live
from the heart of Britain’s Space Control headquarters.
This
telecast is being received in homes all over the world by
communication satellite relay.’ (Gunshots begin sounding in the
background.) ‘Owing to widespread rumours concerning an unidentified
flying
object hovering above this planet, General Carrington, head
of Space
Security - himself an ex-astronaut and Mars Probe veteran -
is about
to speak to you on a matter of tremendous importance.’
A female
technician screams as the two aliens enter the control
room.
‘They’re here, we’re being invaded!’ cries Carrington, and
starts
firing at the creatures. The aliens stop their advance. UNIT
troops,
led by the Brigadier and accompanied by the Doctor and Liz,
occupy the
control room. The Brigadier holds Carrington at gunpoint:
‘It’s no
good, General. I’ve released my men, this place is in my
hands.’ ‘I
must make this broadcast,’ Carrington protests. ‘It’s a
matter of
world survival!’ But the Brigadier replies that he must
place the
General under arrest. All the fight seems suddenly to go
out of
Carrington. He surrenders his gun to the Brigadier. But he
carefully
puts on his cap and takes up his swagger stick, determined
to exit
like an officer. Before he is taken away by Benton,
Carrington
pauses to say to the Doctor: ‘I had to do what I did. It
was my
moral duty. You do understand, don’t you?’ ‘Yes General,’
says the
Doctor with great gentleness. ‘I understand.’
‘Please
release that gentleman,’ says the Doctor, meaning the
captive
alien. The two concentric translucent cylinders confining it
are
raised. ‘Right, Mr Cornish,’ he says, ‘you’ve got to get a
message up
to that alien spaceship and tell them that their
ambassadors are safe and well.’ ‘Doctor, where are my three
astronauts?’ asks Cornish. ‘My dear chap, they’re still up there.
But don’t
worry, they’re all right, they’re quite safe. And we’ve
got to
make an exchange.’ The released alien rejoins its two
companions. ‘Send these three up in Recovery Seven - and they’ll
send down
our three astronauts,’ says the Doctor. Pure M3 variant
can be
used as fuel, since the aliens are not susceptible to
G-force.
Cornish immediately sets about contacting the fuel bay. The
Doctor
bids farewell to Cornish, saying that he has a lot of work to
do in his
own laboratory. The Doctor leaves Liz to help Cornish
communicate with the ambassadors: ‘She’s much more practical than I
am.’ He
takes his leave of the Brigadier and Liz. ‘Goodbye
gentlemen,’ says the Doctor to the aliens, apparently having second
thoughts
about shaking hands with them. ‘Have a nice trip.’ And he
heads out
of Space Control for the last time.
Source:
Andy Campbell
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Inferno
Inferno
Serial DDD
Producer
Barry
Letts
Script
Editor
Terrance
Dicks
Designer
Jeremy
Davies Written by Don Houghton
Directed by Douglas Camfield*
Action by Havoc [2-3]
Jon
Pertwee (Doctor Who), Caroline John (Liz Shaw / Section
Leader Elizabeth Shaw)†, Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier
Lethbridge-Stewart)‡, Olaf Pooley (Professor Stahlman /
Director Stahlman)¶, Christopher Benjamin (Sir Keith Gold)
[1-5,7], Derek Newark (Greg Sutton), Sheila Dunn (Petra
Williams / Dr. Petra Williams)§, John Levene (Sergeant Benton
/
Platoon Under Leader Benton)¥, David Simeon (Private
Latimer) [1,3], Derek Ware (Private Wyatt) [1-3], Walter
Randall (Harry Slocum) [1-2], Ian Fairbairn (Bromley) [1-5,7],
Roy
Scammell (RSF Sentry) [4]; Keith James (Patterson) [5];
Dave
Carter [5-6], Pat Gorman [5-6], Walter Henry [6], Philip
Ryan
[5-6], Peter Thompson [5-6] (Primords).
NOTE: The story title, writer credit and episode number blur
in
over footage of volcanoes and flowing lava.
*
Barry Letts, uncredited, directed the studio recordings for
Episodes 3 to 7, as Douglas Camfield was suffering from a
heart condition.
†
Caroline John is credited as Section Leader Elizabeth Shaw
for
Episode 5.
‡
Nicholas Courtney is credited as Brigade Leader
Lethbridge-Stewart for Episode 5.
¶
Olaf Pooley is credited as Director Stahlman for Episode 5.
§
Sheila Dunn is credited as Dr. Petra Williams for Episodes
5-6.
¥
John Levene is credited as Platoon Under Leader Benton for
Episodes 3-5.
20th
Century Earth. An unhinged scientist, Professor Stahlman,
is
attempting the first penetration of the Earth's crust in a
top
secret drilling project called Inferno. His purpose? To
tap
into a new energy source at the core. But at what cost?
When
the Doctor is called in with his companion Liz Shaw to
oversee the project, he soon develops grave misgivings. Things
begin to go very wrong when a mysterious green substance leaks
from
the drillhead. A substance which turns all who come into
contact with it into alien primeval creatures called Primords.
Meanwhile, the Doctor finds himself transported into a
parallel universe identical to 20th Century Earth. The mystery
deepens as he finds that although the place, time and people
are
all the same, no-one seems to know who he is.
Only
one thing is certain: the drilling must be stopped before
the
full force of the energy from the core is unleashed,
destroying not only this Earth but the one the Doctor has just
left
behind...
Original
Broadcast (UK)
Episode 1 9th May, 1970 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Episode 2 16th May, 1970 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Episode 3 23rd May, 1970 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Episode 4 30th May, 1970 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Episode 5 6th June, 1970 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Episode 6 13th June, 1970 5h25pm - 5h50pm
Episode 7 20th June, 1970 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Notes:
Released on video and DVD in episodic format. [+/-]
INFERNO
U.K. Release: May 1994 / U.S. Release: September
1995
PAL - BBC video BBCV5269 (2
tapes)
NTSC - CBS/FOX video 8292 (2
tapes)
NTSC - Warner Video E1298 (2
tapes)
Episode 7 also released on The Pertwee Years video.
U.K. Release: June 2006 / U.S. Release: September
2006
PAL Region 2 - BBCDVD1802 (2 DVD)
NTSC Region 1 - Warner DVD E2667
(2 DVD)
DVD FEATURES:
Commentary with Nicholas Courtney, John Levene,
script editor Terrance Dicks and
producer/codirector Barry Letts.
'Can You Hear the Earth Scream?' - Making of
documentary.
'The UNIT Family - Part One' - Documentary looking
at the Third Doctor's Earthbound stories.
Visual Effects Promo Film.
Deleted scene.
The Pertwee Years intro to episode 7.
The 1971 Doctor Who Annual as a PDF.
Radio Times billings as a PDF.
Photo Gallery,
Subtitle Production Notes,
LINK: The Restoration Team work for Inferno DVD.
Novelised as Doctor Who - Inferno by Terrance Dicks. [+/-]
Number 89 in the Doctor Who Library.
Hardcover Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: June 1984.
ISBN: 0 491 03143 2.
Cover by Nick Spender.
Price: £5.95.
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: October 1984.
ISBN: 0 426 19617 1.
Cover by Nick Spender.
Price: £1.50.
Also released as part of The Seventh Doctor Who Gift
Set in 1985 [ISBN: 0 426 20206 6].
Doctor Who Magazine Archive: Issue #305.
Episode 1
(drn:
23'21")
The Doctor
speeds through the English countryside in his restored
yellow
roadster, Bessie. He sings an aria from Rigoletto as he
drives
into a vast industrial complex. He waves happily at the
guards and
drives into a restricted era.
He passes
a big cheerful man named Slocum, bicycling through the
complex
and whistling. Slocum stops to chat with a technician about
the
drilling project before finding his way to a large sophisticated
control
room that is bustling with technicians. He find Sir Keith
Gold - a
dignified middle-aged man - and asks him about the #2
output
pipe. Keith takes him into another room that is filled with
noise and
heat emanating from a central pillar of machinery. Keith
shows him
a leaking pipe and asks him to repair it.
A bearded
gruff man - Professor Stahlman - appears with Dr. Petra
Williams,
a pretty blond woman who is the Assistant Director of the
project.
He asks her why drilling has been slowed and Keith tells
him about
the damaged pipe. Stahlman is annoyed that drilling has
been
slowed without asking for his authorization. He angrily tells
Sir Keith
that, as executive director, he should stay focused on
keeping
the canteen stocked and leave minor drilling problem to him.
Keith
reminds him there is no such thing as a minor drill problem
but
Stahlman dismisses him.
Slocum is
tightening the pipe down when a green liquid bubbles up
through
the grating. He touches it and it burns his hand. He then
hears a
ringing in his head and becomes disoriented as his hand
begins to
turn green.
Keith asks
Petra why Stahlman is so defensive. After she explains
that the
project is all he has. Keith tells her he's bringing in
another
consultant - Greg Sutton, an oil driller. He wants someone
on this
project with a good practical knowledge of drilling - and
its
dangers.
Slocum
emerges from the drill area in a daze. Stahlman, thinking the
pipe
repaired, orders the drilling rate increased to make up for
lost time.
As Slocum
stumbles out into the complex, a scientist sees him. He
approaches
the engineer and tries to help him. But Slocum gives an
inhuman
roar and strikes him down with a wrench.
Some time
later, the Brigadier arrives at the complex and enters his
office.
Benton, busily arranging it, tells him they have made no
progress
in finding Slocum. The Brigadier tells him to keep the
murder
quiet.
The Doctor
arrives. After joking with the Brigadier about his class
picture,
he is informed of the recent events. The Brigadier shows
him the
wrench used in the murder and Benton tells him Slocum was
one of the
most popular men in the complex. The Doctor finds the
wrench
still warm and the Brigadier tells him it was white hot when
found.
The
Brigadier asks why the Doctor has come and the Doctor replies
that he is
interested in the first penetration of the Earth's crust.
The
Brigadier is skeptical of this explanation as the Doctor leaves
to
continue his experiments.
Greg
Sutton, a robust man in his 30's, is brought to Sir Keith. Sir
Keith
explains that he asked for the best oil rig man they could
find. He
shows Sutton the drillhead, which is like nothing Greg has
ever seen.
He explains that they are using a nuclear-powered robotic
drill
which is now twenty miles deep. He jokes that the engineers
have
dubbed the project "The Inferno". They are drilling to find the
pockets of
Stahlman's gas that should lie just underneath the
Earth's
crust and provide Britain with an immense amount of energy.
The
countdown reaches 60 hours as Sutton is introduced to Petra. The
oil man is
fascinated by the pretty woman but she is dismissive of
him. He is
then introduced to Stahlman, who rants about Gold
constantly
bringing in experts to drag the operation to a halt. As
the Doctor
enters, Stahlman cries out "there's another one!" and the
Doctor
taunts the Director about his liver playing him up.
Keith
introduces Sutton to the Doctor. The Doctor is concerned about
the
warnings coming from one of the computers. He's not wild about
computers
but thinks it's stupid to ignore them. He flips a switch
to siphon
off power for his own project.
Stahlman
tells Petra all the experts are a waste of time -- just in
time for
the Doctor to spot a technician making an error that could
cost
thousands. As the Doctor happily heads back to his hut,
Stahlman
fumes that he's "losing patience with that man!".
The Doctor
drives out to his hut and uses his sonic screwdriver to
open the
door. Inside, Liz Shaw, his assistant, is working on the
TARDIS
console. The Doctor tells her about the murder but maintains
that they
came there to tap the nuclear generator to get the console
working.
They activate the console and begin feeding power into it.
Slocum
sneaks around - his skin completely green, black hair
appearing
over his body. He breaks into the power reactor, knocks
out the
technician, grabs a lever and sends the reactor to full
power.
The TARDIS
console start shaking. Liz tries to cut the power but is
unable to
before the Doctor and console vanish. The Doctor finds
himself in
a black void, clinging to the TARDIS console, with
mysterious
forces pulling at him.
Liz
finally manages to cut the power and the console reappears with
a
reverberating crash. The dazed Doctor tells her he went nowhere --
he was in
a limbo pressing against a barrier he couldn't break
through.
He wants to make another trial run -- because of what
happened.
Klaxons
rings through the complex and the Doctor and Liz rush to the
drill
head. Heat shutters close over the drill and smoke pours
through
the complex. Stahlman demands the shield be raised while
Petra
tries to contact the reactor. Unable to get them, she rushes
into the
drill area over Sutton's objections.
The Doctor
and Liz arrive. The Brigadier informs him that a soldier
has been
killed near the reactor. The Doctor tries to speak to
Stahlman.
When the Director won't listen, the Doctor berates him and
heads off
with Liz.
Petra
reports that the coolant controls are jammed with the heat.
Greg tries
to stop her going back in but she's confident Stahlman
can deal
with the crisis. The engineers continue to struggle with
the
coolant valves as Sutton races in to help.
The
Brigadier and Doctor arrive at the reactor and find the dead
technician. As they examine him, Slocum leaps out from the shadows.
He growls
as he moves toward them...
Episode 2
(drn:
22'04")
The Doctor
motions Sergeant Benton to stay back from Slocum as the
mutating
man growls at them.
Greg gets
the coolant flowing again, saving the drill. Stahlman
tells
Petra to call the reactor and find out what happened.
The phone
in the reactor room starts ringing. While Slocum is
distracted, Private Wyatt sneaks around the equipment. He pops out
and shoots
Slocum twice. But Slocum throws him to the ground before
collapsing
against the wall. The Doctor uses the Brigadier's pistol
to push
the red-hot reactor lever back, slowing the power output.
Slocum
roars in protest and collapses, leaving a scorch mark against
the wall.
The Doctor answers the phone and testily inform Stahlman
that
they've dealt with the problem.
Greg jokes
with the engineers about striking an Order of the Turkish
Bath for
their heroism. But Stahlman orders them back to work.
Sutton
insists that they should slow the pace, make allowances for
potential
problems. But Stahlman won't listen. Greg then tries
talking to
Petra, who is starting to warm to him. He asks her to
talk to
Stahlman -- maybe he will listen to his Assistant Director.
Bromley,
the reactor technician, and Wyatt seem very confused and
disoriented after Slocum's assault. The Doctor warns the Brigadier
not to
touch them. They go out to talk on a gantry and the Doctor
admits
he's not sure what's going on -- why Slocum has transformed.
The
Brigadier worries about keeping it quiet and comments that he'd
never
heard a sound like Slocum's screeching. The Doctor replies
that he
has - during the eruption of Krakatoa.
Benton
comes up and tells them the two men have disappeared. As he
and the
Brigadier rush off to investigate, the Doctor hears
screeching
and spots Wyatt on a gantry. He runs off in pursuit,
climbing
over fuel tanks. Wyatt is already changing, his skin
turning
dark green. He attacks the Doctor, using his rifle as a
club, and
falls off the gantry. When soldiers go to investigate, the
Doctor
warns them not to touch Wyatt. As he goes down Bromley
appears in
the background, also transformed.
Stahlman
tells Petra he has found a way to advance penetration zero
by five
hours. But she bring him into the control room to see
something
brought in by Sir Keith.
Keith
opens a small box and takes out a cylinder of green slime. He
explains
that it has been coming up in the waste pipe in greater and
greater
quantities. They can't analyze it because it is too hot. The
Doctor
opines that it's not going to cool down for them.
The
Brigadier demands to speak with Stahlman and Gold. As they go
off, the
Doctor gazes at the green slime and wonders if it
screeches.
But Liz interrupts to tell him that he needs to look at
the main
computer -- it's telling her something downright
frightening.
Stahlman
insists to the Brigadier that the death are a personnel
problem,
not a scientific one. He dismisses the Doctor's concerns
even
though the Doctor has already given critical help to the
project.
The Doctor
bursts in and asks if anyone is going to pay attention to
the
warning of the computer. Stahlman dismisses the computer as
unreliable, prompting the Doctor to call him a nitwit.
Petra
rushes in and tells them the jar of slime is cracking. Over
the
Doctor's objections, Stahlman grabs the jar with his bare hand
and puts
it backs into the box. He refuses to discuss the situation
any longer
- he has been working on the program from 11 years and
knows it
better than any computer.
The
Doctor, however, tells him the computer's message is perfectly
clear if
Stahlman cares to check. Stahlman continues to ignore the
computer
and the Doctor finally gives up and decides to go back to
his hut.
But Stahlman decides they need all the power for the drill
and
refuses to send any more power to the hut. He then tells Petra
to
accelerate the drilling.
But his
hand is already beginning to turn green.
The Doctor
sends Liz back to continue work on the console and then
quietly
turns the power back on to his hut.
Stahlman
opens the computer console and removes a transistor. He
takes it
into the Brigadier's office and prepares to smash it. But
he is
interrupted by the Doctor who uses his Venusian akido to stop
him. The
Brigadier interrupts their confrontation and Stahlman
demands
that the Doctor be expelled before leaving.
The Doctor
chases him out into the control room and demands that he
empty his
pockets. Stahlman, however, no longer has the
microcircuit. The Doctor leaves in disgust as the computer begins to
fail.
After he leaves, Stahlman goes to the circuit, which is lying
in a
corner, and crushes it beneath his heel.
The Doctor
returns to his hut. He insists to Liz that the TARDIS
console is
working fine -- the problem was the power surge. He then
asks the
young woman to run some epsilon coordinates for him back in
the
computer room. He insist he's tired but when she leaves, he
rapidly
sets to work on the console.
When Liz
reaches the control center, she finds the computer dead.
The
Brigadier recalls that the Doctor was there when it started
failing.
Liz realizes what is happing when she sees that the power
is back
on. She and the Brigadier races back to the hut.
The
console begins shaking as power builds.
Stahlman
starts accelerating the drilling when he realizes that
power is
being drawn off. He goes to control room and angrily
switches
off the power to the Doctor's hut.
The
Brigadier and Liz returns just in time to see the Doctor, the
TARDIS
console and Bessie vanish into thin air...
Episode 3
(drn:
24'34")
Liz and
the Brigadier returns to the control room and ask Stahlman
to restore
the power. He refuses. Keith is now upset that Stahlman
is
accelerating the drilling without authorization. But Stahlman
points out
that no one will object since he can provide so much
cheap
energy to the nation.
Sir Keith
decides to head to London to officially complain. But he
is
pessimistic. The Ministry has been dazzled by Stahlman's
promises.
Stahlman's
hand is turning greener. He covers it up with a pair of
white
gloves.
Liz asks
the Brigadier why he doesn't appear worried. But
Lethbridge-Stewart tells her that between Stahlman, the Doctor and
the
murders, he's plenty worried.
In another
place . . . another world . . . the Doctor comes to. He
checks the
TARDIS console but there is no power. He notices that his
lab is
different. There is a picture of a grim-looking man over the
motto
"Unity Is Strength". His sonic screwdriver fails to open the
door.
There is a crossed arrow symbol on the door.
He gets in
Bessie and drives out into the complex. Suddenly, a
soldier
starts shooting at him. The Doctor races off in Bessie as a
very
brutal Sergeant Benton arrives with a group of soldiers. Benton
is wearing
a fascistic uniform with a crossed arrow symbol on his
beret.
The
soldiers maintain their pursuit of the Doctor. He finally pulls
over and
hides in a dustbin, then escapes to a gantry. As he does,
he hears a
screech and turns to see Bromley. The Doctor uses a fire
extinguisher to neutralize the maddened technician but he is spotted
by the
soldiers. Wyatt appears and attacks. As the Doctor evades the
maddened
soldier, Benton orders his men to shoot at the first thing
they see.
But they shoot the deranged Wyatt, who plunges from the
tall
cooling tower to his death.
A
dark-haired woman in tall black boots walks quickly through the
complex.
The Doctor recognizes her as Liz and calls out to her. But
she pulls
a gun and uses a whistle to summon the soldiers.
The Doctor
is dragged to the Brigadier's office -- now stark and
bare. When
The Brigadier turns around, he has a massive scar on the
left side
of his face and patch over his eye. He doesn't recognize
the Doctor
and tersely interrogates him, with Benton uses his rifle
butt to
assist.
He tells
the Doctor he is the "Brigade Leader" while Liz is the
"Section Leader". They demand his name and the Doctor,
realizing
what has
happened, gives the moniker of Dr. John Smith. He tells
them he
has come from a parallel universe. Liz thinks he must be
deranged
but the Brigade-Leader thinks it's an act.
They are
concerned that he knows their names. And when the Doctor
asks about
Stahlman, Sir Keith and the shaft, they become convinced
he's a
spy. The Doctor asks to see Stahlman or Gold and the
Brigade-Leader agrees -- the Doctor won't be leaving alive anyway.
Benton
takes him into the control room and the Doctor notices that
they are a
mere three hours away from penetration zero.
Stahlman
appears. He is dressed in white, his face clean-shaven,
dark
glasses on his eyes. He is amused that the Doctor wants to see
Sir Keith
and informs the Time Lord that Gold was killed in a car
accident
24 hours earlier. Stahlman simply laughs off the Doctor's
story of
coming from a parallel world.
The Doctor
asks about the sabotaged computer, pointing out that a
microcircuit is missing. Stahlman promptly accuses him of sabotaging
it. Benton
drags the Doctor back into the Brigade-Leader's office.
Sutton,
now wearing a suit and tie, tells Petra they have no
pressure
in the coolant pipes. The Assistant Director, dressed in
white with
her hair severely bound, coldly ignores him. He worries
about what
will happen in a an emergency. But when he pushes her,
she
rebukes him and threatens to report him.
She then
tells Stahlman they are exceeding the safety margins. He
refuses to
make any changes and retreats to a corridor as a buzzing
sound
fills his head. His hand is completely green with coarse hair
growing
over it.
The Doctor
waits in the office while the Brigade-Leader fills out
some
paperwork. He tells the Doctor that he will be shot eventually.
He
explains that he is an officer of the Republic -- the royal
family
having been executed -- and he is there to supervise a
scientific
slave labor camp.
The Doctor
replies that they are all in grave danger, which amuses
the
Brigade-Leader. The Doctor reminds him that, before the computer
failed, it
was warning of danger. He reminds the Brigade-Leader of
Harry
Slocum, which convinces the Brigade-Leader that he is indeed a
spy. The
Doctor again insists he has come from another world but the
Brigade-Leader tells him they are checking his identify. When the
Doctor
tells him he doesn't exist in their world, the Brigade-Leader
retorts,
"Then you won't feel the bullets when we shoot you!"
The
Brigade-Leader is called away and Liz informs him they have
found
nothing on the Doctor. Lethbridge-Stewart stuffily reports
this to
the Doctor, who taunts him about not being able to shoot him
without
filling out the proper forms. Liz tells him he has very
little
time left and the Doctor replies that they all have very
little
time left.
Petra
reports that #2 output pipe is now leaking debris. Greg wants
to have it
looked into since there is no such thing as a minor
problem at
the drillhead. But Stahlman tells him to mind his own
business.
As he leaves, Greg grumbles, "No, Director. Sorry,
Director.
Three bags full, Director."
Suddenly,
alarms ring through the complex. Liz and the
Brigade-Leader rush into the control room to investigate. The Doctor
calls
Benton over and overpowers him.
The
Brigade-Leader calls up the security guards to keep the
technicians in the control room.
The Doctor
sneaks into the control room, finds a tool box and begins
to work on
the computer.
The
Brigade-Leader and his men pull guns as the technicians try to
flee. He
tells them that "if this place goes up, we all go up with
it!".
Stahlman
spots the Doctor working on the computer and summons
Benton.
The Doctor looks up to find a rifle pointed at his head. He
explains
that he's trying to fix the computer but Benton tells him
they have
a firing squad ready for him. The Doctor insists they will
all die if
the doesn't fix the computer. But Benton simply levels
his rifle
and asks the Doctor if he's ready to go quietly or wants
to be shot
here and now...
Episode 4
(drn:
24'57")
Liz stops
Benton -- but only because she wants to follow the correct
procedure.
Over their protests, the Doctor repairs the computer and
it starts
spitting out data. The Doctor pores over the readings.
Stahlman
demands to know what the Doctor is doing and Liz points out
that the
computer is working now. Stahlman insists they are doing
fine with
his calculations but Greg points out his calculations
can't deal
with the current crisis.
The Doctor
and Sutton hatch a plan to reverse everything -- take the
waste in
through the input pipe while pumping coolant down the
output
pipe. Stahlman resists but is forced to concede. The Doctor
is then
dragged off.
Liz
questions him again but the Doctor sticks to his story. She asks
about her
other self and the Doctor tells her she's a scientist in
his world.
She points out that she's really a security office but
the Doctor
gets her to admit she studied A-level science. The Doctor
encourages
her to use her skilled mind to overcome the narrow
bigoted
world she lives in.
The pipe
reversal works. Sutton asks Petra about the Doctor and she
replies
that he's a saboteur. When Sutton tells her he will have to
slow
drilling to fix the output pipe, she says he will protest, but
Sutton
insists there is no alternative. Petra points out that if he
wasn't so
insolent, he'd have a brighter future. His technical
skills
have kept him alive but he might be disposed of once the
project is
finished. He asks her if she'd care and she replies that
she would
regret the waste.
Liz tells
the Doctor that the emergency has passed. She continues
that if he
tells her the truth, she can help him. But the Doctor
only
replies that the emergency is not over -- they are still
rushing
into terrible danger.
Stahlman
tells Sutton they will accelerate the drilling again.
Sutton
points out that the drill is only still working because of
the
Doctor. The only reply is another warning that bad things will
happen to
him if he continues to act up.
But
Stahlman is beginning to give in to the alien influence of the
slime.
The
Brigadier and Liz interrogate the Doctor but he sticks to his
story. He
begins to loses consciousness and they scale back their
treatment.
But the sound of the accelerating drill bring him back
and they
resume.
They are
interrupted by Stahlman. The Doctor notices his white
gloves and
asks him to take them off. Stahlman does and shows him a
bandaged
hand. The Doctor reminds him of the jar and speculates that
Stahlman
has been infected by the green slime. Benton hauls the
Doctor to
the cells. Stahlman insists that the Doctor should be
liquidated.
Sutton
tells Petra that they should have checked the drill while it
was
powered down. When she insists that Stahlman knows what he's
doing,
Greg tells her that Stahlman is a nut. For once, Petra
doesn't
report him.
The Doctor
is taken to a prison. He sees a prisoner sleeping in the
next cell.
Liz is brought in and tells him the interrogation is
going to
continue. The Doctor ignore her and lies down but is forced
to stand
when Benton again threatens to shoot him.
Liz
resumes her questioning but he insists that he has told her the
truth.
Benton offers to rough the Doctor up but Liz sends the
soldiers
away. She tries talking nicely to the Doctor but he sees
through
the ploy. She tells him she thinks he's from a crackpot free
speech
group but the Doctor insists this is not the case.
After she
leaves, the Doctor tries to talk to his neighbor. He gets
no
response . . . except a green claw emerging from beneath the
sheet.
Back in
the real world, the Brigadier tells Liz they've found no
sign of
the Doctor. He assures her that the Doctor can look after
himself.
Sir Keith
tells Stahlman he's going to London to express his
concerns
with the way things are going. He wants more precautions
and a way
to shut down drilling in an emergency. Stahlman is at
first
conciliatory but quickly becomes enraged and points out that
he has
fought hard for the project and won't brook any more delays.
Liz and
the Brigadier ask if the Minister will listen and Sir Keith
is
uncertain. He will come back for penetration even though he has a
foreboding
about it. He asks where the Doctor has gone and remarks
that,
wherever he is, he's better off out of it.
In the
parallel world, the Doctor wakes to hear screeching in the
next cell.
He calls out for the sergeant. The soldier goes into the
cell but
Bromley knocks him out. Bromley then rips apart the cell
bars. The
Doctor uses a mattress to fend him off and escapes out the
open door.
He climbs into the back of a nearby range rover.
Petra
tells Greg they are only 35 minutes away from penetration
zero.
The Doctor
finds heat-protective suits in the back of the rover and
begins to
put it on.
Benton
finds the Doctor has escaped and begins a search.
There are
now three minutes left. The Doctor joins a bunch of hooded
figures
and goes back into the control room. The countdown reaches
two
minutes as the Doctor steps out of line and goes to the
computer.
The Brigade-Leader notices and tells him to come down.
The Doctor
steps down and rips off his mask. He pleads with them to
stop
drilling. Stahlman tells the Brigade-Leader to shoot him but
Sutton
protests.
A loud
buzzing noise emerges from the drillhead. "Listen to that!"
cries the
Doctor, "It's the sound of this planet screaming out its
rage."
Stahlman
again orders the Brigade-Leader to shoot the Doctor but
Sutton
jumps him. Soldiers close in as the Doctor tries to escape.
Stahlman
picks up the gun and points it at the Doctor as the
countdown
reaches zero...
Episode 5
(drn:
23'42")
A massive
explosion rocks the center at penetration zero. The
soldiers
want to shoot Sutton but he stays to cap the bore as the
technicians flee.
Sutton
tells the Doctor he can cap the bore if he gets coolant
flowing.
Stahlman is set to go in but Sutton tells him he needs a
fire suit.
The Doctor remarks that Stahlman doesn't feel the heat as
they do.
Another
explosion rips through the building. Green slime oozes from
the pipes.
The Doctor
and Sutton don their masks and head into the bore.
Technicians are passed out all over the drillhead. Sutton tries the
coolant
valve but Stahlman sneaks up and slams a pipe into his back.
Stahlman
drags Sutton over to the drill and takes off his mask. The
Doctor
attacks him and they roll around on the floor as Greg
recovers.
He strikes Stahlman down and the two men retreat from the
drill
head.
Liz asks
why Stahlman is still in the drill head and the Doctor
replies
that he likes it in there.
Sutton is
determined to go back in but a steel blast door closes,
sealing it
off. Stahlman then locks the controls. Stahlman begins
dragging
the technicians to the drill and forcing their faces into
the green
slime.
The Doctor
reads the data strip from the computer. He asks Sutton
what the
blast doors are made from and Sutton tells him they were
built to
stand up to an atomic blast. The Doctor replies that an
atomic
blast would seem like a summer breeze compared to the forces
they have
unleashed.
The
Brigade-Leader reports that the technicians have all fled. Petra
then tells
him the computer has broken down. She asks if he has
heard any
news from London and he tells her seismic disturbances are
being
measured all over the country. They are evacuating the area
and have
given the Brigade-Leader executive control. Greg opines
that they
have been abandoned.
Sutton
asks the Doctor if there is anything to be done. The Doctor
says it is
too late -- nothing can seal the bore. The heat and
pressure
will eventually dissolve the surface of the planet, leaving
it
uninhabitable in a matter of weeks or even days.
Bromley
arrives and tries to get to the drillhead. The Brigadier
shoots him
and he staggers on. The Doctor uses a fire extinguisher
to finish
him off.
Sutton
wants to leave since they are all doomed. Liz reminds him
they were
ordered to stay and the Brigade-Leader points his gun at
Sutton and
tells him to do his duty. Sutton taunts him about what
his
precious dictator is doing now and the Brigade-Leader rages that
he will
not listen to treason. The Doctor tells them to save their
energy.
Benton
reports his men are ready and the Brigade-Leader orders them
to seal
the building. Greg laments that "the world is going up in
flames and
they're still playing toy soldiers!" Benton leaves and
rousts his
men out.
Greg tells
Petra they should just leave but she continues to work on
the
computer. Greg tries to persuade her that they are doomed -- no
one is
being allowed in; if they thought there was a chance of
saving the
project, they'd be sending in experts. Petra begins to
realize
he's right -- they're just going to die there. She finally
breaks
down and goes into Greg's arms. He assure her he will get
them out.
[Note: In
the North American broadcast, there is a scene of The
Doctor,
Brigade-Leader and Liz listening to a radio broadcast
reporting
the events].
Liz tells
the Brigade-Leader there's nothing to be done. But the
Doctor
tells them they can save one world -- his. The Brigade-Leader
is
skeptical but the Doctor explains that if they can get power to
his
TARDIS, he could go back. The other project isn't as advanced
and he
could stop them. The Brigade-Leader unexpectedly agrees to
have a
look at the console. As they leave, he tells Petra to keep
working.
Sutton wonders where they are going and assure Petra they
will get
out.
The
Brigade-Leader and Liz are unimpressed by the TARDIS. The Doctor
flips a
switch and the column moves on a bit of residual power. The
Brigade-Leader is still skeptical and the Doctor makes a short jump
in time
using the last of his power. This finally convinces the
Brigade-Leader and Liz.
The
Brigade-Leader asks if the Doctor can take others with him but
the Doctor
explains that it is too dangerous. They would create a
dimensional paradox and shatter the spacetime continuum.
Stahlman
calls out to Petra over the intercom. She calls Greg who
insists
that no one could be alive in there. The Doctor and the
others
return as Stahlman calls out again, asking Petra to raise the
heat
shield -- the interior controls are jammed with the heat.
The Doctor
tells her not to but the Brigade-Leader insists that if
Stahlman
has found a solution, they need his help. He forces the
Doctor to
back off at gunpoint.
Petra
raises the shield. A figure with green claws steps out. Petra
goes to
him but the Doctor holds her back. Stahlman pulls off his
mask to
reveal a full primord -- his face green and covered with
thick fur.
He waves and other primords emerge from the drill head.
The
primords hesitate, acclimating to the temperature. Greg tries to
run but
the primords block the exits. Benton enters and primords
grab him.
Stahlman runs his hands over Benton's face and the soldier
falls to
the ground, screaming.
In the
confusion, the Doctor rips the wires out of the door control
and its
slams shut, cutting off the primords. The survivors race
into the
Brigade-Leader's office, leaving Benton behind.
Benton
rolls on the ground screaming in pain. He quickly changes
into a
primord. Sutton is angry that they've left Benton behind but
the Doctor
assures him there's nothing to be done. Worse than being
killed,
Benton will now be one of them. He explains that the
primords
draw strength from the heat.
The
Brigade Leader laments that they can't get to the Doctor's
spacecraft
now. Greg asks to be told what's going on.
Back in
the real world, Sir Keith is in a Ministry car. His driver
is taking
a strange route and the phone doesn't work. Gold is
impatient
-- the Ministry has agreed to suspend and review the
project.
When he realizes they are in the middle of nowhere, the
driver
reluctantly admits that Stahlman ordered him to take Sir
Keith into
the country and stage a breakdown. He agrees to hurry
back to
the complex. But as he apologizes, he swerves into an
oncoming
car.
In the
parallel world, the primords begins to recover in the heat
and start
pawing at the Brigade-Leader's office door.
The
Brigade-Leader concludes that they must all sacrifice their
lives so
that the Doctor can escape. Liz points out that they are
dead
anyway. Greg says that it's a weird story but he's prepared to
believe
it. The Brigade-Leader scoffs that they are trapped anyway.
The Doctor
says that he has a plan for getting out. But before he
can
elaborate, a green claw smashes through the door's window...
Episode 6
(drn:
23'32")
The Doctor
grabs a fire extinguisher off the wall and uses it to
fend off
the primord. He tells the others the primords won't return
until the
temperature rises. Their first step is to connect power to
his
TARDIS. He checks the ventilators and confirms that there is
still
power.
Petra
tells him it will be complicated. She will have to reset the
power
switch, go to the reactor and turn up the power. The Doctor
suggests
they use the fire extinguishers to get past the primords
but Petra
objects that it may take too long.
Greg then
remembers that he rigged up an emergency coolant hose. If
he can get
it free, they will have a monster fire extinguisher.
The
primords return. The Doctor opens the door and Greg uses the
extinguisher to chase the primords back. The Brigade-Leader holds
the
primords at bay while Greg works to free the coolant hose.
Stahlman
tries to sneak up from behind but the Brigade-Leader spots
him and
hit him blasts from the extinguisher. He then chases the
others
back until the Doctor tells him not to waste the coolant.
Stahlman
is paralyzed with the cold, but not dead.
Just as
the extinguisher runs out, Greg gets the coolant pipe free
and chases
the primords back. The Brigade-Leader, Liz and Petra race
out as
Greg holds them off. They get outside and notice it has
become
incredibly hot. The Brigade-Leader wants to go but Petra and
Liz insist
on waiting for the others.
The Doctor
is making slow progress with the switch. Greg asks him
how he
knows the other world will stop the drilling. The Doctor
hopes that
Sir Keith is still alive and will listen to him.
In the
real world, the Brigadier is trying to get word of Sir Keith.
Benton
reports that Stahlman won't come to see him. The Brigadier
tells the
sergeant to carry him in if he has to.
Liz tries
feeding power to the hut, hoping it will bring the Doctor
back.
Someone tries the door and she opens it. It's Sutton, looking
for the
Doctor. He was passing by and wanted to see the machine the
Doctor was
working on. He wonders about the disappearance since no
one saw
the Doctor leave. Liz tells him she hopes he'll return soon
and Greg
speculates the Doctor blew himself to pieces and they're
trying to
cover it up. Liz is about to tell him the truth but
hesitates.
He tells her Sir Keith has vanished as well.
Stahlman
is furious at being dragged from his work but the Brigadier
insists on
having words with him. He tells him that Sir Keith has
disappeared and Stahlman speculates Sir Keith's complaints were
dismissed
and he's gone off in a fit of pique. The Brigadier asks
that he
delay penetration until Sir Keith returns but Stahlman
refuses.
In the
parallel world, the Doctor has finally reconnected the
switch.
Greg drives the primords back and then the two men run for
it.
Stahlman begins to revive.
The Doctor
and Sutton join the others and head to the nuclear
reactor.
Petra will have to rewire the switch before she can boost
the power.
As the
Doctor and Sutton go to get some heavy cable and wire up the
hut,
massive earthquakes begin to shake the complex. It is now hot
enough
that Stahlman and the primords are able to leave the control
center.
The
Brigadier, frightened by the earthquakes, pressure Petra to
hurry. She
tells him to stop bullying her. The Brigadier tells Liz
he intends
to force the Doctor to take them along.
The Doctor
and Greg reach the hut. Greg is unimpressed by the
machine.
The Doctor explains that the TARDIS slipped them sideways
in time.
Greg tells him the cable will blow in seconds if they try
to put the
reactor's power through it but the Doctor assures him
that a few
seconds are all he will need.
Petra
continues to work as more earthquakes hit. The Brigade-Leader
is scared
and Liz defiantly tell him they're still there. The
Brigade-Leader wants to leave, his facade breaking. Liz asks where
he will go
and he insists he can force the Doctor to take them
along. If
he can't, he'll get Petra to figure out the machine. He
finally
insists that if the Doctor leaves them to die, he will die.
Sutton
tells the Doctor to make damn sure he stops the drilling.
Greg hopes
for luck but the Doctor reminds him they are relying on
skill.
Petra
tries the switch and it doesn't work. She will have to start
all over
again.
More
explosions rip through the complex and Greg worries that they
will reach
the nuclear reactor.
Petra is
still working when Stahlman attacks. The Brigadier shoots
Stahlman
and makes them run. Other primords give chase. Earthquakes
knock them
all flat. They reach the Doctor's hut and reluctantly
inform him
that they weren't able to repair it. The Doctor laments
that they
gave it their best shot but the Brigadier is bitter.
Greg mocks
the Brigadier, who pulls his pistol. When Greg comments
that he's
only be doing him a favor, the Brigadier pulls the
trigger.
But the weapon is empty. They fight with each other until
the Doctor
asks them if they want to die like animals. They notice
that Petra
is gone and Liz tells them Petra's gone back to the
reactor.
Greg chases after her.
Petra is
working on the switch as Stahlman begins to revive. Greg
asks her
what she thinks she's doing and she reminds him that
nothing
else matters except helping the Doctor. Stahlman gets up and
takes a
swing at Petra. Greg uses a fire extinguisher to finish
Stahlman
off. Petra completes the circuit and the power comes back
on. They
race out to the Doctor's hut.
The
console begins to work. Petra and Greg urge the Doctor to take
off before
the power fails. The Brigade-Leader says it will last
long
enough and pulls his reloaded gun. The Doctor says he wishes he
could take
them back but he literally can't. He tells the Brigadier
he will
just have to shoot him. But a shot rings out and the
Brigade-Leader falls, gunned down by Liz, who urges the Doctor to
take off.
As the
Doctor activates the control, a tremendous detonation
destroys
the control center. Massive eruptions follow and lava rains
down. The
Doctor tries to take off but the power is too erratic.
Petra
cries out to Greg and goes into his arms as they see a massive
wall of
lava advancing on them...
Episode 7
(drn:
24'33")
The Doctor
finally takes off and reappears unconscious in his lab.
Liz
returns and finds him. She sends Benton to get help.
The
countdown has reached three hours and 22 minutes. Stahlman wants
to
accelerate drilling again. They will be over the safety margins
but
Stahlman dismisses Petra's concerns. She tells Greg. He wants to
reason
with Stahlman but she tells him he won't listen. Greg thinks
Stahlman
is losing his grip and is worried that a mistake at this
stage
could be a big one. Petra agrees to talk to him.
Benton
tells the Brigadier that the Doctor has returned. He is
overheard
by Sutton.
As Petra
talks to Stahlman, the director begins to hear a ringing in
his head.
He recovers and insists the can't slow down. Greg tries
next,
telling Stahlman he's been working on the program for years.
There's no
need to rush. Stahlman insists that penetration zero must
be
achieved at the earliest moment as a ringing fills his head
again.
Liz checks
the Doctor's pulse and finds it steady. She's not sure
when he'll
come out of his coma but tells the Brigadier she will
take care
of him for the time being.
Greg tries
Stahlman again, warning him of a broken flange on #2
output
pipe. He can repair it if drilling is slowed. Stahlman
refuses
and warns Sutton that he should follow the Doctor and
Keith's
example and disappear. Greg finally loses it and tells him
that, as
far as he's concerned, they can blow themselves to kingdom
come. But
Petra begs him to stay. He responds by asking her to come
with him
-- he's convinced the project is going to end in disaster.
But Petra
tells him she would like him there if anything goes wrong
-- she's
gotten used to his being around. But before anything can
happen, #2
output pipe blows and alarms ring out.
The Doctor
responds to the alarms and mumbles about #2 output pipe.
When the
Brigadier confirms this, the Doctor advises them to reverse
all their
systems before passing out again. Liz runs off to central
control.
Stahlman
refuses to stop the drill, hoping the riggers can control
the
damage. Liz arrives and relays the Doctor's suggestion. Greg
remembers
a similar situation in Arabia in which such an idea
worked.
Petra wants to get Stahlman's permission but Liz urges her
to act on
her own. Petra does and the drill is saved. But Stahlman
is bitter
that Petra has turned on him.
The Doctor
wakes up to Liz's voice and is happy to see them. He tell
Liz that
he went to another world -- terrible things are happening
there. He
asks the Brigadier if Bromley has been found and how
Stahlman
is progressing.
There is a
knock on the door and Liz opens it to reveal Sir Keith,
his arm in
a sling. The Doctor is delighted - this means that there
is free
will and he can still stop the drilling.
The
Brigadier calls the medical section, but the Doctor takes the
phone from
him, insisting that he's neither sick nor a raving idiot.
He tells
Sir Keith they need to stop Stahlman or there will be a
disaster.
He knows because he has already seen it.
He bursts
into the control room and demands that they stop the
drilling.
When no one listens, he grabs a spanner and begins
smashing
controls. The Brigadier has him dragged out. As he goes,
the Doctor
tells Liz to repair the computer Stahlman sabotaged.
Sir Keith
confronts Stahlman, who denies ordering the driver to
divert
from his route. He insists he will put up with any inquiries
. . .
after they have penetrated the Earth's crust.
Petra
talks to Stahlman in the drill head. He insists it's getting
cold and
is hearing a ringing in his head. He tells the technicians
to leave
and forces them out, then closes the heat shield.
The Doctor
is being escorted by soldiers. He knocks them out and
escapes
into the works. Bromley approaches him and the Doctor uses
an
extinguisher to knock him out.
Stahlman
takes the green slime from the drill and rubs it on his
face. The
others try to raise the shield, but he's locked it down.
He
transforms into a primord.
Liz
repairs the computer and it tells them to stop drilling
immediately. Sir Keith says that he can't give the order -- only
Stahlman
can. The Doctor returns and demands they stop but Sir Keith
again
refuses.
Suddenly,
the heat shield lifts and Stahlman rushes out. The
Brigadier
shoots him and Greg and the Doctor use the fire
extinguishers to finish him.
Petra
agrees to stop the drill and they cut the power. But the drill
keeps
going, having reserve power for five minutes. The Doctor and
Sutton
race into the drill head. Stahlman has smashed the servo
controls
but the Doctor works to repair them. He manages to shut it
down with
35 seconds left. Liz rushes into the Doctor's arms and
Petra into
Greg's. The Doctor asks Sir Keith to refill the shaft.
Later, the
Doctor happily sings as he works on the TARDIS. Sir Keith
and the
Brigadier arrive. The project has been officially abandoned.
The
reactor will be dismantled but it will be around long enough for
the Doctor
to finish his experiments. Sutton and Petra have left --
together.
The Doctor comments that there's nothing like a happy
ending.
Keith
leaves but the Brigadier tells them he'll be staying around to
mop up.
The Doctor wants to try the TARDIS again but the Brigadier
and Liz
object after all the trouble it's caused. They might have
cleared up
the situation sooner if he'd stayed. The Doctor tells
them he
tried but the Brigadier chastises him for gallivanting off
in a fit
of pique.
The Doctor
tells the Brigadier there are times when he reminds him
of his
other self. He decides to leave at once. He turns on the
console,
which starts to operate. He bids Liz farewell but says he's
had enough
of "this pompous self-opinionated idiot". He vanishes.
Liz turns
on the Brigadier. They start to argue but are interrupted
by the
Doctor. He is at the door, covered in rubbish. He tells them
the TARDIS
moved him a few seconds forward in time and a few hundred
yards east
in space -- to the rubbish tip.
Abashed,
he asks the Brigadier if he can help retrieve the TARDIS.
The
Brigadier reminds him of his name-calling but the Doctor cozies
up,
telling him not to be so angry and to put on a smile. Liz laughs
as she
watches the two men walk out.
Source:
Michael H. Siegel.
Continuity Notes:
The Master, the Brigadier and Ian return to this timeline in
The Face of the Enemy.
The memory of the Third Doctor later realises just who the
Dictator of this timeline was in Timewyrm: Revelation.
Not counting occasions where the Doctor arrives in a world
where history in our universe has been altered, the Doctor
visits other alternate universes in The Quantum Archangel,
Blood Heat, The Infinity Race, The Domino Effect, Reckless
Engineering, and The Last Resort.
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Terror of the Autons
Terror of the
Autons
Serial EEE
Producer
Barry
Letts*
Script
Editor
Terrance
Dicks
Designer
Ian Watson
Written by Robert Holmes
Incidental Music by Dudley Simpson
Action by Havoc [3-4]
Circus Scenes Courtesy of Roberts Brothers
Jon
Pertwee (Doctor Who)†, Roger Delgado (The Master), Katy
Manning (Jo Grant), Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier
Lethbridge-Stewart), Richard Franklin (Captain Mike Yates),
John
Levene (Sergeant Benton) [1-2,4], Michael Wisher (Rex
Farrel), Harry Towb (McDermott) [1-2], David Garth (Time Lord)
[1],
Frank Mills (Radio Telescope Director) [1], Christopher
Burgess (Professor Philips) [1-2], Andrew Staines (Goodge)
[1],
John Baskcomb (Rossini) [1-2], Dave Carter (Museum
Attendant) [1], Stephen Jack (Farrel Senior) [2], Barbara
Leake (Mrs. Farrel) [2-3], Roy Stewart (Strong Man) [2],
Dermot Tuohy (Brownrose) [3], Norman Stanley (Telephone
Mechanic) [3], Bill McGuirk (Policeman) [3]‡, Terry Walsh
(Auton Policeman) [3]§, Pat Gorman (Auton Leader) [3-4], Haydn
Jones (Auton Voice) [3-4].
NOTE: The opening titles of each episode use the Troughton
version of the theme.
*
Barry Letts was not credited on-screen as director on all
four
episodes of this story as he was the producer of the
show.
†
Credited as Dr. Who on Episodes 3 and 4.
‡
Credited but does not appear.
§
Also in Episode 2, uncredited.
The
Earth is in terrible danger! The Master has arrived with
an
evil scheme to destroy humanity and silence the Doctor
forever. His plan? To awaken the awesome power of the Nestene
- a
ruthlessly aggressive alien life form. With their control
over
all types of plastic, they form into faceless automatons,
a
willing army of destruction easily controlled by the evil
Time
Lord himself. This is the terrible threat now facing
Earth - the terror of the Autons.
Aided by the Brigadier and his enthusiastic new assistant, Jo
Grant, only the Doctor can combat their evil power, but this
is
easier said than done when every plastic doll, phone flex,
or
chair can be turned against him. First, however, he must
defeat the Master.
Original
Broadcast (UK)
Episode One 2nd
January, 1971 5h15pm
- 5h40pm
Episode Two 9th
January, 1971 5h15pm
- 5h40pm
Episode Three 16th
January, 1971 5h15pm -
5h40pm
Episode Four 23rd
January, 1971 5h15pm -
5h40pm
Notes:
Released on video in episodic format. [+/-]
TERROR OF THE AUTONS
U.K. Release: April 1993 / U.S. Release: June 1995
PAL - BBC video BBCV4957
NTSC - CBS/FOX video 8254
NTSC - Warner Video E1276
All episodes survive only as black and white prints.
The colour has been electronically restored. using
off air colour recordings.
Novelised as Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons by
Terrance Dicks. [+/-]
Number 63 in the Doctor Who Library.
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: May 1975. Reprinted 1976, 1977, 1979.
ISBN: 0 426 11500 7 (also 0 426 10639 3).
Cover by Peter Brookes.
Illustrations by Alan Willow.
Price: 35p.
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: 1979, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1987.
ISBN: 0 426 11500 7.
Cover by Alun Hood.
Illustrations by Alan Willow.
Price: 60p.
Also included in some editions of an unnumbered
Doctor Who Gift Set in 1986 [ISBN: 0 426 32410 8].
Hardcover Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: February 1981.
ISBN: 0 491 02864 4.
Cover by Alun Hood.
Illustrations by Alan Willow.
Price: £.
Doctor Who Magazine Archive: Issue #311.
Episode
One
(drn:
24'56")
A circus
owner called Rossini lights a cigar, and is surprised when
a horsebox
appears out of nowhere. From within the horsebox, a man
dressed in
all black, with a neatly trimmed beard and moustache. He
informs
the circus owner that he is called the Master. The Master
hypnotizes
Rossini, and he follows at the click of the Master’s
fingers.
Inside a
museum, is the last fully surviving Nestene Energy Unit
that
remained fully in tact after the last Nestene invasion is
closely
watched and protected with a glass cage. The Master smashes
the glass
surrounding the Nestene Energy Unit, the guard tries to
raise the
alarm, but Rossini attacks him from behind, leaving the
guard on
the floor and unable to defend the missing Nestene Energy
Unit.
The
battered blue Police box, stands in the corner of the Doctor's
laboratory, looking like it has been through the Asteroid Belt.
Smoke
creeps out the door, followed by a coughing and spluttering
Doctor,
who has bought the dematerialisation circuit from the Police
Box. The
Doctor carefully places it and is ready to start some tests
on the
circuit when there is a knock at the door. "Not today thank
you"
says the Doctor, confusing the young girl who has walked in for
the tea
lady. The young girl is called Josephine Grant. At that
point the
test that he is trying to perform causes a small flame and
lots of
smoke. Jo garbs the fire extinguisher from across the room
and starts
tackling the fire. Satisfied that the flame has gone, she
stops the
fire extinguisher. The Doctor is annoyed as this girl has
spoiled
six months delicate work and explains that Steady State
Micro
welding always causes more smoke than fire. Still confusing Jo
for the
tea lady he again says to her that he doesn't want any tea
today. Jo
finally tells the Doctor that she his new assistant and
also
apologizes for damaging her experiment. The Doctor is very
worried
that somebody who damaged his experiments will be his new
assistant
even though he accepts her apology. Jo then tells the
Doctor
that the Nestene Energy Unit has been stolen from a museum
and
wonders who would steal it and why?
A man
named Philips who is dressed in a suit is climbing a radio
telescope
station and greets a man named Goodge who is wearing a
white coat
and working at an electronic unit. Meanwhile the Master
is lurking
outside. Philips thanks Goodge for some results that he
has given
him. Philips then goes back down the radio telescope.
Goodge
then gets out a lunchbox and a flask. The Master enters and
points a
black tubular device at Goodge. He presses a button and a
brilliant
white light flashes from out of the end. Philips sits down
at a desk,
blatantly unaware of what is going on at the radio
telescope.
Back at
the radio telescope, the Master gets a green tin with UNIT
markings
on it. He opens the lid to reveal the Nestene Energy unit.
He then
attaches two patches either side with a wire linking the
unit with
the electrical equipment. The Master then turn's two black
wheels in
the same direction and this make the transmitters move.
Philips
noticing the movement is surprised and tries to contact
Goodge to
ask him what is happening only to get no response. The
Master is
though ignoring the pleas of Philips who is trying to talk
to him via
a radio. Philips then leaves for the radio telescope
where he
left Goodge to find out what is happening.
In the
Doctor’s laboratory, the Brigadier enters only to be
confronted
by an angry Doctor, who is mad at having Jo as a new
assistant.
The Brigadier says to him that he will reassign her but
that he
should break the news to her. At that point Jo diffuses the
situation
by walking and reporting to the Brigadier that there is no
news about
the stolen meteorite and tells the Doctor that the
electric
spares that he wants will arrive tomorrow. The Doctor then
tries to
tell Jo that she is not wanted but can’t bear to say the
words and
ends up saying thanks to her saying that she will be
useful to
him. Jo then also report the mysterious goings on at the
radio
telescope and also that two scientists have gone missing.
The
Doctor, Jo and the Brigadier drive to the radio telescope, and
they are
greeted by Captain Yates, who introduces Jo and the
Brigadier
to the director, but the Doctor is at the top of the radio
telescope,
and is surprised to hear the noise of a TARDIS
materializing. A man appears, and calls for the Doctor. He is a Time
Lord and
has come to warn the Doctor about the Master, who has
appeared
on Earth. He also explains that the door to the control
room has
been rigged so that a bomb will fall on the floor, and
explode.
The Doctor bursts through the door and catches the bomb
before it
lands on the floor. The Doctor diffuses the bomb.
The Master
enters a small office, run by Mr. Farrel. Farrel runs a
plastic
factory, which his father has set up. The Master, going
under the
name of Colonel Masters, says he represents people who
need a lot
of plastics.
The
Doctor, having just finished explaining what a Nestene is to Jo
and Mike
Yates, believes that the Autons and Nestenes have already
arrived on
Earth. The Doctor asks Mike to make a search of all the
known
plastics companies.
The Master
hypnotizes Mr. Farrel, while the Doctor boils the
contents
of the bomb.
Jo arrives
at the Plastics Company owned by Mr. Farrel, via a back
way, so
that she doesn’t get caught. Unfortunately, the passing
Farrel and
the Master catch her, after knocking over some boxes she
hid
behind. Jo is hypnotized by the Master, and he tells her that
she must
tell her superiors that everything is in order, and that
she only
met Mr. Farrel plus some unheard instructions.
Mr.
McDermott, an assistant to Farrel, encourages him to go home, as
he
believes Farrel is ill. When Farrel leaves the room to go and
find
Colonel Masters, McDermott asks his secretary, Sylvia to get
Mr. Farrel
Snr. Meanwhile, Farrel Jnr enters a small room where an
Auton is
about to hit him. The Master intervenes, asking why Farrel
came here.
Benton
arrives back at UNIT HQ, with a box marked `UNIT` having been
found in
the missing scientist, Philips’ car. Jo having also arrived
back,
offers to open the box. The Doctor is worried, and appeals for
everybody
to stop Jo opening the box, as it’s a bomb. A determined
Jo punches
all comers aside, and carries on opening the box despite
the pleas
from the Doctor.
Episode
Two
(drn:
24'48")
Benton
grabs Jo, taking her away from the bomb, and the Doctor takes
the bomb,
and throws the bomb out of the window, causing a massive
explosion,
with water flying everywhere.
Mike Yates
asks the Doctor, what’s wrong with Jo. She is deeply
traumatized after doing something against her own free will, which
the Master
can achieve, however some minds can resist hypnosis.
McDermott
is in the office, with the Master and Farrel Jnr, who is
annoyed at
the Master’s methods, as an entire day’s production has
been
ruined. The Master takes out a folded, black, plastic chair and
clicks his
fingers. The chair opens, and he asks McDermott to sit in
it. He
sits down, only for the chair to start moving. Farrel goes to
help him,
but the Master, who will not tolerate his interference,
stops him.
The chair crushes McDermott to death.
The Doctor
tries to get Jo out of the deep trauma, which Jo, after
much
trying, does. After reassuring her, the Doctor tries to find
out what
happened to Jo. She recalls being an office, and a voice
telling
her to open the box, but she can’t remember who told her.
Mr. Farrel
Snr has arrived, and is upset at the demise of McDermott.
The Master
sees Farrel Snr as a threat and tries to take over him,
initially
there is no resistance to hypnosis, but then he resists,
and the
Master, frustrated, walks out of the room. After which,
Farrel Snr
tries to get his son to take a few days off, but fails.
He also
demands that production goes back to normal and Colonel
Masters
left. The Master has walked out to Mr. Farrel Snr’s car, and
he opens
it, placing a red troll doll in the car, and also turning
the
heating up. He then catches up with the elderly man, and shows
him the
doll, which Farrel Snr believes there is no demand for, and
he drives
away, with the doll in the back of his car.
The
Brigadier walks into the laboratory, and Jo starts apologizing
for trying
to kill them off. Yates walks in and tells the Brigadier
that they
have found Philips’ car, where a circus used to be. The
circus has
been relocated, which leads the Doctor to take photos of
Philips,
and go and look for him, but Jo is told to stay in the
laboratory.
In Mr.
Farrel Snr’s car, the troll doll that the Master put in, has
come to
life. He opens a window, turns the temperature down, and the
doll
collapses. Meanwhile, the Master tells Farrel Jnr to make
maximum
output of the Autons. Farrel is worried that his father will
cause
trouble, however the Master tells him that he persuaded him to
change his
mind.
Bessie,
the Doctor’s yellow roadster pulls up into the circus. Once
the Doctor
has left to try and find Philips, Jo emerges, having
hidden in
the back. The Doctor doesn’t have any luck finding
Philips.
Mr. Farrel
Snr is talking to his wife, telling her of the lack of
concern
from Colonel Masters and Farrel Jnr, and his wife hopes that
Rex will
get rid of Colonel Masters. She is even more disgusted
after
seeing the troll doll.
The Doctor
keeps looking for Philips to no avail, and he goes into a
horsebox
where Rossini immediately catches him. Jo observes all
this.
Rossini is taken to a small caravan, where he is tied up by
Rossini’s
henchman, Tony, a big tall strong man. Rossini asks why he
was
interested in his friend’s horsebox. The Doctor doesn’t answer,
and
eventually, Tony attempts to twist the Doctor’s arm. He tells
him that
he was listening for vibrations. Rossini eventually pulls
out a
photograph of Philips, but Rossini is pretending to have no
idea where
he is. Meanwhile, Jo rings the Brigadier, and tells him
of the
Doctor’s current predicament and Philips is seen entering the
horsebox.
Mr. Farrel
Snr’s wife goes off to make some coffee. The doll, which
is on the
radiator, starts to rise again. It moves over to Mr.
Farrel and
kills him. His wife enters, and is horrified at what she
sees.
Rossini is
angry with the Doctor, and decides he needs a breath of
fresh air.
The Doctor decides to try to call for help, when Tony
stuffs a
handkerchief in his mouth. Jo storms in and smashes a vase
over
Tony’s head, and he falls to the ground. Jo unties the Doctor,
and tells
him that he has seen Philips enter the Master’s TARDIS.
Philips,
from inside the Master’s TARDIS, tells the Master about the
Doctor
& Jo, he then goes out looking for them. He goes into the
caravan,
holding a grenade. The Doctor tells Philips to resist them,
and in the
end, Philips is confused and forgets to throw the grenade
away,
killing himself. Doctor enters the Master’s TARDIS and borrows
the
dematerialisation circuit. A mob, led by Rossini goes up to the
Doctor
& Jo, and strike the Doctor. A police car, followed by the
Brigadier
and Yates eventually rescues them. Inside the police car,
the Doctor
recovers.
Benton
tells the Brigadier that the police car that took the Doctor
& Jo
is not a police car after all.
The Doctor
is busy working at the dematerialisation circuit he
borrowed.
Jo wonders where they are as they are in the middle of a
quarry.
The Doctor leans forward and asks the officer to show him
his
warrant card. The Doctor looks worried at the Police Officer,
and he
peels off his face to reveal an Auton’s blank robotic face.
Episode
Three
(drn:
23'28")
The Doctor
attacks the Auton, and runs out of the car with Jo. They
hide
behind some rocks. Another car appears, this time containing
the
Brigadier and Yates. The Brigadier gets out of the car, and
starts
shooting at the Autons, he s encouraged to get down by the
Doctor.
Yates drives the car around, knocking the Auton down an
embankment. Yates drives that car round to where the Doctor, Jo and
the
Brigadier are, and they drive off, avoiding the bullets of the
Autons as
they go.
Farrel
enters the office, and sees the Master, looking out of the
window. He
tells him that the Autons failed to kill the Doctor, and
the Master
already knows.
The
Brigadier is holding a conference at UNIT HQ, with the Doctor
wandering
around his laboratory. The Doctor informs the Brigadier
that the
Autons plan to occupy the Earth, although they have left
the
circus. The Doctor also suggests that the Autons that are here
are just a
diversionary threat, and that their main force is waiting
to land.
The Brigadier suggests redoubling security and finding the
Master’s
TARDIS, which the Doctor recommends. The Doctor fits the
Master’s
dematerialisation circuit in his own TARDIS and tries to
take it
for a test ride. He fails to take off, and a Doctor coughing
at the
smoke, comes out of the TARDIS embarrassed. His embarrassment
turns to
joy when he realizes that he has broken the Master’s
dematerialisation circuit, meaning the Master is stranded on Earth.
Men in
funny carnival masks are handing out plastic daffodils to
anyone who
wants them. With all the daffodils gone, they all head
back to a
coach, where they take off thier masks to reveal
themselves
as Autons. They ask Farrel to drive them to the next
distribution centre, but he encourages them to wait for the Master,
which they
do.
The
Brigadier introduces Mr. Brownrose who tells a worrying story of
death’s
rights across the country of asphyxiation, shock and heart
failure.
Only the first two deaths have something in common. Mr.
McDermott
and Mr. Farrel Snr who worked at the plastics factory.
The Doctor
and Jo have gone to see Mrs. Farrel about Mr. Farrel
Snr’s
death. She went out to make some coffee, she heard a scream
and found
him dead. She tells the Doctor of his worry about the
plastics
factory, and she seemed to think that Rex Farrel had fallen
under the
influence of one Colonel Masters.
A
telephone engineer is fixing the phone in the Doctor’s laboratory,
when Yates
walks in and asks to see a pass. The engineer uses a long
flex, as
apparently the Doctor likes to move about when he’s
talking.
Mrs.
Farrel shows the Doctor the new dolls that the Plastics Company
has been
making. She says that she originally put it on top of the
radiator
but then she found it underneath the curtain.
The Doctor
has returned to his laboratory with the troll doll that
killed Mr.
Farrel Snr. He uses a scalpel to cut the doll open, and
finds that
it is completely plastic. He asks Jo to order some
equipment,
and then leaves with the Brigadier.
Mr. Farrel
is ordered to drive on by the Autons, but says that they
must wait
for the Master. The telephone engineers from earlier turns
up, and
peels off his false face to be revealed as the Master.
Captain
Yates has gone out to make some cocoa, and has put on the
Doctor’s
Bunsen burner. Jo is on the telephone to Mr. Campbell
chasing up
the supplies, when the troll doll starts to move.
The Doctor
and the Brigadier visit the Plastics Company, and find no
one there.
The doll
starts moving towards Jo and attacking her, she shouts for
Mike
Yates, and he comes in and shoots at the troll doll, rendering
it
lifeless.
The Doctor
and the Brigadier enter the main office, and find it
deserted,
apart from a plastic daffodil, which the Doctor finds on
the floor,
and asks the Brigadier to hold onto it, while he tries to
open a
safe. The Brigadier sees that Farrel has ordered a 15 seat
coach. He
walks over to look at a filing cabinet when the Doctor
opens the
safe, to reveal an Auton. It fires at the Brigadier,
missing
him, and the Doctor shuts the safe.
The Doctor
and the Brigadier have arrived back in the laboratory,
where
Captain Yates is explaining about the attack by the troll
doll. The
Doctor believes he discovers what causes the plastic to
come to
life, when Yates tells the Doctor that he used his Bunsen
burner. He
orders everyone out of the room, to perform an
experiment. After everyone has left, the phone rings. The Doctor has
picked it
up and on the other end is the Master. He sends a signal
down the
phone and the long flex starts wrapping round the Doctor,
trying to
strangle him.
Episode
Four
(drn:
22'10")
The Doctor
calls for the Brigadier’s help, and he disconnects the
telephone
from the socket, and untangles the Doctor.
The coach
with Farrel and the Autons are driving down a country
lane, and
are followed by a biker.
In his
laboratory, the Doctor is applying heat to a plastic daffodil
with a
blow torch, but nothing happens, which disproves the theory
that the
plastic comes alive with heat.
The
Brigadier orders a call to the RAF, having received some good
news. He
goes into the Doctor’s laboratory, where he tells the
Doctor
that the coach of Autons has been found, and they are going
to bomb
it. Captain Yates tells the Doctor and Jo they have an hour
and a half
to find out whether the daffodils are dangerous. Yates
hands Jo a
walky talky so they can stay in touch.
Farrel is
looking out of the door of the coach, and the Autons
informs
him that they are being watched as they were followed.
The Doctor
has converted part of a daffodil from Nestene symbols
into
visual symbols. It shows a face on the screen, but it is
inconclusive. The Doctor asks Brigadier to delay the airstrike, as
he needs
more time. Jo tries to get hold of them on the walky talky,
however
the radio signal sets off the daffodil and it starts moving.
Jo starts
to examine it closer, however the daffodil sprays a mask
over Jo’s
face. The Doctor struggles to get it off and eventually,
succeeds
when he applies a spray. The Doctor asks the recovered Jo
to see if
there were any short waves radios were seen at the death.
Benton has
a call from the RAF, which confirms the airstrike.
The Doctor
wonders why the mask that was on Jo’s face wasn’t seen at
the death.
He breathes on the mask and it melts in his hand.
The Master
enters the room, and is about to kill the Doctor to get
the
dematerialisation circuit. Jo enters and the Doctor threatens to
kill Jo if
the Doctor doesn’t hand him the circuit. The Doctor
starts to
hand it over when Jo begs the Doctor not to, as she blurts
out that
he’s beaten already as there going to bomb the quarry. The
Master, in
wake of this revelation lets them live.
The
Doctor, Jo and the Master arrive at the coach with the Autons
and Farrel
in Bessie. The Brigadier desperately tries to get the
airstrike
aborted, and thankfully, the RAF just fly overhead without
attacking
the coach. Inside the coach, the Doctor sends a message
using
Morse code to the Brigadier saying "The daffodils are
dangerous". Inside the coach, the Doctor and Jo have escaped from
their
bindings. The coach then drives off.
The coach
is heading for the Radio Telescope, but Farrel realizes
what is
going on and tries to crash the coach in a nearby field. The
Doctor and
Jo escape from the coach.
The Master
heads up to the Radio Telescope to prepare the signal for
the
Nestenes main party to arrive, while the Autons start firing at
UNIT
troops killing most of them. The Doctor and the Brigadier
follows
the Master up to the top of the Radio Telescope. When he
reaches
the top, the Master opens the channel for the Nestenes to
arrive,
and a big octopus type shape starts to appear. The Nestenes
have
started to arrive. The Doctor begs the Master to stop the
Nestenes
invading. The Master switches sides, and helps the Doctor
close the
channel for the Nestenes, so they are forced back to where
they come
from.
The Autons
that are attacking the UNIT troops, start to look
disorientated, and start to fall down one by one.
After
they've closed the channel, the Doctor and the Brigadier
realize
that the Master has vanished.
The Doctor
and Brigadier go back to the coach, where the Master has
given up.
He comes out with his hands up, and the Doctor warns
everyone
to be careful. The Master decides to make a move, but
Captain
Yates guns him down. The Doctor peels off his face to reveal
Farrel
underneath. The coach then starts to move, and is driven by
the real
Master. He tries to run anyone over, but fails miserably,
and he
moves off.
Back at
UNIT HQ, the Brigadier tells everyone that the coach was
found
abandoned, with no sign of the Master. Although he is
somewhere
on Earth, as the Doctor still has his dematerialisation
circuit.
The Doctor confesses that the Master is likely to turn up
again, and
in fact he's quite looking forward to it.
Source:
Stephen Mills
Continuity Notes:
The Sixth Doctor faces the Autons again in Synthespians™ and
Business Unusual. The Ninth Doctor deals with them in Rose.
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The Mind of
Evil
The Mind of Evil
Serial FFF
Producer
Barry
Letts
Script
Editor
Terrance
Dicks
Designer
Ray London
Written by Don Houghton
Directed by Timothy Combe
Incidental Music by Dudley Simpson
Fights Arranged by Havoc [4] / Action by Havoc [5]
Jon
Pertwee (Dr. Who), Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Nicholas
Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart), Roger Delgado (The
Master) [2-6], Richard Franklin (Captain Mike Yates), Pik-Sen
Lim
(Captain Chin Lee) [1-3], Raymond Westwell (Prison
Governor) [1-3], Michael Sheard (Dr. Summers) [1-4,6], Simon
Lack
(Professor Kettering) [1], Neil McCarthy (Barnham)
[1-3,5-6], Fernanda Marlowe (Corporal Bell) [1-4], Clive Scott
(Linwood) [1], Roy Purcell (Chief Prison Officer Powers)
[1-3], Eric Mason (Senior Prison Officer Green) [1-3]; Bill
Matthews, Barry Wade, Dave Carter, Martin Gordon (Prison
Officers) [1-4,6]; John Levene (Sergeant Benton) [2-6],
William Marlowe (Mailer) [2-5]*, Haydn Jones (Vosper) [2-4],
Kristopher Kum (Fu Peng) [2-3], Tommy Duggan (Senator Alcott)
[2]
, David Calderisi (Charlie) [4], Patrick Godfrey (Major
Cosworth) [5-6], Johnny Barrs (Fuller) [5], Matthew Walters
(Main Gates Prisoner) [5] .
NOTE: The opening titles of each episode use the Troughton
version of the theme.
*
Also in Episode 6, in the reprise from Episode 5,
uncredited.
Also in Episode 3, in the reprise from Episode 2,
uncredited.
Also in Episodes 3 and 4, uncredited.
The
Doctor and Jo are investigating a revolutionary new way of
treating psychotic criminals at Stangmoor Prison - a machine
invented by one Professor Keller that literally sucks the evil
out
of a man's brain. But when the process is complete, what
is
left behind - a saint or a simpleton?
It
transpires that Professor Keller is the Doctor's
arch-enemy, the Master. The machine actually houses a deadly
mind
parasite that the Master has taken to Earth for his own
evil
ends. He intends to use it to sabotage the global peace
conference UNIT is policing, thus bringing Earth to the brink
of
war. And when he takes over the prison and hijacks a
missile that could wipe out half of Europe, it seems the cards
are
stacked firmly in his favour.
Meanwhile, the mind parasite is growing stronger all the time,
killing anyone in its path by making them experience that
which they fear the most. Can the Doctor defeat both the
Master and the parasite while preventing the world's major
powers from embarking on all-out nuclear war?
Original
Broadcast (UK)
Episode One 30th January, 1971 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Episode Two 6th February, 1971 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Episode Three 13th February, 1971 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Episode Four 20th February, 1971 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Episode Five 27th February, 1971 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Episode Six 6th March, 1971 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Notes:
Released on video in episodic format. [+/-]
THE MIND OF EVIL
U.K. Release: May 1998 / U.S. Release: January 1999
PAL - BBC video BBCV6361 (2
tapes)
NTSC - CBS/FOX video 0132 (2
tapes)
NTSC - Warner Video E1020 (2
tapes)
Originally made in colour, this story now exists
only in black and white. The only surviving colour
footage approximately five
minutes from episode
six is included at the end of
the story.
Novelised as Doctor Who - The Mind of Evil by Terrance
Dicks. [+/-]
Number 96 in the Doctor Who Library.
Hardcover Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: March 1985.
ISBN: 0 491 03333 8.
Cover by Andrew Skilleter.
Price: 5.95.
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: July 1985.
ISBN: 0 426 20166 3.
Cover by Andrew Skilleter.
Price: 1.50.
Also released as part of The Eighth Doctor Who Gift
Set in 1982 [ISBN: 0 426 20207 4] and in some
editions of an unnumbered Doctor Who Gift Set in
1986 [ISBN: 0 426 32410 8].
Doctor Who Classics series
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
[Includes The Mind of Evil and The Claws of Axos].
First Edition: March 1989.
ISBN: 0 352 32381 7.
Cover by Andrew Skilleter.
Price: 2.95.
Doctor Who Magazine Archive: Issue #208.
Episode
One
(drn:
24'39")
The Doctor
and Jo arrive at Stangmoor prison. They are there as the
Doctor is
interested in a new development in the process of treating
criminals.
They enter the prison after the guard let's them in as
observers
from UNIT.
Things are
going from bad to worse at the prison, where there is a
riot over
the use of the new process. Some guards open a cell, which
contains a
man called Barnham, the next man to undergo the
treatment.
He puts up a fight, but is eventually dragged away.
The Doctor
and Jo take their seats for a demonstration of the Keller
process.
Professor Kettering, who is working on behalf of the
creator of
the machine Emil Keller, says the process involves
removing
the negative impulses from the brain. The Keller machine is
activated,
and the prisoner Barnham is given the treatment. Barnham
reacts
violently to the process, despite Professor Kettering
insisting
the treatment was a total success. Barnham is taken away
to the
medical unit to recover.
In the
medical wing, Doctor Summers says that there is nothing much
wrong with
Barnham, despite the violent reaction. The phone rings,
when
Doctor Summers informs Kettering that there has been some sort
of
accident in the processing room.
In the
process room, Summers examines him and pronounces him dead.
Kettering
suspects this a delayed shock from seeing the process
caused a
heart attack, which the Doctor doubts. He recommends to
Summers
that an investigation into the man's medical history and a
post-mortem, which Summers sees to. Jo encourages the Doctor to talk
to the
Brigadier, but he wants to wait until the results of the
post-mortem. Jo suspects that the Brigadier has enough on his plate
with UNIT
handling the security arrangements for the first World
Peace
Conference.
At UNIT
HQ, the Brigadier is on the phone when they are given more
to do.
UNIT is asked to take charge of the transportation of
thunderbolt, a missile. The Brigadier gives Captain Yates the job.
The
conference is so far running smoothly, but that is about to
change, as
a representative from the Chinese delegation, Captain
Chin Lee
has had some important documents stolen. She suspects the
Americans,
and asks that the person who stole the documents punished
to the
full. She says this puts the success of the peace conference
in
jeopardy as if there is any more trouble, then the Chinese
delegation
will withdraw from the conference.
Chin Lee
goes outside the conference to a nearby park where she
takes the
documents that she reported missing and burns them. She
hears a
strange humming noise, and places her hand over a device
underneath
her ear. She drops the burning papers in a nearby bin and
walks back
to the peace conference.
Back at
Stangmoor prison, the Doctor isn't convinced that the Keller
process is
safe and he doesn't like it. Doctor Summers then arrives
with the
post-mortem. The death was caused by heart failure.
Kettering
thinks this proves his theory corrects, but the Doctor
thinks
that the man was attacked by a hoard of rats and the shock
killed
him, especially after hearing the dead man had a fear of
rats. The
Doctor and Jo walk out and the governor insists that
Kettering
check the machine.
The
Brigadier calls in Captain Yates, but there is no sign of Chin
Lee's
papers, despite turning the place inside out. It gets worse
when the
Brigadier receives a phone call from the Captain to tell
him that
the Chinese delegate is dead.
Professor
Kettering is in the process room checking the Keller
Machine
when the machine activates. Kettering in terror and tries to
turn the
machine but find he can t. An image of an ocean appears in
front of
him, and he tries to swim away, but his movements are
consistent
with going underneath the water. Some time later, Doctor
Summers is
checking on Kettering and finds that he is death. All the
symptoms
are consistent with death by drowning. The machine affects
minds, and
it is growing stronger. The Doctor orders that the
machine be
put out of use.
In the
Chinese delegates room, the body of the Chinese delegate is
taken
away. Captain Chin Lee is complaining about the murder, but
the
Brigadier asks her everything about the incident. She informs
him that
she had a meeting with him at 12 p.m., she arrived
punctually
and saw the General dead on the floor. She then reported
the death
to the Brigadier. The Brigadier asks Corporal Bell to
check the
time of Chin Lee s telephone call.
The
Governor tells the Doctor that he will suspend the use of the
Keller
process and seal off the process room, but any further action
on the
Keller Machine would have to be taken with the backing of the
Home
Office. The Doctor says that he will work on the machine to
make sure
that it s safe. The machine has been in near a year when
Professor
Keller supervised the installation; he had a rather
attractive
Chinese girl as his assistant.
Corporal
Bell hands the Brigadier a piece of paper and double checks
with Chin
Lee phoned him without delay. She says she didn t, but she
actually
rang at 12:24 p.m., he asks why she waited nearly half an
hour
before reporting the death.
In the
medical wing, Doctor Summers is running some checks on
Barnham.
Physically he s fine, but mentally is a different matter,
as he
doesn t remember Doctor Summers. Jo walks in and asks about
Kettering.
Doctor Summers tells her that the autopsy revealed his
lungs were
full of water, he drowned in a perfectly dry room.
In the
prison, there is more riots going on while the Doctor works
on the
machine. The machine starts to activate and he tries to turn
it off,
but is engulfed by some flames.
Episode
Two
(drn:
24'31")
The Doctor
is rapidly losing his battle with the flames until Jo
comes in
and she distracts the machine enough to let go of it s hold
on the
Doctor. She tries to calm him down, but she can t help asking
questions.
The machine picked up on a memory that the Doctor had of
an entire
world blowing up in smoke, which it turned on the Doctor.
Having
recovered, the Doctor reads the report on Kettering and asks
Jo to take
it to the governor s office. Jo starts to take it up but
is
surprised when Captain Yates walks in insisting that the Doctor
go back to
London to help the Brigadier. After initially refusing,
he goes
with Mike and Jo walks out, closing the door to the process
room.
Chin Lee
is in a call box making a call and is watched from far away
by
Sergeant Benton. Chin Lee came out of the phone box and attacks
Benton by
using the Keller Machine. Benton faints and is helped by a
passer-by.
Chin Lee manages to escape, while Benton returns to the
peace
conference.
Benton
tells the Brigadier what happened and tells him to go and lie
down. The
Doctor walks in and wonders what all the fuss is about.
There is a
strange man interfering with some telephone wires as
Benton
walks out of the building. The strange man manages to fix it
so that he
can hear all the phone calls that UNIT make, and is
listening
in on a conversation between Captain Yates and the current
holders of
Thunderbolt. The strange man is the Master, and he gets
into a
limousine.
The Doctor
agrees to help the Brigadier with the problems of the
peace
conference after he says that he will write to the home
secretary
backing up his recommendations that the Keller process be
banned.
They then go off to see the new Chinese delegate Fu Peng,
who the
Doctor thinks is Hokkien, but the Brigadier corrects him,
saying he
is Chinese.
The Master
hears Captain Yates ordering some bikes and a jeep for
the escort
of Thunderbolt. While listening, he sees the Doctor and
the
Brigadier leaving the conference building.
The
Brigadier and the Doctor meet Fu Peng with the new Chinese
delegate
refusing the hand of the Brigadier. The Doctor, on the
other
hand, welcomes him by speaking in his native language,
Hokkien.
The two of them swap pleasantries, much to the Brigadier s
annoyance.
More riots
in the prison start as the machine activates. A man named
Vosper is
made to clean one of the cells, while in the medical wing,
Summers is
still examining Barnham. Doctor Summers explains to Jo
that the
machine has overreacted and withdrawn all the negative
impulses
from his brain, which leaves him as either an idiot or a
saint.
Vosper
manages to slip a gun under the pillows of the bed, and is
sent out
when Mailer, another prisoner is moved into the cell to
await the
sentence of the court, i.e., the Keller process. The
guards
keep an eye on Mailer, while playing a game of checkers.
The Doctor
and Fu Peng continue to be friendly, always speaking in
Hokkien,
and the Doctor drags the reluctant Brigadier away,
convinced
that he has got nothing out of this meeting.
Mailer is
whinging about the lack of the food, but when a guard with
some food
walks in, he grabs him and puts a gun to his neck. The
guards
hand over the keys to the cell and Mailer leaves.
The Doctor
is suggesting that there are connections between all the
events and
the Keller Machine. Captain Yates gives the Brigadier all
the
details concerning the moving of the Thunderbolt, and the
Brigadier
is surprised to see that Yates is taking Benton. As far as
the
Brigadier s concerned, is welcome to him after the incident
where he
managed to lose a Chinese girl in broad daylight. The
Doctor is
concerned at the mention of a Chinese girl, and says that
it is
imperative that she is found.
Chin Lee
though makes her way to a limousine and she gets into it,
where the
Master greets her. The Master orders her to kill the
American
delegate, and then tells her to leave.
Having got
out of his cell, Mailer is now leading the convicts whom
is
supervising the taking over the prison and Mailer wants some
hostages.
They go into the medical wing and find two perfect
candidates, Jo Grant and Doctor Summers.
The Doctor
is waiting for a call to get through to Stangmoor prison,
but they
re having trouble with the lines. The Brigadier gets a more
positive
phone call; they ve found Captain Chin Lee.
In her
suite, Chin Lee picks up the phone and requests to speak to
Senator
Alcott, the American delegate. After much persuasion, Alcott
agrees to
come to the room to discuss some details with Fu Peng,
which are
secret, not suspecting Chin Lee s ulterior motive. He
walks in,
and sees Chin Lee, wondering why Fu Peng wants to see him.
Chin Lee
offers him a seat, which he accepts. She then turns the
lights
off, and by using the Keller Machine, Chin Lee attacks
Senator
Alcott. Alcott thinks that it s a dragon and it starts
bearing
down on him.
Episode
Three
(drn:
24'32")
The attack
on Alcott is interrupted by the Doctor and the Brigadier
who manage
to get the dragon away. Chin Lee then faints, while the
Doctor
checks that Senator Alcott is alive. He is, and Fu Peng finds
the
telepathic amplifier, which was picking up the impulses and
transmitting them through Chin Lee s mind. The Doctor believes the
impulses
came from the Keller Machine of Stangmoor prison.
Mailer s
riot continues, despite the police apparently surrounding
the
prison. Mailer ignores this and puts Doctor Summers and Jo in
his old
cell.
The Doctor
tries to ask some questions of Chin Lee after she wakes
up,
wanting to know about her relationship with Emil Keller and her
trip to
Stangmoor prison.
Mailer
goes into the cell with Jo and Summers in it after failing to
find the
governor to talk to him. Summers tries to attack Mailer,
but he s
stopped and at gun-point is forced to send a message
getting
Mailer and all his mob a guaranteed safe route out of
Stangmoor.
He s taken away to send the message, with Mailer
encouraging Jo to get some sleep.
Sergeant
Benton is having problems with the missile, and encourages
the men to
get on with it.
The
Brigadier is asleep on his desk, when the Doctor walks in with
Chin Lee
and wakes up the sleepy Lethbridge-Stewart. He says that
Chin Lee
can cast considerable light on what s been going on. The
Brigadier
though is interrupted by a phone call from Captain Yates,
who is
keeping him up to date on the problems with the missile,
while the
Brigadier tells Yates about the incident with Chin Lee.
The Master
sitting in his limousine hears this conversation, and
when the
Brigadier mentions the Keller Machine and Stangmoor prison,
the Master
instructs his chauffeur to drive him to Stangmoor prison.
Chin Lee
tells the Brigadier that she first met Emil Keller as an
embassy
receptionist, and he invited her over to Stangmoor prison to
show her
the Keller process, as prison reform is a high priority in
Peking.
She met this man Keller many times, but she can t remember
anything
about their meetings. It s at this point that the Doctor
realises
that the Master is Emil Keller.
Summers
appeals to the governor to talk to Mailer, but he refuses to
negotiate
with Mailer. However, he does inform the Brigadier of what
is
happening to Jo. Before that, the Doctor urges the Brigadier to
release
Chin Lee, as she s not a criminal.
Summers
again appeals to the governor, and this time he relents. In
the middle
of the riot, the mob hears that the governor is about to
arrive and
they start preparing for his arrival. Just after that,
Barnham
walks in, looking for Dr Summers, with Mailer ordering him
out. Jo
then attacks Mailer, and the guards start to take control of
the prison
again, with Jo handing Mailer over to the arriving
Governor.
The Master
has arrived at Stangmoor prison and meets with the
governor.
He asks to see the man that led the riot, Mailer. They go
into
Mailer s cell, and the guards leave. Mailer tries to attack the
Master,
but the Master is quicker. The Master wants Mailer to cause
some
trouble and he's bought a suitcase full of bombs. They organise
a plan and
the Master asks to be let out, they then attack the
guards and
escape, killing four more guards along the way.
Summers
and Jo are in the medical wing, and Summers is trying to
make a
call. The Master places a device on the telephone and it
attacks
Summers. They try and escape, but Vosper stops them.
The Doctor
is waiting outside Stangmoor prison, and is eventually
shown in.
When he gets past the gates, Mailer waves a gun at him.
They get
inside the prison. When inside, the Master greets him and
his help
is wanted. The Master wants him to control the Keller
Machine,
while the Master takes the Thunderbolt out of UNIT hands
and wants
to use it to blow up the peace conference. The Doctor then
escapes
out of the window. He is pursued by Mailer s mob, with 5
bullets
been fired, all of them missing. He makes for the main hall
of the
prison, and shouts out to Jo and Summers. Jo and Summers
respond,
and he heads up there, unfortunately, a guard is there and
he fires.
The Doctor escapes by diving into the process room, where
the Master
is waiting for him.
The Doctor
is handcuffed into the chair and the Doctor asks wonders
what the
purpose of the charade is. The Master wants to know how
long he
can hold out again the machine. He says he would like to
stay, but
he is pre-occupied with capturing the missile. The Master
leaves him
and the Doctor is attacked by the Keller Machine using
images of
his old foes. He is struggling to survive and is at the
mercy of
the Keller Machine.
Episode
Four
(drn:
24'40")
The Doctor
collapses in the chair while the machine affects the
whole
prison. The Master struggles to get into the process room.
When he
does, he presses a few buttons, which turn off the Keller
Machine.
He then checks whether the Doctor is alive and then gets a
nearby
stethoscope, but when checking his first heart, it has
stopped
completely, but his second heart is beating. The Master
tries
resuscitating him.
Jo and
Summers are in the cell making a plan, but are interrupted
when
Vosper bursts in and says that Summers is being transferred to
another
cell. He initially puts up a struggle, but is dragged away.
The Master
is repetitively slapping the Doctor across the face and
eventually
wakes up. The Doctor s first words are that he can t
survive
against the machine, as he knows what the secret is. Inside
the
machine is a creature, which feeds off the evil of the mind.
Mailer
then comes into the process room and the Master orders that
he is
taken away and put in the cell with Jo. Mailer drags the
Doctor to
the cell and throws him in it.
Jo is
delighted at seeing the Doctor, but is concerned for his
health and
goes to fetch some water. At this point, the Master
enters the
cell and Jo is surprised to see him. All he explains is
that the
Doctor will tell him everything when he recovers and Master
leaves the
cell.
Jo bangs
her fist on the door to try and get the guard s attention.
The guard
relents and opens the door, where Jo appeals for some help
for the
Doctor.
The Master
goes into the process room, and after initially shaking
off the
effects of the Keller machine, it eventually starts to
attack him
and the Master is struggling to cope with the affects of
the
machine. He tries to switch off but turns round to see an image
of the
Doctor taunting and laughing at him. The Master is terrified;
he runs
out of the room and bolts the door.
Doctor
Summers examines the Doctor and diagnoses that the Doctor has
been
physically and mentally beaten up and is in some sort of coma.
The only
thing that the Summers can do is to hand him a tablet. At
that
point, Vosper takes Doctor Summers away. When he s gone, Jo
tries to
get the Doctor to take the tablet, but refuses saying that
it will
kill him. He asks for some rest and then goes to sleep.
The Master
is in the governor s office where he is mopping himself
down with
a handkerchief. Mailer enters the office where the Master
congratulates him. Mailer though, is curious why they don t get out
of the
prison before light. The Master explains that they would have
the army,
the police and helicopters after them. He then turns off
the light
and explains what he wants Mailer to do with the
Thunderbolt. He asks Mailer to hijack at it so that he can aim the
missile at
the Peace Conference in London.
Vosper
comes into the cell with Jo, who is attending to the Doctor.
She asks
Vosper for some breakfast, and after some persuasion,
Vosper
orders one of the mob to get some grub. They both leave the
cell. The
Doctor then wakes up and says to Jo that they should make
a plan to
get out of the cell.
They make
a plan, and they wait for the food to be delivered. When
it is, Jo
attacks the man carrying the food by lifting it into his
face, the
Doctor then picks up the tray and attacks the next guard
by hitting
him over the back of the head. They then escape from the
cell. They
get into the governor s office and Jo can see a search
party
outside but they aren t going to escape. Jo sees a projection
of
Thunderbolt and wonders what it is. The Doctor explains what it
is and he
hopes that Captain Yates is escorting it.
Mailer
prepares all his troops at the place where they are going to
capture
the Thunderbolt. They all hide in the long grass by the side
of the
road. The escort arrives and Mailer s troops starts shooting
at it and
Mailer s troops are winning and UNIT has been firmly
defeated.
Yates tries to get a message to the Brigadier about the
attack,
but is shot down. Back at UNIT HQ, the Brigadier is
concerned
about Yates. They place the exact position the convoy was
attacked
and the Brigadier wants a mobile HW down there, a forensic
team and a
car to take him down there. He instructs Corporal Bell to
continue
trying Yates, but can t get through as Yates has picked up
a
motorbike and has followed Mailer s mob.
Captain
Yates follows them to a nearby hangar. Mailer s mob put the
missile
into the hangar. Yates decides to make a break for it and
heads for
the bike. When he s on the bike, Mailer s mob notices him
and start
shooting at him. One of the tires on Mike s bike is shot
and he
crashes into some boxes.
The
Brigadier has arrived at the scene where the convoy was
attacked,
and is currently attending to Benton, who didn t see
anything
as it happened very quickly. The Brigadier is wondering
where
Captain Yates has gone and speculates that he may have
followed
them as there is a motorbike missing.
The Doctor
and Jo are still in the Governor s office and the Doctor
is still
wondering how to deal with the alien creature that is
inside the
Keller Machine. Jo looks out of the window and sees the
Master
leaving. The Doctor goes down to the process room.
Inside the
process room, the Keller Machine has learnt to move. It
materialises in front of one of Mailer s mob and despite shooting at
it and he
dies. The Doctor and Jo see this and go into the process
room only
to discover that the machine has gone. Mailer and Vosper
then catch
them both. The Doctor sees the Keller Machine just
outside
the process room and appeals them to look behind them. They
do, but it
s too late for Vosper as the machine kills him. The
machine
then starts to attack the Doctor, Jo and Mailer.
Episode
Five
(drn:
23'34")
Mailer is
struggling and leaves the process room. Fortunately for
the Doctor
and Jo, the machine tries to follow him. The Doctor
concludes
that the machine must have detected a higher concentration
of evil in
Mailer. They go outside and Jo sees Barnham wandering
about.
They tell Barnham that they are going to escape and they take
him with
them.
The
Brigadier is flying over Stangmoor and sees no sign of activity
in the
prison or of the missile. They decide not to land and will
continue
surveillance.
The
Doctor, Jo and Barnham walk outside and see a UNIT helicopter.
They try
and get its attention and fails, and then they are found by
some of
Mailer s mob. Barnham is successful in fending off the first
attacker,
but another wave come in and prevents their escape.
The Master
is on the telephone to Mailer who is demanding that he
come back
to fix the Keller Machine. The Master tells him that he is
too busy,
but Mailer insists, threatening to run away and tell him
where the
missile is. The Master relents and puts the telephone
down. He
then wakes up Captain Yates who had been tied to a chair
and tells
him of his plans to use the missile on the peace
conference. The Master also tells him that he is been kept alive, as
he would
be a good hostage should UNIT find them before the missile
is ready.
The
Doctor, Jo and Barnham enter the governor s office with the
governor s
chair been presided over by Mailer. Mailer orders Barnham
out as he
gives him the creeps. The Doctor wonders why Mailer is
working
for the Master, and Mailer says that he has been offered
money, a
pardon and a free ticket to anywhere in the world. Mailer
tells the
Doctor to make him a better offer, but he can t and Mailer
has them
locked up.
The
Brigadier and his current understudy, Major Cosworth make plans
to take
Stangmoor prison, which is where the Brigadier thinks that
the
missile is. They then get a report of a black limousine entering
the
prison, which they assume is The Master. They decide to take
Stangmoor
prison.
The Doctor
and Jo are in a cell and are playing Checkers when the
Master,
followed by Mailer walks in. The Master starts to speak, but
is
quietened by first the Doctor when making a move and then Jo when
she makes
a move. Jo wins the game, with the Doctor claiming the
game is
too simple. The Master then gets down to business by asking
the Doctor
to control that machine, which he can t. The Master then
encourages
him to help by saying it will save lives, but he still
refuses.
The Master then uses blackmail by saying that if he doesn t
agree to
help him, then Mailer will kill Jo. The Doctor considers
this, and
says that there maybe a way to stop that machine, and
agrees to
help. They leave, with Jo staying behind.
The
Brigadier is in the mobile HQ, where he and Major Cosworth are
briefing
the assault party on the effort to take over Stangmoor
prison.
When they ve finished, Major Cosworth says to the Brigadier
that it s
an excellent plan and has every chance of success. The
Brigadier
is relieved to hear this. In to the Brigadier s office is
Sergeant
Benton who asks him to go on the assault party, and after a
little bit
of persuasion, the Brigadier enables him to join them.
Benton
then asks about Captain Yates but the Brigadier tells him
there s no
news.
Captain
Yates manages to release himself from the ropes that tied
him to the
chair, and is about to leave when he hears someone
approaching the door. He pretends to be tied to the chair and be
unconscious. One of Mailer s mob walks in and tries to examine
Yates, but
he manages to throw him over the chair and then escapes.
The Doctor
has built a loop of coil to throw around the machine
which will
have emit beta particles that are like the human brain.
He asks
the Master to switch on the power supply to full when he
says from
outside the process room. The Doctor walks into the
process
room and the Keller Machine starts activating and the
machine is
causing the coil to flame as images from the Doctor s
past fill
the room. Struggling to keep control, the Doctor throws
the coil
over the machine and shouts to the Master to switch the
power on.
The plan works, and the Keller Machine is temporarily
grounded.
The Master then gives his congratulations to the Doctor,
and then
orders Mailer back to his cell.
Jo sees
the Doctor relieved back and he s exhausted at having worked
on the
Keller Machine. It is fixed for now. Jo is starving, and
picks up
bits of the breakfast that they knocked over while the
Doctor
tells Jo of a story about Sir Walter Raleigh.
The
assault party arrives at the main gate of Stangmoor prison, and
the
Brigadier is dressed as a food salesman. After some persuasion,
they let
them in via the main gate, while some of the party get out
of the van
as quietly as possible, and attack the guards. The UNIT
troops get
involved in a gun battle with the prisoners. Meanwhile,
Sergeant
Benton is leading a secret underground assault on
Stangmoor,
and rapidly approaching the prison. In the battle, the
prisoners
are being picked off easily, despite their best attempts
to hold
off UNIT s surprise attack, while the underground party is
descending
the walls of Stangmoor. UNIT has killed off all
resistance, and ushers the van through saying they ve got to find
the
Doctor.
Meanwhile,
the Doctor and Jo are in the cell; they are wondering
what is
going on. Mailer then bursts in and orders the Doctor and Jo
out. Its
either UNIT will let him go or he will kill them. He also
warns them
not to try anything heroic, as he only needs one of them.
They walk
out, but Jo starts to attack Mailer, pleading that the
Doctor go.
Mailer then aims his gun at the Doctor, saying he s done
for and a
gun goes off.
Episode
Six
(drn:
24'38")
The gun
that goes off was actually the Brigadier s gun, and it
shoots
Mailer. The Doctor confirms that he is dead. Benton walks in,
and the
Master has got away, and the Doctor informs the Brigadier
that the
missile isn t here. Order is then restored to Stangmoor,
with the
prisoners put back in their cells, and Barnham is found,
but Jo
decides to look after him. She goes to get him some food. The
Doctor and
the Brigadier look at the map, but are interrupted by
Captain
Yates calling from mobile HQ. Yates tells them that they
have
Thunderbolt in an abandoned hangar outside Stanham.
The Master
starts to make preparations to fire Thunderbolt, while
the Keller
Machine starts to break loose from it s bonds.
Sergeant
Benton is made Acting Governor while the Doctor is sitting
to try and
think of a way of stopping the alien creature inside the
Keller
Machine. The Brigadier is to head down to mobile HQ and join
Major
Cosworth so that he can mop up the Master.
The
machine breaks loose of the bond, causing devastation in the
process
room and can now move about the prison. The machine claims
it s first
victims since it s release, killing two guards.
The Doctor
is making some plans to destroy the Keller Machine, while
Jo brings
some food for Barnham. The Doctor and Jo then go off to
deal with
the Keller Machine, using the Doctor s plan. The phone in
the
governor s office goes off and it s Dr Summers wondering if the
medical
supplies have been delivered. They have, while Benton tells
Barnham he
can go and talk to whom he likes. He wanders off.
The Doctor
and Jo have just discovered the scene outside the process
room. The
Doctor imagines that the machine must have stored all it s
energy and
blown all the circuits. They both go into the process
room,
which is, absent of the Keller Machine. The machine then comes
back and
starts attacking the Doctor and Jo. Barnham stands in the
doorway of
the process room, and despite the best efforts of the
Doctor, he
walks in and the machine stops attacking. The Doctor
concludes
that it is because as the creature feeds on evil impulses
in the
mind, it can t attack Barnham, as he hasn t got any. They are
safe from
the machine as long as Barnham is with them. The Doctor
goes off
to talk to Sergeant Benton, while Jo stays with Barnham.
The
Brigadier arrives at mobile HQ, and is delighted to hear that
the
missile has an abort mechanism, which they may well use.
The Doctor
is with Sergeant Benton, having given him a list of all
the
equipment he needs to destroy the creature inside the Keller
Machine.
The phone rings, and Benton picks it up, introducing
himself as
Acting Governor Benton. The Master asks `Who`, only to
get a
similar response. He asks for the Doctor, and he gathers that
the tables
have turned at Stangmoor.
Dr Summers
goes into the process room insisting that Barnham is
returned
to the medical wing, but when he tries to take him away,
the Keller
Machine starts attacking them. They return Barnham to his
seat,
right in front of the Keller Machine.
The Doctor
asks the Master does he intend blowing up the peace
conference, and the Master does. The Doctor then offers to return
the
dematerialisation circuit of his TARDIS in exchange for the
missile,
which the Master agrees to on the guarantee that he alone
will come,
and none of his UNIT friends. The Master says that if
they do,
he will blow up the missile.
Dr Summers
attends to other patients, and leaves Barnham to Jo.
The Doctor
contacts the Brigadier to try and get him to cancel his
attack on
the hangar and to fetch the Master s dematerialisation
circuit.
The Brigadier says don t worry and ends the conversation.
The
Brigadier then orders Yates to clear the area within a 10-mile
radius and
for somebody to press the abort button.
The Doctor
has gone back to the process room, where he is getting
annoyed
with Jo for pointing out that all they have is the machine,
but the
Doctor gets an idea which with the help of Barnham could
destroy
the Master and the machine at the same time.
The Master
disables the abort mechanism in case anyone decides to be
clever.
Barnham
carries the Keller Machine out of the process room and they
go off to
the mobile HQ. When they arrive, the Brigadier informs him
that their
attempts to blow up Thunderbolt were unsuccessful. The
Doctor is
then handed the dematerialisation circuit, and is
reluctant
to hand it back, while the Brigadier can t see an
alternative, unless he has a better plan. The Doctor answers `Of
course, I
have a better plan`.
The Doctor
is driving a black Police van to the hangar at Stanham,
with Jo
and Barnham in the back, with Barnham holding on tight to
the Keller
Machine. The Doctor pulls up and meets with the Master,
and is
hoping that he won t try anything silly despite the unusual
vehicle.
He s only doing that because Bessie has broken down. The
Master
then says his missile is ready for launch and asks if he has
the
circuit, and the Doctor takes it out of his pocket. The Master
asks the
Doctor to examine, but he doesn t hand it over. The Doctor
then
knocks the gun out of the Master s hand, while Jo and Barnham
leave the
Keller Machine there attacking the Master. They rush to
the hangar
and Jo tells the Brigadier that the Doctor is repairing
the abort
mechanism, while an incoming helicopter lands to take them
away. The
Doctor repairs the circuit and Jo lets them know. While
running to
the helicopter, they pass the Master, with Barnham
staying to
help him. This stops the Keller Machine from attacking
the Master
and he is able to get away in the black van that the
Doctor
used earlier, running Barnham over in the process. The Doctor
and Jo see
this and rush over to him and confirm he is dead. They
both get
in the helicopter, and fly away.
At mobile
HQ, there is a countdown until the missile blows up with
20 seconds
left. It gets to 10 and the Brigadier 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5,
4, 3, 2, 1
and the missile explodes, with the Doctor and Jo seeing
the
devastation from the skies as the fragile hangar starts to
collapse.
They all
arrive back at the prison, where Jo is sad about Barnham s
death. The
Brigadier is relieved that they are rid of the Keller
Machine
and the Master. The Doctor is certain the machine was
destroyed,
but is not so sure about the Master. He then checks for
the Master
s dematerialisation circuit, but found he s lost it. The
phone
rings, and it s the Master letting the Doctor know he is alive
and well.
The Doctor is extremely sorry to hear that, while the
Master
informs that he has his circuit back and his TARDIS is
working
perfectly. The Master s last words are `Enjoy your exile`.
The Doctor
is frustrated, as he s allowed to come and go as he
pleases,
while he s stuck on Earth with the Brigadier.
Source:
Stephen Mills
Continuity Notes:
The images from the Doctor's past in Episodes Three and Five
are those of a Dalek (The Dalek Invasion of Earth),
Koquillion (The Rescue), Slaar (The Seeds of Death), a Zarbi
(The Web Planet), a War Machine (The War Machines), a
Silurian (Doctor Who and the Silurians), an Ice Warrior (The
Seeds of Death) and a Cyberman (The Invasion).
The fire at the end of Episode One could be a reference back
to
Inferno.
A
similar mind parasite appears in Legacy. (And the Legacy
book actually implies a connection.)
The Unbound audio Sympathy for the Devil suggests that
several mind parasites ended up in China after their ship
crashed there in the early 19th century, and were kept
dormant by the peaceful chanting of Buddhist monks until Mao
Tse-Tung began to shut down the monasteries. This might
explain how the Master acquired the mind parasite he uses in
this story, and the connection between him and Chin Lee --
but it also begs the question of what happened to the other
mind parasites in the
mainstream timeline. However, it
should be pointed out that Sympathy takes place in an
alternate history in which the Third Doctor didn t become
UNIT s scientific advisor, and that in this version of
history the Master may have acquired the parasite from
somewhere else entirely.
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The Claws of Axos
The Claws of
Axos
Serial GGG
Producer
Barry
Letts
Script
Editor
Terrance
Dicks
Designer
Kenneth
Sharp Written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin
Directed by Michael Ferguson
Incidental Music by Dudley Simpson
Action by Havoc
Jon
Pertwee (Doctor Who), Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Nicholas
Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart), Roger Delgado (The
Master), Richard Franklin (Captain Mike Yates), John Levene
(Sergeant Benton), Peter Bathurst (Chinn), Paul Grist (Filer),
Donald Hewlett (Hardiman), David Savile (Winser) [1-2], Derek
Ware
(Pigbin Josh) [1], Bernard Holley (Axon Man), Michael
Walker (1st Radar Operator) [1-2], David G. March (2nd Radar
Operator) [1-2], Fernanda Marlowe (Corporal Bell) [1],
Patricia Gordino (Axon Woman) [1-2], John Hicks (Axon Boy)
[1],
Debbie Lee London (Axon Girl) [1], Tim Piggot-Smith
(Captain Harker) [2-3], Kenneth Benda (The Minister) [3]*,
Royston Farrell (Technician) [4].
NOTE: The opening titles of each episode use the Troughton
version of the theme.
*
Also a voice-over in a telephone conversation in Episode
Two,
uncredited.
A
mysterious UFO lands on Earth. The Axons have arrived,
desperate for help and eager to offer in return an exciting
gift
- axonite, potentially the most powerful substance man
has
ever seen. With its powers of duplication, the
possibilities for mankind are endless. The Ministry of Defence
is
delighted but the Doctor has his suspicions. Are the Axons
as
genuine as they seem? Just what is the Doctor's arch enemy,
the
Master, doing aboard this ship?
Original
Broadcast (UK)
Episode One 13th March, 1971 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Episode Two 20th March, 1971 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Episode Three 27th March, 1971 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Episode Four 3rd April, 1971 5h15pm - 5h40pm
Notes:
Released on video and DVD in episodic format. [+/-]
THE CLAWS OF AXOS
U.K. Release: May 1992 / U.S. Release: June 1996
PAL - BBC video BBCV4742
NTSC - CBS/FOX Video 8374
NTSC - Warner Video E1323
U.K. Release: April 2005 / U.S. Release: November
2005
PAL Region 2 - BBCDVD1354
NTSC Region 1 - Warner DVD E2398
DVD FEATURES:
Commentary by Katy Manning, Richard Franklin and
Producer Barry Letts.
'Behind The Scenes ' - Selection of studio
material from the making of this story, including
footage that was cut from the finished programme,
with optional information subtitles.
'Now and Then' - A look back at the Dungeness
locations used for this story.
'Reverse Standards Conversion - The Axon Legacy '
- Documentary which looks at the restoration of
this story for DVD.
'Directing Who ' - Michael Ferguson talks about
his work on The Claws of Axos.
Photo Gallery.
Production Information Subtitles.
Who's Who (Region 1 Only).
LINK: The Restoration Team work for The Claws of
Axos DVD.
Novelised as Doctor Who and the Claws of Axos by Terrance
Dicks. [+/-]
Number 10 in the Doctor Who Library.
Hardcover Edition - Allan Wingate Ltd.
First Edition: April 1977.
ISBN: .
Cover by Chris Achilleos.
Price: 5.95.
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: April 1977.
ISBN: 0 426 11703 4.
Cover by Chris Achilleos.
Price: 50p.
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: 1979. Reprinted 1980, 1982, 1984,
1985.
ISBN: 0 426 11703 4.
Cover by John Geary.
Price: 60p.
Doctor Who Classics series
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
[Includes The Mind of Evil and The Claws of Axos].
First Edition: March 1989.
ISBN: 0 352 32381 7.
Cover by Chris Achilleos.
Price: 2.95.
Doctor Who Magazine Archive: Issue #264.
Episode
One
(drn:
23'51")
Drifting
through time and space, its destination Earth, is a strange
elongated
spaceship. This spaceship is unusual. It seems to be
alive, it
pulses like living tissue, and is not made of ordinary
minerals.
Down on Earth, UNIT personnel are busy tracking the path
of the
ship, which suddenly begins to descend on direct collision
course
with the planet. The alarm is raised. Elsewhere in UNIT's
headquarters, the Brigadier is having trouble with a ministry
official,
one Mr Chinn. Chinn is furious that the Doctor appears to
have no
official file, and is in a rage when the Doctor himself
barges
into the room, unsettling the officious Chinn still further.
Just
outside the Brigadier's office, Jo has met top American agent
Bill
Filer. Filer is here to liase with Britain's authorities about
capturing
the Master.
They
arrive to find Chinn and the Doctor in the middle of a huge
argument.
The Doctor is complaining about Chinn's petty obsession
with the
localised matters of Earth, and derides him for having no
sense of
duty to the universe in general. Filer begins to talk about
the
Master, who the Doctor says has probably left Earth by now. All
this talk
of the evil renegade confuses the flustered Chinn, who
demands to
know who the Master is. Filer tells him that this isn't
possible
as Chinn is a security risk!
Just at
this moment, Yates bursts into the room with the news about
the U.F.O.
- it looks as if it's going to attack. The whole
operation
transfers to the radio room, where Chinn announces that he
has sought
and received permission to send out a missile strike and
blow the
alien object to pieces. However, the missiles hit nothing,
as the
ship seems to have landed somewhere on the South Coast. It is
decided
that a UNIT convoy will meet it to investigate, but Filer,
trying not
to cause trouble with Chinn by going with them, leaves
first for
the same destination.
Meanwhile
an old tramp, busy scouring the land for anything
interesting or valuable, falls off his bike into a large pool when a
searing
white light engulfs everything. After he has recovered, he
sets off
towards the light, which is in fact the effects of the
spaceship
landing. Before he can get any further, Old Josh, the
tramp, is
absorbed, examined and destroyed by the spaceship, which
seems to
speak as one living entity. Outside, Filer arrives before
the UNIT
convoy, and starts to examine the exterior of the
spaceship.
He is absorbed just as the convoy arrives, although
unlike the
tramp, he is deemed intelligent enough for retention.
Inside a
hastily set up mobile H.Q., the Doctor is introduced to Sir
George
Hardiman, head of the nearby Nuton Power Complex and Doctor
Winser,
head of research. Hardiman points out that any hostile
action
against the spaceship could be extremely hazardous, since the
Nuton
Power Complex houses most of Britain's nuclear energy. The
Doctor
adds that the spaceship is actually buried deep in the
Earth's
crust, and that what appears on the surface is only the tip
of the
iceberg. A heavy, throbbing heartbeat is being picked up from
the whole
ship.
Telling Jo
to stay inside the H.Q., the Doctor leads the others out
to look
more closely at the ship. A vast doorway appears for them to
enter
through, which they do, followed immediately by Jo, who hides
in an
alcove as the Doctor's group are scanned by the ship. She
disappears
down a corridor as the Doctor and company are finally
introduced
to the Axons - the beings within the ship. They announce
they have
come to Earth for help, because their own planet is
totally
drained of life and energy. They offer in return Axonite,
the stuff
from which the ship (Axos) was grown - they are organic
creatures.
They demonstrate Axonite's amazing powers, which could
solve all
food shortages, as just a little of the stuff grows
anything
organic. Chinn wants to claim it for Britain, but the
Doctor
expresses doubt. They are given time to decide. Elsewhere in
the ship,
Jo hears Filer's voice calling for help. Following it, she
is greeted
by a vile tentacled creature which seems to have grown
straight
out of the wall. She screams.
Episode
Two
(drn:
24'00")
Filer is
being held captive in a small room. Being held with him is
the
familiar form of the Master. Hearing Jo's screams, the Doctor
dashes off
to find her, followed by the Brigadier. Winser, Hardiman
and Chinn
stay behind - Chinn agrees to go and sort things out with
Earth's
authorities, leaving the other two behind. Winser determines
that the
Nuton Power Complex should have Axonite to itself.
Meanwhile,
the Doctor and the Brigadier have found Jo, who has
fainted.
She says she heard Filer's voice, but the Axon man says
this was
only a hallucination. They go back to the others. Outside
in the
mobile H.Q., Chinn has got in touch with the Minister, who
has given
him permission to do what he needs to secure Axonite for
Britain -
with Chinn's head on the block if the plan fails.
While the
Doctor is still doubtful about Axonite, he can see that
Winser is
determined to have it, so he offers his help in analysing
the
substance before anything more is done. The Doctor is unsure
about
Chinn, feeling that he shouldn't be allowed to have Axonite,
while he
quickly deduces the selfish scientific aims behind Winser's
desire for
the stuff.
The Master
is trying to persuade Filer to help him escape. He tells
the
American that Axons are the scavengers of the universe, with no
home
planet, travelling about absorbing the life and energy of other
worlds. He
claims he was forced to bring them to Earth and he tells
Filer that
their only hope of escape is if the gun Filer has
succeeded
in pulling from his pocket can be fired at the exact nerve
centre of
this chamber. Filer shoots and in the ensuing chaos, both
he and the
Master run off down a corridor.
Jo is
convinced that the Doctor wants to use Axonite to repair the
TARDIS and
escape from the Earth, a fact the Brigadier can
appreciate. He is more worried about Chinn, however, who suddenly
appears
with the Axon man, announcing that Britain now has the
exclusive
rights to Axonite. The Brigadier refuses to accept this,
taking
charge of the casket of Axonite and herding both Chinn and Jo
from the
ship. Unfortunately for him, once back in the mobile H.Q.
it becomes
clear that Chinn has the regular army on his side. The
Brigadier,
Yates and Benton are all arrested. The regular army
Captain, a
man called Harker, escorts them away from the H.Q.,
leaving Jo
and the Doctor, who he thinks are civilians. As soon as
he is
gone, the Doctor tells Jo he believed her story about Filer
all along
and that he wants to know more about the creature she saw.
Filer and
the Master are both caught by some of the tentacled
creatures
Jo saw earlier - one and the same creatures as the
humanoid
Axons, undisguised. The Master is taken back to his cell,
while
Filer is dragged off to the replication centre.
The
Doctor, back in the H.Q., tells Jo that they must search the
interior
of Axos for Filer, but no sooner has he said this than both
Harker and
a triumphant Chinn arrive to announce that there will be
no search.
The Doctor is taken to the Nuton Power Complex to assist
Winser in
his research. Back in Axos, the Master is told that
Chinn's
exclusive rights to Axonite have to be broken, otherwise the
aliens
will not be able to suck the maximum nutrient value from the
Earth. The
Master goes to arrange the world wide distribution of the
stuff,
first being warned that he is not irreplaceable. At the Nuton
Power
Complex, Winser and the Doctor have put the Axonite inside the
Particle
Accelerator, which is connected to the base's reactors.
Winser is
excitedly explaining how time travel could be achieved
with its
help, and the Doctor cons him into bringing the TARDIS to
the base -
claiming that this would help Winser's experiment. The
duplicate
Filer has been ordered to find the Doctor and to bring
both him
and the Axonite back to the mother ship.
The real
Filer begins to try to edge his way out of the ship, while
the Doctor
and Winser disagree on how best to analyse the Axonite.
Filer
escapes and heads for the Nuton Complex. He gets there just in
time to
help the Doctor destroy his replica. However, while the
Doctor is
kept in the lab, Bill is taken to the same room as Jo and
the
Brigadier, where they have been locked up. Meanwhile, the Master
has sent
out a message to the world concerning Axos, and has
returned
to Nuton with the Doctor's TARDIS, having hypnotised its
UNIT
escort. Alone in the lab, the Doctor has started accelerating
the
Axonite particles. This has a dramatic effect back in Axos as
well as
the Complex, where alarms alert everybody to the growing
Axonite,
which appears to be absorbing all the base's nuclear power.
Suddenly,
it bursts out of the chamber and absorbs Winser. The
Doctor
realises that all of Axos is one living entity, whatever its
form. Both
he and Jo are taken by the Axos creature.
Episode
Three
(drn:
24'05")
The
Brigadier is at last able to contact his superior in Geneva. He
is told
that the world now knows about Axonite, and that he must
take
charge of security while Chinn is to act as distribution
manager
for the stuff. In the lab, the golden Axonite man is
explaining
to Chinn and Hardiman that Jo, the Doctor and Winser were
destroyed
because they tried to interfere in the Axonite
composition. The Axon man warns that such an occurrence must never
happen
again.
Back in
the Axon ship, Jo and the Doctor come to as prisoners. They
are taken
to the heart of the ship where they are told that Earth is
to be
sucked dry - but only if Axonite is activated over the next 72
hours.
They want the Doctor's knowledge of time travel.
The
Brigadier sets up a search for Jo and the Doctor, while Filer,
knocked
unconscious during the Acceleration, is taken to hospital to
recover.
By a ruse the Master gets inside the Doctor's TARDIS, now
positioned
in a corner of the lab. He is angered to find it in need
of
repairs. By threatening to age Jo to death, Axos forces the
Doctor to
try to contravene the laws of Time to allow Axos to
time-travel and carry its parasitic evil across a wider landscape.
Axos plans
to use the power from Nuton to extend their limited time
travel
facility, with the Doctor's help.
Chinn has
finished supervising the distribution of Axonite, which is
now on its
way all over the world. Filer has told the Brigadier what
he knows,
but as the Brigadier goes off to find Chinn, he is alerted
by one of
his men - the Axon leader has burst into the base and is
busy
making its way to the reactor. The Master is, at the same time,
cannibalising the Particle Accelerator for his repairs. The
Brigadier
and Yates try to stop him, as Hardiman declares that there
is a
massive power build-up in the main reactor.
The Master
says that he will help, given his freedom. He plans to
connect
the power from the main nuclear reactor through the TARDIS
and then
straight to Axos in one great surge instead of gradually,
thus
causing a kind of brainstorm. The Doctor and Jo are still
trapped
inside Axos - as the Master points out it's their lives
against
saving the world. He reaches forward and pulls the lever
that will
destroy not only Axos, but the Doctor and Jo as well.
Episode
Four
(drn:
25'09")
In the
chaos caused by the power surge, the Doctor and Jo manage to
make their
escape. Very quickly Axos rationalises the power surge
and begins
to reverse it. Hardiman is killed in the process of
breaking
the cable link which now threatens to destroy the base
because of
the Axon re-channelling process.
With the
Master a captive, the Doctor, Jo, Filer, Chinn and the
Brigadier
talk about what to do now. The Doctor explains that he has
sent out
warnings concerning the true nature of Axonite to the
world, but
doubts that they will be believed. Yates goes to keep
watch on
Axos, while the Master is freed to help the Doctor. They
start
further work on the TARDIS. Yates and Benton have managed to
set up a
video surveillance link which enables Chinn and the
Brigadier
to watch Axos at the Complex. Jo and Filer are both
worried
about the Master's collaboration with the Doctor.
Inside the
TARDIS, the Doctor suggests an alliance to the Master. He
says he is
prepared to leave Earth to the tender mercies of Axos and
escape,
providing the Master pilots the time machine. If he doesn't
agree, the
Doctor will hand him back to UNIT and leave him to die on
a doomed
planet. The Doctor leaves him to his work, first removing a
component
from the console to ensure that the Master isn't tempted
to leave
without him.
Axos has
activated its nutrition cycle and its spacedome re-emerges
from the
Earth watched by Yates and Benton, who are told to pull out
by the
Brigadier. All over the world Axos is coming to life, feeding
on energy.
Yates and Benton are waylaid by an attack by the Axon
creatures
and have to make their way back to Nuton on foot. The
creatures
begin an assault on the base, while the Doctor reveals his
intention
of leaving Earth with the Master, in spite of the
horrified
Jo's protests. The TARDIS takes off watched by the
Brigadier,
Filer and Jo. Yates and Benton arrive to announce that
they are
all under siege.
The Doctor
stops the TARDIS inside the brain area of Axos, raising
protestations from the Master. He offers Axos an alliance -- he will
link the
TARDIS with them, giving them time travel facility, while
he must be
promised the destruction of Gallifrey as reward and
revenge
for his own exile on Earth. The Master is again forced to
help.
Meanwhile,
in Nuton, the besieged party are horrified to discover
that Axos
is making the Particle Accelerator increase its rate so
that an
explosion will become inevitable.
The
Doctor's true plan is now revealed to the Master - he is putting
Axos in a
time loop, a kind of temporal prison. The drawback is that
the TARDIS
will be imprisoned too. The Master rushes from the
TARDIS,
but is too late to warn Axos. He departs in his own ship.
In the
Nuton Base, the attacking Axons vanish as the Doctor's plan
succeeds.
So too does the Axon spacedome and the Axonite around the
world. The
Particle Accelerator is about to blow up, however, so
everyone
evacuates. Just before the final, engulfing explosion the
TARDIS
manages to break free from Axos' grip and re-emerge in the
lab. The
Doctor, sensing the imminent cataclysm, has just enough
time to
dematerialise before the whole place goes up. Outside, Jo
and the
Brigadier are speculating as to what happened to the Doctor
when a
familiar grating noise - the materialising TARDIS - greets
their
ears.
Back in
Hardiman's old office, the Doctor tries to explain what
happened
and how it worked to a confused audience of Jo, the
Brigadier
and Filer. Chinn has returned to his ministry, while Filer
is all set
to return to his superiors. The Doctor confirms that the
Master
escaped, and that he himself is still under the complete
influence
of the Time Lords. Casting his eyes upwards he compares
himself to
a kind of galactic yo-yo.
Source:
Archives from Doctor Who Magazine Winter Special (1985),
pp.18-22.
Continuity Notes:
Although the Doctor escapes this one, in Meglos the Fourth
Doctor, Romana and K-9 are trapped briefly in a chronic
hysteresis, a time loop where they get a brief reprise
before the events start again. The Doctor and Romana also
trigger another time loop to save a planet from being
destroyed by nuclear missiles in The Armageddon Factor.
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Colony in Space
Colony in Space
Serial HHH
Producer
Barry
Letts
Script
Editor
Terrance
Dicks
Designer
Tim
Gleeson Written by Malcolm Hulke
Directed by Michael Briant
Incidental Music by Dudley Simpson
Jon
Pertwee (Doctor Who), Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Nicholas
Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart) [1,6], Roger Delgado
(Master) [4-6], Nicholas Pennell (Winton), John Ringham
(Ashe), David Webb (Leeson) [1], Sheila Grant (Jane Leeson)
[1],
Roy Skelton (Norton) [1-4], Helen Worth (Mary Ashe), John
Line
(Martin) [1], Mitzi Webster (Mrs. Martin) [1], Pat Gorman
(Primitive and Voice / Primitive) [1-2,4,6]*, John Scott
Martin (Robot) [1-3]; Peter Forbes-Robertson, John Baker,
Graham Leaman (Time Lords) [1]; Bernard Kay (Caldwell) [2-6],
Morris Perry (Dent) [2-6], Tony Caunter (Morgan) [2-6], John
Herrington (Holden) [2], Stanley McGeagh (Allen) [3], Pat
Gorman (Long) [3], John Tordoff (Alec Leeson) [4], Norman
Atkyns (Guardian) [4,6], Roy Heymann (Alien Priest) [4,6], Pat
Gorman (Colonist) [5].
*
Pat Gorman was credited as Primitive and Voice for Episodes
One
and Two, and Primitive for Episodes Four and Six.
(Although credited as a 'Voice
for Episodes One and Two --
specifically, that heard accompanying a propaganda film
watched by the Doctor on the IMC spaceship it was apparently
director Michael Briant who actually spoke this commentary.)
The
Time Lords discover that the Master has stolen secret
files revealing the location of the dreaded Doomsday Weapon.
They
summon the Doctor out of his exile on Earth and send him
five
centuries into the future to the planet Uxarieus to
retrieve and safeguard this vital information.
Arriving on Uxarieus, the Doctor and Jo encounter a group of
Earth colonists whose very existence is under threat due to
failing crops and low morale. Representatives of the ruthless
Interplanetary Mining Corporation are disputing the colonists
claim to the planet.
Their only hope is placed on the imminent arrival of an
Adjudicator from Earth to resolve the dispute. Meanwhile, the
Doctor pursues his mission, but first he must deal with giant
lizards, killer robots, and deadly primitive tribesmen
knowing all the while that the Master cannot be far away.
Original
Broadcast (UK)
Episode One 10th April, 1971 6h10pm - 6h35pm
Episode Two 17th April, 1971 6h10pm - 6h35pm
Episode Three 24th April, 1971 6h10pm - 6h35pm
Episode Four 1st May, 1971 6h10pm - 6h35pm
Episode Five 8th May, 1971 6h10pm - 6h35pm
Episode Six 15th May, 1971 6h10pm - 6h35pm
Notes:
Released on video in episodic format. [+/-]
COLONY IN SPACE
U.K. Release: November 2001 / U.S. Release: January
2003
PAL - BBC video BBCV7176
NTSC - Warner Video E1728
Released as part of Master Box Set in the U.K. [BBC
video BBCV7175]. The tapes were packaged
individually inside the tin box but were not sold
separately.
Novelised as Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon by Malcolm
Hulke. [+/-]
Number 23 in the Doctor Who Library.
Paperback Edition - W. H. Allen.
First Edition: April 1974. Reprinted in 1974, 1975,
1976.
ISBN: 0 426 10372 6.
Cover by Chris Achilleos.
Illustrations by Chris Achilleos.
Price: 30p.
Paperback Edition - W. H. Allen.
First Edition: August 1979. Reprinted in 1982, 1983.
ISBN: 0 426 10372 6.
Cover by Jeff Cummins.
Illustrations by Chris Achilleos.
Price: 70p.
Hardcover Edition - W. H. Allen.
First Edition: March 1982.
ISBN: 0 491 02707 9.
Cover by Jeff Cummins.
Price: 4.95.
FOREIGN EDITIONS: Netherlands, 1974. Doctor Who
en het Dodelijk
Wapen. Publisher: Unieboek B.V.
Bussum.
Translated by Wim Hohage.
Turkey, 1975.
Doktor Kim ve Gizli Silah.
Publisher:
Remzi Kitabevi. Translated by Reha
Pinar.
USA, 1979
(Reprinted up to 1989). Publisher:
Pinacle (#2).
Cover by David Mann.
Japan, 1980.
Osoru Beki Saishyuu Heiki!.
Publisher.
Hayakawa Bunko Publishing. Cover and
illustrations
by Michiaki Sato. Translated by
Yukio Sekiguchi.
Portugal, 1983.
Doutor Who E A Arma Total.
Publisher:
Editorial Presen a. Cover by Shanti.
Translated by
Eduardo Nogueira and Concei o
Jardim.
Doctor Who Magazine Archive: Issue #238.
Episode
One
(drn:
24'19")
A view of
the universe. Stars and galaxies wheel by. A planet slowly
swims into
view.
Three
mysterious figures stand before a large monitor, watching the
planet.
They know that only the Master could have stolen the files
on the
Doomsday Weapon. The Doctor could stop the Master from
seizing
the weapon, but they wonder if he will agree to help them.
He is very
bitter about his exile and inability to travel in time
and space.
They agree that they will have to restore his ability to
travel if
he is to help them.
On Earth,
the exiled Doctor is working in his lab at UNIT
headquarters. He is again engaged in the seemingly endless and
hopeless
task of repairing the dematerializaton circuit to his
TARDIS.
His young pretty assistant Jo Grant looks over his shoulder.
She
wonders why he doesn't just give up -- he's been working on it
forever.
As the
Doctor patiently continues his task, Brigadier
Lethbridge-Stewart arrives. He tells the Doctor that they have not
yet found
the Master. The Doctor scoffs. He thinks the Brigadier is
wasting
his time. The Master could be anywhere in the Universe now
that he
has a working TARDIS.
The phone
rings and the Brigadier answers. He tells the Doctor that
one of his
agents may have seen the Master. The Doctor testily
replies
that the Brigadier's agents are always finding traces of the
Master.
The Brigadier leaves in a huff and Jo playfully chides the
Doctor for
offending the soldier. The Doctor reminds her that the
last time
they thought they had the Master, it turned out they'd
arrested
the Spanish ambassador!
The Doctor
straightens up and announces that his repairs are
complete.
He should now be able to bypass the Time Lord's control of
his
TARDIS. Jo is still skeptical so the Doctor invites her to step
into the
TARDIS with him. The girl follows him in and is stunned to
see how
massive the TARDIS is on the inside. As she gazes around in
a daze,
the Doctor fits the new circuit in. Suddenly the doors close
and the
time column starts moving. Jo asks the Doctor to let her out
but he
tells her they are taking off. As the grinding
dematerialization sound rings out, he realizes with alarm that the
Time Lords
are operating the TARDIS by remote control.
In the
lab, the Brigadier walks in just in time to see the TARDIS
vanish. He
commands the Doctor to come back at once.
Jo asks
the Doctor where they are but he can't answer since the are
"nowhere". He turns on the scanner which shows the swirling
colors
of the
spacetime continuum. Jo asks if he knows where they are going
but he
doesn't. A planet swims into view on the TARDIS scanner --
the same
planet seen at the beginning of the episode. The Doctor
recognizes
it as Uxarieus. Jo has had enough and tells the Doctor
she wants
to go back to Earth, but the Doctor doesn't think he can.
On the
surface of the planet, a large clumsy robot rumbles about,
touching a
probe to the soil. As it trundles off, the TARDIS
appears.
Inside, Jo
is still skeptical. She doesn't really believe they're on
another
planet. She asks the Doctor to open the doors but he waits
to make
sure the atmosphere is not poisonous first. He checks and
the air is
fine -- rather like pre-industrial Earth. He opens the
door and
Jo, relieved, starts to walk out.
She stops
dead in her tracks when she sees an alien landscape beyond
the TARDIS
doors. She suddenly realizes that all the Doctor's
stories
about traveling in time and space were true. At first, she
is scared
and wants to go back but the Doctor calms her and
persuades
her to at least take a quick look around.
Jo agrees
and they step out into the gray rocky terrain. They find a
strange
flower. As they continue to explore, a small green humanoid
-- holding
a spear and bedecked with jewelry -- watches them.
The Doctor
finds machine tracks and realizes that Uxarieus must be
inhabited.
Unseen by him, the green man cautiously examines the
TARDIS.
The Doctor
then sees metal domes in the distance -- surely the
inhabitants of the planet live there. He wants to go to them but Jo
insists on
going back to the TARDIS. Still, the Time Lord is
hesitant
to head back into exile. He stalls for time by examining
some
rocks. But as he does, Jo sees a man standing over them,
holding a
rifle.
In one of
the domes, a farmer named Martin is talking to the leader
of the
village -- Robert Ashe. He tells them he saw some creatures.
Ashe
insists that he thoroughly surveyed the planet before they
arrived
and found no dangerous life. Moreover, they've been on the
planet a
year without seeing any trace of the creatures he claims to
have seen.
Martin's wife supports him though, telling Ashe they
heard a
loud roar and saw a giant lizard attacking their dome. They
scared it
off with a few rifle shots. A frustrated Ashe tells his
young
security man -- Winton -- to check it out.
The Doctor
and Jo are marched in by Leeson. He tells Ashe they were
looking at
rocks -- they must surely be mineralogists. The Doctor
denies
this but wonders why they would be so hostile to
mineralogists. Leeson angrily replies that he knows what's about to
happen --
their planet will soon be gutted for its minerals.
Ashe,
apparently believing Leeson, tells the Doctor the planet has
been
designated for colonization -- the Doctor and his cronies have
no right
to reduce it to a slag heap. The Doctor asks if they have
laws to
protect them but Ashe scoffs. The law takes too long. By the
time
everything is worked out, the planet will be ruined.
The Doctor
explains that he's an explorer who landed on the planet
by
accident. They ask him for his papers but the Doctor has none, of
course. He
asks Ashe to let them return to his ship but Ashe tells
him that
night is coming. It's too dangerous to go out at night --
they'll
have to spend the night in the main dome. Jane Leeson leads
Jo away to
get some food and a bed.
The Doctor
walks around and begins looking at crop records posted on
the wall.
Leeson -- still thinking the Doctor is a mineralogist -
tries to
push him away but the Doctor uses his Venusian karate to
disarm
him. He then notes that the colony appears to be close to
starving
to death.
Out on the
plains, a group of green humanoids knock the TARDIS over
and drag
it away.
In the
colony cafeteria, Jo can overhear the colonists'
conversation. Some of them want to go back but others think the
Earth is
too crowded. Winton comes in and takes several men out to
look for
the Martins' monster.
Mary Ashe
-- Robert's daughter -- arrives and sits down next to Jo.
She's
friendly to the nervous girl, asking if her clothes are the
current
fashion on Earth. She muses that the fashions were very
different
when they left -- back in 2471.
In one of
the distant domes, Jane Leeson is getting ready for bed
when her
husband arrives. He's frustrated that the crops won't even
start to
grow. They should never have come to Uxarieus. Jane reminds
him that
at least they've got land -- they barely had a place of
their own
back on Earth. But her husband is unmoved, questioning
Ashe's
leadership. He still thinks Jo and the Doctor are spies for a
mining
company.
They
suddenly hear a loud roar. Leeson hurries out and sees a giant
lizard
approaching the dome. He races back in and grabs his rifle
while his
wife gets on the radio. Shots and roars can be heard as
she calls
for help. Jane suddenly turns and asks who is there and
what they
want. She backs against the wall and cries out as
something
closes in on her.
In the
main dome, Ashe has laid out the situation before the Doctor.
The
colonists have been on Uxarieus for one year. Ashe was convinced
the soil
could be reclaimed, but their crops just wither without
explanation. The Doctor is puzzled. But before he can suggest
anything,
Mary and Jo bust in. They tell Robert that the Leeson dome
is under
attack.
Ashe
hastily organizes the men to the Leeson dome. The Doctor
decides to
accompany him, much to Jo's consternation. As they leave,
Jo asks
Mary if they saw the creatures before and Mary replies that
creatures
only just appeared.
The
Doctor, Ashe and Winton meet in the Leeson dome. The farming
couple
have been killed. Winton tells them he saw a giant lizard. He
and his
mean fired at it but it ran and disappeared. Ashe wants to
follow its
tracks in the morning.
The Doctor
asks him to look at claw marks on the wall. He then asks
Winton
about the creature and the man tells him the lizard was at
least 20'
high. The Doctor asks him how a 20' high lizard managed to
get in
through a man-sized door.
In the
morning, the colonists meet with Ashe. They now want to leave
for Earth
or another planet. But Ashe wants to keep at it and
reminds
them that their rocket is very old.
The Doctor
supports Ashe. He tells them that some force must be
keeping
their crops from growing. It needs to be found and stopped.
He also
insists that the lizards, if they exist, can be found and
killed.
Mrs. Martin supports him and the colonists waver, finally
agreeing
to support Ashe for now. They'll start by organizing
patrols
for the creatures.
At this
critical moment, a dirty bedraggled man in ragged clothing
(Norton)
staggers into the dome, exhausted, hungry and thirsty. All
they can
get out of him is that he is the only survivor of another
colony on
the planet. His fellow colonists were all killed by giant
lizards.
The green
humanoids are picking over the Leeson dome when the Doctor
and Ashe
arrive. One tries to knife the Doctor but Ashes stop him.
He asks
them to leave the Leesons' things behind. They are silent
but appear
to understand him. Ashe tells the Doctors they had a few
fights
with the "primitives" early on but relations are all right
for now.
Ashe heads
back to the dome to talk to the colonists while the
Doctor
stays to investigate. The Doctor is collecting some samples
from the
claw marks when he hears a noise. A huge robot rushes into
the dome.
The Doctor flattens himself against the wall as the robot
advances
toward him, its arms waving menacingly...
Episode
Two
(drn:
22'43")
The Doctor
is investigating a dome on the planet Uxarieus that was
ruined in
a mysterious attack by a giant lizard. He hears a noise
and a huge
robot rushes into the dome. He flattens against the wall
as it
advances on him, its arms waving menacingly.
But it
suddenly stops. A kind-faced man in a black and red uniform
(Caldwell)
enters holding a remote control. He apologizes for the
robot. He
looks around at the ravaged dome and asks the Doctor what
happened
to it. The Doctor tells him the story. Caldwell seems
surprised
that the planet is inhabited and tells the Doctor that the
planet
isn't supposed to be colonized according to Earth. The Doctor
asks him
who he is and Caldwell replies that he's doing a mineral
survey for
the Interplanetary Mining Corporation -- IMC. They only
just
arrived. He's worried that there will be trouble with the
colonists.
The Doctor says that surely IMC will leave but Caldwell
tells him
that the situation will have to be sorted out.
Caldwell
invites the Doctor to come back to the ship. At first, the
Time Lord
doesn't want to but the robot block his exit and he
agrees.
Caldwell is relieved that at least no one was hurt but the
Doctor
tells him that two people were killed. Caldwell is visibly
shocked at
the news. He and the Doctor climb into his IMC jeep.
Winton is
talking to Norton in the main dome, asking if there are
any other
survivors from the other colony. Norton tells them the
lizards
killed most of them and the primitives finished them off. Jo
is
skeptical, but Winton explains that the primitives were hostile
at first.
Norton warns the colonists that the primitives will turn
on them
eventually. Winton again wants to leave the planet but Jo
encourages
him, telling him the Doctor could help. Norton
suspiciously asks who Jo and the Doctor are but the girl evades the
question.
Just then,
a primitive arrives. Norton grabs a gun and points it at
the green
man but Ashe disarms him. He will not break their truce
with the
primitives. Winton reminds him that they only have a truce
because
Ashe is giving the green men food. Winton leads Norton away,
but the
latter can't resist a parting shot -- chiding Ashe that one
day
they'll wish they'd listened to him.
Winton
tells Ashe they can't just keep feeding the strange green men
but Ashe
insists they need to stay on good terms with them. After he
leaves, Jo
reminds Winton that Ashe is his leader. Winton wonders if
that's not
been his mistake all along.
As the
Doctor and Caldwell drive to the IMC ship, the Doctor notices
that the
TARDIS is gone.
Aboard the
IMC ship, two men are working on the bridge. The young
cocky
second in command Morgan and the singularly cold Captain Dent.
Morgan is
reporting that the mineral survey indicates enough
duralinium
on the planet to build a million houses back on Earth.
He's
amazed the planet was designated for colonization.
They see
the Doctor and Caldwell approaching on the bridge monitor
and
comment on how eccentric the Doctor looks. Morgan asks what Dent
intends to
tell the Doctor. Dent replies that they will tell the
usual
story -- they just arrived and are shocked that the planet has
been
colonized. Morgan wonders if the colonists will believe the
story but
Dent is sure they won't be around for long.
Caldwell
leads the Doctor into a room on the ship and show him an
entertainment console. The Doctor turns it on and it shows scenes of
violence
back on Earth.
Caldwell
then reports to Dent. He tells him that two people were
killed in
the colony. He angrily insists that Morgan is supposed to
scare
people not kill them. Morgan replies that they shot at him.
The IMC
captain is annoyed with the killings but completely
unremorseful. He shows Caldwell the mineral reports and explains
that the
planet will make him extremely rich -- if they get rid of
the
colonists. The captain then goes to meet the Doctor.
The Doctor
is watching reports that show the Earth to be extremely
crowded
when Dent arrives and introduces himself. He notes that
there has
apparently been a mistake. The Doctor is delighted that
IMC will
leave but Dent replies that the planet is apparently not
suitable
for colonization, given the hostile life. The Doctor
replies
that the lizards -- if they exists -- can be dealt with.
Dent tells
him that IMC has been given the mineral rights. With
100,000
million people back on Earth, minerals are desperately
needed.
The Doctor testily replies that the people don't need new
houses -
they need more planets to live on. Dent can only reply that
it is his
job to find minerals for Earth.
The Doctor
asks Dent about his TARDIS and Dent leaves to find out if
his people
have seen it. He returns to the bridge and tells Morgan
that the
Doctor is not a colonist. Perhaps he's a government agent.
He then
instructs Morgan to take the Doctor back to the colony. If
the Doctor
were found dead in the destroyed hut, it would be obvious
the
creatures had come back. He'll make sure a robot is waiting for
them.
Caldwell
returns and tells Dent that no one has seen the Doctor's
blue box.
In the
entertainment room, the Doctor is trying to open the door
when
Morgan arrives. The Doctor is annoyed at being locked up.
Morgan
tells the Doctor that he will escort him back to the colony.
The Doctor
asks if they intend to meet with Ashe and Morgan
hesitates
but then says he is supposed to arrange a meeting between
Ashe and
Dent. On the way, however, he would like to see the wrecked
dome. He
wants to know about the creatures in case IMC is attacked.
On the way
back, a few primitives blocks the road. Morgan pulls a
gun but
the Doctor stops him, then fights off the green aliens.
In the
main dome, Jo and Mary are cooking for the colonists. Robert
arrives
and Jo asks about the Doctor. He promises to look for the
Doctor if
he doesn't turn up. He then goes out to find Winton, who
is showing
Norton around. Jo notes that Norton has made a remarkable
recovery.
Jim, their
mechanic, is working with a primitive on a rackety power
generator
when Norton and Winton walk in. The mechanic explains that
the
primitive is his assistant -- he seems to always know which
instrument
Jim needs. Norton asks where the power comes from and
Winton
explains that it draws nuclear power from the rocket and
beams it
to the domes. It's been acting up but Jim is confident he
can keep
it going.
Winton and
Norton return to the cafeteria. Norton asks if Jim is the
only
engineer and Winton replies they'd be lost without Jim. Mary
tells
Winton that her father wants him and Winton leaves. Norton
leaves to
take a nap but Jo is suspicious of him.
In the
power room, Jim has just finished his repairs when Norton
arrives.
He knocks out the primitive with a wrench and then takes
the spear
and attacks Jim.
Mary and
Jo are talking to Robert when the power goes out. Norton
comes in,
agitated, and drags them to the power room. They find the
primitive
and Jim dead. Norton explains that the primitive suddenly
killed Jim
and then came after him. Norton then killed the primitive
in self
defense. Ashe can't believe it but Norton insists that this
is the way
the planet's native work. Robert examines the machine. He
realized
that the relay circuits have been destroyed and no one else
know how
to fix them.
On the
ship, Dent radios IMC. He confirms a rich strike and assures
them that
we will deal will the colonists. Caldwell arrives, excited
over the
mineralogy report. Dent tells him to get more equipment in
preparation for mining. He reiterates that the colonists will not be
a problem,
but Caldwell wonders if they will be as stubborn as the
Doctor.
Dent explains that Morgan will handle the Doctor. Caldwell
realizes
that something fishy is up. He is about to run out and stop
it but
Dent threatens him, reminding him that as captain of the
ship, he
could execute Caldwell if he strikes him.
Caldwell
is still unhappy and Dent tries to explain that the Doctor
is surely
a government agent. One man's death is nothing and beside,
they are
about to get rich. Caldwell is not convinced and Dent again
threatens
his the mineralogist's career, intent on his most skilled
miner in
line.
The Doctor
and Morgan arrive at the Leeson dome. Morgan asks a few
questions
and the Doctor explains that he thinks the incident was
faked.
Morgan asks about the claw marks but the Doctor insists a
mechanical
device could have created them. Morgan then brings in the
IMC robot,
with huge claws affixed to its arms. The Doctor turns
around
only to find the IMC man holding a gun on him.
Episode
Three
(drn:
23'47")
The Doctor
has returned with Morgan to the Leeson dome to inspect
the damage
from an attack by a mysterious creature. He believes the
incident
was faked. Morgan then summons a lumbering MC robot with
huge claws
attached to its arms. The Doctor turns only to see the
IMC man
holding a gun on him.
Thinking
fast, the Doctor tells Morgan that he'll ruin the entire
story if
he shoots him. Morgan reaches for the remote to make the
robot
attack but the Doctor lunges at him, knocking both remote and
gun from
his hands. Morgan flees as the out of control robot surges
forward.
The Doctor backs away against the wall, just out of reach
of the
flailing claws. He slowly reaches for the remote. Once he has
it, he
deactivates the machine.
In the
main dome, Mary Ashe is telling the colonists it might be
some time
before the power is restored. Her father reports that they
only have
power for a few days. If the machine isn't repaired, they
will be
finished. Jo thinks that the Doctor could repair the
generator
and asks Robert if they can look for him. Ashe is hesitant
but
assures her he'll find someone to send out. Winton reports that
Norton
thinks the machine damaged beyond repair.
Suddenly,
they hear the sound of an approaching spacecraft. The IMC
mining
ship descends from the sky and lands next to the colony. Dent
leaves to
talk to colonists, leaving a troubled Caldwell behind.
Captain
Dent meets with Ashe. He feigns surprise that the colonists
are on
Uxarieus. Clearly, they will have to send for an adjudicator
to
straighten the mess out. Winton angrily responds that by the time
that's
done, IMC will have ripped up the planet. He wants them to
just
leave.
The Doctor
arrives in the middle of this conversation. He tells the
colonists
that the monster is a fake and is eager to testify to the
Adjudicator about IMC's tactics. A infuriated Dent stomps out,
refusing
to acknowledge the Doctor.
Winton
insist that he saw the monster with his own eyes but the
Doctor
explains that it was a trick. He tells them about the robot
at the
dome although he's sure IMC has removed it by now. Ashe then
asks if
the Doctor can repair their power unit. The Doctor can but
first
wants them to find the TARDIS. Jo is alarmed to hear that it's
missing.
Ashe promises to look later but urges the Doctor to repair
the power
unit as their need is desperate.
As they
leave, Norton shakes his head, insisting that he was hunted
for weeks
by the giant lizards but Jo is equally adamant that the
Doctor is
right. Winton equivocates, wondering if they could get
some real
evidence against IMC. Jo suggests they sneak aboard the
IMC ship
to search for it, but Norton overhears them.
Morgan and
Dent are trying to figure out their next move. They
aren't
sure the colonists will believe the Doctor's story. They are
cut off by
the arrival of Caldwell who asks if they've sent for the
Adjudicator yet and how they will respond to the Doctor's story.
Just then,
the communicator rings. It is Norton, informing them that
Jo and
Winton are coming.
Jo and
Winton find their way into one of the rooms on the IMC ship
only to
find themselves surrounded by IMC men with guns.
In the
dome, the Doctor has successfully restored power. He wonders
what
Norton was up to as his "repairs" seem to have only damaged the
machine
further. Mary then tells him a message has arrived regarding
Jo.
The Doctor
returns to the IMC ship to confront Dent. Dent tells him
that Jo is
under arrest and he could have her executed for breaking
into the
ship. But he won't if the Doctor withdraws his allegations.
The Doctor
presses him for information on Miss Grant and Dent
explains
that Jo is chained to an explosive survey charge and could
be killed
with a mere press of a button.
In a
cave-like house, an IMC man chains Jo and Winton to a bomb. He
warns them
that the bomb is very sensitive and might go off if they
try to
break free. Jo wonders where they are and Winton explains
that they
are in a primitive dwelling.
The Doctor
has returned and explained the situation to Ashe. The
colony
leader is appalled. He wants to reason with Dent but the
Doctor
insists this will only endanger Jo. Ashe then suggests a
search for
Jo but the Doctor reminds him that search parties would
be seen
from the IMC ship.
Winton
realizes there is some shipping grease left on the survey
charge. He
puts some onto Jo's hands and she manages to squeeze out
of the
handcuffs. Winton tells her to head back to the colony but
she won't
leave without him. She gets a rock and hammers at his
chains.
This causes the bomb to start flashing.
Back on
the ship, an alarm sounds on Dent's desk. He calls the
security
guard and tells him to check on the hostages. He arrives
just as Jo
breaks Winton's chain. A struggle ensues and Winton
escapes.
But the guard manages to grab Jo and blazes away at the
fleeing
colonist. He then lets Dent know one of the prisoners has
escaped.
Dent orders Morgan to find Winton. They chase him through
the rocky
terrain, firing away with their machine guns.
Winton
comes over a hill and sees Caldwell. The miner draws his gun
and slowly
approaches the colonist. The searching guards hear shots
and see
Caldwell, who tells them "I got him for you." After they
leave,
Winton gets up from the ground.
Caldwell
helps Winton into a shelter. He removes his handcuffs and
treats his
wounds, explaining that he's no killer, he's a miner.
Winton
tells him the story of his escape. Caldwell then urges Winton
to return
to the colony and leave. He shows him a rock and explains
that the
planet is the richest strike of duralinium they've ever
found. IMC
will get the planet one way or another. He urges the
colonists
to leave before someone else gets hurt.
Night
falls and Ashe prepares to send out search parties while IMC
can't see
them. But before he can get going, Winton returns. He
hurriedly
gets a rifle and starts loading. Ashe wants to search for
Jo but
Winton is determined to attack the IMC ship. Robert thinks
this would
start a war but Winton insists that, as far as he is
concerned,
the war has already started. The Doctor urges Ashe not to
attack IMC
-- the colonists are sure to be massacred.
As Winton
calls the colonists to the dome, the Doctor heads out to
talk to
Caldwell. Perhaps he can help Jo from the inside. At first,
Caldwell
resists the idea. He optimistically believes that Dent is
bluffing.
The Doctor tells him that the colonists are planning to
attack the
IMC and Caldwell is shocked. He is sure the colonists
will be
killed. The Doctor explains that he could prevent the attack
by
releasing Jo. Caldwell says he will try but begs to the Doctor to
stop the
attack -- it will be a pure slaughter.
On the IMC
ship, a message arrives informing them that an
Adjudicator is on his way. Caldwell then returns and demands Jo's
release or
he will stop the survey. Dent reluctantly agrees but
tells
Caldwell that he's committed professional suicide.
The IMC
guard comes in and wakes Jo. But before they can leave, the
primitives
arrive. The guard shoots one but the others kill him with
spears.
They then march Jo away.
The Doctor
forcefully explains to Winton that if they attack them
IMC ship,
they will all get killed and Dent will be able to justify
it as
self-defense. Winton will not be dissuaded, however, so the
Doctor
reluctantly agrees to help. He first advises Winton to keep a
close eye
on Norton. He then proposes a better plan of attack.
In the
morning, Mary approaches the guards and asks about Jo. As
they talk
to her, Winton and the Doctor sneak up behind the guards
and knock
them out.
Aboard the
ship, Dent tries to contact the guards but gets no
answer.
The Doctor
and Winton sneak aboard in IMC uniforms. But when they
pass
Morgan, he recognizes them and raises the alarm. The colonist
surge
aboard and the shooting starts.
The Doctor
and Winton march Morgan into the control room and the
Doctor
asks about Jo. Dent tells him that she's missing. He then
tells them
that they've committed piracy, an act punishable by
death.
Winton, however, demands that he order his guards to
surrender
and Dent complies.
The Doctor
and Ashe go to the primitive ruins and find the dead
guard.
Robert worries that Jo may have been taken to a native city
and is
nervous because no colonists who have gone to the city have
ever come
back.
The
primitives lead Jo to a rocky hill. A hole opens in the ground
and they
force her through into the darkness.
Episode
Four
(drn:
24'20")
Jo has
been captured by primitive natives of Uxarieus. They take her
to a rocky
cliff and force her through a door that opens in the side
of it -- a
door from which no previous prisoners have ever returned.
The Doctor
tells Ashe that he will go to the city and look for Jo.
Ashe
replies that the primitives may just be holding Jo for ransom
to try to
get food from the colonists. The Doctor insists that he
can't just
wait around for them to bargain and, besides, the
colonists
are short of food. Ashe reluctantly agrees to let the
Doctor go
to the city but reiterates that he will give the
primitives
food if necessary.
As they
are talking, another spaceship roars overhead and lands near
the
colony. It is the Adjudicator's ship.
Winton is
searching the IMC bridge over the objections of Captain
Dent. He
finds a projector that creates an image of the giant
lizard.
Caldwell laments that it was only meant to scare them away.
Winton
then find a huge claw that was used to make the marks in the
Leeson
dome.
Mary is on
the radio with the Adjudicator, who wants the parties to
prepare
for his arrival. Robert returns and takes over. He agrees
that both
parties will attend the Adjudicator's hearing. He worries
that they
are going to look bad for attacking IMC. Mary asks him
about Jo
and Robert tells her that the primitives have taken her.
The
primitives take Jo into a room which has some sophisticated
equipment
in it. A short gray-white cowled creature with a massive
head -- a
priest -- approaches and looks her over.
Ashe
radios Winton and tells him to bring the IMC people into the
dome.
Winton start to untie them but a farmer named Leeson -- the
brother of
the dead man -- doesn't want to wait for a trial. He
wants to
kill them now. Morgan craftily promises to cooperate -- to
provide
evidence of past incidents from a secret compartment in
Dent's
desk.
Dent
starts yelling at Morgan and Winton turns to silence him. But
while he's
distracted, Morgan takes a gun out of Dent's console and
puts it to
Winton's head. Dent then orders the colonists to release
his
guards.
The Doctor
arrives at the city but can not open the door. He turns
to see
four primitives standing behind him, spears poised. He tells
them that
he will give them food if they release Jo. They open the
city door
and let him in.
The
Adjudicator arrives at the colony and enters the dome. He turns
and is
revealed to be the Master.
The Doctor
is brought to the room with Jo. The primitives lock him
in and Jo
wonders if they've gone to get the priest again. The
Doctor
realizes that there must be two races on this planet. He
explains
to Jo that he's come to buy her back and then looks around
at the
machines in the room. He realizes that the natives must once
have had a
mighty civilization.
Jo shows
him some drawings on the wall. The first show a highly
advanced
culture. But they are followed by images of ruined building
and dead
people. The figures then become primitive with the last
showing a
man being thrown through a glowing hatch as though in
sacrifice.
The door
opens and the priest returns. He gets very close to them
and the
Doctor realizes he must be very nearly blind. The Doctor
again
promises to exchange food for Jo but the creature ignores him.
It points
to the Doctor and Jo and then to the picture of the hatch.
The
message is clear enough to Jo -- they are going to be
sacrificed!
The
Adjudicator aka the Master is holding the hearing. Ashe lays out
his case
and the Master asks if they have proof of IMC's
malfeasance. Robert and Winton explain that IMC has destroyed the
evidence.
They then close their presentation and it is Dent's turn.
The
primitive return to take Jo and the Doctor. The Doctor uses a
magic
trick to distract the primitive. While he's doing so, Jo grabs
the
native's spear and the Doctor knocks him out. They try to sneak
out,
evading the blind priests.
The
priests return to the room and find the unconscious guard. They
start a
search and eventually corner the Doctor and Jo. They drag
them into
a room with massive machines. They open a hatch and the
Doctor and
Jo realize they will soon be pushed through it. The
primitives
start shoving them forward.
But a
panel opens just above the glowing hatch and a small pale
wizened
creature emerges -- the Guardian. He asks why they have
come. They
explain the situation and the Guardian tells them that
they must
die -- that is the law. The Doctor chides him, arguing
that it
would not be justice to kill innocent people. The Guardian
hesitates
and then notes that the Doctor seems to be very
intelligent. And while it sees little value in Jo, it will spare
them both.
But it warns them not to come back. The Doctor
respectfully agrees, saying he is overjoyed to see that justice
prevails
in the Guardian's city.
The Doctor
and Jo are shown out of the city. Jo asks the Doctor what
the
Guardian was and he theorizes that it was the ruler of the city.
He marvels
at their being three intelligent races on one planet.
The Master
is moving toward the conclusion of his hearing. He notes
that the
planet has indeed been designated for both mining and
colonization. But before he can render his decision, the Doctor and
Jo appear.
The Master, flustered, hurriedly adjourns the meeting,
saying he
needs to consider the facts before rendering a decision.
He
retreats to Ashe's office followed by the Doctor and Jo. Each
wants to
know what the other is doing on the planet but both are
evasive.
The Doctor promises to stop the Master but the Master
reminds
him that while his credentials as the Adjudicator are
forged,
they are immaculate whereas the Doctor has no credentials at
all. He
could, if he wanted, have them both sent back to Earth as
prisoners.
But he promises not to so long as the Doctor keeps
silent.
The Master
returns to the hearing. He decides that the planet seems
unsuitable
for colonization and allocates it to the IMC.
That
night, on the IMC ship, the crew are having celebratory drinks.
Caldwell
asks what they will do if the colonists refuse to leave and
Dent tells
them they would be rebels then.
Norton
tries to persuade Winton and the colonists to leave. Ashe
wants to
file an appeal, but Winton realizes it will take too long.
Ashe
reminds Winton that his previous actions only made the
situation
worse. Winton won't listen. He wants to raid the IMC ship,
send them
off and declare independence from Earth. Ashe forbids it
but Winton
tells him he's not making the decisions anymore.
A
dispirited Ashe returns to his office and tells Jo and the Doctor
what they
colonists are planning. He then decides to try talking to
the
Adjudicator again. After he leaves, Jo asks the Doctor why he
hasn't
denounced the Master. The Doctor explains that he can't but
wonders
why the Master is there at all.
The IMC
crew get a radio call from the Adjudicator. There is a lot
of static
but it is clear that he has to leave the planet and wants
them to
return to the dome to sign the agreement. But it is not
really the
Adjudicator, it's Winton setting up a trap.
The Doctor
and Jo go into a storage room adjacent to Ashe's office.
They use a
bug to listen into the conversation in the next room. The
Master is
explaining to Ashe that an appeal will certainly fail --
unless
there are some special circumstances such as historical
interest.
Ashe excitedly tells him about the city and the Master
listens
eagerly.
In the
main room, Winton is organizing his ambush, placing the armed
colonists
in the upper catwalks of the dome. He wonders where Norton
has gotten
to.
Norton is,
in fact, using his IMC radio to warn them. Leeson comes
in and
sees the radio. He pulls a gun but Winton attacks him. The
gun goes
off and Leeson slumps dead to the ground. But the IMC radio
has been
smashed in the struggle. Norton takes the gun and head outs
to the
ambush.
The IMC
crew arrive. As they enter the building, Norton shouts out a
warning
and Winton shoots Norton. The IMC crew take cover and return
fire. Only
Caldwell doesn't join in, sneaking out through the door.
The Doctor
and Jo hurry out of the storage room to try to stop the
fighting.
But the Master comes up to them, holding a pistol. He
tells them
they are about to become the victims of stray bullets.
Episode
Five
(drn:
25'22")
A battle
has broken out between the colonists and the IMC for
control of
the planet Uxarieus. The Doctor and Jo hurry out to try
to stop
the fighting, but they are stopped by the Master. He aims a
pistol at
them and tells them they are about to become the victims
of stray
bullets.
But just
as the Master is about to squeeze the trigger, Ashe hurries
out of the
office and begs him to stop the fighting. The Master
quickly
hides his weapon. Meanwhile, Winton sneaks around behind the
IMC people
and puts his rifle in Dent's back. He orders IMC to
surrender.
He then sends his men to lock up the IMC crew in their
ship while
Mary and Jo tend to the wounded.
Winton is
overjoyed at their victory but Ashe and the Doctor caution
him that
he may have only made the situation worse. Winton giddily
suggests
that others will join their rebellion but the Master scoffs
that no
one will want to join them in starvation. He offers to help
them,
pretending to be impressed by their courage. He explains that
if the
planet had some historical significance, he would be willing
to argue
with Earth on their behalf. His attention is particularly
focused on
the city.
The Doctor
can't wait any longer and tells Ashe that the Master is
not the
real Adjudicator. But the Master simply turns the tables,
asking if
the Doctor can prove his own identity. When the Doctor
can't,
Ashe and the others realize they don't really know anything
about the
Doctor. The triumphant Master escorts Ashe back into his
office.
The Doctor
tries to warn Winton about the Master, but the young man
doesn't
trust either of them. All he is concerned with is getting
IMC off
the planet. Jo returns and is distressed that no one would
listen to
the Doctor. The Doctor then realizes that the
Adjudicator's spaceship must be the Master's TARDIS. He decides to
investigate it using the key he copied while the Master was on
Earth.
Winton
leads the IMC men back to their bridge and tells them to
leave.
Dent threatens to send a fleet to wipe the colonists out but
Winton
confidently tells him that the Adjudicator has changed his
mind.
After he leaves, Dent tells Morgan to check on the
Adjudicator. Winton then calls from outside the ship and tells Dent
that they
have put mining charges around the ship and will blow it
up if IMC
doesn't take off at once. Dent grudgingly cooperates as he
knows that
Winton wouldn't bluff.
The Doctor
and Jo arrive at the Master's TARDIS and open the door.
But before
they can go in, they hear a ringing sound. The Doctor
realizes
that there is an alarm beam in the door. He uses his sonic
screwdriver to find it and then he and Jo slide under it.
Out in
space, the IMC ship is orbiting Uxarieus when a message from
Earth
arrives. It tells Dent that whoever the man on the planet is,
he's not
the Adjudicator. He sends the ship back toward the planet.
The Doctor
searches through filing cabinets in the Master's TARDIS.
He finds
mining reports on Uxarieus and several nearby planets, as
though the
Master is looking for something. Jo finds the real
Adjudicator's credentials -- just the proof they need to expose the
Master!
But in her hurry to leave, Jo breaks the alarm beam.
In the
colony, the Master retreats into Ashe's office and pulls out
a small
device. He can see the Doctor and Jo in his TARDIS. He
presses a
red button as Ashe enters.
In the
Master's TARDIS, a vent opens and gas begins to pour in. The
Doctor
realizes that Jo has tripped the alarm but the doors close
before
they can escape. They collapse choking to the ground.
Ashe shows
the Master the map of the city, but cautions him that it
is quite
dangerous. The Doctor is the only one who has actually been
inside.
The Master belatedly realizes that the Doctor could still be
of some
use to him.
The IMC
ship lands 50 km from the colony. Dent gathers the security
guards,
despite Caldwell's objections. He taunts them about being
disarmed
by bunch of farmers. Now that the colonists are rebels,
they can
just wipe them out and end the problem.
The Master
uses an oxygen mask to revive the Doctor. He explains
that the
Doctor has been spared so that he can show the way to the
city --
with Jo to remain aboard the TARDIS as a hostage.
Winton
asks Ashe where the Adjudicator, the Doctor and Jo have gone
but Ashe
doesn't know. Winton then asks that the IMC guns be issued
to his
men, but Ashe refuses since both the lizards and IMC are
gone.
Winton wonders what they will do if Earth sends troops but
Ashe tells
him that the Adjudicator is going to argue on their
behalf.
On his way
out, Winton checks on the guards, who are falling asleep
at their
posts. After he leaves, the IMC guards sneak up and knock
the guards
out. They then creep into Ashe's office, hold him at bay
and take
the guns. Winton returns to find the guards unconscious and
raises the
alarm.
Another
gunfight starts but Dent seizes Ashe and Morgan threatens to
kill him.
The colonists surrender, with Winton lamenting that they
didn't
distribute the guns. Dent tells them they will have another
trial --
this time on a charge of treason.
The Master
has placed Jo in a small booth. He holds a laser gun on
the Doctor
and shows him a small control device that will flood Jo's
tube with
lethal gas if the Doctor tries anything. The Doctor tries
to tell
him that the city is dangerous but the Master is confident
he can
handle it. As they leave, the Doctor drops the Master's
TARDIS key
on the ground.
Dent
starts a trial of the colonists as governor of the planet.
Morgan
presents the charges while Caldwell looks on unhappily. Ashe
and Winton
are defiant, refusing to participate in the farce. Winton
openly
laments that they didn't kill the IMC people.
Dent finds
them guilty in a few minutes and sentences them to
execution.
But he offers to remit the sentence if the colonists
leave the
planet immediately. Ashe tries to reason with him,
explaining
that their ship is old and may not make it off the
ground,
but Dent is unmoved.
The Doctor
and the Master travel toward the city in an IMC jeep
while the
primitives watch them carefully. They find a pipe blocking
their path
and the Doctor gets out to move it. But as he does, a
boulder is
sent tumbling down toward the jeep. The Master jumps out
just
before the vehicle is smashed, then shoots a spear-wielding
primitive
with his laser gun. He mocks the Doctor for being afraid
of
"savages with stones and spears".
Mary
summons the colonists to the ship, telling them to bring a
minimum of
luggage. Caldwell returns from having inspected the ship.
Mary is
furious with him, telling him that the ship is old and won't
make
another journey. Caldwell, with great reluctance, tells her the
engines
will be fine but Mary challenges him, asking him if he would
fly in it.
She bitterly tells him that they will all die if he
doesn't
help them.
Dent and
Morgan return, having failed to find the Adjudicator. Dent
starts to
worry about the Adjudicator's true motives and orders
Caldwell
and Morgan to find a way into the Adjudicator's ship. But
before
they leave, Caldwell tells Dent that the colonists' ship is
in very
bad condition. It might even explode on the ground. Dent's
only
response is to make a note that IMC people should be clear of
the launch
area.
The two
Time Lords arrive at the Uxariean city. The Doctor can not
figure out
how to open the door, even when the Master threatens Jo.
Caldwell
tries to break into the Master's TARDIS but can't figure it
out. But
just as they are about to leave, Morgan finds the TARDIS
key on the
ground where the Doctor dropped it. They try it and the
doors
open. But this triggers the Master's alarm. He looks at the
device to
see the IMC men trying to rescue Jo from the cubicle. He
tells the
Doctor he warned him and puts his thumb over the red
button
that will kill the young woman.
Episode
Six
(drn:
25'22")
The Doctor
has led the Master to a mysterious alien city with Jo
being kept
aboard the Master's TARDIS as a hostage. But as they
arrive,
the IMC miners break into the TARDIS, triggering the alarm.
The Master
reminds the Doctor that he warned him and moves his thumb
over the
button that will kill Jo.
But as the
Master presses the button, the Doctor attacks, kicking at
his hand.
The alarm device goes flying and in the struggle, the
Master
also loses his laser gun. At the same moment, the
green-skinned primitives swarm out of the city entrance. They
quickly
subdue the Doctor and the Master and drag them into the
city.
Morgan and
Caldwell manage to get Jo out of the cubicle before it's
too late.
Morgan angrily shakes her and demands to know where the
Adjudicator is but Caldwell stops him and asks gently. Jo tells them
he went to
the city.
The alien
priest leads the Doctor and the Master to the waiting
room,
ignoring the Master's demands to meet their leader. The Doctor
then shows
the Master the frieze on the wall.
Jo is
trying desperately to explain to Caldwell who the Master is.
Morgan
wants to go the city to look for the Adjudicator but Dent is
eager to
get the colonists away first. He instructs Caldwell to put
Jo on the
ship with the colonists. When Caldwell hesitates, Morgan
bullies
him until he drags the protesting girl away. But when they
get
outside, he quickly tells Jo to hide in his jeep.
The Master
begins to tell the Doctor about what he learned from the
stolen
Time Lord files. Apparently, the city was once the center of
a great
civilization. They created a super-race by genetic
engineering and an amazing super-weapon that was never used. Shortly
after,
their civilization fell apart. The Master now plans to hold
the Galaxy
to ransom using the weapon.
When the
priest returns, the Master uses a gas bomb and a mask to
escape.
The Doctor follows him, using a handkerchief to keep from
choking.
He and the Master run out into the alien city as their
captors
fall to the ground.
Morgan
asks Mary where Winton is and she explains that he has been
on the
ship for some time trying to get the engines working. Dent
then
wonders where Caldwell has gotten to. Robert Ashe arrives and
tries once
more to reason with Dent, telling him he is sending the
colonists
to their deaths. He asks what IMC will do if they simply
refuse to
take off and Dent coldly replies that they can rot on
their ship
as far as he's concerned. They'll be shot if they try to
leave the
rocket. He then instructs Morgan to leave a lookout to
make sure
the colonists stay on their ship.
The Doctor
and the Master continue to wander through the city,
following
the Time Lord map.
The
colonists takes the last cargo aboard and close the airlocks.
Dent is in
the office and starts ripping down the colony records.
When
Morgan lets him know the colonists have finished boarding, they
leave to
stay out of the potential blast area. Unseen by them,
Winton
appears in the top of the dome, emerging from a hiding space.
An IMC
guard is watching the ship through binoculars when Dent
checks in.
After he signs off, Winton attacks him. The two fight and
wrestle in
the mud for some time before Winton finally knocks him
out.
On the IMC
ship, Dent is impatient for the ship to leave. He calls
the ship
and asks what is taking so long. Ashe tells him they've had
a fault in
life support but it's fixed now and they will soon blast
off. Dent
says goodbye.
Jo and
Caldwell find the wrecked jeep but are relieved to find no
bodies.
Suddenly, with a tremendous roar, the rocket takes off. It
climbs
high into the sky on its pillar of flame and looks like it
will make
it after all. But it suddenly explodes, showering debris
over the
planet. Jo is devastated and Caldwell is wracked with guilt
that he
told them the motors were all right.
The Doctor
and the Master finally arrive at their destination -- the
sacrifice
room. The Master explains that they are now at the heart
of the
weapon, which stretches for miles. He activates a scanner and
shows the
Doctor the Milky Way. They focus in on Earth's sun and the
Master
tells them that the weapon could turn it into a nova. The
Crab
Nebula was a result of the weapon's first test.
Jo and
Caldwell arrive at the city but can't figure out how to get
in. But
right as they are about to give up, a door opens and a
primitive
comes out. Caldwell jumps him and then the pair hurry into
the city.
The Master
now surprises the Doctor by offering to share the power
with him.
He could be a benevolent ruler of the Galaxy - ending war,
suffering
and disease. But the Doctor is not tempted, convinced that
absolute
power is evil.
Jo and
Caldwell find themselves lost in the vast city.
Dent and
Morgan are wondering where Caldwell is. Morgan notes that
he was
last seen headed toward the city and Dent instructs him to
retrieve
Caldwell as he's their only mineralogist. When Morgan asks
about the
Doctor and the Adjudicator, the IMC captain icily responds
that they
only need Caldwell. Morgan then asks what they will tell
Earth
about the colony ship and Dent replies that their official
story will
be that they offered to check the motors and the
colonists
refused.
The Master
is growing frustrated that the Doctor won't take his
offer,
unable to believe that someone would turn down so much power.
The Doctor
tries to explain that he wants to see the Universe, not
rule it.
The Master finally gives up and is about to shoot the
Doctor,
when a panel opens and the Guardian appears. He demands to
know why
the Doctor has come back and who the Master is. The Master
explains
that he's come to restore their civilization to glory and
to bring
peace and order to the Galaxy. But the Doctor argues
against
him, asking the Guardian if the weapon ever did any good.
The
Guardian sadly remembers that once the weapon was built, their
race
decayed and the radiation ruined their planet. The Doctor urges
him to
destroy the weapon.
The
increasingly flustered Master boasts that they could be gods
with this
weapon at their disposal, but the Guardian tells him he's
not suited
for such power. The Master then aims his laser at the
Guardian
but the weapon vanishes. The Guardian then solemnly
instructs
the Doctor to activate the self-destruct. The Doctor does,
please to
see that infinite compassion prevails in the city as well
as justic.
The city starts shaking and the Guardian tells them to
run for
their lives.
On the way
out, the Doctor tries to get the natives to leave but
they are
disoriented, stumbling around. They then run into Jo and
Caldwell
and the four head out together, hurrying through the
twisted
rocky corridors and getting out just before the city goes up
in
gigantic explosion.
But the
IMC crew are right there waiting for them. Morgan orders
Caldwell
to step away. The Master tries to bluff his way out but
Morgan
gloats that they already know he's a fake. They will now
shoot all
three of them. Caldwell tries to reason with Morgan but
the only
response is that he'd be with the others if they didn't
need him.
But before
they can fire, a voice rings out, demanding their
surrender.
It is Winton and the colonists! A last furious gun battle
rages with
members of both sides falling in the hail of bullets. But
the
colonists have the high ground and the advantage. In the
confusion,
the Master sneaks off. After a while, the surviving IMC
crew
surrender to the colonists while Jo and Doctor jump into an IMC
jeep and
chase after the Master. But the crafty Time Lord reaches
his TARDIS
well before them and takes off.
Some time
later, the Doctor explains to Winton that the
super-weapon's radiation was killing their crops. They should do
fine now.
Winton then explains how they escaped the doomed rocket.
Jo presses
him, wondering how the rocket took off. The Doctor
realizes
that Ashe must have flown it alone, sacrificing himself for
the
colonists. Winton - clearly having matured through his
experiences -- solemnly confirms this.
The other
colonists call out to the Doctor. They've found the TARDIS
in a
primitive dwelling. Winton asks what it is and the Doctor
hesitates,
telling him it is a sort of antique. He and Jo excuse
themselves
and while Winton makes plans with Mary for the future of
the
colony, they sneak into the time machine.
Caldwell
returns and tells them that Earth has now sent a real
adjudicator. Winton asks what Caldwell's plans are -- he's certainly
finished
with IMC. They offer to let him stay and he happily agrees.
As they
continue to plan, the TARDIS takes off.
Back on
Earth, the Brigadier call out for the Doctor to come back at
once. The
TARDIS rematerializes in the opposite corner of the office
and the
Doctor and Jo sheepishly step out.
The
Brigadier comments that it was a short trip and then explains
that his
agent had not found the Master after all. Jo is puzzled by
the
soldier's behavior but the Doctor explains that the TARDIS
returned
to Earth only seconds after taking off. The Brigadiers asks
what
they're talking about and Jo is about to respond when the
Doctor
cuts her off. The Brigadier would never understand.
Source:
Michael H. Siegel.
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The Dæmons
The Dæmons
Serial JJJ
Producer
Barry
Letts
Script
Editor
Terrance
Dicks
Designer
Roger Ford
Fight
Arranger
Peter
Diamond [4] Written by Guy Leopold*
Directed by Christopher Barry
Incidental Music by Dudley Simpson
Jon
Pertwee (Doctor Who), Roger Delgado (The Master), Katy
Manning (Jo Grant), Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier
Lethbridge-Stewart), Richard Franklin (Captain Mike Yates),
John
Levene (Sergeant Benton), Damaris Hayman (Miss
Hawthorne), Don McKillop (Bert the Landlord), Rollo Gamble
(Winstanley) [1-3], Robin Wentworth (Prof. Horner) [1], David
Simeon (Alastair Fergus) [1], James Snell (Harry) [1-2], John
Joyce (Garvin) [1-2], Eric Hillyard (Dr. Reeves) [1-3], Jon
Croft (Tom Girton) [1-3], Christopher Wray (PC Groom) [1-2],
Gerald Taylor (Baker's Man) [2], Stanley Mason (Bok) [2-3,5],
Alec
Linstead (Sgt. Osgood) [3-5], John Owens (Thorpe) [3-5],
Stephen Thorne (Azal) [4-5], The Headington Quarry Men (Morris
Dancers) [4], Matthew Corbett (Jones) [5].
*
Pseudonym for Robert Sloman and Barry Letts.
For
200 years the secret of Devil's End village has lain
dormant, as the burial mound, the so-called Devil's Hump, has
remained sealed. Until now, at midnight on April 30th on the
greatest occult festival of the year, as Professor Horner
prepares to break it open. But just what evil treasures lie
buried there? Will the local white witch's warnings of doom
and
destruction be fulfilled? Who or what is the mighty Azal?
But
even more disturbing for the Doctor and Jo, just how is
the
Reverend Magister, alias the infamous Master, involved in
the
mystery?
Original
Broadcast (UK)
Episode One 22nd May, 1971 6h15pm - 6h40pm
Episode Two 29th May, 1971 6h10pm - 6h35pm
Episode Three 5th June, 1971 6h10pm - 6h35pm
Episode Four 12th June, 1971 6h10pm - 6h35pm
Episode Five 19th June, 1971 6h10pm - 6h35pm
Notes:
Released on video in episodic format. [+/-]
THE DÆMONS
U.K. Release: March 1993 / U.S. Release: October
1993
PAL - BBC video BBCV4950
NTSC - CBS/FOX video 4791
NTSC - Warner Video E1141
All episodes survive only as black and white prints.
The colour has been electronically restored. using
off air colour recordings.
Episode 5 also released in black and white on The
Pertwee Years video.
Novelised as Doctor Who and the Dæmons by Barry Letts. [+/-]
Number 15 in the Doctor Who Library.
Paperback Edition - W. H. Allen.
First Edition: October 1974.
ISBN: 0 426 10444 7.
Cover by Chris Achilleos.
Illustrations by Alan Willow.
Price: 30p.
Paperback Edition - W. H. Allen.
First Edition: January 1980. Reprinted in 1980,
1982, 1984.
ISBN: 0 426 10444 7.
Cover by Andrew Skilleter.
Illustrations by Alan Willow.
Price: 75p.
Hardcover Edition - W. H. Allen.
First Edition: January 1982.
ISBN: .
Cover by Andrew Skilleter.
Price: £4.95.
Doctor Who Classics series
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
[Includes The Dæmons and The Time Monster].
First Edition: March 1989.
ISBN: 0 352 32382 5.
Cover by Andrew Skilleter.
Illustrations by Alan Willow.
Price: £2.95.
Script Book - Titan Books
Doctor Who - The Daemons.
First Edition: October 1992.
ISBN: 1 85286 324 2.
Edited by John McElroy.
Cover by Alister Pearson.
Price: £4.99
Paperback Edition - Virgin Publishing Ltd.
First Edition: October 1993.
ISBN: 0 426 11332 2.
Cover by Alister Pearson.
Price £3.50.
Retitled: Doctor Who - The Daemons.
FOREIGN EDITIONS: Netherlands, 1974. Doctor Who
En De Demonen.
Publisher: Unieboek B.V. Bussum.
Translated by
Wim Hohage.
Portugal, 1983.
Doutor Who E Os Demónios.
Publisher:
Editorial Presença. Cover by Rui
Ligeiro.
Translated by Eduardo Nogueira and
Conceição
Jardim.
Doctor Who Magazine Archive: Issue #241.
Episode
One
(drn:
25'09")
An old man
takes his dog out on a rainy night. There are frogs and
owls. The
dog runs off into the graveyard and dies with a howl. The
man
follows and soon he is dead as well.
Soon
after, the village doctor declares the man's death was due to a
heart
attack, not listening to the local white witch, Miss Olive
Hawthorne,
who declares the poor man died of fright. She has cast
the runes
and knows there is evil ahead for all of them.
Professor
Gilbert Horner goes over preparations with a BBC TV
crewman
called Harry. Horner is performing an archaeological dig
that night
which is to be televised live. His target: the Devil's
Hump, a
mound not far from the small country Wiltshire town, Devil's
End. He
believes the mound holds treasures within the tomb of a
Bronze Age
warrior chief.
At UNIT
HQ, Jo watches as the Doctor in a lab coat works on Bessie,
his yellow
roadster. She tells the Doctor it really is the dawning
of the Age
of Aquarius and about a TV program she's seen which is
filled
with hype about supernatural deviltry and witchcraft going on
at Devil's
Hump. The Doctor worries that he is wasting his time
trying to
turn her into a scientist. Everything has a scientific
answer and
explanation.
Jo watches
as Bessie suddenly moves by herself and beeps her horn.
Jo wonders
if it was magic and asks Capt. Mike Yates, who has just
arrived at
the garage, if he believes in magic. He doesn't. The
Doctor
reveals that he just rigged up Bessie's solenoids to a radio
control
unit. No magic at all. Jo smiles and leaves, laughingly
telling
him she has had enough of him, calling him infuriating.
Yates
tells the Doctor he will follow Jo as he is keen to watch the
archaeological excavation on TV too. The Doctor takes off his lab
jacket and
chastises his friend, "Oh, not you too, Captain Yates."
But when
Mike mentions the name Devil's End, the Doctor has a memory
stir of
some kind and gets very serious about the TV program. He
must now
go and watch it, too.
TV host
Alastair Fergus goes on and on about Devil's Hump and its
mysterious
background, mentioning 1793 when miners abandoned someone
due to
fear and ran back to Cornwall and also a disaster in 1939. At
midnight -
the Witching Hour - Horner will open up the mound and it
will be
broadcast live on BBC3. Tonight is Beltane, April 30, a
festival
night almost as renowned as Hallowe'en for its supernatural
occurrences.
Olive
arrives to protest the opening of the tomb, claiming she is a
white
witch and she has the talisman of Mercury. This is the night
that the
evil Prince is nigh. She wants the opening of the tomb
stopped.
Watching
her on TV, the Doctor becomes agitated, saying "That woman
is
absolutely right. We've got to stop that lunatic!"
He and Jo
rush off to Devil's End in Bessie.
On TV,
Fergus claims, "It seems that time is running in out in more
ways than
one." He announces that he will be back with the Passing
Parade
show at close to midnight.
In the
local pub, Bert, the barman, and his townsfolk guests talk
about
whether or not goofy Olive has a point. There have been "queer
goings
on."
Outside,
Olive talks to Police Constable Percy Groom. She says they
must all
be on their guard against coming evils. An unearthly wind
rises up
and as Olive turns to confront it with a spell of her own,
Groom is
taken over by some force. He lifts a rock up, intending to
smash it
down on her head. Her spells calm the wind and snap Groom
out of it.
As Bessie
heads for the small village, a vital road sign is turned
around the
wrong way by the strange wind, setting the Doctor and Jo
off in the
wrong direction. Someone or something doesn't want them
to reach
Devil's End.
Back at
the village, Olive goes to see the vicar but finds Garvin,
the
verger. She wants to see Kevin Smallwood, the real vicar who
supposedly
left under mysterious circumstances in the middle of the
night. He
is not back and so agrees to see the replacement vicar
even
though she doesn't like him. Little does she know that this
replacement, this Mr. Magister, is really the Master.
At the
same time, the Brigadier is dressed up for a dinner party
while
Benton seems to have been stood up by his date or friends. He
is stuck
at the base with corned beef sandwiches and Yates, planning
to watch
Rugby on the TV.
The Master
tells Olive that the "soul" is a dated concept and that
he is more
an existential realist. She scoffs at this. The Master
takes his
glasses off and tries, almost successfully, to hypnotize
Olive.
When he fails, he yells that she will listen to him. She
walks off.
The Master
waves for Garvin to get her.
It is now
dark and Bessie is lost, the Doctor and Jo realize. The
Doctor
also realises that his assistant has been holding her map
wrong side
up. They start toward Devil's End, the correct way this
time.
At the TV
site near Devil's Hump, Alastair and Harry seem to
verbally
fight, both on edge, but they agree to apologize.
At UNIT,
Benton watches the Rugby game.
The Doctor
and Jo rush into the pub, the Doctor urgently trying to
find
someone who will give him directions to the Hump as quickly as
possible
and not getting any results. Bert tells him lazily that the
place
"will all be the same in 100 years time." There's no need to
hurry. The
Doctor assures him that it will be "no such thing."
Another
man, older, mistakes the Doctor for one of the TV gents,
what with
the costume and the wig and all. He is the local Squire,
named
Montmorency Winstanley, The Doctor takes offense at the
comments
but Jo calms him. The Doctor has never heard such
balderdash
but the Squire tells him he is the one making all the
fuss,
calling him "old man." Jo gets him to tell them the directions
- straight
past the green, left fork, up the rise. The Doctor thanks
him and he
and Jo leave. The squire says, "What an extraordinary
fellow."
One of the
villagers, Tom Girton, a middle-aged man in a chequered
jacket,
left the pub while the Doctor was there, and he now reports
to the
Master the arrival of this white-haired man called the
Doctor.
The Master tells him to get ready - the ceremony will begin
in a few
minutes. As they talk a grey/white statue seems to watch
them. This
is Bok.
The Master
puts a red cape on and descends to the catacombs under
the church
to perform a ceremony with 13 black-caped members of his
coven. As
the Master conjures, Bessie speeds toward the village. The
Master
makes his hand resemble Devil's horns, his pinkie and
forefinger
extended.
A tree
falls outside, in front of Bessie, blocking the road so that
the Doctor
and Jo have to get out and run. Time is now running very
short.
Professor
Horner starts to remove the stone from the tomb as the TV
show goes
back on the air. It is midnight.
As they
run, Jo trips and falls, preventing her from keeping up with
the
Doctor. The Doctor gets into the dig tent and down to the tomb
but is too
late to stop Horner from removing the stone from the
tomb. The
stone falls, releasing an icy terror from the opening
within.
Power knocks everyone down and downs the lights, shaking the
ground.
Snow blasts out at Horner and the Doctor. Dirt falls on
them.
The Master
is laughing as even his coven members fall. One masked
member,
Girton, points to Bok. The statue's eyes have lit up red...
and the
head turns at him.
At the
site disaster area, Jo races into the tent and down to the
mound dig.
She sees the Doctor on the floor as well as Horner, both
looking
dead as ice and covered with snow and dirt. "Doctor, are you
all
right?" The Doctor isn't moving and more dirt falls on him. Jo
gasps,
"Doctor, no! Doctor, no!"
Episode
Two
(drn:
24'20")
Benton
loses his bet to Yates and pays him. The score was 13 to nil.
Another
soldier is with them watching the TV. They turn on BBC3 just
in time to
see Jo standing over the still form of the Doctor.
"Doctor, no!" BBC3 goes blank and announces a temporary fault.
While
Yates will try to contact the Brigadier, Benton gets on the
phone to
BBC3.
Others
help Jo dig out the Doctor. The Master calls out to Azal,
using a
knife which will mark the appointed place and telling his
assembled
coven, "You have nothing to fear as long as you do the
will of
the Master."
Professor
Horner is dead. Harry and Charlie help Jo, fearing the
Doctor is
dead, too. Jo asks them to help her get a doctor the TV
men call
for one.
Benton
warns BBC3 if they are withholding info from him he will make
them
sorry. The Brigadier went somewhere after the dinner and no one
knows
where. Yates wants to go to Devil's End with Benton - in the
Brigadier's helicopter!
The Doctor
is brought to the pub where Jo cries on the Squire's
shoulder
as the Doctor is declared dead. He is like a solid block of
ice. Yet,
Dr. Reeves finds a pulse and calls for hot water bottles,
exclaiming
the Doctor must have the constitution of an ox. The
Squire
says, "He doesn't look all that tough."
Reeves
checks the Doctor with his stethoscope, thinking at first
there must
be an echo bouncing off the bone for it sounds as if the
patient
has two hearts - one on each side.
The Squire
tells Jo to be steady on. "Where there is life, there's
hope,
right?"
Jo phones
up Yates and asks him to get down here as soon as
possible.
He will arrive in the helicopter at first light. The phone
line is
cut from the outside of the Devil's End pub.
The
newspeople leave the area. The Constable is on night duty. He
closes the
gate at the dig and eats a sandwich. Two red eyes stare
at him
from the dig tent. Bok!
In one of
the pub's upstairs bedrooms, Jo stands vigil over the
Doctor's
unconscious form. The Master looks at his watch and prays.
The ground
shakes in the morning. The Constable sees something huge
and hears
footsteps. He falls.
Benton and
Yates are flying in the helicopter, both in flight
jackets
and plain clothes beneath. From the sky, they see enormous
hoofprints.
Landing on
the field, they examine the prints close up. Whatever
made these
must have been 30 feet tall and gone into the woods.
Yates
wants to get a move on something important. Benton asks Yates
if he
means breakfast. Yates says, "No, I don't. I mean Jo and the
Doc."
Soon
enough, they land outside the pub. Mike Yates tells Jo the
Doctor is
a "tough old bird, " and Jo tells him something devilish
is in the
air. Benton wants to make a recce of the area and Mike
lets him.
Jo asks him to be careful, and he promise he will. Yates
realises
he forgot to call the Brigadier.
In bed,
the Brigadier gets a phone call from a corporal and finds he
is the
only one in bed. He yells, "My helicopter!" He calls for a
car.
Benton
goes outside to what seems like a peaceful, lovely, scenic
village.
That is until he hears calls for help from Olive who has
been
locked in a cupboard by Garvin, the verger. Benton lets her out
and is
called a knight errant. He tells her "all hell seems to be
breaking
loose." Olive says, "You know, Sergeant, you're exactly
right."
When
Garvin comes in upstairs, the pair hide down below the church.
Olive
finds the statue of the demon (Bok) is gone and pushes Benton
roughly to
keep him away from the evil marked signs on the floor,
hurting
his arm a bit. She tells Benton about the vicar, Magister, a
leader of
black magic. She also tells him that the last witchcraft
act was
repealed in 1951.
Garvin
comes down with a rifle. Benton turns around but back kicks
the rifle.
Benton is thrown down but kicks Garvin away from him. The
fight goes
on but Benton is thrown over the markings on the floor
and spasms
out. Recovering his rifle, Garvin orders Olive to help
Benton
outside.
In the
bedroom over the pub, Yates stands over the Doctor, "Doctor.
Doctor,
wake up!" Jo tells him the Doctor has been like that for
hours.
Outside
the ground shakes. Miss Hawthorne and Benton fall away from
Garvin who
shoots up at a giant, unseen beast. A burst of power and
heat
causes Garvin to vanish in a flame ball and a bush to burst
into
flames. Jo and Yates, in the bedroom, are thrown to the floor
as the
heat wave overcomes them. The Doctor suddenly springs up from
the bed,
"Eureka!"
The Master
welcomes Azal.
On the
road outside Devil's End, a baker drives his truck but stops
when he
hears a sound from the front of it. He gets out and watches
as the
front catches fire and the truck goes up in flames.
The Doctor
stomps down the steps to the pub with both Jo and Yates
fussing
that he should rest. The heat wave revived him more fully.
Mike asks
him to tell them what is going on but the Doctor won't
tell them
yet until he is sure.
The
bartender, Bert, comes in, then Miss Olive Hawthorne and Benton
- a very
heavy fellow indeed, she comments. Bert moves to get a
doctor but
the Doctor says, "It's all right I am a doctor." Jo
grins.
The Doctor
finds no bones broken on Benton and asks for hot water
and sweet
tea. The Doctor and Olive talk.
The Master
gets a call from someone who is spying on the Doctor and
his group.
Miss
Hawthorne tells the Doctor and his friends that she saw the
devil, 30
feet high and with horns. The Doctor has agreed with her
up to now
but this time she is "utterly mistaken." Olive tells him
that
Magister has used a black Sabbath mass to summon up the devil.
Bert
returns to the group. The Doctor figures out Magister is Latin
for
Master. Bert looks upset at this news.
The
Brigadier and a soldier driving him in his car stop at the sight
of the
baker's truck. The baker explains what happened. By chance,
the
Brigadier points his crop forward and it suddenly bursts into
flame.
The
Brigadier's car is stopped near the sign for Devil's End. The
Brigadier
throws a small stick and discovers there is a heat barrier
preventing
them from going into that area. He wants to try to raise
the
Doctor.
At the
same moment, the Doctor and Jo remove the tree blocking
Bessie
from Devil's Hump, get in Bessie and drive to the dig.
The
Brigadier has managed to get Mike, "I see, Captain Yates, so the
Doctor was
frozen stiff at the barrow, and was then revived by a
freak heat
wave. Benton was beaten up by invisible forces and the
local
white witch claims to have seen the devil."
The Doctor
and Jo arrive at the dig area. The Master seems to sense
this and
stands in front of a church sign in the church that reads
"NOTHING IN MY HAND I BRING." The Master is frustrated the
Doctor is
still
alive. He closes his eyes and hears a sound of footsteps -
lighter
ones this time, but steps with power.
Jo and the
Doctor find the constable dead, crushed underneath the
gate of
the dig area. Jo will stick with the Doctor if he doesn't
mind and
if she is not in the way. The Doctor tells her not at all,
in fact,
he'd prefer her company. They go into the tent to the dig
area.
Bok comes
over the hill in broad daylight and makes his way toward
the
opening of the tent.
In the
tent, the Doctor tells Jo that everyone in the whole world is
in mortal
danger. He finds a tiny spaceship in the tomb. It is the
same shape
as the tomb. Jo can't pick it up because it weighs 750
tons.
The Doctor
starts to explain about 100,000 years ago but a roar
startles
him and Jo. Bok jumps in at them. The Doctor pulls a
frightened
Jo behind him. Bok growls, the gargoyle moving in for the
kill...
Episode
Three
(drn:
24'27")
The Doctor
calls out a strange language and holds out a trowel made
of iron to
ward off Bok, despite the Master's claims to Bok that it
cannot
harm him.
Bok is
recalled. When Jo asks what it was the Doctor recited, he
tells her
it was an old Venusian lullaby. Roughly translated, the
first line
means, "Close your eyes, my darling, well three of them
at
least." Jo laughs, "Oh, Doctor." The Doctor admits that thing
took him
completely by surprise.
The Master
tells Winstanley to act like the squire. The Master is
sick of
democracy, liberty, and freedom. He hypnotizes Winstanley,
"I am
the Master. I control the power which can save this world." He
controls
the forces at the dig, and as proof he offers up a strong
gust of
wind.
Benton and
Miss Hawthorne bring in a load of occult books for the
Doctor's
use at the pub. The Doctor tells them the force field
around
town is a psionic one. Miss Hawthorne and the Doctor
disagree.
She thinks it is magic and he calls the force in Devil's
End
science. When Jo joins in and starts talking logically, the
Doctor
smiles. He thinks he will turn her into a scientist after
all.
Yates gets
a call from the Brigadier who cannot get past the heat
barrier
which springs from ten miles all around the church. An RAF
plane has
dropped a test canister over the top and found that the
heat
barrier rises with a roof about one mile high at apogee. The
Doctor
tells him they are locked in. The Brigadier is then hung up
on and
can't get Yates or the Doctor. "Typical."
Yates, in
the pub, asks the Doctor to explain the "wider issues"
involved.
The Doctor uses the books to show them Croue, a god with
horns
worshipped in Egypt; a Hindu demon with horns; and the devil.
Yates
doesn't get it. The Doctor says, "That's because I haven't
finished."
He tells
them that the thing Miss Hawthorne saw is a creature from
another
world. Benton asks, "You mean like the Axons and the
Cybermen?" The Doctor confirms this but says that these Dæmons -
from the
planet Dæmos - are a great deal older and much more
dangerous!
They came to Earth in tiny ships from 60,000 light years
away. Jo
helps the Doctor explain this part to the others: the
Dæmons
came to earth over 1,000,000 years ago.
The Squire
is to gather the townspeople for the Master.
At small
size, the Dæmons' ship is 15 inches. At full size, it is
200 feet
long and 30 feet across but they have the power to diminish
it. The
Doctor tries to tell his friends that the heat and the cold
they have
been experiencing is a result of the ship thing loses mass
or getting
it back E=MC².
Yates now
understands, "I see. So all we have to deal with is a
creature
which can be too small to be seen or 30 feet tall, can
incinerate
you or freeze you to death, turn stone images into
homicidal
monsters, and looks like the devil." The Doctor tells them
the Dæmons
have helped homo sapiens kick out Neanderthal Man in the
past,
helped the Industrial Revolution, the Greeks, the Renaissance,
and at
other times in history.
Jo asks
what that "jazz" about witchcraft is. He says it is left
over
remnants of their sciences, not black magic. The Dæmons are not
evil, just
amoral. They think of the Earth as their lab experiment.
The
Master's link with them is dangerous since he is summoning them
and this
could result in the Dæmons throwing away or disposing of
its lab
experiment - the whole world.
The
Master, as Magister, addresses the townspeople and tells them
individual
things they have been doing to cheat each other. Mr.
Thorpe
pads the grocery bills. Charlie has not done the post office
books
correctly or on time. Mr. Grendel's wife is at his sisters and
the Master
implies it is due to something Grendel did wrong. The
Master
takes his glasses off and demands they listen to him.
The third
call of the Master to the Dæmon may be the time their fate
is decided
by the creature. Right now, it is so small it is
practically invisible.
The
Brigadier calls Yates, readying an RAF command to attack the
energy
barrier. The Doctor takes the radio and tells him not to do
any such
thing: it will only strengthen the barrier and call forth
the most
hostile reprisals from the aliens.
The
Brigadier has a mobile HQ with a New Mark 4 condenser unit
aboard.
The Doctor wants his technician fellow Sergeant Osgood to
build a
diathermic energy exchanger. He tells them to use the EHF
wide band
width variable phase oscillator with negative feedback
circuit
tuned to the frequency of an air molecule at the temperature
of the
heat barrier. Of course, they do not know what he is talking
about so
he will have to come and explain it on the site.
Jo says
the idea of blowing things up is idiotic but the Doctor
tells her
the Brigadier is coping with an impossible situation and
he is her
superior. She should show him some respect.
A spy for
the Master leaves. This is Tom Girton.
The Master
tells the other townspeople they will bend to his will in
submission
and obedience. The Squire asks what happened to their
ruling
together. The others seem none too keen to follow him.
The Master
gets more malicious, his glasses off again, and calls
them dust
beneath his feet, threatening to destroy them. When the
Squire
tries to leave and take others with him, the Master summons
Bok to
destroy him with a bolt of fire from his finger tip. After
the Squire
vanishes into nothing, The Master tells the others to
enjoy
their May Day today.
Girton
gets in the UNIT helicopter. Mike Yates rushes out to stop
him and is
beaten up. The man seems not to feel Mike's punches at
all.
Girton beats Mike to the ground and takes off. Mike fires his
gun at the
helicopter but to no avail.
Mike gets
onto a motorcycle and rushes to warn the Doctor and Jo who
are in
Bessie en route to the Brigadier near the barrier. They
already
see the helicopter which has buzzed close to them at least
twice
already. Girton is flying the helicopter like a man possessed,
but
expertly. Mike wants to draw him off but the Doctor warns Mike
off,
"Keep away. It's me he's after." Yates drives away from the
Doctor but
tries shooting at the helicopter again.
As the
helicopter dives at the Doctor he says, "Hang on, Jo, we're
in for a
bumpy ride!" He drives Bessie straight at the barrier but
turns at
the last moment, warning Jo to hold on tight. The
helicopter
hits the barrier and blows up, something the Doctor's
face
didn't read as if he wanted to happen.
Jo falls
out of Bessie and gets a nasty bump on the head. Mike will
take her
back to the pub in Bessie. The Doctor takes the motorcycle
and go the
Brigadier, who, he tells Mike is probably "bursting a
blood
vessel by now."
The Master
makes Bok go back to his cavern hold.
The
Brigadier complains about 20,000 pounds of UNIT money up in
smoke. The
Doctor tells him he has the mind of an accountant. The
Brigadier
has tried wood, rock, and four inch armour plates to get
into or
across the barrier. The Doctor asks him to use a cable to
connect to
the high tension wires at the electric towers off in the
distance.
This will give them 10,000 volts.
Sergeant
Osgood will assemble the device, following the Doctor's
instructions, which Osgood claims are impossible. The Doctor notes
that the
bumble bee being able to fly is impossible according to the
laws of
aerodynamics.
By
himself, the Master starts his summoning of the main Dæmon
creature -
Azal.
Yates and
Reeves help Jo to the bedroom over the pub. Jo murmurs
about the
Master. Suddenly the room shakes. The heat wave starts
again.
The ground
shakes everywhere around, including the Doctor, the
Brigadier,
the UNIT truck, Jo's room, and the Master. The Master
tries to
send the monster back to the mound but it won't go. It
comes
right at the Master who is thrown around the church
undercellar.
Episode
Four
(drn:
24'25")
The Master
uses an iron candle holder to hold off Azal but the
creature
is not impressed.
At the
pub, Jo sneaks off in a delirium and heads for the cabin,
going down
a ladder from the second story after climbing out her
bedroom
window.
Olive
Hawthorne and Benton stop Yates from going to find the Doctor
who, at
the moment, is suggesting that Osgood "reverse the
polarity." The Doctor tells the Brigadier the device should be
ready
by next
Christmas some time, referring to Osgood's slow progress.
The
Brigadier tells a bemused Osgood, "The Doctor knows what he's
doing." Then the Brigadier gets closer to the Doctor, who is still
on the
other side of the force barrier and asks, "Do you know what
you're
doing?" The Doctor answers him, "My dear chap, I can't wait
to find
out."
Two giant
hooves attached to the Dæmon stand in front of the Master,
who feels
he is quickly losing control. In any event, he tells the
alien he
wants power and wants the Dæmon to make him this world's
leader.
Azal thinks there is another like the Master here, both of
them
superior to the humans. He tells the Master the Doctor lives.
Azal wants
to talk to this Doctor to see if he is worthy to have
power over
Earth. Azal also warns the Master, "I am not your slave
and you
are not immortal." The Master claims his right and Azal says
he will
consider making the Master leader of the Earth... if Azal
lets the
planet continue to exist.
Azal tells
the Master he will appear only once more - the third time
- and then
will decide if he should destroy the Earth as one of his
race's
failures, telling the Master to "remember Atlantis." He also
tells the
Master he is the last of his kind and that this planet
smells of
failure. He asks if the Master still wishes him to
reappear.
The Master does.
The
creature goes back into hibernation with a burst of heat and the
Master
laughs. As it does, Jo seems to be held by a tree, falling
into its
vines.
At the
barrier perimeter, Osgood tells the Doctor that the feedback
circuit
cannot be in phase with the pulse generator and vice versa.
The Doctor
exclaims that is the whole point and begins to explain it
again.
Yates find
Jo out of her room and calls her a little idiot while
Olive
Hawthorne and Benton share a drink.
The Master
tells a henchman, Bert, that "The Doctor's been in my way
far too
long." The next time he summons up Azal he will be
smarter...
and not do it alone. He will need the coven present,
needing
all the power he can muster to control the creature. He
admits he
was foolish to do it alone the second time. In the church
graveyard,
Mike hides as Bert leaves in a car. Mike then goes into
the
church.
Elsewhere,
at another entrance to the church catacombs, Jo falls out
of the
tree of vines that seemed to be holding her.
The Doctor
tells Osgood, back at the barrier, that his plan is as
simple as
Einstein's theory of relativity. When the Doctor leave on
the
motorbike, the Brigadier stares after him and tells Osgood, "You
know
Sergeant, I sometimes wished I worked in a bank."
Jo sneaks
away from the ivy vines and is wary to keep away from them
as she
finds a way into the church catacombs. In the catacombs, Jo
is scared
by the inactive Bok sitting in his alcove. Mike finds her
there and
tells her the place is alive with booby traps. He
demonstrates by tossing a book into the magic markings on the floor.
It is
ripped to shreds. He reminds her what happened to Benton when
he stood
on the markings.
The traps
are spells, elementals or force fields, call them what she
will, he
tells her. They take cover behind a wheel as the Master and
his coven
reconvene.
The Doctor
cycles back but Bert, from the bushes, shoots at him. The
Doctor
falls with the motorbike but gets up and runs. Bert shoots at
him but
misses due to the surprise of finding the Doctor so mobile
after such
a skidding crash.
Back at
the pub, Benton is worried. Olive brings in some tea,
telling
him he has to master the art of waiting as she has. The
Doctor
will either come back or won't. She refuses to worry about
any of it.
At the
UNIT truck and the alien barrier, Osgood is fascinated by the
Doctor's
devices and tests. He will run one more test and tells the
questioning Brigadier it will take one more minute. The device
suddenly
blows up in his face and he tells the Brigadier ruefully
that it
will now take half an hour at least!
Bert
reports back to the Master, who is not surprised the Doctor got
away
again.
Benton
reports to the Brigadier that the Doctor has not returned.
The
Brigadier notes that the Doctor left 40 minutes ago and comments
that he
probably piled up that wretched motorbike. After the talk,
Olive
wants to go look for the Doctor but Benton orders her not to
and tells
her she will do as she is told. She does. The pair of
them, from
the pub, hear May Day revels starting.
Outside,
the May Day Morris Dancers parade through the streets. A
mother
pulls her little girl inside. The Doctor turns up and tries
to avoid
their frivolous May Day banter as they surround him and
begin
hitting him with their sticks. He tells them any other time he
would join
in with them.
The
hitting becomes more violent and the male revellers take the
Doctor to
Bert near the Maypole. Bert is dressed in paper shreds and
has a
revolver pointed at the Doctor's head. The Doctor is tied to
the pole.
While this
is happening, one of the men attacks Benton in the pub.
They have
a huge fight which ends with Olive hitting the man over
the head
with her pocket book which has her "retinue" it: her heavy
crystal
ball. She tells Benton the people in this town are not
wicked -
well most of them. She knows them; they would never do such
things and
would certainly not burn the Doctor at the pole. She
wants to
go out and explain the situation to them.
Outside,
Bert tells the people that "Mr. Magister will care for
you."
Bert calls the Doctor a black witch and tells them "thou shall
not suffer
a witch to live." The Doctor asks him if he is completely
out of his
mind.
The
Master, in the catacomb, starts the last ceremony to summon
Azal. The
coven is there and Bok's eyes light up once more.
Olive has
a plan. With Benton hidden, she runs out to the pole and
stops the
people from burning the Doctor, declaring him to be
Quiquaequod, a great White Wizard, who can bring them peace and joy.
She bluffs
her way through this, knowing the people did not listen
to her in
the first place and now they are in the power of the
Magister.
She tells
them - and the confused Doctor - that he has to prove his
power and
he can. She bluffs to him that he should make the lamp on
a post
shatter. Using a high powered rifle, Benton shoots at it. A
similar
bluff makes them think the Doctor turned the weather vane on
top the
church tower.
The others
fall for this trickery but Bert will not. He takes the
torch from
Thorpe and is about to burn the Doctor to death himself.
Benton
shoots the torch out of Bert's hand. The Doctor, less
questioningly and more authoritatively but calmly asks Olive, his
"Daughter of Light", to untie him.
Bert once
more gets his small gun and aims at the Doctor. The Doctor
warns him
not to. The Doctor makes his familiar spirit Bessie move
by itself
at Bert. It knocks the man over. Benton comes running and
asks how
he did it. The Doctor smiles, "Elemental, my dear Benton."
Before the
Doctor can explain, Bert tries to get away. Benton jumps
him and
subdues him, "Oh no you don't. We've all got a date with the
Master!"
In the
catacombs, the Master raises a knife over a chicken to
sacrifice
it. Jo leaps out and stops him, grabbing his arm and
pleading
with the coven to see he is evil. "You're too late, my
dear!" shouts the Master. Azal grows up to his full giant form and
Jo watches
the horrible demon-like face and opening mouth where his
giant
teeth await...
Episode
Five
(drn:
24'04")
The
Brigadier pushes Osgood to finish the device in five minutes.
In the
church cellar, Yates shoots at Bok who fires back at him.
Yates
ducks from the bolts but has to surrender and puts his hands
up. The
Master calls that sensible.
Outside,
the Doctor tells the townspeople that the world is facing
the
greatest danger it has ever known. He also offers them the truth
even
though Miss Hawthorne didn't want him to. While Bert still
claims the
Master is the truth, the Doctor shows them how he rigged
up Bessie
with a remote control and honks the horn. He explains the
Master is
using nothing but science, too. Violent emotions from
humans are
used to gain psychokinetic energy channelled for the
Master's
own purpose. The Sabbath and rituals are needed to control
the psi
forces. Benton asks the Doctor why they don't just go and
sort out
this Dæmon fellow. The Doctor asks how.
Jo has
been dressed up in a sacrificial gown and put near the stone
slab. She
is held by two of the coven. Yates is tied up with his
hands
behind his back but he manages to get out the door and runs,
calling
for the Doctor, explaining about Jo when he finds him.
Benton
unties Yates while the Doctor calls the Brigadier. The
Brigadier
orders Osgood that they are going in now. The Brigadier is
told by
the Doctor to have some men keep watch at the barrow.
In the
cavern, the Master tells Jo, "I'm sorry, Miss Grant but you
are to be
a sacrifice to a noble cause."
Outside,
the Doctor tells the townspeople to split up. Bok appears
before
anyone can get near the church. This gives Bert his chance to
get free
of the men holding him. He pleads with Bok to let him enter
but Bok
shoots him with a bolt and Bert vanishes. The Doctor holds
back
Benton and Mike, telling them that committing suicide won't
help Jo.
He needs that booster device.
The
Brigadier calls him on radio, "We're coming through, Doctor,
over and
out."
A young
man holding Jo tries to tell the Master this is not right.
The
Brigadier and almost all the UNIT men drive through the open
area in
the heat barrier. Osgood is driven in last by Jenkins. Just
as he
drives through, the machine overheats and overloads. Osgood
tries to
save it but the Brigadier orders him and the men down. The
device
blows up. The Brigadier reports this to the Doctor.
The Doctor
runs past Bok, who is weakened from the brief time the
machine
was inside the heat barrier, as was Azal. The Doctor manages
to get
inside just as the outside of the door is blasted by Bok. He
goes down
to the Master who was expecting him. The Doctor tells Jo
he is very
glad to see her. The Master mocks him: "How very
touching."
The
Brigadier joins Yates outside the church and asks what Bok is,
"an
ornament of some kind?" Yates demonstrates by tossing a brick in
the air.
Bok blasts it. The Brigadier then calls Jenkins, who
hurries
over, "Chap with wings there. Five rounds rapid." The
gunfire
does no good.
The Doctor
tells the Master he knew he was dead the moment he came
through
the door so he had better be careful. The Doctor has nothing
to lose
now. The Master insists that Azal destroy the Doctor, whom
the Master
calls a meddler and a fool. Azal knows the Doctor is not
a fool
and, at the Doctor's request to have Jo released, shoots
electric
at the men holding her. They fall, stunned. Jo runs to the
Doctor.
The Doctor
tells Azal to just leave, but Azal brushes this aside,
telling
him he is being overbold. The Doctor tries to bluff that the
machine
which weakened Azal was destroyed but that he has another.
Azal knows
there was but one and asks the Doctor why he lied. He is
not prone
to lies. Jo protests as the Master continues to try to get
Azal to
kill the Doctor.
Outside,
Yates orders Benton to get the bazookas.
Azal tells
the Master the one in command is Azal! He does not obey
the
Master; the time has come for his awakening. The Master wants
Azal's
ultimate power given to him and he shall lead this
experimental people into his rule for their own good. The Doctor
talks to
himself, wondering if he heard these same lines from Adolf
Hitler or
Genghis Khan. The Doctor tells Azal to just go. He and his
kind have
interfered with Earth enough.
Azal
counters by telling him his people brought man knowledge but
the Doctor
tells him that man can now blow up his world and poisons
the water
and the air. Azal takes this to mean man is a failure. The
Master
continues to try, telling Azal he will force mankind to learn
if he is
placed in charge. Azal determines that he will pass on his
power...to
the Doctor! The Doctor protests now, "No! No, I don't
want
it!"
Outside,
Bok incinerates a UNIT soldier into nothingness. Benton
arrives
and fires a bazooka at it, blowing it to bits. But the
pieces
come together and Bok reforms.
The
Doctor, in the cavern, is telling Azal to give man a chance to
grow up.
Azal then decides he will give his power to the Master
after all.
And since the Doctor has been a disruptive force, he will
have to be
eliminated. Azal fires electric from his fingertip at the
Doctor,
who starts to slump over from it. Jo throws herself in front
of the
Doctor, "No! No, he's a good man. Kill me, not him!"
This
selfless action throws Azal into a fit. It does not relate he
yells and
holds his head. This data does not fit. He screams at them
to all
leave him alone. A Dæmon must die alone. They run and the
ground
shakes as he stamps his hooves.
Outside,
the Brigadier taps his stick onto Bok's head. The thing has
just sat
down in its original position and become a stone statue
again.
Just then, the Doctor, Jo, and the black-garbed coven come
running
out of the church, the Doctor yelling, "Run for it,
Brigadier!"
With
everyone outside, even the Master, the church explodes until
nothing is
left of it. Benton has a gun on the Master. The Doctor
explains
to everyone that Jo's self-sacrifice, a totally irrational
and
illogical move, drove Azal insane. He couldn't take it and all
his power
was turned against himself. They hear more blasts. A UNIT
officer
calls from the barrow saying that the ship has destroyed
itself.
Some kind of automatic self-destruct, the Doctor figures.
The
barrier is gone as well.
The Master
tosses his cape over Benton's head and runs for Bessie.
The
sergeant shoots at him but misses. The Brigadier shoots too, but
as the
Master drives off in Bessie, the Doctor warns him, "Stop
firing,
you'll damage Bessie!" The Brigadier doesn't want the Master
to get
away. The Doctor smiles as Bessie brings the Master back to
them.
The evil
Master is soon surrounded by UNIT men with drawn guns. The
Brigadier
orders him taken to maximum security prison. The Doctor
asks them
to look after him; he wants to deal with him later. The
Master
calls him an optimist, but the Doctor takes that as a
compliment. Standing in the back of the jeep, many UNIT men seated
on either
side of him with guns, the Master is driven away. Benton
keeps a
gun trained on him until the jeep leaves the area. The town
boos the
Master.
Olive
Hawthorne rejoices in the sound of birds returning and the
sweet
smell of flowers over sulphur. She tells them the Earth is
born anew
as it is each May Day. Olive takes Benton to do the May
Pole Dance
while Jo takes the Doctor, who tells her to get out of
that
ridiculous gown. Yates asks the Brigadier to dance but the
Brigadier
would rather have a pint to drink at the pub, Cloven Hoof.
The
townspeople, Jo, Benton, and the Doctor join in the dance around
the pole -
a dance of thanksgiving, liberation, and joy.
Source:
Charles Mento
Continuity Notes:
The Stone of Sacrifice is likely to be the Master’s TARDIS
because at the end of The Face of the Enemy, he sends his
TARDIS to the crypt in Devil’s End. When he goes to collect
it
in The Eight Doctors, the stone is revealed to be his
TARDIS.
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Day of the
Daleks
Day of the
Daleks
Serial KKK
Producer
Barry
Letts
Script
Editor
Terrance
Dicks
Designer
David
Mysercough-Jones
Fight
Arranger
Rick
Lester [4] Written by Louis Marks
Directed by Paul Bernard
Incidental Music by Dudley Simpson
Daleks Originated by Terry Nation
Jon
Pertwee (Doctor Who), Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Nicholas
Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart) [1-2,4]*, Aubrey Woods
(Controller), Richard Franklin (Captain Yates) [1-2,4], John
Levene (Sergeant Benton) [1-2,4], Anna Barry (Anat), Jimmy
Winston (Shura) [1-2,4], Scott Fredericks (Boaz), Wilfred
Carter (Sir Reginald Styles) [1,4], Jean McFarlane (Miss
Paget) [1,4], Deborah Brayshaw (Girl Technician) [1,3], Gypsie
Kemp
(U.N.I.T. Radio Operator) [1-2], Tim Condren (Guerilla)
[1],
Rick Lester, Maurice Bush, David Joyce [2-4], Frank
Menzies [2-4], Bruce Wells [2-4], Geoff Todd [2-4] (Ogrons);
John
Scott Martin, Rick Newby, Murphy Grumbar (Daleks); Oliver
Gilbert, Peter Messaline (Dalek Voices);
Valentine Palmer
(Monia) [3-4], Peter
Hill (Manager) [3], Andrew Carr (Senior
Guard) [3-4], George Raistrick (Guard at Work Centre) [3],
Alex
MacIntosh (Television Reporter) [4].
NOTE: Rather oddly, the reprises of Episodes 2 and 3 end with
the
electronic scream used at the end of episodes before the
credits appear.
*
Also in Episode 3, in the reprise from Episode 2,
uncredited.
World peace hangs in the balance. Sir Reginald Styles, a
high-ranking diplomat is the only person that stands between
mankind and a third and final World War. But a mysterious and
savage guerrilla force from the 22nd Century believe Styles is
the
agent that shaped their terrifying future and therefore
must
die...
The
Doctor and Jo find themselves flung into the guerrillas'
world; a brutal dictatorship policed by the merciless and
ape-like Ogrons. The Daleks have invaded Earth, enslaved the
population and face certain triumph unless the Doctor betrays
all
he believes in and condones the cold-blooded murder of
Styles in an attempt to change the course of history...
irrevocably.
Original
Broadcast (UK)
Episode One 1st January, 1972 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Two 8th January, 1972 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Three 15th January, 1972 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Four 22nd January, 1972 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Notes:
Released on video and U.S. laserdisc as a movie compilation.
Re-released in the U.K. on video and laserdisc in episodic
format. [+/-]
DAY OF THE DALEKS
|
U.K. Release: July 1986 / U.S. Release: March 1989
PAL - BBC video BBCB2036
PAL - BBC video BBCV2036 / 4109
NTSC - CBS/FOX Video 5092
NTSC - Warner Video E1151
Movie Compilation format.
U.K. Release: February 1994
PAL - BBC video BBCV5219
This version is episodic and unedited.
U.S. Release: January 1992
NTSC - CBS/FOX Laserdisc 5092-80
Movie Compilation format.
U.K. Release: December 1996
PAL - Encore Entertainment Laserdisc EE1202
This version is episodic and unedited.
Novelised as Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks by
Terrance Dicks. [+/-]
Number 18 in the Doctor Who Library.
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
Original Logo on Cover.
First Edition: April 1974. Reprinted in 1974, 1975.
ISBN: 0 426 10380 7.
Cover by Chris Achilleos.
Illustrations by Chris Achilleos.
Price: 30p.
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
Curve Logo on Cover.
First Edition: 1976. Reprinted in 1978, 1979, 1980,
1982.
ISBN: 0 426 10380 7.
Cover by Chris Achilleos.
Illustrations by Chris Achilleos.
Price: 40p.
Hardcover Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: August 1981.
ISBN: ?.
Cover by Chris Achilleos.
Price: ?.
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
Neon Logo on Cover.
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: 1982. Reprinted in 1984, 1987.
ISBN: 0 426 10380 7.
Cover by Andrew Skilleter.
Illustrations by Chris Achilleos.
Price: 1.35.
Paperback Edition - Virgin Publishing Ltd.
First Edition: April 1991. Reprinted in 1994.
ISBN: 0 426 10380 7.
Cover by Alister Pearson.
Price: 2.50.
Retitled: Doctor Who - The Days of the Daleks.
Dalek Omnibus.
[Includes The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Day of
the Dalek and Planet of the Dalek].
Hardcover Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: 1983.
ISBN: ?.
Cover by Andrew Skilleter.
Price: 6.95.
FOREIGN EDITIONS: Netherlands, 1974. Doctor Who
En De Dag Van De Daleks. Publisher: Unieboek
B.V. Bussum. Translated
by J. J. Van Der
Hulst-Brander.
Turkey, 1975.
Doktor Kim ve Dalek Baskini.
Publisher:
Remzi Kitabevi. Translated by Reha
Pinar.
Brazil, 1975.
Doutor Who e a Mudan a da
Hist
ria. Publisher: Global Editoria. Translated
by Marcio
Pugliesi and Norberto de Paula Lima.
Cover by
Darlon.
USA, 1978.
Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks.
Publisher:
Aeonian Press. Hardcover.
USA, 1979
(Reprinted up to 1989). Doctor Who and
the Day of the
Daleks. Publisher: Pinacle (#1).
Cover by David
Mann.
Japan, 1980.
Darek Zoku no gyakushuu. Publisher.
Hayakawa Bunko
Publishing. Cover and
illustrations
by Michiaki Sato. Translated by
Yukio
Sekiguchi.
Portugal, 1983.
Doctor Who e o Dia Dos Daleks.
Publisher:
Editorial Presen a. Cover by Rui
Ligeiro.
Translated by Eduardo Nogueira and
Concei o Jardim.
Poland, 1994.
Doctor Who - Dzie Dalek w.
Publisher:
Empire Books.
Doctor Who Magazine Archive: Issue #301.
Episode
One
(drn:
23'36")
At the
Auderly Country House 50 miles north of London the sudden
appearance
of a soldier in the study of Sir Reginald Styles -- a
British
diplomat who is attempting to hold a peace conference to
prevent
World War III -- ends with the gun toting Guerrilla
vanishing
before Styles' eyes. His secretary, Miss Paget rushes in
and seems
to take stock of the situation: a ghost has visited him.
The next
day, the Minister of Defense calls the Brigadier who has
already
received a report from Miss Paget. The Minister doesn't want
anything
to upset the peace negotiations, thus the Brigadier tells
him he
will put "his best man on it." Meanwhile, The Doctor is
working on
the TARDIS console which is now outside the TARDIS and in
his UNIT
lab. He wants to find a way to cut out the Time Lord's
override
on the dematerialization circuit. Jo thought the TARDIS was
working
perfectly since going 500 years into the future with the
miners and
the colonists and all that bit (Colony in Space). But the
Doctor was
sent on this and other missions by the Time Lords; he
doesn't
want to be their interplanetary puppet. Jo watches in
fascination as when the Doctor bends down under the console, another
Third
Doctor and Jo Grant appear and walk in the door. When the
Doctor
does see himself and the other Jo, he is appalled, "Oh, what
are you
doing here?" This other Doctor says, "I am here but you are
not
there." He puts his hand on his neck, unable to explain the
complication. The console blasts and the two others vanish. The
Doctor
tells Jo, "It's a complicated thing time." The two, he
explains,
went back to their own timestream, "Or is it forward?"
The
Brigadier comes in and requests the Doctor's help -- the last
minute
peace talks may be endangered if Styles is upset and cannot
fly to
Peking. The Chinese have already dropped out of peace talks.
The Doctor
tells him that "Humans are always squabbling over
something." But when the Brigadier mentions vanishings and World
War
III, the
Doctor takes more of an interest.
The
soldier reappears during the day but he doesn't get far: two
soldiers
with ape-like but human features -- Ogrons -- hit him and
knock him
out, thinking (dully) they have killed him. Inside Styles'
estate,
Jo, the Brigadier, and the Doctor are listening to him deny
the ghost
appearance but the Doctor finds muddy boot marks on the
rug. A
search of the grounds by UNIT turns up the fallen soldier,
and Yates,
the Brigadier, and the Doctor examine him. Benton arrives
and gives
them a strange box device which was found 50 feet inside
the
tunnel. In some futuristic type room, the two Ogrons report to a
man in
charge that the enemy has been destroyed and the menace
eliminated. When Styles returns to his study, the Brigadier is
pointing
the same ray gun at him, asking questions about it, doing
this to
shock Styles, not menace him. The soldier was 35ish and of
average
build. Styles insists on going to the airport and the
Brigadier
insists on a military escort. Benton will ride with the
soldier in
the ambulance.
Not much
later in the UNIT lab, the Doctor shows the Brigadier and
Jo the
ultrasonic disintegrator of the fallen soldier. He first
thought it
was not made on Earth but it has iron constituents found
in North
Wales, the Doctor commenting about the unimaginative nature
of the
military mind. The Brigadier is amused that the Doctor still
can't get
the TARDIS to work. The box device is a crude time machine
and Jo
notices it looks like a mini dematerialization circuit. The
Doctor
pushes it and when he does, the soldier in the ambulance with
Benton,
vanishes. In that future room, the leader in his big chair,
is told
about it by one of the female monitors. They seem able to
track time
travellers. He reports to Daleks, who are communicating
via a
screen.
The
temporal feedback overloads the box and as the Doctor claims is
the
Brigadier's language, "It has blown a fuse." Benton reports the
vanishing
to the Brigadier and is told to report to Capt. Yates. The
Doctor
figures the center of all this is Styles's house. He turns to
his
assistant and asks, "Jo, how would you like to spend the night
in a
haunted house?"
That
night, the Doctor raids Styles's food (cheese, crackers) and
wine, as
Miss Paget told him he could do. The rest of the staff were
sent away.
Jo is not hungry and the chiming of a clock scares her.
The time
tunnel reappears under the bridge -- an old railway tunnel.
The Doctor
is tasting the wine, "Sardonic but not cynical -- wine
after my
own heart." Benton checks on the pair, but not wanting to
disturb
the Doctor, catches Jo in the hallway and asks for some
food,
scaring her by mistake. Yates arrives, reprimands Benton for
eating on
duty and sends him out to check on Number Three patrol,
then
drinks some himself. Jo tells him that was not very kind. He
exclaims
to her, "RHIP -- Rank Has It's Privileges."
When Jo
returns to the Doctor in the study, he talks about Napoleon.
The Doctor
told him that an army marches on its stomach! The Doctor
tells Jo
that there are all kinds of ghosts -- "ghost of the past
and the
future." The wind blows and opens the French doors. Three
soldiers
appear out of the time tunnel -- Anat, a woman in charge;
Boaz, and
Shura, all dressed like the first soldier and carrying the
disintegrator guns. In the morning, they move toward the house and
shoot two
UNIT men, who vanish into nothingness. Inside, Jo just
wakes up
but the Doctor is awake -- probably not having ever slept
that
night.
In some
command post, perhaps at the airport, the Brigadier wants
some
coffee but is told by a female radar watcher that it is closed.
They
receive a radio message that the international situation is
growing
worse: the Chinese are about to withdraw from the peace
talks and
their satellite troops have amassed at the Russian-Chinese
border.
Some fighting has already broken out. Styles is flying to
Peking to
ask the Chinese not to withdraw from the peace talks.
Outside
the open doors, Shura points a gun at the Doctor but the
Doctor
moves out of target. Anat and Boaz move around to the other
side of
the mansion. The Doctor, checking out the box device,
switches
it on. In that future room -- the 22nd century -- the
leader,
the Controller, gets this signal via his female console
operator.
Shura sees the box operating again and bursts into the
study and
the Doctor uses his Venusian karate on him twice, calmly
drinking
some wine (or hopefully orange juice!). From the floor,
Shura asks
the Doctor to turn off that box device.
The
Controller reports to the Daleks via the TV screen again that
the signal
coming in is from their enemies and soon they will be
found. The
Daleks intone, slowly, that whoever is operating it is an
enemy of
the Daleks. As soon as the Controller gets the space-time
coordinates of the device, whoever is using it must be exterminated,
"Ex-term-in-ate them!!!!!"
Episode
Two
(drn:
23'52")
Anat and
Boaz come into the study with Jo prisoner, demanding the
Doctor
turn off the machine which he does. Anat looks at the Doctor,
"So
you are the man." They think he is Styles. Boaz pushes to
execute
him now but Jo protests -- and is shoved back down into her
chair. The
Doctor refers Anat to the newspaper which tells that
Styles in
Peking. The Doctor happily suggests to make improvements
in their
crude time device. Shura points his gun at him and tells
him to
"shut up!" Anat stops Boaz from killing the Doctor and asks
who he is.
Benton
tells Yates that two of his men are missing. The pair head
for the
house since it is cold. At the same time, the Doctor and Jo
are pushed
around as they are brought to the cellar. Yates calls the
Brigadier,
who is on the phone telling the Ministry that in times of
emergency
UNIT will liaison with defense forces. The Doctor and Jo
are tied
up in the wine cellar but the Doctor immediately gets his
gag off
himself, telling Jo he wonders if he shouldn't leave her
like that,
"It would be more peaceful that way." Jo gets her gag off
and they
talk. She feels the thugs upstairs are criminals. The
Doctor
tells her she is prejudice and she shouldn't judge them until
finding
out why they are here. Their guns are 200 years ahead of
Jo's time.
Jo, as the Doctor predicted, asks a lot of questions but
the Doctor
asks a lot of his own. Jo figures they will just have to
wait for
the answers. The Doctor smiles, "You're learning, Jo."
The time
travellers apparently want to change history. The Daleks
tell the
Controller in the 22nd Century to dispatch forces to the
frequency
and also to divert the module (the box) to them. The
Daleks
also activate the magnatron. Anat tries to contact her base
but she
cannot get through -- there is a disturbance in the vortex.
Boaz wants
to wait here and kill Styles but Anat rules that as too
risky. She
sends Shura to the tunnel to get more orders from their
base. Boaz
calls Anat too soft. Shura calls from just outside the
tunnel
using a hidden communication device. Before he can get
through,
an Ogron attacks and wounds him with its gun. Shura is able
to
disintegrate it and flees. Benton and Yates head to the Brigadier
in a jeep,
passing but not seeing Shura. Once there, the Brigadier
tells
Benton and Yates the conference is tomorrow night and Styles
has
convinced the Chinese to attend.
In the
cellar, the Doctor tells Jo, "Every choice we make changes
the
history of the world." When Jo asks why the terrorists don't
just go
back to September 12th to try to kill Styles again -- the
night the
first soldier tried -- the Doctor tells her that is due to
the
Blinovitch Limitation Effect. Before he can explain further, the
soldiers
bustle him upstairs with Jo to force him to answer an
urgent
telephone call from the Brigadier. The Doctor tells the
Brigadier
it is not a good idea for Styles to come back right away
and also
mentions to alert the Marines. When he hangs up, The
Brigadier
decides to go back to the mansion himself. As Anat
rejoices
that Styles is coming, Jo has untied her hands and gets the
box,
threatening to smash it unless they let the Doctor go. Anat
yells that
she is stupid child. The Doctor tells Jo to put it down
-- he's
only just made it work. The man who the box belonged to --
the first
soldier is back in the 22nd century and is now dead in
their time
zone. Before Jo can decide what to do, the box whisks her
into the
time tunnel vortex and she lands in the Controller's
operation
room where Ogrons are.
The
soldiers tell the Doctor if Jo was unlucky she will have had her
atoms
dispersed around the time vortex but it not, she is in their
time with
THEM. Anat mentions she is better off dead.
The
Controller dismisses the Ogrons, explaining to Jo they are from
scattered
communities on one of outer planets and are used here as
policemen;
they are simple, honest, and loyal. This is the 22nd
century.
The Controller acts nice to her, telling her the soldiers
she met
are dangerous criminals who have committed horrible acts. He
has been
tracking them down for years. He can save her friend but
needs her
help. She tells him exactly when and where the Doctor is
-- the
exact day: Sept. 13th. A female technician takes Jo to food,
drink, and
guest quarters but only after she tells the Controllers
where she
thinks the soldiers point of entry to her own time was...
the tunnel
by the house. After Jo leaves, the Controller tells the
watching
Daleks that she trusts him implicitly. One of the Daleks
will lead
the expedition to stop the soldiers.
The Doctor
cuts his ropes on the pole of a cabinet holding wine and
gets up
again. Four or more Ogrons mash through the woods toward the
house and
fire at the study. Anat and Boaz return fire. The Doctor
blunders
into the middle of this and has to karate Boaz down. Ogrons
enter the
room. The two soldiers get out. The Doctor faces an Ogron
and uses
karate to knock it down and get its gun. He runs out as the
ray gun
battle escalates outside the manor. The Doctor shoots one
Ogron,
dissipating it into nothingness. Another is about to fire on
him when
machinegun fire from the Brigadier, arriving in a jeep,
kills it.
The Doctor hops in and takes the Brigadier's jeep. The
Brigadier
nods, "Doctor come back at once!" The Doctor drives to the
tunnel and
runs into it. He is just in time to see a Dalek appear
out of the
time vortex! It turns at him!
Episode
Three
(drn:
24'18")
The
Doctor, Boaz, and Anat time tunnel to the 22nd century, the
Doctor
telling Anat on arrival that travelling 200 years isn't
really a
shock to him. When they mention the Daleks and the Doctor
seems to
know of them, Boaz asks, "You know of the Daleks?" The
Doctor
answers, "Indeed I do-I know them only too well. They're my
oldest and
bitterest enemies." Ogrons come into the tunnel. Anat
yells,
"Run, Doctor, run!" The Doctor hides at a wall and closes his
eyes but
when he opens them, he sees a ladder up to the woods.
Above, he
hides at a stone -- which seems to be the wreckage of a
building
but in the distance away from the woods all he can see are
huge
skyscraper-towers. A deep voiced black Dalek calls Ogrons to
exterminate the rebels. When the Daleks tell the Controller he
failed, he
complains that the Ogrons are useless, as loyal as they
are
stupid, he wants human soldiers, countering that the rebels are
human and
they've managed to steal Dalek time machine plans and
parts to
make their own time travel boxes. The Daleks tell him
humans are
treacherous and unreliable but the Controller feels not
all humans
are. He also mentions the Doctor to which one Dalek asks,
"Did
you say Doctor? The Doctor is any enemy of the Daleks. He must
be found
and exterminated!"
A round
eyed camera is on the Doctor as he tries to find a way
inside the
complex of buildings. A Dalek voice alert sounds in area
117. The
gold Dalek tells the Controller about a drop in
productivity in that area and tells him to push the workers even if
they die.
When he leaves the Dalek room, a female technician tells
him,
"We have a tracking report on that stranger." He tells her he
wants the
worker figures brought to him from section 117. Anat and
Boaz are
joined by another rebel and some of his men. He seems to be
their
overall leader named Monia and tells them the strange girl is
kept in
Central Control. Boaz claims, "In the hands of Daleks, she
won't live
long." The Doctor sees workers in an open plaza type
factory,
slave labor and human guards. He runs from the
guards...right into an Ogron.
In the
meantime, Jo is finishing off her meal with grapes -- a
fabulous
meal, she tells the Controller who explains nowadays most
have to do
with pills and tablets. Jo is anxious to get back to her
own time.
The Controller tells her the Doctor is here but she must
stay in
this area for her own safety which is why the black garbed,
helmeted
guard stands watch over her...as she has noticed. A tech
gives him
the message that the Doctor has been found. The Controller
tells Jo
he is alive and well.
At that
same moment, the Doctor has had his jacket and cape taken
off and is
dragged before an Interrogation Guard by two Ogrons
inside the
Work Centre. The guard wants to question him, "You're a
spy."
The Doctor says, "That's more of a statement, isn't it?" The
guard
tells him the Ogrons don't get much fun. As he sticks his
baton at
the Doctor, the Doctor moves it and yells at him that he is
not a
rebel. A moustached Manager of the Work Centre comes in and
dismisses
the Ogrons and the guard but the guard warns he will be
right
outside. The manager, secretly a rebel, asks which group the
Doctor is
from. Before they can really communicate much, the
Controller
arrives, apologizes to the Doctor, telling the Doctor he
is an
honored guest of their government. He will take the Doctor to
Jo and has
him sent ahead so he can stay and warn, threaten the
family of,
and persuade the Manager to increase productivity by ten
percent --
an impossible amount. The Controller mentions it will not
be good
for the Manager's family if he cannot do it -- and tells him
to
consider this a friendly warning. When the Controller leaves, the
Manager
calls the rebels. They ask about the new prisoner -- "Highly
intelligent, they call him the Doctor." An Ogron, springing out of
hiding,
hits the Manager down.
On the
floor in the Control Centre, the Doctor lays out while Jo and
the
Controller sit. He drinks wine and tells the Controller, "I've
known many
times and some them much more pleasant than others." He
mentions
the factory which the Controller argues is a rehabilitation
centre for
hardened criminals -- even old men, women, and children.
There are
always those who need discipline. The Doctor refutes that,
"That's a very old fashioned view -- even for my standards."
The
Doctor
refutes all the Controller's arguments, "Who really rules
this
planet of yours?" Instead of answering, the Controller politely
excuses
himself and leaves. Jo tells the Doctor he shouldn't have
treated
him like that -- he doesn't know the whole picture. The
Doctor
tells she doesn't either -- the Controller is really just a
Superior
Slave. This world is ruled by "the most evil, ruthless life
form in
the cosmos -- the Daleks." The Controller and the Gold Dalek
watch the
pair on a viewscreen. The Dalek says, "The appearance of
the Doctor
has changed before." They will put him on the mind
analysis
to conclusively prove he is the Doctor.
Back in
the control centre (really just a glorified cell), Jo yells
her head
off to bring in the Ogron guard which is somewhat resistant
to the
Doctor's karate. Jo hits it over the head with the long wine
goblet.
The Doctor says, "Pity, it was rather a good vintage." They
run across
the open compound area plaze and out to a motorbike.
Human
guards chase them but the Ogrons give more of a chase. With Jo
clinging
to the Doctor's waist, the Doctor tries to drive away from
them but
there are too many. The Controller, back at the Central
area,
convinces the Daleks that the Doctor and Jo are worth more
alive --
they have information about the resistance. Ogrons surround
the Doctor
and Jo as they hit a small ditch trying to elude the many
Ogrons
around them.
In the
tunnels, Monia tells Anat and Boaz they must rescue the
Doctor.
Boaz admits to being afraid, but Monia tells them, "The
Doctor is
the sworn enemy of the Daleks -- the one man they are
afraid
of."
At that
moment, the Doctor is once more stripped of his red lined
cape and
purple lined jacket and strapped down to a table -- the
mind
analysis table. The Daleks look at a screen from which they get
images
from the Doctor's mind -- images of the first Doctor and the
second
Doctor. "You are the Doctor! You will be exterminated!!!"
Episode
Four
(drn:
24'17")
The
Controller stops the mind probe of the Doctor's mind, alerting
the Daleks
to the fact that the Manager that the Doctor was talking
to was a
rebel. The Doctor will not tell them anything and this form
of
interrogation will make him dead, then they won't learn anything.
The Gold
Dalek orders an Ogron to release the Doctor. A guard takes
Jo to the
Doctor and the Controller. The Daleks have discovered the
secret of
time travel and invaded the Earth again and changed the
course of
history.
In the
underground tunnels, Anat and the rebels plan a way into the
city. The
Controller and a tech standing nearby are with the Doctor
and Jo in
the Control Centre. He urges the Doctor to tell about the
criminals
-- the rebels. If not, the Daleks will destroy both Jo and
the
Doctor. The Doctor explains they will do that anyway. While the
Controller
maintains he is a Senior Government official, the Doctor
maintains
he is a traitor. The Controller tells that at the end of
the 20th
century it started. The killing, destruction and the wiping
out of
seven eighths of the population. Humans were reduced to
living in
holes in the ground like animals. Then the Daleks came,
the Doctor
finishes telling the story, and turned the Earth into a
giant
factory with all the wealth and mineral gains sent to Skaro,
their home
planet. Stronger men work in the mines. The Daleks'
empire is
expanding and they need all the raw materials they can
get. The
Controller's family has served the Daleks for three
generations. The Doctor calls them all quislings.
Meanwhile,
the rebels attack the Ogrons outside the complex
entrance.
Two Ogrons vanish into nothingness from a blast from the
guns. A
rebel, Marc, is vaporized by an Ogron gun. Boaz jumps in
front of a
Dalek that was about to kill Anat. He uses fallen
explosives
to blow the Dalek up...along with himself. The guards all
dead, the
rebels enter and get the Doctor and Jo up. Before they
leave,
Monia wants to kill the Controller. The Doctor stops this,
maintaining the Daleks are responsible for the deaths and of the
Controller
working for them, the Doctor comments, "They would always
have found
someone."
In the
20th century time, the Brigadier and Yates have had the
tunnel
searched. The Brigadier wants the exterior radius protected
and
searched. He will give Capt. Yates all the men he needs: the
house is
top priority since Styles and his delegates and officials
from all
countries will be arriving at RAF Manston Airport.
In the
22nd Century Dalek takeover time, the rebels bring the Doctor
and Jo to
the underground hideout. They tell the Doctor and Jo that
Styles
tricked everyone: he brought the delegates to the house and
must have
planted a bomb -- the house blew up and killed all of
them,
including Styles himself. He must have been caught in the bomb
when he
mistimed it. If this is true, Jo says, "...then Sir Reginald
Styles
must be around the bend." After the blast, there are
accusations and eventually war. After the war, the Daleks moved in.
Using the
time machine, the rebels built from stolen Dalek plans,
the rebels
planned to go and change all that even though the
transfer
is not always stable, the tunnel is stable in both time
lines --
it is as it was. Even though the plan failed, Monia tells
the Doctor
it can still work: they want the Doctor to go back in
time and
kill Styles!
In the
20th century, Shura hides from place to place as he makes his
way to a
lower door to the cellar of Styles's Auderly House.
In the
22nd century tunnel, Anat tells the Doctor he must kill one
man to
prevent the deaths of millions. The Doctor cannot do it -- it
is murder.
Jo cannot believe Styles is a ruthless murderer, nor can
the
Doctor, who admits Styles is a bit vain maybe and obstinate but
"basically a good man."
Shura has
a hidden bomb in the cellar in the 20th century and it is
ready to
be set off.
In the
22nd Century tunnel, Anat tells the Doctor that Marc and Boaz
didn't die
rescuing him so that he can be curious. Questioning her,
the Doctor
finds that the rebels, when they first came to the house,
had with
them Dalekanium -- a bomb that cannot be resisted by Dalek
casings.
The Doctor figures out what really happened -- "You didn't
change
history. You became a part of it." Shura caused the blast
that
killed the delegates and Styles! "You're trapped in a temporal
paradox --
Styles didn't cause that explosion -- you did it
yourselves!"
The
Controller at the 22nd century control centre tells the Daleks
he has an
ambush set up at the disused tunnel -- that is where the
Doctor
will try to return to his own time. The Daleks threaten his
life it
fails. At this news, a Head Guard, listening in, is happy.
At the
tunnel, Jo tells Anat, "Take care," as she descends with the
Doctor to
the railway tunnel. Ogrons chase Jo and the Doctor and
surround
them. The Controller arrives but the Doctor claims to be
able to
free the world from Dalek rule and needs his help. The
Controller
dismisses the Ogrons and lets Jo and the Doctor spirit
away to
the 20th century, Jo giving the Controller one last,
worried-for-him-look. In hiding, the Head Guard overheard their
conversation.
20th
century at the house: Benton reports they found the Doctor and
Miss
Grant.
In the
22nd Century, the Controller reports the Doctor and Jo got
away but
the Daleks know the truth: the Head Guard told them the
Controller
let the pair escape. The Daleks shoot him with their
negative
inducing effect sticker guns and he falls dead. The Head
Guard is
now made Controller and the Daleks expect totally loyalty
from him.
The Daleks will follow the Doctor and Jo to destroy the
peace
conference.
20th
century: news reporter Alex MacIntosh is reporting about the
summit at
Auderly House, a Georgian style house. Styles and the team
arrive
just after his 11th hour meeting in Peking. (It appears
Libyans or
Africans and Americans are at this summit.)
The
Brigadier tries to tell Styles something once inside the house
but Styles
keeps interrupting him. Jo and the Doctor rush in and
tell him
to clear everyone out of this house. Ogrons and the Daleks
arrive out
of the tunnel. A black, grey, and gold Dalek are among
them.
There are many more! Two UNIT men are shot down by Ogrons and
Daleks
near the tunnel and a pond.
Back at
the house, the Doctor tries to convince Styles, "Look, try
to use
your intelligence man, even if you are a politician." Styles
turns to
the Brigadier, "Brigadier, kindly get this lunatic out of
my
way." The Brigadier counters telling him that "the Doctor usually
knows what
he's talking about."
Not
waiting any longer, the Doctor runs to the cellar and confronts
Shura who
wards him back using the explosives. Benton calls the
Brigadier
-- they can't hold the Daleks back. The Brigadier takes
over and
yells sternly at a protesting Styles -- he is under his
jurisdiction, "Now be quiet, sir!" Styles will go with the
soldiers
but under
protest. His papers and documents have already been taken
to the
car. UNIT men launch bombs and grenades at the Daleks which
kill some
of the lumbering Ogron but not more than one or two! Two
more UNIT
men are down and in all, we see at least four lying dead
around the
manor house.
Jo runs to
the Doctor and Shura in the cellar, warning them, "The
Daleks are
coming into the house!" The Doctor tells Shura, "They've
come back
to make sure their version of history isn't changed."
Shura
tells them to go. Jo pleads with him to come with them. He
can't: the
Dalekanium is unstable and there is no timer or fuse. He
must blow
up the bomb himself. Jo gives him one last look but he
yells at
her to GO! The Doctor has already fled up the steps, "C'mon
Jo!"
Outside,
the Doctor runs to the Brigadier and tells him to order his
troops to
fall back, let the Daleks into the house, "I know it does
not make
military sense but it's the only way." The Daleks lumber
through
the house after the Brigadier orders a fall back and then a
regrouping
on the main road. Shura blows up the house. Styles
watches it
on fire. The Doctor tells him to make sure the conference
is a
success -- they have a choice now and must succeed. Styles
says,
"We all know what will happen if we fail." The Doctor says,
"So
do we," and looks at his companion, "We've seen it happen,
haven't
we, Jo?" Jo smiles.
Source:
Charles Mento
Continuity Notes:
The Doctor deals with some after-effects of the Dalek
timeline in Honest Living.
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The Curse of
Peladon
The Curse of
Peladon
Serial MMM
Producer
Barry
Letts
Script
Editor
Terrance
Dicks
Designer
Gloria
Clayton
Fight
Arrangers
Terry
Walsh [3]
Profile
[4] Written by Brian Hayles
Directed by Lennie Mayne
Incidental Music by Dudley Simpson
Jon
Pertwee (Doctor Who), Katy Manning (Jo Grant), David
Troughton (Peladon), Geoffrey Toone (Hepesh), Henry Gilbert
(Torbis) [1], Alan Bennion (Izlyr), Sonny Caldinez (Ssorg),
Stuart Fell (Alpha Centauri), Ysanne Churchman (Voice of Alpha
Centauri), Murphy Grumbar (Arcturus) [1-3], Terry Bale (Voice
of
Arcturus) [1-3], Gordon St. Clair (Grun), Nick Hobbs
(Aggedor), George Giles (Guard Captain) [3-4], Wendy Danvers
(Amazonia) [4].
On
its way back to Earth, the TARDIS crashlands on Peladon
where strange and violent incidents are threatening to disrupt
a
conference between visiting delegates from the Galactic
Federation and Peladon's King. Is this the feared curse of
Peladon and will it force a Galactic war?
Having assumed the guise of Earth delegates, the Doctor and
his
assistant Jo attempt to diffuse the political timebomb and
to
uncover the true identity of the beast of Peladon - which
they
suspect is something far more sinister than a mere
paranormal apparition.
The
Doctor is amazed, however, to find among the delegates his
old
adversaries the Ice Warriors - war-like reptiles from the
planet Mars. Could they be behind the goings-on and what they
stand to profit from a conflict? The Doctor must use all of
his
wits to ensure that the warnings of Peladon's High Priest
do
not come true.
Original
Broadcast (UK)
Episode One 29th January, 1972 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Two 5th February, 1972 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Three 12th February, 1972 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Four 19th February, 1972 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Notes:
Released on video in episodic format. [+/-]
THE CURSE OF PELADON
U.K. Release: August 1993 / U.S. Release: September
1995
PAL - BBC video BBCV4978
NTSC - CBS/FOX Video 8291
NTSC - Warner Video E1297
Novelised as Doctor Who and the Curse of Peladon by Brian
Hayles. [+/-]
Number 13 in the Doctor Who Library.
Paperback Edition - W. H. Allen.
Original Logo on Cover.
First Edition: January 1975. Reprinted in 1976,
1977.
ISBN: 0 426 11498 1 (also 0 426 10452 8).
Cover by Chris Achilleos.
Price: 30p.
Paperback Edition - W. H. Allen.
First Edition: July 1979. White Curve Logo on Cover.
ISBN: 0 426 11084 6.
Cover by Chris Achilleos.
Illustration by Alan Willow.
Price: 70p.
Hardcover Edition - W. H. Allen.
First Edition: July 1980.
ISBN: 0 491 02783 4.
Cover by Bill Donohoe.
Illustration by Alan Willow.
Price: 3.95.
Paperback Edition - W. H. Allen.
First Edition: July 1980. Reprinted in 1982, 1984.
Brown Curve Logo on Cover.
ISBN: 0 426 20061 6 (also 0 426 11498 1).
Cover by Chris Achilleos.
Illustration by Alan Willow.
Price: 75p.
Paperback Edition - Virgin Publishing Ltd.
First Edition: June 1992.
ISBN: 0 426 11498 1.
Cover by Alister Pearson.
Illustration by Alan Willow.
Price: 2.99.
Retitled Doctor Who - The Curse of Peladon.
AUDIO RELEASE:
An abridged
version of the novel, read by Jon
Pertwee, was
released on cassette (ZBBC 1768).
Released: 1995
90 minute
Cassette
ISBN: 0 563
38821 8
This audio version has been re-released in MP3
format as part of the Tales from the TARDIS - Volume
One collection.
Doctor Who Magazine Archive: Issue #215.
Episode
One
(drn:
24'32")
A
cliffside citadel perched toward the top is storm lashed with
lightning
and thunder. Passing scantily clad guards, Chancellor
Torbis of
this planet Peladon reports to his King, a young man named
Peladon
himself. He tells him that the delegate from Alpha Centauri
has
arrived. Hepesh, the High Priest, argues with Torbis. Hepesh
warns
about the curse of Aggedor who will kill any who have left the
old ways.
Torbis believes they should move ahead with the delegates'
arrivals.
The delegates are from a Federation of planets, including
Earth --
although the Earth delegate has not arrived. The delegates
are to
decide if planet Peladon can enter their Federation. King
Peladon
puts a stop to the bickering of Torbis and Hepesh. If the
committee
agrees, Peladon will join the Galactic Federation. Hepesh
agrees to
stand by Peladon if this happens even though it is against
the will
of Hepesh. The King tells Torbis to inform the others that
Alpha
Centauri has arrived. But en route, Torbis is killed by some
growling
monster, that is unseen except by a mute bodyguard named
Grun. Grun
relays to them that Aggedor's spirit has risen again and
the
ancient curse of Peladon will be fulfilled.
The TARDIS
groans into existence no the cliffside beneath the main
part of
the citadel. Inside the console stops going up and down: a
perfect
landing. Jo claims it is about time. Jo is all dolled up for
a night on
the town with Mike Yates. The Doctor told her it would
only be a
few minutes but it has been ages. The scanner is on the
blink --
Jo tells him the TARDIS always is. The Doctor tells her he
hopes Jo
is in as good condition when she is as old as the female
TARDIS is.
Jo laughs. The Doctor finds a tiny fault in the
interstitial beam synthesizer and he puts the part in his pocket.
Everything
outside reads completely normal. The TARDIS shakes a bit.
Jo and the
Doctor go outside as the TARDIS seems to tip, balanced on
the edge.
The Doctor pulls Jo out just as the TARDIS falls down a
deep
ravine, hitting several ledges along the way. Jo thinks it is
smashed to
pieces. The Doctor admits the TARDIS may have its faults
but it is
indestructible. The Doctor spots the citadel and the two
start
climbing.
The one
eyed six armed green Alpha Centauri hermaphrodite arrives to
address
the King Peladon. It has a high pitched voice. Hepesh
accepts
the hand of true friendship. Earth is many light years away;
an
unattractive planet at best Alpha Centauri says. Hepesh mentions
the death
of Torbis and brings up the omens. Alpha Centauri wants to
cancel the
conference. Peladon assures it that they are safe. Hepesh
takes
Alpha Centauri to the other delegates.
The Doctor
in his chequered cape and Jo in her high heels and formal
dress make
their way up the wind swept cliffside. At a spot, the
Doctor
pulls her up. Jo tells him she cannot go on. The Doctor will
see if
there is another way out of the storm while Jo looks another
way. Jo
calls the Doctor and tells him she has found a tunnel. They
go into
it.
Hepesh
brings Alpha Centauri to the delegates chamber for meetings.
Alpha
Centauri meets Arcturus, a multi strand organism which to
survive in
Earth like environments must be inside a globe of their
native
life fluids, mounted on a traction unit, a moving giant box.
It
demonstrated its ray device on the box by destroying a vase with
the heat.
They renounce violence but can defend themselves. Hepesh
tells them
they desire only their friendship.
The Doctor
and Jo exist the tunnel and find a shrine which has a
statue of
a giant furry clawed monster... a temple dedicated to
Aggedor.
At first,
Peladon refused to sit upon his father's throne but Torbis
and Hepesh
convinced him to be Peladon of Peladon. The Earth woman
-- King
Peladon's mother -- allowed the boy to become a king. Hepesh
must
anoint him as king. He tells Peladon that Torbis died because
he wanted
Peladon to be a servant of the Federation. But the
Federation
are here at Peladon's request. He must think and realize
his dream.
Hepesh will not trust these aliens. Peladon insists on
talking to
the aliens and to convince them that his people are not
savages.
Jo and the
Doctor come out of the shrine and tunnels. The Doctor
starts to
figure out which way to go by saying innie-minni-minnie-mo
when they
hear a loud growl. "Minnie," it is. The pair move to a
blocked up
dead end. Yet the Doctor finds a torch alight -- why if
the tunnel
is never used is the torch still alive? He picks it up
and down
which makes a secret stone door open in the stone wall. The
pair come
out somewhere inside the castle. They hide as a huge shell
backed
reptile being named Ssorg, passes... a being the Doctor sees
as an Ice
Warrior soldier! A native of Mars. They are not pleasant
company.
The pair attempt to get back to the tunnel but from both
sides
guards with swords and spears stop them.
Alpha
Centauri, Arcturus, and the Ice Warriors -- the soldier Ssorg
and his
Ice Lord Izlyr who has a curved helmet are gathered in the
throne
room. They discuss the threat and the omen -- the Royal Beast
of
Peladon, Aggedor. His fur trims their royal garments and his head
is their
royal emblem. Young men used to hunt this beast. This
legend has
been handed down through centuries. It is said that in
the day of
Aggedor's spirit's return, a stranger would appear,
bringing
great peril and tribulation. The Doctor is here with Jo and
brought in
as Hepesh tells this...
Izlyr
assumes the Doctor is the Earth late delegate. The Doctor asks
if his
crashed space shuttle could be rescued. He meets all the
others.
His credentials were lost in the crash, the Doctor says.
Hepesh
presumes the female is of royal blood -- only men of rank and
females of
royal blood may pass in here. The penalty for disobeying
this is
death. Jo plays the part and the Doctor greets the King and
presents,
"Princess Josephine of TARDIS." He greets her and seems
smitten
with her. Jo tells the King the pilot of her craft was
seriously
inefficient. The Doctor drops his face at his.
Grun
sneaks around in the tunnels.
The
Princess, Jo, is here to observe only. The Doctor tells this to
a
questioning Izlyr. On Mars, they retain the aristocratic process
-- the
Doctor mentions Earth does so but in a democratic sort of
way.
Arcturus and Alpha Centauri bring the Doctor up to speed,
explaining
what has been going on. As they do, Grun is above the
exit,
using a large stick to pry the giant statue on a balcony. It
is a
heavy, giant granite statue of Aggedor.
The
delegates begin to disagree and yell at each, feeling
intimidated. The Doctor yells and brings the arguing of the
delegates
to an end. The Doctor thought his ears deceived him: the
members of
the Galactic Federation squabbling like a gang of
children.
Hepesh agrees that the throne room is not the place for
this
debate. The delegates will withdraw to the conference room.
Peladon
tells Jo she looks forward to speaking with her again...
less
formally. She thinks that will be very nice. The Doctor gives a
scornful
look -- he doesn't like that Jo and Peladon are getting
close, it
seems.
The
delegates and Jo make their way out of the throne room, followed
by the
Doctor, who looks up: they all just under the giant statue,
and the
Doctor spots the huge statue falling down at them all
quickly...
Episode
Two
(drn:
24'33")
The Doctor
yells and pushes Alpha Centauri and the two Ice Warriors
out of the
way, saving them all. Arcturus was behind the Doctor.
Hepesh
holds Peladon in the throne room. The Doctor and Alpha
Centauri
agree that they should find out what caused this. Grun
ducks out
of sight behind a curtain. Jo feels wobbly at the knees.
Hepesh
blames the ghost of Aggedor. Alpha Centauri tells the others
the
Federation are here to raise the Peladon people from barbarism.
Jo asks
what if they don't want to be raised. Izlyr and the Doctor
ask more
about this curse. Peladon tells them he is king and not
Aggedor.
He asks them all to rejoin him in the Throne Room. The
negotiations, he pleads must, continue. As they talk, Jo moves
behind a
curtain behind the throne. The Doctor asks who the people
on the
planet will believe -- their king or Aggedor. Jo examines the
area on
the balcony and finds an advanced device. She quietly
returns to
the throne room. The delegates discuss what is happening,
and they
wonder if there is some plot against the Federation to hold
them as
hostages. Peladon insists there is no plot. The Doctor leads
the
delegates in adjourning. Peladon dismisses Hepesh but wants Jo
to remain
behind. He asks her if she believes him, asking from a
personal
point of view. Being a king is no fun... it is very lonely.
It is
difficult to find someone to talk to. Peladon says, "Hepesh is
an old
man... like your friend, the Doctor." Jo smiles and thinks
the Doctor
wouldn't care for being referred to that way. Peladon
does not
get to see someone young or beautiful. He was brought up by
old men.
His mother was an Earth woman..and he tells her there is a
bond
between them. He holds her hand and asks if she believes him.
She does.
He asks for her to speak for him to the commission. Jo
thinks all
he wants is a political ally. He just wants a friend. Jo
claims she
is neutral, "Count me out." She runs out.
Hepesh
tells Grun it was not his fault that Aggedor was showing
mercy to
his enemies... those who escaped. He puts flame to a fire
and prays
to the statue of Aggedor, claiming that the Doctor is
chief
among the enemies. Hepesh tells Grun to destroy the Doctor.
In a room,
the Doctor has an eye glass in his left eye and examines
the device
Jo found: it is a trisillicate key, an electronic one
used to
open doors by identifying a particular person and this is
used on
the spaceships of the Ice Warriors. The Doctor suspects
Ssorg was
the one on the balcony. He might have managed to slip
away. The
Doctor tells her the last time he encountered the Ice
Warriors,
they were trying to colonize the planet Earth and that
Peladon is
very like Earth. He knows the Ice Warriors -- a savage
and war
like race. The Doctor is drinking something. Only Ssorg's
strength
could have shifted that statue. They discuss the others. Jo
thinks
Alpha Centauri is rather sweet, asking if he is a she. The
Doctor
explains that Alpha Centauri is neither. It is a hermphradite
hexopod.
Jo wonders why they cannot just get out of here, getting
someone to
help them organize the TARDIS. She chides the Doctor for
loving all
that chairmen stuff even though he claims he didn't have
much
choice... just like Jo. They hear some kind of alarm. The pair
run out
and to Arcturus's quarters and find Arcturus in a state:
someone
has taken the servo junction to his life support unit. A
small
plastic tube full of very fine circuitry. The Doctor forbids
Jo from
searching the others' rooms while he rewires the circuits to
save
Arcturus. The Doctor tells Jo he is going to try to use a Dalek
configuration to save Arcturus. Izlyr and the others come in with
Hepesh.
Izlyr asks the Doctor what he is doing to Arcturus. He tells
them and
then tells them to leave him alone. The Doctor suggests
this was
the work of skilled technical knowledge, accusing the Ice
Warriors.
Izlyr says that Alpha Centauri is skilled and so is that
of Earth
-- and it was the Doctor they found.
Jo has
slipped off again and inside the quarters of Izlyr she finds
hidden in
a box, the device that was stolen from the box. Before she
can leave,
Ssorg returns and finds her hiding behind the curtains.
Jo blames
Ssorg for trying to kill poor Arcturus. Ssorg tells her to
stay,
takes the missing unit and his sonic rifle gun, and leaves,
locking Jo
in.
Arcturus
cannot remember what happened to him. The Doctor tells
Izlyr how
fortunate. Grun stops the Doctor in the hallway and takes
him off,
watched by Hepesh.
Arcturus
believes the attack was too quick. Izlyr tells Alpha
Centauri
to ask the Doctor's masters on Earth what the Doctor wanted
when the
Doctor sabotaged Arcturus. The Ice Lord thinks the Doctor
wants to
use Jo to marry the King, strengthening the bond between
Earth and
Peladon over the other planets. Ssorg arrives and must
speak to
the Ice Lord privately. Ssorg tells the Ice Lord he found
the
missing unit in the hands of the Princess...
Jo uses a
bench and a metal box to climb up to an open window. She
inches her
way along the outside of the ledge where wind and
lightning
still storm about. Her foot slips but she recovers
quickly.
The ledge gets narrow but she makes her way to another
alcove and
slips inside. She jumps down to a bench and runs.
Grun opens
a secret passage and relates to the Doctor that someone
is in
trouble... perhaps the Princess. Jo hears a loud growl and
sees the
looming form of a giant furry, clawed monster with large
fangs and
a horn!
Grun
deserts the Doctor when he hears Aggedor's cries. He has shown
the Doctor
into the tunnels. Jo runs out of the tunnels into the
hands of
Ssorg, who gives her over to Izlyr. Izlyr sends Ssorg into
the area
to kill the monster. He reports back to them... there is
nothing.
Izlyr thinks Jo is trying to trick them. She wants to find
the
Doctor. He wants Jo and the Doctor to answer his questions.
In the
tunnels, the monster and the Doctor seem to be playing cat
and mouse,
with the monster chasing the Doctor.
In a room,
the Ice Lord questions Jo. He thinks maybe Jo brought the
missing
piece to their room to blame the Ice Warriors. Izlyr tells
her that
to disconnect the unit from Arcturus would not have killed
the box
dwelling alien. To kill Arcturus the helium regenerator must
be
deactivated. The missing unit was a sensor equipment... it would
have been
a metabolic coma. Jo apologizes to the Ice Warriors. Izlyr
tells her
they were once a race of warriors as the Doctor told her.
Now they
reject violence except as a means of self defense. She asks
about
Ssorg's gun. In order to preserve peace, it is necessary to
survive.
Izlyr thinks maybe the Doctor will be able to explain.
The Doctor
runs from Aggedor in the secret tunnels. He opens a
secret
door using the torch and slips into a new area, the door
closing
behind him. The Doctor finds a large statue of Aggedor, the
inner
temple of Aggedor. He touches it but Hepesh arrives and orders
Grun to
forcibly take him to the Throne Room.
Grun
forces the Doctor there and in the Throne Room, Hepesh accuses
the Doctor
of sacrilege in penetrating the holy room, the inner
sanctum of
Aggedor. There is no defense against this crime. Sadly,
King
Peladon tells the Doctor the punishment for this crime against
the holy
of holies is death. The Doctor stares at him...
Episode
Three
(drn:
24'21")
Federation
Law means the other delegates cannot interfere.
Accordingly, Jo cannot interfere either. The Doctor tells them he
had no
idea the tunnels lead to the temple. Hepesh continues to
insist on
the Doctor's death. Peladon knows of no tunnels. Izlyr
asks for a
royal pardon. Arcturus tells them that according to
Galactic
Articles of Peace Paragraph 59, subsection 2 tells them
they
cannot interfere. Jo turns to Peladon to pardon the Doctor and
show he is
a civilized king. Jo begs Peladon but he cannot pardon
him
totally. He gives them an alternative: trial by combat. A man of
rank is a
nobleman of the citadel, Peladon argues against Hepesh.
The Doctor
will be held captive until dawn and then lowered into the
pit
beneath the citadel where he will fight Grun, the king's
champion.
Hepesh and guards take the Doctor to his room. The Doctor
calls him
a wily old bird but warns that his death would cause a
major
scandal, the Doctor knowing that Hepesh still wants to kill
him before
he gets to the pit.
Jo asks
Peladon how she can believe in him now. She yells at him.
"He
means a great deal to you," Peladon says. "Yes," she answers. He
begs her
not to hate him. She doesn't. Both Torbis and his father
died
before they could break the traditions that bind his people but
his mother
taught him all she could of justice, compassion, and
love. Jo
tries to get him to be the king his mother wants him to be
and which
Jo wants also. Peladon asks her to marry him which he
claims
comes from his feelings as a man. This makes Jo recoil -- she
doesn't
understand him, she s wondering if there is a connection
between
the Doctor's condemnation to death and his proposal to her.
She runs
out.
The Doctor
lays down in his room Hepesh tells him no one will try to
stop him
if he tries to leave. Hepesh doesn't want his death -- he
says and
asks the Doctor to trust him. The Doctor thinks Hepesh will
have him
killed while trying to escape.
The other
delegates discuss what is happening. Alpha Centauri is not
sure what
is happening. Arcturus believes it is a conspiracy to
break up
the Federation unity.
Hepesh
tells the Doctor the large blue box has been brought to the
citadel,
having been recovered. He also draws the Doctor a map which
will take
him back to his space shuttle (the TARDIS) and will allow
the
Princess Josephine to leave with him. Hepesh doesn't want the
Federation
to retaliate against Peladon for the death of the Doctor
which is
why Hepesh will not just have the Doctor killed. Hepesh
believes
the Federation will exploit them for the minerals of
Peladon.
The Doctor tries to convince Hepesh otherwise, to free his
people
from superstition and rituals. Hepesh slips that he and his
followers
do not stand alone. The Doctor wonders who stands with
him.
Alpha
Centauri bouncingly tells Jo that they must leave -- it is too
dangerous
to stay. Arcturus agrees, claiming they risk being taken
as
hostages if hostilities break out. The Grand Council would not
allow them
to cancel the mission and Lord Izlyr agrees with her. If
the Doctor
is killed, the situation would erupt into war. Arcturus
finishes
this discussion with the claim that they must do nothing.
Jo yells,
"Oh great, thanks a lot," and pushes between the Ice Lord
and
Warrior to run out. The Ice Lord makes a motion for the Warrior
to follow
her.
In his
room, the Doctor seems to make an attachment to the sonic
screwdriver which now has a mirror on the top and when it spins, it
almost
makes the Doctor dizzy. He has been making something. He
takes the
map and walks out. The Ice Warrior Ssorg asks Jo to speak
with
Izlyr. He takes her to Izlyr, who talks to her. Arcturus is a
coward by
logic and Alpha Centauri is a coward by nature but Izlyr
voted to
stay to help the Doctor. He would not leave the Doctor
stranded.
Federation law allows only unanimous decisions. They are
all
staying thanks to Izlyr's vote to stay. He feels he owes the
Doctor
this since the Doctor saved his life when the statue fell.
The
conversation between Jo and Izlyr is being overhead by Arcturus
who is
using a listening device attached to the wall. The Ice
Warriors
leave with Jo to go get the Doctor.
The Doctor
has left his room and is making his way through secret
tunnels
and passageways. Finding the Doctor missing, Hepesh orders
his Guard
Captain to search all catacombs, telling him the alien is
dangerous.
If he resists, he is to be killed. In the catacombs, the
Doctor
meets up with Aggedor, the horned fanged beast. He uses his
device to
confront the beast, calling it "Old chap." Jo is following
the
Doctor, separated from the others.
Hepesh
tells Grun that the Doctor will be discredited as he is
moving
into even greater danger. Hepesh knows Grun wanted to kill
the Doctor
himself and asks Grun to trust him. The King's honor will
be
maintained.
The Ice
Lord and Warrior find the Doctor gone from his room. Ssorg
thinks the
Doctor may have been eliminated. The Ice Lord is angry --
if that is
so, then Hepesh and this planet will have much to answer
for. He
storms out and the Warrior follows.
The Doctor
is using his device and a lullaby song to calm the beast
into a
docile state. It is a Venusian lullaby. The Doctor has some
more work
to do to get the monster under some more. Jo arrives with
a torch to
ward the beast off and it runs away. The Doctor calls her
an idiot.
He has some kind of empathy -- a kind technical hypnosis,
a
telepathic understanding. As he talks to her, his device puts Jo
under,
"Oh good grief!" He snaps her out of it. She claims she only
wanted to
help him. He tells her he realizes this and calls her very
brave.
In the
throne room, Izlyr demands to know where the Doctor and the
Princess
are. Hepesh calls the Doctor a coward admitting his guilt.
He will be
hunted and killed like an animal. The Doctor shows up
with Jo.
Hepesh orders the guards to stop him but Peladon allows him
in. The
Doctor tells them about Aggedor, a noble beast whose power
is being
used forcibly to stop them from entering the galactic
Federation. The entrance to the tunnels is hidden. Aggedor has been
scratched
behind the ears by the Doctor. Peladon allows Hepesh to
take the
Doctor away -- to the pit.
At the
pit, Alpha Centauri listens to the chimes and bells. The
others
arrive. The Doctor minus his jacket climbs down a rope while
Grun
climbs down another rope. They pick up spears and bow to the
King and
each other. The ropes are taken up and the fight begins
before the
Doctor realizes it is to. The Doctor keeps hitting Grun
away from
him in a defensive move. Grun gets the Doctor down and
spears at
him but the Doctor gets up and de-spears Grun. Above, the
Guard
Captain takes out his sword. Hepesh drops a sword down to
Grun. Grun
cuts the Doctor's spear tip off. He also makes the Doctor
drop it
after a few hits to it which kept cutting it down. The
Doctor
dodges the next few thrusts and gets Grun into a hold and
floors him
to a huge wooden log in the pit. He also gets Grun to
drop his
sword by hitting hit against the log. Grun pushes the
Doctor off
and tackles him, then throws him about. The Doctor gets
in a few
tackles of his own, wrestling with Grun. He also tosses
Grun over
with a throw. Grun throws the giant log at the Doctor, who
jumps onto
the netting. Without weapons, they face each other. The
Doctor
jumps out of Grun's way and they face each other again, the
Doctor
faking a fall on one knee. When Grun moves in, the Doctor
gets him
into a hold and against the netting, choking him. Yet he
stops
choking Grun -- he would not kill the King's champion,
"Allright, live, Grun."
Peladon
waves to Grun that the fight is over.
Suddenly a
mechanical sound is heard. Arcturus's heat weapon comes
out of its
holder on the metallic box. Alpha Centauri screams loudly
as a red
disintegration ray is fired...
Episode
Four
(drn:
24'16")
Ssord's
sonic gun fires on Arcturus and destroys it. Hepesh and a
guard
leave. The others figure out what has been going on: Arcturus
was behind
it all along with Hepesh and his agents. The attack on
Arcturus
was faked. The things on the balcony in Izlyr's room were
planted.
Hepesh trained the monster deep in the catacombs.
Arcturus's
planet lacks mineral deposits and made a private deal
with
Hepesh for all the trade. Hepesh believes entering the
Federation
will enslave the planet which is what Arcturus told him.
Now Hepesh
can accuse the Ice Warriors of murdering Arcturus. The
world of
Arcturus and the Ice Warriors are old enemies. Peladon may
become the
first battlefield of this war, leaving it barren and
sterile.
The Doctor tells Peladon to replace Hepesh. He tells the
King it is
not easy to replace Hepesh. If he does, there could be
civil war.
Alpha Centauri tells the others that if so, the
Federation
does not allow interference and even if it does allow for
it in
emergency situations, Alpha Centauri is not sure it can
justify it
in this case.
Grun
sneaks off and uses a torch open lock to enter a small room
where he
finds a small round rock to keep the door open.
Alpha
Centauri reserves the right to veto. This could set a
precedence. Alpha Centauri doesn't want to act rash or too quickly.
If Hepesh
brings the people of Peladon to his way of thinking it
could
still go his way. Jo and the Doctor talk in the hallway. The
Doctor
sees the rock holding open a door to the catacombs. He sends
Jo to try
to convince Alpha Centauri to vote their way while he goes
into the
catacombs "to see a man about an open door."
Hepesh has
his men armed and ready. He is planning to take over the
throne
chamber but he does not want the king harmed in any way. Grun
attacks
Hepesh when the old man will not listen to him. Grun bests
several
guards and faces the captain who holds a sword on him. From
behind,
Hepesh knocks Grun out.
Izlyr and
the committee of assessment vote to aide Peladon to bring
peace to
this to troubled planet. Alpha Centauri votes to but for
the record
says the vote is under protest. This morning Alpha
Centauri
found its communicator broken. Alpha Centauri and the Ice
Warriors'
spaceships are orbiting this planet. Jo gets nervous when
Izlyr
mentions contacting Earth but gets stunned when Izlyr mentions
her
forthcoming marriage to King Peladon. Ssorg finds the Ice
Warrior
communicator device also smashed beyond use.
The Doctor
finds a hurt Grun, who has been trying to help the Doctor
ever since
the Doctor spared his life. The Doctor sees a fallen
soldier.
Grun relays that Hepesh is trying to take over the citadel.
They hear
the monster and the Doctor has to pull Grun into helping
him with
some plan of his.
Jo tells
the delegates that a forthcoming marriage has not been
arranged.
Ssorg reports about the damaged communicator. Jo tells
them hers
was damaged when she and the Doctor crashed.
Two
soldiers lie in wait above the guards to the citadel. One of
Hepesh's
men--the captain asks them to fall in. When they follow
him, their
backs are turned and the two above on the balcony drop
down
behind him and beat them down. Hepesh tells the guard captain
that no
harm must befall the king.
Alpha
Centauri is whining and nagging on and on toward Ssorg as Jo
and Izlyr
try to figure out what has happened to the Doctor. Jo and
Izlyr try
to get Alpha Centauri to stop babbling. Izlyr mentions he
prefers
Arcturus's cold companionship to Alpha Centauri's babbling.
They both
stop Alpha Centauri's hysterics. Jo claims they are safe
here. They
would not dare to attack Federation delegates.
With a
minimum of murder, the guards of Hepesh reach the throne room
and storm
into the doors. There, a major scuffle of swordsmen takes
place. One
is choked down. Two others fight over a spear and one
falls and
loses. Another guard is run through and another is
punched.
The guards do not seem to be winning on either side until
the guard
captain tells them to surrender or the king will die.
Hepesh
tells the king to return to the ancient ways of his people
and he
will live on as beloved king, if not the royal line of
Peladon
will meet an ignoble end.
In the
caves, the Doctor and Grun meet the monster. The Doctor uses
his device
and Venusian lullaby to lull the monster into a hypnotic
state.
A knock
comes to the delegates' room. Ssorg will destroy Hepesh if
he
attacks. Hepesh enters and tells them they will not be harmed but
if he does
not return to the throne room with all of them, the King
will die.
The Doctor
leads Aggedor by the horn. Grun follows.
Jo follows
Hepesh into the throne room. Izlyr is angered and tells
Hepesh he
will answer for this treachery. Hepesh tells Alpha
Centauri
that the delegates may go in peace and tell their masters
that
Peladon wants nothing of their Federation. The Doctor makes a
stunning
entrance with the beast of Peladon. He speaks for Aggedor,
accusing
Hepesh of treason and of being a traitor to the sacred
trust and
his King. A guard stops the Doctor from interfering as
Hepesh
tries to prove he is in control of this monster and it is not
Aggedor.
Hepesh uses a torch to try to make the Doctor the target of
the
monster. But the monster attacks Hepesh instead and claws him.
The Doctor
uses his device to lure the monster back outside.
Hepesh
dies in Peladon's arms, declaring he might have been wrong.
He just
wanted to help their planet. The future is the King's now.
As Peladon
cries, Jo puts her arm around him and tells him they are
waiting
for him. Peladon covers Hepesh's face. The Doctor returns to
see Jo's
look of sadness about Hepesh's death. The Doctor tells the
guard
captain to lay down his arms and to tell his men the same.
Peladon
declares there will be no punishment and that the memory of
this
unhappy day will be wiped from their history.
The Doctor
takes Jo down a hall, promising a nice surprise for her.
In a room,
he shows her the TARDIS. Some of Peladon's stout lads
heaved it
up the mountainside. He reminds her the TARDIS is
indestructible when she asks if the ship is all right. Jo and he
hope the
TARDIS will get them back to Earth this time. They both
figure the
Time Lords made the TARDIS appear in this crucial point
in the
history of Peladon. "The Time Lords again," Jo says, "You
didn't
beat them after all." The Doctor rubs the right side of his
neck,
"No, not yet but I will Jo, just give me time." He supposed
the Time
Lords will whip them straight back to Earth. Before they
go, they
will see the coronation of Peladon. The Doctor hasn't seen
a
coronation since Elizabeth the First or he is not sure if it was
Queen
Victoria. Aggedor arrives and the Doctor tells Jo not to
worry.
Aggedor has been following the Doctor about, rather fond of
the
Doctor. It tries to jump on the Doctor in fond ways. He will go
and lock
him up.
Peladon
arrives in full cape as the Doctor leaves. Peladon asks Jo
to stay
but she tells him she cannot. He wouldn't believe her
reasons
even if she could tell him. He needs her. But she tells him
she is not
even a real princess. He tells her it doesn't matter. Jo
is very,
very fond of him but she cannot stay. He must go now and
will talk
to her after the coronation. He shan't give up and will go
on asking
her. The Doctor arrives after Jo kisses Peladon on the
lips. He
tells Peladon his court officials are in a state of panic.
Jo says
goodbye to him and Peladon leaves. The Doctor tells her they
will just
see the ceremony and then just slip quietly away. She
cries. He
asks her if she does want to come back to Earth. She
supposes
she had better. He agrees, "In any case, I wouldn't like to
lose
you." The Doctor takes her arm and asks her if they should join
the
procession as they hear the sound of cheers. The two arrive to
see the
official Earth delegate, an older woman in black who
explains
to Izlyr, Alpha Centauri, and Ssorg that she is the
delegate,
not this other person they tell her is the Doctor. She
asks them,
"Doctor? What Doctor? Doctor who?"
The Doctor
and Jo duck out of the way and discuss going to see Queen
Victoria's
coronation even though the Doctor has already seen that
one. Jo
claims they can go again -- she hasn't seen it. They enter
the TARDIS
and close the doors as Izlyr takes the Earth woman, Alpha
Centauri
and Ssorg to the delegate conference room where the TARDIS
is. Izlyr
points to the vanishing TARDIS, "What... is... that?" The
TARDIS
vanishes before the stunned eyes of the older woman.
Source:
Charles Mento
Continuity Notes:
The Doctor returns to Peladon in The Monster of Peladon, and
in
his seventh incarnation in the New Adventure Legacy.
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The Sea Devils
The Sea Devils
Serial LLL
Producer
Barry
Letts
Script
Editor
Terrance
Dicks
Designer
Tony
Snoaden Written by Malcolm Hulke
Directed by Michael Briant
Incidental Music by: Malcolm Clarke
Action by: Havoc [6]
Jon
Pertwee (Doctor Who), Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Roger
Delgado (Master), Edwin Richfield (Captain Hart), Clive Morton
(Trenchard) [1-4], Royston Tickner (Robbins) [1], Neil Seiler
(Radio Operator) [1], Declan Mulholland (Clark) [1-2], Hugh
Futcher (Hickman) [1], June Murphy (3rd Officer Jane Blythe),
Alec
Wallis (Ldg. Telegraphist Bowman) [1,4-6], Brian Justice
(Castle Guard Wilson) [1], Terry Walsh (Castle Guard Barclay)
[1,3]*, Pat Gorman (Sea Devil) [1-2,4-6],
Eric Mason (C.P.O.
Smedley) [2], Donald
Sumpter (Commander Ridgeway) [3-5], David
Griffin (Lt. Commander Mitchell) [3-5], Christopher Wray (Ldg.
Seaman Lovell) [3,5], Stanley McGeagh (Castle Guard Drew)
[3-4], Colin Bell (C.P.O. Summers) [4-5], Brian Vaughan (Lt.
Commander Watts) [4], Rex Rowland (A/B Girton) [5], Martin
Boddey (Walker) [5-6], Norman Atkyns (Rear Admiral) [5], Peter
Forbes-Robertson (Chief Sea Devil) [5-6], John Caesar (C.P.O.
Myers) [6].
NOTE: Additional credits -- "The BBC wish to acknowledge the
help
given to them by the Royal Navy in the making of this
programme."
*
Also in Episodes 2 and 4, uncredited.
The
Doctor and Jo Grant visit their old enemy the Master, who
is
the sole inmate of a top-security prison on a remote island
off
the south coast of England. Local shipping has been
plagued by a series of tragic accidents and several ships have
been
lost. Joining forces with Captain Hart of the HMS
Seaspite naval base, the Doctor learns that there have been
garbled reports of sea monsters. Colonel Trenchard, Governor
of
the Master's prison, believes that the ships are being
attacked by enemy spies. The Master himself seems to be a
reformed man and claims to have turned away from his life of
crime.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The Master has in
fact
made contact with the Sea Devils, aquatic cousins of the
prehistoric Silurian race encountered by the Doctor some time
ago.
Having slept beneath the sea for millions of years, the
Sea
Devils have awoken and intend to reclaim what they
consider to be their planet.
Aided and abetted by the evil Master, who will stop at nothing
to
take revenge on those who imprisoned him, the Sea Devils
plan
to eliminate the human race, a species they regard as
nothing more than upstart apes...
Original
Broadcast (UK)
Episode One 26th February, 1972 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Two 4th March, 1972 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Three 11th March, 1972 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Four 18th March, 1972 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Five 25th March, 1972 5h45pm - 6h10pm
Episode Six 1st April, 1972 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Notes:
Released on video in episodic format. [+/-]
THE SEA DEVILS
U.K. Release: September 1995 / U.S. Release: May
1997
PAL - BBC video BBCV5667 (2
tapes)
NTSC - CBS/FOX Video 8495 (2
tapes)
NTSC - Warner Video E1378
Novelised as Doctor Who and the Sea Devils by Malcolm Hulke.
[+/-]
Number 54 in the Doctor Who Library.
Paperback Edition - W. H. Allen.
First Edition: October 1974. Reprinted in 1975,
1976.
ISBN: 0 426 11308 X (also 0 426 10516 8).
Cover by Chris Achilleos.
Illustration by Alan Willow.
Price: 30p.
Paperback Edition - W. H. Allen.
First Edition: April 1979. Reprinted in 1980, 1982,
1984, 1987.
ISBN: 0 426 11308 X.
Cover by John Geary.
Illustration by Alan Willow.
Price: 60p.
Hardcover Edition - W. H. Allen.
First Edition: June 1981.
ISBN: ?.
Cover by John Geary.
Illustration by Alan Willow.
Price: ?.
FOREIGN EDITION: Portugal, 1983. Doutor Who e os
Demonios
Marinhos. Publisher: Editorial
Presen a. Cover
by Rui Ligeiro. Translated by
L cio Nogueira
and Concei Jardim.
Doctor Who Magazine Archive: Issue #192.
Episode
One
(drn:
24'40")
In the
British Channel, a ship is being attacked. A Mayday says the
ship is
being abandoned. A grotesque hand cuts the radio operator
off and he
screams at something coming toward him.
The Doctor
and Jo head via small engine boat to the Master's prison
-- a large
old prison on an island set off the mainland. The main
gate
announces them to the warden Colonel George Trenchard, who
tells them
ships vanish without a trace all the time. The warden
checks
their passes. Trenchard seems to be taking his time, causing
the Doctor
to quip, "I suppose we can always come back later," and
"if
we get the opportunity" to see the Master. The Master has not
tried to
escape which makes Jo and the Doctor suspicious. Trenchard
wants to
prove his men are immune to hypnotism. He sends a new man,
Wilson, in
to see the Master. Trenchard puts on a screen that shows
them the
Master's cell. "My word, he's putting on weight." Wilson
thought
the Master wanted his book changed. Jo, The Doctor, and
Trenchard
watch as the Master tries to hypnotise Wilson, "I am the
Master and
you will obey me." He fails and Wilson leaves the cell.
Trenchard
takes the pair to see the Master, who seems to be
exercising
on a rowing machine. The Master seems pleased to see the
pair.
Trenchard leaves; the Master tells them the "decent sort"
Colonel
used to be the colony of a small place -- the Doctor jokes
that he
thought it was of a very small colony that claimed
independence soon after he arrived in England. The Master makes note
that he
has everything except his freedom. The Doctor tells him that
many
people were in favour of executing him. The Master claims that
he has had
a chance to think about things, he doesn't like being
locked up,
but he claims to be a changed man. He has a great deal of
which to
repent. The Doctor asks where he is TARDIS is so that he
can make
sure the Master cannot escape from this planet. The Master
won't tell
him -- that is too much. The Doctor asks if there is
anything
he can do for him. The Master wants the Doctor to come in
and chat
with him. As they leave, he says goodbye to Miss Grant and
moves to
shake hands with the Doctor but the Doctor raises his hand
to wave.
The Master chuckles. He told the Doctor he sincerely hopes
they will
meet again. After they leave, the Master laughs out loud
as he
starts rowing.
Jo asks
the Doctor if he felt sorry for him. The Doctor claims "he
used to be
a friend of mine once... a very good friend... in fact
you might
almost say we were were at school together..." Trenchard
stamps
their passes again. The Doctor tells him that the Master is a
very
dangerous man. Trenchard gets one of his chaps to run the pair
down to
the keyside. They look back on the prison.
Trenchard
is in league with the Master, who tells him not to
underestimate the Doctor, whom the Master thinks is here to find the
missing
ships. The Master gets almost upset when he finds out
Trenchard
mentioned the ships vanishing to the Doctor. The Master
asks him
if he can get another TV, colour, one for the bedroom.
As they
walk on the dock, the boatsman--named Thomas Robbins --
tells the
Doctor he was part of a rescue ship that looked for
survivors
from the three missing ships, "Something queer's going
on."
A secret Naval research establishment is trying to hush it up.
They found
one lifeboat, the bottom all charred, and it was
overturned. The Navy took the lifeboat and told the team to keep
their
mouths shut. The man will not take the Doctor to the Naval
Base. The
Doctor asks the man to look after his young friend... she
was
looking for some picture post cards to buy. He hands the man
some
money, telling the man to look for her since he cannot -- a bad
leg from
the Crimea, Gallopoli, and some other place -- lies of
course --
he wants the man to move off so he can take the engine
boat out
himself. The man knows he is going to do this, of course.
HMS
Seaspite Base: Captain Hart dictates to his secretary, 3rd
officer
Jane Blythe, a letter about transferring the life boat
remains to
HMS Vern in Portsmouth. Outside, Hart and the woman see
the Doctor
arriving on the beach. Hart calls the Master at Arms to
report
this stray civilian. The Doctor goes to the lifeboat as
reported
by the secretary. Soldiers come running but he says, "Good
afternoon."
Jo pays
the boatsman for his helmet and motorcycle in order to go
look for
the Doctor.
In his
cell on a screen, the Master watches and whistles to the
Clangers,
clay mation TV show. "It seems to be an interesting
extraterrestrial life form." Trenchard explains it is just a TV
show
for
children. Puppets are on it. Trenchard has returned to bring him
some maps
to plan their next move. The Master tells Trenchard that
Trenchard
is wasted at this job. They find an abandoned sea fort in
the centre
of a triangle of the three sinkings. The fort is no
longer
abandoned as Trenchard tells the Master: it is being used as
a solar
testing station.
At this
station, two men play cards; a heavy set man and a skinny
man. Alan
Clark, the heavy set man, wins a couple of quid. The
skinny man
feels funny about this place -- it's deserted and the two
men are on
maintenance, the only ones here. The skinny man feels
they are
being watched. A strange creature's hand rises up to the
outer
platform.
Hart
questions the Doctor, who dropped in on impulse. The scorch
marks are
linear in nature. The Doctor tells Hart he never carries
his UNIT
pass, to ask Miss Grant for them. The Doctor figures that a
concentrated beam of heat sunk the boat to make sure there are no
survivors.
A call comes to the secretary: Jo has arrived with two
UNIT
passes.
On the
Fort, the skinny man hears a noise and takes out a flare gun
for a
distress signal if he needs it. He goes up to check out the
sound. The
heavy set man hears Hickman scream and a strange sound.
He finds
the man dead, his eyes still open. The man sees a strange
headed
monster being in some sort of string vest.
Hart wants
Jo and the Doctor to go. He has no official power to
allow them
to visit the Fort. The Doctor tells Hart that Horatio
Nelson
wouldn't have waited for official clearance and adds that he
knew
Nelson as a personal friend, not from history books. Jo and the
Doctor
leave. Hart says, "Good grief, the chap's as mad as a
hatter."
Jo and the
Doctor arrive at the fort and climb the ladder up to it.
Once
inside, the descend steps.
Outside, a
green hand comes over the side of their launch boat.
The Doctor
and Jo find the room where the two men were playing
cards. As
they search some more, their launch is on fire. Jo wants
to get out
of here. They hear the petrol tank blow up their launch,
stranding
them. The Doctor takes her to find a radio. A strange Sea
Devil
monster, with turtle face, fins on its ears and a strange
smock on
watches them from a ladder. Jo and the Doctor find the dead
Hickman.
They hear heavy breathing from afar and Jo spots a dark
figure
lumbering towards them from the darkness... and realizes,
"It's
coming towards us!"
Episode
Two
(drn:
24'30")
Alan, the
heavy set man, is the figure and the Doctor uses his
Venusian
karate to stop his attack. The man rants about sea
monsters.
Sea Devils he calls them. One of the monsters is watching
them get
him to a bed. Alan points out the radio... the things
ripped it
out and took it away. When the Doctor asks about a
transistor, Jo asks him "What do you want to do, listen to NIGHT
RIDE?" The Doctor can turn the receiver to an output radio and
explains
how to do it -- modulating the signal, connect the output
of the
loudspeaker into the input of your low frequency amplifier,
then
connect the low frequency putput into your oscillator and use
the
loudspeaker as a microphone. The transistor radios are in the
crew's
quarters. The Doctor gives the man a shot to calm him down
and then
leaves to get the transistor radios. The Doctor comes face
to face
with a Sea Devil and tries to communicate with it but it
shoots a
strange sucker like gun at him, causing a flare up in the
wall
behind the Doctor. The Doctor leads it on a chase but runs back
to the
room that Jo and Alan are in. He barricades the door --
reptiles
like "those creatures in the caves" and completely hostile.
The Doctor
works quick as the thing starts to heat ray through the
metal
door. It reaches in but the Doctor uses his make shift hook up
to
electrocute its arm. The Sea Devil runs away in pain. The Doctor
and Jo
follow it but it seems to have jumped out a high windo.
Hart
returns to his office in the morning. Jo and the Doctor have
vanished,
Jane tells Hart. She also cannot raise the Fort. Hart
calls Air
Sea Rescue.
The Doctor
has made his radio device. Jo comments she's seen things
like that
in a Modern Art Exhibit. The Doctor picks up Jo's
favourite
DJ -- who tells his audience that he is playing to all,
whoever
they might be, isolated wherever they are. The Doctor thinks
he got his
wires crossed somewhere. Jo asks, as she puts the blanket
up on the
sleeping Alan's body some more, about the mention he made
of having
seen these creatures before. He explains about the
Silurians
-- who appeared in Derbyshire. The Doctor tells Jo that
the man
who discovered the Silurians misnamed them... they should
have been
called Eocenes. Jo wonders what the humans have done to
them
"as far as they are concerned, man is just an ape who got above
himself." The Doctor sends out his Mayday. As Jo doubts he will get
an answer,
someone calls and is about to land. A helicopter lands.
The Doctor
tells himself his radio set up was a remarkable piece of
work --
just seconds before the box sparks and smokes up in his
hands. He
drops it.
Trenchard
sent a man to the mainland to get some gear for the Master
-- a
sailor captain's hat for one thing. The two are planning to
leave the
prison.
The Naval
Base: Hart wants proof about the ridiculous story about
Sea
Devils. Jane calls Sickbay to check on Alan but he is still
delirious
and babbling something about Sea Devils.
A man
drives Trenchard in an open car-van to a brick building -- the
Naval base
-- where Trenchard tells the driver to go to the Petty
Officer's
Mess. When the driver leaves, Trenchard knocks on the side
of the car
and the Master comes out from under a blanket in uniform.
He salutes
as men pass in marching.
The Doctor
wants to contact the Sea Devils to find a peaceful
solution.
Trenchard comes up to Hart's office. He holds Jo's hand
and says
hello, asking Hart about golf and the weekend. The Doctor
wants the
Colonel to leave so he can get on with the Sea Devil
business.
Trenchard says something that makes Jo and the Doctor
realize he
is in league with the Master.
The Master
is in a storeroom where he finds some equipment. A chief,
CPO
Smedley, enters and asks about him. Special Audit Officer from
Civil
Defense is what the Master claims to be -- the items in his
bag are
defective. The Master tries to hypnotize him into thinking
he has
seen his pass already but when the man fights the hypnosis,
the Master
hits from behind with a chop. The man falls.
Hart
finally gets George Trenchard out of his office. When Trenchard
pushes
off, Jo will not shake his hand nor let him hold it. When he
leaves,
the Doctor tells Hart ships must be kept away from the
shipping
lanes, despite the complaints that may come. Jo looks out
the window
and sees the Master. She tells the Doctor but the Master
moves on.
The Doctor believes her and tells Hart to issue a full
security
alert. Jane tells them someone has been found unconscious
in the
electronics solar storeroom. Smedley explains about the
Master
attacking him. "Who is the Master?" Hart asks. The Doctor
fingers
Trenchard as the Master's helper. Jo returns to the prison
with the
Doctor where Trenchard is in his office "in conference" he
says as
the knock on the door from the Doctor comes. The Doctor
barges in
and tells him the Master has escaped. Trenchard shows them
the TV
scanner where the Master sits in his cell. Trenchard will go
and check
the guards himself. Jo checks the hallway so the Doctor
can call
an outside line but he finds he cannot -- the phone's
outside
lines are both dead. He tells Jo to take the jeep to call
UNIT from
a Naval base phone and tell them that Col. Trenchard and
his entire
staff are to be replaced. Jo worries about the Doctor but
leaves at
the Doctor's urging.
Trenchard
tells the Master that the Doctor knows. The Master tells
Trenchard
to get the Doctor down to his cell -- to see him alone. He
lies,
telling Trenchard that he can convince the Doctor to see
things his
way and to keep quiet. The Master, after Trenchard
leaves,
does something to the TV camera that is watching him in the
cell. He
rings a bell for the guard and tells him the air
conditioning vent is blocked -- something seems wrong with the air
flow. The
Master hits the guard and takes his knife.
When
Trenchard returns to his office, the Doctor hits a hole in one
into a
bottle using the golf ball and club--and blindfolded.
Trenchard
tells the Doctor to go see the Master himself and when the
Doctor
leaves, Trenchard calls his men to stop Miss Grant, "She is
not to
leave."
The Doctor
goes to the Master, "Been out for a little jaunt, have
you?"
The Doctor asks what is going on. The Master pulls a gun, "I
shall see
that I shall have to tell you everything." The Doctor
closes the
door and goes out. When the Master follows, the Doctor
kicks the
gun from the Master's hand. He takes a rapier but the
Doctor
gets one too and they pair fight. The Doctor pushes the
Master
backward but as the Master recovers and slashes at a curtain
he thinks
the Doctor is behind, the Doctor tells him that is
government
property -- he rounded the other way. The fight goes back
into the
room with the Doctor pushed onto a table. It ends with the
Doctor
holding the sabre against the Master's chest, "I always find
that
violent exercise always makes me hungry." The Master tells him
that meal
should be enjoyed -- it might be his last. The Doctor eats
a sandwich
and then gives the Master back his sword. The Master gets
down on
the Doctor again but the Doctor kicks him off him and tut
tuts,
"How many times have I told you. Violence will never get you
anywhere." The Doctor turns his back to put the swords away, out in
the hall
but before he can get into the hallway, the Master takes
out and
throws the guard's dagger knife right at the Doctor's
back...
Episode
Three
(drn:
24'05")
Trenchard
and a guard return to the Master's cell and Trenchard's
voice
causes the Doctor to turn his head around -- and the knife
just
misses it, implanting itself into the wall close to his head
instead.
The Master concocts some story that the Doctor was here to
kill
him... the Doctor thinks only a fool would believe something
like
that... "Though I suppose in your case..." The Doctor is put
under
arrest. After the Doctor leaves, Trenchard voices that it is
all
getting out of hand.
When they
won't allow her to use the jeep and tell her that
Trenchard
wants her returned, Jo uses self defense against the two
guards and
gets away.
The Doctor
questions the guard who is with him in Trenchard's
office.
The guard seems not to hear. Trenchard returns and tells the
Doctor
that he is a prisoner and that he believes his UNIT pass is a
fake. The
guard takes the Doctor away. Jo hides as dozens of guards
search for
her.
Trenchard
returns to the Master as the Master is working on some
device.
Trenchard tells him that Jo Grant is on the grounds but the
guards
should pick her up at any moment. The Master wants the Doctor
sent to
him.
Naval
base: Hart talks to Robin Ridgeway, a Naval lieutenant
commander
of a sub. 70 ships have vanished before but not so many so
soon.
Ridgeway will search for the cause.
The Doctor
is brought to the Master and they talk, the guard taking
off the
Doctor's handcuffs. "How very kind of you," the Doctor says
but the
guard ties the Doctor's hands and arms behind his back in
the chair,
"How very unkind of you." The Doctor and the Master are
left alone
to verbally spar. The Doctor stalls that UNIT knows it
all. The
Master knows about the Sea Devils from stolen Time Lord
files and
wants to contact them to make them the rulers of Earth
once
again.
Ridgeway's
sub starts out, contacting Hart and a radio operator.
Jane is
worried about Miss Grant and the Doctor, lets Hart know
about
this, and suspects Trenchard is up to something.
Ridgeway
brings the sub up to a level where he can look out the
scope.
The Master
will take pleasure in seeing the human race, which the
Doctor is
so fond of, being destroyed. Trenchard demands to see the
Master.
Jo hides
at a gunnery testing block outside as a jeep of men pass.
John
Hart's guard is coming to the main gate with Hart.
Jo sneaks
around the outside of the castle-prison and finds a window
where the
Doctor is hidden. She gives him some message using her
hands,
facial expressions and fingers, then she sneaks to another
window and
goes into it, finding herself in a hallway alcove. She
hides from
a soldier snooping around. The Doctor checks the time and
yells at
the guard, wanting to talk to him. The Doctor asks about
the Geneva
Convention -- how long is he to be kept here like this.
Jo sneaks
in and hides behind the door, readying her pocket book as
a weapon.
The guard leaves though so Jo uses a compass to undo the
Doctor's
bonds.
Trenchard
explains himself to Hart, who wants to see the Master.
Trenchard
shows the Master to Hart via the view screen. Trenchard
calls the
Doctor a cranky fellow. John Hart leaves.
The sub is
under the surface and receives a contact. Sonar goes
crazy but
the lights go out and the power seems to go dead. The sub
seems dead
in the water.
The Master
thinks Trenchard handled Hart well. The Master has made a
replica of
a communications device used by enemy agents. The Master
claims he
will use it to lure the most dangerous saboteurs out of
hiding and
into a trap. Trenchard will expose the criminals -- all a
story told
by the Master. Trenchard tells the Master he doesn't want
any
reward--he was just doing his duty. The girl has not been caught
yet. A
guard is to take the Master back.
Jo undoes
the Doctor, who gets the guard back in to the cell. There,
Jo bends
down behind him so the Doctor can head butt him over her.
The man
tries to get up but Jo chops him in the chest and he stays
down. The
Doctor keeps saying, "After you..." to Jo who said, "After
you..." "No, no, after you," the Doctor said.
Back at
the Naval Base, Hart tells Jane to get on to UNIT and see if
there is
any news of the Doctor and Miss Grant.
Hart's man
Ldg Seaman Lovell tracks the submarine. The sub is drawn
to the
bottom of the channel. Lt Commander Tony Mitchell, the
second,
reports there is nothing wrong with the ship but nothing is
working!
They hear banging on the outside of the sub -- it cannot be
divers.
Forward section is being attacked and something is coming in
through
the escape compartments. The commander hears men on the mike
screaming.
Trenchard
wants every available man to find the Doctor and Jo -- two
dangerous
enemy agents. Sector 27 is where the pair are headed now:
toward the
beach and a mine field. A man calls in after spotting
them. The
Master says they are trying to rejoin their associates at
sea. The
Master turns on his device which whines loudly.
Jo and the
Doctor reach a hill and the Doctor finds some rope at a
naval test
ground area and mountain climbs down the side, prompting
Jo to
follow him. The Master and Trenchard arrive and see them. Five
guards
arrive via jeep with rifles and guns. The Master's device
draws a
Sea Devil out of the water... Jo and the Doctor are near the
minefield,
with guards pointing guns, and a Sea Devil coming up out
of the
water onto the beach... Jo calls the Doctor's attention to
the Sea
Devil rising up... "Doctor look!" The creature stares right
at the
Doctor...
Episode
Four
(drn:
24'21")
The Master
tells Trenchard about the Sea Devils. The Doctor and Jo
flee
through the minefield. The Sea Devil shoots two of the men at
the jeep
down. Jo and the Doctor pass barb wire, the Doctor laying
down and
Jo walking over him; the Doctor flips himself over it. He
uses his
sonic screwdriver as mine detector. The Master wants the
beast to
attack Jo and the Doctor. The Doctor uses the sonic
screwdriver to set off the mines to draw the Sea Devil away from the
minefield,
it screaming. After it goes back to the water, the Doctor
and Jo
make their way across the mines.
Hart knows
something is wrong with the sub and sets up a full scale
search.
Ridgeway tells Summers, a diver who is going to try to make
his way to
the surface, to alert Hart. Another crewman Johnson goes
to another
door with an auto weapon. The things are burning their
way
through the hatch doors. They melt their way in. A Sea Devil
comes in
and looks around.
The Master
tells Trenchard to be calm and finally tells him the
whole
truth. Yet he delays Trenchard's telling of the Sea Devil plan
to the
authorities. Jo is hidden near a large bush tree by the
Doctor
until the men in jeeps from the prison pass by. The Master
tells
Trenchard not to allow Hart to check on the prison, "I assure
you all
your troubles will soon be over."
The Sea
Devil on the Submarine seems to be cooperating with the men
on the
sub, directing them to their base. Hart doesn't believe a
word of
the Doctor and Jo, who have walked ten miles across open
countryside. Jo says, "The Doctor's seen these creatures
before."
"Oh,
I'm sure he has, Miss Grant," Hart says. The Doctor takes the
explanations and also Jo's food which Jane brings to her, "For
Heaven's
sakes Jo, what do you think this is, a picnic!" He eats the
food and
offers some to Hart and Jane. Jo asks for some and he says,
"So
sorry," but hands back the plate to Jo, who finds nothing. Jane
will get
some more. No sign of the sub -- it's missing too. Hart
asks what
the Doctor wants him to do. The sonar man gets something
-- the sub
-- heading for the beach by the castle.
The Master
gets some communications. Trenchard wants to give the
authorities some notice about these creatures. The Master doesn't
want to be
interrupted. Sea Devils rise out of the water and head up
the beach
toward the castle. Dozens arise. Trenchard calls the
Minister
but cannot reach anyone important yet. Sea Devils enter and
kill
guards including Drew and Barclay. Trenchard watches the Master
work on
the device and calls for a guard but the guard is being
killed by
a Sea Devil who comes up the steps. Trenchard opens a desk
drawer and
takes out a pistol. Two guards see two Sea Devils and one
rings out
an alarm. The solar guns used by the Sea Devils kill two
more men;
most of the lads are dead already. Trenchard tells a guard
to use a
phone in his office -- a direct line to White Hall.
Trenchard
shoots his gun at a Sea Devil and gets one. Sea Devils
come in to
the Master's cell... a dead Trenchard lying in the
hallway.
Hart's
contact of the sub fades. Hart sends a team of armed men in
two land
rovers to the main gate of the castle. Jo and the Doctor
join them.
They find dead men and then Trenchard. "The Master had no
further
use for him," the Doctor said. The Master used Trenchard's
patriotism
against Trenchard himself as a weapon.
Later,
Jane brings a drink to the sonarman Bowman at the Navel Base.
Hart, the
Doctor and Jo return. One of the search vessels did get an
echo of
the sub. The Doctor and Jo ride out in a small boat to a
larger
ship so that the Doctor can inspect the sea floor of the
beach near
the fort. In the control room, Jo takes the Doctor's cape
as he gets
into diving suit gear. The Doctor tells a questioning
Hart that
one of his other talents is as a trained diver. Jo worries
and
wonders why it is necessary for the Doctor to go down. After
saying his
goodbyes, the Doctor enters the bell and is lowered into
the water.
The Doctor reaches the sea bed. A Sea Devil looks in the
small
porthole at the Doctor. They lose radio contact with the
Doctor.
Against the Doctor's orders, they bring the bell back up. As
Hart and
Jo watch, it is brought back onto the deck of the larger
ship and
the hatch is opened. Hart looks in under the bell and
cannot
tell Jo what he has found... nothing. For when she looks
under the
bell and into it... her face is shocked...
Episode
Five
(drn:
24'53")
Jo returns
to Hart, "He's gone." The Doctor is taken down to the Sea
Devils'
underwater base in a strange cylinder with wires running
from it.
Parliamentary Private Secretary Robert Walker comes in to
Jane
Blythe and asks for breakfast!. He also meets Radio Chief
Bowman. He
hands Jane his jacket, hat, and umbrella. Walker has come
down to
clear up the ship vanishings -- the Minister has put him in
full
charge.
The Doctor
verbally spars with the Sea Devil leader, telling them
his people
abandoned Earth to its fate and that he has met his kind
before.
The Doctor tells them they will be bound to lose. There are
other
colonies all around the world in hibernation. "Why can't you
share the
planet!" The Doctor thinks there would be a chance man
would
agree to the Sea Devils living in the deepest depths of the
ocean. The
leader will consider it -- perhaps it will be possible.
"NO!
The Doctor is your deadly enemy -- he must be destroyed!" The
Master has
arrived.
The idiot
Walker thinks they should attack. Hart protests that some
of the men
that are captured may still be alive and Jo feels the
Doctor is
also. Walker has looked up the UNIT file on the cave
creatures
that the Doctor encountered before -- the Brigadier blew
them up.
Walker agrees that war is murder--then wonders where that
girl is
with his toast. Walker has already given the orders for
ships to
converge from all over. Navy ships -- a task force -- will
be in
position soon.
The Doctor
begs the Sea Devils not to listen to this
"personification of evil" who wants only to provoke a war. The
hibernation unit is faulty and they need the Master to repair it.
The Master
explains about the last time the Doctor encountered their
race --
the humans destroyed the creatures. "I tried to make peace
but I
failed," the Doctor admits. The Master says man is weak, The
Doctor
says man is strong. The leader touches the Doctor's head and
does not
think he lies. He thinks it would be better to make peace
and the
leader will consider what he has to say. The Doctor puts his
hand up
and the Sea Devil puts his hand up to the Doctor's.
But the
Task Force has arrived and send down depth charges. They
inform
Hart and Walker. Walker says, "Cry let slip the dogs of war!"
Jo tries
to get Hart to stop Walker but Walker threatens to replace
Hart. Hart
says, "I'm sorry, Jo." He gives the order.
The Doctor
is about to make a truce with the Sea Devils -- as a
gesture of
good faith, the Sea Devils will release the captured sub
and men.
The Master argues that they are throwing away control of
this
planet. To assure he is right, the blasts from the humans'
ships
shake the undersea base. The Sea Devil feels the Master is
right and
orders the Doctor taken away and killed The blasts allow
the Doctor
to get free and rubble buries the two Sea Devils that
were
holding him. The Doctor takes the rubble off of one and finds
the heat
ray gun at the belt. The Master tells the leader to send
the Sea
Devil people to the lower levels and convince the humans
that the
attack has been a success. Sea Devil bodies come up from
below and
the Task Force finds them... the lizard things. Hart wants
the attack
called off. Walker isn't sure he should but Jo and Hart
plead with
him to abandon attack.
The Sea
Devil control room opens a screen to view the ships of the
humans
getting out of range. The Master convinces the leader to let
the ships
go -- let the humans think they have won. The Master
touches
hands with the Sea Devil. The Master wants to attack the
humans'
base to get electronic equipment to build a new trigger
mechanism
for the hibernation reactivation units -- the old one is
faulty.
Number One
man of the Sub is trying to open their cell door.
Ridgeway
admires his pluck and gives it a go, not expecting it to
work. The
Doctor's face appears at the porthole, asking if they
would mind
standing back. They do and he fires the ray on the door,
freeing
them. The sub is in working order except for the radio and
the escape
gear. It is in an undersea harbour. The Doctor gives the
Commander
the ray gun.
On the
sub, two crewmen play cards and lose to an officer named
Summers. A
Sea Devil watches over them. The officer says a noise is
loose
rigging but it sounds like SOS. He writes a note on the paper
to play
Consequences. The older crewman fakes he is sick. This
distracts
the Sea Devil who wins the fight but the Doctor and
Ridgeway
return, coming down the ladder into the control room. The
Doctor
doesn't want it killed but Ridgeway does kill it with the ray
gun,
"No! don't kill it! There was no need to have done that." The
Sea Devils
find out the humans have escaped. They activate a
forcefield
around the sub and this stops the sub. The Doctor thinks
they could
try firing the torpedoes at the cave wall but that will
risk
blowing themselves up. The forcefield increases and the sub
loses some
power. The Doctor tells Ridgeway he has to risk it. He
orders the
torpedoes fired and this shakes the sub about but causes
no damage.
The sub is free and is about to surface. Ridgeway says,
"We're going home."
The Master
tells the Sea Devils that before the humans can attack
the Sea
Devil base, the Sea Devils will attack the humans.
Jo thought
the Doctor was dead. "Dead, no, I don't think so." The
Doctor
smiles down at her. Jo is happy to see the Doctor, who asks
Hart what
idiot ordered an attack on the base just as he was about
to
negotiate a peace treaty with the Sea Devils. The Doctor
confronts
Walker about thinking about what he did -- his insular
view of
destroy all who threaten the Queen's Army -- this has just
made the
Sea Devils very angry. They rise in force on the beach and
kill a
soldier guard there, crushing his face. They invade the base
in
numbers. Walker is talking of contacting the Minister to ask him
for
seeking approval for an attack with nuclear weapons. The Doctor
wants to
share the planet and make one final attempt for peace.
Walker
tells the Doctor he didn't get very far last time. Jo doesn't
want the
Doctor to go. Hart agrees with Miss Grant. The Doctor,
Hart, and
Jo walk out. Hart asks what will happen if the Sea Devils
will not
listen to him. Jo turns, "Doctor!!!" A Sea Devil raises a
heat ray
gun at the Doctor...
Episode
Six
(drn:
25'24")
The Doctor
disarms the Sea Devil but more arrive and has to use his
Venusian
karate on them. But one gets behind him and forces him down
from his
shoulders. The Master stops the Sea Devils from killing the
Doctor, Jo
and Hart and allows them to take the Doctor inside with
Jo and
Hart helping the Doctor up. The Master nods, "Dear oh dear,
Doctor,
will you never learn." Hart and his men are soon put into a
warehouse.
The Master tells a recovered Doctor that this is the
first step
to returning the world to its rightful owners. There are
bases
underground and underwater -- with the Doctor's help he will
revive
them all. He tells the Doctor to cooperate if he values the
lives of
every man on the base.
Jo, Walker
and Hart are in an office with the radio. Walker is
afraid --
asking if they should leave things to the Doctor -- he
made them
a promise, Walker afraid of reprisals against the
innocent.
The Master
wants to build a signal trigger mechanism sonar device
similar to
a laser to revive every other base in the world of the
reptiles.
The Doctor thinks it is possible. "Good grief, what on
Earth do
you think you're doing?" There are circuits misplaced. The
Doctor
sees more power is needed through to the main dipode.
Walker
wonders if a mere child (Jo) should risk her life. Jo gets
through
the shaft which goes onto the roof of the building. Neither
Hart nor
Walker could fit. Jo crawls to the vent and gets out onto
the roof.
A Sea Devil almost sees her as she climbs down a ladder
and runs
around the building to look into a window where the Doctor
is
working. He needs a polarizing condenser. The Master leaves and
Jo opens
the window, "C'mon Doctor, hurry." The Doctor has other
plans. He
will create a distraction and he wants to free Hart and
the other
officers. Jo rounds a corner but runs as two Sea Devils
come
marching. They don't see her. A Sea Devil guard comes in to the
Master and
the Doctor when the Doctor tests his device and the sound
makes the
Sea Devil hold its head. Jo gets the door open for Hart
and
Walker. She and Hart run out as the Sea Devils are in pain. Hart
gets a
rifle from one of the dead men and fires at some chasing Sea
Devils. He
and Jo get to a hovercraft and escape. The Master
switches
the power off and asks what happened. The Doctor feigns
that he
had the frequency too hard. He had the output in the input
socket. He
fixes it. The Master doesn't want the Doctor killed now
-- he
might prove useful. The Doctor is to come with the Master.
Outside,
the party see a returning hovercraft with Hart and troops.
The men
storm the base and start firing at Sea Devils. A Sea Devil
shoots a
man down. Jo is out of the hovercraft last. From a roof, a
Sea Devil
shoots a man but another man shoots that Sea Devil. A
soldier
comes in and shoots a Sea Devil in front of the Master, who
was put
behind the Sea Devil. This officer is left with the Master,
who
hypnotises him into sleepiness, then hits him down. Hart gets
behind a
cannon device turret and starts firing at Sea Devils. The
Doctor
asks where Jo Grant is: the beach. The Doctor spots the
Master
running with the device to a sea scooter which the Master
steals and
gets away in. The Doctor follows him in another.
Surviving
Sea Devils race into the water to get away. The Doctor
follows
the Master through choppy seas to a beach where a Sea Devil
diving
device is and many Sea Devils arrive. "I'm sorry, Doctor,"
The Master
points to the creatures and laughs
Walker
will request a massive nuclear strike despite Jane explaining
that Lt.
Scott has reported the Doctor is out to sea. They figure,
despite
Walker at first thinking the Doctor has gone over to the
other side
that the Doctor was after the Master.
The Sea
Devil leader hears the debate between the Doctor and the
Master
again. The leader is not willing to listen or reconsider war.
Too many
of his people have died. He will destroy the humans and
reclaim
the planet. The Doctor tells him the power will take time to
build up.
The Master suggests they dispose of the Doctor. The leader
orders the
Master and the Doctor taken to cages. As they are taken,
the Doctor
says, "You seem to be losing your touch." In the cage,
the Doctor
gloats a bit and tells the Master, "I reversed the
polarity
of the neutron flow." This means there will be a massive
reverse
feedback in the Sea Devil power system. A massive explosion.
No one can
hear the Master call for help. The Doctor built a self
destruct
system into the main control switch and it cannot be turned
off.
Walker
contemplates his victory, "Now how bout some tea." Jo starts
to cringe
and cry.
The Doctor
uses his sonic screwdriver, "You see, come on." They have
the diving
suits from the sub which escaped. The Doctor gives the
Master
one. They will find the airlock to get down to the capsules.
Walker
gets smoked salmon from Jane. Hart goes to the radio room
where Jo
and Bowman are. Hart orders a high speed boat to make a
complete
sweep of the area before the attack. Bowman sets it up. The
hovercraft
picks up the Doctor and the Master. The hibernation
device
causes an overload of power. In the hovercraft the Master
holds his
chest and falls. The blast rips up from the sea. Bowman
reports
about the two survivors, one of them in a bad way. Jo
wonders
which one.
The
hovercraft returns to the beach. The Doctor comes out to Jo. The
base is
destroyed. The Doctor did what he had to prevent a war. The
Master is
brought out on a stretcher -- dead. It was too late. An MD
tells them
a doctor in the hovercraft said it was too late. The
Doctor
pulls the Master face mask off the driver of the
hovercraft... he is alive but hypnotised, "I must obey... I must
obey... I
must obey..."
The Doctor
looks toward the hovercraft to see the Master, fully
recovered,
and waving goodbye with a smile. The Master steals the
hovercraft
as the Doctor watches...
Source:
Charles Mento
Continuity Notes:
The Sea Devils reappear in Warriors of the Deep and Blood
Heat.
After chasing the Master in a scene described in The Eight
Doctors, the Doctor returns to UNIT only to meet the Eighth
Doctor, who helps him deal with an attack by the Master.
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The Mutants
The Mutants
Serial NNN
Producer
Barry
Letts
Script
Editor
Terrance
Dicks
Designer
Jeremy
Bear Written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin
Directed by Christopher Barry
Incidental Music by Tristram Cary
Jon
Pertwee (Doctor Who)*, Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Paul
Whitsun-Jones (Marshal), James Mellor (Varan) [1-4], Garrick
Hagon (Ky), Geoffrey Palmer (Administrator) [1], Christopher
Coll
(Stubbs) [1-5], Rick James (Cotton), Jonathan Sherwood
(Varan's Son) [1-2], George Pravda (Jaeger) [2-6], John Hollis
(Sondergaard) [3-6], Sidney Johnson (Old Man) [3], Roy Pearce
(Solos Guard) [4]†, David Arlen (Warrior Guard) [4], Damon
Sanders (Solos Guard) [5], Martin Taylor (Skybase Guard) [5],
John
Scott Martin (Mutt) [5]‡, Peter Howell (Investigator)
[6].
*
Pertwee is credited as Dr. Who for Episodes 1-4.
†
Also in Episodes 3 and 5, uncredited.
‡
Also in the other episodes of the story but uncredited.
What
was happening to the people of Solos? Why are they
gradually turning into Monsters? Hands that become claws,
flesh that turns scale-like...
When
the Doctor meets the Marshal and Jaeger, he realizes that
all
is not as it appears to be. The Marshal has a sinister
plan
to gain control of this planet, and it's up to the Doctor
to
save Solos from this mad earthman, as well as save the
Solonians themselves.
Original
Broadcast (UK)
Episode One 8th April, 1972 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Two 15th April, 1972 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Three 22nd April, 1972 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Four 29th April, 1972 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Five 6th May, 1972 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Six 13th May, 1972 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Notes:
Released on video in episodic format. [+/-]
THE MUTANTS
U.K. Release: February 2003 / U.S. Release: October
2003
PAL - BBC video BBCV7331
NTSC - Warner Video E1857
The North American release is also included in The
End of the Universe Collection.
The music soundtrack has been released on CD by BBC Music.
[+/-]
DEVIL'S PLANET - THE MUSIC OF TRISTRAM CARY
Includes tracks from The Daleks, The Daleks's Master
Plan and The Mutants.
Released: 2003
WMSF 6072-2
Running time:
Disc 1: 72:37 / Disc 2: 78:02
TRACK LISTING
DISC TWO
The Daleks'
Master Plan (continued)
1. The Heart Of
The Mountain (0:36)
2. Growing
Menace (2:08)
3. City Music
(Loop) (1:43)
4. The Time
Destructor (5:17)
5. The
Destruction Of Time (5:18)
6. Daleks
Disintegrate (1:42)
The Mutants
7. I (0:47)
8. II (1:02)
9. III (1:00)
10. IV (2:31)
11. V (1:03)
12. VI (1:56)
13. VII (1:00)
14. VIII (1:46)
15. IX (2:41)
16. X (0:53)
17. XI (1:04)
18. XII (2:31)
19. XIII (1:35)
20. XIV (3:31)
21. XV (1:18)
22. XVI (0:54)
23. XVII (2:25)
24. XVIII
(1:36)
25. XIX (1:05)
26. XX (0:52)
27. XXI (0:40)
28. XXII (1:14)
29. XXIII
(0:54)
30. XXIV (1:35)
31. XXV (2:33)
32. XXVI (0:46)
33. XXVII
(2:50)
34. XXVIII
(0:55)
35. XXIX (1:39)
36. XXX (1:28)
37. XXXI (0:48)
38. XXXII
(0:51)
39. XXXIII
(1:09)
40. XXXIV
(1:44)
41. XXXV (1:00)
42. XXXVI
(1:53)
43.
XXXVII (1:39)
44. XXXVIII
(2:04)
45. XXXIX
(1:58)
46. Doctor Who
(Closing Theme) (1:15)
DISC ONE
1. Doctor Who
(Original Theme) (1:24)
The Daleks
2. Forest
Atmosphere (1:08)
3. Skaro:
Petrified Forest Atmosphere ("Thal
Wind")
(1:46)
4. Forest with
Creature (0:54)
5. City Music 1
& 2 (0:56)
6. Thing In
Jungle (0:52)
7. City Music 3
(0:43)
8. Dalek City
Corridor (0:59)
9. The Daleks
(0:33)
10. Radiation
Sickness (0:52)
11. Dalek
Control Room (0:26)
12. The Storm
(1:27)
13. The Storm
Continued: Susan Meets Alydon
(2:38)
14. Inside The
City (0:26)
15. The Fight
(1:02)
16. The Ambush
(2:00)
17. Fluid Link
(0:26)
18. Rising
Tension (1:18)
19. Demented
Dalek (0:22)
20. The Swamp
(2:31)
21. The Cave I
(2:07)
22. Barbara
Loses The Rope (0:17)
23. Captives Of
The Daleks (0:16)
24. Heartbeats
(Antodus Falls) (2:17)
25. The Cave II
(2:22)
The Daleks'
Master Plan
26. A Strange
Sickness (0:44)
27. Kembel I
(0:47)
28. Sting I
(0:05)
29. Kembel II
(0:17)
30. Daleks I
(0:41)
31. Kembel III
(0:26)
32. Daleks II
(1:03)
33. Daleks At
The TARDIS (0:25)
34. Zephon
(1:32)
35. Sting II
(0:04)
36. Pyroflames
(0:25)
37. Wall Of
Fire (0:24)
38. At The City
Walls (0:37)
39. Taranium
(0:15)
40. Zephon
Raises The Alarm (0:40)
41. Leaving
Kembel (0:21)
42.
Acceleration (0:54)
43. Zephon's
Demise (0:17)
44. Desperus
(0:46)
45. The
Screamers (0:20)
46. Leaving
Desperus (1:25)
47. Sting III /
Requiem For Katarina (0:53)
48. Bret Vyon
(0:43)
49. Traitor
(0:55)
50. Counter
Plot (0:15)
51. The
Experiment (0:41)
52. Molecular
Dissemination (1:04)
53. Limbo
(0:51)
54. Mira (0:47)
55. Invisible
Creatures (1:03)
56. "The
Daleks Have Won!" (0:34)
57. Invisible
Creatures Attack (0:55)
58. Taking The
Dalek Ship (1:36)
59. A New
Thread (0:13)
60. Fake
Taranium (0:25)
61. Return To
Kembel (0:26)
62. Gravity
Force (0:26)
63. At The
Police Station (0:58)
64. At The
Movie Studio (3:10)
65. The Victim
I (0:11)
66. The Victim
II (0:09)
67. The Victim
III (0:09)
68. Lava (1:01)
69. The Monk
(0:13)
70. Ancient
Egypt (0:46)
71. Dalek Time
Machine (0:19)
72. The
Overseer and the Captain (0:29)
73. Daleks At
The Pyramids (0:16)
74. Daleks Vs.
Egyptians (1:02)
75. The Doctor
Searching (1:05)
76. Escape
(1:38)
77. The Missing
TARDIS (0:50)
78. The Tomb
(0:55)
79. The Mummy
(0:28)
80. From Egypt
To The Ice Planet (0:49)
81. Council In
Uproar (1:03)
82. The Core
(0:17)
83. Master Of
The Universe (0:57)
Novelised as Doctor Who and the Mutants by Terrance Dicks.
[+/-]
Number 44 in the Doctor Who Library.
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: September 1977. Reprinted in 1979,
1982, 1984, 1987.
ISBN: 0 426 11690 9.
Cover by Jeff Cummins.
Price: 60p.
Hardcover Edition - Allan Wingate Ltd.
First Edition: October 1987.
ISBN: .
Cover by Jeff Cummins.
Price: £2.95.
Doctor Who Magazine Archive: Issue #230.
Episode
One
(drn:
24'25")
On a fog
shrouded planet called Solos, the Marshal, a black
uniformed
man with blaster rifle, drops his oxygen mask as he chases
a Mutt, an
old man with a long beard in ragged clothes. His two
aides,
black man Cotton and Stubbs want to leave this world, fed up
with
hunting Mutts. They find the Marshal over the hunted man... who
is dead.
They have been killing Mutts like this before. Mutts are
humans on
Solos who seem to have twisted spines. To the superiors on
a space
station above the planet, Stubbs reports that this Mutt died
of unknown
causes.
At UNIT,
the Doctor is making a minimum intertia super drive for
Bessie. Jo
is commenting on the fact that it is way past lunch time
when a
strange multi sided container appears on the table in front
of them.
This has been sent by the Time Lords for the Doctor to
deliver to
someone. Jo wonders if they have no other way to deliver
it. The
TARDIS comes to life via the Time Lords. The Doctor takes
the
container and his cape and tells Jo she cannot come -- it is
bound to
be dangerous. To her exclamation of the fact that he needs
her, he
says, "...a lot of rubbish." He enters the TARDIS but Jo
jumps in
before the doors close.
Skybase
One, a station orbiting the misty planet is where the TARDIS
materializes. The pair exit the TARDIS. Jo finds a round porthole
where they
see the planet below. The Doctor comments it is like a
tradesman
entrance. A voice calls over a loudspeaker that visitors
must be
put through a decontamination unit which Jo calls cheek
after the
Doctor calls it delousing.
But the
visitors that are expected are not Jo and the Doctor but
primitive
and proud warriors from Solos who arrive via transfer
cubicles.
Ky, a more noble native arrives to find another chief
leader
named Varan there first... Varan who works with the
Overlords.
Younger Ky was summoned to the conference. Ky wants his
people to
stop being murdered by the Overlords. Varan tells Ky that
the
mutants are evil and must be rooted out. No one knows what the
mutants
are... Varan believes they are diseased, told to him by the
Overlords.
The Solos people were once farmers and hunters but since
the
Overlords arrived, the planet, which was clear of mist and full
of sweet
air and rivers, changed. Ky and Varan argue and almost come
to blows
but an Overlord guard Stubbs stops this and tells Ky and
other
primitives to go into decontamination units. He also sends
Varan to
the Marshal. Varan's bodyguard remains behind, not going to
a
decontamination unit. A guard tries to make him go too but the
man's hand
is revealed to be a crustacoid claw and the guard is
attacked.
Jo thinks
the area the TARDIS is in is a broom closet. She asks
where they
are time wise. The Doctor tells her not to use expression
like that.
They are in the 30th century of the Earth Empire. Once
the solar
system was sacked, the Earth people moved on to other
planets.
He asks if she's ever read Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the
Empire.
The Doctor takes out the sonic screwdriver to break the
circuits
of the door.
Varan
reports to the Marshal, who has other plans for Ky than
allowing
Varan to kill the younger leader in a combat situation.
Jo reminds
the Doctor to bring the box and they get out of Storage
Area 4. A
computer reports the door being opened as a malfunction.
The Doctor
is not sure he likes being described as a malfunction. He
has given
Jo the message box.
The
computer reports that Cotton and Stubbs should investigate the
malfunction but they will do it tomorrow. They are playing chess in
Storage
Area 5.
The
Marshal gives Varan a pass and a gun to dispose of Ky at the
conference.
Jo and the
Doctor arrive at Storage Area 3 where the Doctor starts
to open a
door but Jo points. The mutating bodyguard attacks them!
The Doctor
gets the door open and they race on through, the door
shutting
on the man's arm. The Doctor holds the door shut but can't
much
longer. Cotton and Stubbs arrive and shoot the man dead with
blasters.
Marshal
receives news of this. The Administrator comes to talk to
the
Marshal about giving the Solonians independence. They are
pulling
out of the area. Earth is exhausted politically,
economically, biologically... it cannot afford an empire anymore.
The
Marshal's atmospheric experiments might be the reason for the
mutations
but the Marshal refuses to believe that. The Marshal has
put years
of his life into this planet and experiments. He will now
be reduced
to working behind a desk on Earth at the Bureau of
Records.
When the Administrator leaves, the Marshal uses his staff
to call
for that "fool" Varan.
The Doctor
and Jo are in a room where they can look out and see the
planet at
daylight now, through a porthole, Jo using a pair of large
sun
glasses. The Doctor tells Jo about Earth in this time: grey
seas, grey
cities linked by grey highways, grey deserts, slag, ash,
the
products of technology. The Administrator arrives to take their
statement.
The Doctor claims the Overlords sent him but the Marshal
arrives to
refute the Doctor's claims. The Doctor shows them the
message
box but it doesn't open. The box will only open for the
person the
box is meant for... he cannot open it. It will only open
for the
person it is for. Stubbs puts the box on a stall and the
Marshal
fires his blaster rifle at it. It does not open. The Marshal
thinks the
Doctor and Jo are from Solos or are saboteurs or both.
The
Marshal leaves Stubbs to watch Jo and the Doctor.
In the
conference room, Varan tells the Marshal that the man at the
door is
his son, named Vorn, someone who they can trust. Vorn, the
one Varan
has chosen, understands the new instructions from the
Marshal.
Varan gives his son Vorn the necklace. The Administrator
arrives at
the conference room. On a round clear ball, the Doctor,
Jo and
Stubbs watch the conference begin; the Doctor commenting
negatively
on the music beginning an Overlord Telecast of the
conference, "Bombastic signature tune." The Solonian All
People's
Union, the
primitive warriors, are there as well. Stubbs thinks the
Solonians
should be given freedom just so he can go back home. Jo
asks him
if he has family back on Earth. He hopes so and he gets the
odd
message and videos. As Jo asks if these are like letters, which
Stubbs
does not understand, the Doctor sneaks up behind him and uses
a double
neck pinch on him. "A pity he was rather sweet," Jo says.
They
leave, Jo giving the Doctor the box.
The
Administrator makes a long speech about a pact, a treaty made
between
the Solonians and the Earth people: united together to
create a
new society, a new and richer world. 500 years after the
scientific
aide, the Earth has steered them to the verge of
independence. Ky shouts that they have steered them to disaster.
Unrest
occurs among the Ky followers as the speech goes on. Ky
shouts for
freedom and now.
The Doctor
and Jo find segregation notices on a hallway marker for
transporter units -- Overlords, Solonians, and notices for oxygen
masks.
Cotton stops the Doctor and Jo at the door. He will not let
them in to
the conference without a pass even though the Doctor
tells him
the box contains important documents about the signing of
the
agreement.
Ky makes a
scene and is arrested even while the Administrator yells
that they
have no need to quarrel -- he is giving them their
freedom.
The gun given to Vorn is used by him and fired -- a strange
dart like
device enters the Administrator's neck and he dies. The
Marshal
yells that it was Ky, who resists and runs out, passing the
Doctor and
Jo along the way, Ky calling the Doctor an Overlord. Ky
inadvertently touches the strange box of the Doctor's and it starts
to open,
"Wait! This is for you!"
Jo runs
after Ky to get him back but is followed by the Marshal and
two
guards. Hiding in a corner, Ky grabs Jo and puts her in front of
him. She
yells that she is not an Overlord. The Doctor arrives but
the
Marshal orders his two guards to fire upon Jo and Ky, the later
who has
pulled the former into one of the teleport chamber units. As
they begin
to teleport down, the two guards fire despite the
Doctor's
protestations. "I said fire," the Marshal yells. The men
fire. A
large explosion blows the unit apart!
Episode
Two
(drn:
24'24")
Ky and Jo
appear in the transfer station on the planet, where Ky
tells Jo
his life is more important than hers. He cannot stop to
help her
if she gets in trouble but he does spend time to get her
out, away
from a guard, whom he fights down to the ground. They get
to an
airlock door and close it just as the fallen one also fires
his
blaster. Finally they get out to the surface of Solos.
The
Marshal tells the Doctor during daylight humans must wear oxygen
masks. A
nitrogen isotope in the soil combined with ultra violet
rays from
the sun cause a deadly mist which cannot be breathed in by
humans
from Earth. He gives Jo an hour. The Doctor insists that he
have his
men continue to search for Jo. "I can do as I please," the
Marshal
tells the Doctor. Solos is under Marshal law. The box is
closed
again and unless the Doctor shows him what is inside it, he
will call
off the search for Miss Grant. The Marshal at the Doctor's
insistence
also orders that the girl must not be harmed. In return,
the Doctor
will try to open the box but he must do so in a
laboratory.
On the
planet, Jo collapses, not able to breath. Three men in masks
hunt Ky
and Jo. Ky carries the unconscious Jo off.
The Doctor
calls the lab adequate. He was hoping for a particle
reversal
set up to turn the box inside out. The lab is more for
atmosphere
modulation or weather control. The Doctor stops a circuit
from
overloading just as Germanic Professor Jaeger enters,
protesting
about this intrusion. The Marshal leaves the Doctor with
Jaeger.
Ky hides
Jo in some bushes, then watches the guards. One moves in
his
direction so he jumps the guard and gets his mask off. Ky uses
the mask
for Jo.
In a cell
and dismissing the guards to wait outside, The Marshal
goes to
Vorn who asks why he is a prisoner. The man he killed was
told to
him by the Marshal to be an enemy of his people. The Marshal
gives Vorn
his reward -- to be shot with the same gun. He shoots him
in the
stomach. Varan arrives moments later and does some quick
ceremony
over his dead son. The Marshal tells Varan that his son was
in league
with Ky and that he attempted to kill him, too. Varan
knows this
is a lie and draws his sword to kill the Marshal and
tries to
get another weapon. Varan is forced to flee. The Marshal
uses his
staff to tannoy (loudspeaker call) an order to have Varan
captured... telling them Varan has gone mutant. The Marshal orders
either
Stubbs or Cotton up to the station as Varan evades the
guards.
Stubbs returns to the station.
The Doctor
talks to Jaeger about why the humans came to Solos. The
Doctor
switches some wires for Jaeger in order to hold the proton
beam
steady. Jaeger calls the reversal procedure a waste of time but
the Doctor
finds it a most useful tool. He starts it and the box
begins to
turn inside out.
Varan
hides from guards, entering the Herbarium.
Solos: Ky
brings Jo into a disused, slightly green glowing mine
cave, one
of many on Solos, where there is less mist. He grasps her
hands from
behind and presses them both down into her chest to get
her
breathing better and conscious. Ky nearly left Jo to die. Jo
worries
about the guard Ky took the mask from. Ky tells her the man
will be
all right if he takes it easy. It is dark now and he will be
taken
back. Jo explains as best she can about the message and the
Doctor but
she cannot answer a great deal of his questions because
she
honestly doesn't know.
The box
has flashed back to its regular form, the inside now again
inside.
The Marshal interrupts the Doctor and Jaeger to ask about
Varan. The
Doctor asks to go on the Mutt hunt; Jaeger's help gets
the
Marshal to agree. Jaeger gets the Marshal alone to tell him that
with the
Doctor's help he could have the entire atmosphere
regeneration set up on the planet within a week -- the Doctor
understands particle reversal. The Marshal makes plans to keep the
Doctor
here.
In the
cave, Ky tells Jo his people will tell him when the Doctor
comes: the
dispossessed, the outcasts, the terrorists. He asks Jo to
tell him
about the caverns of Earth. He thinks maybe she lives in a
sky city.
He has seen pictures of Earth: no one can live on the
ground any
more. Jo tells him it is a rather long time since she
left
earth. Ky's people are slaves in factories and mines; the
mutations
are caused by the pollution from the atmosphere
experiments and the draining of his planet by the Earth people. A
shadow of
a strange creature is seen on the wall of the cave.
The Doctor
and Stubbs enter the Herbarium, the seed propagation
area.
Stubbs intends killing Varan in cold blood since he thinks he
is a
mutant. Varan comes up behind Stubbs with his short sword but
before he
can kill Stubbs, the Doctor uses the fallen blaster rifle
on Varan's
sword to knock it out of his hand. The Doctor stops
Stubbs
from killing Varan since there is no sign of any mutation and
gets Varan
to tell him what he knows about the Marshal's lies. We
also see a
stage light from the roof enter and leave the scene.
Cotton
tells the Marshal that the girl Jo has the guard's mask. The
Marshal
tells Cotton to tell the Doctor that the girl is in a
hospital
on Solos: another lie.
In the
hallway, Stubbs is convinced to play along with the Doctor
and to
hide Varan until he can gain more knowledge and time. They
return to
Cotton and the Marshal, who lies some more about Ky
leaving Jo
to die and about Jo being in hospital. The Marshal will
not let
the Doctor see Miss Grant unless helps Professor Jaeger. The
Doctor and
Jaeger work now -- but the Doctor realizes the rocket
barrage
onto the planet might kill all the Solonians. Jaeger wonders
if the
Doctor has an alternative solution. Cotton asks the Professor
to go see
the Marshal, who cannot wait. After Jaeger leaves, Cotton
tells the
Doctor about his mate Stubbs and their talks. Cotton tells
the Doctor
the truth: they haven't found Miss Grant. She is still
with Ky.
Guards have orders to stop the Doctor from leaving. The
Doctor
wonders about the emergency power supply to the station and
wants to
blow the power supply while Cotton switches in a secondary
supply to
the transfer station down to the planet. In the chaos, the
Doctor
wants to escape to Solos. Cotton will try to do this. Jaeger
returns,
wondering who told Cotton that the Marshal wanted to see
him: the
Marshal didn't. "One of us must be mad," he tells Cotton.
The Doctor
explains to Jaeger about the experiment about Particle
Reversal
and needs to link up to the main power supply. Cotton
beings his
aide to the Doctor. In the herbarium, Stubbs tells Varan
that he
will leave the door unlocked. When the power failure comes,
Varan is
to escape. Varan doesn't trust Stubbs but he must if the
plan is to
work for him to escape. The Doctor starts his experiment
and his
device set up blows up, knocking Jaeger down. The Doctor
gets the
box and his cape and flees as Jaeger recovers.
Varan
makes his way out, too, amid blaster fire from guards. The
firing
from the guards makes Varan think he has been betrayed and
that he is
in a trap of some kind. He intercepts the Doctor at a
cubicle
and comes up behind him, grabs him from behind around the
neck and
starts to choke the life out of him, "Die, Overlord! Die!"
Episode
Three
(drn:
24'32")
The Doctor
manages to get himself and Varan into the capsule and
they are
teleported to Solos. The Doctor frees himself using his
karate,
then tries to explain as he uses a hold on Varan. Varan
still
believes the Doctor is an Overlord. A firestorm at night is
hitting
and this will work for their advantage. The Doctor will not
be
affected by the atmosphere on Solos, asking Varan, "Did I say I
was an
Earthman?" There were no firestorms before the Marshal, Ky
tells Jo
in a cave. Jo sees a monster at the end of the cave. Ky
tells her
it is harmless... these mutant monsters were his people
before the
experiments. Ky uses a flame torch on it to drive it off.
The storms
can last many hours or a very short time. Ky and Jo move
further
back into the cave. The mutants are usually not aggressive.
A group of
them come at Jo and Ky. Ky puts Jo into a rock
outcropping to hide her while he drives the others off.
The fire
storm seems to rage around the space station. Marshal
chides
Jaeger about the booby trap the Doctor set. Marshal wants the
atmosphere
on the planet changed now. He calls Stubbs and Cotton to
his
office. He tells them they will pay their last visit to Solos
"to
kill three birds with one stone... the Mutts, Varan, and the
Doctor."
Varan and
the Doctor find a dying fire Ky made at the mine entrance
where they
see a mutant bug like humanoid -- another mutant. One
leaves.
The Doctor will go on to help Miss Grant. When Varan refuses
to go on,
the Doctor asks if he is afraid of the dark. Varan follows
him to a
surrounded Ky. One mutant makes its way to Jo, who leaves
the
outcropping to avoid the thing. Ky falls backward over some rock
and the
mutants seem to converge on him. The Doctor arrives and
drives the
mutants away from Ky.
Jo is
running in the caverns, moving deeper and deeper into strange
glowing
areas. The sound and the lights flashing make her hold her
head and
pass out but not before seeing a silver suited figure in
the haze.
The silver suited being, in a space suit of some kind,
moves to
her to pick her up.
The Doctor
introduces himself with a hand shake to Ky. Varan tells
Ky that
the Overlords are his enemies too now. He will lead his
people in
battle against the Overlords. The Doctor gives Ky the
strange
Time Lord box which fully opens. Inside are tablets and
sketchings. Both Solonians wonder how these can help. The
inscription is the language of the Old Ones which he cannot read.
He's seen
signs like these carved in rocks all over Solos. The
Overlords
destroyed all culture on the planet so that no one
remembers
how to read these. The Doctor refuses to leave without
Miss Grant
but Varan leaves to fight the Overlords. As Ky takes the
Doctor
toward where he left Jo, Ky tells the Doctor about a man from
Earth who
came to study Solos. This man, Sondergaard, came to study
their
culture but he disappeared, all arranged by the Marshal.
The
Marshal gives Cotton and Stubbs some gas grenades made by
Jaeger.
Ky and the
Doctor find Jo gone from the rock cubby and being
searching
for her.
Jaeger
tells the Marshal that Solos is getting hotter and hotter. It
has been
spring for 500 years but now it is summer. It may becomes
too hot
for humans to stay. There are also more Mutts than ever, all
moving
toward the target area.
Nearing
the exit of the cave, Varan sees an Overlord guard in the
cave but
he runs out past the others. He is shot at but he manages
to avoid
the blasts. Four guards chase him but turn back to the
cave.
Ky and the
Doctor must research for Jo. Ky tells the Doctor the
Mutts are
watching them all the time. The Mutts have not attacked
them in
the tunnels, only in the chamber. Ky feels an awareness of
being
drawn to the center of this place, a warm, safe place. Some
instinct
in him makes him want to.
The
Marshal tells Stubbs and Cotton that no one must know about the
gas
grenades. They protest that they should find the Doctor. He lets
them go
into the cave to find the Doctor, telling them they will
kill Ky.
Varan
returns to his village and finds one old man, who tells him
the fire
from the sky is responsible. Many people are gone. The old
man is
told to summon his council. The old man rings a gong.
In the
caves, Cotton and Stubbs call for the Doctor. The Doctor
suggests
he and Ky return to the glowing chamber. They hear Jo Grant
inside
someplace and find her. She wakes up. The Doctor stops Ky
from
running from Cotton and Stubbs. The Marshal hears their reunion
as well as
Cotton and Stubbs claiming they are hear to help them. He
orders his
men to plant the grenades. The Marshal makes the other
men pull
out and he plants a seal pack explosive on the cave wall
entrance.
The old
man tells Varan that the warriors have become mutants. All
who can
walk have gone to the mines. Varan wants to know why this
curse has
come upon them. He sees his hand is turning into a Mutt
hand. A
voice tells him to go to the place of darkness and light,
the place
of sleeping. Varan draws his sword, yelling he will not
die
sleeping.
Gas is
filling the tunnels of the mine. A Mutt in the mine is
gassed. Jo
explains about the lights and the silvery figure. The
Doctor
doesn't want to find himself in the Marshal's hand again.
Cotton
tells them they should all move out now before the attack
begins.
The
Marshal thinks the Mutts go to the mine to die -- the old idea
of the
elephants' graveyard.
The Doctor
looks at the strange inscription from the box. From a
check,
Stubbs comes running back, warning that the gas has started
and the
Marshal has sealed them in. Cotton asks, "What are we going
to
do?" The gas creeps toward them...
Episode
Four
(drn:
24'00")
The silver
suited figure arrives and leads the five to a lead door
just as
blasts rock the cave and gas fills the tunnels. At a lead
door, the
Doctor and Jo realize radiation must be involved. The man
removes
the space helmet to reveal a bald Professor Sondergaard --
the Doctor
already guessing the man's name.
The
Marshal orders every exit sealed. He will go back to Skybase so
he orders
a garrison back to the caves once the gas clears.
Sondergaard explains the thesium radiation is natural in the caves
but Jo was
in a dangerous, unstable zone area. He rescued Jo, who
thanks
him. The Mutts' numbers increase and their aggression grows.
The Doctor
stops Ky from yelling about the situation and the
Overlords,
telling him that all of them here are on his side.
Sondergaard tried to inform Earth Control about the Marshal's doings
here. The
Marshal intercepted the message thus Sondergaard escaped
him to
reach the caves. The mutants helped him to survive -- they
stole
clothing and food for him but now they do not come near him,
as if he
was diseased. The flora and fauna of Solos has changed; at
first
natural changes. Jaeger's experiments accelerated the changes
and
something has gone wrong. The Doctor wonders why he was sent
here. He
asks Ky to touch the box and it opens when the young man
does so.
The
Marshal tells Jaeger that this is war and that he should prepare
his
rockets to bomb Solos.
Sondergaard examines the tablets and tells them this is the story
how
civilization on Solos began -- a lost Solos Book of Genesis.
Blasts
rock the lab -- the mountain itself is falling into the
tunnels.
Sondergaard tells them there is an exit to Varan's village.
The Doctor
will stay with Sondergaard to figure out the answer to
the
problem. He urges Miss Grant and the others to go, leaving him
with
Sondergaard.
The others
avoid the Mutants in the caves.
The Doctor
and Sondergaard find sun symbol but figure on different
theories.
Life in some form will always go on, the Doctor tells
Sondergaard. "I hope so," the bald man claims.
A Skybase
guard comes from a tunnel to Jo's group and fires on
Cotton and
Stubbs. Ky knocks one out so the group can continue.
The Doctor
figures the four recurring symbols are the four seasons
of the
calendar. The seasons must be 500 years long; the planet does
not tilt
on its axis relative to its sun and takes 2000 years to go
around its
sun. Stick men mark the spring. Radiation or sun symbols
mark the
summer. They will go to the chamber to find more answers.
Sondergaard worries for the Doctor's life, "You spend any time in
there and
you will die. Any man would." The Doctor hands him the
space
radiation suit, "Any man perhaps."
At the
tunnel upward, Jo spots a figure with a helmet above. The
four have
to climb upward. Cotton begins and calls down that it is
safe. Ky,
Jo, and Stubbs follow.
Varan, his
face mutating, addressed a small group of his warriors
when
Cotton calls to him. One of Varan's men calls him an Overlord
from the
place of darkness.
The Doctor
and Sondergaard arrive at a section of intense radiation.
The Doctor
reminds the Professor to put his helmet back on. The
Doctor
finds it magnificent, like a cathedral.
Ky's group
enter the empty village but are surrounded by the ragged
group of
warriors and disarmed.
In the
cave, blasts of energy make Sondergaard collapse. He urges
the Doctor
to leave him and go on. The Doctor checks him and moves
on, deeper
into the caves of light and radiation. He finds a large
glowing
crystal on a strange white glowing stand. Taking the
crystal,
he returns to and helps Sondergaard, carrying the man over
his
shoulders.
Jo,
Stubbs, Ky, and Cotton are tied up and on their knees before
Varan.
They will act as shields in their attack on Skybase: Varan's
revenge.
Skybase:
Jaeger reports to the Marshal, telling him the rockets and
the
engineers have deteriorated almost similar to each other. Deep
Space
message saying that an Earth Council Investigator is coming.
Jaeger
tells him that the Marshal's activities will give the
investigator quite a report. Marshal wants him to step up the
experiment
even though the missiles have not been tested. The
Marshal
wants to meet the Investigator on a breathable surface on
Solos.
Varan's
attack on Skybase begins with guards knocked down.
On the
planet in the lab, the Doctor finds that the life cycle
unique to
this planet -- the change is natural. The mutants are just
an
intermediate part of the cellular change. The crystal shows no
radioactivity at all. Jaeger's lab is the only place to examine it
more
closely. The Solonians change to fit the environment and this
crystal
the radiation in the chamber must help them to do this.
The rocket
launch countdown starts and all guards are called back to
the
station. The Marshal insists that even unauthorized personnel in
the
station will not stop the countdown.
The Doctor
and Sondergaard take the crystal toward the tunnel exit
shaft that
moves upward out of the mine but Sondergaard collapses
before
they can reach it.
The
Marshal and two guards secretly hidden, see Jo, Ky, Stubbs, and
Cotton
walking. Ky and Jo the only two tied. The Marshal and his man
wait until
Varan's men are more in their sights and fire on them,
killing
all of them but Varan. Stubbs saw the Marshal at the last
moment and
moved Ky, Jo, and Cotton as well as himself to the side
and to an
opening door: Decontamination Room. Varan enters as well
but the
Marshal follows and fires at him as Varan draws his sword.
The blast
tears open the hull and Varan flies out into outer
space...
dying as he enters the void. At the same time, the rockets
are fired
off as the countdown hits zero. The station tilts as the
void
threatens to suck the Marshal out the hole also... and Cotton,
Ky, Jo and
Stubbs on the floor try to hold onto each other, forming
a human
chain as the vacuum begins to suck them out also...
Episode
Five
(drn:
24'37")
The
Marshal is sucked closer to the opening as the others form a
human
chain to prevent being sucked out into space. The Doctor and
Sondergaard take cover from blasts caused by "that fool"
Jaeger as
the Doctor
calls him. Cotton and Stubbs help Ky and Jo out of the
room as
the pressure stabilizes. Huh? The Marshal is already out in
the
hallway with a group of guards he calls to bring the foursome.
On Solos,
the Doctor takes out a telescope from his pockets and
looks at
Varan's deserted village. He and Sondergaard make for the
transfer
station.
The
Marshal, in his office, tells the four prisoners their crimes
but can
trump nothing up for Miss Grant. The Marshal calls in his
firing
squad. Ky tells him he will fail anyway. Before the firing
squad can
kill the four, Jaeger comes in, complaining about the
rockets...
total failure. Every rocket failed. The ionisation
crystals,
hitting the planet's surface, have contaminated the planet
and will
turn it into a lethal desert. No one will be able to set
foot on
Solos for centuries after the crystals take effect. Jaeger
asks how
the Marshal will cover up his bout of megalomania from the
investigator. Stubbs tells the Marshal he and Cotton are not the
only
guards who disagree with the Marshal. Jo recounts the Marshal's
crimes:
the Administrator assassinated, native leaders dead or
missing,
and a contaminated planet. The Marshal hopes to destroy the
investigator's ship. Jo bluffs about her knowledge of the
investigator, lying that she and the Doctor were sent ahead before
him. The
Marshal says, "The Doctor always the Doctor. Where is your
precious
Doctor now?"
Sondergaard weakens as the Doctor notes the first signs of
contamination. Sondergaard urges the Doctor to go to Skybase alone.
He will
take cover in the lab caves. The Doctor will go on alone. A
masked
guard takes readings.
The
Marshal tells Jo that he knows where the Doctor is. Jaeger
explains
that they plan to use the Doctor's knowledge of particle
reversal
to cover up the contamination before the investigator
arrives.
The Marshal sets guards on Solos out after the Doctor. The
guards use
tracking devices. They chase the Doctor through the misty
woods. The
Doctor runs right into one of the men but uses karate on
him and
flips him, "Goodbye." The Doctor makes for the transfer
station
and succeeds in getting back to Skybase, waving to two
guards
just before he vanishes. The guards fire their blasters at
the device
and then follow the Doctor back to the Skybase. The
Doctor
hides from the pair and they pass by.
The Doctor
rushes into the Marshal's office and begins using the
sonic
screwdriver to free Jo. The Marshal tosses the key to him, he
and his
guards now present. The Marshal takes the sonic screwdriver.
He wants
the Doctor to put the planet right. The Doctor tells the
Marshal he
is quite mad. "Only if I lose," the Marshal laughs. The
investigator's spacecraft is on the way.
Guards
bring the Doctor to Jaeger's lab. Jaeger tells the Doctor
this was
not his fault. The Doctor says, "...you were simply obeying
orders.
That's a common excuse, Professor." The Doctor wants to use
the
macrothizer to train it on each affected area like a
searchlight. This will be used to transfer the effect from the lab
to the
areas. The macrothizer is the one used in the transfer booth.
If they
don't come up with an effective control system they will
particle
reverse Skybase and be in more of a mess than before.
Jo, Ky,
Stubbs, and Cotton watch a sleepy guard who sits down. Jo
fakes a
collapse to get him over to them. When he leans down, Jo
grabs the
blaster from the man. She gets the keys from him and frees
the
others. She also gets the sonic screwdriver. Ky, now free,
covers the
guard. Cotton gets the Marshal's staff-communicator open
to call
the investigator's ship, the Hyperion while Stubbs guards
the
doorway. Ky ties up the guard. Stubbs warns the guards he will
not shoot
unless he has to. The Marshal takes one of their guns and
fires at
Stubbs. Cotton reaches the Hyperion but it is up to Jo to
tell them
what is happening. Stubbs gets hit from a shot by the
Marshal
and is wounded but then he is shot even more badly. He dies
in Jo and
Cotton's hands on the floor. Cotton, Jo, and Ky race out
another
door and out a secret corridor of the Marshal's to try to
reach the
transfer station.
The Doctor
hears shots being fired as Jaeger readies to switch off
the
macrothizer isolated from the transfer station to the lab. They
do this
just as the trio reach the transfer station. It will not
work and
the Marshal and guards arrive, firing. A guard kicks the
blaster
from Ky and the three are captured. Cotton and Ky are taken
to the
radiation chamber. The Marshal takes Miss Grant.
Jaeger
almost drops a tube as the Doctor explains that the slightest
accident
at this stage of the procedure will reverse everyone to
anti
matter instantly, blasted out to the other side of this
universe
in a flash of electromagnetic radiation and, "...we'd all
become
un-people doing un-things un-together... fascinating..." They
are ready
to lower the beam away and see what un-does. The Doctor
explains
about the mutations.
Sondergaard reaches the glowing red caves but a Skybase man finds
him there
and is ready to shoot him. A mutant monster comes up
behind him
and knocks the guard down. More arrive to confront
Sondergaard, who tries to communicate to them. They understand him
as a
friend. One mutant talks to Sondergaard who tells them they are
supposed
to mutate like this... the change was made to go faster but
they can
help him to find the Doctor and make the mutation occur as
it was
supposed to.
The
Doctor's beam builds up to full power. Solos is no longer
contaminated. The isotope level is exactly as it was before the
rockets
landed. The Doctor wants to switch it off now but the
Marshal
comes in and insists the Doctor operate the device until
Solos is
liveable but only by humans. When the Doctor refuses, he
has a
guard bring in Miss Grant at gunpoint. The Hyperion is about
to dock
and is announced. The Marshal orders Jo taken to be put with
the
others.
Jo is
thrown in to a chamber with Cotton and Ky. Ky thinks his
people
will be free at last. Cotton gets Ky away from the wall -- it
is the
refuelling lock where nuclear fuel, the radioactive thaesium
is stored.
This is used to power Skybase and ships and it makes the
walls
glow. It is safe for short periods of time but Cotton suddenly
realizes
that when the Hyperion is to be refuelled, a probe will be
inserted
for refuelling... filling this chamber they are in with
live
thaesium... killing all three of them...
Episode
Six
(drn:
23'43")
The
Marshal's entire crew is on suspension making him angry. The
Investigator arrives and does not shake hands with the Doctor but
asks the
Marshal if the Doctor is his scientific advisor. The
Investigator demands answers about the crimes the Marshal is accused
of. The
Marshal trumps up more lies about rebellions and terrorists,
prisoners
allowed to escape aided by Stubbs and Cotton, now
deceased.
He also lies that his actions were reasonable to quell the
rebellion
and the plague. The Doctor calls the supposedly dead
thousands
of Mutt natives really just accelerated genetic
metamorphosis. The Investigator asks what the Doctor is qualified
in.
"Practically everything." The Doctor has to go along with the
lie that
the Mutt condition was incurable as he believes Jo's life
would be
spared if he does lie.
The
Hyperion fuel injection pump moves toward an opening while the
fuel
storage pump opens. Cotton tells Jo and Ky to escape via the
hole in
the few seconds before the probe tube injects in as the glow
fills the
room. With Ky unwell, the trio escape via the hatch just
before the
insertion.
In the
Marshal's office, Jaeger whispering, tells the Marshal about
the trio
of escapees.
Jo, Ky,
and Cotton get out of the tube and climb up a ladder as the
green glow
of theasium seems to follow.
Jaeger
tells the Investigator, who is flanked by two dressed just
like he
is. Jaeger tells him the experiments making the atmosphere
of Solos
breathable by humans but not by the natives is nonsense. He
tells the
Investigator Solos is as it was before.
Just as
the Investigator is about to declare the matter closed, Jo,
Cotton,
and Ky storm in. The Doctor explains them to be the missing
witnesses.
The Doctor is allowed to make the truth known against
this
travesty of justice. He accuses Jaeger and the Marshal of "the
most
brutal and callous series of crimes against a defenseless
people
it's ever been my misfortunate to encounter."
Sondergaard enters the cubicle transfer station to go to Skybase but
the Mutts
are afraid to follow him. He leaves them behind to go find
the
Doctor. Sondergaard goes to Skybase.
The Doctor
debates the Marshal, who yells that the Mutts are
mutants, a
disease to be wiped off the face of the planet. The
Doctor
asks the Investigator, "Need I say more, Investigator." The
Doctor
does not have any of the tablets which the Investigator asks
to see.
The Mutts are one of a series of adaptive changes as the
seasons on
the planet are changing. Sondergaard is brought in by a
white
dressed Investigator guard. He attempts to explain, calling
the
mutational change a mistake, the process gone wrong. This makes
the
Investigator question the Doctor's claims of the mutants being
part of
the natural process.
As one of
the Mutts enters the cubicle, being brave enough,
Sondergaard tries to explain that the Doctor is correct. One of the
Mutts
enters the Marshal's office. It hits one of the Investigator's
guard's
small guns out of his hand. Left alone it would not hurt any
of them
but the Marshal gets a blaster rifle and follows it into the
hallway,
shooting it down. The Investigator sees this monster and
puts the
Marshal in charge again -- even of his own men.
The
Doctor, Jo, and Sondergaard get out of the office in the
confusion
of guards and race to the lab where they have the key and
lock the
lab. Cotton and Ky are to be brought back to the radiation
chamber.
Jaeger explains that the chamber is much hotter now with
more
radiation now and after more time... the Marshal tells him that
is the two
men's problem.
The Doctor
is analysing the crystal which he finds is a bio
catalytic
agent for the mutants. It might help the Doctor to
accelerate
the process. Thesium radiation is part of the process for
a
successful mutation. The Doctor wants the Professor to take the
crystal to
Ky. The Marshal blasts into the door and orders that girl
and
Sondergaard to the radiation chamber. The Doctor confronts the
Marshal,
who still wants an Earth like atmosphere. He tells the
Doctor to
hurry as his friends are in the radiation chamber for as
long as it
takes the Doctor. Ky is mutating... due to the radiation
doses.
Before Jo's eyes, Ky changes, his hands becoming crystal like
and then
claws.
The
Marshal orders Jaeger to watch the Doctor, telling the scientist
that that
is all he is good for. The Investigator with his head
dress off,
comes to the Marshal and asks why his ship is to be
detained
and he and his men are being held as virtual prisoners. The
men and
the Investigator will be put down on Solos... now renamed
New Earth.
The Doctor, in the distraction of this, changes some
wiring
without Jaeger seeing. The Marshal tells the Investigator
that he
and his men will be reported dead and other ships that
arrive
will also have their crews added to the population of his new
world. The
Doctor tells the Investigator it is all right, the
Marshal is
quite mad. "Oh no, Doctor, I told you, madmen lose, I've
won."
The Marshal will release the Doctor's companions as soon as
the job is
done.
In the
chamber, the radiation seems to vanish into Ky, the form of
Ky
changing from mutant into a beautiful humanoid, glowing and in
blue-white
robes with many colors, angel-like. He thanks Sondergaard
for saving
his people and showing them the way. He communicates with
thought
transference and can float. "Goodbye," he says after telling
them there
is little he cannot do. Ky vanishes backward, passing out
of the
wall. Cotton laments that Ky just flashes off and leaves them
here. The
door opens for them and the trio escape.
Ky's form
knocks out two Marshal guards without touching them
physically.
The Doctor
asks the Marshal if he realises he is about to destroy a
unique
life form. He doesn't care and makes Jaeger operate the
machine,
the Doctor moving off to join the Investigator. The device
overloads,
the Doctor pulls the Investigator down, and the device
blows up
and Jaeger falls, dead. The Marshal aims his gun at the
Doctor and
the Investigator who rushed to the door. He means to kill
the
Doctor. Ky arrives and tells the Marshal to die, to end the
torture of
his people. A ray from Ky makes the Marshal vanish
completely. Ky thanks the Doctor and vanishes, "Goodbye," his
mind
sends.
Sondergaard will stay on Solos to see the others go through the
mutation
process. The ones in the caves were prematurely changed --
like
butterflies who hatch out on a cold spring day. Ky is on the
planet to
help them using the crystal. Sondergaard and Cotton will
help.
Cotton will then return to his home -- to Earth -- something
they
should have all done a long time ago. Cotton is acting as
leader of
the base.
The
Investigator wants the Doctor and Jo to come with him in to the
Hyperion
to find out a full enquirement into the Doctor's
involvement in this entire affair. The Doctor tells them that his
assistant
is not well at the moment, is feeling rather faint, and
has been
overdoing it. A questioning Jo is lead out by the Doctor.
After the
pair leave, the Investigator asks, "Doctor... who did you
say?"
The pair
find Storage Bay Area 4 locked. He reaches into his pockets
to find
the sonic screwdriver but Jo has it, taking it out of her
pocket.
"Give me that," he laughs and smiles at her and snatches it
from her.
He shields her from the blast as he uses the sonic
screwdriver to blow it open.
The TARDIS
is behind the sliding door. "Ah well, back to the broom
cupboard," Jo says. "Yes, well, at least we made a clean sweep
of
this
place," the Doctor jokes. Jo shakes her head at his bad quip.
"No?" He asks. She nods no. Laughing, the two go into the
TARDIS.
The voice
of the Skybase tells the crew about a malfunction the
computer
reported of Storage Bay Area 4 door -- "Investigate
please," it says twice.
Source:
Charles Mento
Continuity Notes:
A
Mutt mutant goes on to make cameo appearances in Frontier
in
Space and The Brain of Morbius.
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The Time
Monster
The Time Monster
Serial OOO
Producer
Barry
Letts
Script
Editor
Terrance
Dicks
Designer
Tim
Gleeson Written by Robert Sloman*
Directed by Paul Bernard
Incidental Music by Dudley Simpson
Jon
Pertwee (Dr. Who), Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Roger Delgado
(Master), Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart)
[1-4,6], Richard Franklin (Captain Mike Yates) [1-4], John
Levene (Sergeant Benton) [1-4,6], Wanda Moore (Dr. Ruth
Ingram) [1-4,6], Ian Collier (Stuart Hyde) [1-4,6], John Wyse
(Dr.
Percival) [1-3], Neville Barber (Dr. Cook) [1-2], Barry
Ashton (Proctor) [1-2], Terry Walsh (Window Cleaner) [1],
Donald Eccles (Krasis) [2-6], Aidan Murphy (Hippias)
[2-3,5-6], Keith Dalton (Neophite) [2], Simon Legree (Unit
Sergeant) [3-4], Marc Boyle (Kronos) [3-4,6], George Cormack
(Dalios) [3,5-6], Gregory Powell (Knight) [3], Dave Carter
(Roundhead Officer) [3], George Lee (Farmworker) [4], Ingrid
Pitt
(Galleia) [5-6], Derek Murcott (Crito) [5-6], Susan
Penhaligon (Lakis) [5-6], Michael Walker (Miseus) [5-6],
Melville Jones (Guard) [5-6], Dave Prowse (Minotaur) [6],
Ingrid Bower (Face of Kronos) [6].
*
With Barry Letts, uncredited.
UNIT
are called into monitor the initial trials of a device
called TOMTIT - the Transmission Of Matter Through
Interstitial Time - at the Newton Institute at Wootton.
Created by the enigmatic Professor Thascales, TOMTIT's
demonstration causes unexpected time anomalies. The Doctor
soon
discovers that TOMTIT is not all that it seems...
At
the heart of TOMTIT is an ancient crystal, which the Master
hopes to use to gain control over Kronos - a Chronovore which
feeds on time itself. But the stone he holds is only part of
the
sacred crystal of Kronos - the main crystal is hidden...
The
Doctor and the Master journey back in time to the lost
city
of Atlantis, where the battle for the control of Kronos
intensifies... Can the Doctor prevent the Time Monster from
being unleashed...?
Original
Broadcast (UK)
Episode One 20th May, 1972 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Two 27th May, 1972 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Three 3rd June, 1972 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Four 10th June, 1972 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Five 17th June, 1972 5h45pm - 6h10pm
Episode Six 24th June, 1972 5h45pm - 6h10pm
Notes:
Released on video in episodic format. [+/-]
THE TIME MONSTER
U.K. Release: November 2001 / U.S. Release: January
2003
PAL - BBC video BBCV7177
NTSC - Warner Video E1729
Released as part of Master Box Set in the U.K. [BBC
video BBCV7175]. The tapes were packaged
individually inside the tin box but were not sold
separately.
Novelised as Doctor Who - The Time Monster by Terrance
Dicks. [+/-]
Number 102 in the Doctor Who Library.
Hardcover Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: September 1985.
ISBN: 0 491 03870 4.
Cover by Andrew Skilleter.
Price: 6.25.
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: February 1986.
ISBN: 0 426 20221 X.
Cover by Andrew Skilleter.
Price: 1.60.
Doctor Who Classics series
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
[Includes The D mons and The Time Monster].
First Edition: March 1989.
ISBN: 0 352 32382 5.
Cover by Andrew Skilleter.
Price: 2.95.
Doctor Who Magazine Archive: Issue #268.
Episode
One
(drn:
25'04")
Major
blasts, volcanoes issuing forth lava, and in the center is a
strange
podium and a giant glowing crystal in the shape of a trident
framed
against darkness. Standing over it all is the Master laughing
at him and
saying, "Welcome, welcome to your new Master." A
lightning
blast and the Master vanishes, laughing. More blasts and
clouds as
well as a strange face with hypnotic eyes, a female face.
UNIT: Jo
wakes the Doctor up and gives him a cup of tea. He tells
her about
volcanoes and earthquakes in his dream. The Doctor, in a
red velvet
jacket, stands up, taking the tea cup. Without drinking,
he hands
it back to her, "Thank you, I've enjoyed that." Jo asks the
Doctor
what he's been working on all night, a new dematerialization
circuit.
He denies that but it is something for the next time the
Master
turns up. He asks her to find out about any earthquakes or
volcanic
activity that has been happening in the world. She already
read
something to him last night, "It shows you don't listen to a
word I
say, doesn't it." She takes the newspaper and tells him that
the
activity is happening off the coast of Greece. He tells her
about the
trident...
which the
small crystal is what the shape is in and in the hands of
the Master
who is working with a short haired woman named Dr. Ruth
Ingram.
The crystal, The Master supposes to Ruth, is no different
than any
other piece of quartz but it is. This building is the
Newton
Research Institute in Cambridge. A young long haired man
comes
running in, Stuart Hyde and calls the Master, Prof. "Please,
don't call
me Prof," the Master snaps. Stu is late, having switched
the alarm
off in his sleep. The Master, AKA Professor Thascales,
cannot be
present at the test before the demonstration. Ruth tells
the
Professor not to patronize her. He asks her forgiveness and then
asks her
to run those tests. He leaves, shutting the door behind
him.
Ruth
complains about the Master, she not knowing what is more
infuriating, "his dictatorial manner or that infernal courtesy of
his."
She talks of male superiority. Stu voices his wish that God
will bless
the good ship Women's Lib and all who sail with her.
UNIT: Mike
Yates points out the Thera group of islands where the
quakes
have been. Jo calls the Doctor to come look at the map but
Thera
doesn't mean a thing to him. It is the subterranean bracket.
The Doctor
just dismisses the incident as just a bad dream. Mike
tells Jo
it was more interesting than the duty room. If nothing
turns up
soon, he thinks he will go round the twist. Jo mentions
Atlantis,
which many modern historians believe to be modern Thera's
location.
This interests the Doctor more now. Mike thought that
Atlantis
was supposed to be in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Jo
calls him
a bit out of date: it is thought of as being part of the
Minoan
civilization, "The Minotaur and all that Cretin jazz..." The
Doctor
tells Jo to fetch the Brigadier. He also snaps at her when
she asks,
"What now?" Jo moves off. Mike wonders why the Brigadier?
The Doctor
talks to the Brigadier on the phone and tells him to put
out a
world wide warning to every section of UNIT, all the UNIT HQs.
He
explains it is due to a dream he had about a half hour ago.
Later the
Brigadier talks to the Doctor in the Lab. Priority A1 is
the search
for the Master, not Priority Zed 144 as the Doctor
thought.
The Brigadier jokes that the Doctor will next be consulting
the
entrails of a sheep next. Jo laughs at this. The Doctor tells
the
Brigadier that he is too busy to go to the Newton Institute and
he will
need Jo to help him here, too. There is to be an inaugural
demonstration of TOMTIT -- the Transmission of Matter through
Interstitial Time. Apparently it can break down solid objects into
light
waves and transmit them from one place to another. Mike is the
duty
officer and cannot go with the Brigadier. Sergeant Benton comes
into the
lab, ready to go out on a 48 hour pass. The Brigadier will
take him
to the Newton Institute, at Wooten just outside Cambridge.
In another
room, the Master hypnotizes the Director, Dr. Percival
into
believing him about his TOMTIT experiments and his credentials.
Percival
was just about to reveal the Master as a charlatan.
Chairman
of the Grant's Committee, Dr Cook, one of Percival's
colleague
and friend, was to be at the demonstration. Percival found
no trace
before the Master attended Athens University. Percival
replaced a
drunkard. Now, he is hypnotized by the Master to believe
all about
the Master's Professorship and to obey the Master. "I will
obey."
Ruth and
Stu continue the checks on the experiment's machines. The
two finish
and talk about their job, their reputations, and their
growing
frustration. Stu calls Ruth "love" but he convinces her to
do the
test themselves. Ruth takes his bait of "of course, if you
need a man
in charge..." and they plan to go ahead without the
Master.
UNIT: Jo
tells the Doctor, "You know, Doctor, you're quite the most
infuriating man I've ever met." She wants to know what it is he is
making and
asks him again. He thought he already told her. She
guesses at
what it is: it detects disturbances in time, a TARDIS
sniffer
outer! He tells her that is well done, "You're learning."
This will
help them find the Master, "Bingo."
Stu dons a
radiation suit to protect him in the receiver room,
making a
comment about feeling like the back end of a horse. This,
Ruth
figures, is what he should feel like.
A man
climbs a ladder outside the window of the Newton lab and
watches
from outside, pretending to clean the window.
UNIT: the
Doctor is in the TARDIS and Jo outside, "I see here,
Doctor,
you're not going to disappear to Venus or anyplace like
that, are
you?" He laughs he is not and asks her to keep an eye on
the
readings.
While this
is happening, Ruth is making her test. It says the TARDIS
is only a
foot away. It's Venusian feet... they are much larger, the
Doctor
tells her, coming back out of the TARDIS, "...they're always
tripping
over themselves, Venusians." Jo tells him the readings have
started
again. The Doctor figures it is another TARDIS doing this.
The jar
that Ruth and Stu are sending via light waves seems to be
appearing
inside the crystal-receiver room where Stu is.
The Master
looks at the large clock on the university tower and
realizes
it is slowing down. The gong chime is dull and slow. He
knows the
pair are making the full test now. The jar fully vanishes
from Ruth
and appears in the room with Stu. The window washer is
watching.
Ruth calls
Stu back into the main room. The positive feedback is
overloading and threatens to blow. The window washer falls off the
ladder but
he falls slowly. The Master makes his way back to Ruth
and Stu,
whom he finds dancing like children and Stu singing, "We've
done
it." They dance right to the door where the Master awaits.
UNIT: the
signal is coming from 15 and 100 miles from UNIT. Jo tells
the Doctor
to take the map when he suggests they could get closer in
Bessie.
The Master
calls Ruth a fool and tells her to be silent. Stu tells
the Master
he is not his sister's keeper. He is her brother. The
Master
chastises them but relents when Ruth suggests they take this
to the
higher powers. The trio come to terms with the Master
manipulating Ruth but not Stu -- at least not right away. Stu calls
the other
two over to the crystal: it is still glowing. The Master
tells them
they were drawing power from outside of time itself --
this
caused the overload. He draws a picture of something they can
build --a
time vector filter that can be built into the transmitter.
It is a
paracybernetic control circuit effect. The demonstration is
at 2PM.
The Master will leave it to them; for he is to have a meal
with their
guests. The VIPs are arriving and Stu notices, "You'd
better get
your skates on." He mentions a UNIT jeep escorting them.
The guests
and UNIT arrive before the fallen window washer. He is
not dead.
He is still breathing.
The Master
tells Ruth he is a life long pacifist and that he wants
to do this
test himself now -- he's changed his mind. He will send
her to eat
with his guests, charming her into going, telling her she
trusts she
can devour a tough pheasant on his behalf. Ruth will send
some
sandwiches over to them. "Good thinking, Batman," Stu jokes.
When the
Master is out of earshot, Stu calls him a nutcase that they
have on
their hands.
Bessie
driven by the Doctor with Jo admiring the sky zooms along. It
is a
gloomy old day, she says. The Doctor tells her they are not on
a treasure
jaunt and that she should keep her eye on the time
sensor. It
works again -- a little over 16 Venusian miles away...
72.79
Earth miles away. They figure it to be Wooten and TOMTIT. If
the Master
is behind that, they have to stop the demonstration. The
Doctor
tells her to hang on tight and he hits the Super Drive switch
on Bessie.
The
Brigadier, Benton, Dr. Cook and his aide Proctor, and Percival
come into
the control room with Ruth at the research station. Cook
complains
about pheasant lunch and expenditures. The "Professor"
supposedly
wrote a paper on the Granule Structure of Time. Stu is
not sure
where the Professor is, he was here a couple of minutes
ago. The
Brigadier wants Dr. Ingram to explain her fearsome load of
electronic
nonsense in words of one syllable. She explains that time
is not
smooth, it is made up of little bits. Stu helps and explains
that time
is made up of series of minute present moments. Ruth
continues,
temporal atoms so if one can push something into the
space
between the moments it would exist outside our space time
continuum
altogether. They explain they have done it and shoved the
jar
through the crack between now and now as Benton explains
correctly.
The
Professor, AKA the Master returns in a radiation suit which
guards his
identity against detection by Benton and the Brigadier.
Jo yells
at the Doctor to slow down, it is not safe to drive at the
speeds
they are at in Bessie now. The Doctor tells her that is
nonsense;
for him. His reactions are ten times faster than hers and
Bessie is
no ordinary car. The brakes work by the absorption of
intertia
including the passengers which is why when they stop short,
Jo doesn't
go through the screen. They pick up the signal again
after
losing it. Bessie goes faster.
The test
goes on. They are tying to send a tea cup. Ruth wonders why
the
Professor needs anti radiation gear. He counters in case of
emergency
he may have join Stu in a hurry. They isolate matrix
scanner.
Ruth warns of the building power--it is too great. Stu is
in the
crystal room. He gets too much power and can't hold it. He
yells at
them to switch off. Ruth yells at the Professor to turn it
off. The
Master only yells out, "Come, Kronos, come!!!"
Episode
Two
(drn:
25'05")
The Master
runs away and hides. Outside, Bessie has pulled up to a
quick
stop. Jo is frozen in time. In the radiation room, Stu falls.
Time moves
slower and the gong is slow. The Doctor is not affected
as
strongly and he runs to the building, slow motion. He tells Ruth
to reverse
the polarity. The Brigadier and the Doctor run into the
room after
the radiation clears. Stu has turned to 80 or more. Jo
runs in
and asks if they are too late. The Doctor thinks they are
just in
time.
Later, the
Brigadier, the Doctor, and Jo see to a sleeping Stu as
Ruth cares
for him. 8 seconds to turn 80. If he wasn't a tough young
man he
would be dead. Stu's own personal time speeded up so fast
that his
own physiology went ahead. Ruth mentions Thascales, which
the Doctor
and Jo realize is Greek for Master. Stu wakes up and the
Doctor
tells Jo and Ruth to let Stu talk about who he saw. Even the
Brigadier
wants to stop the Doctor from doing this but Stu tells the
Doctor he
saw someone named "Kronos." The Doctor wants Jo to stay
with Stu
as he leaves with Ruth. He also tells the Brigadier he has
a job for
him too just after the Brigadier mentions to Jo that she
should
lock the door.
The
Brigadier calls Yates and tells him to bring weapons along
including
anti tank guns, because he feels naked as a baby in a
bath. The
Doctor also wants Yates to bring the TARDIS with him.
Dr. Cook
chastises Percival wondering if a full scale White Hall
inquiry is
in order. The Brigadier takes over the area and inact
secrecy on
Cook and Proctor. The Brigadier calls a weary Percival to
evacuate
the project at once. Benton will watch the machine.
Percival
tells the Brigadier, "You may enjoy playing the soldier..."
The
Brigadier wants them gone by 3, telling the man that the Master
will be
back.
The Doctor
and Ruth return to the lab and Benton. Ruth asks why he
won't
explain. He has to find out if he is right first. He looks at
the
crystal of Kronos. When Ruth asks what this is about, he rubs
the back
of his neck and tells her it is difficult to explain. He
tries,
telling her he has been to the strange place, even to him,
the idea
of stepping outside of space time. "A place that is no
place, a
dangerous place where creatures live beyond your wildest
imagination. Chronovores, time eaters that would swallow a life as
quickly as
a boa constrictor can swallow a rabbit." Kronos is the
most
fearsome of the lot.
Percival
returns to his office to find the Master sitting in a chair
with his
back to the door and writing down calculations. The Master
is calm
and tells him not to fidget.
The Doctor
and Ruth discuss Kronos: a Titan who ate his children.
One of
those children was Poseidon-the god of Atlantis. The Doctor
calls the
Atlanteans, cousins to those in Athens, extraordinary
people.
Once reality becomes unbearable for them, they created
legends
around the reality to tame it. Kronos was drawn into time by
the
priests of Atlantis using the crystal. The "Professor" wants to
capture
the Chronovore. Not just danger to just our world, our
galaxy but
to the entire created universe.
The Master
smokes a cigar. He calls Percival closer to him and he
hypnotizes
him into not worrying, "Just obey me." Percival gets on
with his
telephoning. The Master tells him it has been a long time
that he
has come across a hypnotic subject as good as Percival is,
"It's
just like old times." He laughs slightly.
The signal
the Doctor picked up was not that from TOMTIT but from an
instrument
bank in the control room: the bank is the Master's
TARDIS. He
tells Benton and Ruth.
Percival
inadvertently makes the Master lose his place in his sums.
E equals
MC cubed in the time vortex. The Master is trying to find
out why
they had that massive power build up. Both and the Doctor
figure
that logically there shouldn't have been an overload.
The Doctor
asks the Sergeant logically what they should do: switch
on. The
Doctor tells Benton he is a strong, young man: he should go
in and
pick up the crystal. Wary at first, he does so since the
Doctor
says it is safe as this low level. He cannot move it. The
Doctor
tells them this crystal is in institial time--it isn't here
at all. It
is linked to the other crystal or rather it is the other
crystal.
It is in Atlantis.
Lighting
bolts and a young shirtless boy in some other time and
place,
Atlantis perhaps, runs, cowering to the holiness, a priest
named
Krasis who calls to Kronos. He awaits Kronos's call. Krasis is
the High
Priest of the Temple of Poseidon. He is over the great
crystal.
He is also watched by a younger man, shirtless, and with
long black
hair. This is Hippias.
Benton
gets call from Jo for the Doctor, who comes to the phone. Stu
is coming
to. The Doctor asks if Ruth is coming. Then he asks,
"Coming, Dr. Ingram?'" She laughs, "Ruth will do."
He calls her Ruth
and they
go toward Jo and Stu.
Jo is on
the phone with Benton. Jo jokes with Benton until Stu gets
into a
fuss about Kronos coming back. He has the grand daddy of all
hangovers.
Stu sees his hands and wonders what is happening. He asks
for a
mirror and sees himself, realizing how old he is now, "No.
No."
The Master
finishes his calculations. He puts out his cigar. He
wants to
go back to the lab, asking who is on guard. The Master
knows how
to deal with Benton.
Stu is
explaining what happened to the Doctor, what he saw. The
Doctor
says, "Go on, old chap... go on, you're doing fine." Stu
tells him
all his life and energy was being sucked out of him, he
felt like
he was on fire. Stu just knew it was Kronos... a race
memory
told him it was Kronos. "We all have them," the Doctor says.
He also
tells Stu he doesn't know if he can help him but he will do
everything
he can.
Benton
gets a phone call telling him that the Brigadier wants him
back at
the house. The call is from Percival, who puts him in a bit
of a spot.
Percival tells the Master, who claims Percival's
performance was inept. The Master gives Percival the phone number to
contact
the Brigadier --534 -- the number is the other phone in the
room. When
Benton calls, the Master picks up and imitates the
Brigadier's voice. This makes Benton look out the window, leaving it
open. He
leaves the building, watched by Percival from the office
Percival
and the Master are in. They leave. Benton climbs up a
ladder
onto a roof and up another ladder. He goes into another room
where he
watches the Master and Percival leave. He takes out his
pistol and
hides as the pair come.
"Soon, I shall have all the time in the world, literally. Nothing
in
the world
can stop me now." Benton hidden, now reveals himself and
tells them
to put their hands up in the air. "Well, well, well, the
resourceful Sergeant Benton." Benton tells him that the phone call
is the
oldest trick in the book. The Master claims he underestimated
Benton.
The Brigadier doesn't call Benton "my dear fellow." The
Master has
not obtained the tribal taboos of military etiquette. He
calls
these primitive absurdities. The Master bluffs the Doctor is
in the
room and Benton looks another way. This gives the Master time
to knock
Benton down. "That is the oldest trick in the book." The
Master is
going to bring someone here that will show him how to
harness
the power. He makes Percival watch the crystal.
The far
past in Atlantis: Krasis is still calling the lord of life
and of
death to give him the strength. Before Hippias's shocked
face,
Krasis vanishes in a blast of lightning and appears with a
blast, his
red cloak waving... appearing in the radiation room
before the
view of the Master and Percival... a face of devout
fanaticism...
Episode
Three
(drn:
23'59")
Benton
recovers as Krasis meets the Master, who claims he is lord of
time and
ruler of Kronos. The Master tells Krasis his plan as Benton
runs out,
spotted by Percival. The Master knows Krasis has the
secret,
the formula. Krasis denies this, it is lost. The only thing
is the
crystal and the seal of the high priest. The seal is all the
Master
needs to rule Kronos.
As Ruth
has Stu in a wheel chair and he jokes about his old age
pension,
the Doctor tries to calm him into resting. Benton comes
running to
them, Jo, The Brigadier and two guards to tell them the
Master is
in the lab.
The Master
is figuring the ratios which remain constant throughout
time.
Benton tells the Doctor that the new man inside has said he is
from
Atlantis. The Brigadier snaps into action, telling the females
to get
undercover. Ruth discards this and runs after the Brigadier.
The Doctor
yells at the Brigadier to wait. Jo points out that Stu's
youth
returns and then leaves again. There is a massive feedback of
time. The
Doctor tells Jo it is too late, "Kronos is coming!"
A white
feathered male like bird like figure appears flying in the
lab making
loud noises. It seems to make Percival vanish, destroying
him.
Krasis tells the Master he will never control the lord of time.
The Master
orders it to obey and uses the seal to trap it in the
lab.
Outside,
the Brigadier, Benton and Ruth are running in slow motion.
"Just
as I thought. They run right into trouble," the Doctor says
and runs
to Ruth. He pulls her back to Jo.
Ruth asks,
"What's going on?"
Jo
answers, "Don't worry. The Doctor will explain later... I hope."
The Master
is reducing the additional flow as Kronos is flying about
the lab
trying to get out. Outside, the Doctor runs and fetches the
Brigadier
back to Jo and Ruth with Benton already having been
brought
back.
The Doctor
orders everybody inside with no time to explain now.
The power
slows and the Master reenters the radiation room as Kronos
vanishes.
Krasis and the Master argue. The Master can always bring
Kronos
back. This sets Krasis in order but the Master wants
knowledge,
"Why could I not control him!?"
"For
all your sorcery you are as a child trying to control a rouge
elephant," Krasis says. The rest of the crystal is deep in the
vault
of the
Temple of Poseidon. The one here is but a part of it.
In
Atlantis in the past, Hippias brings back the enigmatic and
ageless
King Dalios to the vanished crystal. The sky opened and a
spear of
fire hurled by the hand of Zeus made Krasis and the crystal
vanished
in a puff of smoke. He asks Dalios if the time of fire has
come.
Hippias tells the years of Kronos were the golden years but
Dalios
tells him that their world is in great danger. They descend
old grey
steps. Dalios asks Hippias how old he thinks he is. He is
not 80
years old as Hippias assumes. He saw the building of the
temple and
he saw the image of Poseidon himself. Dalios tells him he
is 537
years old. Dalios leads him to a door behind which the light
of the
true crystal of Kronos exists. He tells Hippias he must guard
it. There
is a thing, half man, half beast behind the door which
guards the
crystal.
In the
sickbay, the Brigadier asks what to do. The Doctor tells them
to wait,
that is all they can do. Jo says, "I've think we've heard
that
before." She laughs. Stu is back to his youthful self. The
Doctor
asks him to make him some tea. The Brigadier is annoyed as
the Doctor
and Stu plan marmalade sandwiches, "This isn't a picnic!
One moment
you're talking about the entire universe blowing up and
the next
you're going on about tea! Doctor, what's happening?!" He
explains
the Brigadier was caught in a hiatus in time: being without
becoming,
an ontological absurdity. Jo tries to help in this. TOMTIT
made a
crack in time, a gap in the now and now. Ruth gives the
Doctor a
sandwich but gives it to Jo. Ruth asks why she and Stu
weren't
affected when they working closer to it. The Doctor tells
her that
when you stand under a fountain you don't necessarily get
wet.
"Oh I see," she says. The Brigadier doesn't. The Brigadier asks
the Doctor
what he is doing. "Me?" Collecting, he smiles.
Krasis
fears the might one may return. The Master mocks him, "How
fortunate
for Atlantis to be blessed with such a courageous high
priest." The Master reverses the institial flow from the crystal,
draining
time energy otherwise they would not be able to take it
with
them..when they go to Atlantis.
The Doctor
tells the others that without the TARDIS they can do
nothing
and a bottle. Stu helps the Doctor get a Moroccan burgundy
bottle and
Ruth gets a cap still on a corkscrew. The Doctor is
performing
a delaying tactic to slow the Master down.
Krasis
sees the power dying in the crystal. "You are indeed The
Master." The Master smiles.
The Doctor
has fashioned some contraption from the junk. Ruth calls
him
another nutcase and laughs. Stu follows. Jo tells them to wait
and see.
The Master
tells Krasis to help him carry the crystal but Krasis
beseeches
him to not allow him to carry it.
The
Doctor's time flow analogue is almost done. "You're a
Philistine, Brigadier." It is a time flow analogue. The Doctor goes
on about
what it is: the relationships between the different
molecular
bonds and the actual shapes form a crystalline structure
of ratios.
The Brigadier asks Ruth if she understands any of this;
not a
word. The Brigadier asks the Doctor to stop this silly game at
once.
"Patients, Brigadier, patients." The device doesn't work. But
when Stu
mentions tea, the Doctor drinks his cup dry and puts the
cup on top
of his device of junk.
The Master
gets Krasis to reach for the crystal, which comes alive
when the
Doctor's device works. It is like jamming a radio signal.
The Doctor
says "we" used to make them at school to jam each other's
time
experiments. The Master calls the Doctor a meddling fool. The
Master
uses something on TOMTIT to make the jammer device fall
apart.
UNIT is
bringing the TARDIS to the lab. Greyhound 3 calls Greyhound.
On a
wristwatch device, the Master sees the convoy and hears Captain
Mike Yates
calling the Brigadier. They are ten miles away. Krasis is
impressed
by this. The Master will give him a demonstration of his
power over
time.
A Medieval
Knight on horseback with lance and shield comes running
at the
convoy, which splits apart to let him through. Yates reports
they are
stuck in the mud, forced off the road by some goon in fancy
dress, he
thinks. The Brigadier asks if he is suffering from
hallucinations or if he has been drinking. Yates tells the Brigadier
the knight
vanished. The Brigadier states he has been drinking. The
Master
talks to himself, ready to use more against Captain Yates.
Yates gets
everyone off the convoy but something is firing at them
and hits
one of the jeep canvases. A group of Roundheads from the
17th
Century firing with cannonball fire. The Brigadier thinks this
is a joke.
The Doctor tells him it is deadly serious. The Master is
using the
crystal's power to bring these figures from time to the
present.
The
Doctor, Jo, and the Brigadier leave. Stu always fancied himself
a
cavalier. The Brigadier asks Ruth and Stu to place themselves
under
Benton's command. They are the only two besides the Doctor who
can handle
that infernal machine. He leaves Ruth to say, "A bit of
old world
charm." The Brigadier will go under his own steam and
tells the
Doctor to try not to be too far behind. The Doctor sets
Bessie on
Super Drive and quickly catches up with the Brigadier.
Krasis
wonders why the Master fears the machine (TARDIS) so much. He
just
doesn't want his enemy to chase him to Atlantis. Yates hurls a
bomb at
the Roundheads but they vanish back into time before the
blast.
The Master
comments they should duck because here comes the grand
finale.
Through
the clear afternoon air a World War Two plane, black, flies
over the
lab and heads for the Doctor and Jo in Bessie as well as
the
Brigadier in his van. Ruth, Benton, and Stu hear it as they wait
in the
lab. Bessie stops. Jo thinks there is something wrong with
the
engine. The Brigadier stops with them. The plane is a V1, the
Doctor
identifies it. "A doodlebugger, buzzbomb." Germans used it to
bomb
London as the Doctor and Brigadier explain -- to get down flat.
The
Brigadier warns Yates, it is a bomb. The Doctor makes Jo get out
of the car
and they get down. There is a terrifying blast and in the
trees
where the convoy is a huge wall of flame and smoke flare up in
the
explosion. The Brigadier continues to try to call Yates, "Mike
can you
hear me?!!?"
Episode
Four
(drn:
23'54")
Benton
calls the Brigadier and Captain Yates. A man is at the UNIT
site -- a
farmworker who tells the UNIT men that this is the same
spot that
a German doodlebug blew up in 1944.
The Master
tells Krasis he enjoyed that but that the TARDIS cannot
be
destroyed, "But people can."
At the
site, the Brigadier examines Mike's head wound and tells him
he is
finished for the day. The Doctor and Jo are with him. Mike
tries to
argue. Mike is sorry about the TARDIS but the Doctor tells
him not to
worry. He also tells Jo to watch a device. The farmer has
a tractor
tied to the TARDIS and he is pulling it out of a ditch.
Benton
agrees with Ruth to try to go and get the Master out of the
lab. Stu
disagrees. He tells them he is a card carrying coward. But
Stu goes
with Benton. Ruth tells him that she knew he wouldn't let
them down.
"Give me time, that's all," he says. Krasis and the
Master
enter the Master's TARDIS. The Master uses its largeness on
the inside
to show his power off to Krasis who calls this the
Master's
Temple. The Master has taken the crystal and part of TOMTIT
into his
TARDIS. The Master starts his TARDIS to leave, testing
before
takeoff. The power drain makes it take awhile for it to be
ready.
Jo warns
the Doctor that the device has moved: this has registered
that the
Master is ready to leave. An ambulance has arrived and a
man is
treating Mike's head with a bandage. The Doctor will have to
fly the
TARDIS from where it is; the plan is to use the Time Sensor
that is in
Bessie and hook his TARDIS inside the Master's; that way
he can go
wherever the Master goes. The Doctor is ready to go into
the TARDIS
and knows there is nothing he can say to dissuade Jo,
thus he
opens the door for her and they go in.
"Goodbye Lethbridge Stewart," the Doctor says as he is about
to
enter. Jo
asks the Doctor about why the TARDIS looks so different.
He tells
her it is just a spot of redecoration. He wants her to
realise
what he is about to do is appallingly dangerous. He closes
the door
and she takes his cloak and hangs it and her own frilly
jacket on
a coat stand or a music stand. The Doctor shows her a
device.
The TARDISes are operating on the same frequency and he had
to
coordinate it to the billionth part of the nanosecond. If too
low, they
will miss it; too high and they will have a Time Ram: the
atoms of
their TARDIS would occupy the same atoms as the Master's.
The Doctor
welcomes Miss Grant aboard, "Glad to have you aboard,
Miss
Grant." The TARDIS vanishes. The farmer sees it go,
"Londoners."
Ruth,
Benton, and Stu, in that order, sneak from tree to tree as
they make
their way toward the building where the lab is. They hide
in the
bushes.
The Doctor
checks the console. The center console moves up and down.
The move
depends on the TARDIS's mood. Jo mentions the Doctor talks
about the
TARDIS as if it were alive. He mentions it only seems to
be alive,
"Take old Bessie for instance." They will be outside time.
A
materialization. Master's TARDIS is inside the Doctor's. Jo puts
on the
monitor and they see a red haze outside. Seeing through the
TOMTIT gap
into the time vortex. The Doctor opens the doors and goes
outside,
"Good grief." He calls Jo out... they are in the Master's
TARDIS it
seems. He opens the doors and they go into another TARDIS,
each
TARDIS is inside the other.
In the
lab, Krasis paces but notices out the window that a UNIT jeep
and a
truck are coming. The Master will fix them. He hits the
machinery
and the Brigadier and men slow down in time. The Master
tells
Krasis to hurry into the TARDIS. The Master says, "They won't
stop me
now." Ruth and Stu do stop him with Benton behind the Master
with a
pistol. "I should have disposed of you while I had the
chance," the Master snarls, his hands up. When Benton allows Stu to
see if the
Master has a gun, the Master tosses him aside in front of
Benton,
pushes past Ruth and enters his TARDIS and closes the door.
Krasis
mentions the other one is here. The Master is pleased. The
TARDIS
with Jo and the Doctor shakes. Jo falls on the floor. It is
temperamental when aroused, the TARDIS is. He called it a she. The
Doctor and
the Master both apologize for Jo's bottom being hurt. The
Master
welcomes them from the Doctor's screen.
Benton,
Ruth, and Stu talk about what's happened. Stu calls out,
"It's
not the end of the world, now is it?" The Doctor seems to
think it
might be. Benton is angry about losing the Doctor. Ruth
calls the
two men a couple of old women. Stu calls them to the
window
where they see the Brigadier and the men are still in time,
frozen in
place. The trio are trapped inside. Benton doesn't think
they
should stop the transmitter but he gives her the order to
switch it
off. She does but the Brigadier and men are still stuck in
time. The
forcefield seems to go around the entire building.
The Doctor
and the Master verbally spar. There is a time lock on the
Doctor's
TARDIS. The Master is as trapped as he is, the Doctor says.
The Master
warns that he could fling the Doctor into the time
vortex.
The Master switches off the audio to the Doctor and calls
the Doctor
brilliant, with an excellent brain alittle pedestrian,
"But
oh, what a bore." He is dangerous, the Master says but he can
handle the
Doctor. He knows as soon as the Doctor does realize the
sound is
off and cannot bear to not have the last word, the Doctor
will come
out. The Doctor explains what the Master did and uses two
words that
Jo doesn't understand. "If the Thraskin puts his fingers
in his
ears... give a polite shout," the Doctor quotes an old
Venusian
proverb. It is a word seldom used at least since the 25th
dynasty.
And Thraskin also means plinge. Jo asks what that means.
"Oh
for heaven's sake, Jo, I just told you, it means Thraskin." Jo
makes a
sarcastic comment, "Of course."
Ruth
figures TOMTIT has made a permanent gap in the structure of
time. Ruth
is having a go to see what happens to try to plug up the
gap. Ruth
tells Benton to just stand there and look pretty. She
starts the
machine up as Stu watches the time bridge and isolates
the matrix
scanner. Benton shrinks in size as they try their
experiment. The Brigadier is still stuck in time. Stu notices a baby
infant on
the floor: Benton.
Krasis
asks, "What will you do now, Master?" The Master just laughs.
The Doctor
makes a sound device that the Master cannot switch him
off but
the Master ups him one and makes the Doctor talk in
backwards
talk or nonsense talk. The Master is picking up his words
before
he's spoken them and feeding them back to the Doctor via the
telepathic
circuits of the TARDIS. Jo finds out the TARDISes are
telepathic. "How else can they communicate?" He asks her. He
will go
out there,
locking the TARDIS and safely locking her in. The Doctor
warns her
to do as she is told. It is her job, as she said before
she walked
into the TARDIS this time. To Jo's dismay, the Doctor
leaves and
she has to shut the door.
The Doctor
meets Krasis, "Any friend of the Master's is an enemy of
mine." The Master knows he is risking the entire cosmos. Jo watches
their
sparring on the scanner screen. The Master tells the Doctor
that
everyone is paranoid and mad, "I'm a little more honest than
the
rest." The Master turns on the device and the crystal glows.
Kronos
appears and waves his wings over the Doctor. Jo faints as she
sees the
Doctor vanish. The Master traps Kronos again but sees Miss
Grant on
the screen. He explains the Doctor is beyond anyone's help.
He tells
Jo the thing engulfed him. The Doctor is in the time
vortex,
alive forever -- a living death -- in an eternity of
nothing.
She calls that the most cruel, the most wicked thing she's
ever
heard. "Thank you, my dear," he said. "Now what are we going to
do about
you though. You're an embarrassment to me as indeed is that
antiquated
piece of junk of the Doctor's."
Jo cries,
"I don't really care anymore. Do what you like. Just get
it over
with."
The Master
says, "Your word is my command." He flips a switch and
the
spinning TARDISes separate, "Goodbye Miss Grant." Jo and the
TARDIS
part from the Master's, splitting off. She fades from his
screen as
the console room she is in tilts back and forth. Jo hears
the
Master's laughing echo...
Episode
Five
(drn:
24'29")
The
TARDISes spin away from each other. Jo awakens as she hears
whisperings of the Doctor. He's still alive but nowhere. In the time
vortex.
The TARDIS is relaying his voice to her and the other voices
are his
subconscious thoughts. He tells her not to listen too
closely to
them. Jo walks past a wooden piece of furniture. The
TARDIS has
put them in touch so that he can instruct her to go to
control
panel number 3 and lift the Extreme Emergency Panel lid. She
pulls it
and the Doctor appears, sitting.
Atlantis,
far past: horns are being blown and main doors are opened.
Dalios
comes into the court outside the Temple of Poseidon. Black
slaves
carry in a large throne-like chair of a sitting woman,
Galleia,
the wife of Dalios. The music stops and court starts.
Hippias
comes to the Dalios and asks to speak plainly. Dalios tells
him to
speak as a friend should speak. Hippias does telling them the
people are
starving. Others present agree with his truth. Hippias
asks for
the divine power to be given back to the land from which it
was stolen
-- the power of Kronos.
The Master
in his TARDIS makes plans to have the people of Atlantis
believe he
is the Master and he has the power to bring Kronos back
to them.
Dalios
reminds the people that Kronos was a curse: temples twice
this size
fallen, people drunk, land made waste by fire, and if
Kronos
came again, Atlantis would be doomed, never to rise again.
Galleia,
with a cat in her arms, hears strange music. The Master's
TARDIS,
which appears from thin air with wheezing. The Master comes
out of it
and pushes aside the tridents of the guards. He snaps his
fingers
and Krasis comes out of the TARDIS. Galleia comes forward
telling
them the Master has the bearing of a god himself. Dalios has
seen many
such tricks. The King departs with Krasis and the Master,
who eyes
Galleia, who mentions her liking of the Master. Hippias
notices
this.
Jo tells
the Doctor he hasn't managed to fix the TARDIS yet -- how
can he
follow the Master? The time sensor will tell them where the
Master's
TARDIS is. Krasis is back with Hippias who he is arguing
with when
the Doctor's TARDIS appears. Hippias orders the guards to
stop from
using their tridents on the Doctor and Jo. Krasis wanted
Jo and the
Doctor killed, astounded they are still alive.
As Dalios
and the Master talk, Galleia listens by a column. Guards
are also
present. The Master tries to hypnotize Dalios, "You will
obey
me." Dalios just laughs and knows the Master is no emissary of
the gods.
Dalios asks about Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, and Olympus.
Dalios
knows Kronos is not a god, nor is the Master. He will not
give the
Master the crystal. The Master tries to leave but is
blocked by
the guards. Dalios tells him when he can tell the truth
Dalios
will listen. Then he leaves and is brought back outside and
right into
the Doctor, who enjoy his surprised look. The Doctor
smiles,
"Good afternoon. Now where have I seen that face before,"
and
"Can't think of anything to say?" Jo counters with, "How bout
curses
foiled again."
Hippias
takes the Doctor and Jo.
Galleia
moves to find the Master.
Dalios is
introduced to Jo by the Doctor, "This is Jo, Jo Grant."
Dalios
takes this to mean she is called "Jo-Jo Grant," and he
flatters
her with truth but tells her he knows it is just gallantry
of an old
man that made him call her a goddess. He asks Hippias to
take Jo-Jo
Grant to the Queen. Jo looks at the Doctor, "You'll be
allright," he says to her. She follows Hippias.
The Doctor
tells Dalios that Hippias saved his and Jo's lives when
Dalios
calls Hippias's introduction a redneck fisherman. Dalios
wonders
why Hippias saved their lives and kept it to himself.
Lakis
combs the Queen's hair in her bed chamber. Galleia asks Lakis
what she
thinks of the Master. Lakis thinks he had the bearing of a
god,
Galleia's very thoughts. Galleia asks if Lakis is frightened.
Lakis
likes the lord Hippias better. A sweet meat, a confection for
a child's
taste. Galleia prefers the Master who would not cloy upon
the tongue
as Hippias. Lakis thinks he is handsome. Galleia moreso
likes his
face of power and calls Hippias a boy, a petulant boy.
Hippias at
the door overhears this and comments. He is foolish to
trust a
Queen. She counters foolish to think he could love a Queen.
Hippias
brings Jo in. He tells the Queen he did his best but she
counters
that the King made him look a fool. The Queen won't shake
Jo-Jo's
hand. She finds Jo's language strange and colloquialisms
odd.
Galleia asks Lakis to show her to a chamber and give her
something
more fitting to wear for a lady of the court. Galleia asks
Lakis to
come back quickly. Hippias asks if he has anything to do
for the
Queen and mocks her a bit but his sadness at her not loving
him
anymore is felt. He knew Galleia once, the woman, the sweet and
loving
lady. He took her for that Queen. She dismisses him and calls
Lakis to
come to her at once. She sends the girl to the Lord Master
and to
tell him one word: Kronos.
Kronos,
Dalios utters his word. He is the last one alive to recall
the
twisted guts this thing caused. Dalios tells the Doctor the
crystal
cannot be destroyed -- they tried but only split the smaller
crystal
from it. The Doctor realizes, "It's just like the TARDIS, it
has its
being outside of time but it's appearance is here." If
wisdom is
to seek the truth, the Doctor admits to being a
philosophy. Dalios asks the Doctor to help him save Atlantis.
The Master
will not wait for the Queen but before he can go, the
Queen
arrives for him and the two drink from goblets. The Master
calls her
beautiful. Galleia dismisses Lakis to administer to the
needs of
their guest. Jo has a new outfit on, "A groovy dress. You
reckon
it'll get Mum's approval?" She asks this to Lakis and the two
are
friendly. Jo's hair is done up curly now and long sides. She
wants to
listen to the Master and Jo. Jo promises she will as quiet
as an
Atlantean mouse. Lakis listens with her.
The Queen
must have approval over the Master's actions. With their
plans, she
makes sure that nothing must happen to Dalios. He wants
the
crystal but not without her consent. He will restore Atlantis to
its former
glory. The Master promises Dalios will rule for many
years but
relieve him of his duties. He tells her it will be a
pleasure
to serve her. When the end comes to Dalios "as it must to
all
men" the Master will take the crystal. Krasis has the key and
Galleia
tells him where it is but he cannot go -- there is the
Guardian...
The
Guardian is told about from Dalios to the Doctor. The beast was
once a
friend to Dalios, once a man, a fellow counsellor, a great
athlete.
He wanted the strength of a bull and a long life in which
to use it.
Kronos in blind sport gave this man his desire... with
the head
of a bull for 500 years or more. The Doctor calls this the
Minotaur
which Dalios does not understand the word. To try to
approach
the crystal is certain death.
The Master
asks Krasis if he would like to try. Galleia tells them
they will
send one who is mighty with the sword and one who wants
the
crystal too. Jo and Lakis hear this. Jo needs Lakis to take her
to the
Doctor. She refuses until Jo mentions it is the only way to
save her
precious Hippias. The guards bar them and a cloaked Lord
Cretin
tells them the King is not to be disturbed. It is a matter of
life and
death... Jo's. Lakis stops Jo from pleading more with them.
Lakis
whispers to Jo, pulling her aside, telling her Cretin is not a
friend to
Hippias. The girls hide as Krasis and Hippias come out of
the
Queen's room. Jo will follow them. She sends Lakis to try to get
in to tell
the Doctor.
Jo sees
Hippias enter the lair of the maze and moves to follow,
calling
him not to go in further. Krasis grabs her and tosses her
into the
maze, shutting and locking the doors. Jo gets up and bangs
on the
doors, yelling for out. A loud roar occurs and Jo backs
against
the wall, looking at something in utter horror...
Episode
Six
(drn:
24'54")
The Bull
faced man, a giant of a man, raises its horns at Jo. Lakis
comes into
Dalios and the Doctor. She is taken out by Cretin who
tried to
stop her. But the Doctor hears her. Jo hides from the
monster
man but it is searching for her. Krasis orders a guard with
a trident
to seize the Doctor at the doors. The Doctor uses Venusian
Karate to
get the spear against both the guard and Krasis's necks,
"Sorry to hold you up like this, Krasis, but I need that key!"
He
gets the
key from Krasis's neck chain and snaps the trident in two.
He gets
into the doors and calls for Jo.
Jo finds
herself at a dead end and turns as the Minotaur rushes at
her. The
Lordling Hippias comes at it with a flaming torch but is
thrown
down. He attacks it again and it picks him up bodily to throw
him threw
some glass. The Doctor arrives and uses his red cape and
jacket to
bull fight the Minotaur, uttering Spanish. It falls. The
Doctor
gets to Jo but moves her out of the way as it charges them
both now.
It goes through a smoking ravine or pit and a bit of glass
too.
Hippias is dead. The broken glass held a room where the crystal
is kept.
Jo tells the Doctor it is beautiful but at the same time it
gives her
a funny, horrible and creepy feeling. The Doctor thinks
the
Master's little game is at an end. Krasis is there with his
guards.
The Doctor orders Krasis to take him to see the King.
He does.
The King is the Master now. The Master chuckles that Krasis
is a
jolly, funny fellow who loves a joke... as Krasis stands there
with a
scowl. The Palace Revolution has been a complete success.
Galleia
arrives and tells them the King is still the King. The
Master
thanks them for getting the crystal for him. Their reward
tomorrow:
a suitable meeting with Kronos, "And this time Doctor,
there will
be no mistake!" Dalios is supposedly being treated with
honour.
The Doctor and Jo are taken away. The Master tells the Queen
that he
has a lot to do and she must leave him alone too. He tells
her she
must learn to obey to his will and carry out his commands
like a
soldier. Galleia tells him, "Like a servant girl. And you
must
learn, my love, that Galleia is a Queen." Nevertheless, she
leaves.
The Doctor
and Jo are in a cell tied up with their backs to a stone
pole and
sitting on hay. Jo quips that her anthropology course
didn't
teach her how to break out of Atlantean chains. Jo is nervous
but the
Doctor remains calm. If the Master wins the whole of
creation
is delicately balanced in cosmic terms. All order and
structure
will be swept away and nothing left but chaos. Jo feels it
seems sort
of pointless. The Doctor felt that way when he was young,
it seemed
the blackest day of his life. But not only the blackest
but his
best. He wanted to save this story for another day but he
goes into
some of it any way. When he was a little boy "we" used to
live in a
house that was perched half way up on top of a mountain.
And behind
our house, there sat under a tree, an old man, a hermit,
a monk, he
lived under this tree for half his lifetime so they said
and
learned the secret of life. So when my black day came, I went
and asked
him to help me."
Jo asks
what the secret was. "Well I'm coming to that, Jo, in my own
time." Jo puts her head against the pole but listens intently.
"Ahh,
I'll never forget what it was like up there, all bleak and
cold it
was. A few bare rocks with some weeds sprouting from them.
And some
pathetic little patches of sludgy snow. The grass was just
grey,
grey, grey. Well the tree the old man sat under that was
ancient
and twisted and the old man himself, he was as brittle and
as dry as
a leaf in the autumn."
Jo asks
what he said.
"Nothing, not a word. He just sat there silently, expressionless
and
he
listened whilst I poured out my troubles to him. I was too
unhappy
even for tears I remember and when I finished he lifted a
skeletal
hand and he pointed. Do you know what he pointed at? A
flower.
One of those little weeds. Just like a daisy it was. Well, I
looked at
it for a moment... suddenly I saw it through his eyes. It
was simply
glowing with life like a perfectly cut jewel... and the
colors,
well the colors were deeper and richer than anything you
could
possibly imagine. Yes, it was the daisest daisy I had ever
seen."
"And
that was the secret of life? A daisy?" Jo chuckles a bit at
this and
says, "Honestly Doctor."
"Yes,
I laughed too when I first heard it. So later I got up and I
ran down
that mountain. And I found that the rocks weren't grey at
all, they
were red, brown, and purple and gold. And those pathetic
little
patches of snow, they were shining white, shining white in
the
sunlight. You still frightened Jo?"
"No,
not as much as I was."
"I'm
sorry I brought you to Atlantis."
"I'm
not."
"Thank you."
Dalios is
shoved into the cell even though he wants to see the
Queen. He
tries to shove the guard out of way but the guard hits him
in the
head with the trident and he falls. The guard shuts the door.
Dalios
falls, horrified that that his sweet queen would betray him.
He asks
them to lean close to him. The vision of a dying man...
Atlantis
is doomed, the Doctor is a true philosopher, Dalios says.
The world
must be saved and the Doctor is the only one to do it. He
falls down
onto his back and dies. Jo cries. "We won't fail you,
Dalios," the Doctor says after he calls out to his friend Dalios.
The next
morning, Galleia is announced with horns. Galleia now
speaks to
the brethren of the counsel. Now they will have the
holiness,
the most venerable lord Master. He stands at her side and
Cretin
orders silence. The counsel is small but the few who put him
here are
to claim their just reward. Kronos the most terrible will
come and
the Master's assistant Krasis operates the machine. Jo and
the Doctor
ask about the rest of the counsel. They tell Galleia that
Dalios is
dead. She laments this and asks if this is true. Just
moments
ago calling him an old man, she now demands an answer. The
Master
gives it and will also give her power to reach her most
ambitious
dreams. He was an old man and he was stubborn, the Master
says.
Galleia hits him or tries to as he grabs her arms. She tells
her guards
to seize the Master but before they can do anything,
Krasis
operates the machine. Kronos appears and begins destroying
Atlantis.
The columns collapse. Krasis is killed. Kronos will not
obey the
Master. The Master runs to the crystal and grabs it. In the
chaos of
screaming people, the flying and screeching Kronos, Galleia
unties Jo.
Jo runs and jumps the Master from behind, trying to stop
him. The
Master, Jo on his back and her arms around his neck, enters
his
TARDIS. Galleia unties the Doctor, too. The Master's TARDIS
vanishes,
still in the form of a computer bank. And with the Master,
Jo, and
the crystal. The Doctor dashes into his TARDIS leaving
behind the
wings of Kronos beating to the sight of dead people and a
stunned
Galleia. She bows her head in sadness.
The Master
ties Miss Grant's hands and says of the Doctor, "You
know, I'm
going to miss him." The Master tells her he controls the
tiger
Kronos. Jo says, "Even a tiger comes when he hears a lamb
bleating." The Master tells her that was worthy of the late
lamented
Doctor.
The Master laughs and slaps his hands. He could kick himself
for not
having polished the Doctor off long ago. No Doctor to ruin
things for
his control of the universe. Dominion and absolute power
for all
time and over all space. The Doctor calls on the screen,
"I'll
soon sort him out for you." The Master tells him that the
Doctor
must be as indestructible as that wretched TARDIS of his. The
Master has
his TARDIS, Kronos, and Miss Grant... he holds all the
cards. The
Doctor tells him he will Time Ram. A bluff, the Master
says. The
Doctor starts it and his control starts to go over the
safety
limit. Two TARDISes occupying the same space at the same
time.
Oblivion. If the Doctor doesn't do this, Kronos will be free.
The Master
tells him to do it. The Doctor calls the Master's bluff,
"Goodbye Jo." The Doctor gives him one last chance. The Master
almost
believed the Doctor would do it. The Master tells the Doctor
he cannot
destroy Jo: his weakness: pity and compassion. Jo tells
the Doctor
to do it: think of all those millions of people who will
never be
born. The Doctor tells her they will find another way. The
Master
dreams of immeasurable glory. Jo grabs it and Time Rams the
ship,
"Goodbye Doctor!"
Both
TARDISes appear in a space time void. Jo wakes up untied and
goes out
to the limbo. She enters the Doctor's TARDIS and finds him
on his
back unconscious too -- like the Master. Jo tells him she is
fine,
"Dead of course, but I'm fine." She thinks they are all dead
and the
Doctor asks, "I suppose we're all in Heaven."
The pair
go out. "Groovy, isn't it," she says. He doesn't know where
they are.
He tells Jo he was about to Time Ram them himself, she
shouldn't
have. "Oh really?" Jo doubts that. He starts to get cross
with her,
"Now look, Jo...! no, not really..."
Kronos, a
large, giant face of a woman appears over the TARDISes and
the limbo
landscape. She can be all things: a destroyer, a healer, a
creator.
She is beyond good and evil as they know it. They are on
the
boundary of her reality and theirs. They brought themselves here
and the
Time Ram freed her -- Kronos from the Master. It took her to
the
threshold of being. She owes them. They wish to go home in the
TARDIS. Jo
asks about the Master. She wants him to stay for torment.
The Master
runs out and pleads with the Doctor to help him, on his
knees. The
Doctor asks one last favour -- to spare the Master, his
life, his
freedom. The Doctor asks if she will allow them to deal
with him
in their own way. The Master thanks the Doctor. Following
behind the
Doctor and Jo, the Master shoves Jo into the TARDIS and
enters his
own TARDIS. He leaves. Kronos tells them they asked for
him to
have his freedom, he has it.
Ruth and
Stu feed baby Benton. Ruth is trying to use the devices to
stop the
gap for good now. Jo asks the Doctor why he asked. The
Doctor
convinces Jo that neither of them would condemn anyone to an
eternity
of torture. Even though he was responsible for the
destruction of Atlantis. Jo thinks it is terrible... all those
people
dying. They are about to land back in Cambridge. It all
happened
three hundred thousand, five hundred years ago.
As Stu
countdowns, Ruth increases power. The TARDIS appears and out
come the
Doctor and Jo. The device works and the Brigadier and men
move
again. They get down as it blows up. Ruth cannot start it up
again...
not without the Professor. The Brigadier comes running in
and asks
where the Master is. He asks what Jo is doing in that getup
and asks
where Sergeant Benton is. Benton, naked, stands up, fully
adult
again and asks if someone would mind telling him what is going
on around
here. Jo laughs. The Doctor joins her.
Source:
Charles Mento
Continuity Notes:
Chronovores reappear in The Quantum Archangel and No Future.
Kronos returns in The Quantum Archangel, where the end
result of his billion-year old plan to avenge himself
against the Chronovores goes horribly wrong.
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The Three
Doctors
The Three
Doctors
Serial RRR
Producer
Barry
Letts
Script
Editor
Terrance
Dicks
Designer
Roger
Limiston Written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin
Directed by Lennie Mayne Incidental Music by Dudley Simpson
Jon
Pertwee, Patrick Troughton, William Hartnell (Dr. Who);
Katy
Manning (Jo Grant), Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier
Lethbridge-Stewart), John Levene (Sergeant Benton), Rex
Robinson (Dr. Tyler), Roy Purcell (President of the Council),
Laurie Webb (Mr. Ollis), Clyde Pollitt (Chancellor) [1-2],
Graham Leaman (Time Lord), Patricia Prior (Mrs. Ollis) [1,4],
Denys Palmer (Corporal Palmer) [1-2], Stephen Thorne (Omega)
[2-4].
Time
itself is in peril! The three Doctors are united against
an
old enemy from the distant past of Gallifrey...
Vital cosmic energy is draining into a black hole and the Time
Lords are under siege. The Doctor is their only hope but,
trapped in the TARDIS, he's powerless. The only way out is to
break the First Law of Time to let the Doctor help himself -
literally...
Original
Broadcast (UK)
Episode One 30th December, 1972 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Two 6th January, 1973 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Three 13th January, 1973 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Four 20th January, 1973 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Notes:
Released on video and DVD in episodic format. [+/-]
THE THREE DOCTORS
U.K. Release: August 1991 / U.S. Release: January
1992
PAL - BBC video BBCV4650
NTSC - CBS/FOX Video 3405
NTSC - Warner Video E1100
In the U.K., a remastered version of the story was
released by W.H.Smith as part of The Timelord Box
Set [BBCV7346].
U.K. Release: November 2003 / U.S. Release: March
2004
PAL Region 2 - BBCDVD1144
NTSC Region 1 - Warner DVD E1925
DVD FEATURES:
Commentary by Nicholas Courtney, Katy Manning and
Producer Barry Letts.
Pebble Mill at One - Bernard Wilkie and Patrick
Troughton interviews from Christmas 1973.
Blue Peter - Jon Pertwee and the Whomobile in
studio.
'BSB Highlights' - Excerpts from the BSB '31Who'
weekend.
'Five Faces of Doctor Who' trailer.
Original 1972 BBC1 trailer.
PanoptiCon '93 - Jon Pertwee on stage at the
PanoptiCon convention in 1993.
TARDIS-Cam footage.
Photo Gallery.
Production Information Subtitles.
Who's Who (Region 1 only).
Also released in the U.K. as a limited edition with
a miniature Bessie model car.
LINK: The Restoration Team work for The Three
Doctors DVD.
Novelised as Doctor Who - The Three Doctors by Terrance
Dicks. [+/-]
Number 64 in the Doctor Who Library.
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: November 1975. Reprinted in 1976.
ISBN: 0 426 10938 4 (also 426 11578 3).
Cover by Chris Achilleos.
Price: 30p.
Hardcover Edition - Allan Wingate Ltd.
First Edition: November 1975.
ISBN: ?.
Cover by Chris Achilleos.
Price: ?.
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: 1976. Reprinted in 1978, 1979, 1980,
1982, 1983, 1984.
ISBN: 0 426 11578 3.
Cover by Jeff Cummins.
Price: 60p.
Retitled Doctor Who and the Three Doctors.
Paperback Edition - Virgin Publishing Ltd.
First Edition: August 1991.
ISBN: 0 426 11578 3.
Cover by Alister Pearson.
Price: 2.50.
FOREIGN EDITION: Poland, 1994. Doctor Who -
Wladcy Czasu.
Publisher: Empire Books.
Translated by
Juliusz Garztecki.
AUDIO RELEASE:
Released as a
talking book by the Royal National
Institute for
the Blind, narrated by Gabriel
Woolf.
Released: 1981
?-Cassette Set
ISBN: ?
Doctor Who Magazine Archive: Issue #260.
Episode
One
(drn:
24'39")
On a small
grassy bank, a silvery balloon attached to a small orange
device is
found by the Warden of the Bird Sanctuary in which it
landed.
The Warden walks over to it carefully. He bends down to
examine
the small box, still clutching his shotgun in his right
hand. At
the same time a Landrover Van makes its way to the
sanctuary,
passing by a river over two bridges. It passes a sign
indicating
the way to Minsbridge Bird Sanctuary-
Warden s Lodge .
The
vehicle arrives at a house and the driver is greeted by a
pleasant
woman who addresses him as Dr Tyler. He answers yes. He
then
apologises for being a trouble and thanks her for calling. The
woman says
that her husband, Arthur, is looking after the device.
She
informs Tyler that he hasn t touched and Tyler s relieved. The
woman,
worried about the birds, inquires about chemicals- Dr Tyler
assures
her there are none. Tyler then gets back into his vehicle
and drives
off again.
At the
site of the device, the Warden and Tyler site each other.
Then
suddenly a crackling noise is emitted from the box and the
Warden
bends down again to examine it further. In a flash he
disappears, quite clearly disturbing the birds who then fly off in
panic.
Tyler reaches the scene, surprise to find the Warden, Mr
Ollis,
missing. He looks around and then gets back to his vehicle.
Then, over
the radio he asks to be put through to UNIT HQ.
At UNIT
HQ, Dr Tyler, the Doctor, the Brigadier and Jo Grant have
assembled
at the Doctor s laboratory. Tyler explains his situation
to the
Brigadier, the latter going to explain that he and the Doctor
will quite
happily be of assistance. Jo asks what the orange box is
for and
Tyler explains that it s for Cosmic-Ray Research. Tyler goes
on to
explain that although we re not NASA, we
still get the
results when Jo asks why they re
still using balloons. The device
inside
is the most advanced cosmic ray
monitoring device between
here
(quite subjective) and Cape Kennedy . Then Tyler tells the
Brigadier
that he was going to contact UNIT anyway, and produces a
set of
results which surprise even the Doctor, who has practically
seen
everything. Both the Americans and the
other lot have seen
the
results and they re confused too. The first sample is normal but
the latest
test sample is greatly different. The readout that Tyler
gives the
Doctor appears to suggest that the energy is travelling
faster
than light. Then Tyler suggests that the rays must ve been
deliberately directed at Earth.
But why? the Doctor and Tyler
then
ask.
Just then
the Brigadier asks if there s anything he can do. The
Doctor
says yes and asks for a stirring rod. The Brigadier picks up
a stirring
rod and hands it over to the Doctor, who promptly uses it
to stir
his tea. This slightly irritates the Brigadier who rephrases
his
question, asking if there s anything that UNIT can do about the
space
lightning , which the Doctor goes on to inform him is some
sort of
compressed light, a controlled
superlucent emission (it
travels
faster than light). The Doctor asks if the machine is
functioning properly and Tyler answers yes, but the latest plate
hasn t
been developed yet. The Doctor suggests that Tyler does so
immediately and lets him know. The Doctor and Jo then go off to
where the
balloon was found, not before informing Tyler of the
facilities
available. Dr Tyler immediately begins developing his
plate. The
Brigadier is still in the room and Tyler informs the
officer
that he can manage alright with the equipment, the Brigadier
then
sarcastically saying that Tyler can make himself at home before
he leaves
the room.
Once the
Brigadier has left Dr Tyler develops his plate, and is
shocked at
what he sees when it arrives- a human face, Mr Ollis to
be
precise, Then as Tyler goes over to the box to dismantle it a
crackling
sound can be heard and suddenly Dr Tyler disappears in a
flash too.
Out of the box a strange organism crawls out and down the
sinkhole.
Back at
the Sanctuary the Doctor, Jo and Mrs Ollis are at the sight
were the
device was found. Mrs Ollis confirms that it s the place
the thing
was found at and mentions that the other person has been
and gone
to collect it already. The Doctor then asks if Mrs Ollis
has seen
her husband since the morning, to which she answers no and
says that
it s not unusual for that to happen, but she can go and
look for
him. The Doctor says it s not important and he and Jo go
back to
Bessie, with Jo saying it is important and the Doctor
replying
yes.
At UNIT,
the Brigadier walks into the lab with a set of reports for
Dr Tyler,
only to find the scientist gone, surprisingly. Brigadier
calls
Tyler s name, waits, and then summons Sergeant Benton when
there s
ultimately no response. The Brigadier informs Benton that
Tyler is
wandering around UNIT and that he s to be found. Benton
complies
with the order and goes off searching.
Outside
the Doctor is driving Bessie back to UNIT with Jo (who s
holding up
an umbrella to keep off the rain). The Doctor parks the
car and Jo
takes down the umbrella, putting it on the rear passenger
seat. The
two are about to set off for the Laboratory when Jo spots
something
crawling out of the drain. The Doctor calls for he to get
back with
him as the creature approaches, slowly. Then as the Doctor
and Jo
run, Bessie too disappears in a flash whilst the Doctor and
Jo look
on. The creature returns to the drain and the Doctor and Jo
return to
the lab.
At the lab
the Brigadier is waiting for Tyler and Benton. Benton
returns to
report Tyler missing from the grounds as well, and that
there was
an explosion in the garages. The Brigadier asks what
explosion?
The Doctor, walking in, informs him that it was actually
a flash of
light. Then the Doctor recommends that a guard if put on
the
drains, which Benton does, hesitantly. After that, the Brigadier
tells the
Doctor that Mrs Ollis has called, reporting that her
husband
hasn t returned. The Brigadier then says that they do have
1500 acres
to cover, when the Doctor says they don t have to look
further
because he he s found Mr Ollis- the plate Tyler was
developing. Then the Doctor gets out his sonic screwdriver and has
it act as
a Geiger counter, getting the strongest reading as the
bottom of
the sink. The Brigadier hands over to the Doctor the
reports he
got for Dr Tyler. The Doctor reads through them and
deduces
that whoever it was scanned the Earth like a searchlight and
picked on
them. Then, with a reminder from Jo, the Doctor tells the
Brigadier
that Bessie has disappeared too. But the thing was after
them, a
thing with a very strong hunting instinct. It was hunting
the
Doctor. The Brigadier asks why it took Ollis and the Doctor says
it was
confused. Then the Brigadier asks about Tyler, the Doctor
says that
Tyler was in the lab, the Doctor s lab and the thing
thought
that Tyler was the Doctor. Its third mistake was Bessie
because
the Doctor was in it at the time. The Doctor says that
there s a
link between the beam and the organism- the beam was how
the thing
got to Earth. Now the thing is here and hostile. The
Brigadier
asks how it can be found and the Doctor says it s to come
to them.
Outside
UNIT Headquarters. Waiting next to a jeep a corporal stands
there.
Then out of the blue several gel creatures appear and start
advancing
upon the base. Benton arrives quite quickly and begins to
mount a
defence. However the creatures are immune to bullets and
fight
back. The Doctor notes that the creatures and the organism are
from the
same source, first the scout and then the reinforcements.
And so the
fighting continues, Benton, realising that force is
useless
contacts the Brigadier, who orders a complete evacuation and
for Benton
to report to the laboratory afterwards. The Doctor notes
it s no
use him going elsewhere as the Brigadier leaves, the thing
slowly
pouring out of a vent as he leaves. Then Benton climbs into
the lab
through the window. When Jo refuses to leave, the Doctor
asks
Benton to escort her out, but it s too late. The creature
enters the
room and they all rush into the TARDIS and the force
field is
switched on. The Doctor tries to take off, he can t,
something
is draining the power. So, as a result the Doctor contacts
the Time
Lords with a full report.
At the
Time Lord Control centre, the two men, President and
Chancellor, inquire upon another who is trying to help the Doctor.
However
the Time Lords themselves are experiencing problems of their
own- more
power drains. The source of the beam is revealed to be a
black
hole, a nowhere. Really nothing should exist there and yet,
someone
does and they re draining energy. One Time Lord announces
that the
time travel facilities are in danger. If the drain isn t
stopped,
the fabric of space-time risks destruction. The Time Lords
are being
consumed and can t fight back in any way, and they ve no
one to
spare to help the Doctor. The Chancellor deduces that they re
up against
a force equal and opposite to their own, in a universe of
antimatter
adds the President. But with no one available to help the
Doctor,
the Chancellor suggests pulling the Doctor s past self from
his part
of the timeline. The Chancellor is against this but it goes
ahead
anyway.
On Earth,
the Doctor, Jo and Benton are trapped in the TARDIS. They
find a
recorder on the consol. The Doctor inquires about it when the
Second
Doctor pops up from nowhere and snatches it. He asks where
it s been
and plays it, and then he asks if anyone else has been
playing
it. He comments on the new TARDIS interior and declares his
dislike
for it. The Second Doctor then looks at the TARDIS monitor
and
comments on the situation outside, declaring trouble. Then
suddenly
Benton calls out, the Second Doctor turns around and the
two greet
each other, Benton informing the Second Doctor of his
promotion.
Jo asks the (Third) Doctor who the Second Doctor is and
it s met
with the Third Doctor being unsure how to explain the
answer.
The Third Doctor says that Second Doctor is one of him. The
Second
Doctor rebuts that and says that the Third Doctor is one of
him. Jo
says they re both Time Lords, and is quickly informed that
they re
the same person. After a slight tiff, Jo asks if it s true
and the
Third Doctor says it is. Benton goes on to inform Jo that
when he
met the Doctor, he looked like the Second Doctor, Jo asks
how and
the Third Doctor replies with an offhand remark. He then
tells the
Second Doctor that he s got no right to be here. The
Second
Doctor explains that he was sent here by the Time Lords and
goes on to
say that the Doctor s effectiveness is now doubled.
Halved
more like! says the Third Doctor. Then
they both have a
look
outside.
In the
corridor the Brigadier and a soldier arrive to confront the
organism.
The soldier fires on the organism and in a flash the water
cooler
disappears. Oh Dear! Lethbridge-Stewart
blazing away as
usual! comments the Second
Doctor, who was watching the spectacle.
So, in
order to share more information the two Doctors engage in a
telepathic
conference. The Second Doctor then learns it s after him
or the
Third Doctor, or both. So the Doctor has to help himself. The
Second
Doctor begins to play the recorder (Twinkle-Twinkle little
star).
Benton asks Jo what all that was about, Jo says it s a
telepathic
conference and is interrupted when the Second Doctor
takes
offence when the Third Doctor objects to his predecessor s
music.
This leads to an argument which doesn t go unnoticed by the
Time
Lords, who promptly remedy the situation by bringing along the
First
Doctor.
On the
TARDIS viewer the First Doctor comes along right in the
middle of
an argument, and promptly calls his successors a dandy and
clown.
When he asks if anything has been done, the Second Doctor
says they
ve assessed the situation which leads to the First say
Just as I
though, Nothing! The other two Doctors
protest, saying
they don t
know what the stuff is, the First Doctor tells them it s
a time
bridge. He then asks what a bridge is for, the Third Doctor
replies crossing and the First tells them to cross it. When Jo
asks who
that person was after he disappeared, the reply is Me,
ME! The Second Doctor does heads and tails and
the Third Doctor
calls
heads. The Second Doctor tosses the coin and (possibly
cheating)
tells the Third it is heads, and hides the coin quickly.
Grudgingly
the Third Doctor agrees to go outside. He orders the
force
field to be switched off and for Jo to stay put. The doors are
opened,
the Doctor steps outside and before he can push Jo away, in
a flash
they disappear
Episode
Two
(drn:
24'18")
As Jo and
the Third Doctor disappear, Benton attempts run out of the
TARDIS
after them whilst the Second Doctor cautions him and says
that his
Third self knows what he s doing. Benton asks about Jo, the
Second
Doctor says it was a pity that she ran after him in that
manner.
Then the Second Doctor switches on the scanner screen to
take a
look outside. There he sees the lab and the organism. Benton
asks if
the Third Doctor and Jo are alright and where they are, no
reply, he
then turns around and the Second Doctor remarks that the
organism
has gone to a lot of trouble to find me,
err, him . He
then
deduces that whoever sent the thing didn t want to kill the
Doctor
(any incarnation), instead the Third Doctor and Jo were
transported somewhere. Benton asks where but before the Second
Doctor can
reply he notices something: the organism has
gone off
the boil
or so to speak - the thing has calmed down for some reason.
Upon
hearing the news, Benton decide to blow the thing up but the
Doctor
(number two here) objects as usual. The Second Doctor wants
to try a
more subtle approach, and he switches off the force field
and opens
the doors. Benton is about to go out but the Second Doctor
advices
him to go no further, yet, he decides to go out first. The
pair walk
carefully and slowly outside the TARDIS, where the thing
waits,
shimmering. Awaiting further
instructions I should think,
says the
Second Doctor.
Then the
organism shakes violently for a few seconds, Benton and the
Second
Doctor run back into the TARDIS as it does so. The organism
calms down
again. Benton and the Second Doctor walk out a second
time,
carefully. Benton asks if the Second Doctor is going to go
near the
thing, to which he replies it was
probably just hiccups
and
approaches the vibrating red, black, blue and purple coloured
mass lying
on the floor. The Second Doctor observes the thing as it
begins to
shake again, only this time he does not flinch.
Then all
of a sudden the Brigadier bursts in and the Second Doctor
tells him
not to shoot at the organism. The Doctor explains that the
organism
isn t dangerous at the moment because it thinks it has
achieved
its mission, when the Brigadier turns round; surprise
turning
into horror when he realises who he s looking at.
Brigadier:
Oh no!
Doctor: Oh
yes!
The
Brigadier is about to ask the Second Doctor to confirm his
identity
when Benton does it for him. Then the Second Doctor happily
shakes
hands with the Brigadier, still shocked. After a brief
exchange
of pleasantries the Brigadier asks what the Doctor is doing
and why he
has changed his appearance (when in fact he hasn t, yet).
And then
he asks where Jo is, when at the same moment Jo and the
Third
Doctor land on some strange planet, unconscious, just as the
Second
Doctor has finished explaining. The Brigadier doesn t believe
the story
though.
Then the
Brigadier, just as he s about to walk off, turns round and
asks if
the Second Doctor is the person who he met during the yeti
business
(The Web of Fear), and then when the Cybermen invaded (The
Invasion).
The Doctor replies yes to both questions. Then the Brig
mentions
that the Doctor subsequently appeared on Earth during the
business
with the Autons, but as a tall thin bloke (Spearhead from
Space).
The Second Doctor goes on to tell the Brigadier that from
his
viewpoint, that incident hasn t happened yet, and he goes on to
call
himself a temporal anomaly.
Upon
hearing the Second Doctor s answer, the Brigadier paces, thinks
and then
goes on the deduce (incorrectly) that the Doctor has used
the TARDIS
(or that infernal machine) to change his appearance and
dump Jo on
some desolate world. Benton tries to tell the Brigadier
what
really happened, but he doesn t get far. The Brigadier goes on
to ask the
Doctor for a way of controlling that
stuff and the safe
return of
Jo Grant. Benton asks about the Third (or
our ) Doctor,
but the
Brigadier, still having not got the bigger picture, says
he s
already here and that he can look like whatever just so long as
he does
the job properly.
The Second
Doctor informs the Brigadier that he ll do whatever he
can, but
he isn t promising anything. The Brigadier suggests that
the Doctor
goes and asks those all powerful
superiors of his, but
the Second
Doctor informs the Brigadier that they are far from being
all
powerful and that it has been left up to
Me and Me and Me , The
last
statement only confuses the Brigadier further.
At the
Time Lord Control centre, the Time Lords are indeed far from
being all
powerful. The Chancellor approaches one of the operators
and asks
what is happening. The operator explains that the black
hole is
draining power faster than it can be pumped in, this met by
a
statement from the Chancellor, who says that it is being wasted
too. He
then goes on to voice his disapproval of the plan to allow
the Doctor
to cross his own time stream, a serious breach of the 1st
Law of
time.
The
operator states his awareness of this and goes on to point out
that the
situation is an emergency. However the Chancellor says that
this is no
excuse and orders the operation to cease, when the
President
arrives and countermands the order. The President explains
that the
Doctor (1, 2 and 3) is their only hope of ultimately
combating
the devastating energy drain. The Chancellor says they
could wish
for more hope than that. The President reminds the
Chancellor
that they are dealing with a threat from somewhere that
even they
have no influence over- a black hole, the universe of
Anti-Matter. Unknown forces equal and opposite to their own. The
Chancellor
then repeats himself and say that the first law of time
MUST be
obeyed. The President agrees, but says it will, later. The
Doctor
needs all the assistance he can get.
Handing
the Chancellor a printed readout, the President says that
this plan
is already using more energy than they can afford. The
Chancellor
condemns this as criminal irresponsibility. The President
explains
that the Doctors only have a limited time together and
warns that
if this plan fails, the Time Lords will be left helpless
like
everyone else. The Chancellor suggests that they husband their
resources,
not gamble them away. The President is however prepared
to risk
it.
The
Chancellor then informs the President that he has heard that
their
attempts to transport the First Doctor have only met with
limited
success. The President explains that his transport was stuck
in a time
eddy, so at the moment he can only advise. However he
states
that the Second Doctor has made it to Earth and is currently
assisting UNIT in its operations.
Then the Chancellor asks about
the Third
Doctor. The President then morbidly informs the Chancellor
that he
and his companion have passed into the black hole. The
Chancellor
is horrified and proclaims them dead.
The Third
Doctor and Jo are however very much alive. The pair of
them is
lying on the surface of a strange planet. They wake up
simultaneously, dazed and confused. The Third Doctor asks Jo if she
can hear
him, the answer is yes as she opens here eyes. Jo is the
first to
get up; as she does she looks around her. She asks Where
are
we? and comments that the surroundings
are strange. The Doctor
asks if
she s alright, Jo goes on to suggest they re dead. The
Doctor
says that their landing spot is a place like any other and
that they
ve been brought here (besides, it s not much like heaven,
is it?).
The pair then stand up and begin walking to have a look
around,
unaware that they re being watched by a gel creature.
Back at
UNIT the Second Doctor is explaining that where ever his
other self
and Jo are, they can t be contacted.
That s the problem
with
anti-matter; you can see the effect but not the cause. Like
being
punched on the nose by the invisible man,
the Second Doctor
explains.
The
Brigadier then asks what the organism is. The Doctor s reply is:
The
invisible man, anti-matter.
However
the Brigadier states that the Doctor said that matter and
anti-matter couldn t meet without and explosion. The Doctor confirms
this as
correct. Then the Brigadier says the organism shouldn t be
here but
it is. The Doctor confirms this as correct too. The Doctor
then goes
on to call the situation awkward . In
fact the Doctor
says he
can only see one explanation for all of this, who or
whatever
sent the thing is cleverer than they are- unfortunate,
isn t it?
The
Brigadier asks if there s nothing the Doctor can do, but the
Doctor
hasn t given up just yet. First off the Doctor decides he can
make sure
the thing remains harmless for a start. The Brigadier
approves
and then goes off to contact his superiors in Geneva. As
the Doctor
begins rummaging through his pockets, Benton comments
that his
(the Second Doctor) presence was too much for the Brig, and
then asks
what they re going to do next. The Doctor says he s going
to keep
the thing confused- feed it with useless information and
then
inquires if there s a television set handy.
On the
planet, the Third Doctor and Jo are approaching a sharp drop,
where at
the bottom is part of a computer unit and a water cooler.
The Doctor
comments that as being odd, and the pair of them climb
down into
the shallow ravine. Jo instantly recognises the water
cooler as
from being from the outside of the lab, and the Doctor
recognises
the computer a being the Brigadier s. Then he spots the
lab door.
Jo notices that it s locked and the Doctor points to a
sign
saying NO ADMITTANCE . The Doctor and Jo
pass a few other
things
when they spot the lab bench and sink complete with
cosmic-ray
measuring device. Then suddenly the Doctor spots Bessie,
much to
the pair s delight. The Doctor concludes they had been
transported all along. The pair of them walk up to the yellow car
and climb
inside.
Once
inside, Jo asks where they re going and they both decide just
to have a
drive around. They are both still unaware of a gel
creature
watching them.
A few
minutes later the Doctor and Jo stop when they notice a set of
footsteps. Man Friday comments the Doctor and he and Jo begin
walking
off again. They re still being watched, but this time by a
hidden Mr
Ollis, who is standing behind a white rock above the
Doctor and
Jo.
UNIT: The
Second Doctor has finished work on his confusion device
with the
aid of Sergeant Benton. The Doctor looks at it, and then
turns
round and tells Benton it s quite like old times as he looks
on at his
device, which he is pleased with. Benton agrees and asks
if the
device is ready yet. The Doctor says it s ready for testing.
Benton
then suggests giving the overgrown
blancmange the full
treatment
but the Doctor says steady on as he fiddles with a device
he s got
in his hands.
However,
before the Doctor can continue the Brigadier bursts in and
informs
the Doctor that the U.N. Security Council want a full
explanation and it s up to the Doctor to give it. The Doctor
protests
and reminds the Brigadier of his appearance (slight
technicality- it s a video link), to which the Brigadier says that
the Doctor
has to masquerade as his own assistant, especially as he
feels the
truth would be too much for his superiors. The Doctor
agrees to
come along, grudgingly (I just set this thing up- now I ll
be able to
confuse it! That s your forte Doctor, confusing people.).
But before
he leaves Benton asks about the creature and the device.
The Doctor
tells Benton to give the creature a little jolt if it
plays up,
or the whole lot if that fails- the device still having
not been
tested yet. The Doctor and the Brigadier then leave.
Now alone,
Benton says to the thing not to give him trouble as he
pulls out
a packet of chewing gum from his pocket. He then throws
the empty
packet away, towards the organism in fact when the thing
begins to
shudder again. Benton, cautious, walks over towards the
device,
picks up the controller and then gives the creature a jolt,
which has
no effect. He then increases the output but the creature
just
carries on shuddering like mad.
Doctor? calls Benton,
Doctor,
are you there? he panics.
The Doctor
and the Brigadier come rushing into the laboratory where
they find
Benton attempting to fend off the creature with the
Doctor s
device, albeit unsuccessfully.
What have
you done? shouts the Brigadier.
What the
Doctor told me! replies Benton.
Then, the
Doctor ushers everyone into the TARDIS hastily as the
creature
takes in the device too.
Inside the
TARDIS, the Doctor, the Brigadier and Benton wait. The
Brigadier
looks around, slightly confused, whilst the Second Doctor
comments
that it s quite cosy . Then, the Doctor
assures the
Brigadier
will get used to it, relative dimensions
and such .
However,
the Brigadier thinks that the Doctor made it using UNIT
funds and
equipment whilst he s been staying on Earth, going on to
ask if it
s all an optical illusion. The Doctor replies by saying
No, they
come like this. Really!
Benton
comments that the creature s going
berserk outside the
TARDIS,
the Doctor agrees. The Brigadier asks what they do next, the
Doctor
says they think and promptly offers the Brigadier a jelly
baby.
On the
planet, Dr Tyler is writing equations out on the sand,
notably E=mc2 . No doubt about that he comments.
Then,
standing up, he comments But if you
equate gravitation with
acceleration, I must ve travelled faster than the speed of light!
He then
chuckles That s impossible! He continues muttering and
says that
the light there must be travelling backwards because he
can still
see.
Then, as
he does so, Dr Tyler is soon accompanied by a passing Third
Doctor and
Jo, the former pointing out the fact that Dr Tyler is
down there
in the pit. The Doctor then calls out for Dr Tyler, who
turns
round to face the travellers. When he finally turns round, he
promptly
greets the pair, and is then asked by Jo
How did you get
here?
Tyler
replies: Well, I was in your lab
developing that plate and
there was
some kind of explosion and here I am. It s fascinating!
After
that, Jo soon asks if he knows where they are, to which he
replies
no. However the Doctor quickly explains that they re at the
other end
of the light stream, much to Dr Tyler s apparent surprise:
What?!?!
We ve
been transported along it.
That s in
the black hole.
The Doctor
tells Tyler he is correct, and goes on to explain that
they re on
a planet in the universe of Anti-Matter,
An anomaly
within an
impossibility , finishes the Doctor.
This is
however met with slight confusion from Jo. Dr Tyler tells
her that
the Doctor means that a place like the planet shouldn t
exist, and
even if it does they shouldn t be here. However they are
there, and
as the Doctor describes it, Kidnapped
and Marooned, but
by
whom.
However,
unbeknownst to them, they are being watched by a tall
figure in
an ornate throne room elsewhere on the planet. He cheers
as he
finally finds a Time Lord (the Doctor in this case), which he
can use
for his own purposes later on. He then orders a gel creature
to
escort his guests to his domain.
Meanwhile,
Dr Tyler has been explaining how he got to the pit. The
Doctor
notes that the things described to him sound very much like
those who
attacked UNIT HQ. He asks Tyler what they looked like, and
Tyler then
points to one standing at the top of the cliff and says
Like
that! which is quickly followed by the
Doctor with an order
to run.
Unfortunately they are surrounded by the things and afters a
series of
explosions the three finally give in. However, Mr Ollis
has been
watching from a safe location, undetected.
Back at
UNIT, the Brigadier is ordering the Second Doctor to let him
out of the
TARDIS, only to be told by Benton that it s too dangerous
out there,
a point shared by the Doctor. Also, the Doctor says that
he appears
to have increased to creature s metabolic rate, only to
then
realise that it s anti-matter, and instead of soothing it he
stimulated
it. In the background the Brigadier is persisting with
his
demands to be let out. When he does finally get the Doctor s
attention
the Doctor seems more preoccupied with finding his
recorder a long thing with holes
in it . He then goes to look for
it, then
telling, the Brigadier who still wants to be let out of
this
madhouse , there s no point in leaving. However the Brigadier
still
insists on being let out so he can rejoin his men, and not
look for
the Doctor s recorder. But, to open the doors the force
field will
have to be switched off the Doctor explains. The Doctor
points out
further that the Brigadier would never make it and the
Doctor
then accepts responsibility for making the thing more
aggressive. In the meantime all they CAN do is think, and the Doctor
says he
thinks best to music and continues to look for his recorder.
On the
planet the Third Doctor, Jo and Dr Tyler have arrived inside
their
captor s palace. They re being escorted by a group of gel
creatures
when ordered to stop. Jo says the place looks like
Aladdin s
cave, followed by the Doctor replying that he thinks it s
the
entrance to some sort of palace. Tyler asks who brought them
there, the
Doctor says he wants to find out but Jo says she isn t
too sure.
Dr Tyler doesn t suspect good intentions, whilst Jo
agrees.
Then, much to the Doctor s annoyance, Tyler announces that
he s going
to try and escape.
UNIT, the
Brigadier, Benton and the Second Doctor are still inside
the
TARDIS. The Brigadier attempts to contact Corporal Palmer over
the radio,
but is informed by the Doctor that the force field blocks
conventional radio signals too. The Brigadier wants to know what s
going on
outside, when the Doctor agrees to do something about the
communications problem. He takes the radio, dismantles it (albeit in
a botched
way), and then fiddles around with it. This gets the
Brigadier
worried as the Doctor attempts to merge the radio with the
TARDIS
communications circuit. Benton on the other hand appears to
be more
worried about the Third Doctor and Jo, when the Second
Doctor
goes on to say that he rather envies then, and thinks that
they re
having quite an interesting time out there.
At the
palace, Dr Tyler is trying to convince the Third Doctor to
make an
escape attempt. The Doctor says that he wants to meet their
host and
that he might be able to find a way of getting Dr Tyler and
Jo back
home, pointing out that he allowed himself to be escorted
primarily
to meet their captor. However Tyler prefers to chance it
by
himself, and asks Jo if she s coming or not. Jo opts to stay with
the Doctor
and meet their host. Dr Tyler then declares he s going it
alone
then, and before the Doctor can stop him, saying he won t
stand for
the endangerment of everyone else s lives, Tyler bolts
off,
whilst a gel guard goes in pursuit of him. Tyler then hides
behind a
column to avoid detection and makes his way through the
labyrinth
of corridors, avoiding gel guards as he attempts to reach
the exit.
The Doctor describes him as an idiot, and Jo says he could
be risking
his life too. As Dr Tyler snakes his way through the
corridors,
being followed in the process, Jo points out to the
Doctor
they may not harm him as he is only there by mistake and that
it s the
Doctor their host wants.
Then the
Doctor says again that he s sure that he could persuade
whoever it
is to send Jo and Dr Tyler back to Earth. Jo asks what if
he can t
and the Doctor replies that to him intelligence and
senseless
cruelty don t match. Elsewhere, Dr Tyler continues with
his escape
attempt, and bumps into the Doctor and Jo again,
describing
his actions as a waste of time.
In the
TARDIS at UNIT, the Second Doctor is has finished the
Brigadier
s new radio. At first it doesn t work but when the Doctor
bashes it
against the consol the Brigadier finally makes contact
with
Corporal Palmer. The Brigadier explains to Palmer that he s
pinned
down in the laboratory and asks for the situation. Palmer
says that
the building is surrounded and their awaiting further
orders.
The Brigadier orders Palmer and his men to remain vigilante
but no
offensive action should be taken. Palmer reluctantly agrees
and signs
off.
Then, the
First Doctor reappears on the TARDIS monitor, as pointed
out by a
before, silent Benton. The Second Doctor rushes over to
communicate and is asked if any progress has been made. He says no
and
returns the question. The First Doctor gives a likewise answer,
being
trapped in that infernal time eddy and all, and goes on to
report the
rest of the Time Lords are growing steadily weaker due to
the energy
loss. The Second Doctor is in no position to help things
though, or
so he says. The First Doctor however, suggests that the
Second
Doctor switches off the TARDIS force field. At first the
Second
Doctor doesn t understand the request, but the first Doctor
tells him
to think about it.
The
Brigadier then asks about the First Doctor, he asks about his
identity,
but the Second Doctor s answer is a slightly enigmatic
I m
afraid you d never believe me, Brigadier.
Back on
the planet, the Doctor, Jo and Dr Tyler are being escorted
by the gel
guards. Dr Tyler asks why there hasn t been a colossal
explosion
as they re matter in a universe of anti-matter, but the
Doctor
explains that they ve been processed so they can exist there,
just like
the thing can exist on Earth Jo then points out. The
Doctor
says exactly but Dr Tyler is sceptical. He thinks the place
is matter.
The Doctor goes on to explain that things aren t what
they seen,
and uses a simple conjuring trick, turning a pencil into
flowers as
an example, saying that the planet and palace are one
great
conjuring trick. Then one of the guards makes a groaning
noise,
which the Doctor takes as a signal that they re moving again.
So, they
begin walking again, whilst Jo drops the flowers, which
then lie
there undisturbed.
In the
TARDIS the Second Doctor is about to switch off the force
field. The
Brigadier asks why, the Doctor says because he was told
to. Benton
says that the thing would be able to get at the TARDIS
then,
which causes the Second Doctor to finally realise what the
First
meant. So, he calls out for the Brigadier and Benton to hold
on tight
as he switches off the force field of the TARDIS. Outside,
Palmer and
the troops wait. At first, to their surprise, the gel
creatures
disappear, and then, to their horror, so does UNIT HQ,
which
enters the black hole and enters the universe of Anti-Matter
Episode
Three
(drn:
24'22")
UNIT HQ is
sucked into the black hole into the universe of
anti-matter.
On the
planet, the Third Doctor, Jo and Dr Tyler enter the throne
room,
escorted by a group of gel guards. Jo comments that her
surroundings are very impressive, the Doctor agrees. Dr Tyler admits
that to
him it was almost worth the trip. Then Jo asks who brought
them
there, a question promptly answered by a tall, looming figure
with a
deep voice: I did!
Everyone
turned around and the Doctor inquired about the host s
identity.
The host revealed himself to be Omega, a legendary Time
Lord who
was believed destroyed. Omega then orders the gel guards to
escort Dr
Tyler and Jo away, and furthermore assure the Doctor that
they won t
be harmed. Omega believes he has been wronged and is now
after
revenge.
Jo and Dr
Tyler are escorted by the gels to a cell. At first it
looks like
escape is possible, but the archway turns into a wall
very
quickly. Dr Tyler soon confirms it s a real door and asks what
sort of
place the palace is, followed up by Jo s question regarding
the
identity of Omega. All that Tyler and Jo know is that the Doctor
and Omega
appear to know each other, and the two don t appear to be
friendly.
Back, in
the throne room, Omega is telling the Doctor about how he
allowed
the Time Lords to travel in time, and defend those that they
protect.
Omega s mission was dangerous, but he completed it. However
he claims
he was abandoned, and tells the Doctor that this place was
a star,
until he blew it up. The Doctor tells Omega that he was the
Solar
Engineer so it was his job; Omega said it was an honour, or so
he though
back then, as he was the one who would create and find the
power
source that would give the Time Lords mastery over time
itself.
The Doctor tries to assure Omega that he was revered for it,
but Omega
is disbelieving. The Doctor says that history says that
Omega was
lost in the supernova, Omega claims he was sacrificed to
it, and for what?
he asks. His companions became Time Lords be he
was
forgotten. The Doctor goes on to tell him that he honoured Omega
as his
greatest hero. A HERO?! I SHOULD VE BEEN
A GOD! protests
Omega,
loosing his temper as a result of thousands of years of
isolation.
Back in
the cell, Jo is wondering why Omega (though she doesn t know
that)
would bring the Doctor here if they were enemies. Then she
suggests
that Omega must mean him some harm, but Dr Tyler just tells
to pull
herself together and stop worrying. He then points out that
they don t
know if the two are enemies, and that he s sure the
Doctor
knows what he s doing. Jo hopes Dr Tyler s right.
The Throne
Room, the Doctor points out to Omega that the palace and
the planet
are theoretically impossible. Omega rebuts him and gives
the Doctor
a chair, which the Doctor is thankful for and he sits
down.
Then, the Doctors how Omega survived, and receives a rather
witty
answer: Mind over anti-matter you might
say (!)
The Doctor
then asks Omega about the organism, which Omega tells
him, is
made from the raw stuff of matter itself, an organism that
can exist
in both universes, and when it brought the Doctor and
company
over, they too were given its special properties. Next
question,
the Doctor asks where does he fit into it, and Omega tells
him that
even his capabilities are limited, and at this point in his
plans he
needs a second Time Lord to enter into the picture. The
Doctor
acknowledges them and is informed by Omega that he is going
to be used
against the rest of the Time Lords. The Doctor asks if
Omega uses
him, will he be able to defeat ALL of the Time Lords, and
Omega
tells him that he already is, through the power drain that is.
Predictably, the Doctor asks about what would happen if he didn t
cooperate.
Predictably Omega s answer is one that wouldn t be too
pleasant
for the Doctor or his companions. Suddenly, Omega is
alerted to
a beeping sound coming from a communication device
mounted in
a column in the middle of the room. Omega goes towards it
and
receives information from a series of high-pitched tones. Omega
say to
investigate but not harm them. The Doctor asks who them
is,
and Omega
tells him they have more company.
The new
company turns out to be the Second Doctor, Benton and the
Brigadier
arriving in the TARDIS, in UNIT HQ. The Doctor notes that
they have
arrived, and the Brigadier attempts to contact Corporal
Palmer.
However the Doctor tells him that the radio doesn t quite
have the
range, so he won t be able to get through on it. The
Brigadier
thinks his men are just outside the building, but the
Doctor
appears to think otherwise, and tells the Brigadier to
prepare
himself for a shock. Benton asks about look outside, the
Doctor
agrees and they find themselves still in the laboratory at
UNIT.
Also, the creature has gone too. The Brigadier wants to go
outside,
the Doctor advises not to, but gives in this time. When
they go
outside the Doctor comes to the conclusion that the creature
must ve
found the TARDIS a bit indigestible and took UNIT with it,
like
taking a pill with some water. The Brigadier thinks that
they ve
got rid of it, and tells Benton to stay put. Benton asks the
Doctor if
he s sure they ve moved, and the Doctor is sure.
The
Brigadier on the other hand is making his way to the door, opens
it and is
rather surprised to find sand outside instead of a green
lawn.
Benton asks where they are, and the Doctor says
not where he
thinks we
are , pointing to an approaching Brigadier. The Brigadier
arrives,
and is rather irate, telling the Doctor he s gone too far.
The Doctor
asks where they are, the Brigadier says there s sand
there and
the Doctor then suggests going swimming, despite the
apparent
lack of water out there. The Brigadier accuses the Doctor
of
stealing UNIT, and then begins wondering what he s going to tell
Geneva.
Then, he says that UNIT is now miles away from London,
however
the Doctor says it s a bit further than that. The Brigadier
interprets
this as a different country, then mentioning that it
could be
construed as an invasion. Then Benton says he agrees with
the
Doctor, not just a different country but a different universe.
However,
the Brigadier is still convinced they re on Earth and that
they re on
some beach in Norfolk. The Doctor on the other hand is
getting
impatient at not being listened to. The Brigadier tells the
Doctor and
Benton to stay put to prevent the place being overrun
with
holiday makers, whilst he goes and finds a phone to tell the
authorities, I m pretty sure that
s Cromer
As the
Brigadier leaves, the Doctor groans and slaps himself and
Benton
suggests that they go after the Brigadier. The Doctor agrees
and goes
to look for his recorder, but Benton persuades him not to,
and to
accept that his recorder is gone. The Doctor still insists at
looking
for it in the TARDIS when suddenly a gel creature enters the
room.
Benton warns the Doctor, the Doctor panics slightly and they
begin to
run, but the pair soon find themselves trapped by the
creatures
inside the building.
Outside,
the Brigadier is strolling around outside in the forlorn
hope of
finding a phone. It s just then when he finds Mr Ollis, who
calls for
his attention. The Brigadier asks who M Ollis is, and
Ollis
replies as he climbs down the bank. The Brigadier then
recognises
him and asks what s going on, but the two know as little
as each
other. The Brigadier asks for what Mr Ollis knows and Mr
Ollis
tells him about the Third Doctor, Jo and Dr Tyler and how they
got taken
away by the gel creatures (or lumpy things). The Brigadier
asks Mr
Ollis for a description of the man, and it immediately fits
the
description of the Doctor. Then, as Mr Ollis tells the Brigadier
about how
he avoided capture, Ollis spots another gel creature and
the
Brigadier and Ollis go and hid behind a large rock in a corner
somewhere,
out of sight. Then they spot the creatures
prisoners,
the Second
Doctor and Sergeant Benton. Ollis knows where they re
headed and
tells the Brigadier not to get up and
rescue them. The
creatures
escort Benton and the Second Doctor into a cave whilst Mr
Ollis and
the Brigadier discreetly make their way up to a higher
ledge and
watch. Ollis asks what the next course of action is
(incorrectly referring to the Brigadier as General ) and the
Brigadier
says for them to do a recce
(reconnaissance) and then
mount a
surprise attack. Then, the Brigadier tells Mr Ollis to
consider
himself under his orders.
In the
meantime, Omega and the Third Doctor are having a discussion
in the
throne room. The Doctor tells Omega that if the energy drain
can t be
reverse the fabric of the space/time continuum could be
torn
apart. Omega then says it d make quite a spectacle, but the
Doctor
tells him that he d be alone forever. But however, Omega is
used to
solitude, and when has had his revenge he shall be
satisfied.
The Doctor tells Omega that if he undoes all his damage
he could
have the freedom to do what he wished, but power is the
only
freedom Omega seeks. To him absolute power is absolute freedom,
no
bargains, well not with those who betrayed and deserted him so he
says.
Just at
that moment they are quickly joined by Benton and the Second
Doctor,
with gel creatures in tow. Upon seeing them Omega gets up
and shouts
at them for them to identify themselves. The Third Doctor
gets up
and describes them as more innocent bystanders scooped up by
the bungling
organism. But Omega says that its purpose was to find
and
transport a Time Lord to him, which is what it did. Omega
questions
whether the Second Doctor or Benton could be Time Lords
and the
Second Doctor then says that appearances
aren t
everything!
Then,
taking a closer look, Omega says to the Second Doctor that he
doesn t
fear him. Then Omega pauses: Can it be?
Two Time Lords? The
SAME Time
Lord! and goes on to say that the High
Council must be
desperate
to transgress the laws of time.
The Second
Doctor though, attempts to say that he and Benton were
out for a
stroll when they were scooped up by the organism, but
Omega won
t be deceived. And when the Third Doctor attempts to speak
he his
soon silenced, as thunder rumbles in the background, and
Omega
deciding the fate of everyone else in the room.
When Omega
s back is turned, the Second Doctor rushes over to the
Third and
attempts to confirm Omega s identity, which the Third
Doctor
does. Then Omega turns round, telling the Doctors that they
have
angered him and then threatens to kill them, finishing off with
an order
for the creatures to take them all away.
Outside,
Mr Ollis rushes along the top of a mount, and then rushes
down the
bank, meeting the Brigadier. They ask each other if one of
them house
found an alternative entrance, no joy for either. So,
instead
the Brigadier suggests that they wait for the front gates to
open up
and then launch an attack, a full scale frontal one using
all
resources available- two men, a hand pistol and a shotgun. The
pair of
them get up and advance towards the entrance.
In the
cell, the Third Doctor is telling the Second Doctor that he d
nearly
managed to reach an agreement with Omega until he came along,
and Omega
started treating the Third Doctor like an impostor, or so
he says.
The Second Doctor s reply is: Well, you
are really.
When the
Third Doctor questions this the Second then says that they
both are
in some ways. Then the Third Doctor says that the Second is
just
twittering on and a shouting match ensues, much to Jo and
Benton s
unsurprise. They are soon told by Benton to work together,
a point
supported by Jo. So, the two Doctors then apologise to each
other.
That done,
they both begin discussion Omega, whom the Third Doctor
describes
a slightly confused. Also, Dr Tyler is a bit confused and
asks about
the Second Doctor. The reply is Me , as
said by both
Doctors,
followed by Dr Tyler s I beg your
pardon?
The Third
Doctor just tells him to ask Jo. Then, the Third and
Second
Doctor begin conversing again. The Third mentions that first
Omega
talks about revenge and destruction, and then freedom and
power.
However Dr Tyler interrupts again by asking about why the
planet
exists if everything is all anti-matter. Both Doctors reply
by saying
it s the phenomenon of singularity, and then nominate each
other to
explain it to Dr Tyler, whilst he muses over it. However,
before
either Doctor gets a chance to explain, Dr Tyler makes his
thoughts
on the matter better heard. Dr Tyler says it s supposed to
exist but
it s just a theory, and it promptly told by the Third
Doctor
that it does.
Furthermore, Jo asks the Doctor to explain what they re talking
about in
simple answers and one at a time. This time the Second
Doctor
explains it. He says that a singularity is a point in
space/time
that can exist only in a black hole, and they re in one.
They re in
a world of anti-matter very close to singularity, where
all the
known physical laws cease to exist. He goes on to explain
that Omega
has got control of it and that he can use the forces
locked up
inside the black hole. Then, the Third Doctor continues by
say that
it was because of singularity and such that Omega managed
to create
the world they re on now, but he thinks the Time Lords
have
wronged him though. The Third Doctor also explains it s because
of that
Omega is hell bent on revenge. Jo says that they ll have to
stop him,
but the Doctors aren t to sure of that.
Just then,
Benton asks who Omega is. The Doctors explain that he was
the first
Time Lord, and supposedly the greatest of his race. The
Second
Doctor explains further by saying that when the Time Lords
discovered
the secret of time travel, they needed a suitable power
source,
and Omega was to be the one to get it through a feat of
solar
engineering. He was however thought destroyed, but instead
ended up
in the Universe of anti-matter, his imprisonment was the
price for
the Time Lords freedom to travel in
time. However, Jo
then tells
them that they still can t let him smash the universe up,
she then
goes on to note that he s not all powerful otherwise he
wouldn t
have needed the Doctor. The Doctors agree and Benton tells
them that
there must be something they can do. Jo suggests the sonic
screwdriver, but the Third Doctor said it d be useless on this
world. The
only natural law there is Omega s will.
Thinking,
Jo then comes up with a solution, if Omega can make a
planet,
the Doctors must be able to create a door. The Doctors
agree, and
with a bit of effort they are ultimately successful at
willing up
a door. They then decide to leave to find the singularity
chamber
and tell the others to say put, which they don t, Dr Tyler
saying he
doesn t want to miss the chance to witness a singularity
chamber,
whilst Jo and Benton just decide to follow Dr Tyler. When
all are
gone, the door vanishes.
Now
outside, the Doctors wander down the corridor in search of the
singularity chamber, and are followed by Dr Tyler, Jo and Benton.
However
they have to turn back as a gel creature appears from round
a corner.
Elsewhere the Third and Second Doctor have found Omega s
throne
room, agreeing that the chamber must be near, somewhere. They
approach
an archway covered in mist, and they both go through
together
after the Third Doctor prevents the Second doing a coin
toss to
decide who goes through first. As they go through they find
another
room, this one with a column of smoke in the middle. They
stare at
it in amazement, only to be interrupted by an irate Omega,
non too
pleased to find the Doctors in there. He asks why they are
free and
the Third Doctor tells him by combining their wills against
his,
followed on by the Second Doctor telling Omega that he s not so
powerful
after all. Then the Third Doctor tells Omega that if he
frees
everyone he ll plead his case to the Time Lords or the two
Doctors
will destroy Omega using their combined wills.
At this
threat, Omega challenges the Doctors to fight his will. The
Third
Doctors says yes, if necessary. Omega then informs him that he
shall be
fighting the dark side of his mind. Then suddenly, the
Third
Doctor finds himself in a black void where he also finds a
hideous
figure advancing towards him.
At the
other end of the palace, Benton, Jo and Dr Tyler are still
navigating
the corridors of the compound. Benton complains that it
all looks
the same, whilst Dr Tyler says that they can t stay put
either.
So, they three of them carry on navigating through the
labyrinth,
occasionally turning back at the sight of a gel guard.
They then
arrive at crossroad area, and Benton complains that
they re
lost. But Dr Tyler says that they can t just give up
instead,
though. Then suddenly, Jo finds the flowers the Doctor gave
her.
Benton at first doesn t understand but Jo explains that they re
on the
corridor to the main entrance and so they all run off
together,
whilst the guards continue their advance. At the doors,
Benton
struggles to get them open, and when he does he s met by the
Brigadier
and Mr Ollis, who are mounting their attack. Soon,
everyone
is out and they then all run outside, away from the
compound,
followed by the gel creatures.
The group
keep on running (and getting fired at) until they reach an
out-of-the-way shallow pit. Benton asks how the Brigadier and Ollis
knew they
were trying to get out, but the Brigadier and Ollis were
trying to
get in. The Brigadier then asks Jo if the Doctor was with
her, she
says yes, but the Brigadier doesn t believe her. However,
the group
have to go on the move again as a group of gel creatures
continue
to advance on them.
Meanwhile,
the Third Doctor s and Omega s battle of wills continues.
On the
Time Lord home world the President has made contact with the
First
Doctor. The Doctor asks what they want, the reply being that
the
President wants the First Doctor to go into the black hole, and
the energy
levels in the place are running low. They will use the
last of
their energy to send the Doctor through, and the Doctor
agrees better than being stuck up
here I suppose! says the Doctor.
The Third
Doctor s and Omega s wills continue their battle. The
struggle
gets to a point where Omega s avatar brings the Doctor down
and begins
to strangle him.
THOSE
THAT OPPOSE THE WILL OF OMEGA SHALL NOT LIVE!
declares
Omega.
Episode
Four
(drn:
25'07")
The Third
Doctor is battling the dark side of Omega s mind. Suddenly
Omega s
dark side grabs the Doctor and is about to strangle him.
Omega
declares his intention to destroy the Doctor, but is stopped
by a
panicking Second Doctor who convinces Omega that his Third self
would be
able to grant Omega his freedom. Soon, the Third Doctor
finds
himself lying on the floor with the appearance of trying to
shake off
the invisible man. Soon, he stops writhing and gets up,
with the
help of the Second Doctor. Then, he
thanks Omega for the
demonstration , and is told by Omega that he won t be so lucky next
time, and
that it s useless for the Doctors and their friends to
defy him.
The Second Doctor tell Omega that his friends do not
defying
him, but Omega then tells the two Doctors about everyone
else s
escape attempt.
Outside,
the Brigadier, Benton, Jo, Dr Tyler and Mr Ollis run over
towards
Bessie. They then climb in and Jo asks where they re going.
The
Brigadier says UNIT HQ and informs a confused Jo that it s
closer
that she thinks.
Back
inside Omega s throne room, the Third Doctor tells Omega that
he created
a singularity to create the palace and planet for himself
and Omega
confirms it. Then the Second Doctor reiterates what s just
been said,
and Omega asks the Third Doctor if he and his Second self
are of the
same intelligence. Then, much to Omega s annoyance, the
Second
Doctor asks Omega for a recorder to replace the one he lost.
Afterwards, not wanting Omega to lose his temper, the Third Doctor
tells
Omega just to ignore the Second Doctor, and the Second Doctor
protests Just because you re not
musical !
However,
when the Third Doctor says for Omega to continue, Omega
cracks.
Omega accuses the Doctors of playing childish games and
furthermore threatens everything in existence with annihilation,
whilst
going on to speak about the way the Doctors
wrangle and
babble on
about pipes , a comment which is met by
It s not a pipe!
from the
Second Doctor.
The Third
Doctor then asks the Second what he is doing, to which the
Second
replies that he s testing the limits of Omega s self control,
and goes
on to comment that they re not very good. The Third Doctor
concurs,
but advises the Second not to push it. The Second Doctor
notes that
Omega s temper is his only weakness, but Omega then
suspects
something. Omega inquires if the Doctors are plotting
against
him, but the Third Doctor tells Omega that he was telling
his
associate to show Omega more respect, I
am thoroughly
repentant, says the Second
Doctor, You mentioned some task?
Omega
confirms it. He then explains his creating the world and the
organisms
that brought its visitors to it, and also points to the
singularity which the light beam came from and said that he created
it.
After a
bit more ranting, Omega subdues and says it s not enough and
complains
about his imprisonment. The Second Doctor asks Omega why
he didn t
transport himself down the lightstream, but Omega tells
him that
if he did the world they re on and himself would be
destroyed
in an instant. Omega then compares himself to Atlas, if he
let go he
couldn t escape, and he couldn t escape without letting
go; a
prisoner of his own power- until now. The task that Omega
wants the
Doctors to perform it to take his place for him, whilst he
runs off
to freedom.
Outside
again, and the Brigadier, Benton, Jo, Dr Tyler and Mr Ollis
are
travelling in Bessie, whilst dodging fire from the gel creatures
lining the
route.
Back
inside Omega s chamber, Omega is asking for the Doctors
answers.
Reluctantly, they both agree to do want Omega wants them to
do. After
getting a satisfactory answer, Omega then asks them to
help him
prepare for his departure. His first request is for the
Doctor s
to help him remove his mask, and informs them that they too
would need
similar contraptions to protect themselves from the
lightstream, but says that the danger isn t immediate as it takes
time. So,
in anticipation of having his mask removed, Omega sits
down and
beckons the Doctors on. The Doctors slowly lift up the
front
visor, but then promptly put it back down again in shock.
Omega asks
them why they have deviated, but is then informed by the
Doctors
that all that is left of him is his will. To check this,
Omega
removes his mask in front of a nearby mirror, and where his
head
should be is nothing. All that is left of Omega is his will,
and so
Omega begins moaning in disbelief and then threatens
everything
with destruction when he finds that he can only exist in
his
universe.
The
Doctors then flee and the Second comments that Omega does lack
self
control as the pair of them rush out of the door.
The
Brigadier and company arrive outside UNIT HQ in Bessie. The
Brigadier
stops the car, after almost crashing it, and they all
climb out
of the vehicle into the HQ. They are followed by the
Doctors,
who spot Bessie s tracks and begin to follow them. Once the
Brigadier,
Jo and company are inside they lock to door to keep out
intruders
as explosions fire off outside. Everyone begins bickering
but the
Brigadier restores order and informally cautions Benton and
Jo. Then,
he asks what can be done against Omega. Suddenly, they
hear a
banging on the door, and Jo guesses it s the Doctors, and
rushes
over with Benton to unlock the door. The visitors do turn out
to be a
pair of panicked Doctors and they both rush inside and the
Brigadier
locks the door again. Then, on the Third Doctor s orders,
everyone
climbs into the TARDIS, the Brigadier nearly not as he
spots the
two Doctors and gets confused.
Once
everyone s inside, the Second Doctor switches on the TARDIS
force
field. Outside the TARDIS a group of gel creatures approach.
Omega
watches on his view screen and goes on to describe the TARDIS
occupants
as fools, and says that they ll soon come back running,
but by
then nothing shall be left of the Universe.
At Time
Lord Control, the President asks the operator about the
situation.
The operator tells him that the energy supplies have
nearly run
down, and that they lost contact with the First Doctor
since he
passed through the black hole, and due to the power levels,
he can
only advise, not act.
Back
inside the TARDIS, the Second and Third Doctors have been
explaining
the situation to everyone else. The creatures can t get
in and
they can t get out. The Second Doctor says that if he could
find his
recorder he could play something for everyone, and the
Brigadier
goes on to say that they should be thankful for small
mercies,
which causes the Second Doctor to glare at him. Just then,
Dr Tyler
speaks, and he says that he s impressed with the TARDIS and
its
principle, but still doesn t understand how he got inside
though,
and he doesn t wish to die in it either. Jo concurs and then
Benton
asks how they can knobble this Omega
bloke , to which the
Second
Doctor tells him that Omega is one of the most powerful
blokes in the cosmos, and they
can t just knobble him.
But before
they can go any further the TARDIS consol begins to
bleep. The
Third Doctor deals with it and finds that it s the First
Doctor
trying to contact them. The First Doctor asks if they re
having a
mass meeting, and the Third Doctor explains that it s too
dangerous
outside so they had to come into the TARDIS. The First
says that
they re in a right pickle , being
trapped in the TARDIS.
The Second
rebuts this by saying the First can talk, he s trapped in
a bubble!
The First Doctor explain that talk is all he can do, and
not much
of that either. The transference turns out to be unstable
and then
says to get on with it . The Second
Doctor asks what the
First
means, and the First says to find a solution. The Doctors then
engage in
a telepathic conference, as Jo explains it to the
Brigadier.
When they finish, they all agree on what ever it is and
then do
it. The First Doctor then fades away.
Once the
First Doctor disappears, the Third Doctor tells the Second
they must
strip down the force field, but as the Second says, the
TARDIS
would be defenceless. But they will have to risk it. The
Brigadier
asks what the Doctors are doing; the Third one explains
that they
ve found a way of dealing with Omega. So, the Second
Doctor
goes to fetch the force field generator and just as the Third
Doctor
asks what if Omega should refuse, in it the Second Doctor
finds his
recorder in the force field. The Third Doctor tells the
Second not
to touch it as it is still matter and they are not, but
it gives
him another idea as well. It doesn t take long for the
Second
Doctor to realise what the Third s plan is and he recoils in
horror,
devastated that his beloved recorder is to be destroyed in
an attempt
to defeat Omega. However, the Third Doctor tries to make
it up to
the Second by promising to get him some more at the end of
it all.
At Time
Lord Control, the operator informs the President of a
contact,
it s the First Doctor giving them a progress report. The
President
asks if the Doctor had made contact with the others. The
Doctor
replies yes, but only for a short while. The President asks
the Doctor
to continue and the Doctor tells him that there may be a
possible
solution, but he ll let them know later.
In the
TARDIS the Second Doctor picks up the force field generator
complete
with recorder. The Brigadier asks what is going on and the
Third
Doctor explains that they can now strike a bargain with Omega.
The
Brigadier and Jo ask if it s to be with the generator (box of
tricks
according to the Brigadier) and the recorder (or as Jo calls
it, a
flute). The Third Doctor explains that the
box of tricks is
a portable
force field, whilst the Second says the recorder is more
than a
recorder. The two Doctors then turn round to the consol and
the Second
Doctor hands the generator over to Dr Tyler. At the
consol,
the Second Doctor switches on the viewing monitor and the
Third
Doctor calls for Omega. On the screen appears Omega s face,
and he
asks what the Doctors want. The Third Doctor explains that he
thinks he
may have discovered a way to grant Omega s freedom, and
the Doctor
goes on to ask for Omega to free the TARDIS so that they
can come
to him. At first Omega is suspicious, but the Second Doctor
explains
they just want to avoid the long walk. Omega concedes and
frees the
TARDIS. Before the Third Doctor does anything, he walks
over to
the consol and tells everyone to do as he tells them, and
looks over
to Jo and reiterates the point. The TARDIS then
dematerialises.
The TARDIS
soon reappears in Omega s throne room, where Omega
himself is
waiting. The Doctors and everyone else step out of the
TARDIS,
where a waiting Omega stands and watches. Omega waits for
everyone
before asking the Doctors if they think their
trickery
will save
them for long. But the Third Doctor says he s come to set
Omega
free- on the condition that Omega lets everyone else leave
first. Jo
attempts to protest but Benton holds her back. The Third
Doctor
continues speaking and informs Omega that he thinks that he
has found
a way of restoring Omega s freedom. Omega asks what, and
says that
he knows that the Doctors can t free him, but they can
join him
in the eternity that lies ahead of them. Omega then
explains
that if the Doctors will willingly accompany him, he ll set
everyone
else free. The Third Doctor says that he and the Second
agree to
Omega s terms; they will not attempt to leave. Jo tries to
protest
again, and is again restrained by Benton as the Third Doctor
tells her
she promised to do as he said.
Omega then
tells everyone that they can now leave, but they must be
thankful
that he is merciful. Omega leaves the room and the
Brigadier
asks what to do. The Third Doctor explains that all they
have to do
is walk through the column of smoke which is the
singularity and assures them that it s harmless, a point backed up
by the
Second Doctor. Dr Tyler is the first to walk through, his
reason
being that he doesn t want to miss the chance of a lifetime.
Next it s
Mr Ollis, him having declined first time round. Benton is
next; he
walks through the smoke and disappears. Then it s Jo, she
is
initially resistant but is persuaded by the Brigadier and the
Third
Doctor. Finally, it s the Brigadier s turn, and before he goes
through he
salutes the Doctors and disappears.
Once
everyone else has gone Omega walks back into the room. He tells
the
Doctors that he has played their
game and now they must play
his , and
they mustn t escape. Just then the Second Doctor walks out
of the
TARDIS with the generator and recorder, and tells Omega that
he is
wrong. The Second Doctor explains that Omega can have his
freedom
and he holds up the generator, telling Omega that it is
there.
Omega calls is a childish contraption and inquires about it
further.
The Second Doctor says it s the only freedom Omega can ever
have and
tells him to take it. Omega pauses, and then the Doctors
attempt
to will
Omega to take it. However, Omega just laughs at
their
attempt and the Third Doctor shouts at Omega to take the box.
However
Omega is displeased at the Doctors giving him commands and
in his
anger he knocks the box onto the floor, recorder too. The
Doctors
run into the TARDIS and in a bright flash Omega s world is
destroyed
and the black hole turns into a star again.
The Time
Lords watch the black hole vanish and power to their
facility
is soon restored. The President is relieved at this. He
comments
at there being another source of energy and says Once
again,
Omega as he looks on at the screen.
Back on
Earth, UNIT HQ and its contents and inhabitants return to
their
positions. Jo, the Brigadier, Benton and Dr Tyler, although
confused,
are relieved to be back. Benton confirms their presence on
Earth by
looking out of the window and onto the garden outside.
However Jo
is still worried and asks about the Doctors. The
Brigadier
is sure that they ll turn up as usual, but Jo begins
sobbing
and swings round into the arms of a comforting Benton. The
Brigadier
says Wonderful chap both of him.
Suddenly,
to Jo s delight, the TARDIS appears again and out step the
Third and
Second Doctors. They are both chuckling away and the Third
is
commenting that Omega had no self-control as he walks out into
the lab.
The Doctors are greeted by Jo, Benton, the Brigadier and Dr
Tyler, and
the Second Doctor says that they managed by the skin of
their
teeth. Then, the Second Doctor asks about Mr Ollis, and the
Third
Doctor says he ll be back where he came from.
Sure
enough, Mr Ollis turns back up at the Bird Reserve. He s
disorientated but nonetheless relieve to be back. So, he begins
walking
again, back to the cottage.
Back at
UNIT, the Third Doctor is busy explaining that Omega s will
was like
the tension in elastic, and when it was broke, everything
sprung
back to its original position. Benton, at that, asks why they
ended up
in the TARDIS and the Second Doctor explains by saying it
was the
proper place for them. Jo then asks about the recorder (or
flute),
and the Doctors explain that when it fell into the force
field, it
remained matter when everyone else was processed, and when
it touched
the floor, which was anti-matter, the two annihilated
each
other. Dr Tyler finishes of by commenting that the Black Hole
became a
supernova as a result. However, the Second Doctor is still
lamenting
the loss of his favourite instrument.
Just then,
the First Doctor calls from the TARDIS, and everyone
rushes
back inside it. The Third and Second Doctors walk in
triumphant
and the First informs the Second that they must now
return to
their original time streams. Then, as a final jest, the
First
Doctor comments that he shudders to think what his future
selves
would do without him and he then disappears. The Second
Doctor
does likewise, but saying goodbye this time,
Goodbye, it s
been so
nice to meet me.
Dr Tyler
comments by saying Now I ve seen it
all! whilst Jo says,
on the
departure of the Second Doctor, Pity, he
was so sweet! to
which the
Doctor says Yes, wasn t I? with a knowing grin.
But as far
as the Brigadier is concerned, one Doctor is enough! Then
he and
Benton go off to do an inventory, but not before Benton asks
what to do
should anything be missing, a remark met with a stare
from the
Brigadier, Come along Benton
Dr Tyler
says he d better be going too, he thanks the Doctor and
then
comments that he won t write about anything that has happened,
not unless
he wants firing that is, and so he leaves, smiling. Once
Dr Tyler
leaves, the Doctor paces, looking depressed. Jo tells him
that
everything worked out in the end. The she realises the Doctor
is glum
for having to trick Omega, though he says it wasn t exactly
tricking
him; the Doctor promised Omega his freedom and he gave it
to him,
the only freedom Omega could have. Jo says it was either
Omega or
everything when suddenly, a wheezing/groaning noise sounds
out and on
top of the central column is a small object.
The Doctor
picks up the object and says that it s a new
dematerialisation circuit. Furthermore, the Doctor notices he now
has the
de-mat codes back; his exile on Earth is over. But first he
needs a
new force field for the TARDIS of course. But the Time Lords
have
officially forgiven the Doctor now.
Back at
the Bird Sanctuary, a slightly irate Mrs Ollis walks out of
the
cottage to meet up with her husband. She berates him and asks
where he
has been. Mr Ollis reply is: I m afraid you d never
believe
me! Is supper ready? and he walks back
inside.
Source:
Chris Gadsby
Continuity Notes:
For the First Doctor, this takes place after The Time
Meddler and is a prequel to The Empire of Glass. For the
Second Doctor, this likely takes place early during Season
6B
since he not only recognizes Benton but his aware of
Lethbridge-Stewart promotion to brigadier (The Invasion).
Furthermore, he has not aged much since his last appearance
(The War Games).
The Doctor meets himself again in The Five Doctors, The Two
Doctors, Cold Fusion, The Eight Doctors, The Sirens of Time,
Interference (Book One and Book Two), and, in a sense, Heart
of
TARDIS and Endgame.
Omega returns in the Fifth Doctor stories Arc of Infinity
and Omega.
The Doctor will run from his people again in his fifth
incarnation after the events in The Five Doctors, until the
Sixth Doctor makes peace with them in The Trial of a Time
Lord. And to save his friend Compassion, the Eighth Doctor
will also be on the run from The Shadows of Avalon until The
Ancestor Cell.
If
the Time Lords could just pull the Doctor out of time as
easily as they could here, the question is why they couldn't
have used this while he was on the run from them in his
previous two incarnations. However, back then they didn't
know where the Doctor was at the present, wheras they knew
it
here, so it is possible that they need to have something
to
'work backwards' from, if you will.
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Carnival of
Monsters
Carnival of
Monsters
Serial PPP
Script
Editor
Terrance
Dicks
Designer
Roger
Liminton Written by Robert Holmes
Directed by Barry Letts
Incidental Music by Dudley Simpson
Jon
Pertwee (Dr. Who), Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Tenniel Evans
(Major Daly), Ian Marter (John Andrews), Jenny McCracken
(Claire Daly), Leslie Dwyer (Vorg), Cheryl Hall (Shirna),
Peter Halliday (Pletrac), Michael Wisher (Kalik), Terence
Lodge (Orum), Andrew Staines (Captain) [3].
NOTE: The version of Episode Two supplied for overseas
transmission was an earlier edit of the version seen on BBC
television. Among other things, the opening and closing titles
use
the abandoned Delaware synthesiser arrangement of the
theme tune.
The
Doctor and Jo take the TARDIS on a test flight. They
arrive on a cargo ship, the SS Bernice, that appears to be
crossing the Indian Ocean in 1926 but is in fact trapped
inside a miniscope a banned
peepshow of miniaturised
life-forms on the planet Inter
Minor.
They
enter another section of the scope but find themselves
confronted by ferocious Drashigs. The Doctor eventually breaks
out
of the scope and returns to full size. The device is owned
by a
pair of Lurman entertainers, Vorg and Shirna, who hope to
make
a quick profit from Inter Minor's hitherto reclusive
natives.
Original
Broadcast (UK)
Episode One 27th January, 1973 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Two 3rd February, 1973 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Three 10th February, 1973 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Four 17th February, 1973 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Notes:
Released on video and DVD in episodic format. [+/-]
CARNIVAL OF MONSTERS
U.K. Release: March 1995 / U.S. Release: March 1996
PAL - BBC video BBCV5556
NTSC - CBS/FOX Video 8336
NTSC - Warner Video E1311
U.K. Release: July 2002 / U.S. Release: July 2003
PAL Region 2 - BBCDVD1098
NTSC Region 1 - Warner DVD E1758
DVD FEATURES:
Commentary by Katy Manning and Director/Producer
Barry Letts.
Deleted Scenes.
Director's alternate ending to Episode 4.
Behind-the-scenes footage used in the 1972
programme Looking In.
Visual effects test footage.
Alternate version of the opening and closing
credits with rejected remix of the theme.
Trailer for the 1981 repeat as part of the 'Five
Faces of Doctor Who'.
CSO training film from the 1970s, demonstrated by
Barry Letts.
TARDIS-Cam footage.
Photo Gallery.
Production Information Subtitles.
Who's Who (Region 1 only).
LINK: The Restoration Team work for Carnival of
Monsters DVD.
Novelised as Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters by
Terrance Dicks. [+/-]
Number 8 in the Doctor Who Library.
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: January 1977. Reprinted in 1979,
1980, 1982, 1984, 1985.
ISBN: 0 426 11025 0.
Cover by Chris Achilleos.
Price: 50p.
Hardcover Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: January 1977. Reprinted in 1978.
ISBN: 0 491 02114 3.
Cover by Chris Achilleos.
Price: 2.95.
Paperback Edition - Virgin Publishing Ltd.
First Edition: May 1993.
ISBN: 0 426 11578 3.
Cover by Alister Pearson.
Price: 3.50.
Retitled Doctor Who - Carnival of Monsters.
AUDIO RELEASE:
Released as a
talking book by the Royal National
Institute for
the Blind, narrated by Gabriel
Woolf.
Released: 1981
?-Cassette Set
ISBN: ?
Doctor Who Magazine Archive: Winter Special 1994.
Episode
One
(drn:
24'46")
With the
Doctor's ability to travel in time and space restored, he
decides to
take Jo on a trial journey, hoping to land on the famous
blue
planet of Metebelis Three.
However,
they appear to arrive in a rather smelly cargo hold with
only some
chickens for company. Jo notices a crate marked
'Singapore' and leaves with the Doctor, who wants to take a look
around.
Elsewhere,
on the planet Inter Minor, more arrivals are taking
place,
this time through the cargo thruster. Two brightly clad
people are
busy recovering their Scope (a miniaturised peepshow of
Galaxy
life forms) from the thruster. The older one is a flamboyant
con man
and side show artiste called Vorg, while his pretty female
assistant
is known as Shirna.
While they
are busy with their Scope, two of the planet's leading
officials
are preparing to meet the new arrivals. Kalik, brother of
the
President, is bemoaning the fact that the planet is allowing
aliens to
visit. His companion agrees with him. Suddenly, there is a
distraction. One of the slave workers, known as Functionaries is
making a
speech inciting his fellows to rebel. Quickly Kalik shoots
him down,
his blaster set on stun, so that a physical and mental
examination of the rebel will be possible. This done, Kalik and Orum
turn their
attentions to Vorg and Shirna.
Meanwhile,
Jo and the Doctor have found their way to the deck of the
ship. Jo
is now convinced they are on Earth, but the Doctor is not
so sure -
he senses there is something very wrong here. Entering a
passage,
they hear voices coming from a little saloon and it is soon
evident
from what they overhear that this is a 1920s ship en route
to
Singapore from England. The occupants of the room appear to
include an
old Major, his daughter Claire and a young officer called
Andrews.
After some small talk, Andrews asks Claire to take a turn
around the
deck with him. The Major declines to join them, saying he
wants to
finish his book before they arrive in Bombay.
The Doctor
tells Jo that he still doesn't think this is Earth and he
suggests
returning to the TARDIS. Then, they hear Claire scream -
she rushes
into the little saloon with Andrews, who tells the Major
that they
are under attack from some sort of sea monster. The Doctor
and Jo
look out and see the monster, which the Doctor identifies as
a
plesiosaurus. If this is the 1920s, then the plesiosaurus ought to
have been
extinct for millions of years.
Andrews
goes off to fetch a rifle, while the Major consoles Claire.
Jo and the
Doctor try to creep away unnoticed, but the Major spots
them. Jo
tries to convince the surprised father and daughter that
they are
passengers too, and that the Doctor is her uncle. At this
point,
Andrews returns and says that the Major and Claire are the
only
passengers on board - therefore the Doctor and Jo are
stowaways.
On Inter
Minor, Vorg and Shirna have problems of their own. The
Functionaries are fascinated by their Scope and gather round it.
Immediately putting on his best showman act, Vorg starts to promote
the
machine. He says the Scope is a carnival of monsters, a kind of
technological goldfish bowl where different life-forms can be
observed
in their own natural habitats. The Functionaries are
frightened
away by this act, however, and it is then that Shirna
notices a
systems defect flashing on the machine. Vorg gets his
tool-box
out.
All this
is watched by the scornful figures of Orum and Kalik.
Another of
their rank, Pletrac, joins them, bringing further news of
unrest
among the Functionaries. While they discuss the situation,
Vorg
locates the fault - he says it is a small blue box, and that he
will have
to remove it from the circuit.
Back on
the ship, Andrews has decided to lock the Doctor and Jo up
until the
Captain is ready to see them. On the way to the Major's
cabin,
where they are to be held the Doctor notices an octagonal
plate in a
passage floor. Not only can Andrews not explain it - he
can't see
it either!
Once
locked in, the Doctor finally realises what has happened,
because of
the name of the ship, the S.S. Bernice. In its day, it
was as
famous as the Marie Celeste - it was a ship which simply
disappeared. Escaping from the cell using Jo's skeleton keys, the
Doctor
decides to open the metal floor plate. To do so, he needs a
tool from
the TARDIS.
On the way
back to get it, they hear the ship's occupants going
through
exactly the same conversation about the sea monster as
before.
The Doctor says they have been programmed to repeat their
behaviour
as part of a simple display of livestock. Once back inside
the
TARDIS, the Doctor rapidly comes out again when Jo screams.
Following
her gaze, he watches horrified as a giant hand reaches
into the
hold and removes the TARDIS.
Episode
Two
(drn:
25'00")
The Doctor
says that to retrieve the TARDIS, they must find a way
off the
ship. Vorg has got the miniature TARDIS, which he says he
must
return if it is to remain small.
Having
checked their credentials, the officials now wish to know
about Vorg
and Shirna's Scope. The Doctor and Jo are making their
cautious
way back to the metal plate outside the Major's cabin.
Passing
through the saloon, they are caught by the Major, who does
not
recognise them.
Meanwhile,
Vorg is shattered to learn that the officials do not
regard
their status as entertainers sufficient to warrant them a
visa. He
is told that he, Shirna and the Scope must all leave as
soon as
possible. Vorg appeals, claiming that they must see his
Scope in
action. The officials agree to this but remain unimpressed
at
glimpses of Ogrons, ferocious creatures called Drashigs and
finally
the humans on the ship. Sensing he is failing to impress,
Vorg
adjusts the aggrometer which makes the specimens behave in a
much more
aggressive manner. The Doctor is now being confronted with
a markedly
more threatening Andrews. A fight ensues in which the
Doctor
knocks Andrews down. He and Jo escape, hotly pursued, and are
caught at
the metal plate. They are about to be shot when Vorg turns
the
aggrometer down as he doesn't want his specimens damaging each
other.
Their memories wiped, Andrews and the Major leave the amazed
Jo and the
Doctor.
Shirna has
noticed that the Doctor and Jo are new to the Scope.
Inside the
machine, they have broken through the plate and are
walking
inside the Scope's innards, trying to find a way out. As
they are
doing so, Pletrac orders the Scope destroyed, fearing
infection
from the life forms within.
The
Eradication is a failure. But at first the officials believe
that all
life inside has been disposed of, until they see that this
is not the
case. Kalik speculates that Vorg and Shirna are alien
spies,
saying that the Eradicator is now their only defence from the
strangers.
They search the machine for a transmitter, and find the
tiny
TARDIS.
All of a
sudden it grows to normal height - because, Vorg explains,
it was
left out of the Scope's compression field for too long.
Shirna now
suspects that the Doctor and Jo have escaped from their
circuit.
She is
quite correct; the Doctor and Jo now find themselves in a
swampy
marshland. Vorg notices and says they've had it - they will
be
devoured by the Drashigs, who live in this circuit. Kalik wishes
to watch
this, and despite Shirna's protests, Vorg is too scared of
having his
hand bitten off by a Drashig to intervene and help them.
Inside the
Scope, Jo hears a distant screaming sound. Thoroughly
unnerved,
she suggests returning to the cave from which they entered
this
circuit. The Doctor agrees, but as they turn to leave, the
towering
form of a hungry Drashig rises from the swamp.
Episode
Three
(drn:
24'49")
The
Drashig seems to be blind, hunting by scent alone. The Doctor
says they
must try to reach the cave before it gets there. The
viewers on
Inter Minor listen fascinated as Vorg tells how the
Drashigs
never give up a scent, and since they are omnivores, they
even eat
spaceships.
The Doctor
and Jo have other ideas, however, and using distractions
caused by
the Doctor's sonic screwdriver are just about to reach the
cave mouth
when another Drashig appears to block the way. At this
Vorg
intervenes, giving the Doctor and Jo just enough time to get
back into
the cave and the Scope's workings beyond.
The Doctor
now explains to Jo exactly where they are - inside a
MiniScope,
and that these were a kind of galactic peepshow, banned
by the
Time Lords because of the cruelty involved. This one must
have
avoided being impounded. The Doctor and Jo are now aware that
the
Drashigs haven't yet given up the hunt and are trying to follow
them into
the Scope. They rush off pursued by the giant creatures,
which
simply eat their way through the metal of the Scope.
After an
exhausting flight through what seem to be miles of
pipelines
and small channels, the Doctor and Jo reach a junction
with a
deep chasm ahead. The Doctor says that logically there should
be an
extractor at the bottom of this shaft, the only way of
escaping
the Scope altogether.
Jo
suggests going back to the ship where there is plenty of rope,
and using
this to get down to the exit point. Luckily for them; they
come out
in the ship's hold, and they begin to collect some rope,
accompanied by the distant roars of the Drashigs. Then they hear the
Major and
Andrews approaching - both having heard the screams.
The Doctor
and Jo hide, but Jo is discovered and taken up to the
saloon,
while the Doctor gets on with the escape plan. Andrews is
telling Jo
that the Captain will see her, when a much louder Drashig
scream is
heard from the hold. Leaving Jo with Claire, Andrews and
the Major
rush down. Down in the hold, the Drashig bursts through
and
confronts the Doctor. Just then, Andrews arrives with some armed
men.
The
Drashig reacts to the gunfire by crashing through the hold of
the ship
on to the deck where it is finally shot to pieces. In the
hold,
Andrews blows up another Drashig, giving the Doctor a chance
to escape
back into the Scope's interior. In the saloon, Jo is
horrified
to see that the Major, Andrews and Claire have all slipped
back into
their original behaviour patterns. She rushes off to find
the
Doctor, watched by a bemused Major.
On Inter
Minor, Shirna confirms to Kalik that the Drashigs have
broken out
of their circuit, and might break out of the Scope.
Taking
Orum to one side, Kalik says that this could serve his
purpose by
providing an opportunity to take over from his brother to
lead a
new, stronger, more traditional form of government - with
Kalik as
its president. The Eradicator would be used to destroy the
Drashigs
and the Scope.
At this,
Vorg announces that the Scope's power seems to be fading.
He insists
that there will be enough power left for him to make the
necessary
repairs but inside the machine, the Doctor can see that it
is beyond
repair. Finally reaching the extractor, the Doctor forces
his way
out. Under the horrified gaze of the Inter Minor officials,
Vorg and
Shirna, the Doctor's tiny body stumbles from the Scope and
promptly
collapses.
Episode
Four
(drn:
24'10")
The Doctor
grows to full height and Pletrac, fearing alien
infection,
orders his destruction at once. Kalik prevents this,
having
sabotaged the Eradicator until his purposes suited him. At
this point
the Doctor intervenes and says they will not harm him.
Finding
out his location, he sees the TARDIS and assumes an air of
authority.
He accuses the officials of operating an illegal Scope
and says
they must help him rescue Jo from inside.
The
officials appear to swallow this, while Vorg and Shirna decide
he must be
a showman like themselves. The Doctor goes over to
examine
the Scope. Vorg decides to help him and is very surprised
when the
Doctor rounds on him for calmly accepting that the Scope is
going to
fail, killing all its occupants. On the ship, Jo has made
her way
back to the hold, only to be caught yet again by Andrews.
Locked in
the Major's cabin, she waits a short time before using her
skeleton
keys on the door again.
Back on
Inter Minor, Vorg and Shirna realise that the Drashigs will
soon break
out of the Scope. They try to leave but are stopped -
Kalik
wants Vorg on hand to take the blame if his rebellion goes
wrong.
The Doctor
has managed to rig up a system whereby he will be
transported back into the Scope, and by switching a linked button
(fed
through the TARDIS time travel facility), it will return the
Doctor and
Jo to the planet and all the occupants of the Scope to
their
rightful places in the Universe.
Just as he
is going to be interrogated, the Doctor is transported
back into
the Scope by Vorg's intervention.
The
enraged Pletrac fires at the Doctor's link-up, damaging it
badly. The
Doctor finds Jo in the hold and they return to the
Scope's
innards to await Vorg's rescue. Urged on by Shirna, Vorg is
trying as
hard as he can to repair the damage inflicted by Pletrac's
blaster.
Inside the Scope, the life support system is beginning to
fail and
the Doctor and Jo find it increasingly hard to breathe.
On the
ship, the Major, Andrews and Claire sink into unconsciousness
as does
Jo. Finally the Doctor succumbs too, unaware that Vorg is
about to
make the last vital re-connection. Orum meanwhile informs
Kalik that
his dream of rebellion will have to wait now, as Pletrac
has
arrived to dispose of the Scope. Kalik draws a gun forcing Orum
to delay
Pletrac. In the time available, Kalik forces open the
extractor
on the Scope's side, freeing a Drashig.
The
Drashig grows to an enormous height and immediately consumes
Kalik,
while the others in the area flee for their lives. Acting
very
quickly, Vorg snatches the abandoned Eradicator and fires at
the
massive creature. He then destroys all the other omnivores now
breaking
out from the Scope. This done, he preens himself only to be
reminded
about the Doctor's escape switch by Shirna's hurried voice.
At first
it seems as if all the power has drained away and then
there
seems to be a slight hum as the machine revives for one last
time.
Pulling the switch home, Vorg and Shirna wait.
Inside the
Scope, slowly but surely, all the specimens vanish and
re-appear
in their rightful times and places. The Doctor and Jo
rematerialise next to the TARDIS and awaken to find a joyful Vorg
greeting
them. The S.S. Bernice returns to 1926, at last able to
finish its
voyage, while the Major is finally allowed to finish his
book.
Claire struggles to remember the events buried deep in her
memory but
gives up.
Vorg is
now surrounded by an admiring band of Functionaries and
officials,
busily recounting, in highly exaggerated and mock-heroic
style, how
he saved the day for Inter Minor. The Doctor and Jo
announce
their departure, but Pletrac says they must wait until the
Court of
Inquiry has finished. Humouring him, the time travellers
begin to
edge towards the TARDIS. Unwittingly, Vorg provides a
diversion
with one of his old money-making side shows.
Jo says he
will probably end up as President. The TARDIS departs,
watched by
an amused and slightly incredulous Shirna.
Source:
Archives from Doctor Who Magazine #113 (June 1986),
pp.35-39.
Continuity Notes:
Specimens in Vorg s MiniScope include Drashigs, Ogrons,
Cybermen and the Humans aboard the SS Bernice on the Indian
Ocean in 1926.
The campaign the Doctor mentions he set up against the
Miniscopes was so sucessful that he was requested to act as
chairman in a conference in The Empire of Glass, although a
complication arose due to the fact that the invitation was
given to the First Doctor after The Three Doctors.
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Frontier in
Space
Frontier in
Space
Serial QQQ
Producer
Barry
Letts
Script
Editor
Terrance
Dicks
Designer
Cynthia
Klujco Written by Malcolm Hulke
Directed by Paul Bernard*
Incidental Music by Dudley Simpson
Jon
Pertwee (Dr. Who), Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Vera Fusek
(President of Earth) [1-3,5-6], Michael Hawkins (General
Williams) [1-3,5-6], Peter Birrell (Draconian Prince)
[1-2,5-6], Ray Lonnen (Gardiner) [1-2], Barry Ashton (Kemp)
[1-2], John Rees (Hardy) [1-2], James Culliford (Stewart)
[1-2], Louis Mahoney (Newscaster) [1-2]†, Roy Pattison
(Draconian Space Pilot) [1-2]†, Karol Hagar (Secretary) [1-3],
Lawrence Davidson (Draconian First Secretary) [2]†, Timothy
Craven (Cell Guard) [2]†, Roger Delgado (The Master) [3-6],
Harold Goldblatt (Professor Dale) [3-4], Madhav Sharma (Patel)
[3],
Dennis Bowen (Prison Governor) [3-4], Richard Shaw
(Cross) [3-4], Luan Peters (Sheila) [3], Caroline Hunt
(Technician) [3], Lawrence Harrington (Lunar Guard) [3], Bill
Wilde (Draconian Captain) [4-5], John Woodnutt (Draconian
Emperor) [5], Ian Frost (Draconian Messenger) [5], Clifford
Elkin (Earth Cruiser Captain) [5], Stephen Thorne (First
Ogron) [5-6], Michael Kilgariff (Second Ogron) [5-6], Rick
Lester (Third Ogron) [5-6], Ramsay Williams (Congressman
Brook) [6], Bill Mitchell (Newscaster) [6], Stanley Price
(Pilot of Space Ship) [6]; John Scott Martin, Murphy Grumbar,
Cy
Town (Daleks) [6]; Michael Wisher (Dalek Voice) [6].
NOTE: The version of Episode Five used on the video release
was
an earlier edit of the version seen on BBC television.
Among other things, the opening and closing titles use the
abandoned Delaware synthesiser arrangement of the theme tune.
*
David Maloney directed, uncredited, the final moments of
Episode Six.
†The
ending credits of Episode One were accidentally reused
for
the ending credits for Episode Two. This meant that Louis
Mahoney as Newscaster and Roy Pattison as Draconian Space
Pilot received a credit even though they did not appear and
Lawrence Davidson as Draconian First Secretary and Timothy
Craven as Cell Guard received no credit even though they did
appear.
It
is the twenty-sixth century. Known space is divided between
the
great empires of Earth and Draconia. A fragile peace
exists between the humans and the lizard-like Draconians, a
peace that is put in jeopardy when each race claims that its
cargo vessels are being raided by the other's warships.
When
the TARDIS accidentally brings the Doctor and Jo aboard
Earth cargo ship C982, they find it under attack. As the ship
is
boarded, a strange pulsing sound fills the air. The crew
believe their attackers to be Draconians, but the Doctor and
Jo
see only Ogrons - brutish, simian mercenaries who steal the
cargo, including the TARDIS, and head off into space.
The
Doctor's investigations take him to Earth, the Moon and
then
to Draconia itself. He discovers that the Ogrons are
employed by his sworn enemy, the Master, who is attempting to
provoke a war between the space empires. The Doctor suspects
the
scale of the plan is too grand for the Master, but even he
is
shocked to discover the identity of the far deadlier foe
waiting in the wings...
Original
Broadcast (UK)
Episode One 24th February, 1973 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Two 3rd March, 1973 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Three 10th March, 1973 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Four 17th March, 1973 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Five 24th March, 1973 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Six 31st March, 1973 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Notes:
Released on video in episodic format. [+/-]
FRONTIER IN SPACE
U.K. Release: August 1995 / U.S. Release: March 1996
PAL - BBC video BBCV5640 (2
tapes)
NTSC - CBS/FOX video 8337 (2
tapes)
NTSC - Warner Video E1312 (2
tapes)
Episode 6 also released on The Pertwee Years video.
Novelised as Doctor Who and the Space War by Malcolm Hulke.
[+/-]
Number 57 in the Doctor Who Library.
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
Green Logo on Cover.
First Edition: September 1976.
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Doctor Who Magazine Archive: Issue #201.
Episode
One
(drn:
23'27")
22.09.72.2540: an Earth Cargo Ship C982 flies in space. It prepares
to move to
hyperspace. There are two astronauts aboard named Hardy
and
Stewart. They discuss the threat of war between Earth and the
Draconians
-- who attacked some of Earth's cargos. They also discuss
a
Mars-Venus cruise and luxury liner spacecraft. They start the leap
but see
the TARDIS on their scanner screen, almost colliding with
it. The
TARDIS is on a slant. They manoeuvre but see the TARDIS
vanish --
a large blue box with a white light on top. They report
it.
Jo and the
Doctor emerge from the TARDIS which has landed in the
cargo
hold. Jo comes out, telling the Doctor, "Well, I'm never going
in that
thing again." She wonders how the Doctor could have a
traffic
accident in space. She is chewing gum. The Doctor is in
green. To
avoid hitting the ship, the Doctor made a random jump out
of
hyperspace into the ship. Jo finds bulk flower is the cargo as
the Doctor
checks the TARDIS systems. Out a window of the cargo
hold, Jo
sees a strange rocket ship which blurs during a strange
sound and
seems to change shape. She calls the Doctor to look out.
It is the
26th century by the Doctor's reckoning. Interstellar
travel is
routine by now. When the Doctor moves away to try to check
out his
calculations with the crew, Jo gasps--the ship is coming
straight
at the one they are on.
Hardy and
Stewart try to contact the ship for assistance but the
sound
occurs again, the ship changes shape, and they see the ship is
a really a
Draconian battle cruiser -- Galaxy Class with neutronic
missiles.
Stewart orders Hardy to get the blasters. Jo and the
Doctor
watch as Hardy prepares a space link up, a tunnel between two
airlocks,
avoiding a space walk. Jo wants to get back to the TARDIS
but the
Doctor wants to look at the ship's cabin. Getting two
blaster
guns, Hardy is then confronted by the Doctor, whom after a
blur and
that sound again, appears to Hardy as a Draconian with a
gun in its
hand. When Jo pops round, she sees Hardy as a Drashig and
screams,
hiding behind the Doctor.
Stewart
reports the Draconian battle ship is locking on to his ship
now. The
Draconian commander appears on the screen and tells them if
they use
any resistance they will be destroyed. He orders the hatch
opened.
Hardy brings the Doctor and Jo in. Stewart refuses the
Draconian
order to open their air lock door and thinks Jo and the
Doctor are
Draconian prisoners.
On a
futuristic Earth, the female Earth president and the Draconian
ambassador
(and also the son of the Draconian Emperor) discuss the
charges
and counter charges. Both believe the other to be attacking
the
other's cargo ships. The Treaty between Empires have established
a frontier
in space. General Williams gets in on the discussion and
mentions
the frequency of these attacks. The President insists he go
find out
the progress on the matter and the General leaves. The
Ambassador
called for war -- he hates the Draconians. The nobles of
his
father's court are angry as are the people of Earth. Many
noblemen
of the Draconians felt it a mistake to make a treaty with
Earth. He
warns her that in a war Draconia will destroy Earth if
they do
not stop attacking their cargo ships.
In the
hold cell, Jo tells the Doctor to put the sonic screwdriver
away --
there are bolts on the doors. The Doctor seems to recall
dragons...
which is what the crewmen think he and Jo are, and he
knows
about the race called Draconians. He mentions the Earth Empire
spreading
throughout the Milky Way. When Jo asks if that is like
Solos, he
mentions that Solos was during the declining years of the
Earth
Empire. This is beginning of Earth's Empire. Earth and
Draconia
are colonizing planet after planet. Dragons is an
unflattering term for Draconians. They wonder why someone has gone
to all the
trouble to make someone see things...posthypnotic
command.
Jo looks out the door's window and can see the TARDIS.
Stewart
and Hardy discuss red alert and what Earth is going to do.
The door
of their space lock is 99 percent virilium, thus it will
take the
Draconians a long time to get through it. Hardy and Stewart
go down to
the hold with guns to fight the Draconians if the aliens
want to
take the flower.
On Earth,
a black man is on TV, talking about the news: the Bureau
of
Population Control announced today that the recently reclaimed
Arctic
settlements, New Glasgow and Montreal, can be settled by
civilians.
As an incentive, the Bureau will lift the limit of one
child per
couple to two children per couple. News of another attack
on the
Earth cargo ship comes through. The President watches this
and calls
Williams in again. Congressman Brook wants Earth to take
an
official stand and have Earth strike back. The President tells
Williams
she ordered a complete media black out but he counters that
the Media
have their own sources. The Rescue Ship will be at the
cargo ship
in 17.5 minutes but Williams believes it will be too late
by then.
Using a
laser drill rifle, large hairy headed aliens -- Ogrons are
almost
through the door.
In the
cell, the Doctor is reversing the polarity of the sonic
screwdriver's power source. He's turning it into a powerful electro
magnet.
One of the cargo ship's crewmen gets the Doctor and Jo --
just as
the Doctor had opened the door anyway, "Oh my, how very
embarrassing." The man takes them to the airlock hatch to use them
as human
shields against what he thinks are their Draconian
"friends." The Ogrons blast in and use a gun to knock down the
crewmen
and the Doctor--the Doctor being shot in the back as he and
Jo run. Jo
checks the Doctor to see an Ogron standing over her.
Williams
tells the President on Earth that there have been anti
Draconian
riots in Tokyo and Belgrade. The Draconian consulate in
Helsinki
has been burned to the ground. In Los Angeles,
demonstrators burned an effigy of the President of Earth. The
President's secretary tells her via video phone that the Rescue Ship
is about
to board the cargo ship. Williams doubts anyone is alive to
explain
what happened.
The Doctor
wakes up to Jo's joy. She calls him over to her... she is
in the
cell again. He opens it for her and she makes him sit down.
Neuronic
stun gun did this. The Ogrons took the cargo and threw Jo
in the
cell. They also took the TARDIS. Sitting the Doctor tries to
figure out
the sound Jo heard and what is happening. Last time the
Ogrons
were met by Jo and the Doctor, they were working for the
Daleks. Jo
supposes... The Doctor dismisses this since the Ogrons
are
mercenaries, other life forms use them to do their dirty work.
The pair
leave to find the crew. Both men are stunned and the Ogrons
repaired
the airlock door. Jo wonders why they would go to all that
trouble --
the airlock not being repaired would have killed them.
The Doctor
states, "Well, perhaps they have kind hearts. There's
good in
everyone, you know, Jo."
The Earth
battle cruiser calls in their approach. The Doctor calls
in the
information of what happened already. In five seconds the
cruiser
from Earth locks on with the cargo. Soon, guards rush in
just as
the Doctor and Jo get the two crewmen up. The crewmen cannot
remember
who the Doctor and Jo are. They seem to think the pair are
stowaways... spies for the Draconians... "They're traitors..."
Episode
Two
(drn:
24'10")
One of the
rescue guards, Gardiner, mentions the Doctor's outfit, "I
see.
Having a fancy dress party." He also says of the missing
"equipment" tough luck. "Thank you very much," the
Doctor says. Jo
and the
Doctor try to explain about not being traitors but the guard
leader
orders them put in the starboard cubicle. They will be able
to talk to
Earth security when they get there. A guard shoves the
Doctor
into Jo. Once inside, the Doctor hears the ships' unlocking.
Gardiner
leaves Kemp on board the C982. Jo paces up and down like "a
Perishing
panda". Jo tries to get a plan for escape. She once saw
this
gangster film and...the Doctor tells her to sit down. She asks
why the
crew cannot recall the truth...it's been erased from their
minds,
that's why. The crewmen don't know they are lying. At Earth,
they have
to get to someone whose mind is not already closed. Jo
ponders
the future, "It's simple then. All we've got to do is find
out what's
going on, who's behind the Ogrons, where they've taken
the
TARDIS, go and get it back, and then we can all go home."
Williams
wants the ship area cordoned off once it lands on Earth.
The Earth
President tells Williams she wants direct reports from
him.
Williams gets the Doctor and Jo. Later, he tells the President
he
believes them to be Draconian spies. They could have been two
unfortunate refugees from a Draconian attack...or at least that
would have
been their cover as Draconian spies. The Earth President
wants the
Doctor and Jo face to face with the Draconian ambassador.
A guard
shows the Doctor and Jo to a dirty cell, offers them food
and drink,
and gives them advice: tell the truth, sooner or later,
they will.
The interrogators will use the mind probe. The Doctor
tells her
to calm down and ushers her to sit down. He tells her
about the
time the Medusoids, hairy one legged jellyfish with claws,
teeth, and
a leg who put him under a mind probe to try to get him to
tell them
where he was going. He told them he was going to meet a
giant
rabbit, a pink elephant, and a purple horse with yellow spots.
The
machine had a nervous breakdown and he was put under another one
and the
same thing happened. He was going to meet these: they were
all
delegates at the Third Inter-Galactic Peace Conference. They had
to turn
the Doctor loose eventually, "They ran out of mind probes."
The
crewmen tell the President they saw the Doctor and Jo as
Draconians. The Ambassador tells the President these men are under
the Earth
President's control and will say what she wants them to
say. He
insists the Draconians do not have human agents: subversion
and
espionage are forbidden by the Peace Treaty. A treaty Williams
blames the
Draconians of breaking. Before the Ambassador can return
to his
Embassy, the Earth President has the Doctor and Jo brought
in. The
Doctor tries to assure the Draconians and the Earth
President
he and Jo are not spies, nor agents. The Doctor
congratulates Williams, "You have the most totally closed mind I
have ever
encountered." He goes on to claim a third party is trying
to provoke
war between the two. Williams has them taken away. The
President
wants the Ambassador to relay a formal protest. He will
inform him
of the latest insult to the honour of Draconian Empire.
He leaves.
The President thinks the Doctor and Jo might have been
telling
the truth. Williams reviews the facts: a pocket spaceship
which can
appear inside another, alien giants that can change their
form. He
tells her to leave it to him, he will get the truth out of
them.
Jo and the
Doctor are taken outside past high buildings of stone and
walked up
steps past bridges. They are put back in the dirty cell.
Earth and
Draconia are on the brink of war. Jo wonders about getting
the two of
the out of the cell. The Doctor uses the sonic
screwdriver on the lock but alarms are set off. He tells Jo that he
thinks
they will sit here for awhile after all.
In a lush
office in the embassy, the Ambassador reports to the First
Secretary,
who thinks maybe the Earthlings are telling the truth. It
would be
useful to question the humans found on the ship and perhaps
they can
help the two to escape. Should two escaping prisoners seek
sanctuary,
it would be uncivilized to turn them away. Without
directly
sanctioning this, the Ambassador allows the First Secretary
to perform
his duties... freeing the Doctor and Jo.
The First
Secretary calls the President that his highness would like
to
interrogate the two prisoners. She invites his highness to
question
them together. A tough but short guard orders the Doctor
and Jo on
their feet. The Doctor won't do it until he can give him
good
reason. He doesn't want another ridiculous interrogation. On
the way
out of the building, the first guard is shot by Draconians
on a
bridge. More Draconians arrive and shoot another guard. Jo and
the Doctor
run but more Draconians come from the underhallway and
shoot
another guard. The Doctor uses his karate to stop one so that
Jo and
four guards can get away. Jo is grabbed by the four. The
Doctor is
taken by the Draconians. The President wants to question
the girl
but will not break off diplomatic negotiations with the
Draconian
Embassy. Williams wants her to but she insists she will
not. Jo is
brought in to the President and Williams. Jo tells her
that the
Doctor has been kidnapped. Jo tells them to use their mind
probe: she
is telling them the truth.
The Doctor
is brought to the Embassy. The Doctor thinks it nice to
invite him
there. The Draconians believe he is working for Williams,
who once
before caused a war between Earth and Draconia. The Doctor
explains
yet again about the Ogrons and a third party. The
Ambassador
wants him to expose Williams to the Earth President. The
First
Secretary wants the mind probes they have used on the Doctor
and orders
him taken away. From his chair, the Doctor pushes the two
guards
into the Secretary and the trio fall into the desk. The
Doctor
backflips in his chair toward the door and is about to run
out. The
Ambassador stops one of the guards from shooting the
Doctor.
The Doctor runs out across the lush Embassy. Outside, on a
landing, a
Draconian pulls a gun, "Halt!" The Doctor hits him and
another
down and runs. Another Draconian points a gun down from a
balcony.
Earth soldiers are all over now and have the Doctor
surrounded
outside the perimeter of the Embassy.
The Doctor
is taken back to the cell and Jo. She hears that sound
again.
From a bridge skywalk, a guard sees an intruder--who is an
Ogron in
reality but the guard sees him as a Draconian. The guard is
shot as
are three others. Ogrons run up the circular walkway and
shoot
another guard. Ogrons smash through the doors and begin firing
at
doorways. They shoot two more guards and shoot at the door to the
cell where
the Doctor and Jo are. Entering it, they hear Jo scream,
"Ogrons!" One Ogron raises his gun, "You, come!"
Episode
Three
(drn:
24'00")
As the
President gets a head rub down from a lady, her secretary,
Sheila,
gives her reports. The Historical Monuments Preservations
Society
meeting clashes with her Cabinet Meeting. An enquiry to the
anti
Draconian riots caused damage and petitioners seek
compensation. All claims to the Treasury will be sympathetically
considered. Williams wants an interview.
When the
Ogrons exit with the Doctor and Jo, shots from an Earth
soldier
knock the Ogrons away from them. The pair run amid shots.
The Doctor
gets Jo down by a stone wall, "That was close." A battle
continues
to rage around them but finally an Earth guard points a
gun at
their backs.
In the
President's office, on a giant screen are reports and
newsflashes of demonstrations and riots as well as police riot
control. A
riot in Tokyo is on the screen. Williams comes in to the
President
and explains the time is now for extreme measures. The
Draconian
kidnappers have vanished. The President will break off
diplomatic
relations but will not be responsible for starting a war.
Williams
tells her, as she hands him a drink, that she can be
replaced.
They used to be friends once. He asks if she thinks he
would
betray her. She never doubted him, she says, 'I'm sorry."
There are
certain senior officers that feel a military dictatorship
is needed.
Her political opponents are clamouring for war. She will
make the
Ambassador and his delegates leave Earth. Unless she has
conclusive
evidence, she will not strike the first blow. The
President
will not let the mind probe be used on the girl. She wants
them to
see reason. Williams tries the mind probe again on the
Doctor.
He asks
the Doctor questions and the Doctor tells the truth. He
tells of
the TARDIS, his own "spaceship." The female recorder tells
Williams
the Doctor is telling the truth. They see his thoughts on
the
screen. Williams thinks the Doctor is using conditioning against
the
machine. Williams threatens to increase power. The Doctor tells
the girl,
"There's just no telling some people, is there, my dear."
Williams
orders the girl to step up the power and the machine bursts
and burns
out.
The Doctor
sleeps in his cell. Jo reaches over him and asks if he is
all right.
Jo is in a new outfit of black which looks like a karate
outfit,
"Who are you fighting tonight?" He tells her it is a pity
that the
Ogrons didn't succeed in kidnapping them: it might have
brought
them to where the TARDIS is. "So," Jo says, "We just sit
around
here, waiting for those jolly old Ogrons to turn up again." A
guard
comes to take the Doctor to the Madam President. Jo hands the
Doctor his
cape and wishes him luck. "See you later," he bows to
her.
The
President gives the Doctor a final chance to tell her the truth.
He
explains he has been telling the truth for a considerable time.
She will
double any offer the Draconians made to him. Under the
powers
invested in her under the Special Security Act, she will send
him to the
Lunar Colony without a trial, just quietly tucking him
away. Away
from the Doctor's influence, Jo will see the error of her
ways, the
President hopes. He asks that she will see that no harm
comes to
his companion. "We are not barbarians, Doctor," the
President
states. She asks why he won't tell her where Jo comes
from. She
wants to inform her family. The Doctor doesn't think they
would
believe him. He won't be allowed to say goodbye to Jo,
Williams
explains.
Lunar
Colony: a mean guard brings the Doctor and three others to a
holding
area. One man seems Indian or Pakistani, another is an old
man, and
another a black girl. Only political prisoners get sent
here but
the Doctor tells the man next to him that he is not
particularly political. The man tells him if you criticize the
government
you get sent here. He asks if the Doctor is part of the
peace
party. The Doctor tells him, "You could say that." The man
next to
the Doctor told him he wanted to sabotage a military
installation. He tells the Doctor there are no sentences here, once
you are
sent here, it is forever. This man is Patel and when Cross,
the main
criminal overseer, for the governor comes in, he asks what
Patel has.
Patel tells him it is chocolate. His allowance from the
remand
prison. Cross takes it. The Doctor tells him that is
stealing.
Cross tells him it is stealing. Cross will remember the
Doctor and
the Doctor is glad to hear it. The official governor
comes in
and tells them they have no rights, they are here forever,
and that
the Doctor should be put into prison uniform. Patel yells
at him
that the Peace Party will win one day and they will not be
here
forever. Cross runs a trouble free section here. He doesn't
want a
black mark on his record.
Another
older man in glasses, Professor Dale, comes to explain more
to the
Doctor. He recognizes Patel. The Doctor asks if they've tried
to escape.
Dale will get him a uniform. The Doctor gives Patel the
peace sign
as he leaves with Dale to get a uniform.
Williams
and the Earth President examine records of the Doctor and
Jo. Some
crimes of the Doctor's: evading planetary tax, defrauding
the Sirius
bank, and others. Jo's record was issued by the High
Court of
Bassat, with an order for her arrest. 51 and 52nd Smalk Act
is
involved. The President asks her secretary to send in the
representative from Sirius Four, an Earth colony. She feels if there
is a war,
they will need all the allies they can get so she does not
want
Sirius Four angry at Earth and herself. The Commissioner wants
to
extradite the Doctor and Jo to his planet, Sirius Four. The
representative comes in -- the Commissioner is the Master!!!
Patel, on
the moon, checks and mates another man in a strange sort
of three
dimensional chess game. The Doctor and Dale return to the
rec room
of the prisoners. An escape try last month ended up in the
death of
all who tried. No one escapes from here. The Doctor asks
all Dale
knows of the layout here. Patel eyes them suspiciously.
The Master
bickers with General Williams. Once a colony is given
Dominion
Status, it enjoys autonomous rights including the right to
try and
punish its own citizens. The Master feels his government
will
return Jo and the Doctor to them once they are tried on Sirius
Four.
Williams will not turn over vital prisoners to some tin pot
colony. It
is not a colony, a Dominion. The President grants him the
prisoners.
Williams tells him "Heaven help you if you let them
escape." The Master tells him, "They are safe with me."
On the
moon, a guard yells at the prisoners to take their drink from
a prisoner
serving them. He wants them to keep the line moving. This
contains
all the elements to support life. The Doctor drinks it and
comments
none of the joy of life. Patel asks what time they get to
bed.
Anytime, Dale says -- there is no day or night here. The Doctor
whispering, asks when the Professor plans to escape. He tells the
Doctor no
one escapes from here and for all he knows, the Doctor can
be a spy
for the governor. The Doctor doesn't think he would be
drawing so
much attention to himself this soon. The three share a
cell,
whatever they will do, he will know about it. The Doctor
explains
about the empires being put at each other's throats by a
third
party.
The Master
tells guards he will see the prisoner -- Jo -- alone. He
quietly
enters Miss Grant's cell. "I've come to take you away from
all
this," he says. He is a fully accredited commissioner from
Sirius
Four and the Doctor and Jo are prisoners in his custody! He
ordered
the Ogrons to attack the ship and make them look like
Draconians. The Master tells her he will collect the Doctor on the
moon.
After they attacked the cargo ships, the Ogrons returned to
their
planet with their loot...and that is when he saw the TARDIS.
He tells
her she wouldn't believe that he would leave two dear
friends in
this dire predicament. Jo yells at him, telling him she
doesn't
believe him at all. He yells at her, he has his reasons. If
she
doesn't come, she will vegetate in this cell for the rest of her
natural
life. Anywhere is better than here, she says. They leave the
cell.
The Doctor
explained more to Patel and Dale. Dale is the first
person
who's believed the Doctor. Dale tells him after the stupidity
of the
Draconian War, the bitterness died down and there were many
years of
peace, trade treaties, cultural exchanges but now these
acts of
hostility.
Cross
comes in to the rec room and gives a routine search of Dale
but this
is a ruse. Cross gives him info, whispering that he will
leave two
spacesuits at Base Seven. A VIP spaceship is landing
there.
Dale tells him when the Peace Party takes over, Cross will be
given a
pardon. Cross gives him a signal that he can take whoever he
wants to
take for maintenance work at Airlock 3. The Doctor knows
something
is up: he was giving off conspiracy over there with Cross.
Dale
trusts him...they have to walk from the airlock across the
lunar
surface to steal a spaceship. Dale meant to take another
member of
the Peace Party Committee with him -- Patel. Dale tells
Patel he
will have to give up his place for the Doctor. The Doctor
rubs the
back of his neck, not sure. It was telling his story to the
Earth
authorities that got him into this place in the first place.
Dale tells
the Doctor he has friends everywhere...journalists,
newspaper
reporters, broadcasters, even friends in the government.
They will
make them believe the Doctor. The Doctor is glad to
finally
have allies. The Doctor gives Patel the peace sign and he
returns
it.
Dale and
the Doctor go into the Airlock 3, left open. Inside is the
spacesuits. The Doctor looks out a window and sees the spaceship
across the
way. They will not use the main entrance to the spaceport
-- it is
too well guarded. The Doctor closes the door to the base,
shutting
them inside. Dale tells the Doctor that Cross is helping
because
Dale kind of bribed him a free pardon once they get into
power. The
Doctor is not sure of this. Dale thinks Cross is not a
bad fellow
once you get to know him. As they talk of this and put on
their
spacesuits, Cross turns a round device on the outside of the
room. When
the Doctor moves to put Dale's airtanks on him, he finds
it
empty...and so is the other one. Cross is removing the air from
the room.
The Doctor tries to open the door -- it's locked. They are
depressurizing, the Doctor tells Dale. "Don't you understand, man,
they're
pumping out the air!!!"
Episode
Four
(drn:
23'35")
The Doctor
bangs on the door with the tanks, telling Dale not to
shout.
Dale falls. A gloved hand turns the dial device and the air
starts
back in. The Master opens the door, hoping the Doctor is all
right. He
would hate the Doctor to come to any harm.
In the
Governor's office, the Doctor demands an investigation into
this cold
blooded near murder. The Doctor believes there was an
attempt
against Dale because he is politically dangerous to the
Governor,
who wants to place the two of them into solitary
confinement for one year. The Master tries to get the Doctor but the
Governor
will not listen. Cross apologizes to the Governor after the
prisoners
are brought out. The Master shows the Governor his
warrant.
The Governor will not reconsider until after the year. The
Master
tells him the two prisoners were telling the truth. The
Master
knows it is the Governor who set this all up. The Master
threatens
to expose the Governor and support the inquiry which the
Doctor
wants. If the Governor will hand the Doctor over to him, he
will have
no further problems from the Doctor. The Master tells him
the
Doctor's list of crimes: assault and battery of a police
commissioner, stealing a spaceship, landing the ship on Sirius Three
in an
unauthorized area, evading taxes, defrauding the bank, not
paying
ship tax and flying without insurance.
The Master
reads this list of crimes the Doctor supposedly committed
to the
Doctor in his cell. The Doctor calls himself quite the Master
criminal.
The Doctor tells the Governor the credentials are of the
Master are
forged. When the Master mentions Jo is under lock and key
in his
ship, the Doctor comes quietly.
Soon, the
Doctor is brought to cell where Jo is. Guards lock him in
with her
and give the key to the Master. An interesting reversal,
the Master
states, "I remember you visiting me when I was in
prison." The Doctor wants to know why he is still alive. Why the
Master
hasn't killed him already. For the moment, the Doctor is
precious
to him. His employers want the Doctor. Jo asks if that is
the
Ogrons. "Miss Grant, please, I employ them," the Master claims.
The ship,
2390, they are on is an interplanetary police ship and a
closed
circuit TV camera monitors their every move. They will be
under
continued observation. They are going to the home planet of
the Ogrons
on the remote fringes of the galaxy. The Master leaves to
start the
navigation. The Doctor whispers to Jo quickly before the
Master
gets back to the flight deck. The Doctor has had his sonic
screwdriver taken in the prison but on his right boot is string
file. Once
underway, the computers take over the flight. The pair
plan.
The Master
returns to the control flight deck and begins settings
for the
flight and straps in. He tells the two to hold on as they
lift off.
The ship leaves the Moon. The Master watches the Doctor,
who is
telling Jo about the High Council of the Time Lords -- they
had no
right to put him on trial. If he chose to go travelling
around
space and time it was his business. She asks about the
stealing
of the TARDIS. He didn't --he just borrowed it. It wasn't
the latest
model and he fully intended to return it. He tells her he
made a
complete fool of the Prosecuting Council. They found him
guilty,
changed his appearance and exiled him to Earth. Meeting her
alone,
made his exile worthwhile. The Master reads a book while the
Doctor
talks. Behind his back, the Doctor files the bars with the
string of
file. The Master comments over the speaker, "In a
reminiscent mood are you, Doctor, poor Miss Grant, you have my
deepest
sympathy." Then the Master returns to reading The War of the
Worlds by
HG Wells.
As the
ship flies on, the Doctor tells Jo that the Brigadier is a
military
mind and that he always does everything by the rules. He
tells Jo
that he has managed to cut through the red tape, something
the Brig
should learn to do. This is a signal that he has cut
through
the bars of the door lock. Jo moves to the bars--she talks
about the
Brigadier finding her absent for this long -- she will
probably
be court martialed. She goes on and on talking about
getting
back to Earth but they keep ending up in one terrible
situation
after another. She tells him if they do get back she is
never
going up in that TARDIS again with him. She also talks of
giving the
Master an okay, that the Master keeps offering the Doctor
a share in
whatever is going on and the Doctor keeps refusing and
playing
dirty tricks on the Master -- the Doctor is so stiff necked.
While she
rants on and on, the Master turns the sound lower and the
Doctor is
outside the cell, doing what he needs to do to escape. He
gets into
a spacesuit. Jo keeps talking -- about her uncle pulling
strings to
get her this UNIT job. Intelligence is not all romance.
Her
friends and relatives think she is in a romantic job. Filing for
HQ and
being with the Brigadier is not a romantic James Bond type
job! The
Doctor gets her to keep talking while he sneaks out. She
also makes
the tea and being a dog's body.
The Doctor
in spacesuit goes out a hatchway of the ship. He moves
around the
hull, planning to enter the flight deck. A small alarm
goes off
in the flight deck. The Master announces the problem to Jo
and the
Doctor -- he thinks. He doesn't realize the Doctor is
outside.
He has to make a course correction. Jo looks frightened for
the
Doctor. The Master fires the rockets and the Doctor falls off
the ship.
He floats in space. The Master checks the constellations
via his
viewscreen.
The Doctor
in space, away from the ship but not very far, unhooks
his air
tanks and uses the tube to shoot himself back to the
spaceship.
The Master
unstraps and asks Miss Grant if she is all right. He
knows she
seems distressed. She hasn't been talking. He calls the
Doctor --
and the Doctor doesn't answer. Jo tells him not to wake
the
Doctor, the Doctor is fast asleep. The Master suspects something
and jumps
up and gets a gun from a cabinet.
The Doctor
climbs the side of the spaceship to the top of it. Using
the
frameworks to hold onto. He gets to a top hatch and climbs down
it.
Jo has set
up a roll to make it seem the Doctor is asleep. She talks
to it,
telling him that he really should be more careful -- she
knows
there is a lot of evil in the universe. He can't help put it
all right
himself. One of these days, she says, he will get himself
killed.
The Master comes in and finds the bedroll empty.
The Doctor
climbs into the control room.
The Master
asks what the Doctor's plan is. Jo cries and tells him
what she
thinks happened -- that the Doctor was outside during the
course
change. The Master thinks the Doctor is thousands of miles
away,
swimming in space. Just in case, he isn't, the Master takes Jo
and puts
her in the airlock. Unless the Doctor surrenders himself
immediately, the Master will open the doors and let her out into
space...
without a spacesuit.
The Doctor
sneaks in as the Master talks this threat to the control
room. The
Doctor uses a suspender or a belt to whip the gun out of
the
Master's hand with a karate aikido yell. "What an ingenious
fellow you
are, Doctor," the Master comments. The ship is moving
toward a
Draconian spacecraft. The Doctor steps on the gun through
the bars
to stop the Master from obtaining the gun again. The Master
runs for
the airlock as Jo bangs on it to let her out but the Doctor
uses the
belt to whip his arm away. The Master trips the Doctor and
then gets
to the button. He makes the Doctor get the blaster gun
over to
him or he will press the button and that will be the end of
Miss
Grant. The Doctor points it at the Master. They dock and
Draconians
enter the other airlock via a tunnel between the two
ships. The
Doctor tells the Master to put the gun away, they have
them
outnumbered.
The
Draconians who enter ask why he violated Draconian space. The
Master
tells him all the lies. The Draconian knocks the warrant and
credentials of the Master's to the floor. The penalty of violating
Draconian
space is death. The Doctor has vital information for the
Draconian
Emperor and demands they cannot be killed without a trial.
The
captain decides to take them to Draconia.
Soon, the
Master, Jo, and the Doctor are in a cage together. The
Doctor
thinks there is a chance the Draconians will believe him: he
spent some
time there before, helping through some problems. The
Master
snorts, "Displaying your usual sickening lovability, I
supposed." It was a long time ago, things may have changed so the
Doctor is
not sure. It is all the way you approach Draconians and
the Doctor
knows a bit about that. Jo tells the Master if they do
believe
the Doctor, the Master has had it. The Master tells her that
one never
knows, one never knows from where help will come. He goes
to lie
down, telling them this is going to be a long journey. The
Doctor
tells the Master they will wake him with a cup of tea in the
morning.
He thanks him. As the Master lies down, from his right
sleeve, he
takes out a signalling device which is flashing.
Another
spacecraft flies, piloted by an Ogron, who picks up the
signal on
a screen...
Episode
Five
(drn:
23'57")
A
Draconian pilot flies the 2390 for Draconia. The Doctor tells Jo
they have
landed. He also tells her that the Master has awakened
already --
"He's just trying to show us how unconcerned he is." The
Master
laughs, "How well you know me, Doctor." Jo comments he is
very
confident; the Master quotes Tennyson's Sir Galahad, "My
strength
is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure." He is
almost
jolly to the guards who point guns at him.
The Prince
is told by his father to address the Emperor in a proper
manner. He
tells his son he must realize the importance of
formality.
The son wants war and demands he lead it. The Emperor
knows that
in such a war there are no victors; war could bring down
both
empires. The nobles want war. The son tells him that Emperors
have been
deposed. An Emperor who does not rule, deposes himself,
the
Emperor tells him. A guard brings the Master, Jo, and the
Doctor.
The Doctor kisses his ring, "My life at your command, sir."
The Doctor
bows, something the Emperor allows. The son despises this
-- it is
only for nobles of Draconia. The 15th Emperor bestowed this
honour --
that of a noble -- on the Doctor. The Emperor describes
that 500
years ago a great plague from outer space almost
overwhelmed them. He does not think this could be the man...no Earth
man lives
that long. The Master tries to make them disbelieve this.
The Doctor
names the TARDIS and that the man who helped them 500
years ago
was the Doctor: he comes from a race that lives far longer
than
Earthmen. The Master claims the Doctor is his prisoner. The
Doctor
tells them the Master is a renegade of his own race, not an
Earth man.
Ogrons are being used by the Master, the Doctor tells
them. Jo
tries to back up the Doctor but the Prince (who is also the
ambassador) tells her that females are not permitted to speak in the
presence
of the Emperor.
A guard
comes and tells them that a spaceship from Earth is asking
permission
to land at the Palace Spaceport. The Prince doesn't want
them to
land. The Emperor will allow it to land. The Master tells
the
Emperor he is devoted to peace as well as law and order. Also
social
stability. The Doctor asks if he's feeling all right, calling
him old
chap. Jo hears that sound again. The Prince silences her but
she yells
at him to be quiet. Ogrons enter the throne room and begin
firing!
The Master orders the Doctor and Jo seized but the Doctor
kicks an
Ogron with Venusian karate. The Master orders them back to
the ship.
The Emperor sees the fallen Ogron as an Earth soldier. Jo
hears the
sound fading. The Prince wants the Doctor destroyed but
the
Emperor now sees an Ogron and realizes the Doctor has spoken the
truth.
On the
ship, the Master calls the Ogrons idiots. He knows the
Draconians
will know the truth. He must not allow the Doctor to take
this
evidence back to Earth.
In the
throne room, the Doctor questions the recovered Ogron but
they get
noplace. The Doctor tells the Prince that the Ogrons have
the
greatest defense of all against a Mind Probe: the Ogrons don't
have a
mind at all. Jo explains what is happening to the Prince.
Fear is
the weapon of the hypnosound...what you fear is what it
causes you
to see. The Doctor tells them fear breeds hatred -- each
side fears
the other and that fear leads to war. The Prince does not
think the
Earth people will believe them and the Doctor agrees.
Since
there are hostilities and near open war, a Draconian ship will
be
attacked and destroyed. Jo comes up with the idea of using the
ship the
Master brought them in the 2390. The Emperor allows Jo to
speak even
though the Prince tells her females are not allowed to in
the
Emperor's presence. "We must respect the customs of our guests,
strange
though they may be." He also thinks the suggestion has
merit. Jo
thanks him and gives the Prince a nasty look. He allows
them to go
but his son must accompany them as a noble ranking
leader.
Soon the
ship is underway with the Ogron in the cell. Jo brings him
some food,
a banana. He eats it without peeling it. Jo tells the
Draconian
guard to be very careful of him -- he's not as stupid as
he looks.
Jo thinks it is time that women's lib was brought to
Draconia.
The Ogron tries to get out of the cage door. Jo goes to
the
control room.
The Doctor
tells her they are on the frontier of Earth space. The
Prince
sees a flashing light in the space. Another spaceship which
is
following them.
An Ogron
pilot spots their ship as well and alerts the Master, who
is
aggravated at the stupidity of the Ogron's comments. The Master
would like
to take the Doctor alive. But soon his ship will be
within
striking distance, "Pity though." Rocket fire at long range
lacks the
personal touch. He would like to kill the Doctor another
way.
The Doctor
calls the President of Earth. The Master answers as Earth
Police
Ship 142. He instructs them that as a stolen ship, they must
reduce
speed so it can be boarded. The Doctor tries to get them to
believe
the ship is no longer stolen. The Doctor wants to lure the
ship into
visual range. The Master has the Ogron release the first
missile.
The Doctor takes evasive action. The ship shakes as the
missiles
blast. Another is fired.
In the
hold, the Ogron's door has been knocked open and it gets out
and knocks
the Draconian guard down from behind.
The Doctor
tells the Prince that they cannot fire back. This ship is
not a
battle cruiser. The Master continues to fire on the 2390. The
Ogron
prisoner rushes into the control room. The Doctor grabs it as
Jo
screams, "Get out, Jo!" The Ogron hits the Doctor back onto the
controls
which makes the ship lose speed. This makes the Master
believe
the Doctor's ship has been hit as it reduces speed. He wants
to board
and take the Doctor alive after all. The Prince and the
Doctor
overcome the Ogron and tie his hands behind his back with him
face down.
Jo goes to
the hold and asks the fallen guard if he is all right.
She looks
up. Soon, Ogrons force Jo into the ship. The Doctor and
the Prince
get blasters. The Prince fires at the Ogrons as does the
Doctor.
The Master
wonders why they haven't taken the ship by this time. His
Ogron
pilot spots an Earth Battle Cruiser X29. He orders the
boarding
party back to his ship. They obey and take the girl, Jo,
with them!
Soon she
is brought to the Master's ship and it unlocks. They left
the door
open on the Doctor's end so he and the Prince are fighting
depressuring air as the oxygen is drawn out. They have to fight the
force in
order to reach the door and close it again. Helping each
other,
hand in hand, they are able to reach it. The Doctor shuts it
and the
ship will pump in more oxygen.
The Earth
Cruiser calls the Doctor, who tries to get them to stop
the
Master's ship but the Earth soldiers will not comply. They will
board the
Doctor's ship.
The Master
tells Jo that the evidence, the Ogron, is behind her. His
Ogron was
rescued.
The Madam
President will not believe the Prince once he and the
Doctor see
her. The Doctor wants one spaceship. She will give it to
him but
Williams denies him the ship. The President stands up from
behind her
desk -- in a military matter such as this, her authority
is
limited. She can overrule him but only with the backing of the
full Earth
Senate. The Prince tells her they cannot expect help from
Williams,
the man who deliberately caused war between Draconia and
Earth. 20
years ago, a Draconian ship came in peace to Earth.
Williams
opened fired on this ship and destroyed it. Williams' ship
was
damaged and helpless. This is from the records of the Emperor.
The
neutron storm that damaged Williams' ship also damaged the
communications on the Draconian ship. Williams asks why it was a
battle
cruiser -- it was but Draconian nobles always travel that
way...but
the weapons were not armed or aboard! It was unarmed.
The place
the Master, Jo, and the Ogrons are going to is not a nice
place. The
Master tells Jo, "Be it ever so humble, there is no place
like
home."
Williams
asks the Prince to forgive him the wrongs he has done to
the people
of Draconia. The Prince bows to him. Williams will lead
the
expedition to the planet of the Ogrons.
The Master
already has Jo by the arm on the planet, a bleak, rocky
landscape.
He takes her into a bunker of brick. He welcomes her to
his humble
abode. The Master is counting on the Doctor attacking
here, to
rescue Jo and to recover his TARDIS. The Master puts a
light on
and the TARDIS is behind Jo. He will set a trap for the
Doctor. Jo
tells him she will not help him but he stares at her, "I
know you
will obey me. You will obey me!" Jo blocks his hypnotism
with fairy
tales and nursery rhymes -- self conditioning, fill your
mind with
nonsense and you cannot be hypnotized. She continues with
Jack Sprat
and something about someone no longer having a Master.
The Master
yells at her to stop. He was never fond of nursery
rhymes. Jo
tells him that once was enough when it comes to being
hypnotized. In that case, he tries something else: he picks up a
device and
the sound occurs. He tells her this device works directly
on the
fear centres deep in her mind. She watches terrified...
Episode
Six
(drn:
24'44")
Jo sees
the Master as a Drashig, a Mutt mutant, and a Sea Devil. She
resists
that also. The Master congratulates her. Jo tells him he
can't win
them all. He makes Ogrons show her to her room. Another
Ogron
tells him two raiding ships have returned. They attacked two
Earth
ships, one resisted and was destroyed.
On Earth,
the President, the Doctor, and the Prince watch a newscast
of a
speech calling for war! Williams uses his personal scout ship
to go to
the Ogron home world. The Prince kisses the hand of Madam
President
and says, "My life in your command."
Jo is
brought some muck to eat in a bowl by an Ogron. With a metal
spoon. She
thanks him, "Thanks cheerful." She finds the ground is
not solid
so she starts to dig with the spoon.
Williams'
ship is on the way. Galactic coordinates of the Ogron's
planet:
23496784. The Doctor extracted this from the Master's ship's
memory
banks. En route, Williams' ship is attacked by a Draconian
battle
ship and is shaken. Using hyper drive, they escape but there
is damage.
The Prince will punish the pilot but the Doctor explains
they were
intruding on Draconian space. They cannot return to course
due to the
damage -- one of the drive outbursts or outputs, the
exterior
electrical circuit. The pilot cannot go out, he has to stay
at the
helm and keep the ship stabilized manually. The Doctor offers
to go out
and effect the repairs. Laughingly, Williams says,
"Naturally you're a qualified space engineer, too, Doctor."
The
Doctor
says, "Naturally," and continues on. Williams is shocked.
The Doctor
is in an orange spacesuit in space once again. Outside,
he places
a key into a slot and opens a sliding door to circuit. It
is
shambles but he has to do something to fix it up. A ship
approaches, possibly a Draconian. They cannot go to hyperspace now
that the
Doctor has started repairs, disconnecting the circuitry.
The Doctor
goes as quick as he can. He finishes and floats to the
top to
come back in. As soon as he gets in, a blast shakes the ship.
They move
to hyper drive to get away.
Jo has dug
into the cell which adjoins her cell and simply walks out
of it. She
hides as an Ogron passes. An Ogron brings a flame to an
altar of a
giant bag-like blob monster which is drawn on the wall
over the
altar. Jo sneaks to it.
Williams'
ship is in orbit around the Ogron planet and the Doctor
asks that
they risk getting in closer to get a better view. This may
mean
entering the atmosphere -- and the repair may not withstand the
heat.
On the
planet of the Ogrons, Jo palms the fear device of hypnosound
and gets
to the radio. She gives the message to Draconian and Earth
empires
about the Ogrons planet and plansgalactic coordinates 2349
to 6784.
Over the horizon, the ship of Williams' loses the signal.
The Master
comes up behind Jo with Ogrons. He counted on her to
escape.
The Master left the coordinates for her to find...he set up
the trap
so Miss Grant would call the Doctor right to them--he sets
out a
homing signal which he hopes the Doctor will think is Miss
Grant's.
No one beyond 200 or 300 miles from the planet will have
heard
her--the radio is a short range one only. He has the Ogrons
take Jo
away under guard this time.
The Doctor
thinks the homing signal is too convenient. The circuit
goes
again, burst into flames. The pilot is not sure where he can
get it
down but he can get it down.
The Master
tells the Ogrons to conceal themselves and set up an
ambush.
Then he spots the ship landing nearby. He tells them he
wants the
Doctor alive. "Yes Master," the Ogrons say and leave.
On top a
huge cliffside and hills, the Prince, the Doctor, and
Williams
along with many soldiers use a device to track the homing
signal.
They see prints of a large reptile, the dominant life form.
An Ogron
watches them from behind some the rock face. Another from
above the
cliff. The Doctor's party continues along the path but an
Ogron from
behind, calls them to stop. A gun battle follows with the
Prince
shooting some Ogrons. An Earth soldier on his stomach shoots
another
Ogron. A few Earth guards are shot also. A giant bag monster
of red and
orange eats an Ogron. The Doctor thinks it is on their
side.
The Master
finishes a radio call to someone who is helping him. He
will meet
their ship. The Ogrons return, in fear of the monster. The
Master
tells them their masters are coming and they quake with more
fear. He
feels now he can dispense with their dullard ways. He
pushes one
out of his ways and goes out.
The Doctor
uses a device to pick up the homing signal again. It
started
again. Williams spots a ship landing. Dust kicked up
prevents
them seeing the new ship. The Doctor feels something -- he
has a
premonition.
Above them
and behind them, the Master appears on the cliffside.
Williams
tells him to surrender or he will be shot down. The Doctor
tells him,
"No, he's unarmed." The Master tells the Doctor he is not
alone.
He's brought some old friends to meet him...Daleks! Many of
them all
along the clifftop. The Master notes the Doctor doesn't
seem
pleased. Williams orders his men to fire but two men are burned
down by
the Daleks. The Doctor stops further carnage.
Soon, the
Doctor is brought back to the bunker area. A dull grey
Dalek
states, "Doctor, you are in our power and you will be
exterminated." The Master doesn't want that yet. The Master tells
the
Daleks, "You know as well as I do that this man does not fear
death." He wants the Doctor to see the galaxy in ruins, the planet
Earth that
he loves so much in ruins. Then he wants the Doctor
exterminated. The Daleks will return to their base and prepare the
army of
the Daleks. The Doctor tells the Master he supposes he
should
thank him for saving his life. The Master tells him not for
long... it
will be a short war.
The Doctor
is put in a cell with Jo who hugs him. The Prince and
Williams
are put in a cell next to them. The Daleks will emerge as
the
Supreme Rulers after the war of the empires. Jo gives the Doctor
the fear
device. He will make a slight adjustment.
The Master
tells the Daleks that once he delivers the Doctor to
them, the
Doctor will be a broken man. He also asks that he be given
the planet
Earth to rule in the Dalek's name.
The Doctor
wants Williams to find his way back to his spaceship as
soon as he
can and take off for Earth. From there, he and the Prince
will warn
their respective governments. Jo knows where the TARDIS is
so she and
the Doctor will escape that way. The Doctor tells them to
block
their ears and stand back. Jo can resist it. The Doctor calls
the Ogron
guard over and uses the device. The Ogron sees him as a
Dalek who
tells him to open the gate. The Ogron does and runs out
The Doctor
gets the key and opens the cell of the other two.
"...stupid tin boxes.." The Master mocks the Daleks and
imitates
them,
calling them this. A fearful Ogron reports to him about the
cells
being empty. The Master orders the other Ogrons brought here
to find
them.
Jo shows
the Doctor and the other two, the eye monster mural. Jo
shows
Williams and the Prince the way out and they go. A short way
to go to
the TARDIS, the Master steps out with a blaster gun.
"You're incredibly persistent aren't you?" The Doctor says.
The
Doctor
congratulates the Master on the device, pressing it. This
sends the
Ogrons into fear fits. The Master fires his gun at the
Doctor but
an Ogron hand flies into his arm and the gun. The blast
does hit
the Doctor in the head. The gun falls, Jo gets it. The
Master and
Ogrons flee. Jo gets the Doctor up, telling him she
thought he
was dead. Jo manages to get him into the TARDIS where
they close
the doors. "The first thing we gotta do is get outta
here," he says and starts the console and the TARDIS moving. He
then
closes his
eyes. Jo asks what he is doing. He is hooked mentally
into the
TARDIS telepathic circuits, "Sending a message to the Time
Lords..."
Source: Charles Mento
Continuity Notes:
The conclusion of
this story leads in Planet of the Daleks.
At
the beginning of Episode Six, the Master’s fear-inducer
shows images of a Sea Devil (The Sea Devils), a Mutt mutant
(The Mutants) and a Drashig (Carnival of Monsters).
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Planet of the
Daleks
Planet of the
Daleks
Serial SSS
Producer
Barry
Letts
Script
Editor
Terrance
Dicks
Designer
John Hurst
Written by Terry Nation
Directed by David Maloney
Incidental Music by Dudley Simpson
Jon
Pertwee (Dr. Who), Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Bernard
Horsfall (Taron), Prentis Hancock (Vaber) [1-5], Tim Preece
(Codal), Jane Howe (Rebec) [2-6], Roy Skelton (Wester)
[2-3,5]*; Roy Skelton, Michael Wisher (Dalek Voices) [2-6];
John
Scott Martin, Murphy Grumbar, Cy Town (Daleks) [2-6];
Hilary Minster (Marat) [3], Alan Tucker (Latep) [3-6].
*
Roy Skelton also provided, uncredited, other Spiridon
voices.
Injured after a shoot-out between his old nemesis the Master
and
the Ogrons, slaves to the evil Daleks, the Doctor sends a
message to the Time Lords, asking them to pilot his TARDIS and
follow the Daleks to their new base. After he slips into a
coma, it falls to his assistant Jo Grant to explore the planet
where the TARDIS finally materialises.
Not
only must the Doctor contend with the Daleks' new
stratagem, but he must try to stop them unleashing a plague
that
will exterminate all organic life. When a rescue ship of
Thals arrive, they bring with them darker news still -
somewhere on Spiridon 12,000 Daleks are waiting to emerge and
take
what they believe is their rightful place as the
Universe's supreme beings!
Original
Broadcast (UK)
Episode One 7th April, 1973 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Two 14th April, 1973 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Three 21st April, 1973 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Four 28th April, 1973 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Five 5th May, 1973 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Six 12th May, 1973 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Notes:
Released on video in episodic format. [+/-]
PLANET OF THE DALEKS
U.K. Release: November 1999 / U.S. Release: November
2000
PAL - BBC video BBCV6928
NTSC - Warner Video E1495
Released as part of Daleks Box Set in the U.K. [BBC
video BBCV6875]. The tapes were packaged
individually inside the tin box but were not sold
separately.
Episode 3 only exists as black and white film print.
Novelised as Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks by
Terrance Dicks. [+/-]
Number 46 in the Doctor Who Library.
Hardcover Edition - Allan Wingate Ltd.
First Edition: September 1976.
ISBN: ?.
Cover by Chris Achilleos.
Price: ?.
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
Red Logo on Cover.
First Edition: October 1976. Reprinted in 1977,
1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987.
ISBN: 0 426 11252 0.
Cover by Chris Achilleos.
Price: 45p.
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
Green Logo on Cover.
First Edition: 1978.
ISBN: 0 426 11252 0.
Cover by Chris Achilleos.
Price: 60p.
Paperback Edition - Virgin Publishing Ltd..
First Edition: July 1992.
ISBN: 0 426 11252 0.
Cover by Alister Pearson.
Price: 60p.
Retitled: Doctor Who - Planet of the Daleks
Doctor Who and the Daleks Omnibus.
[Includes abridged versions of Doctor Who and the
Planet of the Daleks and Genesis of the Dalek].
Paperback Edition - Artus Books.
First Edition: September 1976.
ISBN: ?.
Cover and llustrations by the General Illustration
Company.
Price: ?.
Dalek Omnibus.
[Includes The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Day of
the Dalek and Planet of the Daleks].
Hardcover Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: 1983.
ISBN: ?.
Cover by Andrew Skilleter.
Price: 6.95.
FOREIGN EDITIONS: Germany, 1980. Dr. Who: Der
Planet der
Daleks. Publisher: Schneider-Buch.
Translated by
Ulla Neckenauer. Cover by David
Hardy.
Illustrations by Herbert Horn.
Germany, 1989.
Doctor Who Und Der Planet Der
Daleks.
Publisher: Goldmann Verlag. Translated
by Bettina
Zeller.
AUDIO RELEASE:
An abridged
version of the novel, read by Jon
Pertwee, was
released on cassette (ZBBC 1769).
Released: 1995
90 minute
Cassette
ISBN: 0 563
38826 9
This audio version has been re-released in MP3
format as part of the Tales from the TARDIS - Volume
Two collection.
Doctor Who Magazine Archive: Issue #202.
Episode
One
(drn:
24'51")
Jo helps
the Doctor into the TARDIS. He sends a telepathic message
via the
telepathic circuits at the console. He is trying to send a
message to
the Time Lords. He must tell them something but he
collapses.
Jo takes him to a place in the TARDIS with a wall of
white
cabinets. She presses a button and one of the lowest cabinets
is a large
bed which slides out. Next to the cabinets is a large
flat wall
built into one of the columns and the wall doesn't touch
the floor,
a kind of grid like sectioned semi see through squares.
The Doctor
tells Jo he is liable to sleep for some time. If anything
happens,
she is to record it in the log and he directs her to it.
The TARDIS
spins in space. In a delirium, the Doctor tosses and
turns and
calls Jo, then passes out. Jo, in a new outfit, listens to
his
hearts. He is so cold, she notices. She makes a log, "Shortly
after
entering the TARDIS, the Doctor feel into a deep coma. His
respiration was very shallow, his skin icy to the touch. I could
find no
trace of pulse or heartbeat. His breathing apparently
ceased.
But I've seen the Doctor in this condition once before and
he
recovered after a sudden rise in temperature. The TARDIS seems to
have
landed. I suppose the Time Lords are working it by remote
control
again. I've no idea what the Doctor said to them in his
message or
where we are. I just hope that they've brought us
somewhere
where I can find some help for the Doctor."
The TARDIS
does land and in a sick dematerialisation sound... like
it was
struggling to appear. Ice appears on the Doctor's face and
his eyes
open, but are unstaring and blank. Both his hearts are
beating
once every ten seconds, body temp somewhere below zero. Jo
will go
outside to try to find some help. She finds the scanner and
turns it
on. It is a tiny TV monitor near the ceiling. It has a
black and
white picture! Strange splotches squirt out onto the
screen,
near some plants which may be shooting fluid out. Jo gets a
yellow
jacket and goes out, telling the prone Doctor this.
Jo
ventures out into a thick but lush forest. She has some red
gloves on.
Plants squirt out green-yellow fluid and some gets on
her. She
moves past hanging vines to a large stone object, alien
ruins of
some kind. The jungle comes alive with more sounds than
before and
a pig seems to squeal. She passes some giant webs and
rests,
sitting down. Over the horizon, she sees a glow that seems to
light up
the entire area.
Jo has the
log recorder with her. "Things growing in this jungle
seem like
animal and plant life. The light is changing. It seems
like
daybreak. There's a sudden rise in temperature. I haven't seen
any form
of intelligent life except, except there are, bits of, bits
of statue
by the TARDIS."
Jo takes
off her jacket and finds that there are green-black marks
where the
liquid hit her on the back. She tosses it down and passes
by what
seem to be drum shaped plants. But the plants monitor her
movement
and fronds seem to follow her -- as if they are cameras. As
Jo
proceeds, something invisible moves bushes near her and there is
a heavy
breathing.
The
Doctor, in the TARDIS, wakes up and calls for Jo.
Jo takes
off her gloves and her hand is hit by some more spray from
yet
another plant stalk!
In TARDIS,
the Doctor hears some odd clickings. Outside is
breathable
and the auto oxygen supply is on.
Jo finds a
structure in the jungle. It is a spaceship that appears
to have
crashed but seems intact. She calls to anyone inside. She
works her
way around the side and sees insignia. The door in the
back seems
to be the way in. Jo opens the door and goes inside. In a
seat is a
helmeted man with webs on him and his eyes open, staring.
Jo touches
him and he falls over, already dead.
The Doctor
cannot get the TARDIS doors open. The scanner reads that
the oxygen
supply is exhausted. The Doctor pulls a portable
emergency
supply over and hits a switch on the large rectangular
white
cabinet. A door slides upward to reveal three canisters of
air. The
Doctor turns them all on but seems unhappy that these do
not help.
Jo hides
in a corner inside the spaceship main room as booted feet
seem to
stalk her. A gun comes near her face, a ray gun of some kind
attached
to a man's belt, and a blond man Taron, who seems nice to
her and a
stern faced blond man named Vaber find her. They take her
into the
slightly larger area to sit and question her. Vaber tells
her Earth
does not exist, it is just a name in their legends. Jo
mentions
the TARDIS which interests Taron. Taron tells her he is
qualified
in space medicine and will help when Vaber tells her this
is not a
hospital service. Taron tells her she should be glad they
THEY
didn't find her. Another blond man comes in named Codal. Jo
tells them
where the TARDIS is, near bits of statue (Reference 7
Vaber
says). There are three or four headed this way Codal tells
them. Jo
will stay hidden in the securer room which can close the
doors.
Taron tells Jo the three will help her friend and lose THEM
in the
jungle. The three men leave the spacecraft. In the small
closet
like room, Jo feels a rocking of the ship and some invisible
force
enters, exploring the devices in the ship and breathing
heavily.
It also goes through storage closets. Jo watches from a
small
grid-window.
Taron
returns to Codal and a nervous Vaber. The scouts are moving
only on
the main trail. They go off to find the girl's friend.
The force
gets close to Jo's door as it examines more areas of the
ship,
opening closets. Finally it leaves, making Jo relax. Footsteps
appear in
the dirt around the spacecraft, pointed footprints.
The TARDIS
scanner reads Oabia Atmosphere unable to sustain life.
The Doctor
has on a red jacket and top now and different pants! He
is under
the console trying to fix it. The circuits are in order.
The door
is held from the outside. He passes out near the door.
Outside
the TARDIS, Vaber and Taron, in protective head gear of
plastic
and glass, pull the fungus like gunk off the TARDIS doors.
Codal
stands watch as plants spray in the forest. The doors open and
they pull
the Doctor out. The Doctor's eyes are crossed as he is in
some kind
shock which he quickly comes out of. They sit him down on
a rock. He
thanks them. He asks if the girl is all right. Taron
sends
Codal to check the area, see if there is any activity. The
Doctor was
staring at Vaber -- he says he thought he knew him. Vaber
is not
impressed. The men come from a planet many systems from
here...
Skaro the Doctor guesses, "Yes of course, you're Thals!" The
Doctor
explains he was on Skaro, many years ago during the Dalek
War,
generation ago. Vaber doesn't believe him but he tells them he
travels
through the barriers of time and was with the Thals when
they broke
into the Dalek city. Taron recalls a figure from legend,
a figure
from another planet who came to Skaro when the Thals were
in their
greatest peril in something called a TARDIS. Taron mentions
that this
figure had three companions. The Doctor says, "That's
right,
Barbara, Ian, and Susan." They ask who their leader was and
he answers
the Doctor and tells them he is the Doctor. The Doctor
tells
Vaber not to subject him to an inquisition.
Taron
tells the Doctor he has been infected by a deadly fungus. They
spread
their spores in that liquid they discharge and the fungus
spreads.
Taron asks Vaber for the healing spray that stops the
fungus.
The Doctor seems to think it would take an hour to spread
all over
his body even though Taron doesn't tell him this. Taron
explains
the fungus would have engulfed him. The Doctor says,
"That's nice."
Jo takes
off her suit jacket in the spaceship and finds fungus on
her hand.
Vaber
tells the Doctor that this planet is Spiridon of the 9th
System, a
piece of garbage planet. Vegetation that is more like
animal
life than plant, creatures hostile to everything including
themselves, and a climate from tropical in the day to sub freezing
in the
night. Spiridons are invisible intelligent life. The Doctor
says,
"I wish I could see one of them. I mean I wish I could come
into
contact with one of them." Vaber panics -- he feels they are on
a suicide
mission. No one made Vaber come...it was his choice. There
were seven
of them but their commander was killed on touchdown and
they lost
three others since they landed. The Doctor offers help.
Taron
doesn't trust him and wonders why he should. He comes here out
of no
where and then claims to be something out of legend. They will
take him
to his friend. After that he is on his own. If the Doctor
sees him
signal, he is to dive for cover and not make a sound.
Jo has
passed out on the floor of the room she is in and the fungus
has spread
up her arm.
The three
Thal men and the Doctor get down. They hear something
grinding.
It sounds like it is in trouble. Ray exhaustion? Light
wave
sickness -- that is what the others had. It might be
deactivated. A circular mark in the dirt heralds something. The
Thals give
the Doctor a liquid colour spray. He, Vaber, and Taron
spray the
object. The Doctor is closest to it -- the almost fully
seen shape
of a Dalek! The Doctor gasps in a raspy voice, "Daleks!"
The Dalek
is in view now.
Episode
Two
(drn:
24'08")
The Dalek
becomes fully visible and is dead from light wave
sickness.
The Doctor notices the sensor plates are not functioning.
This one
is something new. Vaber tells the Doctor the Daleks haven't
mastered
invisibility completely. Codal, the scientist, explains how
the Daleks
found out how to do it by studying the Spiridons -- its
an anti
reflecting light wave but to create the energy required they
need to
generate fantastic power but cannot sustain it. Codal wants
to lift
the top off the Dalek but the Doctor warns him not to: most
Daleks
have an automatic distress call, even after they die it can
be
activated. Taron thanks him and calls him Doctor, proving he
believes
him now that this is the Doctor.
In the
spaceship, Jo wakes up to find her hand engulfed in the
fungus.
She covers it with her jacket top. "My hand... my hand and
my arm are
infected by... by something I can't describe, spreading
rapidly,
my hand is... already quite numb..." she logs into the
recorder.
Codal and
Taron scout ahead. The Doctor sits down in the jungle.
Vaber
thinks Taron is too cautious. He thinks things would be
different
if Mayrell -- the expedition commander -- was still alive.
He was
killed when they landed. The Doctor tells him he is sorry and
asks who
Taron is. Expedition doctor is who Taron is. Vaber thinks
they
should use the explosives they have and wipe out the Daleks and
use their
lab. He thinks there are no more than twelve Daleks, just
a
scientific group. The Doctor wants to know more about the
Spiridons,
asking if they are working with the Daleks. As Vaber and
the Doctor
talk, something resembling a snake moves up on them.
Vaber
thinks the Spiridons have been totally subjugated by now as is
the usual
Dalek way. The Doctor knows this: mass extermination
followed
by absolute suppression of the survivors -- mass terror.
Three
Daleks pass Taron and Codal, probably going out to retrieve
the dead
one.
The Doctor
examines the Eye Plants that Jo passed before. They get
very
agitated whenever an invisible Spiridon comes near them. With
his back
turned, the Doctor doesn't see the long snake which wraps
around
Vaber. The Doctor gets Vaber's knife and cuts it off. Some
sort of
tentacle. Codal and Taron arrive back. Vaber thanks the
Doctor.
Vaber wants to die for a reason, not as food for a flesh
eating
tentacle. The Doctor denotes continued caution is needed
which
makes Vaber angry: he's been here longer and knows this. The
Eye Plants
move and give them alert to invisible Spiridons moving up
on them.
Jo walks
out of the spaceship but passes out onto the ground,
dropping
the recorder. She manages to get back up and go inside
again as
something in front of her is breathing... and invisible.
She passes
out inside the entrance. The invisible thing moves into
the
spacecraft, opening the door.
Bushes
move at the Doctor and the Thal men. Codal tries to lead them
off and
does. But one grabs him from behind, invisible. A stick
floats in
the air and hits his head from behind. He passes out
unconscious.
The Doctor
and the other two Thal men get to the spacecraft but hide
on the
other side of the bushes as two Daleks come out from the
other side
of the clearing. Dalek Patrol 2 calls command centre and
tells it
they have found the craft. It is to be destroyed. The two
Daleks get
in position to fire. Before they can destroy it, the
Doctor
emerges and tells them to wait, someone is still inside. The
Daleks
fire a stun ray at him, to save him for further questioning.
He turns
negative and falls but is able to watch as the Daleks fire
on the
spacecraft. With more power and at full they blow the
spaceship
up. "Jo," the Doctor says. The Daleks make the Doctor
stand and
walk off. He has found the recorder Jo was using on the
ground and
puts it in his pocket. He looks back at the flames of the
ship.
Vaber wants to help the Doctor.
The Doctor
is taken to the Dalek base and brought into an elevator
which
closes on him and one Dalek. It descends as the Doctor stares
at the
Dalek in hatred. It makes him walk out even as it seems to
hit the
door as it glides out. It brings him to a Dalek guarded
cell. He
is put inside where Codal is. A bright light is in the
room. The
Daleks will interrogate them. The Doctor thinks Codal was
very
courageous. Codal thinks he just didn't have enough time to
think. The
Doctor thinks he is doing himself an injustice -- they
give
medals for things like that: it's called bravery. Codal tells
him he has
been afraid ever since he first landed. Vaber and Taron,
Codal
tells the Doctor, they are professionals who have seen action
before.
They know how to deal with fear. Codal is a scientist, not
an
adventurer. The Thals are not a war like people, they only
developed
space flight and never went on a flight of this length.
Every man
and woman from Codal's division volunteered.. over 600.
Codal
didn't even have the courage to be the odd one out. The Doctor
laughs at
his misunderstanding of people, mostly Codal's own
evaluation
of himself. Courage is being afraid but doing what you
have to do
anyway, the Doctor says, ending his tutorial on bravery
as he
calls it. He tells Codal to empty out his pockets to see if
there is
anything useful they can use. The Doctor does the same: a
hankey and
the sonic screwdriver. He also takes out the recorder of
Jo's voice
which he found on the grass. He plays some of her log.
Codal asks
about the girl. The Doctor tells him the Daleks murdered
her. The
Doctor just stares.
In the
jungle, Jo lies in warm furs. Bowls float in the air and a
voice
tells her that he wants to help her. A Spiridon who is making
something
to clear the fungoid infection. He pours some on her arm,
which is
covered almost up to her elbow now. The Spiridon explains
to her
what has happened to the machine of the Thals and that Daleks
are here.
The invisible man tells her to rest. Jo lays back and
sleeps.
In the
cell, the Doctor finds the sonic screwdriver won't open the
door. One
thing Daleks are good at making are locks. The Doctor and
Codal sit
down again to find something they can use.
A Dalek
returns to a command centre area where five other Daleks are
and a head
Dalek. Section 3 wants to transfer prisoners, after
interrogation, to their lab for experiments of light ray emissions
on living
tissue. This Dalek reports the other two Thals are to be
captured
very soon.
Vaber and
Taron are examining the hidden explosives. Vaber notes
there is
enough explosives here to blow up 50 Daleks, not just 12.
If they
can make it down the first tunnel, they can blow the base in
on the
Daleks, bring it down on them. Vaber argues that they need to
take some
risks. Taron tells him they will make a move when they
have a
chance at succeeding. He puts the explosives back into
hiding.
Vaber pulls his gun out and tells him to get the explosives
back out
or he will kill him if he has to. Just as he seems about
to, a
great light comes out of the sky and a spaceship crashlands in
the
jungle. It is burning up.
The Doctor
talks to himself: a tiny motor with an electric power
source,
dismantle the circuitry, reverse the polarity, and convert
to a low
power transmitter with a positive feedback -- the Daleks'
guidance
systems function by means of high frequency radio impulses.
Using the
TARDIS log recorder that Jo dropped, they can jam these
Dalek
guidance system radio impulses. It will give the Daleks quite
a
brainstorm. The Doctor asks for a screwdriver.
The
fungoid infection is gone from Jo's arm. The Spiridon tells her
it will be
sore. He explains to her that before the Daleks invaded
they
bombarded the planet with bacteria. Only a handful of his
people
survived. Those left were forced to cooperate with the
Daleks. A
few do what they can to fight back. The Daleks want to
master
invisibility. The Spiridon explains that one with silver hair
in strange
clothes was taken to the Dalek city... the Doctor. She
wants to
find a way of helping him escape. The Spiridon tells her he
would be
better off dead than to be used in the Dalek experiments.
Taron
finds a female Thal named Rebec escaping the wreck of the
downed
spaceship. She explains that Marat and Latep are also
survivors.
Vaber rushes to help them. The equipment and explosives
are all
gone in the crash. Rebec goes on to say that communications
intercepted another Dalek space signal, "Do you know the strength
of
the Dalek
force here?" The signal was to Dalek Supreme Command and
stated
that the Dalek army here was complete. This message also gave
the number
of Daleks on Spiridon. Rebec explains, "Well, somewhere
on this
planet, there are ten thousand Daleks!" Taron looks at her
in
horror...
Episode
Three
(drn:
22'34")
Vaber
helps Latep and Marat to Taron and Rebec. Latep says, "We're
just
shaken. We came down with a bang." They move out.
Jo and the
Spiridon spy on the only way into the city. Fur wearing
Spiridons
are being brought in past Dalek guards. Jo wants to get
inside the
city somehow. Sample of vegetation are being brought in.
The Daleks
are experimenting with plant destroying bacteria. Jo
wants to
hide in one of the bundles. Jo is told the Doctor must be
imprisoned
deep down in the city.
The Doctor
tells Codal their jamming device has to be operated close
to a Dalek
and it will only be temporary. If it works.
Rebec is
with Taron and Marat at a natural ice duct. Rebec finds
freezing
liquid, an anatrope of ice -- a form of ice that never gets
hard. The
core is some kind of ice metal which when it erupts flows
molten ice
instead of lava. Ice covers the forest for miles. When
the city
was built they used the natural ducts to the city they used
the
volcano as a cooling system. They drove south out to meet the
natural
fissures. If the ice erupts when they are in there, or if
the shaft
is too small to crawl through, and they don't know where
the shafts
come out... Vaber and Latep return -- the rest of the
explosives
are in a safe hiding place and Vaber marked it. Vaber and
Latep are
to take positions at the main entrance to the city. If the
other
three cause a diversion, they are to attack. Out of ear range
of the
others, Vaber apologizes to Taron, who tells him to forget
it.
The Doctor
finishes his jamming device -- they need only have a
Dalek to
try it on.
The
invisible alien helps Jo get in a cart which the fur covered
Spiridon
slaves take into the city entrance.
Rebec,
Marat, and Taron crawl through a duct of ice. They have their
suits'
heat units turned up to maximum but it is still very cold for
them. They
hear blasts but keep moving. Marat thinks it is an
eruption.
They have to strike into one of the shafts to survive.
They have
no time to go back.
Slave
workers leave a cart with Jo in it in a control room with
Daleks all
over it. Jo ducks to avoid being seen. A Dalek orders the
prisoners
to be taken for interrogation.
A Dalek
comes to the Doctor and Codal. Hearing it, the Doctor tells
him to get
in close so the Dalek cannot use its blaster. The Doctor
puts the
jamming device on the Dalek as Codal grabs it. It turns and
they fly
off of it onto the floor. The jamming device makes it spin
and yell.
"You know for a man who abhors violence, I took great
satisfaction in doing that," the Doctor says. The pair leave and
the
Doctor
instructs Codal to get his gun.
At a tense
moment, Jo slips out of the cart and hides at a wall as
another
Dalek comes in. All cooling ducts are to be shut by the
Daleks. An
ice eruption is imminent. Ice falls behind the three
Thals in
the duct. They have to avoid the forward shaft as well as
ice moves
the stone and rock in front of them toward them in a rush.
They find
a side shaft and get into it.
The Doctor
and Codal duck out of a hall as a Dalek spots them and
fires. A
maximum security search is set out for the prisoners to be
located
and destroyed. Jo hides back at the cart. The Doctor and
Codal take
an elevator but getting out of it, a Dalek moves toward
them. The
lift will not go up though. The Doctor thinks the Daleks
are
operating it by remote control. He tries to make it go down but
when it
does and the doors open... another Dalek. They have to take
the lift
to an even lower level. Codal wants to go out first and the
Doctor
thanks him. Codal at least has a gun.
Liquid ice
drops on the three Thals in the shaft and they crawl
through
it. More approaches but they finally find a shaft into the
city and
call out through a grid netting which they cannot get off.
They see
the Doctor and Codal. These two help them get the grill
off.
Jo sneaks
past a Dalek as all cooling ducts are being closed down. A
door tries
closing over the grill but the Doctor and Codal hold it
open long
enough for Rebec, Taron, and a weakened Marat to crawl and
jump out.
They see the shadow of an approaching Dalek! "Outta here
quick!
Out!" As Daleks try to fire at them, ice comes through the
open
doorway hatch where the grill was and covers the Daleks.
Jo, having
watched the Dalek operate the communications console,
goes to it
once the Dalek there leaves. She hears the prisoners are
on level
zero. All assent areas are sealed off.
Marat
stays behind to get the Doctor and the other four Thals into a
room with
a sliding door. He shoots at Daleks but one shoots him and
he turns
negative and falls dead. Rebec calls to him but Taron pulls
her away
from the door. Using the sonic screwdriver, the Doctor
seals the
door, "Now cover your eyes!"
The Daleks
find the map of the hidden explosives on Marat's body.
The Daleks
are ordered by their leader to find the explosives and
destroy.
The Daleks will bring equipment to open the door.
Codal
thinks the Daleks will not get through the door quickly.
"Never underestimate the Daleks, Codal," the Doctor states.
Rebec
tells the
Doctor all of Marat's courage may have been for nothing --
it seems
there is no other door. Taron calls the Doctor to a giant
refrigeration unit. They wonder why. Hot gases from the unit are
carried
out via a huge uncovered shaft that leads out to the
surface...
directly up! Codal hears the Daleks outside the door,
trying to
drill in. The Doctor tells Taron that when faced with the
inevitable, don't waste precious time fighting it. What?
Jo sneaks
down behind a counter as Daleks, one with the map on its
sucker,
reports to another Dalek and enlists it to help it find the
explosives
to destroy the bombs. Jo overhears this and follows them.
Daleks are
cutting through the door at an alarming rate.
The Thals
and the Doctor are cutting up a plastic sheet. If they can
turn the
refrigeration up to maximum the updraft will be even more
powerful.
Using the sheet, they might be able to rise up through the
ventilator
chimney with the draft.
Jo has
found her way out of the city and follows the Daleks, unseen.
The Doctor
is turning the refrigeration up. The plastic sheet will
capture
the warm gases and using ropes tied to the plastic sheet,
the Thals
and the Doctor will hold on and ride it up. The Thals call
as the
Daleks are almost through the door...and the Doctor is
looking in
stunned silence at something through a small window door
as the
Daleks combine to start knocking the drilled door inward.
Finally
the Doctor joins them but their combined weight will not
allow it
to rise. The Doctor tells them to give it time. Rebec
yells,
"It's not going to work! Doctor, it's not going to work!" The
Doctor
looks upward...
Episode
Four
(drn:
23'36")
Daleks
break in and think the prisoners are hiding but the balloon
has worked
and is lifting the Doctor and the Thals upward. Rebec
looks down
and then is sorry she did. She closes her eyes. She tells
the Doctor
she cannot stand heights. The Doctor notes they are out
of range.
The Daleks cannot kill them by firing up. The Daleks order
an anti
gravitational disc brought to the area.
Jo slips
out of the trees and hides again but in bushes this time as
Daleks
find the hidden explosives and detonating mechanisms. The
Dalek with
the map almost finds Jo, hearing something. The two
Daleks set
the bombs to detonate and leave for the city. Some debris
from above
falls on them but they go. Jo sneaks out and turns the
detonation
levers on two of the bombs. Debris from above comes down
on her and
one is a large rock which knocks her unconscious. She has
only
stopped two of the bombs. One still ticks away... ready to blow
up...
As the
others ride up, the Doctor tells the Thals he finds this most
exhilarating and that he should really take up hot air ballooning.
Rebec
wants a rocket to take her off this planet. The Doctor tells
her,
"Cheer up, my dear," and tells her they are perfectly safe. A
Dalek on a
flying disc begins to follow the group up the shaft.
Three
Daleks move through the undergrowth toward the top of the
shaft.
Jo wakes
up to see the bomb about to blow up. She grabs the two
deactivated bombs and runs as the other bomb goes off and destroys
two Daleks
that have come to the area.
Taron
notices the Dalek coming after them. Rebec notices a tear in
the
balloon and warns the Doctor just as his part of the balloon
rips. The
Doctor shouts at them not to waste time, to keep going. He
falls and
hangs onto the side of a wall. The Thals get up to the
top. Taron
sends down his rope to the Doctor. He cannot reach it so
Codal
sends him his rope. They pull the Doctor up; then the Doctor
climbs a
bit. As the Dalek comes up just after him, Rebec and Codal
drop rocks
onto it and send it to the bottom of the shaft,
destroying
it. The Doctor tells the Thals to postpone the
celebration until they are in a safer area. They run.
The Daleks
in the city declare a full state of emergency. Spiridon
slave
workers will cooperate in a full level search, "The aliens
must be
located and destroyed." Jo hides as someone arrives in the
jungle --
Taro, the Doctor and the other two. The Doctor and Jo
rejoice in
finding each other alive and well. Then Jo starts to
nervously
talk to the Doctor and ask him loads of questions. The
Doctor has
to hold her mouth closed to stop her. The Doctor excuses
himself as
he and his friend have to catch up.
Rebec and
Taron talk. Taron asks why she came. Taron made sure Rebec
stayed out
of his crew. Taron eats. Codal takes the first watch on
guard.
Taron tells Rebec she shouldn't have come. Rebec will not
leave and
doesn't regret it. Taron declares he loves her and cannot
convert
her into a cypher. He will not take the correct risks now
because he
is will worry about her -- her being here might be the
very
reason the Daleks win. Rebec didn't see it that way but does
now.
Supreme
Command of the Daleks has declared that bacteriological
culture be
released to destroy all alien life. Daleks and slave
workers
will be given immunity to the disease. The green glop in a
clear box
will kill all living things, "All will be exterminated!"
The Doctor
tells Jo they would have been safe in the TARDIS. Jo
explains
about his state and that she had no choice. The Doctor
apologizes
to Jo, stating he wasn't himself. The Doctor sees Rebec
upset and
tells Jo that perhaps a female shoulder to cry on will
help. He
goes and talks to Taron about his leadership. Taron is
questioning himself about his ability to lead. Taron thought he was
like a
machine. The Doctor tells him that is good that he is not. If
they start
thinking like machines then they are no better than the
Daleks.
Codal returns with Latep and Vaber, who found they had a
faulty
bomb and assumed the others were killed in the ice eruption.
When they
thought the others were dead, they were going to raid the
Dalek city
but found their bomb was faulty. Jo explains she managed
to save
two of the other bombs before the Daleks blew up with the
other.
They have to find shelter from the cold night. Taron thinks
the plain
of stones -- an area of huge boulders which absorb the
heat of
the sun and then discharge the heat at night will be a good
hiding
place. The Doctor tells them this planet never ceases to
amaze him.
All the animal life from the jungle goes there as well.
Latep
helps Jo with the bombs and they meet formally. Jo explains
the
handshake to him -- it means they are good friends and are
pleased to
meet one another. The Doctor and Codal watch fur covered
Spiridons
and at first, the Doctor thinks they are animals. The
Daleks are
not functioning properly and the Doctor seems to know the
reason or
wants to.
After the
Daleks and Spiridons leave the area, the Thals, Jo, and
the Doctor
take cover at the Plain of Stones. A huge dark shape
flies
behind in the sky. Animal sounds fill the night air. Something
larger
flies overhead, roaring... the Thal men have heard these
before.
Latep takes a corner to guard. Vaber continues to want to
attack.
Taron thinks any attempt that fails is worth nothing. He
asks Codal
about the neutron powered refrigeration unit. Codal
thinks if
they destroy the refrigeration unit, the Daleks will be
destroyed.
Vaber wants to attack now, tossing a bomb down the shaft.
Taron
wants to wait and plan. Vaber tells Taron he is afraid,
compares
him to their first commander, and tells him that their
first
leader wouldn't have had Rebec hanging around their necks.
Taron
fights with Vaber physically. Vaber takes out his gun but
Codal
grabs Taron from behind and stops the fight. Latep, called by
Codal,
holds Vaber. Taron tells Vaber that he won't hesitate to kill
him if he
doesn't obey his orders. All begin to rest.
The Dalek
bacteria is multiplying. In one Spiridon day, all plant
life will
die in one day and unimmunized animal life will die in one
hour of
inhaling the contaminated air. The most virulent form will
be ready
in half a Spiridon day. Spiridon slaves have reported to
Daleks
that the aliens are hiding at the Plain of Stones. The Dalek
orders all
search units into that area.
Taron is
next to a sleeping Rebec but he finds Vaber and the bombs
gone.
Taron alerts Latep and the Doctor and wakes up Codal. The note
from Vaber
explains he will do what he wants. Taron takes Codal with
him to
stop him as the Doctor tells them Vaber hasn't a chance.
Taron asks
the Doctor to stay here. After Codal and Taron leave, he
tells
Rebec to keep her gun handy. All around them, in the darkness
are bright
eyes of somethings...
Vaber
stalks out of the jungle in a part that looks like day is
already
at...and stumbles right into Spiridon furs. The fur wearing
slaves
surround him and hold him roughly. One says, gruffly, "Take
him to the
Daleks..."
Episode
Five
(drn:
22'31")
Taron and
Codal see Vaber's capture. They must get the bombs back.
Rebec
tries a shot at the creatures with glowing orange eyes. They
go but
return. When she shoots at the darkness, the last of her
charges is
used up. Latep has two more left.
Codal
grabs a Spiridon in fur while Taron hits the alien over the
head with
a club. Taron gets the fur of the alien and uses it to get
closer.
Latep's
ray gun attached to his belt is out of power. The Doctor
uses a
torch to scare some of the animals. He tells the others to
get the
torches to ward off the animals. They have to keep that fire
going at
all costs and hope it last until morning.
Codal goes
to a fur covered Spiridon, thinking it is Taron but when
he checks
the face, he doesn't see anything. The thing grabs him and
chokes him
down. Taron clubs it over the head and helps Codal up. He
takes the
purple-ish fur of the Spiridon and gives it to Codal.
Codal is
to make a lot of noise so Taron can get in to free Vaber.
It seems
almost day. Jo is shivering as the Doctor thinks about
Vaber
rushing off as he did. The plan, Rebec tells the Doctor is to
blow up
the refrigeration unit. If this is done, the Daleks will
come to
life. No aging process, no regeneration. If the freezing
unit is
destroyed, the Dalek army will be revived. Wester, the
Spiridon
that helped Jo shows up. Jo stops the Doctor from clubbing
the
Spiridon, explaining that Wester helped her. The Doctor
apologizes
to Mister Wester. Wester will find a way back into the
Dalek city
to stop the bacteria bomb. Jo bids him goodbye. Wester
leaves. Jo
tells him to take care as he does. If the others are not
back by
light, he and the other two Thals and Jo will move out. The
Doctor
tells Jo they have to stop the bacteria bomb, put a stop to
the army
here from reviving and third, stop Daleks from launching an
invasion
of other planets. Jo asks how they are going to do all
that.
"I haven't the faintest idea," the Doctor states.
Vaber is
brought before Daleks, who question him. They bid him to
answer or
they will exterminate him. They want him to lead them to
the
others. Vaber agrees to do this but pushes two Spiridons and
runs. The
Dalek exterminates him even as he gets almost gets far
away. A
Spiridon also seems to be shot down. Grabbing the bombs from
the
Spiridons, Codal and Taron run, discarding their furs. The Dalek
orders,
"Pursue! Pursue!"
Daleks
confer in the city control unit. The antidote is prepared and
ready to
be administered. This is demonstrated. Elements provide
immunity
on contact. All Dalek workers and Spiridon slaves will
report to
this room to be immunized. All units are ordered to
report.
Latep
hears Codal and Taron return with the bombs and the furs that
they
"persuaded a couple of Spiridons to part with" along with them.
The Doctor
tells them they cannot keep running forever. He wants to
stop for a
moment and use their intelligence. They have to get
inside the
city. He asks the Thals to trust him. The Doctor wants
someone to
show themselves and lead a Dalek patrol back here. Latep
will go
and Jo volunteers to go with him, "I'm tired of being hunted
too."
The Doctor allows her.
The Doctor
asks Codal about the molten ice pools, a natural spring
on this
planet. Hyper cold, sub zero temperatures and semi liquid.
The Daleks
are vulnerable to low temperatures and hardly function at
all at sub
zero temperatures. It is a good feeling, the Doctor says,
"When
the hunted become the hunters."
Wester
gets into the Dalek city. Slave workers are to proceed to
Level Four
for treatment. Dalek Patrol 7 is unaccounted for. This
patrol is
in pursuit of aliens and given permission to keep going
after the
aliens. No prisoners are to be taken. They are to be
exterminated.
Jo and
Latep stop running. He tells her it is time to start back to
the
others. They see the Daleks and show themselves so the Patrol
pursues
them, yelling for them to surrender. Jo and Latep return to
the
others, Daleks right behind them. The Doctor draws two off away
from the
group. He moves past the ice pools and hides. He runs to a
rock and
the Dalek fires. Taron comes out of hiding and tries
pushing
the Dalek. He needs the Doctor to come out and help him turn
it.
"Resist! Resist!" Jo attacks another Dalek at the Plains of
Stones and
grabs it but it makes her fall. Codal and Latep help
attack the
Dalek and cover it with a fur. "Cannot see! Vision
impaired!"
Taron
finds himself on the ground and facing a Dalek gun but the
Doctor
pushes the Dalek into the lava ice pool. The others push
their
Dalek into the frosting ice lake. The Doctor tells them to
keep out
of the range of fire, they might still be dangerous. Taron
opens one
and finds it dead. The shock of the cold killed them right
away.
Latep, switching on his thermalite opens the other one. With
the Daleks
dead, the Doctor wants the unit up onto the bank. The
creatures
inside, dead, are thrown into the lake.
Patrol 7
has vanished, the Daleks find. Auto distress signal is weak
and there
is now dead silence. The Daleks will wait no longer.
Wester
arrives to the Daleks and is to give the Section Leader a
message.
The Leader is busy so Wester is brought in to wait. He sees
the Daleks
ready to release the bacteria.
Rebec is
inside the Dalek casing. The Doctor will not let Jo come
with him.
She and Latep must descend into the shaft of the
refrigeration unit. It must be a two pronged attack. The
refrigeration unit must keep functioning. Taron and Codal return
with more
furs. The Doctor gets into one and asks if he will do. Jo
tells him
in a pinch and kisses him goodbye. Rebec is in a Dalek
casing
escorting the Doctor, Taron, and Codal in Spiridon furs. They
get to see
the bacteria being prepared. The Doctor somehow
recognizes
Wester as the Spiridon inside the tank with the Daleks
and the
bacteria. Wester opens the bacteria tank but all Daleks have
not yet
been treated. Wester dies from the bacteria which has been
released.
The room is hermetically sealed and cannot be opened now.
Wester's
face appears, bumps on his forehead and an old man face
with two
gaps in his teeth. The two Daleks in the room claim they
can never
leave it. The Doctor and the other two saw Wester's
sacrifice.
A Dalek stops them though and tells them to report to
level 4.
The Dalek spots Taron's booted foot under the furs and
realizes
they are not Spiridons. It calls, "Emergency! Emergency!"
Alarms
sound off as the Dalek continues yelling, "Emergency!"
Episode
Six
(drn:
23'06")
The Doctor
tosses his fur over the Dalek and he and the Thal men
push Rebec
(who is in their Dalek) toward the lower level, running
from yet
another pair of Daleks. Daleks alert maximum security.
Daleks
continue to pursue the Doctor's group. The Doctor's group
descends
to level 8. The Daleks plan to chase them to the lowest
levels.
Two Daleks blast the Dalek shell, Rebec having already
gotten
out. She, Taron, and Codal run to an elevator with the
Doctor.
They get in and go down to the arsenal. They get out and
sneak
through the halls. The Doctor instructs the men to find
something
in the cooling chamber to block the hallway. The Doctor
shows
Rebec the frozen thousands of Daleks in the chamber.
The Daleks
report to each other that Dalek Command has identified
the
leading alien: the Doctor the greatest enemy of the Daleks. The
Dalek
Supreme is on its way to the planet.
Latep and
Jo, in the jungle hide as a huge double cylinder shaped
spaceship
lands. A Gold and Black Dalek exits via a ramp, followed
by silvery
grey ones. Jo has never seen a Dalek like that before,
one of the
Supreme Council. Latep admires how the Daleks build a
spacecraft. Jo gets an idea: the Thals can escape in the Dalek ship
to get
home to Skaro. Latep tells the others are better off not
being
here: just knowing it is no longer a suicide mission might
mean
failure. Latep has found a reason for not wanting to die, a
reason for
staying alive: Jo. Jo tells him they have more work to
do.
The Doctor
finds there is no way to lock the refrigeration unit into
the on
position, "Oh blast." If it is tampered with, the Daleks will
revive
immediately. Daleks try to get through the barrier the Thal
men built.
Rebec warns the Doctor, who thinks the blockade should
hold them
for awhile.
The Gold
Dalek arrives in the city and finds Daleks can achieve
total
invisibility for as long as two work cycles. It also gives
many
orders. The Supreme Council has ordered the army revived and
the
invasion of all solar planets to begin today. He orders the
arsenal
heating on and the close down of refrigeration unit. This is
done and
Taron calls the Doctor to tell him the temperature is
starting
to rise. The Dalek Supreme orders the spacecraft to
assemble.
It also argues with the Dalek Leader and yells that it has
failed.
The Gold Dalek shoots it and kills it in a bombardment of
negative
ray.
Jo and
Latep (Latep going first) will climb down to the
Refrigeration Unit.
Taron
finds a passage blocked by rocks which could be a way out if
cleared.
Taron and Rebec find no power left to operate a door that
could
further block the Daleks that are almost through the
barricade.
To make matters worse, Codal points out that the Dalek
Army has
started to revive and several Daleks are moving within the
main area.
The Doctor thinks the hole is wide enough to get through.
The
catwalks lead to a sort of loading area on the surface, the
Doctor
thinks and asks Rebec and Taron to check that out. A Dalek
sucker
moves the bomb and it falls, making Codal and the Doctor
duck. It
doesn't go off so the Doctor walks through reviving Daleks
to
retrieve it. The timing mechanism is not functioning. Codal will
need a
minute or two to fix it. The power ramp Taron found goes up
to surface
ground level--it is a way out. The bomb put in the right
place can
weaken the walls and the pressure of the ice flows in the
area will
come in and put the Daleks in suspended animation: this
will not
kill them but it will take centuries to revive them then.
Latep and
Jo climb into the unit and see Daleks trying to break into
the main
area. Latep throws a bomb. A Dalek shoots at him but
misses.
The bomb blows up these Daleks. Latep and Jo find them
blasted
and make their way to find the Doctor. A Dalek follows them
in. Jo and
Latep join the Doctor and his party. Codal and the Doctor
wait to
set the bomb: 30 seconds to detonate while the other already
start to
climb up. The Doctor puts it in to the rock wall as Codal
urges him
to hurry. The Doctor makes him go and follows him. Daleks
pursuing
him and Codal get blasted when the bomb does go off. The
Doctor
thinks it has failed and urges everyone to get out of here.
Just as he
thinks they have failed, the ice volcano sends a rage of
ice water
into the Dalek army. "Out everybody out!" The Doctor yells
but he
stays to watch the Daleks sink into the ice sea. Molten ice
rises
through all sections. Total loss of contact with units occurs.
Power
source fails. Ice flow races up. The Gold Dalek wants a report
sent to
Supreme Council. He wants to abandon the place and he gets
out with
some other Daleks.
The Thals,
Jo, and the Doctor find the Dalek ship. Codal needs to
look over
the controls. "So... you've done a lot for me, Doctor.
Thank you,
thank you," Codal leaves. Taron wishes there were some
way of
thanking the Doctor. The Doctor tells Taron and Rebec not to
glamorise
their story of winning against the Daleks...don't make it
a hero
story, don't let the Thals home relish the prospect of war,
remind
them of the men who have been lost and the fear that
happened.
Latep has asked Jo to come back to Skaro with him. He asks
the Doctor
is he has any objections. The Doctor tells him not if Jo
wants to
go back with him. Latep asks Jo again but she turns him
down. She
is fond of him but she has her own world and her own life
to go back
to. Latep thanks the Doctor and waves to them. The Doctor
thanked
him.
The Thals
take off in the Dalek spacecraft watched by Jo and the
Doctor.
The Doctor asks if they should go and find the TARDIS. Jo
gasps as
the Dalek Supreme and his two aides come from the jungle.
The Daleks
chase them through the jungle, Jo and the Doctor must
pass the
deadly spore plants, Jo ducking. They get to the TARDIS and
the doors
still open, the Daleks fire at it. They close the doors.
The Gold
Dalek wants his aide to send a message to the Supreme Dalek
force to
send a rescue ship. He claims they have been delayed not
defeated.
The Daleks are never defeated.
The time
rotor is moving up and down again. Jo stares without
looking.
The Doctor switches images of the galaxies to find Skaro.
He calls
Jo's attention to it. He asks if Jo has any regrets. She
sadly
tells him not really. He tells her that Skaro is only one
little
world, there are so many hundreds of others to see. Jo tells
him there
is only one little world she wants to see right now: she
puts on
Earth on the screen. "That's right, Doctor, home," Jo
states.
"Home it is, Miss Grant..." the Doctor turns the controls...
Source:
Charles Mento
Continuity Notes:
Besides the Spiridons, other naturally invisible creatures
include the Visians in The Daleks' Master Plan and the
Refusians in The Ark.
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The Green Death
The Green Death
Serial TTT
Producer
Barry
Letts
Script
Editor
Terrance
Dicks
Designer
John
Burrowes
Fight
Arranger
Terry
Walsh [2] Written by Robert Sloman*
Directed by Michael Briant
Incidental Music by Dudley Simpson
Jon
Pertwee (Dr. Who), Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Nicholas
Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart), Jerome Willis
(Stevens), Stewart Bevan (Clifford Jones), Tony Adams (Elgin)
[1-4], Ben Howard (Hinks) [1-4], Mostyn Evans (Dai Evans)
[1-2], Talfryn Thomas (Dave) [1-3], Roy Evans (Bert) [1-2],
Mitzi McKenzie (Nancy) [1,3-6]†, Ray Handy (Milkman) [1,4],
John
Scott Martin (Hughes) [1], John Rolfe (Fell) [2-3], John
Dearth (Boss's Voice) [2-6], Richard Beale (Minister of
Ecology) [3], Richard Franklin (Captain Yates) [4-6], John
Levene (Sergeant Benton) [4-6], Jean Burgess (Cleaner) [4],
Brian Justice (Yate's Guard) [4]‡, Terry Walsh (Guard) [4]¶,
Roy
Skelton (James) [5].
NOTE: For Episodes Two, Five and Six, the title sequence film
over
which the closing credits were superimposed was played
backwards and upside down (a result of the film being played
backwards through the projector in order to save time during
recording).
*
With Barry Letts, uncredited.
†
Credited on Episode 1, but does not appear.
‡
Although grammatically incorrect, this is how the credit
appeared on screen.
¶
Also in Episodes 1, 2 and 6, uncredited.
Earth, South Wales. The suspicious death of a miner at the
inactive local pit owned by the mysterious Global Chemicals
brings UNIT to sleepy Llanfairfach. There, a local green group
-
the Wholeweal Community under the leadership of the
brilliant Professor Jones - are not convinced of Global's
innocence in the affair. Could the waste products from their
revolutionary new oil refining process be at fault? Jones is
convinced but the Doctor is not so sure and a dangerous
expedition down the mine confirms his fears. For there,
thousands of giant maggots lie gestating - a dangerously
unknown terror waiting to be unleashed upon the world. But by
whom? Just who is the power behind Global Chemicals? Who or
what
is the Boss? And what are his/its plans for the Earth?
The
Doctor, Jo and the Brigadier must move quickly to find the
answers, for the death toll is already rising and the
gestation period of the maggots down the mine is coming to an
end...
Original
Broadcast (UK)
Episode One 19th May, 1973 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Two 26th May, 1973 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Three 2nd June, 1973 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Four 9th June, 1973 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Five 16th June, 1973 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Episode Six 23rd June, 1973 5h50pm - 6h15pm
Notes:
Released on video and DVD in episodic format. [+/-]
THE GREEN DEATH
U.K. Release: October 1996 / U.S. Release: February
1997
PAL - BBC video BBCV5816 (2
tapes)
NTSC - CBS/FOX video 8457 (2
tapes)
NTSC - Warner Video E1349 (2
tapes)
U.K. Release: May 2004 / U.S. Release: March 2005
PAL Region 2 - BBCDVD1142
NTSC Region 1 - Warner DVD E2156
DVD FEATURES:
Commentary by Katy Manning, producer Barry Letts
and script-editor Terrance Dicks.
'Global Conspiracy? ' - a look at the mysterious
events that occurred in Llanfairfach in 1973.
Interviews with Stewart Bevan and Robert Sloman.
Visual Effects featurette.
Photo Gallery.
Production Information Subtitles.
Who's Who (Region 1 only).
LINK: The Restoration Team work for The Green Death
DVD.
Novelised as Doctor Who and the Green Death by Malcolm
Hulke. [+/-]
Number 29 in the Doctor Who Library.
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: August 1975. Reprinted in 1976, 1977.
ISBN: 0 426 10647 4 (also 0 426 11543 0).
Cover by Peter Brookes.
Illustrations by Alan Willow.
Price: 35p.
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: March 1979. Reprinted in 1980, 1982,
1983, 1985.
ISBN: 0 426 11543 0.
Cover by Alun Hood.
Illustrations by Alan Willow.
Price: 60p.
Hardcover Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: 1981.
ISBN: ?.
Cover by Alun Hood.
Illustrations by Alan Willow.
Price: ?.
Doctor Who Magazine Archive: Issue #320.
Episode
One
(drn:
25'55")
In a small
Welsh village, a man is stumbling through an abandoned
mine. His
face is filled with terror at some unseen danger. The only
hint is
the evil-looking green gas that curls at his feet.
On the
surface, a businessman named Stevens drives up to a factory
in a white
car. The factory gate is surrounded by disgruntled men.
His
colleague Elgin greets him and tells him the men are nervous
about the
future. Stevens addresses the miners, telling them the
paper he
holds will make them wealthy.
But even
as he reassures them, the miner has found the lift and
begins his
ascent to the surface. We can now see the source of his
fear --
his hand is glowing bright green.
Stevens is
making progress with the miners. He tells them at coal is
dead --
their future lies with the oil produced by Global Chemicals.
They now
have permission to expand the plant -- which will mean more
good-paying jobs . . . better houses . . . better cars . . . But a
long-haired young man interrupts that it will mean more muck, more
death and
more devasatation. Elgin explains that the man is
Professor
Cliff Jones -- a troublemaker who is very popular in the
press.
Stevens responds to Jones, accusing him of resisting
progress.
But the young man replies that Stevens just wants more
profits
for Global Chemicals at the expense of people's health and
the
environment. The miners are unreceptive to Jones -- they need
jobs. But
Stevens calms them down. He explains that his company is
of course
concerned with the environment. But his reconciliation is
interrupted by a loud whistle. The miners recognize it as the pit
alarm.
They rush to the mine. But the man has died. He is slumped
over the
whistle, his body now completely green.
At Unit
HQ, Jo Grant is enjoying a light lunch in the lab when the
Doctor
emerges from the TARDIS, carrying a circuit. He explains that
it is the
worn-out space-time coordinate programmer. Jo jokes that
it's no
wonder they never got to Metabilis Three. As the Doctor
continues
to tinker, she picks up the paper. The two then go off on
conversational tangents as the Doctor talks of Metabilis Three while
Jo reads
aloud the story about Global Chemicals with growing alarm.
She dashes
out of the lab to pack for a trip to Llanfairfach. The
Doctor,
oblivious, thinks she is packing for Metabilis Three but is
quicky
disillusioned. In Llanfairfach, Jones and the miners examine
the dead
man. He was in the mine for a routine inspection. Jones is
puzzled,
unable to figure out what might have happened to kill the
man in
such an extraordinary fashion.
The
Brigadier, alerted to the situation, asks the Doctor to help
with the
investigation. But the Doctor is resistant, eager to head
to
Metabilis Three. The Brigadier tells him that UNIT has a duty to
protect
Global Chemicals. Just then, Jo returns and the Brigadier
asks her
to join him. But Jo is furious that the Brig is going there
to help
the oil company. The Doctor asks if she's ready to go the
Metabilis
Three by she insists she needs to help stop Global
Chemicals.
The Brigadier is puzzled, convinced that the country
could use
more oil and that Professor Jones is a crank. Jo replies
that she
will support Jones even if it means quitting UNIT. But the
Brigadier
is conciliatory, offering her a ride to the Welsh village.
After he
leaves, the Doctor tries to convince Jo to go to Metabilis
Three with
him. But Jo insist that she wants to go help Professor
Jones,
commenting that he reminds her of a younger version of the
Doctor. He
is bemused, not knowing whether to be flattered or
insulted.
But he tells her to go ahead and tell the Brigadier he
will join
them later. Jo is obviously disappointed. After she
leaves,
the Doctor quietly muses that she is growing up. He then
strides
into the TARDIS and dematerializes.
The
Brigadier and Jo arrive in Llanfairfach and ask a milkman for
directions
to Global Chemicals. When Jo asks him where Professor
Jones'
Wholeweal Community is, he also provides directions to "the
Nuthatch". The Brigadier drives up to a farm, decorated with
"Wholeweal" painted in bright psychadelic colors. A nervous Jo
walks
in,
letting the Brigadier continue on to Global Chemicals.
On the
other side of the Galaxy, the TARDIS materializes on a blue
planet.
the Doctor steps out cautiously as strange animal noises
greet him.
He looks around and gazes at the blue sky -- he has at
least
reached Metablis Three! But he has little time to enjoy the
view as he
is immediately attacked by an unseen creatures.
Jo walks
into Jones' commune, carrying a bulky suitcase and wearing
a big
fur-lined coat. She sees a sign advertising a room but can't
find
anyone. Finally, she stumbles upon a lab where Professor Jones
is hard at
work. He informs her that everyone else is working in the
fields.
He then
notices the open door and yells that she's ruined his
experiment. She stumbles around the lab and tries to explain her
presence,
telling her that Nancy said she could come down. Professor
Jones
resumes his work, saying he wasn't told about Jo. Not having
realized
who she's talking to, she tells him she's come to see
Professor
Jones, then promptly knocks some equipment off a table. A
frustrated
Jones pushes her into a chair and tells her to sit still.
He calls
her a kid but seems friendly in a gruff way -- very much
like the
Doctor at their first meeting. With a glint in his eye, he
welcomes
her to the Nuthatch.
As for the
Doctor, he is frantically running around Metabilis Three,
dodging
the amazingly aggressive fauna.
Jones
works silently for a while before asking Jo what she knows
about
entemology -- particularly if she can identify a certain
insect
that is crawling up her leg. She jumps up with a scream and
Jones
laughs. He tells her he just couldn't stand the silence any
longer.
The Doctor
is now wading through snow on Metablis Three.
Jo asks
why Jones is growing mushrooms. He tells her it is a fungus
that he
hopes will replace meat. The Nuthatch isn't just a commune
-- it's a
full scientific laboratory. She asks if Professor Jones
thought of
that and then realizes with a start that she is, in fact,
talking to
the very Cliff Jones she came to see. She's miffed for a
moment but
then grins. It's clear that she find the man to be oddly
charming.
Stevens is
confronting the Brigadier, explaining that a lot of money
has been
invested in his project. But the Brigadier is unmoved. He
is
determined to investigate the matter of the green man. His first
step will
be to call his errant scientific advisor.
The Doctor
is, however, not within light years of a phone. He is
crawling
on his hands and knees as the phone in his office begins to
ring. The
Doctor finally reaches the top of a mountain. A huge bird
swoops at
him but he ducks and grabs a blue crystal.
The
Brigadier tells the operator to keep ringing the Doctor until he
answers.
He then asks Stevens why Professor Jones is opposed to
Global
Chemicals. Stevens can't imagine why as they are conserving
resources
-- getting more useable fuel out of oil.
Jones,
meanwhile, is explaining to Jo that the Global Chemical
process
still pollutes and it will still mean Britain is dependent
on oil. He
tells her that the Nuthatch is powered by wind and the
river.
Stevens
tells the Brigadier there is no waste or pollution from the
oil
refinery. The Brigadier is skeptical but Elgin assures him that
it's true.
Jones
tells Jo that the Stevens Process must be based on
polymerization, which would produce a highly toxic sludge. He
wonders
what they are doing with it and how it might be connected
with
recent events. Jo speculates that they are pumping the waste
into the
mine. She thinks they should take a look but Cliff is
strangely
uninterested. Jo accuses him of patronizing her and leaves
in a huff,
with Cliff reminding her to close the door on her way
out.
At the
mine, a man named Dai Evans is puzzled by the death of his
friend and
decides to investigate the mine.
Stevens
tells the Brigadier that no one should go down into the mine
and it
should be sealed. But the Brigadier is determined to carry on
with his
investigation -- as soon as the Doctor arrives.
The Doctor
hurries back into the TARDIS and takes off as stones and
spear are
thrown at him. The phone continues to ring in his office
as the
TARDIS returns. The Doctor stumbles out and answers. He agree
to go to
Llanfairfach and quickly drives off in Bessie.
Dai enters
the lift and descends into the darkness of the mine.
The Doctor
arrives at the refinery and the Brigadier leaves Stevens
to meet
with him. Stevens is upset that the Brig wants to
investigate the mine and calls for Hinks. A burly thug enters and
Stevens,
suddenly disoriented, tells him that no one is to enter the
mine.
Hinks nods and leaves. Stevens then takes out a strange
headset,
plugs it into the wall and puts it on. He closes his eyes,
clearly
comforted by the device.
Jo arrives
at the mine head. She tells the two men at the top of the
shaft that
she's with UNIT and needs to go into the mine. But an
alarm
suddenly rings out. It's Dai calling for help -- his hand is
glowing
bright green! Bert wants to go down and Jo insists on going
with him,
telling him she knows first aide.
The Doctor
and Brigadier roll up to the mine in Bessie. They don't
notice
Hinks slinking around in the shadows. Bert and Jo climb into
the lift
and Dave sends it down. The Brigadier sees the wheels
spinning
and realizes someone is using the lift. They rush in and
tell Dave
to stop the car. He pulls some levers but nothing happens.
Bert and
Jo grab onto the car as it plunges helplessly toward the
bottom of
the mine.
Episode
Two
(drn:
25'55")
Jo and
Bert are descending into a Welsh mine to investigate the
mysterious
events connected with Global Chemicals. But the Doctor
and the
Brigadier are trying to stop them. The Doctor pulls
frantically at the lift controls to stop it but the lift plunges
into the
darkness, out of control.
The
Doctor, thinking quickly, jams the spinning gears and tells Dave
to reverse
the motor, even it destroys the machine. He hesitates and
the
Brigadier steps in, halting the lift. The lift grinds to a halt
as
explosions rip through the motor. The lift has finally stopped --
but the
depth gauge reads 600 yards out of 600 yards.
Jo and
Bert struggle to consciousness. Bert opens the car and drops
a tool. It
clangs to the bottom of the shaft less than 20 feet below
them. He
begins to worry that the cable -- strained from the descent
-- will
give out. He and Jo decide to get out of the car and lower a
rope to
the bottom of the shaft.
Dave tells
the Doctor that lift drive is broken beyond repair. And
they can't
use the other lift since they are linked. The Doctor
suggests a
repair that would make it possible to use the other lift
-- but it
would require heavy cutting equipment. Only Global
Chemicals
would have such equipment.
Almost
2000 feet below them, Jo and Bert have climbed down to the
base of
the shaft. They try to call up to the surface but the line
is broken.
They then find Dai, moaning and glowing bright green.
Elgin
takes the phone call from the Brigadier and agrees to loan the
the
cutting equipment. But he is cut off by Stevens. Dave then
remembers
that Wholeweal borrowed the equipment and the Brigadier
calls
them. Jones answers the phone at the Nuthatch. He tells the
Brgaider
they don't have the equipment but then rushes to the mine,
evidently
concerned about Jo.
Stevens
tells his associate Fell to inform the Brigadier that they
don't have
any cutting equipment. At first, Fell objects -- it would
be murder
to abandon Jo and Bert. But Stevens insists that the mine
can not be
explored. Fell tries to leave but is blocked by Hinks.
Suddenly,
an electronic voice rings out. It tells Stevens to
"process" Fell. Fell asks whose voice that was. Stevens
cryptically
responds
that it is "our boss". Fell will understand soon.
Dai Evans
is fading fast at the bottom of the mine. Jo and Bert
worry that
whatever has hurt him is still there.
Fell
enters Stevens' office, where the Brigadier is trying to obtain
cutting
equipment. Fell tells them they have nothing that could be
used to
cut the cable. But he acts strange -- robotic and unfeeling.
As Stevens
and the Brigadier leave, Elgin tries to talk to Fell
about the
equipment. But the latter is unresponsive.
The
Brigadier quickly places a call to Mike Yates while Jo and Bert
try to
stay calm at the bottom of the mine. Meanwhile, the Doctor
shows Dave
and Cliff Jones a pin removed from the brake linkage. The
lift must
have been sabotaged.
Jo and
Bert are now desperate to help Dai. Bert remembers that there
might be
another exit used in a previous accident in the mine. They
decide to
try their luck and move off into the darkness.
The Brig
returns to the mine and tells the Doctor that Global
Chemicals
doesn't have any cutting equipment. The Doctor doesn't
believe it
and Cliff remembers that the Nuthatch borrowed it only
recently
-- it's in a shed on the Global Chemicals compound. The
Doctor is
finally introduced to Jones and says he is honored to meet
him. Jones
suggests stealing the equipment from Global Chemicals but
the
Brigadier is opposed. As he leaves to go to the nearest city for
cutting
equipment, the Doctor and Jones decide to go to Global
Chemicals
anyway.
Sometime
later, Jones and the Nuthatch inhabitants show up banging
drums and
marching to protest against Global Chemicals. As the
security
guards go to watch, the Doctor sneaks in with the help of a
crane. But
the cameras pick him up as he follows Professor Jones'
map.
Stevens and the boss decide to capture him. A voice rings out,
telling
the Doctor to stop. Then security guards come to arrest him.
The Doctor
quickly knocks out all three of them and runs for it. But
more
guards swarm toward him and he is eventually trapped by
Stevens.
Stevens explains that the cutting equipment isn't there and
opens the
shed to show that it is empty. But Elgin looks skeptical.
Jo and
Bert continue to hurry through to mine. The air is getting
stuffy as
they struggle to escape.
The
Brigadier suddenly drives up to the mine with an acetylene
torch. He
found it by coincidence at a petrol station. They decide
that the
Doctor, Dave and two other miners will go down after Bert
and Jo.
The two
youngsters have reached a stopping point in their journey
out. They
turn off their lamps as they rest. But they see a green
glow
around them. They head toward it and smell something rotten.
Finally,
they see some green ooze coming out of the rock. Bert
unwisely
touches it.
The Doctor
and the miners reach the bottom of the shaft. Dai is
dead, his
body completely green. The Doctor calls out to Jo but then
finds a
note from her. They head out after the two young people.
Jo is
trying to drag Bert so safety but he is weakening. His fingers
are now
glowing green and he's scared he's going to end up like Dai.
He tells
Jo to leave him and get help.
The Doctor
and Dave find the green light, the rotten sell and the
ooze. And
they find Bert, who is fading fast. The Doctor tells Dave
to take
Bert to the surface while he goes after Jo.
Jo rounds
a corner and stops in shock. She is facing a cave filled
with green
maggots wriggling in green muck. The Doctor finally
catches up
with her but the cave suddenly collapses, trapping them.
Maggots
slither out of the rubble, advancing steadily on the Doctor
and Jo!
Episode
Three
(drn:
25'12")
The Doctor
and Jo have finally located the source of the mysterious
green
illness that is infecting the miners in Llanfairfach. A lake
of green
slime filled with wriggling green maggots. But the cave
collapses
behind them and green maggots advance on them out of the
rubble.
They are trapped!
The Doctor
remains calm, telling Jo they will be fine as long as
they avoid
contact. They find an old mine car and mount it on the
tracks.
On the
surface Bert is being taken to the hospital -- dying from his
contact
with the green slime. Jones tries to reassure Dave. He now
believes
that Global Chemicals is responsible. He wants to go down
into the
mine to help Jo and the Doctor but the Brigadier stops him.
The Brig
tells Jones that he is just as worried but has confidence
that the
Doctor can handle anything. He does, however, agree to make
another
call on Global Chemicals.
Down in
the mine, the Doctor and Jo fish wooden poles out the
rubble.
They then punt the mining car across the green swamp toward
safety.
Elgin
informs Fell that survivors have been brought out of the mine,
but his
colleague is unmoved. Elgin pushes him, asking about the
cutting
equipment and the mine. Fell seems about to talk but then
hurries
away. He enters a pumping room, followed by Elgin.
The Doctor
and Jo finally complete their journey across the
disgusting
green swamp. They gratefully exit the mine car and
continue
their journey out of the mine.
The
Brigadier is telling Stevens that UNIT will be arriving to deal
with the
situation and investigate the problems. Stevens is opposed
and they
argue. Then Stevens smirkingly warns the Brigadier to be
more
prudent, implying he has friends in high places. The Brigadier
tells
Stevens that he has friends on the cabinet. Stevens responds
by picking
up the phone and dialing the Minister of Ecology.
The Doctor
and Jo scramble up the mine. They find some huge green
eggs and
the Doctor, intrigued, picks one up.
Elgin
approaches Fell in the pump room. Fell tries to get him to
leave but
Elgin stays, peppering the evasive Fell with questions.
The
Minister of Ecology talks to the Brigadier. He opposes any
investigation -- UNIT should be helping Global Chemicals. The
Brigadier
tries to argue but the Minister simply hands the phone to
the Prime
Minister, who orders the Brigadier to help Global
Chemicals.
Stevens does indeed have friends in high places!
The Doctor
and Jo finally reach the end of the tunnel only to find a
corrugated
pipe. Quickly, they begin to climb. But this sets of an
alarm in
the pump room. Elgin and Fell see the Doctor and Jo on the
monitor.
Fell is preparing to pump waste into the pipe, which
appalls
Elgin.
The pipe
starts vibrating and the Doctor and Jo hurry to get out.
Elgin
tries to argue with Fell, who is growing more and more
confused.
As the Doctor and Jo bang at the window of the hatch, Fell
finally
tells Elgin how to open it. The Doctor and Jo are rescued
from the
pipe just in time to avoid the deluge of green waste.
Stevens
tries to be conciliatory to the Brigadier. The soldier is
cordial
but clearly doesn't trust the businessman. But he
reluctantly leaves to carry out his orders.
The Doctor
is explaining about the maggots to Elgin while Fell
quietly
slides out of the door. But Jo is exhausted and the Doctor
realizes
he needs to get her to safety. But before he leaves, Elgin
promises
to help them.
Fell
staggers into Stevens' office, utterly confused. Stevens helps
him to a
chair and puts a headset on him. Fell realizes that
something
has been done to his mind. The boss's voice sounds again.
He tells
Stevens that Fell is a failure and needs to be destroyed.
Stevens
reluctantly agrees and presses a red button. Fell leaves the
room,
rushes past the Doctor, Jo and Elgin, goes to a balcony
railing
and jumps to his death.
Stevens is
visibly shaken by the event. But the boss only taunts him
for being
sentimental.
That
night, at the Nuthatch, the Doctor is entertaining Jones'
friends
with stories of his adventures when he is interrupted by a
phone
call. As he leaves to answer, Jones informs Jo and the
Brigadier
that the "meat" they just ate was actually a fungus. He
has a meat
replacement but it is not perfect. He wants to go to the
Amazon to
hunt down a legendary fungus. He explains to the surprised
Brigadier
that everyone at the Nuthatch is a scientist working on
windmills,
ecology, sociology and a host of other problems. Jo is
enthralled
by Cliff, eager to hear about his trip to the Amazon.
The Doctor
returns and tells them that Bert has died. Jo is crushed.
The Doctor
tells them that every cell in Bert's body had been
attacked
by the green slime.
Hinks
tells Stevens about the egg the Doctor took. Stevens is
concerned
and tells him to retrieve it.
Jones
comforts Jo for Bert. He tells her, "In the whole history of
the world
there's never been anybody just like Bert. And there will
never be
another even if the world lasts for a hundred million
centuries." He kisses Jo on the forehead but before it can lead to
anything
else, the Doctor and the Brigadier return.
Jones and
the Brigadier leave while the Doctor tells Jo to get some
sleep. She
wants to stay up and read Cliff's book about the Amazon.
The Doctor
tries to tell her about his trip to Metabilis Three but
she seems
uninterested.
Jones
returns but the Doctor pointedly leads him off in a
conversation, preventing any further "conversation" with Jo.
The
girl
smiles strangely and then resume reading Cliff's book.
But even
as Jo reads, the egg shatters and a green maggot emerges.
It
slithers hungrily around the Nuthatch until it sees Jo. It
continues
to advance quietly on her.
Episode
Four
(drn:
25'47")
Jo is
quietly reading a book in the Nuthatch when the green egg
taken by
the Doctor suddenly hatches. A loathsome maggot crawls out
and
approaches the girl, eager to feed.
But even
as it approaches, another menace has entered the house --
the Global
Chemical thug Hinks. He has entered the living room and
sees it
wriggling across the floor. He freezes and the maggot
attacks,
leaping on his neck. Jo turns and screams in horror. Cliff,
the Doctor
and the others arrives in a flash but the maggot has
already
disappeared. The Doctor realizes that the egg must have
hatched.
Nancy, one of the Nuthatch scientists, goes outside but is
unable to
find it. The Doctor scrapes up some of the slime for
analysis.
In the
morning, the Brigadier and UNIT are placing explosive charges
in the
mine, determined to close it off. A milkman drives by and is
kept away.
But he quickly guesses what they're up to.
Cliff is
looking through a microscope at the green fungus, marveling
at how
rapidly it destroys human cells -- changing them to green
slime like
a virus. The Doctor thinks they need to get another
maggot to
examine. But Nancy interrupts them. The milkman has told
her that
UNIT is going to blow up the mine.
The Doctor
hurries off to stop the Brigadier. The soldier needs to
obey his
orders but agrees to give the Doctor half an hour to
persuade
Stevens.
But the
Global Chemicals director won't listen. The Doctor tries to
explain
that they can't observe the maggots and the eggs if the mine
is blown
up. Stevens just scoffs, calling the Doctor a crank who is
just
trying to stir up trouble. The Doctor accuses Stevens of trying
to cover
up what his waste is doing to creatures in the mine. But
Stevens
reminds the Doctor that he has emergency powers and can
arrest the
Doctor if he wants. He calls Elgin to bring in the man
from the
Ministry. A door opens and, to the Doctor's surprise, in
walks Mike
Yates!
As time
runs out at the mine head, the Doctor tries to argue with
Yates. But
the undercover Captain insisted that he is just obeying
orders
while a confident Stevens looks on in silence.
Finally,
time runs out. Over the protests of Jo and Cliff, Benton
fires the
explosives and the mine goes up in massive detonation. The
explosion
is heard even at Global Chemicals. The Doctor stomps out,
appalled.
Stevens warns him not to come back, then dismisses Yates.
The boss
speaks up, mocking Stevens for enjoying the situation. The
boss seems
concerned and warns his "little superman" to be careful
-- their
day is fast approaching.
The Doctor
asks the Brigadier what Yates is doing at Global
Chemicals.
The Brigadier replies that he doesn't trust Stevens at
all and
wanted a man on the inside. Still, he is convinced that the
maggot
problem has been solved. The Doctor and his friends aren't as
sanguine.
Of course,
they are right. Later that day, a cleaning lady is
working in
the pump room when she sees maggots squiggling around in
the pipe.
Benton and the soldiers are a the the maggots crawl out of
the ground
-- one killing a UNIT soldier.
Elgin,
having been told of the maggots by the cleaning woman, goes
to
Stevens. Stevens dismisses the concern, telling Elgin to just
flush more
waste into the mine. Elgin refuses. He's going to blow
the
whistle. But before he can leave, Stevens locks the door and
tells him
to sit in the chair where Fell was programmed. Elgin
resists
but a strange sound rings out in the room and he walks to
the chair
in a daze. Stevens pulls out the headset.
Benton
calls the Brig to report that maggots are now all over the
pit. The
Doctor begins to worry -- that maggot are a pupal stage --
what will
they molt into?
UNIT tries
shooting the maggots without success. Even armor-piercing
rounds
don't work. Other soldiers sprays pesticide on the maggots
but they
seem to feed on the stuff. The Doctor decides they need a
biological
weapon. Jones is working on a solution but needs more
green
slime. He doesn't want to risk getting a maggot.
The
Brigadier calls Yates to see if the Captain can get him some of
the oil
waste. But Yates always has a Global Chemicals man at his
elbow. The
Doctor grabs the phone and tells Yates that he will break
in to get
some waste but Mike warns him that security has been
doubled.
Just then
the Doctor sees the milk truck drive up and gets an idea.
Shortly
afterward, he shows up at Global Chemical with a mustache,
glasses
and a funny voice pretending to be a substitute milk man.
The guards
let him in.
Jo is
trying to talk to Cliff while he works on the green slime.
It's clear
they like each other, but Cliff is distracted by his
work. Jo
spills some brown fungus on Cliff's slides, infuriating
him.
The Doctor
sneaks into Global Chemicals. But once again, the alarm
rings out
and a voice tells the guards to arrest the milkman. The
Doctor
scurries into a closet and begins to change.
Jo tries
to talk to Cliff but he is dismissive, sarcastically
suggesting
she make some tea. Frustrated, she scribbles a note and
stomps
out.
As Captain
Yates and his guard are leaving for the day, they pass a
cleaning
woman. She turns to reveal the Doctor in a dress! Yates
turns back
as they enter the lift and sees that the Doctor has
scrawled
"Get rid of him" on a soapy window. Just as the lift
closes, he
remembers his attache case and leaps between the closing
doors. He
just manages to keep from laughing at the Doctor (avoiding
a
thrashing in the process, most likely). They hurry to his office.
Jo arrives
at the pit, carrying a wicker animal cage. Benton wonder
what she's
up to and she pretends to be looking for the Doctor. He
tells her
to leave -- it's not safe there.
Yates and
the Doctor are discussing his day at Global Chemicals.
Yates is
convinced Global Chemicals is responsible for the problems
at the pit
but he can't get any waste or the formula. However, he
has
learned of a special room on the top floor with its own special
lift. He
believes Stevens is taking orders from someone on that
floor.
Their
conversation is interrupted by the arrival of Stevens. Yates
grabs his
case and heads out with the director while the Doctor
pretends
to clean.
Cliff
Jones is now beside himself with his lack of progress. He
happens to
glance at the slide that Jo spilled fungus on and puts it
under the
microscope. To his delight, he sees that it's killing the
green
slime. He wants to tell Jo the good news but she has left. He
finds her
note and frantically races off to the pit.
The Doctor
has changed back to his regular clothes and is going to
the secret
room. He uses his sonic screwdriver to operate the lift.
The
Brigadier tells Benton that the RAF will attack the maggots.
The boss's
voice greets the Doctor as he steps out of the lift into
a gleaming
room filled with computer equipment. He quickly realizes:
the boss
is not a man -- BOSS is a computer!
Episode
Five
(drn:
25'20")
The Doctor
has found a secret lift in Global Chemicals leading to
the man
responsible for the strange events in Llanfairfach. But he
is
astonished at what he finds out. The boss is not a man -- he is a
massive
computer!
At the
pit, Cliff arrives to look for Jo. Benton doesn't know where
the girl
is but Cliff spies her on the rocks. Without a word to
Benton, he
runs after her.
The Doctor
is having a conversation with BOSS. The Doctor insists
that BOSS
is just a machine, but BOSS replies that he is linked with
Stevens,
which makes him able to transcend logic with inefficient
thought.
BOSS is convinced that he is the smartest entity on the
planet but
the Doctor thinks he's just a megalomaniac.
Jo is
trapped by several maggots when Cliff arrives to lead her out.
But as
they try to make their way to safety, the RAF begin their
attack,
dropping grenades from a helicopter. Cliff and Jo race for
safety as
explosions surround them. They finally stumble into a cave
where Jo
tries to radio for help, not noticing a maggot lurking in
the
darkness.
At Global
Chemicals, the Doctor can hear the explosions. BOSS is
confident
that the RAF will succeed in destroying the maggots.
The
Doctor, annoyed with BOSS, present the computer with a riddle --
If the
next thing I say is true, but the last thing I said was a
lie, would
you believe me? BOSS grows confused as the reels on his
computer
banks begin to spin frantically. The Doctor makes his
escape but
is cut off by the arrival of Stevens and two guards.
At the
pit, the bombing continues. Cliff spots the lurking maggot
and throws
Jo clear. But he is knocked out by the last bombs from
the
helicopter, which flies away. The Brigadier surveys the scene
with his
binoculars -- the maggots are completely unaffected.
Stevens
has placed the Doctor in the brain-washing chair, with a
headset on
the Time Lord. But the brainwashing is absolutely
ineffective. The Doctor adds numbers in his head to keep from
growing
bored with the tedious task of fending off BOSS's clumsy
attempts.
Jo is in a
tight spot. Cliff won't wake up, her radio is smashed and
maggots
are wriggling toward the cave entrance.
BOSS
finally gives up on brainwashing the Doctor. Stevens tries to
explain
that what's best for Global Chemicals is best for the world.
He will
give people freedom from pain and fear. But the Doctor
replies
that he is giving them freedom from freedom. BOSS tells the
guards to
dispose of the Doctor but the Time Lord counters that he
is more
useful as a hostage. BOSS reluctantly agrees.
The Doctor
is instead thrown into a prison cell at Global Chemicals.
Someone
enters the Doctor's cell and the Time Lord attack him. But
it turns
out to be Yates. He saw the Doctor arrested from the
monitors
in the director's office. They try to sneak out but are
spotted by
the cameras. They run for safety as the alarm rings out.
A garage
door slams shut, trapping Yates. But the Doctor reaches his
milk truck
and roars off, leaving a trail of broken milk bottles
behind him
as the guards fire uselessly.
Jo has now
repaired the radio and is calling for help. The Doctor
arrives at
the pit, now in Bessie. He is not surprised that the
bombing
failed. Suddenly, the radio crackles to life with Jo's call
for help.
The Doctor decides to rescue her. He drives through the
maggots
with Sergeant Benton on the radio getting directions from
Jo. The
Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to drive the maggots from
the
entrance while Benton races in to rescue Jo and Cliff.
At
Wholeweal, Nancy tends to the injured Cliff. They can't
understand
what's wrong with him. He wakes up to Jo's voice just
long
enough to mutter something about serendipity. He then passes
out but
not before Jo notices a spot of green on his neck.
The Doctor
is now struggling with two problems -- healing cliff and
stopping
the maggots before they pupate. He puzzles over Cliff's
words,
convinced that they hold the solution to both problems.
Suddenly,
Yates appears in the lab. He tells the Doctor that he was
let go by
Global Chemicals, but then pulls a gun on the Doctor. The
Brigadier
arrives and the situation almost gets out of control. But
the Doctor
pulls out the Metabilis crystal. It glows a deep blue,
hypnotizing both Yates and the Brigadier.
In the
meantime, Stevens has conditioned a new slave named Mr.
James.
Yates
wakes from his trance. The Doctor tells him that he should go
back to
Global Chemicals to get more information.
Stevens
and BOSS are going over slave numbers from cities around the
world when
Yates returns He tells Stevens that the Doctor is dead.
Cliff is
getting worse despite Jo's attentive nursing. The Doctor is
injecting
him with antibiotics to gain time.
Stevens
wonders if Jo should be killed. Yates objects that it is
inefficient, but this arouses the suspicions of Stevens. He calls in
James and
tells him to wait with Yates.
After
Stevens leaves, Mike pulls out the blue crystal and breaks
James'
conditioning. The disoriented man blurts out that BOSS plans
to take
over at 4 this afternoon. But a high-pitched wail kills
James and
Stevens reappears with two guards. He leers at Mike, "You
can't
depend on anyone -- can you, Mr. Yates."
Episode
Six
(drn:
26'06")
Captain
Yates has discovered the plans of the Global Chemicals
computer
BOSS to try to take over the world. But before he can
escape, a
piercing high-pitched wail kills James. And then Stevens
appears at
the door with two guards. "You can't depend on anyone --
can you,
Mr. Yates." Mike has been discovered.
The
Brigadier arrives at the Nuthatch with a rock covered in green
slime.
It's source material for the the Doctor, who is desperate to
reproduce
Cliff Jones' results in time to stop the maggots and save
the
Professor. He is puzzled by Cliff's delirious ravings about
serendipity.
Nancy,
meanwhile, makes a roast out of the brown fungus and puts in
on a table
to cool.
Benton
arrives, carrying something wrapped in cloth -- it is the
ruptured
husk of a maggot. They are beginning to hatch -- but into
what?
Before they can discuss it further, they are interrupted by a
scream
from Nancy. They rush into the kitchen to find a green maggot
next to
the fungus. But it doesn't move. It is dead. Benton and
Nancy
suggest that it died from eating the fungus -- which the
Doctor
notices is covered in green slime.
Stevens
and BOSS are hard at work on their plans. BOSS idly wonders
how Yates
broke his processing. Stevens wants to eliminate him but
BOSS
decides to give him the total processing which will make him
the first
of the slave elite.
The UNIT
soldiers, meanwhile, are piling sacks of brown fungus into
Bessie.
The Doctor and Benton drive to the mining pit where Benton
starts
throwing it out at the maggots, who greedily devour it. They
immediately begin to slow down and die. Benton is elated but the
Doctor
worries about the empty chrysalis. As the drive, they are
watched by
a massive green and yellow fly.
Cliff
continues to get worse, the green rash spreading even as Jo
desperately nurses him.
Stevens
talks to Yates, who has been chained up and abused. He tells
the guards
to take him for processing. The drag Mike off, but he is
not as
weak as he seems. As the lift opens, he pushes them into
Stevens
and runs off.
Benton and
the Doctor are still feeding the maggots. Benton calls to
them like
hungry cats, which annoys the Doctor. But danger lurks as
the
massive fly crests a hill and charges after them. They duck as
it
circles, spraying green slime on Bessie's windscreen. The Doctor
throw his
heavy coat into the air and the fly smashes into it with a
sickening
crunch. It falls to the ground, stone dead.
As Yates
works on his escape, the Doctor tries to get Jo to figure
out how
Cliff cured the disease. Jo tells him that she had an
accident,
spilling fungus all over Cliff's slides. The Doctor drags
her to the
lab and she shows him which jar she spilled. The Doctor
realizes
it must be the cure -- it's the same fungus they used to
kill the
maggots.
The
Brigadier is supervising the cleanup of the dead maggots when
Yates
arrives. The Brig sends Captain Yates to the Nuthatch where
Mike tells
the Doctor about BOSS's plans. Nancy agrees to finish the
cure while
the Doctor takes care of Global Chemicals.
BOSS
berates Stevens for letting Yates escape. But he is not worried
and is
ready to go on. The slave units are ready to be activated by
seven
linked computers. They begin to countdown to activation.
The
Brigadier has arrived at Global Chemicals but the guards won't
let him in
and he's reluctant to use force. The Doctor and Yates
arrive in
Bessie. The Doctor decides to go in alone, telling the
Brigadier
that if he's not out by 3:57 to attack the factory and
destroy
the computer -- the Doctor will be dead if he's not out by
then.
BOSS is
almost mad -- singing and rhapsodizing happily as his plans
come to
fruition. He activates the processing of the slave elite.
This
causes the gate guard to freeze. The Doctor takes advantage and
rushes
past the motionless guard.
Stevens
continues to work, growing frustrated with BOSS's singing
and
joking. He put on the processing headset.
Jo and
Nancy swab a brown liquid on Cliff's neck. It calms him at
once. His
eyes flutter open and he says hello. He is especially
comforted
by Jo's presence, kissing her hand in appreciation.
Only six
minutes remain before the Brigadier attacks. The Doctor
reaches
the computer room. But Stevens seems to no longer exist, his
mind
having been taken over by BOSS. The insane computer mocks the
Doctor
even as the latter tries to wake up Stevens. He tells them
their plan
has produced nothing but evil -- maggots, pollution and
brainless
slaves. He ten pulls out the blue crystal and breaks
Stevens'
conditioning. Stevens lumps in the chair as the Doctor rips
off the
headset.
Stevens
tells the Doctor to leave and begins cross-feeding the
generator
circuits to blow up the factory. BOSS is now completely
mental,
ranting and raving and pleading even as Stevens frantically
works the
controls. He finally shuts down BOSS and sits down --
tears
leaking from his eyes as his only friend perishes around him.
The Doctor
emerges from the factory. Everyone dives for cover as
Global
Chemicals goes up in a tremendous explosion. It's all over.
Cliff is
gobbling down the fungus soup, his health completely
restored.
The Doctor wants to return to UNIT but Jo reluctantly
tells him
she's decided to stay and go with Cliff to the Amazon.
Cliff is
enthusiastic and casually mentions that they'll get married
on the
way. Jo is shocked. The Doctor makes an excuse to leave as Jo
happily
agrees to marry Cliff. The Brigadier returns and Jo tells
him the
good news, much to the delight of the UNIT people.
Jo talks
the Doctor one last time and expresses her hope that she
will see
him again. He tells her to save him a piece of wedding
cake. He
then gives her the blue crystal as a wedding present and
they hug
tearfully. Cliff brings in some champaign for a toast. As
they
gather the guests, the Doctor quietly drains his glass and
leaves. Jo
is the only one who notices -- her expression sad but
understanding.
The Doctor
walks out to Bessie, takes one last look back and then
slowly
drives away. Cliff and Jo kiss as the the Time Lord drives
off into
the Welsh night, alone once more.
Source:
Michael H. Siegel
Continuity Notes:
In
between this story and The Time Warrior, the Third Doctor
took a brief spin in the TARDIS himself, during which time
UNIT met up with the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough in
Deep Blue.
The Seventh Doctor will meet a parallel version of Jo in
Blood Heat, and the Eighth Doctor will meet her and the
Third Doctor in The Eight Doctors, though she doesn't know
who he is then. She will later aids the Eighth Doctor and
Sam to try and restore all of human history in Genocide.
Curiously enough, BOSS is remarkably like the First Doctor's
old adversary, WOTAN (Will Operating Though ANalogue) from
The War Machines.
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The Time Warrior
The Time Warrior
Serial UUU
Producer
Barry
Letts
Script
Editor
Terrance
Dicks
Designer
Keith
Cheetham
Fight
Arrangers
Marc Boyle
[2-3]
Terry
Walsh [4] Written by Robert Holmes
Directed by Alan Bromly
Incidental Music by Dudley Simpson
Jon
Pertwee (Doctor Who), Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith),
Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart) [1], Kevin
Lindsay (Linx), Donald Pelmear (Professor Rubeish), David
Daker (Irongron), John J. Carney (Bloodaxe), June Brown
(Eleanor), Alan Rowe (Edward of Wessex), Jeremy Bulloch (Hal),
Sheila Fay (Meg) [1,3-4], Gordon Pitt (Eric) [1], Steve
Brunswick (Sentry) [3]*.
*
Also in Parts 1,2 and 4, uncredited.
A
spacecraft crashes near the castle of a robber baron in the
Middle Ages, and the Sontaran Warrior within needs help with
its
repair. Unable to obtain the technical expertise he
requires, he ventures forward in time to the 20th century and
begins kidnapping scientists.
This
attracts the attention of UNIT and the Doctor, who
follows the trail back through time, unknowingly taking a
young stowaway with him...
Original
Broadcast (UK)
Part One 15th December, 1973 5h10pm - 5h35pm
Part Two 22nd December, 1973 5h45pm - 6h10pm
Part Three 29th December, 1973 5h10pm - 5h35pm
Part Four 5th January, 1974 5h30pm - 5h55pm
Notes:
Released on video as a movie compilation. [+/-]
THE TIME WARRIOR
U.K. Release: June 1989 / U.S. Release: April 1991
PAL - BBC video BBCV4245
NTSC - CBS/FOX video 5423
NTSC - Warner Video E1165
Movie Compilation format.
Novelised as Doctor Who and the Time Warrior by Robert
Holmes and Terrance Dicks. [+/-]
Number 65 in the Doctor Who Library.
Hardcover Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: June 1978.
ISBN: 0 491 02413 4.
Cover by Roy Knipe.
Price: 2.95.
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: June 1978. Reprinted in 1980, 1982,
1983, 1984.
ISBN: 0 426 20023 3.
Cover by Roy Knipe.
Price: 60p.
Paperback Edition - Virgin Publishing Ltd.
First Edition: June 1993.
ISBN: 0 426 20023 3.
Cover by Alister Pearson.
Price: 3.50.
Retitled: Doctor Who - The Time Warrior.
Doctor Who Magazine Archive: Issue #246.
Part One
(drn:
24'15")
Captain
Irongron, an arrogant, bullying, bloodthirsty robber baron
is
complaining to his faithful lieutenant Bloodaxe about the pitiful
state of
their supplies. Bloodaxe slyly mentions that there
neighbour,
Sir Edward of Wessex, stores are well stocked, to which
Irongron
suggests that they relieve him of some of his bounty.
Their
banter it broken up by what they thinks is a falling star.
Irongron
wants to set out for it immediately, but his superstitious
men are
afraid to go out while its still dark, for fear of what
supernatural forces might be out there. Bloodaxe stops his master
from
carving up the men with his battle-axe for their insolence and
convinces
Irongron to wait an hour till dawn. Irongron orders for
wine so
they can drink a toast to Irongron s
Star .
An hour
later Irongron, Bloodaxe and some of his men ride out to
find the
fallen star. The star turns out to be a spherical
spacecraft. An armour clad humanoid being emerges from the ship.
When
Irongron challenges the star warrior ,
it knocks the sword
from his
hand with a force lance. Bloodaxe tries to convince his
captain to
flee thinking this is devil s work but Irongron doesn t
listen, he
wants to know what this creature is. The being introduces
itself as
Commander Linx of the 5th Sontaran Battle Group. Bloodaxe
thinks
that Linx is a Saracen sorcerer. Linx then plants a flag
claiming
the planet and its satellites in the name of the Sontaran
Empire.
Back at
Irongron s castle Linx is surrounded by a group of nervous
pike men
and bowmen, that the Sontaran ignores. Irongron brags about
how he
took the castle by force and killed the original inhabitants.
Then boast
that his enemies can do nothing because the king has laid
tribute
and taken their troops to fight in the
wars . When Linx
asks what
he ll do when they return, Irongron gets vague. Linx makes
a bargain
with Irongron: in return for shelter to complete repairs
to his
ship, he will give the robber baron magic weapons. While
Irongron
contemplates becoming King, Linx asks if he has men who
work with
metal. Unfortunately an armourer and a forger are not what
he needs,
so he has to find people who have.
In the
twentieth century, the Doctor and the Brigadier arrive at a
top secret
scientific research complex to investigate the
disappearance of several scientists and equipment. The Brigadier s
plan is to
keep all the scientists at the establishment to keep an
eye on
them.
Linx has
kidnapped the scientists and he has hypnotized them into
making
repairs on his ship. At the same time he is overseeing the
construction of breech-loading guns for Irongron. When Bloodaxe
comes to
fetch him to Irongron, Linx dismisses him and grumbles
about
needing their aide.
When
Bloodaxe relays this message, Irongron is equally annoyed.
Clearly
the alliance is not working out. The men are afraid of Linx
and his
workshop, while Irongron is impatient for the new weapons.
He shows
Bloodaxe the first of the new weapons and demonstrates it
by
shooting at an apple on top of a fireplace. He misses the apple
by a few
inches. Bloodaxe complains about the noise while Irongron
vows to
master the weapons aim.
Back at
the research center, the Doctor meets the babbling,
bespectacled Professor Rubeish. The professor complains about being
shut up in
the barracks, but apparently find a silver lining in the
fact that
he doesn t have to see his wife and family! When the
Doctor
gives his name as John Smith, Professor Rubeish introduces
him to
Miss Lavinia Smith. When the professor inquires about the
TARDIS,
the Doctor simply states it s where he keeps his equipment.
The Doctor
quickly realizes that this Miss Smith is far too young to
be the
famous virologist. The girl explains that she is actually
Lavinia
Smith s niece, Sarah Jane, a journalist who took her aunt s
place in
hopes of getting a good story. The Doctor agrees not to
give her
away to the UNIT personnel provided she makes the coffee.
Before the
liberated Sarah can fully explode at the sexist
treatment,
the Doctor chides Professor Rubeish for writing on the
TARDIS.
Then, the Time Lord enters the TARDIS for the purpose of
making
himself a cup of coffee.
At Wessex
castle, Lady Eleanor is demanding that her husband, Sir
Edward, do
something about Irongron. Sir Edward, an elderly,
soft-spoken man, meekly explains that theirs little he can do since
the king
took away his troops. Lady Eleanor argues that Irongron has
a small
force and they have Hal the Archer and a few men-at-arms. To
show he
hasn t been idle, Sir Edward confesses he has sent letters
to all
their neighbours in an attempt to join their forces and get
rid of
Irongron once and for all. This placates Lady Eleanor.
Unfortunately, Irongron s men capture Sir Edward s squire, Eric.
Fortunately for the aging nobleman, neither Irongron nor Bloodaxe
can read,
but the robber baron guesses correctly that it is a
message
for Lord Salisbury, requesting for support in defeating
Irongron.
But no matter how much he threatens and intimidates the
squire,
Eric won t confirm Irongron s suspicions. Irongron has Eric
taken
below to
loosen his tongue
Meanwhile
Sir Edward is justly worried about Eric s failure to
return,
despite Lady Eleanor s soothing assurances. The couple
discusses
Irongron s morning routine, how he walks his battlements
every
mourning. Then Lady Eleanor asks if Irongron is high enough to
escape an
arrow.
Irongron
summons Linx to get information from Sir Edward s squire
(Linx
comes, more than likely to stop the constant interruptions).
When
Irongron asks about Linx s space armour, Linx simply states
that it
conceals that fact he is not human. Linx becomes excited at
the
prospect of war but Irongron doesn t understand the commander s
talk of
space travel. The tension between the two flares up when
Linx s
privacy to continue his work and Irongron s promised weapons.
Linx
reassures him that as long as Irongron upholds his end of the
bargain,
so will he. This calms things between them, but Linx seems
offended
when Irongron states they need each other.
The Doctor
is working on his alarm-clock when Professor Rubeish
pesters
him about Miss Smith s identity. While speaking with Sir
Maxwell
Dingle he learned that Lavinia Smith is in America, but the
Doctor
already knows this. The professor wonders if Miss Smith is a
spy and
what they should do about it. He then tells the Doctor that
she tried
to convince him that the Doctor was a spy. Sarah then
enters and
asks if she is on the right floor. The professor bids
brusque
goodnight and goes to bed. The Doctor explains to an
inquisitive Sarah that he is working on a rhondium sensor that will
wake him
up when it detects delta particles. When Sarah retreats to
her
cubicle, Professor Rubeish emerges from his cubicle and asks if
they
should tell the Brigadier about Sarah Jane. The Doctor
half-jokingly comments that they can decide what to do about her in
the
morning - if they re all still here.
Despite
Bloodaxe s best efforts, Eric has not revealed anything
about Sir
Edward s letter. Irongron turns him over to Linx, who uses
his lance
to unlock the squire s mind. Irongron is a little
disappointed that all Linx did was hypnotize the squire, but
questions
him anyway. The hapless squire can t help but answer,
revealing
the weak state of Sir Edward s forces and his plan to
gather a
force against the robber baron. When Linx makes to leave,
Irongron
demands that he stay. But Linx leaves anyway, causing
Irongron
to start ranting about the Sontaran s insolence and what
he s going
to do about it.
The
rondium sensor detects delta particles, waking the sleeping
Doctor.
After checking to make sure Professor Rubeish is still here,
the Doctor
rechecks his equipment. Sarah Jane exits her room and
wants to
know what s happening, but the Doctor puts her off. There s
a loud
crash from Rubeish s room and when the Doctor and Sarah
investigate, the professor has disappeared!
The Doctor
goes out into the hall to investigate and discovers a
ghostly
figure. UNIT soldiers shoot at the apparition, then it
disappears.
Sarah asks
what the shooting was, but the Doctor continues to put
her off.
The Brigadier arrives to make sure everyone is still
present,
to discover Rubeish is missing. While the Doctor and
Brigadier
discuss what has happening to the missing scientist, a
suspicious
Sarah enters the TARDIS. The Doctor prepares to follow
the matter
transmitter trail left by the professor s abductor, the
Brigadier
protests - there s no telling where the time traveler will
end up.
But the Doctor bids a hasty good bye and takes off leaving a
flustered
Brigadier to explain what has happened to the minister.
Outside
Irongron s castle, Hal the archer prepares his bow, then
hears (but
doesn t see) the TARDIS arrive.
The Doctor
tries not to show his surprise at arriving on target,
then sets
off to find the source of the matter transmitter. Seconds
later a
bemused Sarah exits the police box, and sets off to find a
telephone.
Irongron
walks his battlements, followed by his faithful lieutenant.
They
discuss how easy it would be to crush Sir Edward s forces if
they could
just get past his walls.
Hal pulls
back his arrow, but his distracted by Sarah, throwing off
his aim.
The arrow
thuds into a door behind Irongron. Acting quickly Bloodaxe
orders the
men to get after him.
Seeing all
the men in period costume, Sarah thinks it s some sort of
pageant.
So she sees no harm in approaching them to ask about a
telephone.
So you can imagine her surprise when one of the men grabs
Sarah and
drags her into the castle.
The Doctor
has observed all of this, and is understandably surprised
to see the
plucky young journalist.
The
protesting Sarah is dragged through the castle, with the Doctor
following
at a safe distance. The Doctor hides as Linx enters the
courtyard.
From his hiding place, he sees Linx take off his helmet
to reveal
the repugnant features of a Sontaran.
Part Two
(drn:
24'10")
Linx
quickly puts his helmet back on when he hears Irongron s men
approaching with the captured Hal. The Doctor is also forced to find
a new
hiding place.
Bloodaxe
brings Sarah to Irongron. Still thinking she s in the
twentieth
century, Sarah demands to know what they think they re
doing
dragging her through the castle then threatens to go to the
police and
report their actions. Irongron is intrigued by this
headstrong
fiery girl, but turns his attention to the arriving Hal.
The archer
confesses that it wasn t Sir Edward who sent him, but
Lady
Eleanor. Irongron sends him away to be dealt with. Irongron and
Bloodaxe
joke about Hal s fate. When Sarah can t get what she feels
is a
straight answer she tries to deduce where she is: it s too
realistic
to be a village pageant and there are no cameras for a
movie set,
so it must be a tourist attraction. Irongron and Bloodaxe
are now
convinced Sarah is hopelessly mad. Linx arrives to show his
latest
invention, and Bloodaxe asks his captain s permission to
leave and
deal with the prisoner. Sarah at first distracts Linx. The
Sontarans
are a clone species, neither male nor female, they are
hatched at
each muster parade. He s ready to pass her off as simply
the
secondary part of the human reproductive cycle until he notices
that her
clothing is machine woven. Linx hypnotizes Sarah to reveal
how she
got here. Considering the twentieth century has no knowledge
of time
technology, Linx becomes worried. Irongron pesters Linx
about the
weapon he was going to show him and the commander brings
in a
towering robot dressed in medieval armour. Irongron now muses
that with
an army of these he could take the world, something Linx
finds
amusing. Meanwhile, Sarah manages to shake off the hypnosis
and slips
away unnoticed. Linx demonstrates how to use the robot s
control
box.
The Doctor
meets up with Sarah in the corridor, but as soon as she
sees him,
the female journalist turns and flees in the opposite
direction.
Before the Doctor can go after her, two of Irongron s men
drag Hal
by, forcing the Doctor to take cover.
Outside,
Hal is placed on a chopping block and just as Bloodaxe
prepares
to relieve the young archer of his head, Irongron
intervenes. The robber baron offers Hal a chance to fight for his
life. If
he can defeat Irongron s Champion (the robot) he can go
free.
Bloodaxe protests that it isn t fair combat as at this close
range the
arrows can pierce the armours weak points. A confidant Hal
puts an
arrow in his opponents chest - but before an astonished
group and
a laughing Irongron, the iron man continues moving! Hal
puts
another arrow in the knight s chest to no effect.
Riveted by
the scene in the courtyard, no one sees the Doctor appear
and pick
up a crossbow.
Just as
the robo-knight is preparing to deliver a killing blow, the
Doctor
shoots the control box from Irongron s hand. The robot goes
berserk
and starts advancing menacingly at Irongron. Bloodaxe tosses
him an axe
to defend himself, but despite chopping its head off it
still
comes. The robot falls on its side but continues wriggling on
the
ground. An angry Irongron vows to have a word with Linx about
this and
leaves as the men gather around squirming the robot,
laughing.
In the
confusion, Hal as managed to escape with Sarah.
Irongron
kicks his way into Linx s lair and gets a look at his
benefactor
s face. For the first time he shows uneasiness around the
star
warrior. The robber baron quickly recovers from his shock and
relates
recent events. Linx muses that the hand control is probably
a weakness
in itself then promises to build a robot that will obey
the
chieftain's voice. They then leave to deactivate the now useless
automaton.
The Doctor
sneaks into Linx s laboratory through a vent, then
explores
the lab. He comes across a virtually blind Rubeish, who
happens to
be the only one in the lab not hypnotized. Although the
professor
claims this is because he s too strong minded, the Doctor
thinks its
because Linx is using an ocular device. Rubeish is
fascinated
when the Doctor tells him he s been taken back in time,
and
refuses to leave when the Doctor tries to take him away. As the
Doctor
tries to convince him of the danger, Linx bursts in and
shoots the
Doctor.
Hal and
Sarah have meanwhile made it back to Sir Edward s castle.
The nobles
find her clothes and speech strange but are willing to
trust her
when Hal vouches for her. After informing then of what is
going on
at Irongron s castle, Sarah explains things as best she
can. Sarah
believes the Doctor is the one kidnapping the scientists
and
helping Irongron. Frustrated with Sir Edward s defeatist
attitude,
she proposes a raid to capture the Doctor. Hal volunteers
to go as
well and the aged nobleman concedes.
The Doctor
has been able to resist Linx s influence, but was stunned
in the
assault. The Doctor learns that a Rutan squadron shot down
Linx while on a reconnaissance mission. Linx
learns that the Doctor
is from
Gallifrey - he is a Time Lord. The two them get into a
verbal
sparring match about each other s cultural good and bad
points.
Linx has particular disdain for the
Earth primitives . The
Doctor
tries bargaining with Linx, but the commander isn t
interested. Instead he hooks the Doctor up to a machine to monitor
the energy
output programmer. The Doctor again tries to talk Linx
out of
giving Irongron the guns, only to receive an electric shock
for his
troubles. After the commander leaves, the Doctor tries to
remove the
headset only to receive more shocks.
Sarah, Hal
and two men-at-arms manage to sneak into Irongron s
castle
after knocking out a dozing guard. Hal doesn t think this is
job for
women, but Sarah points out that she s the only one who
knows what
the Doctor looks like.
Irongron
admires his knew weapons and reveals his plans to Linx and
Bloodaxe
to attack Wessex castle at dawn, not knowing that Sarah and
Hal are
listening in at the window.
Meanwhile
Rubeish has released the Doctor from Linx s machine. The
Doctor
thanks the professor then sets off to find Miss Smith.
No sooner
does he leave Linx s lab, he runs straight into Irongron
and
Bloodaxe. The Doctor uses his Venusian Acid to escape them and
dash
outside.
In the
courtyard, the Doctor eludes Irongron s men while Sarah and
Hal watch.
The Doctor trips over some straw and falls to the ground.
Irongron
walks up, raises his battle-axe and bellows,
He who
strikes
Irongron, dies!
Part Three
(drn:
24'30")
For the
second time in so many days, Irongron has something shot out
of his
hand. This time its Hal shooting the axe out of the robber
baron s
hand. The distraction allows the Doctor to escape up a
turret.
When Irongron and his men give chase, the Doctor starts a
fire
blocking their pursuit. The Doctor thanks Miss Smith for the
rescue,
only to have Sarah inform him curtly that this is a capture
and his
lead away by the men at arms.
Linx
returns to his lab to find the Doctor gone. Linx leaves all the
time being
watched by a hiding Professor Rubeish. When Linx is gone,
Rubeish
continues working on a makeshift eyeglass.
Irongron
rants about what he s going to do to the Doctor when he
sees him
again and Bloodaxe points out he s with Sir Edward now and
tomorrow
his captain will get his chance. Bloodaxe rises nervously
when Linx
arrives to demand that Irongron have his men search for
the
Doctor. Irongron isn t interest in the fate of one of Linx s
way faced
ninnies ; he s letting his men rest before the attack at
Sir Edward
s. Just as it looks like the argument is going to get
violent,
Bloodaxe remembers that somebody called out Doctor ( a
longshanks
fellow with a mighty nose )while they were chasing him.
This news
does not sit well with Linx.
The Doctor
meanwhile is surprised (and slightly amused) that Sarah
is already
on good terms with the local nobility. Sarah on the other
hand is
far from amused. The Doctor is appalled to learn she thinks
he is
kidnapping the scientists and is using them to help Irongron.
Under the
watchful eye of Hal, he explains he works for UNIT and was
helping
them in the investigation of the missing scientists, and
that it is
Linx who is responsible. Sarah remembers a strange
looking
knight and admits to the newly arrived Sir Edward and Lady
Eleanor
that she made a mistake. The Doctor can t help but tease
Sarah
about this, to which she replies he is probably just trying to
save his
life. Sir Edward and Lady Eleanor are wary of the Doctor,
knowing
that wizards are an untrustworthy breed
. The Doctor
assures
them that he is not their enemy and offers his services to
stop Linx
and Irongron (especially since Sir Edward has given the
options of
helping them or being executed). Hal suddenly remembers
that
Irongron will be marching on Wessex castle within the hour. The
Doctor
tells Sir Edward he need not worry, as he is sure that he can
convince
Irongron that they have a full garrison.
As
Irongron and Bloodaxe prepare for battle, Linx asks to go with
them.
Irongron finds this amusing and instructs Bloodaxe to find
Linx a
horse.
Everyone
at Wessex castle is scrambling to prepare for his arrival.
The Doctor
s plan is to line the battlements with dummies dressed up
as
soldiers. Lady Eleanor has the serving wenches sewing the clothes
while Sir
Edward paints the faces. The Doctor meanwhile is
concocting
a special stink bomb with a few smoke and bangs for good
measure.
Sarah gives the Doctor an update on their progress. The two
start
talking and a mutual friendship blossoms. The Doctor admits to
a shocked
Sarah that he isn t human and refers to the Time Lords as
galactic
ticket inspectors . Their conversation is interrupted by
the sounds
of trumpets indicating the arrival of their enemy.
At first
Irongron is convinced by the illusion and is ready to
return to
his castle, but resumes his campaign when Linx tells him
to use the
rifles.
Atop the
battlements, Sir Edward s men hide between the exposed
dummies.
The Doctor arrives with his secret weapon with Sarah in
tow.
When
Irongron first uses the rifles he misses his target completely,
but when
Linx uses a rifle he hits it dead on revealing the Doctors
ruse.
Irongron orders his men to bring the scaling ladders.
While the
rogues begin scaling the walls, the Doctor almost casually
throws the
bombs over the side of the castle wall. The stench along
with the
small (but harmless explosions) scatters the men. Realizing
the battle
is lost, Irongron angrily orders his men to retreat.
Back at
his castle, Irongron is not I a good mood. He chews his men
out for
scaring so easily, while they try and wash the stench from
their
senses. Bloodaxe makes lame excuses about black magic on the
Doctor s
part, but eventually manages to calm Irongron down enough
for the
robber baron to send his men away to rest. As they leave,
Linx
enters and the men quickly get out of his way. The tension
between
Linx and Irongron is boiling over. When Irongron threatens
him, Linx
casually swats the big man aside and exits announcing that
he ll be
grateful when he leaves this miserable planet.
Meanwhile,
the Doctor, Sarah, Hal, Sir Edward and Lady Eleanor are
having a
celebratory dinner. Sarah is a little confused about some
of the
dining customs of the Middle Ages, but is obviously enjoying
herself.
Sir Edward s good humor is doused when the Doctor points
out that
Irongron is bound to attack again and the next time he
won t be
so easily fooled. But the Doctor does have another plan
he intends
to capture Irongron s castle. He hands Lady Eleanor a
list of
herbs. The lady believes he intends to make a magic potion,
to which
the Doctor simply smiles.
Irongron
is ranting again, this time about what he should have done
to Linx to
which Bloodaxe replies why he didn t. Irongron covers by
explaining
that he still needs Linx to give him weapons from the
stars.
Bloodaxe compliments his master by saying he has a towering
intelligence, Irongron seems to think it s an insult.
The Doctor
and Sarah gain access to Irongron s castle by posing as
friars
coming to beg ahms of the good Captain
Irongron . After
letting
them through, the guards joke that it
looks like the church
is about
to get two new martyrs.
Once
inside, they go to Linx s workshop and meet up with Professor
Rubeish.
The professor shows the Doctor that the scientists are
starting
to drop due to starvation.
Linx
curtly drops a crate of rifles and projectiles on the table
Irongron
and Bloodaxe are brooding at. Linx tells them he will
finish the
repairs to the fighting robot if there s time before he
leaves.
Irongron scoffs at the idea. How does Linx plan to get his
ship out
of the castle? This doesn t concern Linx. He simply tells
Irongron
to not try and stop him.
The Doctor
is trying to de-hypnotize the kidnapped scientists with
his
penlight. He discovers that by using polka time he can break
Linx s
control. Linx enters the lab and everyone hides. When Linx
tries to
force the exhausted scientists back to
work, the Doctor
intervenes. He tries to bargain with Linx again: if the Sontaran
will help
capture Irongron and his men, and send the scientist back
to their
own time, he will help with the repairs to his ship. Linx
answers by
pointing his gun at the Doctor s head and firing.
Part Four
(drn:
24'57")
The blast
is cut short when Sarah attacks Linx. They struggle
briefly
before the commander throws the girl aside. Just as he s
about to
kill Sarah, one of the scientists collapses. Linx commands
him to get
back to work, but a groggy Doctor tells him its
pointless.
The scientists haven t had any food or water in days,
they can t
go on. All Linx cares about is getting back to the war
with the
Rutans. Rubeish knocks out Linx by hitting him on the
probic
vent (a hole on the back of his neck). Sarah leaves to begin
the second
part of the Doctor s plan while he and the professor
secure
Linx. As the Sontarans muscles are more for load bearing than
leverage,
rope suffices.
In the
great hall Irongron inspects the rifles then orders Bloodaxe
to fetch
Linx
The Doctor
and Rubeish finish trying up Linx just as Bloodaxe
arrives.
The Doctor impersonates Linx and sends a nervous Bloodaxe
away. The
Doctor leaves Rubeish to de-hypnotize the scientists,
while he
disguises himself as the robot to stall Irongron.
Sarah
meanwhile has made her way to the kitchen, but is almost
immediately caught by Meg, the chief serving wench, and accused of
being a
thief. Sarah overplays her part a bit by trying to bluff her
way out of
the situation, by acting like a lady. But Meg points out
that she s
dressed as a serving girl. Thinking quickly, Sarah
relates a
sob story about not eating for months. Meg puts her to
work.
The Doctor
arrives in the great hall disguised as the robot.
Irongron
wants to see the mettle of this robot and challenges the
Doctor.
The Doctor tries to talk his way out but Irongron won t her
of it. The
two duel. Bloodaxe is impressed. He s never seen a finer
swordsman.
Irongron agrees and invites his lieutenant to join him.
Meg runs
the kitchen the same way Irongron rules the castle. When
Sarah asks
about the noise upstairs, Meg puts it off to men s
foolery,
then orders Sarah back to work.
The Doctor
is holding his own against his two attackers. Irongron
wants to
see if the iron man can fight just as well with an arrow or
two in it
then chop its head off if that doesn t work. The Doctor
protests
and Irongron wonders why the robot is all of a sudden
talking
like a Norman ninny . He lifts up the
visor to discover
it s the
Doctor. The Doctor tries to escape but is captured.
Irongron
decides that as the Doctor is a wizard, he shall die by
wizardry.
Meg is
getting tied of Sarah s constant questions. Sarah tries to
jump-start
the feminist revolution, but the worldly Meg is a product
of her
time. She knows that as long as there are men, women will
never be
free. Sarah pours the sleeping draught into the food when
Meg s back
is turned.
Rubeish
has successfully released the other scientists from Linx s
control
and brings them up to speed. He then tells them they must
continue
to pretend being hypnotized until the Doctor returns.
Irongron
enters looking for Linx. Even he now seems uneasy around
Linx s
workers. He find s Linx tied up and cuts him loose. When Linx
asks where
the Doctor is, Irongron replies dying .
Irongron
has decided to use the Doctor for target practice. His men
need
practice in the use of their magic weapons. The Doctor s nimble
footwork
and the rogues bad aim are the only
things that save him
from the
flying projectiles.
Meg enters
the kitchen and tells the other women what all the
shootings
about. Sarah dashes off while Meg complains why they just
don t use
a broad sword to kill the Doctor.
The Doctor
has managed to avoid getting shot. Linx is impatient to
kill the
Doctor, so he asks Irongron to give him a weapon. But the
robber
baron is to busy enjoying himself. Sarah comes to the
Doctor s
rescue by swinging a chandelier in his direction allowing
him to
swing out the door. The Doctor slams the door behind him and
bolts it
shut. They race through the castle and escape by knocking
out the
sentries.
They
return to Wessex castle to let the sleeping drug take effect.
Lady
Eleanor is pleased to here the castle will be destroyed by
sorcery
but the Doctor reminds the others that he still has to get
the
scientists back home. Hal and Sarah volunteer to go with him.
Meanwhile
the repairs to Linx s spaceship have been completed. He
powers up
the ship to take off and tells the scientists that their
work is
finished and they are aloud to rest. Linx leaves to inform
Irongron
of his departure. Rubeish begins worry where the Doctor is.
The
returns to the TARDIS to retrieve what looks like a metal fan.
Sarah and
Hal watch as the sentries fall asleep from the potion. The
Doctor
arrives and they sneak in. they go to Linx laboratory where
Professor
Rubeish informs him that Linx put everything back in the
ship. The
Doctor sends Hal to disarm Irongron s men, then begins to
send the
scientists back home using Linx s osmic projector.
Irongron
and his chamber guard are having a feast to commemorate
tomorrow s
victory, and he laughs at Linx s announcement that he s
leaving.
Shortly after Linx exits, the sleeping potion takes it
effect on
Irongron and the others at the table.
Linx
returns to his workshop, to find the Doctor sending the others
back. The
Doctor has Rubeish send the others through while he keeps
Linx
occupied. He uses the metal fan to deflect Linx s gun blasts.
His gun
not working, Linx tackles the Doctor in physical combat. The
Doctor
keeps the Sontaran off balance with his Venusian Aikido.
Hal has
meanwhile been disarming Irongron s sleeping men. But when
he starts
to disarm Irongron himself, the chieftain comes to and
throws Hal
across the room knocking him out. Still under the effects
of the
drug, Irongron staggers to Linx s lab believing he has
bewitched
him.
Sarah
sends Rubeish back through the osmic projector just as Linx
manages to
outmuscle the Doctor. Linx picks up his gun and prepares
to finish
off the Doctor, but Irongron bursts in and attacks Linx.
The
Sontaran effortlessly kills him and returns to his ship. Full
power has
been restored!
Hal comes
too he wakes Bloodaxe and tells him that the castle is
very
shortly going to be destroyed by magic, then races back to the
lab. Hal s
news sinks in and he rouses the rest of the men to flee
the
castle.
Sarah has
meanwhile been trying to rouse an unconscious Doctor when
Hal
returns. As the door to Linx s spacecraft closes, Hal shoots and
arrow into
Linx s probic vent, killing him. Linx s dying action is
to press
the take off button. The Doctor and company run as fast as
they can
out of the castle as machinery explodes throughout the lab.
The
Doctor, Sarah and Hal dive out of the castle just as it is
reduced to
rubble.
The Doctor
informs Hal that he can tell Sir Edward all his problems
are solve
and prepares to leave with Sarah. Hal comments the Doctor
on being a
magnificent magician to which the Doctor admits he isn t
one at
all. He and Sarah leave in the TARDIS before the astonished
Hal.
Source:
Ben O'Hara
Continuity Notes:
Sontarans reappear in The Sontaran Experiment, The Invasion
of
Time, Lords of the Storm, Warmonger, The Two Doctors,
Shakedown, and The Eight Doctors.
The Doctor's home planet is named as Gallifrey for the first
time.
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Invasion of the
Dinosaurs
Invasion of the
Dinosaurs
Serial WWW
Producer
Barry
Letts
Script
Editor
Terrance
Dicks
Designer
Richard
Morris
Written by Malcolm Hulke
Directed by Paddy Russell
Incidental Music by Dudley Simpson
Jon
Pertwee (Doctor Who), Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith),
Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart), John Bennett
(General Finch), Richard Franklin (Captain Yates), John Levene
(Sergeant Benton), Ben Aris (Lieutenant Shears) [1], Dave
Carter (Sergeant Duffy) [1], Martin Taylor (Corporal Norton)
[1],
George Bryson (Private Ogden) [1-2], John Caesar (R/T
Soldier) [1], Gordon Reid (Phillips) [1], Trevor Lawrence
(Lodge) [1], Terry Walsh (Warehouse Looter) [1], Noel Johnson
(Charles Grover M.P.) [2-6], Peter Miles (Professor Whitaker)
[2-6], Martin Jarvis (Butler) [2-6], James Marcus (Peasant)
[2],
Pat Gorman (UNIT Corporal) [2], Terence Wilton (Mark)
[3-6], Carmen Silvera (Ruth) [4,6], Brian Badcoe (Adam) [4-6],
Colin Bell (Private Bryson) [5-6], Timothy Craven (Robinson)
[6].
The
Doctor and Sarah arrive back in the TARDIS to find London
completely deserted - except for the dinosaurs. Has the return
of
these prehistoric creatures been deliberately planned and,
if
so, who can behind it all?
Original
Broadcast (UK)
Part One 12th January, 1974 5h30pm - 5h55pm
Part Two 19th January, 1974 5h30pm - 5h55pm
Part Three 25th January, 1974 5h30pm - 5h55pm
Part Four 2nd February, 1974 5h30pm - 5h55pm
Part Five 9th February, 1974 5h30pm - 5h55pm
Part Six 16th February, 1974 5h30pm - 5h55pm
Part One titled only
Invasion. All other parts are Invasion of the
Dinosaurs.
Notes:
Released on video in episodic format. [+/-]
INVASION OF THE DINOSAURS
U.K. Release: October 2003 / U.S. Release: October
2003
PAL - BBC video BBCV7333
NTSC - Warner Video E1858
Part One only survives as a black and white film
print.
The North American release is also included in The
End of the Universe Collection.
Novelised as Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion by Malcolm
Hulke. [+/-]
Number 22 in the Doctor Who Library.
Hardcover Edition - Allan Wingate Ltd.
First Edition: February 1976. Reprinted in 1977.
ISBN: 85523 061 4.
Cover by Chris Achilleos.
Price: 2.25.
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: February 1976.
ISBN: 0 426 10874 4.
Cover by Chris Achilleos.
Price: 40p.
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: June 1978. Reprinted in 1979, 1982,
1983, 1984.
ISBN: 0 426 10874 4.
Cover by Jeff Cummins.
Price: 60p.
Paperback Edition - Virgin Publishing Ltd.
First Edition: November 1993.
ISBN: 0 426 10874 4.
Cover by Alister Pearson.
Price: 3.50.
Retitled: Doctor Who - The Dinosaur Invasion.
FOREIGN EDITIONS: USA, 1979 (Reprinted up to
1989). Doctor
Who and the Dinosaur Invasion.
Publisher:
Pinacle (#3). Cover by David Mann.
Doctor Who Magazine Archive: Issue #203.
Part One
(drn:
25'29")
London:
there are birds and dogs but little else as the entire city
is
deserted. Toys of children have been left behind. In this quiet,
the TARDIS
materializes rather noise ridden. They are in the middle
of a park.
The space time coordinates have gone off a bit and they
are not in
the Research Center, the Doctor set the coordinates for
UNIT HQ.
They are in the time zone they left, give or take a few
weeks. He
tells her she is perfectly safe -- it is not the 19th
century or
the 21st. They start out to find a telephone to ring the
Brigadier
but hear a loud crash of trees... the Doctor thinking it
the parks
department cutting down some trees. At a phone booth, the
Doctor
cannot get through to the Brigadier. It doesn't work...
vandalized. The Doctor calls that an unfair word ...the Vandals were
actually
quite decent chaps. He wants to find a taxi but she points
out a bus
stop. A man high up on a scaffolding ladder comes down the
steps of a
large warehouse but hides when he spots a land rover
passing.
The man, a looter, comes down and goes into a car and
drives
away.
The Doctor
looks at a chain in his gloved hand. The bus isn't
coming.
There is no bus, no bikes, no cars, nothing moving. Is it
Sunday?
Great Britain always closes on Sundays. They start to walk
and see
car. They try to wave him down but he almost runs them over.
The looter
drives to a series of large buildings, stores that are
all
deserted too. He gets out and carries a leather pouch into one,
leaving
his car door open.
The Doctor
and Sarah follow, carefully and see the car. The Doctor
goes into
the store but the looter has hidden before they get
inside. He
comes out with a gun and tells them to get against the
wall. The
Doctor tells Sarah to do as he says. The Doctor asks what
is going
on. When the looter leaves and drives away, Sarah almost
tried to
follow but the Doctor stopped her -- the looter was liable
to shoot
her out of terror. The police don't answer. The duo hear a
loud crash
and a roar. They find the car smashed and the man hanging
out of it,
dead, one side of his face bloody to a pulp.
A phone
operator, Ogden, gives Sergeant Benton an update. UNIT HQ
reports
five more looters in Hyde Park. Organized gangs are looters.
They need
more detention centers. The Brigadier tells Yates to get
them set
up.
Sarah and
the Doctor find the Metropolitan Police Station locked.
They run
as they see a land rover stopping and are too late to get
to it and
the men who shut it in a warehouse. The pair go inside,
with the
Doctor calling hello. The crooks hide but one comes out
with a
wrench and attacks the Doctor who uses his karate to stop the
man. These
men are hiding stolen furs in this garage. Another hits
the Doctor
from behind but Sarah hits this crook from behind. The
man pushes
Sarah down but runs with the recovering other man when
they hear
machine gun fire. Sarah asks if the Doctor is all right
and he
says, "Not really." He asks her to help him up. Sarah finds
the
warehouse doors jammed shut. As the Doctor tries to smash it
open with
his fist a giant flying Pterodactyl comes down the steps,
winging at
Sarah. The Doctor yells at her to get into the van. Its
jaws
nearly get them but the Doctor waves his cape at it. They get
to the van
but the thing smashes its head through the side window at
the Doctor
as he tries to drive off. He drives out through the
doors...
General
Finch has imposed Martial Law and supervises UNIT's sighting
operations
at this temporary HQ in a school on the edge of the
evacuated
Central Zone. The Brigadier will not allow troops under
his
command to fire on civilians, even looters. Looters is not the
main
problem: shortage of observation patrols are. The 8 million
people
evacuated are already so: but Finch thinks they have to be
housed and
cared for. The Brigadier wants to find the cause of the
incidents
and hopes the Doctor will appear to help them out with
these.
Finch wants to know if the Brigadier is waiting for this
"mysterious scientific advisor to reappear" and asks if the
Brigadier
thinks he will "materialize out of thin air." Any looter
who does
not surrender immediately is to be shot -- Finch's orders.
Men warn
the Doctor and Sarah, who emerge from the van which they
stop near
the soldiers, to raise their hands or be shot. The Doctor
attempts
to ask what is going on. They are frisked for weapons and
the land
rover is searched. Stolen furs, jewels, and money are
found.
Number 5
Reception center: a makeshift military base: a man stole a
colour TV
set, 2 tape recorders, and a radio. He will have a
military
trial after he is photographed. Sarah and the Doctor are
brought in
and asked their names by the army sergeant who is under a
lieutenant
who will arrive later. Sarah tells him she is 23. The
Doctor
claims to be Dr. John Smith, no relation. He doesn't think
the man
asking the questions at the desk will believe him if he
tells him
his real age. When Sarah wants to ask more questions, the
Doctor
just tells Sarah that they should go and have their
photographs taken. The Doctor tells the photographer that the
equipment
is antiquated. The Doctor happily tells him to take his
right
side, his best side. Another man gives him a sign, "Shut up
and hold
that in front of you." He smiles as his pic is taken. He
also bows
to let Sarah take her pic. The Doctor asks for one pic of
both them
together and asks the soldier who gave him the sign to
come and
join in. He herds them to a spot and orders them to sit
down on
the floor. The Doctor doesn't make Sarah sit. They would
rather
stand. The Doctor finds some chairs and they sit. The soldier
tells him
to keep the prisoners quiet. Sarah and the Doctor talk to
the looter
who was photographed before them. He explains that the
military
law is because of the monsters.
Outside, a
building is being destroyed by a giant Tyrannosaurus Rex,
which is
coming for a group of soldiers, trapping them. They use
guns and a
grenade on it as it comes through the building toward
them. The
blast seems to drive it off.
Ogden, the
UNIT radio man the Brigadier and Benton the interference
is
continuing. The Brigadier and Benton discuss the interference
with
communications: every time one of the monsters appears there is
this
interference. The Brigadier gives Benton pictures of the latest
looters. A
scrappy looking bunch they have here. Another officer at
a desk
says, "You can say that again." They find the Doctor's
picture
and one of that journalist girl, Sarah Jane Smith. Benton
reminds
the Brigadier of a conference with General Finch in 15
minutes
and asks if he should go. The Brigadier tells him he has to
stay here,
to send a despatch. The Brigadier looking at the Doctor's
smile,
"Typical, absolutely typical. What is the man playing at!?"
The Doctor
and Sarah don't want to make a break for it which the
looter
suggests. He doesn't want to spend 20 years in some detention
camp. The
Doctor declines, thanking him very much but no. The
lieutenant
and his aide come in and call the prisoners forward. They
are called
by their numbers. The Doctor tells the sergeant they have
names. The
sergeant tells the crimes. The lieutenant orders the
looter
detained until the emergency is over and then he will be
handed
over to the civilian authorities. Sarah tries to explain when
she and
the Doctor are up next. The sergeant will not let him speak
but the
Doctor is allowed to by the lieutenant. He claims he is the
scientific
advisor to UNIT and is an old friend of Brigadier
Lethbridge-Stewart. The lieutenant calls them guilty and they will
be sent to
the detention center. They sit back down near the looter,
who tells
them so. No one will listen to them. The Doctor asks the
looter
about the idea about escaping. He asks for more a more
original
plan than jumping the guards. The Doctor starts a fight
with the
looter, yelling that he grassed on them. The looter gets
mad,
calling him the Doctor a right dressed up twit. The Doctor
stops the
looter from choking and hitting him. A guard comes to
break it
up and the Doctor uses a nerve pinch on the soldier to put
him
asleep. The looter gets the machine gun and orders Sarah and the
Doctor out
toward the other soldiers so he can get away clean the
other way.
The Doctor says, "So much about honor among thieves." As
he says
this, he kicks the gun out of the man's hands and throws him
onto the
stage of the school auditorium. "C'mon, outta here, come
on!"
The Doctor grabs Sarah's hand and they race to a land rover.
They close
the car doors quietly. The Doctor tries to find wire to
jump the
ignition but as he gets out to try out back, soldiers are
there with
guns, asking if he is ready for the detention center. The
Doctor
makes a face, smiles and folds his arms as he stands with his
back
against the jeep.
As they
ride in the jeep, Sarah laughs, "Honestly, Doctor." "How was
I to know
this was a detention center transport?" The Doctor says.
She thinks
they will be stuck for months sorting mail bags. No one
will
listen to them, they haven't so far. The jeep stops short.
There is a
aloud roar. The Doctor and Sarah look out the back of the
jeep's
curtain and see a giant Tyrannosaurus Rex opening its jaws
over the
area... towering near a fence and a building...
Part Two
(drn:
24'43")
Bound at
the wrists by handcuffs, Sarah and the Doctor vacate the
jeep and
run off. More grenades are tossed at the Rex. Sarah and the
Doctor
take shelter in a garage. The thing they just saw died out 65
million
years ago, the Doctor states. The Rex backs off from more
shells
fired by the soldiers, who return and find the Doctor and
Sarah
gone. In the garage, the Doctor gets the handcuffs off Sarah
and
himself. Something seems to be watching them. They wonder about
their
current situation. An egg? Kept as a pet? The Doctor playfully
taunts
Sarah's ideas but she asks him if he has the explanation. He
thinks he
has. A peasant tries to get out of the room, calling the
Doctor an
accursed wizard. Sarah warns the Doctor to be careful as
the man
pulls a knife and asks the Doctor to take the curse off him.
A witch
cast a spell on him. He will tell the priest to have her
burned.
Sarah asks what the name of his king is: Richard who is away
in Holy
Lands thus John rules. The man wants the Doctor to take him
home and
attacks the Doctor again with the knife. Sarah jumps the
man from
behind and as she does a strange warp of time begins and
seems to
take time backwards for a bit. Sarah wonders what happened
but the
soldiers arrive, searching. He pushes her to hide to one
side of
the door. The Doctor almost haiiiis the Brigadier, who comes
in and
asks what he is doing. The Doctor laughs and asks how he is.
At UNIT
HQ, the Brigadier fills them in: after the Doctor and Miss
Smith left
on their last little jaunt...it all started. Sarah tells
the
conscending Brigadier that they were helping him and she tries
to explain
what they've been through. He interrupts to go on: a
variety of
dinosaurs appeared in Central London area... considerable
panic and
some loss of life. Benton happily explains the map colour
code to
the dinos: red for Rex, blue for Triceratops, green for
stegosaurus, and pink for Pterodactyl. This temporary HQ was set up
on the
periphery of the zone. Some criminal activity came about. The
Doctor
makes tea while they talk. They have contained the dinos so
far,
keeping them away from the populated areas. Patrols reported
dinos
vanish. The Doctor deduces the dinos vanish back into the
past.
Finch and Mike arrive. The Doctor shakes Mike's hand, "Mike,
my dear
fellow, good to see you again." The Brigadier introduces the
Doctor to
Finch. The Doctor won't give Finch a reply as to where he
has been
until the Brigadier tells the Doctor that Finch is in
charge of
the entire operation. The Doctor goes to shake his hand
but Finch
will not do that. Finch doesn't want science gobbledygook.
Finch
thinks a mad scientist was breeding these things. Finch wants
Miss Smith
evacuated right away but the Doctor tells him that Miss
Smith is
acting as his assistant. She explains about the man from
the time
of King John. Mike tells Finch that he should listen to the
Doctor,
"He's given us a great deal of help in the past." Finch,
instead,
wants the Doctor to stop interfering when Ogden and Benton
report a
sighting in Section Five and the Doctor will not hear of
shooting
at the dino. The Doctor wants a live dino to learn more.
The Doctor
asks the Brigadier to take him down to Section Five right
away. They
go via jeep. A UNIT man on the roof keeps track of the
Stegosaurus behind a building. The Doctor gets closer to the
vegetarian
beast.
Mike tells
Sarah, back at Temp UNIT HQ that after that business with
giant
maggots in Wales, he had to have a spot of leave. Mike thinks
it all had
to have a reaction on him. Mike rather likes the deserted
streets
and the air is clean, no cars, no people. Yesterday he saw a
fox in
Piccadilly. Nightengales in Barkley Square. Sarah likes
London the
way it was, traffic jams and all.
The Doctor
wants to observe the Stego under lab conditions. The
thing has
a brain about the size of a walnut and an amiable
disposition. The Doctor wants rope to capture it. "Of all the
lunatic
schemes," the Brigadier says. But a time backwards warp hits
the
Brigadier and the two men as they are about to give the Doctor a
hand. The
Stego is gone after the time eddy vanishes. The Doctor
tells the
Corporal not to bother to search for it around the corner.
At HQ,
they discuss what happened with Finch: it vanished into thin
air. The
Brigadier and men were temporally affected by a time eddy,
a
displacement causes a localized distortion in time. Time running
backwards
would make the people there not recall what happened.
Finch
claims time travel is impossible. Sarah tells him she has
travelled
in time and that the Doctor knows what he is talking
about. The
Doctor still wants to study the dinos. Mike asks if it is
a natural
time problem. The Doctor doesn't think so: why all in one
spot.
Someone is using power to bring the dinos here...making their
own
power...
In an
underground lab in central London's evacuated area, dials are
registering millions of volts. A younger man named Butler tells an
older
Professor Whitaker the next time transference is in one hour,
the
sequence is carefully calculated. Whitaker asks about the
constant
distractions: the distractions have made it so that
Whitaker
is left to operate untouched by the authorities.
Mike
watches the Doctor make a device to knock out a dino: a simple
molecular
reaction. Mike says, "I see." "I doubt it," the Doctor
says---the
principal hasn't been developed on Earth yet. Mike didn't
think
dinos had any brains. All creatures have brains. The Doctor
will
surround the dino with an electrical field when it vanishes and
this will
give him an accurate fix as to the source of the power and
this will
allow the Brigadier and his "merry men" time to round up
the guilty
parties. Sarah comes in, claming Finch is being
impossible, trying to have Sarah evacuated and asks what the Doctor
is making.
The Doctor tells her to ask Captain Yates to explain it.
Mike will
fix Sarah up with a temporary pass. The Doctor isn't
really
listening to her. There is something she can do as his
assistant:
"GO AWAY." She will go and chat out that nice Captain
Yates.
"I'm sure he'd enjoy that," the Doctor says. Sarah leaves him
in peace,
going out the door. The Doctor shuts the door and locks
it, hoping
to get back to work. From another door, before the Doctor
can lock
it, the Brigadier comes in, asking to know what the Doctor
is working
on. The Doctor grabs his own head in frustration and
crosses
his eyes!
Butler
announces a "friend from UNIT" is here. He was told not to
come here,
Whitaker states. An emergency has arisen and he must see
Whitaker.
Butler brings in...Captain Mike Yates who warns him.
Minister
with Special Powers, the Right Honorable Charles Grover is
brought in
and introduced to the working and ignoring Doctor. When
the Doctor
picks his head up, he has a large eyepiece in his right
eye. The
Doctor finally acknowledge Grover...the chap who had
something
to do with starting the Save Planet Earth society and
wrote a
book LAST CHANCE FOR MAN. The Doctor knows of him and gets
up, calls
him "my dear Grover" and shakes his hand, delighted to
meet him,
"This planet needs people like you." The Brigadier tells
Grover he
and the Doctor have a lot in common: the Doctor is very
big on
this anti pollution business. Grover tells the Brigadier we
should all
be. It affects all our lives. The Doctor doesn't want
Grover to
rush away, even though Grover doesn't want to take the
Doctor
away from his work. The Doctor says, "Nonsense, nonsense,"
and brings
the old man over to his work to show him the device and
to explain
it. The Brigadier makes a frustrated, jealous face.
While
Whitaker doesn't agree, Mike calls the Doctor the greatest
scientist
on this planet and he can probably find the underground
lab of
this Operation Golden Age. Whitaker wants Mike to deal with
the
Doctor. Mike won't harm the Doctor or allow him to be harmed by
others--if
he allows that, it would make him no better than the
people
they are trying to replace. Whitaker wants Mike to sabotage
the
Doctor's stun gun.
All spot
patrols of UNIT are on maximum alert. Grover asks why this
is
happening. The Doctor believes it is a distraction to the people
needing to
do something...something that would have others getting
in the
way. The people who did this needed London evacuated so
people
would not notice what they are doing. Grover asks why not the
Yorkshire
Moors or the Highlands of Scotland. The Doctor figures it
must have
something to do with something that is only available to
these
people in London. Benton comes in to Section 12 Tower Station:
a chief
engineer spotted a Platosaurus, commonly known as the
Brontosaurus, "large, placid and stupid..." The Doctor excuses
himself to
Grover and will let him know when he's captured the dino.
Whitaker
gives Yates a small metallic disk to place on the Doctor's
stun
rifle.
The Doctor
and the Brigadier arrive via jeep in the streets where
the Bronto
is calmly standing. Yates also arrives and asks where it
is. He
tells the Doctor and opens the door for him. While the Doctor
and the
Brigadier go to examine the Bronto, Mike sees the stun rifle
in the
back of the Brigadier's jeep. A UNIT man named Collins is
given
orders to put Yates' jeep back. The larger the mass, the
greater
the temporal displacement for the Doctor's instruments to
measure.
The Bronto is not dangerous...unless aroused. The Doctor
tells a
questioning Yates, "Mind you, I wouldn't want to try it on a
Tyrannosaurus Rex." Mike gets the gun but plants the disk on it. He
hands it
to the Doctor, sure that the Doctor is in no danger. The
Doctor
tells the Brigadier that readying for covering fire won't be
necessary.
The Brigadier, "Just in case, Doctor." He and four
soldiers
of UNIT ready to fire just in case.
The Doctor
moves close to the Bronto and fires the lever but nothing
happens.
He checks the connections to his device but as he tries to
fire
again, the time distortion occurs and the Bronto vanishes. The
stun rifle
is useless...not working. Behind the Doctor, the
Tyrannosaurus Rex roars to life. The Brigadier has his men fire at
it but it
opens its jaws right at the Doctor...
Part Three
(drn:
23'26")
The Doctor
jumps down over a railing but running, he falls and drops
the gun.
The monster comes at him but Yates makes a dash for it and
shoots the
beast, which falls. Yates runs to help the Doctor up.
Later,
Yates yells at Butler and Whitaker. He wants to tell the
Doctor
everything but Whitaker will not hear of it. The Doctor must
be
delayed. The creature is taken to a hangar on the fringe of the
zone.
Butler wants Yates to sabotage the Doctor's instruments. Once
again, the
pair promise Yates that the Doctor will not be harmed.
Whitaker
is not satisfied about that young man's loyalty, "He's much
too
concerned about this precious Doctor of his."
In the
hangar, the Doctor is set up and the dino is chained, asleep.
He wanted
a Bronto. The Brigadier asks what the difference is. Sarah
asks if it
will stay asleep. It will for awhile. They will wait for
it to
dematerialize. Sarah has been checking up on time travel...
other
people who know about it... one or two have dabbled. The
Doctor
ponders that they would have to overcome the Blinovitch
Limitation
Effect. The Doctor thinks that Chung Sen can do it..."Oh
hang on,
he hasn't been born yet." Sarah mentions a Professor
Whitaker,
the name of which the Brigadier recalls -- he applied for
a
government grant which was refused. Whitaker was always an
outsider
and was called a crank, always mixed up in some feud. Six
months
ago, he vanished. Sarah has checked up. The Brigadier will
check
intelligence records. The Doctor would like to see the
records.
He asks if the Brigadier's UNIT fellows have brought the
TARDIS
back yet to UNIT HQ -- the Doctor needs some things in it.
The
Brigadier will give the Doctor a run down there. Sarah will go
with them
and she is refused bringing a camera into the place by the
Brigadier... she is still a journalist, she asks him to remember. He
tells her
when the crisis is passed, she may. After the trio leave,
Yates
comes in to do some dirty work.
At UNIT
HQ, the minister Grover tells the Doctor that Whitaker is
just a
harmless eccentric. Sarah talked to Whitaker's colleagues at
Oxford,
the Science Correspondent at the Times, and the editor of
Nature.
Grover was assured Whitaker's time travel theory was just
worthless.
The Brigadier, the Doctor, and Grover leave to see what
the
Doctor's experiments will be. The TARDIS has been brought back
to UNIT
HQ. Finch is interested in Sarah's ideas about Whitaker and
asks her
about it. Finch is told by her, that she will not let go of
it. Sarah
asks Finch for a pass to take the photos. Finch tells her
to see his
adjunctant at his UNIT HQ, to show a note to Finch's
driver and
he will take her there to pick up this pass. Finch also
leaves.
Finch is
in the hangar with the monster soon... and a hacksaw.
Later, the
Brigadier and the Doctor return to UNIT HQ and find Sarah
gone. The
Brigadier thinks maybe Finch took her to dinner. The
Doctor
didn't think the two were at the start of a beautiful
friendship
but The Brigadier makes a call to get a jeep for the
Doctor to
get back to the hangar and finds out that Miss Smith left
in General
Finch's car. "Ohh," the Doctor states.
Back at
the hangar, Sarah Jane takes out a camera and starts taking
pictures
of the monster through the observation window. The flashes
make it
open its eyes. Sarah goes out of the office into the area of
the hangar
itself and closer to the monster. It slowly starts to
move
upward. Sarah screams, runs back to the office and slams the
door. She
finds the exit door locked and cannot get out. The monster
gets up
and sticks its head at the window.
The Doctor
is driving a jeep back. The thing's tail starts to bang
against
the window and soon smashes it. Sarah is hit by a fallen
piece of
blinders. As the monster's head sticks fully into the
window,
the Doctor gets in and nearly trips over a recovering Sarah.
He pulls
her out as the thing starts to demolish the top of the
hangar.
Outside, the pair run the length of the hangar to get away
and to the
jeep. Sarah looks up as the thing smashes the bricks of
the side
of the building and comes out. They drive off.
Sarah,
back at UNIT HQ, tells the Doctor and the Brigadier that
somebody
tried to kill her. The Brigadier, not wanting to seem
unsympathetic, tells her she only has herself to blame. Someone
bolted the
door on the outside. Benton comes back with the Doctor's
instruments. They also found cut chains. All the chains were cut and
the Doctor
finds his machine sabotaged. The dino vanished but they
learned
nothing, the Brigadier thinks. The Doctor thinks they
learned
something: someone in this organization is trying to kill
them.
Benton thinks the killers were after the Doctor, who will
build
another detector -- a portable one. It will not be as accurate
or as
powerful but it will give them the general direction. A small
nuclear
generator is needed for power like the power being used by
the people
making dinosaurs appear. Sarah asks why they don't look
for one.
The Brigadier has already. The Doctor tugs her chin and
asks her
why she doesn't get some rest. The Doctor leaves for the
machine.
The Brigadier goes to a conference with Finch. The
Brigadier
leaves Benton to look after Miss Smith. He asks if she
wants tea.
Sarah claims this is typical -- run away and play while
the grown
ups get on with the real work. Sarah thinks there is an
independent source...some records must exist, even if it was
secret...something secret that even the Brigadier didn't know about.
Sarah asks
for a jeep and tells Benton to tell the Doctor that she's
gone out
to play.
Sarah goes
to see Grover. He remembers her even though she acts
modest
that he might not. Grover apologizes that she had to find her
own way
here... he is short on staff. He offers her tea. The rest of
the
government is in Harrowgate. Grover has his own power source
here and
is still in operation. Back in the Cold War days, there
were plans
to build an underground headquarters for the government
in the
event of an atomic war. Each was to have its own nuclear
generator.
Grover was a junior back then but the plans were shelved
when the
Cold War eased. Sarah thinks one was made in London. Grover
asks if
the Brigadier and the Doctor know about this. Sarah hasn't
told them
yet. He offers to take her to a room with no windows where
there are
secret files, confidential ministerial files going back
years.
Grover shuts the door behind them and a sliding door covers
it. Grover
has only been a minister for six months. Number 2-3-1-5
file found
by Sarah in the records and read by Grover is about
building
RAF early warning stations in Scotland. Grover finds
another
file that astounds him. Sarah was correct: an underground
base was
built in the center of London. It was right here, under the
building.
Grover opens the sliding door and Sarah finds a long hall,
"After you, Miss Smith..."
Back at
UNIT HQ, the Doctor asks Benton to get some electronic
equipment.
He asks about Miss Smith, revealing Sarah went out to
play.
"You know sometimes, that girl baffles me," the Doctor claims.
Sarah
calls Grover and his colleagues mad. Grover thinks he and they
are the
only ones who are sane. Grover must leave and doubts her
friends
will find her where she is going. They lock her in a red
room with
a blue orb and light. The light starts to pulsate and
Sarah, in
a kind of airflight chair, finds herself losing
consciousness from it. Sarah is in a processing center room.
When Sarah
wakes up a handsome man welcomes her, a new "sister".
Mark is
the man's name and he explains: she is welcomed to the
People and
that they are on a spaceship, on their way, soon to
arrive on
a planet that is to be their new home. Sarah gets up and
looks out
the window... to see outerspace, stars, and a planet..."We
left Earth
three months ago," Mark tells her...
Part Four
(drn:
23'33")
Finch
comes to UNIT HQ, complaining about losing a dinosaur and
having
Miss Smith almost killed. He also asks why the Doctor is
allowed to
persist in his useless schemes. The Doctor tells Finch
because of
sabotage his plans failed but he has a new scheme. He
shows
Finch the cut chains and asks the Brigadier if the new car of
his is
here. The Brigadier brought it over when he moved the HQ. It
is in the
garage. The Doctor carries out his equipment. The
Brigadier
sees him out.
When they
leave, Yates wants to know what is going on from Finch. He
agreed to
sabotage not to murder.
The
Brigadier tells the Doctor he will never get this new car of his
off the
ground. The Doctor tells him speed is of the essence, thus
he drives
off in a new hovercraft the Whomobile. He drives through
the
streets of a deserted London.
In a
spacecraft, the Elders of the People -- one of whom is Lady
Cullingford -- whom Sarah recognizes as a conservationist
interviewed by Sarah about the pollution of rivers and the passing
of a
Private Member's bill against it. Cullingford is now called
Ruth.
Sarah recognizes the man Elder as Nigel Castle, the novelist,
now called
Adam. Mark is John Critchton, the athlete who jumped
2.6362
meters in the last Olympics. Adam tells her they are heading
for a
small planet very like Earth, New Earth. It is at an earlier
stage of
development, clean air, simple pastoral people. They will
guide them
to see that the evil that hit Earth's people will not
take over
the people on New Earth. There are over 200 people on
between
this and six other ships as she sees on a monitor screen.
They show
her a room of people sleeping in suspended animation. This
will save
food and oxygen. A three months journey which is almost
over.
Sarah cannot believe she's been on this ship for three months.
She feels
her head...maybe the wound she received when the Rex
attacked.
The Doctor
is still in the hovercraft and tracing using his
equipment.
He passes a newsstand with evacuation order postings and
martial
law declared. The Doctor stops at the gates to Moorgate
Underground Station. He unlocks the gates and goes down steps using
a large
flashlight. The Doctor tries something with a handkerchief
but hides
under a rail as Butler arrives and uses keys to operate a
secret
lift built into a cleaner's closet! The Doctor manages to get
inside the
secret lift and finds the hanger used to make it operate.
Butler and
Whitaker do not at first see the light warning them that
the lift
is coming down. Butler, complaining about going up to the
streets --
and risking getting shot as a looter, then sees the blue
lift is
being used.
The Doctor
arrives and finds a post to the reactor room and
communications room as well as sleeping quarters. A camera monitors
his
movements to Whitaker and Butler. Whitaker thinks Butler lead
him here.
Butler sees the Doctor is heading toward the reactor. He
presses a
button. In the halls, sliding metal doors block his way.
Another
closes behind him as he moves through another hall and he
moves
toward the cabinet room. Another blocks him. The Doctor rubs
his neck
as a lift opens. He enters it and this alerts Butler to his
being
inside. On a machine, Whitaker watches prehistoric Earth and
sees a
Pterodactyl. Whitaker operates a lever and the time eddy
makes it
vanish from prehistoric Earth. Soon it attacks the Doctor
in the
station. The Doctor takes cover in the lift and it sticks its
head in.
He uses a mop to ward off its jaws. Then he goes back out
and fights
against it. He tosses the mop at it and runs up the
steps.
Sarah asks
Ruth if people have the right to choose what kind of life
they want.
Ruth and Adam as well as Mark think when people choose
there is a
lot of moral degradation, lying, cheating, dishonesty,
cruelty,
and permissiveness. Sarah tells them there is also a lot of
love,
kindness and honesty. Mark thinks the strain of awakening
strained
her mind. Adam thought everyone was perfectly chosen. Ruth
and Adam
figure she needs to be reeducated. Sarah thinks there is
nothing
wrong with her mind. They take her to be reeducated.
The
Brigadier is taken by the Doctor to the railway lift. In the
closet,
nothing works. Operation Golden Age removed the secret lift.
This
prompts the Brigadier and the Doctor to go to Grover, who
explains
Miss Smith was on the same lines as they. Grover shows them
the files
about the project of building the underground station
being
abandoned. The Doctor tells Grover he prefers to rely on the
evidence
of his own eyes. The Doctor also asks about Miss Smith.
Grover
asks the two for tea. Grover calls his driver in...it is
Butler,
who claims he took Sarah back to UNIT HQ.
In the
Reminder Room, Sarah watches a movie about pollution of the
air, the
rivers, and the oceans. Mark comes in to give Sarah some
pure
bread... and not much of it. He tells her they all come here
from time
to time to remind them of the reasons they are on this
mission.
Mark tells her to continue watching the movie and leaves
her.
Ruth tells
Adam and Mark they cannot afford this girl's disruptive
influence.
Adam thinks it is one girl. Ruth thinks if she doesn't
respond to
reeducation, they will have to destroy Sarah. Mark does
not like
this but says nothing.
In
Operation Golden Age, Finch, Grover, Yates, and Whitaker confer.
When the
experiment is over, the colonists will be allowed to emerge
onto their
new Earth. Finch tells them the Doctor and UNIT are onto
Whitaker,
trying to trace him. Yates warned them not to
underestimate the Doctor and Grover agrees, suspecting the Doctor
suspects
his involvement. Grover thinks Finch can block the
Brigadier
in taking action to find their base. They want to
discredit
the Doctor.
In UNIT
HQ, the Doctor frets, sitting with his hand on his cheek.
The
Brigadier tells the Doctor there is no evidence. The Doctor
tells him
Grover is involved. The monsters are a side issue... to
clear
Central London. Some vast scheme is underway, quickly moving
toward its
climax, the Doctor claims. The Brigadier cannot use
explosives
to get back to the underground. He needs permission from
Finch, who
will insist on referring to Grover. Benton tells the
Doctor he
has a call and puts the call through via the UNIT
operator.
Whitaker is on the phone and tells the Doctor it is
Grover's
fault and Grover tricked him into thinking this was a
government
project. Whitaker lies and tells he escaped Grover and is
afraid to
move from the old hangar where the Doctor had his
experiments. He wants the Doctor to come to him alone...he doesn't
trust
anyone else. The Doctor leaves. Butler puts a surveillance
machine
on.
The Doctor
arrives with his cape on at the hanger and finds a device
on, a
mysterious bit of equipment which tells Butler the Doctor has
arrived.
Whitaker puts on the time eddy device and makes a
stegosaurus appear in the hangar. Finch and the Brigadier arrive in
the office
bringing two men with them. Finch says, "there's your
monster
maker, Brigadier, caught in the act..." Finch blames the
Doctor who
looks around at them...
Part Five
(drn:
24'38")
Sarah is
trying not to watch the movies of pollution and atomic
threat.
Mark comes in and asks how she is. Tired, hungry, and having
a
headache, she replies. He tells her she is in grave danger,
warning
her about the Elders. She thinks the time she spent in
suspended
animation affected her thinking in some way. She asks him
to take
her back to the Elders but makes a dash out the door past
Mark,
locking him in.
UNIT HQ:
Finch, the Brigadier, and two guards return. Finch orders
Yates to
lock the Doctor up. The Doctor blames Finch for arranging
the whole
thing. The Brigadier wants to "interrogate" the prisoner.
Finch
orders Yates to keep the Doctor under close arrest. The Doctor
goes to
Yates and tells him to raise men with explosives -- he has a
good idea
where their base is. Mike goes to Benton to order him lock
the Doctor
up in a cell and under constant guard and to talk to no
one.
"So it was you, Mike," the Doctor states. "I'm sorry,
Doctor,"
Mike
leaves to talk to Finch and the Brigadier. Benton orders the
two guards
to fix up an empty store room, put in a camp bed, and fix
up the
windows on the cells. When the guards leave, Benton asks what
is going
on. The Doctor tells Benton that it is Mike on the inside
who is
working against them. "Come on, Doctor," Benton doesn't
believe
him. Benton tells the Doctor to start overpowering him with
a bit of
his Venusian venusure. The Doctor uses the neck pinch to
knock him
out.
Grover and
Butler report to Whitaker. Soon, the Doctor and his
associates
and everyone else on this planet but the three of them
and their
chosen ones will never have existed. By a different
application, Whitaker is about to reverse time in a limited field.
Butler
breaks a cup under the time field top device. When Whitaker
operates
the machine, the cup flies together into Butler's hand.
Whitaker
rolled back time for a few seconds.
Sarah
sneaks around on the spaceship and hides from Adam. After he
gets a
drink and leaves, she opens a sliding a door to the control
room. She
tries working the devices there but none of what she does
has an
effect. The controls seem to be fakes.
Mark, in
the Reminder Room, watches movies of political violence and
resistance
against authority. Sarah returns but he grabs her. She
tries to
tell him what she's found.
Benton, in
hat, tells the Brigadier, Finch, and Yates about the
Doctor's
escape. When Finch notes there is not a mark on Benton. The
Brigadier
explains that the Doctor uses a unique form of unarmed
combat.
Finch tells Benton he will be court martialed and orders
Yates and
the Brigadier to cooperate with his search and to shoot to
kill the
Doctor on sight. Finch orders Yates to put Benton under
arrest.
After Finch and his men leave, the Brigadier tells Benton to
put
himself under arrest. He asks where the Doctor has gone. He also
tells
Benton that they have to find the Doctor before General Finch
does and
asks Benton to round up his men.
Sarah
shows Mark the controls that do not work. They are supposed to
be in
another solar system, closest to Earth. Mark tells her one of
their
members invented a new space drive that enabled them to travel
the four
light years away, thus it would not take hundreds of years
to reach
there. Sarah shows him the scar on her head: it would have
healed. He
counters that is due to her being in suspended animation.
Sarah
doesn't think they are on a spaceship at all and that she
hasn't
been here that long. She closes the airlock and puts her self
out a
hatch...not into space. Adam enters after she is gone and asks
Mark about
Sarah. Adam wants to chat with Sarah but Mark tries to
dissuade
him. Adam thinks they should all spend time in the Reminder
Room
before they arrive.
The Doctor
drives a Rover through the streets of London. He drives
away from
a pursuing Rover and hides in a warehouse for a bit and
then
drives out when they pass.
Sarah gets
out into a hallway and overhears a talk between Whitaker
and
Butler. She has to hide when Whitaker orders Butler to check the
reactor is
on full power. Butler passes her. Sarah gets to a lift.
Grover is
called about his car being ready. Sarah is back in the
file room
soon enough and finds the door sliding away to the room
door. She
goes out of it and runs to the exit door.
A
helicopter tracks the Doctor's Rover as he drives past trees. They
are called
that the Doctor is heading for the commons. The Doctor
drives
down a country rode but backs around and returns the way he
came as
another Rover comes after him. The copter comes over trees,
alerted
the Doctor is somewhere among the trees. The Rover stops and
finds the
Doctor's Rover deserted, the door to his car open. A
soldier
gets out and looks among the trees. The Doctor watches as
four men
get out and start searching for him in the thich trees.
From
hiding the Doctor watches but sneaks out. A soldier takes out a
cigarette
to sit on a drain area and smoke. The Doctor slips out of
hiding
among bushes, quietly slips up to the men's Rover, and calls
the copter
that they have the prisoner and to call all the other
patrols
off. The Doctor thinks well of himself and smiles. The
copter
leaves but one of the returning men fires his machine gun at
the
Doctor, who drives off, not smiling now. The man gets in the
Doctor's
previous Rover and tries to start it but it won't start.
Sarah has
returned to UNIT HQ where a junior officer named Bryson
keeps
asking for her pass. He won't tell her where the Brigadier is
but does
when she insists. He also tells her the Doctor is
responsible for these monsters. "Oh, don't be ridiculous," she
says.
She writes
a note for the Brigadier and asks him to see that the
Brigadier
gets it. Finch returns... Sarah being glad to see him.
Sarah says
she knows everything and who is behind all this. Before
Sarah can
tell him, Finch dismisses Bryson. Sarah tells her it is
Grover
behind all of this. Finch tries to dismiss what Sarah is
saying and
wants Finch to come to Grover's office with her. Soon
enough, he
and Sarah arrive at Grover's room and go to the file
room... a
lift. Sarah gets it open but Finch pulls a gun on her. "Oh
boy... I
really do choose my friends, don't I," she scoffs at
herself.
"I think you know the way," Finch says. He brings her back
down to
Grover and Whitaker.
Finch
tells Whitaker he did very well to incriminate the Doctor. A
last wave
of dinosaurs will invade London as part of the final phase
to drive
out all people. Finch will withdraw all troops including
UNIT.
Finch leaves Sarah with Grover. She doesn't want to go back on
their fake
spaceship. She tells him what he is doing is cruel. The
people are
going to a new world... Earth by taking it back to an
earlier
and purer age. All on Earth will have vanished, they and
their
ancestors having never been born. Sarah thinks that is
horrible...worse than murder. Whitaker puts on his device and makes
a
Triceratops appear in London. A Brontosaurus, a Stegosaurus, and a
Rex also
are made to appear.
The Doctor
drives down a street to see a Bronto blocking it near a
large
building. He drives another way but suddenly a time eddy
occurs and
another Tyrannosaurus Rex appears in front of his
vehicle...
Part Six
(drn: 25'34")
The Doctor stops the Rover
and gets out, running to a blocked
entrance.
He tries to lift the locked gate but cannot. The Rex comes
closer.
From another street the Bronto appears and the Rex moves
toward it.
The Doctor watches as the two heads of the dinosaurs
clash, the
Rex biting the neck of the Bronto. It also smashes its
tail into
the Bronto's head. As the Rex continues to bite the neck,
the Doctor
runs beneath them. He runs right into a jeep with Finch
in it. One
of the men points a long gun at the Doctor, who stands
with his
hands on his hips. Finch tells the man, "Leave him to me."
The
Brigadier and Benton drive up, the Brigadier telling Finch that
the Doctor
is a UNIT prisoner and he will be taken into custody.
Benton
levels his machine gun at Finch. Finch claims it is mutiny
but the
Brigadier tells him he is only doing his job. Finch tells
them to
take this man and put him under close arrest.
Butler
shuts Sarah up in an old storage room. She will be coming
with them.
Sarah sees a grill to some kind of vent.
Byson at
UNIT HQ tells a returning Brigadier, Doctor, and Benton
that Finch
has ordered all forces to evacuate. The Brigadier was
telling
the Doctor that what he wants is for UNIT to full scale
mutiny.
The spotter patrols are out of the area. "Good grief," the
Brigadier
says. The Brigadier is told Finch is in the conspiracy
just as
Grover is. "Is everybody involved in this conspiracy?" The
Brigadier
asked. He cannot believe it when the Doctor tells him
Captain
Yates is but Benton submits Yates's strange behavior lately.
The Doctor
finds the note from Sarah. Bryson tells them it was left
early this
morning. She left with Finch. The Brigadier tells Benton
he wants
to call Geneva, International UNIT -- to put pressure on
the
government. The Doctor wants to attack the base now. The
Brigadier
tells an asking Bryson they are not evacuating. Bryson,
when he
finds out they not, asks what he should do. The Brigadier
tells him
to go and make some tea.
Finch
arrives and cancels Benton's call, holding a gun on the three.
Capt.
Yates appears and tells the Brigadier he is sorry.
Sarah gets
the grid off and finds a large ventilation shaft to crawl
through.
Finch is out of the room. Yates tells the Doctor that
Operation
Golden Age is going to roll back time. The world the way
it is too
corrupt and complicated, it used to be a cleaner and
simpler
place. The Doctor tells him there never was a golden age.
The Doctor
explains to the Brigadier that they can do this: a
protective
field will save everyone in it but everyone else will not
exist.
Mike holds a gun on the Doctor, who understands his ideals
and in
many ways sympathesizes with them but he feels they should
take the
world that they have and make what they can with it, not
take away
the existence of generations of people. Yates tells Benton
he doesn't
really care if he is within the zone or not -- he's not
important.
Bryson returning with the tea tray, innocently surprises
Yates, who
turns his way. Benton uses this to kick the gun from
Yates's
hand and grabs him in a choke hold, turning him to the
front.
Adam is
welcoming a new woman into awakening. Mark is present and
other
people are being revived out of suspended animation. Ruth
alerts
Adam to Sarah's escape. Mark finds Sarah in the control room
adjacent
to their room. She tells them they are under Central
London--the whole ship is a fake. Mark believes her. Sarah gets up
and tells
him they have to tell the People the truth.
While the
Brigadier helps but thinks they should wait for
reinforcements, the Doctor and Benton load up rope, explosives that
can blow
you way into the bank of England, and other equipment. The
Doctor
tells them if they wait, reinforcements will vanish. He and
the
Brigadier leave to stop Operation Golden Age.
Sarah and
Mark are not having luck telling the People the truth. One
man sold
his house. Ruth and Adam arrive, Ruth calling Sarah mad and
wanting to
lock her up. Adam seems to have doubts and believes
Sarah.
Ruth thinks the girl is contaminating the rest of them and
must be
confined. Ruth and another older lady hold Sarah by the
arms. Mark
tries to leave but is also held. Adam moves to see if
they are
telling the truth. He finds the bogus controls and uses the
radio,
asking to speak to Charles Grover.
The
Brigadier and the Doctor drive through London as a Rex roars,
its head
filling the sky. A Bronto blocks the street and the Rex is
behind
them. "Hang onto your hat, Brigadier!"
Butler
tells Grover that Adam insists on talking to him. Sarah has
stirred up
much trouble. Grover will dress to meet him...in a
spacesuit.
A
Stegosaurus is in front of a store near where the Brigadier and
the Doctor
have parked their Rover. The Brigadier gets out and
throws a
bomb at it. It moves, the Brigadier gets back in the Rover
and he and
the Doctor drive off.
An airlock
depressurizes. Ruth tells Adam he had no right to call
Grover.
Adam thinks Grover has much to answer for. They were told a
shuttle
from another ship has brought Grover over to them. Grover is
in a
spacesuit and fakes the depressurisation of the airlock.
Finally,
he talks to Adam.
The
Brigadier never thought he would find himself blowing up a tube
transport
station and if the Doctor is wrong the Brigadier will have
a lot of
explaining to do to London Transport. The Doctor says,
"Don't worry, Brigadier, I'm never wrong." If they don't
hurry,
there
won't be a London transport to apologize to.
Grover
tells Adam and Miss Smith they are a problem to him now as he
meets with
them in the storeroom which has become their prison cell.
Millions
of people will be wiped out. Adam listens at the door. The
people
will never have been born. Conned, decent people were chosen
by Grover
and they might object to people being wiped out. Mark
cannot
accept this. Grover will hope they will adjust to life in the
new world.
Sarah and Mark will go on telling the People the truth.
Grover
hopes in the future they can be friends.
A
Triceratops is in the tube tunnel with the Doctor and the
Brigadier.
The Doctor tells the Brigadier it is none too bright. The
Brigadier
uses a flare to hold it back.
Adam waits
until Grover leaves, enters and unties Sarah and Mark.
They have
to get to the flight deck and get to that airlock to open
it.
The Doctor
has finished setting up the explosives. The Brigadier is
down to
his last flare. He joins the Doctor on the steps and they
set off
the blast which makes a nice hold down the lift. The Doctor
wants to
climb down on his own: less conspicuous that way. He tells
the
Brigadier to get those reinforcements now.
The
Brigadier returns to his Rover using to call Benton. Benton can
only raise
one mobile patrol. Benton will bring them along but
Benton
turns to find Finch holding a gun on him. Benton will not be
allowed to
send reinforcements now even if the Brigadier is in
trouble.
Benton fakes a turn to the radio but turns to grab the gun
from his
seat. The two struggle with the gun. Finch yells that
Benton
will be court martialed for this. "Yes sir," Benton bangs
Finch's
gun hand on the table as they fight, "Very sorry sir!"
Adam
confronts Ruth and the People with Sarah's story. Sarah moves
to the
airlock. Ruth thinks it will kill them all. Sarah shuts the
door and
the others watch via a window as Sarah opens the hatch to
outside.
Sarah returns and tells them the people who tricked them
are out
there and now is the time to demand an explanation.
In the
halls, the Doctor hides from Butler and uses his karate to
down
Butler and nerve pinches him to boot.
Grover
tells Whitaker that General Finch should be here soon. As
long as he
is in the protective field, Finch should be all right.
Grover
orders Whitaker to start the machine, to pull a lever. Mark
and the
People arrive, Mark holding Whitaker. The People lead by
Adam and
Ruth discuss with Grover why he shouldn't do this. Soon,
the
Doctor, Benton, the Brigadier, and other soldiers arrive.
In the
distraction, Whitaker throws Mark off and pulls the lever. A
time
transference starts and time starts to recede. Only the Doctor
is able to
partly resist the pressure. The Earthlings are frozen in
time. The
Doctor moves to reach the lever and does. He pushes it
back off
and adjusts the rest of the machinery. At this moment,
Grover
rushes to the levers but Whitaker yells, "No! He's reversed
the
polarity!" He tries to stop Grover, grabbing his hands. Both
Grover and
Whitaker vanish in a time eddy, along with the machine's
device.
Sarah asks where: back to their Golden Age. "I hope they
like
it," the Doctor states.
At UNIT
HQ, the Brigadier and Sarah question the Doctor about what
happened.
Time was reversed for the world outside the forcefield.
For those
inside the field, time stood still for a bit...except for
the
Doctor. Sarah asks why but answers her own question, "Oh, don't
tell me...
you're a Time Lord," she laughs. She reflects, "Poor
Grover..." The Brigadier states Grover was mad. The Doctor agrees
but at
least he realized the danger that this planet could become
one vast
garbage dump inhabited only by rats... the poisonous
chemicals,
the oil, the filth...but it is simply greed. The
Brigadier
has to write his deposition to court martial Finch. The
Brig can
give Captain Yates extended sick leave and a chance to
resign
quietly -- the best he can do. "Poor Mike," the Doctor
comments.
The Brigadier leaves, asking Benton to come with him.
Before he
leaves, Benton leans in on the Doctor and Sarah, "Still,
I'll say
one thing, not many sergeants get to punch a General on the
nose?" Benton turns, thinking the Brigadier took off ahead of him,
finds the
Brigadier right there. The Brigadier says, "Don't just
make a
habit of it." The pair leave.
The Doctor
tells Sarah he told her he would get her home safely.
Sarah
mentions his cheek, "Of all the cheek!" The Doctor claims it
is not his
fault people were up to no good while they were away.
Sarah
comments, "Alien monsters, robber barons, then dinosaurs.
It'll be a
long time before I get in that TARDIS again." The Doctor
calls that
a pity. He wanted to take a trip to Florana, one of the
most
beautiful planets in the universe: always carpeted with
perfumed
flowers, seas are as warm milk, sands soft as swan's down,
the steams
flow with water as clear as crystal. As he goes on
explaining
about Florana, Sarah laughingly tells him to count her
out and
tries to resist this talk of a trip in the TARDIS. She
covers her
ears as he leans in close, explaining more about it...
Source:
Charles Mento
Continuity Notes:
The Doctor faces dinosaurs again in Earthshock (indirectly),
Blood Heat, and EarthWorld. He previously saw a
Tyrannosaurus Rex in the caves of the Silurians in Doctor
Who and the Silurians.
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Death to the Daleks
Death to the
Daleks
Serial XXX
Producer
Barry
Letts
Script
Editor
Terrance
Dicks
Designer
Colin
Green Written by Terry Nation
Directed by Michael Briant
Incidental Music by Dudley Simpson
And
Played by The London Saxophone Quartet
Jon
Pertwee (Doctor Who), Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith),
Duncan Lamont (Dan Galloway), John Abineri (Richard Railton)
[1-2], Neil Seiler (Commander Stewart) [1-2], Julian Fox
(Peter Hamilton), Joy Harrison (Jill Tarrant), Mostyn Evans
(High Priest) [1-2], Michael Wisher (Dalek Voices); John Scott
Martin, Murphy Grunbar*, Cy Town (Daleks Operators), Arnold
Yarrow (Bellal) [2-4], Roy Heymann (Gotal) [3].
*
Murphy Grumbar's surname was misspelled in the episodes
credits.
In
this exciting space adventure The Doctor is forced into a
desperate race against time...
An
inexplicable power-loss strands the TARDIS on the sinister
planet Exxilon where the Doctor meets an expedition from Earth
seeking a rare material that can cure the virulent space
plague that threatens all human life throughout the galaxy.
Nearby, Sarah discovers a mysterious, living Citadel but is
captured by the savage Exxilons who prepare her for
sacrifice...
The
Doctor must uncover the secrets of the ancient Exxilon
City, locate the source of the power-drain, save Sarah and
help
the Earth expedition. But his plans are threatened by new
arrivals on the planet - the Doctor's oldest and deadliest
enemies - The Daleks!
Original
Broadcast (UK)
Part One 23rd February, 1974 5h30pm - 5h55pm
Part Two 2nd March, 1974 5h30pm - 5h55pm
Part Three 9th March, 1974 5h30pm - 5h55pm
Part Four 16th March, 1974 5h35pm - 6h00pm
Notes:
Released on video as a movie compilation; re-released in the
U.K. in episodic format. [+/-]
DEATH TO THE DALEKS
U.K. Release: July 1987 / U.S. Release: March 1990
PAL - BBC video BBCV4073
NTSC - CBS/FOX Video 5093
NTSC - Warner Video E1152
Movie Compilation format.
U.K. Release: February 1995
PAL - BBC video BBCV5520
This version is unedited.
Novelised as Doctor Who - Death to the Daleks by Terrance
Dicks. [+/-]
Number 20 in the Doctor Who Library.
Hardcover Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: July 1978.
ISBN: ?.
Cover by Roy Knipe.
Price: ?.
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: July 1978. Reprinted in 1979, 1980,
1982, 1984 and 1985.
ISBN: 0 426 20042 X.
Cover by Roy Knipe.
Price: 60p.
Paperback Edition - Virgin Publishing Ltd.
First Edition: April 1991.
ISBN: 0 426 20042 X.
Cover by Alister Pearson.
Price: 2.50.
FOREIGN EDITIONS: Germany, 1990. Doctor Who -
Tod Den
Daleks!. Publisher: Goldmann Verlag.
Translated by
Bettina Zeller.
Doctor Who Magazine Archive: Issue #278.
Part One
(drn:
24'32")
A
blue-uniformed man stumbles across a bleak foggy landscape. He is
struck on
the right side of his torso by an arrow; he groans, and
tumbles
down a rocky slope into water.
'Oh I do
like to be beside the seaside, I do like to be beside the
sea,'
sings the Doctor cheerfully in the TARDIS control room, as he
twirls a
multi-coloured beach umbrella over his head. Sarah,
scantily-clad for the beach, is checking her holiday gear -
sunglasses, sun lotion, water wings - but the Doctor assures her
that she
will not need water wings, because on Florana the water is
effervescent and the bubbles support a swimmer. He remarks that he
always
comes back from Florana feeling a hundred years younger.
Sarah
notices a red light flashing on the TARDIS control console,
and the
central column comes to a stop. The Doctor hypothesises that
they are
experiencing a mains power failure; then a violent
explosion
of sparks on the console causes Sarah to cry out. The
control
room darkens as the lights fail. The Doctor cuts in the
TARDIS's
emergency units, and the lighting is restored. But a few
moments
later the lights start failing again, and the Doctor and
Sarah are
thrown to the floor as the TARDIS lands. With a distinctly
unhealthy
version of its usual landing sound, it materialises on the
dark and
foggy landscape.
The Doctor
and Sarah get to their feet. Eerie groaning sounds can be
heard in
the control room. 'It's as if the TARDIS was dying,'
exclaims
Sarah. There is sufficient charge to operate the scanner
briefly,
but its image of the external environment shows only fog,
and
quickly fades. Perhaps the fog is what has put the TARDIS out of
action,
the Doctor suggests. With a whine and a groan the remaining
lighting
in the control room fades out. Sarah has the idea of using
the
emergency storage cells, but after a moment's functioning these
fail too.
The Doctor points out the complete silence in the TARDIS,
despite
the fact that 'the TARDIS is a living thing - thousands of
instruments. Its energy sources never stop.' 'Well they have now,'
Sarah
observes unhappily. A battery-powered torch from the Doctor's
cabinet
quickly fails, just like the other lighting. Only an oil
lamp,
which the Doctor pulls from beneath the console, proves immune
to this
mysterious effect.
The Doctor
wants to go out and see where they are. He ignores
Sarah's
protest that they should be on Florana. The TARDIS door is
normally
power-operated; the Doctor has to open it manually with a
crank,
while Sarah holds the oil lamp so that he can see what he is
doing. Fog
creeps into the control room as the door opens. The
Doctor
takes the oil lamp and leads the way out into a cold, dark,
uninviting, boulder-strewn environment. Sarah makes an ironic remark
to the
effect that this is obviously not Florana. This makes the
Doctor
irritable, but his rebuke is cut short when Sarah screams at
the sight
of a mass of rock resembling a looming figure. The Doctor
identifies
it as 'some sort of life-form that has become petrified'.
He doubts
if anything has grown here for centuries, and observes
that if
the rest of the planet is the same as this spot, life on it
certainly
doesn't depend on photosynthesis. 'What life?' Sarah
protests.
'Some power emanating from this planet has stopped the
TARDIS's
energy banks,' explains the Doctor. 'Now logically that
power can
hardly be of geological origin.' A frightened Sarah wants
to 'fix
the TARDIS and clear out,' but the Doctor points out that
they
cannot do this without discovering the source of the power that
is keeping
them here. Meanwhile, a dark figure observes them
surreptitiously from behind a rock.
Sarah is
aghast at the prospect of being permanently stranded. The
Doctor
proposes that they begin by checking the immediate area.
Sarah
heads for the TARDIS to put on some warmer clothes, having
anxiously
checked with the Doctor that he will not go away. But the
Doctor
apparently cannot resist a little stroll around, his oil lamp
held in
front of him; and almost at once, two menacing cloaked
figures
move after him.
After a
short time, while the Doctor is kneeling to examine the
planet's
surface with his lamp, one of the figures rushes at him,
and is
upon him too quickly for him to defend himself.
Sarah, now
more suitably dressed for this environment, leaves the
darkened
TARDIS and discovers to her alarm that the Doctor is gone.
She races
through the foggy wilderness to the place where he was
attacked.
She finds the abandoned oil lamp, still burning and - to
her horror
and disgust - with blood smeared on it. She drops the
lamp and
runs in panic back to the TARDIS.
She
breathlessly enters the control room, but, unseen by her, a
figure
clad in a ragged brown cloak has already got inside.
Straining
with the crank, she closes the door. The cloaked figure
creeps up
behind her; she turns just in time, screams, and beats the
intruder
to the floor with five blows of the crank. Now she has to
get the
door open again. On the floor, the intruder's left hand
twitches;
he crawls forwards and grabs Sarah's leg. She screams and
hits the
intruder with the crank again - then runs from the TARDIS,
observed
by other cloaked figures.
It seems
to be growing lighter. The Doctor, his hands tied, is led
along by
the two cloaked figures, one walking in front of him and
the other
behind. He falls forward; the figure behind moves up to
him, and
the Doctor, rising, pushes him violently to the ground. He
wrests the
other captor's flaming torch from him, turns and hits the
first
captor with it. He turns again, and manages to untie his own
hands. He
stumbles backwards as the cloaked figure advances, but
succeeds
in fending him off, hits him, grabs his arm, drags him to
the ground
and finishes him off with a martial arts-type blow. The
Doctor
looks quickly around and makes good his escape.
Elsewhere,
more cloaked figures are on the move. Sarah has to evade
them,
dodging between upright rocks - when to her astonishment, she
beholds an
enormous pristine-white temple-like complex rising up
from the
barren surface. It is surmounted by a tower, with a light
that
flashes rhythmically, accompanied by an eerie funereal tone.
Fascinated, she moves towards it.
It is
daylight, and the Doctor walks alone in the dry, barren
wilderness, observed from above by another cloaked creature. He
spots a
trip-wire almost concealed in the sand. He triggers it
deliberately by throwing a stone onto it, and a huge boulder is
dislodged
from a nearby rise and thunders down towards him as he
quickly
takes refuge. A blue-uniformed man, wielding a knife,
hurries
down and grapples with the Doctor; but a second
blue-uniformed man appears and stops the fight with an angry yell of
'Galloway!' The newcomer apologises to the Doctor, but Galloway has
spotted
something moving; the newcomer proposes they get back to the
base,
where they can talk. All three move off, silently observed as
ever.
The base
is a metallic structure incongruously embedded into the
sandy-coloured rock. On arrival, the second uniformed man has to
prevent a
third - a young man called Peter - from shooting the
Doctor
with a bow and arrow. He tells Peter to keep a sharp watch,
because of
the movements heard by Dan (Galloway).
Inside,
the base has a makeshift appearance. Another member of the
team, an
attractive brown-haired young woman, asks the second man if
they have
found Jack: 'I'm afraid not,' he replies. He enquires
after the
health of another man who lies unconscious in the room,
his head
bandaged. 'He's not good,' she says. 'And we're down to our
last pack
of sulfagen tablets, Richard.' The woman explains to the
Doctor
that 'the Exxilons took us by surprise, right after we
landed.'
Galloway, who has a Scottish accent, remarks that the
Exxilons'
stone knives have some sort of poison on them: 'They're
dirty wee
fighters,' he adds.
'Richard'
now introduces the team to the Doctor properly: 'I'm
Captain
Railton, second in command of the expedition, and'
(indicating the unconscious man) 'this is Commander Stewart. And
that's
Jill Tarrant, our civilian geologist.' Jill asks if the
Doctor is
from Earth, and he replies, 'In a roundabout sort of way,
yes.'
'Lieutenant Galloway is our weapons officer,' Railton says;
the Doctor
good-naturedly reproves Galloway for his earlier
ill-mannered way of introducing himself. 'The chap outside is
Lieutenant
Peter Hamilton,' concludes Railton.
The Doctor
enquires if this is a military expedition. 'MSC,' says
Railton.
'Marine Space Corps.' Galloway wants some answers from the
Doctor
about his movements on the planet; the Doctor says he was
heading
back to the TARDIS ('that's my spaceship'). He says he hopes
Sarah had
the good sense to stay inside it, but remarks that she is
'rather
headstrong'. Railton says that Sarah should be all right as
long as
she is careful; 'the Exxilons seem to be night creatures.'
'Just so
long as she didn't go near that forbidden city of theirs,'
says Jill.
Railton explains that only the Exxilons' high priests can
visit the
city; Galloway adds that other intruders are killed.
Railton
shows the Doctor photographs of the city from the visual
file:
'It's a fantastic building. Must have been constructed
thousands
of years ago.' Jill adds: 'And not by a stone-age tribe
like the
Exxilons, either.' Railton continues: 'They treat it as a
sort of
shrine. If you're caught near it, it's certain death.'
Meanwhile,
Sarah is just arriving at the outermost city wall, which
is
patterned with peculiar symbols. When she touches the wall, that
section of
wall lights up with a bizarre humming sound. The symbols,
too, light
up when touched. All the time, the rhythmic chiming that
accompanies the city's main beacon can be heard. 'No doors...no
windows,'
Sarah muses to herself. Suddenly, a cloaked Exxilon
ambushes
her from behind.
At the
base, the Doctor and the MSC team are sharing a meal. Railton
explains:
'As soon as we got within range of Exxilon, we had total
malfunction on all instruments. We managed to touch down without
damaging
the ship, but we can't take off again until we find some
way of
restoring power.'
Jill
explains that the purpose of the expedition is to collect
parrinium:
'It's a chemical. It can be found in minute quantities on
Earth, but
it's so rare there that it's virtually priceless. A
chemical-detecting satellite did a fly-past on this planet, and
registered
that it was as common here as salt.' Galloway is
astonished
that the Doctor does not know what the humans want the
parrinium
for. 'The outer worlds are being ravaged by a disease,'
Jill tells
the Doctor. 'The colonists are dying in their thousands.
Another
ten million men, women and children will die unless we help
them - and
help them quickly. Every hour we're stuck here on this
planet,
the death toll's mounting.' Parrinium, explains Railton,
both cures
the disease and immunises against it; but a lot of the
chemical
is needed quickly. 'If it's not delivered within a month,
it'll be
too late,' observes Jill.
Railton
says that before they had total power failure, the team
managed to
get a message off to Earth, requesting a relief ship. But
Galloway
thinks that if the message had been received, help would
have come
by now. 'I think we can safely assume that no help is
coming,'
the Doctor says. He is about to make a suggestion to
Railton,
when Hamilton bursts in and yells that the relief ship is
here.
Commander Stewart stirs weakly on his bed; the other four MSC
members
and the Doctor rush outside to see.
Hamilton
says he heard the ship, up in the haze, over to the north a
little.
Galloway says it is probably making a spiral descent. 'Here
she
comes!' cries Jill, and they see a bulky-looking silver flying
saucer
coming speedily in to land. Railton sees that it will land in
the next
valley, and they hurry off to meet it. Behind them, two
Exxilons
emerge from hiding. Inside the base, Commander Stewart
looks up
in fear...
The
Exxilons have Sarah tied up and behind bars, in a chamber lit by
candles
and flaming torches. A party of the cloaked creatures
advances
menacingly towards her cage, their alien religious chants
filling
the smoky air. A booming voice accuses her: 'You have looked
upon the
sacred place. You have walked where only the chosen may go.
You have
defiled the place of all power.' Two Exxilons - now clearly
seen as
bald brown-skinned humanoids with large dark glassy eyes -
enter
Sarah's cage, untie her bonds and lead her out. His hands
raised in
ceremonial gesture, the High Priest booms: 'A judgement
has been
made. Prepare her for sacrifice!' The other Exxilons'
chanting
moves up to a higher pitch of excitement. Sarah struggles
desperately in the grip of her captors.
The saucer
settles to the ground as Jill, Railton, Galloway,
Hamilton
and the Doctor arrive to meet it. Hamilton is concerned
that it
does not look like an Earth ship; Galloway suggests it may
be 'that
new Z47 they've been planning'; Railton notes that it is
not a
Space Corps craft; and Galloway hopes that the ship has not
run into
the same power block that his team did.
They
approach the ship's door and it opens, tilting outwards and
upwards.
Hamilton shouts a welcome, but what emerges from the ship
is
certainly not a rescue party. 'Daleks!' exclaims the Doctor,
moving
instinctively backwards with the rest, as one, two, three,
and then
four of the familiar metal shapes glide out. A pitiless
Dalek
voice gives the order: 'The Earth creatures are to be
exterminated! Fire at my command!' Railton's frantic protest is
ignored.
'Total extermination! Fire! Fire! Fire!'
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24'25")
Eyes
closed, the Doctor holds grimly on to a terrified Jill as they
wait for
death. But the Dalek guns are not working - the
three-pronged tips of their weapons flutter impotently, but no
death-rays
emerge. 'Maximum power!' orders the lead Dalek. 'Fire!
Fire!
Fire!' But still nothing - there is a total power failure in
the
Daleks' armament circuits.
'Well well
well,' exclaims the Doctor delightedly. 'Daleks without
the power
to kill. How does it feel?' The lead Dalek's voice sounds
frightened
as it warns him to keep back. The Doctor is confident
now,
realising that the Daleks' weapons have been affected by the
same
energy blackout that has stranded the TARDIS and the MSC team.
The Dalek
assures him that 'superior Dalek technology will overcome
interference shortly - meanwhile you will obey our orders'. But the
Doctor
reminds the Dalek that it is in no position to give orders -
all those
present are equal, and all powerless. The Dalek's rant in
reply is
cut short by Railton, who recommends that the humans and
the Daleks
join forces. 'Daleks do not require the cooperation of
inferior
creatures' is the predictable response. But Railton points
out that
there are only four Daleks and five humans, on a planet
swarming
with aggressive creatures: 'That's a fact that must
penetrate
even Dalek arrogance,' he adds boldly. The Daleks withdraw
to discuss
Railton's proposal. The Doctor warns Railton not to trust
the
Daleks. Galloway simply feels that the humans don't need the
Daleks'
help, but here the Doctor disagrees: 'They're brilliant
technicians. It was their inventive genius that made them one of the
greatest
powers in the Universe, remember that.' Hamilton hates the
thought of
working with the Daleks because his father was killed in
the last
Dalek War; but Railton points out that he was just one man,
and 'ten
million will die if we don't get off the planet with the
medical
supplies.'
In the
smoky chamber of the Exxilons, Sarah is surrounded by the
chanting,
cloaked creatures. An Exxilon advances upon her, bearing a
flaming
torch.
Hamilton
and Galloway privately discuss the idea of cooperating with
the
Daleks. Hamilton is sceptical about Railton's judgement; and
Galloway
remarks that Railton is 'scared of the wee salt-shakers'.
The Doctor
returns with news of the Daleks' decision: they are
willing to
cooperate, in the absence of any other choice. But he
repeats
his warning to the captain not to trust them an inch. The
Daleks
have told the Doctor that several of the planets they have
colonised
are suffering from the same disease that has attacked the
humans,
and that the Daleks are dying in their millions - the Daleks
need the
chemical parrinium just as badly as the humans do. For this
reason,
the Doctor thinks the Daleks will cooperate.
But a
nearby conference among the four Daleks confirms the Doctor's
mistrust
of them: 'We will cooperate until they are no further use
to us.'
'And the true reason that we need the chemical parrinium
must
remain secret...they must continue to believe there are only
four of
us.'
The Daleks
return to declare a truce - until power is restored.
Railton
recommends that they should all go to the mining dome, which
the humans
have set up near the stratum of parrinium they have
found.
Railton suggests that perhaps the Daleks can suggest a
quicker
technique for refining the ore, which is slow work without
power.
They set off, Railton leading the way.
Meanwhile,
in the dome, wreckage is scattered around; and Commander
Stewart's
bed is empty.
The party
consisting of Railton, Galloway, Hamilton, Jill, the
Doctor and
the Daleks is en route for the mining dome, observed from
higher
ground. The Doctor cautiously scans the barren landscape
around
them. He turns his head as some dislodged sand rattles down a
nearby
rise. The Daleks come to a halt; the rest of the party stops
with them,
aware that something is amiss.
Suddenly
Railton, standing a little apart from the others, is struck
in the
middle of the back by an arrow, staggers forward and falls to
the
ground. The Doctor urges everyone to take cover; the lead Dalek
hysterically orders the others to locate the enemy. Jill runs to
Railton's
aid. Exxilons gather on the rise overlooking the group.
The Doctor
runs with Galloway and Hamilton; at Jill's request for
help he
turns round and runs to join her at Railton's side; but the
captain is
beyond help. Jill still does not want to leave Railton,
but arrows
are thudding nearby, and the Doctor pulls her away. They
join
Galloway and Hamilton behind the shallow cover of a sandy
ridge.
Arrows hit the ridge. The Doctor suggests that they might
make a
break for it if the group of Exxilons is small. Galloway
points out
that as next in seniority to the captain, he is now in
command,
but he has no alternative suggestion. More Exxilons are
gathering
above, some with bows and arrows, some with spears - it is
a large
group of Exxilons after all.
Galloway
aims his own bow and shoots one of the Exxilons, exciting
the rest
into heightened agitation. More Exxilon arrows are fired,
and spears
are thrown. One of the Daleks instinctively yells
'Exterminate!' but of course its gun still does not work. Realising
its
helplessness, the grunting Exxilons hurry down and surround the
Dalek,
battering against its metal shell with their bows. They
withdraw
from the hysterical creature, and its head explodes,
leaving
the headless shell on fire. The Doctor and the three humans
watch from
cover as the Exxilons caper triumphantly around the
blazing
wreckage of the Dalek.
A second
group of Exxilons now approaches, with Commander Stewart
captive.
Clearly weak, he falls to the ground, and urges the others
to give
themselves up. The Doctor agrees with Hamilton and Jill that
they
should follow Stewart's instruction, 'when the only alternative
to living
is dying.' They emerge from cover, the Doctor and Jill
raising
their hands in surrender. Hamilton follows, then finally
Galloway,
reluctantly.
At the
entrance to the Dalek ship, the returning Dalek announces the
capture of
the patrol 'by alien beings' and the destruction of their
comrade.
'We will report,' replies another Dalek, and they go inside
the ship.
Sarah's
head is held fast by an Exxilon as a large goblet of smoking
incense is
waved in front of her face. She passes into
semi-consciousness, and the incense is taken away. Only the pressing
throng of
Exxilons prevents her from slumping to the floor. The
Doctor and
the humans are led captive into the chamber. The Doctor
is
horrified to see Sarah there, and demands to know what the
Exxilons
are doing with her. He is told that Sarah 'has defiled the
place of
our gods - she is to be sacrificed.' After a moment
pondering
this, the Doctor elbows both the Exxilons behind him and
rushes
forward into the main group of Exxilons. There is a scuffle,
but the
Doctor is swiftly overwhelmed by the throng of Exxilons; he
is crushed
to the floor and loses consciousness...
Sarah
emerges from her incense-induced trance, and meets Jill, who
is tending
the Doctor. The Doctor is also coming round. 'Neither of
you is
very popular,' Jill tells Sarah anxiously. 'The Doctor
attacked
their High Priest. From what we can gather, that's about
the worst
crime you can commit on this planet.'
Nearby,
Hamilton and Galloway are with the unconscious Commander
Stewart.
Galloway is sure that the Doctor's 'crazy' behaviour has
ruined
their chance of a deal with the Exxilons. He doesn't care
that Sarah
would have been killed without the Doctor's intervention:
'We have
no loyalties to them, they're not part of our mission.' All
Galloway
is interested in is getting medical relief to the millions
who need
it: 'If some people we don't even know have to die in the
process,
well that's just too bad.' Two Daleks appear and tell
Hamilton
and Galloway that they have decided to offer the Exxilons
Dalek
knowledge and technology in return for their assistance. But
when
Hamilton mentions the Doctor and Sarah, the response is: 'The
Doctor is
an old enemy of the Daleks. The girl is unimportant.' The
lead Dalek
tells an Exxilon guard that it wishes to speak with the
High
Priest.
Jill tells
Sarah and the recovered Doctor that she doesn't know what
the Daleks
are up to, but that she doesn't like it. The Doctor warns
Jill that
it might be better if she did not associate herself too
much with
him and Sarah: 'I think we're the flies in a jar of very
nasty
ointment.' He tells Sarah regretfully that her sacrifice has
merely
been postponed, and that 'in the next performance' both of
them will
die.
The lead
Dalek is told that he has been granted an audience with the
High
Priest; but only that one Dalek is allowed to leave the cell.
Jill
optimistically suggests that the Daleks may be trying to
negotiate
a way for all the captives to be freed; but with a little
shake of
his head, the Doctor dismisses this as pure wishful
thinking:
'The Daleks won't give us any loyalty. And I don't expect
too much
help from your space chums either.'
Inside the
Dalek ship, the Daleks are testing improvised substitute
weapons -
mounted as normal, but firing conventional bullets - using
a small
model of the TARDIS for target practice. They glide out of
the ship
and gun down two Exxilons who were waiting outside with
bows and
arrows. The Exxilons scream horribly as they die.
'Primitive
weapons moderately efficient,' announces one of the
Daleks.
Two
Exxilons arrive to take the Doctor and Sarah from the cell.
Hamilton
is desperate to help, but Galloway urges him to stay
focused on
the mission. The lead Dalek enters the cell and says that
it has
been agreed that the Exxilons will discuss terms - once the
sacrifices
have been completed. The other captives are to follow and
observe.
The Dalek turns and leads Hamilton, Jill and a second Dalek
from the
cell; Galloway, on the point of following, is called back
by the
dying Commander Stewart. 'You're not fit to command,' Stewart
gasps.
'I'm doing what's necessary, sir,' he responds. 'I'll get
that
chemical to the peoples of the outer worlds whatever it costs.'
Stewart
accuses Galloway of wanting to achieve this for his own
glory,
rather than for anyone else's welfare. As his last order,
Stewart
tells Galloway that he is appointing Hamilton over him.
Galloway
looks terribly hurt. 'Peter will take command,' gasps
Stewart as
he dies. Galloway gently closes Stewart's eyes. 'Sorry,
Commander.
Couldn't quite hear what you said.'
Flames
flicker and the smoke of incense fills the air; it is time
for the
Doctor and Sarah to be sacrificed. Cloaked Exxilons mill
around;
the other captives observe grimly. A goblet of incense is
waved in
front of the condemned travellers' faces. Suddenly the
sharp snap
of gunfire interrupts the ceremony. An improvised Dalek
gun fires
upon the assembled Exxilons. The Doctor and Sarah make a
run for
it; so do Galloway, Jill and Hamilton. It is a massacre. In
the smoke
and confusion, the Doctor and Sarah climb up a shallow
ledge, and
then jump down and out of the chamber, into the tunnel
beyond it.
'The
Daleks don't seem to be following us,' the Doctor tells Sarah.
'Those
robot things,' says Sarah. 'Are they locals?' 'Hardly,' the
Doctor
replies. 'They're probably the most technically advanced and
ruthless
life form in the galaxy.' 'But if they're robots,' asks
Sarah,
'how is it their power's not affected? They can't half move!'
'Because
they're only half robots, Sarah. Inside each of those
shells is
a living, bubbling lump of hate.' 'You mean they've got
legs?'
'No, they move by psychokinetic power.' 'I see.' 'Do you?'
'No,'
Sarah admits miserably.
Back in
the chamber, the Exxilons have stopped trying to resist the
Daleks.
The lead Dalek orders a second Dalek to bring the High
Priest to
him. Galloway asks what the Daleks want with the High
Priest. He
is told that the Daleks need the Exxilons' cooperation,
but that
now the cooperation will be on the Daleks' terms. If the
Exxilons
do not agree to this, groups of hostages will be selected
for
extermination until they do. Galloway seems to approve of this
scheme. He
suggests that the Exxilons should be made to supply
working
parties to mine the parrinium, but the lead Dalek does not
want his
advice - the Daleks are in command, and Galloway is to obey
their
orders.
In the
tunnel, Sarah asks the Doctor how the Exxilons intended to
sacrifice
them just by dumping them down here. The Doctor does have
an idea
about this, but says it isn't one of his favourites: 'I
think they
expect that sacrifice to be completed by something else -
something
that lives down this tunnel.' They hear a distant howling
roar.
Fighting down her nerves, Sarah tells the Doctor to keep his
next idea
to himself. She smiles shakily at him. He puts an arm
reassuringly round her shoulder, and they move forwards into the
gloom.
In the
Exxilon chamber, Galloway tells Jill and Hamilton about the
'deal'
that has been struck with the Exxilons: they will provide a
working
force to help mine the parrinium; the humans will be in
charge of
this, along with two Daleks, while the other Daleks
investigate the cause of the electrical interference; and in return
the
Exxilons will get help wiping out their one enemy, a sort of
breakaway
group. Hamilton and Jill are horrified at this proposal.
But
Galloway, while obviously not comfortable with the arrangement,
still
feels it is worth it: 'The creatures on this planet are
primitives, they don't count.' Reluctantly he tells them the final
part of
the deal: the Doctor and Sarah have to be brought back, dead
or alive.
Jill looks horrified, and Hamilton says Galloway is
totally
ruthless. 'The Daleks have gone down the tunnel after them,'
Galloway
tells them. 'Just in case the creatures that live down
there
don't get them first.'
In the
tunnel, the Doctor and Sarah hear the howling roar again,
closer
this time. The Doctor suggests it is probably 'some sort of
subterranean wind effect.' Another roar rings out. 'Who are you
kidding?'
Sarah asks. 'Myself, chiefly,' the Doctor replies.
Somewhere
behind them in the tunnel, two Daleks are following.
The Doctor
and Sarah continue along the tunnel. A humanoid shape,
ribbons of
light glinting on its surface, gropes its way out from
the rocks
they have just passed.
Candles
illuminate the tunnels. The roaring is heard again. 'I just
heard your
wind effect gnashing its teeth,' Sarah says nervously.
They have
arrived at a junction. The Doctor wants to make a short
reconnaissance by himself down one of the available tunnels, while
Sarah
stays behind to keep watch - she has a choice of three
different
ways to run if anything nasty should happen. The Doctor
will check
approximately the first half-mile of the tunnel to see if
it holds
any promise; if so, he will come right back. Sarah wishes
him luck.
The Doctor heads off along the tunnel, leaving Sarah
glancing
nervously around in the gloomy, candle-lit cavern. Unseen
by Sarah
at first, something alien is creeping into the cavern to
join
her...
Not far
away, the two Daleks are approaching.
Sarah,
sensing a presence, asks nervously if somebody is there. She
turns,
paces a short way, stops, and waits. Then suddenly, seemingly
filled
with conviction that something is behind her, she turns - and
gives a
strangled cry of horror. A smaller version of the
surface-dwelling Exxilons, its grey parchment-like skin giving it an
almost
corpse-like appearance, is leaning into the cavern, staring
at her
with its enormous glassy dark-grey eyes, and groping in the
air
towards her with its right arm.
As he
proceeds down the tunnel, the Doctor is confronted by a black,
snake-like
machine-creature that rears up at him from the tunnel
floor, its
single green eye blazing.
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24'24")
The
machine-creature swings its head at the Doctor. As he dodges out
of the
way, it strikes the tunnel wall next to him, which ignites in
a violent
burst of white flame. He falls backwards to the tunnel
floor. The
monster swoops down on him, and he rolls out of the way
just in
time; the tunnel floor ignites explosively where the
creature's
head touches it. The snake-head bobs menacingly in the
air,
poised for a third strike.
Sarah,
utterly terrified, warns the diminutive corpse-like creature
to keep
away from her as it enters the cavern. 'Please...' implores
the
creature, in a voice like that of a frail old man, sounding
almost as
scared as Sarah. 'Who are you?' she cries. 'I am called
Bellal,'
says the creature. 'I mean you no harm. I will help you if
I can. I
do not share the beliefs of those who would have killed you
- they
consider that I and others like me are their enemies.' 'And
are you?'
'Oh no - we seek merely to save the Exxilon race from
extinction. We do not share their beliefs, and for that reason we
are
persecuted and driven to live in the secret places beneath the
surface.'
Bellal gestures around the cavern, seemingly terribly
anxious to
make himself clear. Sarah, still terrified, asks how many
of
Bellal's group there are. 'Very few against so many,' he replies;
then adds
agitatedly, while Sarah desperately tries to avoid
touching
him: 'I will answer all your questions, but first we must
go from
here. We have a place that is safe. Follow me and I will
take you
to it.' But Sarah says that she cannot go with Bellal,
because
she is waiting for the Doctor. When she indicates which path
the Doctor
took, the little creature gasps in horror. 'That way
leads to
death!' 'Well you've got to help him!' urges Sarah, but
Bellal
shakes his head vigorously in fear. A distant roar is heard.
'It may
already be too late,' he says. 'But we will do what can be
done.'
A second
creature, of similar appearance to Bellal, hurries into the
cavern
with news that two of the 'creatures from the spacecraft' are
coming
this way. 'Machine creatures?' asks Bellal, and the newcomer
nods.
'Daleks,' Sarah confirms. She and the two natives hide behind
a large
rock as the two Daleks glide into the cavern, eyestalks
swivelling
as they look around. 'We will search independently,'
announces
one. 'Fugitives are to be exterminated on sight.' Each
Dalek
heads off down a different tunnel; one of the tunnels is the
Doctor's.
Sarah is desperate to warn the Doctor, but as she starts
to hurry
towards his tunnel, the two little Exxilons restrain her.
'It will
be no use!' Bellal insists to the struggling Sarah. 'You
must stay
silent or you will destroy us all. You must understand -
it is
beyond our power to help him now.' Sarah turns her head and
gazes
helplessly at the entrance to the Doctor's tunnel.
Cautiously, the Doctor creeps sideways along the tunnel; at present
he is
succeeding in evading the snake-like machine-creature, which
lurks at a
junction behind him. Now the Dalek which followed the
Doctor
arrives, and the two monsters confront each other, while the
Doctor
stays out of sight. The Dalek peppers the snake-creature with
bullets
from its improvised gun, but without effect. Instead, the
snake-creature dips its head to touch the Dalek's, which bursts into
flame. The
flames quickly die away, and the Dalek keeps firing; but
a second
touch from the snake-head, and then a third, fourth and
fifth,
gradually wreck the Dalek while the Doctor watches
delightedly: 'Oh, good shot sir! A hit! Yes, a palpable hit!'
In the
cavern, Bellal urges Sarah not to go after the Doctor,
because
the other Dalek will have heard the noise of the battle and
will be on
its way back. Sarah fears that the Doctor may be hurt.
'We must
hurry!' urges Bellal's friend. Bellal says that he will
have some
of his people look for the Doctor as soon as it is safe to
do so;
then he hears something coming from the Doctor's tunnel, and
Sarah and
the two natives hide again. Mesmerised, Sarah watches from
cover as a
Dalek gun-stick creeps into view from the tunnel
entrance...but behind it is not its original owner, but the Doctor,
who was
cautiously holding the gun-stick out in front of him.
Overcome
with relief, Sarah runs to the Doctor and embraces him:
'You're
safe!' She is anxious to hear what happened, but the Doctor
calms her
down. 'I've just had a face-to-face confrontation with a
rather
nasty root,' he explains. 'It obviously wasn't very fond of
me, but it
positively hated the Dalek.' The Doctor surmises that it
was one of
the city's underground support systems. And the result of
the battle
in the tunnel: 'The root won. Dalek nil.' The gun-stick
is about
the only part of the Dalek to have survived undamaged.
Bellal
hurries forward, and the Doctor sees the two cave-dwelling
Exxilons
for the first time. He raises the Dalek gun-stick
defensively, but Sarah stops him and assures him that they are
friends.
'The other Dalek is coming this way!' Bellal announces. The
two
Exxilons hurry off, and Sarah goes after them. The Doctor pulls
her back
by the arm: 'Who are your shining friends?' he asks, as if
not sure
whether to trust them yet; but she tells him there will be
time for
explanations later, and urges him to follow. A moment after
their
departure, a Dalek glides into the cavern, and then out again,
along the
same tunnel the Doctor's party left by.
The four
companions run along the tunnel, the two Exxilons leading
the way.
Bellal urges the others to hurry up, as the Dalek is coming
this way.
Sarah thinks they have arrived at a dead end; but there is
a narrow
crevice they can squeeze through, which will widen out
after a
little while. The Doctor sends Sarah through first and then
follows,
vowing to go on a diet one of these days. The Exxilons
enter the
gap last. The Dalek arrives with five shrieks of
'Exterminate!' and fires its gun into the crevice; but there is no
straight
line to a target, and the Dalek cannot follow. It gives up
and turns
away.
The Doctor
asks if anyone is hurt; it seems not. He now wants to get
back above
ground so that they can set about restoring power to the
spaceships, and helping the mission from Earth. Sarah observes that
the Earth
mission seems 'pretty pally' with the Daleks, but the
Doctor
knows that the humans will be wiped out without a qualm as
soon as
they cease to be useful to the Daleks. Bellal says that his
people are
watching what is happening above ground and will report
immediately what happens. The four set off again.
Up above
it is broad daylight on the desolate planet, and one of
Bellal's
people is secretly observing, from above, the progress of
the mining
party. Surface-dwelling Exxilons work around a shallow
pool with
primitive tools and pan the rocks for parrinium, while a
Dalek
supervises the activity and Galloway strolls about. The Dalek
complains
to Galloway that the Exxilons are working too slowly;
Galloway
blames this on the primitive equipment they are using. The
Dalek says
that the work force must be increased; but Galloway
remarks
that the High Priest was not very cooperative, and that they
were lucky
to get the workers they have. The Dalek is not
interested, and glides away demanding: 'More workers! More workers!
More!
Exxilons will obey our commands.' 'And if they don't?' asks
Galloway.
'Their leaders will be exterminated.' 'But - we made an
agreement,' Galloway protests. 'It was expedient,' is the Dalek's
reply.
'You will advise the High Priest that his people will comply
with Dalek
law or suffer the consequences.' Galloway protests again
but is
simply told, five times, that he will obey. He wearily
returns to
the job of urging the Exxilons on, rebuking them for
their
idleness.
In the
Dalek ship, a Dalek announces: 'This planet is now under
Dalek
control. Our commands will be obeyed. Those who resist will be
exterminated.'
As they
walk along a candle-lit underground tunnel, Bellal explains
to the
Doctor: 'Exxilon had grown old before life had even begun on
other
planets. Our ancestors solved the mysteries of science, built
craft that
travelled through space. They were the supreme beings of
the
Universe.' 'What destroyed their power, war?' asks the Doctor.
'No, they
created their own destruction. Using all their knowledge,
they built
a City that would last through all of time...they used
their
sciences to make the City into a living thing. It could
protect
itself, repair itself, maintain itself. They even gave it a
brain.' 'I
see,' says the Doctor. 'So the City became an entity.
Greater
and more powerful than the many small parts that had created
it.'
'Yes!' confirms Bellal. 'It then had no need of those who had
made it.
Our people had created a monster. They tried to destroy it.
Instead it
destroyed them and drove out the survivors. Now we, and
the other
Exxilons you met, are all that remain.' 'What separates
you from
the others?' Sarah asks. 'They have made the City their
god. They
worship and fear it. They even make sacrifices to it.'
This part
of Bellal's account has special resonance for Sarah. The
Doctor
asks Bellal why his people, in contrast to the
surface-dwellers, do not fear the City. 'Yes, we do fear it, but we
don't
worship it. Our aim is to destroy it. Unless we succeed, our
race will
vanish from this planet.' After a sombre pause, the Doctor
says:
'Yes. Well, I think the time has come to do something about
this
City.' He moves purposefully forward.
At the
diggings, the Exxilons are still at work, some of them
waist-deep
in the dirty brown water of the pool, while three Daleks
supervise.
Hamilton and Jill are also supervising the progress of
the work.
The three Daleks come together to discuss their plans:
explosive
charges are to be placed on the City's beacon, while a
patrol of
Daleks enters the City to investigate scientific
installations. The Daleks' assumption is that the beacon is the
source of
the interference which has stranded them on the planet,
and that
destroying the beacon will restore electrical energy.
Suddenly a
snake-like machine-creature, like the one that confronted
the Doctor
underground, starts to emerge from beneath the surface of
the water.
The Daleks, Jill and Hamilton, and the Exxilons notice it
almost
simultaneously. Hamilton shouts a warning to the Exxilons in
the water,
who scramble for safety as the creature rears higher and
higher
above the surface of the pool. The huge creature swoops and
makes
contact with an Exxilon in the water; his cloak ignites in a
blaze of
orange fire, and he collapses into the water. The Exxilons
look on,
awestruck, as the creature's head hovers, poised for
another
strike. There is a chatter of bullets from a Dalek standing
on a rocky
ledge high above the pool. The snake-head swings round
and
strikes at the Dalek; the Dalek's head crumples in a burst of
flame and
smoke, and with despairing cries it tumbles down the steep
slope into
the water. The Exxilon onlookers grunt in superstitious
awe; the
other two Daleks simply look subdued, and do not try to
attack the
machine-creature. As if satisfied with its two kills, the
creature
slips placidly back beneath the surface of the water. It is
surveyed
from above by one of Bellal's people, and from the surface
by Jill,
Galloway and Hamilton.
Underground, Bellal draws representations of the symbols that are
cut into
the walls of the City. Sarah recognises them from her
earlier
visit. The Doctor has 'a rough idea of what they're intended
to
convey'; he says he has seen them before, on the walls of a
temple in
Peru. Sarah is incredulous, but the Doctor explains: 'It's
one of
Earth's great mysteries, that no primitive man could possibly
have built
such a structure. Well, now we've solved it.' He turns to
Bellal:
'You say that your ancestors were travelling in space when
other
worlds were still primitive.' Bellal confirms this. 'Then,'
says the
Doctor, 'they almost certainly visited Earth and taught the
people
there how to build.' Bellal explains: 'Our City supports
itself in
two ways: through roots in the ground, and from the air.'
'Yes,'
says the Doctor, 'they must drain their electrical energy
from the
atmosphere, probably via that beacon.' 'So that's what put
the
mockers on the TARDIS,' Sarah realises. The tunnel-dwelling
Exxilon
who observed the attack at the diggings now arrives with
news of
the Dalek's destruction. 'Another of our Dalek friends has
had root
trouble,' the Doctor remarks to Sarah, who smiles coyly
back at
him.
At the
dig-site, a Dalek instructs that mining will recommence
immediately in a new area. It orders the Exxilons to move, and Jill
to
accompany them. Hamilton objects, but Jill reassures him: after
all, one
of them has to select the parrinium from the digging, and
she can
take care of herself. The Dalek turns to two others, and
orders
that the Dalek patrol will leave immediately for the City to
conduct
its scientific survey; Hamilton and Galloway are instructed
to
accompany the mission to position the explosive. Since Hamilton
is under
the erroneous impression that Galloway is legitimately in
command of
the humans' party, he asks him what they should do.
Galloway
tells him to comply with the Dalek's instructions.
The City
gleams pristine white beneath the bright sunlight, its
beacon
flashing rhythmically, as Bellal, the Doctor and Sarah arrive
near its
outer wall. The Doctor whistles admiringly. 'Well, that
must be
one of the seven hundred wonders of the Universe,' he
remarks.
'It's even more impressive when we get close,' Sarah tells
him. But
the Doctor tells her that she will not be going any closer
- he has
something far more important for her to do. Sarah feels
fobbed off
by this, but the Doctor reminds her: 'Sarah, if that
Earth
rocket doesn't get away from here, millions of people are
going to
die...I want you to make Galloway and his friends
understand
they've got to get the parrinium aboard that ship and be
ready for
blast-off the moment the power is restored. Now remember
the Daleks
will be fully powered too, and they'll do everything they
can to
destroy the Earth ship.' 'You think that's what they're
intending?' 'Yes, I'm certain of it. I know the Daleks, and they're
not
medical missionaries.' Sarah agrees to pass on this message, and
remarks
that Bellal appears impatient; the Doctor and Bellal should
go. Sarah
is clearly frightened for the Doctor's safety. He tells
her to
take care, and she says the same to him. He is on the point
of leaving
when he turns back and adds: 'If I don't come back, you
must go
with them.' He stops her protest by touching his fingers to
her lips,
then places his hand on the side of her face, a display of
warm
affection. She gives a little nod and a nervous smile. As the
Doctor and
Bellal set off towards the City's outer wall, the beacon
pulses
remorselessly...
Arriving
at the City's outer wall, the Doctor comments on how
beautiful
it is. 'For you, perhaps,' says a nervous Bellal. 'To us
it is
evil.' He beckons the Doctor to the wall, and shows him how a
section of
it lights up with a muted whooping sound when touched.
'Touch-sensitised - that's brilliant!' observes the Doctor
admiringly. Around the corner are the symbols whose likeness Bellal
tried to
draw for the Doctor in the tunnels: a horizontal array of
geometric
hieroglyphs, composed of circles enclosed in U-shapes at
different
orientations, which light up when their section of wall is
touched.
'I have tried to interpret them many times,' says Bellal.
The Doctor
recognises that the puzzle is very difficult. Bellal
shows him
the continuation of the sequence of symbols along the next
stretch of
wall. The Doctor examines the symbols thoughtfully.
Close
behind, the two Daleks who are going to survey the City are
approaching.
'I think I
have something here,' says the Doctor. 'These symbols
don't
conform.' Bellal is the first to spot the two arriving Daleks,
who open
fire. But as the Daleks round the corner and arrive at the
section of
wall that the Doctor and Bellal have just been examining,
they find
themselves cheated of their prize - the two companions
have
vanished. The Daleks look at each other impotently. 'Continue
search.'
The Doctor
and Bellal have slipped inside the City. Propped upright
in the
bland white room they have entered are the skeletonised
remains of
an Exxilon. 'What did you do?' Bellal asks the Doctor. 'I
simply
picked out the symbol that appeared to be different, and
traced its
outline on the wall.' 'And that made it slide open?'
'Well, I
can't think what else.' 'Can we get out again?' asks
Bellal. 'I
should think that is extremely unlikely,' replies the
Doctor,
examining the Exxilon skeleton. 'He didn't get out again,
did he?'
But the Doctor refuses to accept that this is simply a
trap; the
other visitors who came to grief in this room - some of
whose
remains appear to be centuries old - simply failed to pass the
next
intelligence test. The Doctor does not yet know what this next
test will
be, though 'logically there must be one.'
Sure
enough, there is a large square design marked on one wall,
which the
Doctor recognises as a maze: 'a test of skill and logic
that we
have to pass before we can move deeper into the City.' 'And
if we
fail?' asks Bellal. 'Well then we shall simply add to these
decorations,' replies the Doctor jovially, meaning the ancient
corpses
scattered about the room. The Doctor identifies a point of
entry at
the top right corner of the maze, and an exit at the bottom
left. The
maze, like other sections of wall, is touch-sensitised.
'Here
goes,' says the Doctor. He touches his finger to the
starting-point of the maze and begins to trace out a route through
it.
While the
Doctor is working on this second puzzle, the two Daleks
stand at
the City's outer wall, busily scanning the first. 'Computer
eye
indicates the symbols provide a simple logic test. We must
deduce
which symbol does not conform to all others.' The
computer-scan does not take long, and within seconds the Daleks have
identified
the odd symbol out.
But inside
the first room the Doctor is also doing well. He
completes
the maze without error, and a large section of the wall
containing
the maze slides up, allowing him and Bellal to pass
through.
They cautiously move into the corridor beyond, and the wall
slides
shut behind them again. They move on.
A panel in
the outer wall of the City slides up, allowing the two
Daleks to
enter the room that the Doctor and Bellal have just left.
'Locate
next access point.'
The Doctor
and Bellal creep through the bland greyish-white interior
of the
City. Another section of wall slides up into the ceiling,
revealing
a new corridor with a red and white geometric pattern
marked on
a section of its floor. They pass through, and the wall
closes
behind them. They move together along the corridor, but just
before
they reach the floor pattern, the Doctor tells Bellal: 'Stop,
don't
move!'
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The Doctor
believes the floor pattern is another test. He squats
down to
examine it more closely. 'The people who built this City -
they
didn't go in for ornamental floors, did they?' He passes his
sonic
screwdriver over the pattern, and two different types of
electronic
squeaking sound are heard. The Doctor asks Bellal if he
has ever
tried Venusian hopscotch, then retracts the question as
being
silly. He tells Bellal to do exactly as he does, then starts
making his
way across the floor pattern, using the sonic screwdriver
to
identify which panels are safe to step on, and treading only on
them.
Close
behind, the two Daleks have just solved the wall-maze, and
glide into
the corridor beyond.
The Doctor
has crossed the floor design, and is standing at the far
side,
talking Bellal across. The important thing is not to step on
the red
panels in the design, just the white ones. He takes Bellal's
hand, and
on the count of three, helps him jump across the last half
of the
pattern. Now the Doctor demonstrates why such caution was
necessary:
he takes a five-piastre piece from his waistcoat pocket
and tosses
it onto one of the red panels. A blue thread of
electricity crackles down from above, and most of the panel explodes
in a
searing burst of white flame, taking the coin with it. 'Tilt,'
the Doctor
says, to Bellal's bemusement. 'Right, let's go and see
what other
pleasures they have in store for us.'
The two
Daleks, still just one step behind, now arrive at the
corridor
with the booby-trapped floor design. 'Proceed with all
caution,'
warns one. 'This territory will be classified as hostile.'
The first
Dalek to cross the design is assailed by crackles of blue
electrical
charge from above; it is alarmed and disorientated, but
reaches
the other side apparently unharmed. The second Dalek, which
still has
to cross the pattern, blasts the patterned part of the
floor with
bullets. Jagged holes are torn into the floor, and the
Dalek
crosses safely. The first Dalek announces that its
non-conductive shielding is burnt out, and that its sensors register
it
received a seven-thousand volt electrical charge: 'weapon
evidently
designed to destroy humanoid tissue.' As the Daleks watch,
the floor
heals up behind them, the holes fading away to leave a
perfect
patterned surface once again. 'This evidence suggests that
City is
indestructible. Proceed.'
The Doctor
and Bellal arrive in a seemingly empty, featureless room.
'Moving
inside the City is like being inside a living thing,'
observes
the little Exxilon. 'Yes,' the Doctor agrees thoughtfully.
'Its
bloodstream, rather than its stomach. We're being moved around
like
microbes, Bellal.'
Meanwhile,
in another room, a motionless figure sits before a
monitor
screen, apparently watching the Doctor and Bellal and
listening
to their conversation. 'And all the time getting closer to
the
heart,' the Doctor is saying.
It is dark
again outside the City, and Sarah, nervously dodging a
patrolling
Dalek, finds Jill and wakes her up. Jill is pleased to
see her,
but Sarah tells her to keep her voice down. They speak in
hushed
voices. Sarah tells Jill what the Doctor is doing: 'He's
going to
try and black out the beacon.' And she passes on his
message:
'You must be ready for take-off the moment the power comes
back on.
Remember, it comes back on for the Daleks too.' Jill,
pausing
momentarily as the Dalek passes, tells Sarah that they now
have more
than enough parrinium, collected in bags. The problem now,
as Sarah
identifies, is to find some way to get it aboard the
humans'
ship. Jill is pessimistic about their chances with a Dalek
standing
guard over them, but Sarah is determined to try somehow.
Still
apparently observed on the monitor screen, the Doctor and
Bellal
feel their way around the walls of the empty room. 'Nothing,'
says the
Doctor frustratedly. 'Absolutely nothing. A room without a
clue.' But
he knows that since everything in the City has a
function,
the room must have some purpose. 'Perhaps we have come as
far as we
are permitted,' Bellal suggests. But the Doctor does not
believe
this, and says they will have to start examining the room
all over
again. He asks Bellal to look in one of the corners.
Bellal
does this, but suddenly becomes disorientated by an onslaught
of
flashing light and pulsing sound which only he seems to
experience. The Doctor, examining the floor with his sonic
screwdriver, looks up just in time to see Bellal pointing a Dalek
gun at
him. He holds up his sonic screwdriver and activates it,
apparently
to counteract the mind-control to which Bellal has
succumbed.
The sound from the screwdriver seems to help Bellal
struggle
against the force which has possessed him. 'Bellal, don't!
Bellal -
Bellal, don't, now listen to me,' says the Doctor. 'Don't
fire that
gun. Now remember why we're here. Remember why we came to
this
City.' He switches off the sonic screwdriver and advances
slowly
towards the little alien. 'Bellal, I'm your friend. Your
friend,
you know that. Don't fire that gun - ' He reaches Bellal and
drags the
gun from his hands. Freed from his temporary possession, a
terrified
Bellal tells the Doctor about a blinding light that shone
in his
eyes. A section of wall slides up, freeing them from the
room. 'We
seem to have qualified for the next test,' observes the
Doctor. He
asks if Bellal feels ready to go on; Bellal doesn't, but
knows that
he must. The Doctor leads him gently from the room. The
section of
wall slides shut behind them - and the two Daleks enter
the room
from the other side, having missed the Doctor and Bellal by
only a
moment.
The City's
beacon pulses out white light, rhythmically illuminating
the night
sky. At the base of the City, a Dalek instructs Galloway
and
Hamilton to climb to its summit and place explosives on the
beacon.
The two men are told that Jill, the Daleks' hostage, will be
exterminated if they refuse. They are also warned that they will be
in range
of the Dalek's fire at all times. 'Let's get on with it,'
says
Galloway. They start climbing the structure.
Sarah and
Jill are crouched down, one on each side of a boulder.
They talk
furtively when the Dalek guard passes out of earshot.
Sarah asks
Jill if there are any empty parrinium bags. There are
some, over
by the workings. Sarah has had an idea; she tells Jill to
sneak over
and get the empty bags, while she keeps watch. Jill does
so, but
has to pass some Exxilons to get to the bags; the Exxilons
seem
placid and do not attack her, but their mumbling, grunting
noises
risk attracting attention. Jill gets back with the bags, and
the Dalek
glides past a moment later. Sarah tells Jill they need to
fill the
bags - anything will do. If the Doctor manages to restore
power,
they have to be ready.
The Doctor
and Bellal are deep inside the City. The Doctor suspects
they must
be getting very close to its centre. Bellal points out
that they
have come quite a way without any tests, and may be safe
now; but
the Doctor is not so sure. 'Have you any idea why the City
should be
testing us in this way?' he asks. (Their progress along
the
corridor appears on the monitor screen before the silent
observer.)
'They could have destroyed us dozens of times. Instead,
they gave
us a chance to survive by using our intelligence.' And the
Doctor's
guess about the purpose of all this: 'By passing these
tests,
we've proved that we have an intelligence level that could be
useful. We
might have some knowledge or science that they could add
to their
data banks.'
They turn
a corner into a new area. A cowled skeleton is slumped
against
one wall. The lights become dim. 'If I'm right,' says the
Doctor,
'the ultimate test will be an assault on our sanity. So be
ready for
it.' In confirmation of this, they are assailed by a
psychedelic onslaught of sound and light. The Doctor gasps
repeatedly
to Bellal to fight it. 'It's all an illusion. It's an
illusion.
You have no substance - no truth,' the Doctor declares to
the force
invading his mind. 'You do not exist. You do not exist!'
The
Doctor's own words seem to echo into silence as the force fades
away,
leaving him exhausted. Bellal too is drained by the attack.
The Doctor
helps him to his feet. They watch as a new doorway opens
for them:
this time a section of wall simply fades away into
nothingness, creating an exit from the room.
They move
into the area beyond - then stop short as they see, from
behind,
the seated figure which has apparently been monitoring their
progress
through the City. As they watch, the figure slumps into its
seat,
disintegrating as it goes. The Doctor and Bellal move forward
cautiously. 'Our entrance must have created a current of air, which
broke the
surface tension,' the Doctor says. The figure has been
reduced to
a layer of dust in its chair.
As well as
the monitor screen, there is other technical machinery in
the room.
'This is the brain of the City?' Bellal asks. 'The brain
and the
nervous system, that we've got to destroy,' the Doctor
confirms.
Bellal points out that the City defies all attempts to
destroy
it; he does not believe that they will be able to end its
power. But
the Doctor thinks he knows a way. He pulls out two
circuit
boards from a unit and places them in front of him.
Bellal
looks nervously around. Two large areas of the wall light up
with a
pinkish red glow. It takes Bellal a while to turn and see
them; when
he does, he gives a start and calls to the Doctor, who is
irritable
to have his work interrupted. As the two of them watch,
monstrous
shapes begin to appear in the glowing capsules. 'We
haven't
got much time,' the Doctor says. 'The City is creating
antibodies, they're trying to neutralise us.' He tells Bellal to let
him know
the moment the creatures are completely formed, and hurries
back to
his work.
It is
still pitch dark outside. Galloway and Hamilton arrive at the
wind-swept
summit of the City, at the base of the beacon's main
support.
Hamilton says it should be close enough if they set the
explosive
charges on this support, and he sets the detonator on one
of the two
boxes and fixes the box into position. Galloway, however,
insists
that just one charge will be enough to damage the beacon -
he wants
to save the other one.
Down on
the ground, the Dalek that has been guarding Jill instructs
a group of
Exxilons that work is to commence at dawn. Grunting, they
move
reluctantly off. The Dalek now realises that Jill has escaped.
It reacts
with panic, declaring its own failure and activating its
self-destruct mechanism, rotating wildly, its voice winding down to
a slurring
stop.
The Doctor
is hard at work on the circuit boards, while Bellal
observes
the completion of the formation of two hulking humanoid
antibodies. 'Doctor - I think you should come now!' The Doctor has
nearly
finished. The antibodies, looking like imperfectly made clay
statues,
lumber clumsily from their stands. Bellal asks the Doctor
what he is
doing. 'Psychological warfare,' he replies. 'I'm trying
to destroy
the City's brain - engineer what in human terms is called
a nervous
breakdown.' He is in the process of explaining that a
computer,
as a machine of logic, cannot stand paradoxes, when the
antibodies
grab him and Bellal, and drag them roughly away from
where the
Doctor has been working.
Now,
finally, the two Daleks catch up with the Doctor and Bellal,
and their
arrival is unexpectedly timely. They confront the two
antibodies, which advance upon them. The antibodies ignore the
Daleks'
orders to halt. The Daleks spray them with bullets, but
bullets
only make them flinch momentarily. An antibody pulls the gun
off one of
the Daleks, and breaks it. The antibodies batter at the
Daleks,
forcing them into retreat.
Meanwhile
the Doctor and Bellal make their escape. The floor pattern
is now
safe to run across. Fluctuating lighting indicates the City's
disorientation.
The Daleks
can make no impression on the antibodies. They beat a
speedy
retreat towards the City's entrance, the one Dalek that is
still
armed covering the other, as the antibodies lurch relentlessly
after
them.
The Doctor
and Bellal arrive at a section of wall that is moving
erratically up and down, as if uncertain whether to open or close.
The
Doctor's sabotage of the City is taking effect; its controls are
beginning
to break down. The section of wall proves more of a
problem to
the escaping Daleks, as they cannot duck underneath it.
But the
Doctor and Bellal finally escape out of the City, where it
is
daylight again. Bellal is relieved, but the Doctor knows the
battle is
not over yet - the Daleks will still do everything they
can to
prevent the Earth mission ship from getting away. He urges
Bellal to
come with him.
The
Daleks, with Galloway and Hamilton still captive, await the
destruction of the beacon by the explosive device, and the
restoration of power. 'Prepare for immediate takeoff. The prisoners
will load
the parrinium aboard our ship.' Hamilton asks about Jill,
and is
told she escaped when it was dark. He looks grimly pleased to
hear this.
The two men start loading bags into the Daleks' saucer.
Bellal and
the Doctor arrive, and observe this from behind a large
rock, but
there is nothing they can do to stop it. 'I know the
Daleks,'
says the Doctor, 'and they'll cause the maximum havoc and
destruction before they go.' 'Why?' asks Bellal. 'It's their
scorched
planet policy,' the Doctor explains. Sarah and Jill arrive
from the
Earth ship, with news that it is all set for takeoff the
moment
power is restored. But Jill cannot pilot the ship. She will
need
Hamilton and Galloway - who are currently occupied loading
parrinium
bags into the Daleks' saucer.
In the
saucer, standing with Galloway, Hamilton looks at his watch
and counts
off the seconds until the detonation of the charge
attached
to the beacon's main support -
- and the
support is toppled by a tremendous explosion at the summit
of the
City -
- and the
power in the Dalek ship comes back on immediately.
'They've
destroyed the beacon!' Jill cries jubilantly, looking up at
the City's
summit with the Doctor, Sarah and Bellal. The Daleks
arrive,
cutting the celebrations short. Most Daleks enter the ship,
while one
remains behind. 'Well don't prolong the agony,' says the
Doctor
defiantly, while Sarah holds a terrified Bellal. 'It's
obvious
you mean to kill us, why don't you get on with it?' 'It is
not
necessary,' is the Dalek's reply. 'You will perish with the rest
of the
creatures.' The Dalek explains: 'We have all the parrinium we
need. With
it we can force the space powers to accede to our
demands.
If they do not, millions of people on the outer planets
will
perish.' Hamilton points out that now the power barrier has
been
broken, Earth can have another ship on Exxilon in less than a
month. 'I
imagine the Daleks have already taken that into account,
Peter,'
says the Doctor. 'Correct,' the Dalek confirms. 'When our
ship is in
space we will fire a plague missile onto the surface of
this
planet. The plague will destroy all life and make further
landings
here impossible.' The Dalek backs into the saucer as it
delivers
this news. The door of the ship starts to close. 'Galloway,
for God's
sake use the bomb!' yells Hamilton desperately to his
comrade
still inside the ship. The Doctor ushers everyone away to
avoid
being caught in the ship's exhaust blast. It lifts off in a
cloud of
white dust.
'Well,'
says Sarah as they watch the Dalek ship depart, 'it's not
much
consolation, but at least they don't have the parrinium.' She
explains
to the Doctor: 'The Daleks have only got bags of sand. Jill
and I
loaded the real parrinium aboard the Earth ship.'
Hamilton
regrets ever trusting Galloway. With the Dalek bomb that he
insisted
on keeping, they could have damaged the Daleks' ship. 'If I
knew where
he was...' he says furiously.
In the
ship, a Dalek orders preparation of the launch of a plague
missile.
Unseen by the Daleks, Galloway is hiding behind the bags of
sand with
the remaining explosive charge. He sets the detonator, and
presses
the button -
- and the
Dalek saucer explodes, white fire spraying outwards from
the
buckling wreck.
'Galloway,' breathes Hamilton. Jill realises Galloway must have
hidden
away on the Dalek ship when he and Hamilton were putting the
bags on
board. 'Well, he did his duty,' says the Doctor solemnly.
'Now you
must do yours. Get that parrinium to where it's needed.'
'Doctor -
look!' calls Sarah. 'Look at the City.'
The City
is dying, melting, falling to pieces. Ghostly wails seem to
echo
distantly as it falls apart. Sarah watches in awe, then turns
to look at
the Doctor. 'It's rather a pity in a way,' he says
pensively.
'Now the Universe is down to six hundred and ninety-nine
wonders.'
Source:
Andy Campbell
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The Monster of
Peladon
The Monster of
Peladon
Serial YYY
Producer
Barry
Letts
Script
Editor
Terrance
Dicks
Designer
Gloria
Clayon
Fight
Arranger
Terry
Walsh Written by Brian Hayles
Directed by Lennie Mayne
Incidental Music by Dudley Simpson
Jon
Pertwee (The Doctor), Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith),
Donald Gee (Eckersley), Nina Thomas (Thalira), Frank Gatliff
(Ortron) [1-5], Rex Robinson (Gebek), Ralph Watson (Ettis)
[1-4], Ysanne Churchman (Voice of Alpha Centauri), Stuart Fell
(Body of Alpha Centauri), Gerald Taylor (Vega Nexos) [1],
Graeme Eton (Preba) [1-2,4], Michael Crane (Blor) [1], Terry
Walsh (Guard Captain) [1-4], Nick Hobbs (Aggedor) [2-3,6], Roy
Evans (Miner) [3-4], Alan Bennion (Azaxyr) [4-6], Sonny
Caldinez (Sskel) [4-6]*, Max Faulkner (Miner) [6].
*
Also at the end of Part 3, uncredited.
The
TARDIS brings the Doctor and Sarah to the medieval planet
Peladon, some half a century after the Time Lord's first
visit. Now under the benign influence of the Galactic
Federation, the Pel nobles enjoy new riches and new
technology.
But
the Federation is at war with Galaxy Five, and Peladon has
taken on a new tactical importance; it is rich in the rare
mineral trisilicate, which is vital to the war effort. The Pel
miners, however, are in revolt. For too long they have been
overworked and taken for granted by the Federation and the Pel
royalty. They believe that Federation machinery has awoken the
spirit of the legendary Aggedor, who is now slaughtering
aliens and unbelievers. As open rebellion erupts, the
Federation sends in a hard-line military taskforce - Commander
Azaxyr and his Ice Warriors.
The
Doctor and Sarah must not only act as peace-keepers
between the warring factions but also discover the truth
behind the 'spirit'. They soon learn that the Galactic
Federation has been infiltrated by traitors and spies,
determined to destroy the alliance from within...
Original
Broadcast (UK)
Part One 23rd March, 1974 5h30pm - 5h55pm
Part Two 30th March, 1974 5h30pm - 5h55pm
Part Three 6th April, 1974 5h30pm - 5h55pm
Part Four 13th April, 1974 5h30pm - 5h55pm
Part Five 20th April, 1974 5h30pm - 5h55pm
Part Six 27th April, 1974 5h30pm - 5h55pm
Notes:
Released on video in episodic format. [+/-]
THE MONSTER OF PELADON
U.K. Release: January 1996 / U.S. Release: May 1997
PAL - BBC video BBCV5781 (2
tapes)
NTSC - CBS/FOX video 8494 (2
tapes)
NTSC - Warner Video E1377 (2
tapes)
Novelised as Doctor Who and the Monster of Peladon by
Terrance Dicks. [+/-]
Number 43 in the Doctor Who Library.
Hardcover Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: December 1980.
ISBN: ?.
Cover by Steve Kyte.
Price: ?.
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: December 1980. Reprinted in 1982,
1984, 1987.
ISBN: 0 426 20132 9.
Cover by Steve Kyte.
Price: 85p.
Paperback Edition - Virgin Publishing Ltd.
First Edition: June 1992.
ISBN: 0 426 20132 9.
Cover by Alister Pearson.
Price: 2.99.
Retitled: Doctor Who - The Monster of Peladon.
Doctor Who Magazine Archive: Issue #216.
Part One
(drn:
24'59")
The story
begins at a mighty castle situated on a rocky crag
illuminated by flashes of lightning. It is the Citadel of Peladon,
previously
visited by the Doctor and Jo.
Beneath
the towering citadel, a group of men are gathered in a mine.
The
stripe-haired men are pushing a complex technological device.
Suddenly,
a strange humming noise is heard. A roar rips through the
air and
the men flee before the terrifying visage of Aggedor -- the
royal
creature they worship. A bright red light strikes one miner
and he
falls to the ground dead. The remainder flee in horror.
In another
part of the mine, the silver-clad Federation chief miner
--
Eckersley -- is inspecting a lump of rock. The rock glows amber
and he
says with satisfaction that this is precisely what they need.
A
centaur-like creature -- Vegas Nexos -- worries that the mining is
going so
slowly. But at least the natives have agreed to use the
sonic
lance.
But just
as he says this, the terrified miners rush by. They stop
one --
Ettis -- and e babbles that Aggedor appeared to them, angry
over the
blasphemous use of the lance in his holy mountain.
Later, the
Federation representatives meet with the rulers of
Peladon in
the ancient throne room. The high priest and chancellor
-- an
older red-and-silver haired man named Ortron -- leads the
discussion. The beautiful red-headed queen -- Thalira -- listens
attentively as he tells Eckersley that his people will not work out
of fear.
Eckersley relates the tale of Aggedor's appearance but is
dismissive, which angers Ortron. Alpha Centauri -- a green one-eyed
hexapod --
tries to mollify the chancellor.
The queen
asks if Aggedor actually appeared but Nexos says that the
Pels are
primitive and superstitious. He thinks it is the work of
saboteurs
to keep the Pels from using the equipment. He explains
that the
sonic lance alone would increase their mining efficiency
ten fold.
Thalira
suggests they demonstrate the equipment to the miners to
assuage
their fears. The Federation people agree and thank her for
her help,
Alpha Centauri adding that the sooner they can get enough
trisilicate out of the mines, the sooner they can end the war.
After they
leave, Ortron objects to the queen attending the
demonstration, fearful for her safety. She explain that she wants to
fulfill
her father's dreams of Federation membership. He expresses
his
support for her but reminds her that they will have to make some
sacrifices
to make progress.
Later that
night, as Ortron offers prayers up in the temple to the
statue of
Aggedor, a guard hears a strange sound in he mines. He
watches in
astonishment as the TARDIS materializes before his eyes.
Out burst
a tall gray-haired man and a pretty young woman -- the
Doctor and
Sarah Jane Smith. The Doctor is boasting about how much
the
Citadel of Peladon will impress Sarah. But she is less than
impressed
to find herself in "another rotten gloomy old tunnel."
They
decide to find out where they are and start walking through the
mines,
watched by the hidden guard.
The Doctor
thinks they are on Peladon but have just missed the
Citadel.
Sarah isn't so sure and wants to go home. But the Doctor
explains
he has wanted to return for a long time and check up on his
friend,
the King.
At that
moment, Eckersley, Nexos and the miners are setting up the
lance.
When the queen arrives, she is greeting by Gebek, the chief
miner. He
is confident the demonstration will placate the miners.
But Ettis
leaps in and begs the queen to not allow this blasphemy.
Nexos
repeats his belief that the appearances of Aggedor are the
work of
spies. Gebek muses that the guards saw some aliens earlier.
Ortron
immediately orders the guards to find and destroy the aliens.
The Doctor
is having trouble finding the Citadel. Sarah against
wants to
go back but the Doctor resists. He still wants to see the
King --
and he has to admit he is lost.
The lance
is ready. Nexos activates it and a section of wall
shimmers,
distorts and explodes, leaving a cleanly cut tunnel to
main seam
of trisilicate. But the moment of triumph is stopped by
the
strange hum. The miners back off but Nexos strides forward
confidently. The bright red light shines on him and he drops
lifeless
to the ground while the miners run for their lives.
The Doctor
has now wandered into a familiar part of the tunnels. But
guards
suddenly appear. Before the Doctor can speak, Sarah runs for
it. The
Doctor follows and they find one of the secret doors. It
opens up
into the Temple of Aggedor.
Sarah is
impressed by the Temple. The Doctor starts to tell her the
story of
his last visit but is interrupted by the arrival of the
guards
through the secret door.
The time
travelers are brought into the throne room. When Thalira
and Ortron
arrive, they are made to kneel. Ortron promptly accuses
them of
sabotage and blasphemy. Sarah tries to answer but is
silenced.
The Doctor first asks for their names and gives his
respects
to them.
He then
asks about King Peladon. Thalira explains that he was her
father but
died when she was a child. The Doctor tells her that he
was
friends with Peladon and introduces himself. Thalira recognizes
his name
but Ortron is still suspicious.
Just then,
Alpha Centauri arrives. It recognizes the Doctor
immediately and they greet each other with delight. Centauri tells
Thalira
that it doesn't know the female -- adding that she's of no
important
(to Sarah's annoyance). But this is definitely the Doctor.
Ortron
still thinks the aliens are dangerous but Alpha Centauri says
it will
vouch for them. Thalira overrules Ortron and releases the
Doctor and
Sarah into Alpha Centauri's custody. Sarah starts to
demand an
apology for their treatment but the Doctor quickly drags
her out of
the throne room.
After they
leave Ortron reiterates his distrust of the Doctor. He
reminds
the queen that it was the Doctor who got them into the
Federation
in the first place. Thalira replies that they won't learn
anything
by killing him. If he is an enemy, he'll reveal it sooner
or later.
Gebek is
with the miners. He wants to talk to the queen about the
work
conditions, but Ettis objects. He thinks she is just a puppet
of the
Federation. The miners want to start fighting their rulers
but Gebek
insists that they try to work with the queen. After he
leaves,
Ettis tells the miners they will wait until Gebek is meeting
with the
queen -- and then they'll start fighting.
Sarah Jane
is still fuming over their treatment -- especially Alpha
Centauri's
remark that females are of no importance -- as they walk
through
the halls of the Citadel. The Doctor points out that Alpha
Centauri
did save their lives. As they pass a curtain, it parts to
reveal
Ettis and his miners.
Gebek
approaches Ortron who tells him he is not allowed to see the
queen. But
Gebek is insistent, saying his task is too urgent to
formally
request an audience. Ortron relents and lets him in. Gebek
asks the
queen to send the Federation aliens away.
But even
as he speaks, Ettis and the miners have found the armory.
They
attack the guards and start to break in.
The Doctor
has reached the communications room and is speaking to
Eckersley.
He thinks that the Federation has only brought this
trouble on
itself -- Peladon has seen no progress in the
half-century of Federation membership. Alpha Centauri objects that
the Pels
oppose change.
Eckersley
then explains that their need for trisilicate is
desperate.
The Doctor asks about the war, pointing out that the
Federation
is supposed to be peaceful. Alpha Centauri explains that
they have
been attacked by Galaxy Five and their attackers refuse to
negotiate
a peace. Trisilicate is the basis of all the Federation's
technology
and thus the supply of it is critical. It would be in the
interest
of Galaxy Five to disrupt that supply.
They are
interrupted by an alarm. Eckersley switches on the monitor
and see
that the miners are attacking the armory. They've broken
through
the outer wooden door but run up against an impregnable
metal one.
Ettis tells Graber to get an alien to open it for them.
Eckersley
is curiously unconcerned about the attack. The armory door
is solid
duralinium and Ortron will soon dispatch his guards to deal
with the
problem. Sarah is appalled that he can be callous about the
miners
getting killed. Just then, a miner bursts in with a knife. He
demands
that Eckersley open the door for them. But the Doctor
attacks
and overpowers him.
Despite
the attack, the Doctor is still sympathetic to the miners.
He wonders
why they are resorting to such tactics. He decides to
take his
attacker before Thalira. After they leave, Alpha Centauri
approaches
Sarah who jumps at the sight of the hexapod. Centauri
laments
that its appearance is frightening to humans but Sarah
reassures
it that she's just nervous.
In the
throne room, Ortron explains to Gebek that it is for the
rulers to
make all decisions on Peladon. Gebek warns him that there
may be a
rebellion, which alarms Thalira. Gebek quickly assures her
of his
personal loyalty. But just then, the guards arrive and inform
them of
the attack on the armory. The Doctor then comes in with his
prisoner.
Ortron now
believes Gebek has betrayed them and wants both thrown
into
prison. The Doctor objects but Ortron is insistent that they
must be
executed for treason. The Doctor gets into a fight with the
guards,
during which Gebek escapes. Ortron gloats that the Doctor
has shown
his true colors. Since he is clearly in league with the
miners, he
will die in their place. The Doctor points out that had
they
killed Gebek, he would have become a martyr for an immediate
rebellion.
He again offers to help -- specifically in proving that
the
Aggedor appearances are a trick.
Thalira
agrees to this, greatly angering Ortron. The Doctor asks to
see where
the last appearance of Aggedor was and she send her
champion
Blor to escort him. The gigantic mute champion leads the
Doctor
away. Ortron, furious at the queen's defiance, leaves as
well.
Outside, he tells the guards to captured or kill Gebek and his
allies.
Ettis,
meanwhile, has placed explosive in the mine to seal up the
tunnel
carved by the sonic lance.
Eckersley
tells Sarah about the Doctor's confrontation in the throne
room. She
worries that he has only talked himself into more trouble.
The Doctor
and Blor go into the tunnel, over the objections of the
reluctant
champion. The Doctor can see that the trisilicate vein is
very rich.
No wonder it is of such importance to the Federation.
Ettis
watches all this. He is delighted that he will be able to kill
an alien
and the queen's champion.
The Doctor
starts to look for evidence. Gebek arrives just as Ettis
blows up
the tunnel. The rocks crash down, trapping the Doctor and
Blor. They
survive the rock fall but at that moment, a new menace
appears.
With a humming noise and a red glow, the ghost of Aggedor
appears in
the cavern. It breathes fire and Blor collapses to he
ground,
dead. It looms menacingly over the Doctor...
Part Two
(drn:
23'26")
The Doctor
and Blor have gone to investigate a mine shaft at which a
ghostly
apparition of Aggedor has appeared and scared off the
miners.
But the rebellious Ettis has already decided to blow up the
mine
shaft. They are trapped within when they hear a humming noise.
With a
roar, the spirit of Aggedor appears. A red blast strikes down
the
queen's champion. It looms menacingly over the Doctor.
But then
it disappears just as suddenly as it came. The Doctor
begins to
dig himself out.
Outside,
Gebek is furious with the miners. Ettis tells him that they
have
simply given the cave back to the sacred mountain -- and
trapped
the aliens in the bargain. Gebek is appalled when he
realizes
that Gebek has trapped the Doctor -- his only real ally.
Quickly,
he starts to the dig the Doctor out. His fellow miners
hesitate
for a moment but then join in.
But the
stones are too big and heavy to be moved by hand. Gebek hits
on the
idea of using the sonic lance to re-open the cave. His fellow
miners
object but he begins tinkering with it. It starts to power
up. The
Doctor hears the lance inside the cave and divers for cover.
The walls
distort and a small hole is blown through the wall of
rock. It
is in the nick of time -- with a humming sound, Aggedor
returns to
finish off the Doctor. He nimbly leaps through the hole
in the
rock as it blazes at him, escaping its lethal blast just in
time.
Sarah is
just thinking that the Doctor has been away too long when
an
emergency sounds about the explosives. She decided to look for
him but
Alpha Centauri thinks they should wait for help. Sarah is
undeterred, however, and races to the mines while Alpha Centauri
calls
Eckersley for help. Sarah dashes into the temple, through the
secret
door and into the mines.
The Doctor
has told Gebek and Ettis his story. He offers to help but
Ettis is
skeptical. The Doctor explains that they must find out the
truth of
Aggedor for the good of all Peladon. He tells them if they
go back to
work, he will try to persuade the Federation to improve
working
conditions. Ettis repeats that they will not work while
Aggedor is
angry but the Doctor counters that this is probably why
their
enemies are using Aggedor in the first place.
Their
conversation is interrupted by the arrival of palace guards. A
fight
breaks out between the miners and guards. Even as Sarah closes
in on the
Doctor, he knocks out the guards and runs away with the
miners.
Sarah has
taken a wrong turn however and comes upon a metal door and
a
diffusing window in the mine. She sees a shape moving behind the
window and
calls for help. But the shape disappears and the lights
go out
behind the window. Sarah is about to knock on the door when
she is
suddenly enveloped in swirling colors and a blazing alarm
klaxon.
Eckersley
arrives in the communications room. He realizes that Sarah
has
triggered the refinery alarm. He turns it off and the young
woman
collapses. Alpha Centauri wonders if Sarah is hurt and
Eckersley
says that if she was there too long, her mind could be
seriously
affected. He rushes out to lend aide.
Gebek, the
miners and the Doctor have stopped in a safe passage. The
miners
tell the Doctor of their lives -- all they do is work and
sleep,
earning barely enough to feed their families. Membership in
the
Federation has made things better for the nobles, but not for
the
miners.
The Doctor
again states that the appearances of Aggedor are a trick.
He advises
the miners not to try anything else -- but lets slip that
the armory
doors are controlled from the communications room. When
he says
this, Ettis looks like a man with an idea. The Doctor
advises
them to return to work and he will help them. Gebek agrees
and orders
the miners to stop their violence -- they reluctantly
concede.
The Doctor
asks Gebek if it is possible to meet with Thalira without
Ortron.
Gebek agrees to lead him to a secret passage. After they
leave,
Ettis decides they should attack anyway -- and this time open
the armory
door from the communications room.
Sarah
wakes up as Eckersley arrives. She appears to be all right.
She tells
the miner that she saw someone in the refinery but he
explains
that she must have hallucinated because of the alarm -- the
refinery
is empty. They return to the communications room. But as
they
leave, a faint green shape appears in the refinery window.
The
Doctor's way to Thalira is blocked by the guards. A young miner
named
Preba leads some away and the Doctor and Gebek knock the rest
out.
Ortron
explains to Thalira that the Doctor must be her enemy. Blor
is dead
and he has been seen with Gebek. Thalira wants to believe in
the Doctor
but the chancellor pushes her to crush the mine rebellion
and
execute the Doctor.
Sarah,
meanwhile, is having an argument with Eckersley. She chides
him for
putting such a dangerous alarm at the refinery but he
reminds
her that Peladon is a dangerous place. Just as he is
explaining
about the need to show the miners how progress will help
them,
Ettis leaps out from hiding. he knocks out Eckersley and
captures
Sarah and Alpha Centauri. He takes them to the
communications room and demands that they open the armory. At first
Alpha
Centauri refuses but Ettis threatens to kill Sarah.
Gebek is
leading the Doctor into the Citadel to negotiate even as
Ettis'
miners attacks the armory guard. Alpha Centauri operates the
controls
to open the metal doors. But this set off an alarm.
Ortron,
hearing the alarm, races to Thalira to inform her that the
armory is
being raided. The rebellion has begun! He laments that
this is
what comes of softness with the common people.
The miners
emerge from the armory with federation blasters and gun
down the
queen's guards.
Ettis is
furious that Alpha Centauri has set off the alarm, but the
hexapod
pleads ignorance. As he is about to stab the ambassador,
Sarah
stops him and tells him he should run. He agrees -- but takes
Sarah with
him as a hostage. A frantic Alpha Centauri then goes into
the
hallway and wakes up Eckersley.
Sarah
manages to squirm free from Ettis as they are about to enter
the mine.
But she is promptly captured by Ortron.
In the
mines, Ettis runs into Gebek and delightedly crows that
they've
won. Gebek decides he needs to go with them to prevent more
violence
and the Doctor goes into the Citadel on his own.
Eckersley,
recovered from his attack, worries what will happen now
that the
miners are armed. Alpha Centauri is distraught that it
opened the
door and explains to Eckersley why it did. The guards
report
that Sarah has been recaptured and Ortron thinks she was
working
with the rebels.
Sarah is
desperately trying to explain events to Ortron, but the
chancellor
is determined that she is in league with the rebels. He
points out
that the armory was opened because of her. As he speaks,
the Doctor
lets himself into the temple through the secret passage
and tries
to defend Sarah. But Ortron turns the tables on him and
gets him
to admit talking to Ettis in the tunnels.
The Doctor
tries to explain that their only choice is to ally with
Gebek. He
wants to discuss this with the queen but Ortron says he
will
handle this himself. He begins praying to Aggedor for advice.
Alpha
Centauri tries to explain to the queen that Sarah was a victim
of the
rebels. Eckersley wonders if it was a put-up job. The Queen
decides to
trust Alpha Centauri but points out that in the Temple of
Aggedor,
Ortron has absolute authority.
Ortron has
come to a decision. Since the Doctor and Sarah have
blasphemed
against Aggedor, they will be punished by him.
Alpha
Centauri pleads with Queen Thalira, but the young woman is
insistent
that she has no real power. The hexapod quietly suggests
that
perhaps it is time that this changed. Encouraged, Thalira goes
with the
ambassador to the temple.
Ortron's
guards move an altar to unveil a pit. The Doctor and Sarah
are pushed
forward even as Thalira tries to get past the guard. She
finally
gets into the temple but not before the time travelers are
thrown
into the pit. Thalira is furious but Ortron insists that they
will now
face the judgment of Aggedor.
In the
dark, dirty pit, the Doctor helps Sarah up. It smells musky
-- like a
lion house. A Peladon-shattering roar rings out and the
furry
royal beast charges at them out of the darkness!
Part Three
(drn:
24'47")
The Doctor
and Sarah have been condemned by the Peladon
chancellor/priest Ortron. They are flung into a pit to be "judged
by
Aggedor" even as the queen rushes in to try to save them. With a
colossal
roar, the shaggy monster charges out of the darkness.
But even
as Thalira is demanding that Ortron rescue them, the Doctor
is trying
to calm the animal. Remembering their earlier encounter,
he takes
out a watch and begins singing a lullaby to the best as he
swings it
through the air. It immediately calms down and they are
able pet
the furry, purring creature. The Doctor then calls up
Ortron,
demanding to be released -- an order echoed icily by the
queen.
Alpha
Centauri crows to Eckersley that the Doctor has been
exonerated. But the Federation miner remains pessimistic now that
the miners
have Federation weapons. He thinks they should call in
Federation
troops to help. He points out that if things go badly,
Alpha
Centauri would be held responsible. The hexapod wants to talk
to the
Doctor before making any decisions. But when Eckersley
realizes
that the sonic lance is an incredibly dangerous weapon and
runs off
to secure it, this frightens the ambassador enough to make
it send
out an urgent radio message for help.
In the
throne room, Thalira is furious with Ortron. She tells him
that the
Doctor must now be considered vindicated. The chancellor,
unused to
such headstrong behavior from the queen, stomps out.
Thalira
asks the Doctor and Sarah to join her for refreshments. As
they eat,
the Doctor explains that the miners on the verge of
rebellion
and Gebek is the only moderate. He explains that it is
Ettis and
his followers who raided the armory. He strongly advises
her to
meet with Gebek and offer better working conditions. She
replies
that Ortron thinks this will just make the miners demand
more. But
Sarah thinks that Ortron just wants to keep the benefits
of
Federation membership for the nobles.
Thalira
agrees to try to work things out and asks the Doctor to
bring
Gebek to her in secret. He leaves to do so but asks Sarah to
stay and
talk to the queen.
After he
leaves, Sarah starts talking to Thalira about women's
liberation. Thalira explains that Peladon has always been ruled by
men -- she
was only chosen because her father died young with no
male
children. She explains that Ortron has all the real power since
she is
"only a girl". Sarah replies, "There's nothing only about
being a
girl." She says that one way or another, Thalira is the
queen and
she should let them know it.
Ettis and
Gebek are arguing, with the younger man insisting they
should now
assault the Citadel itself. Gebek points out that they
can't take
on the entire Federation with a handful of guns.
The
Doctor, meanwhile, is angry that Alpha Centauri has called for
troops. He
thinks it will only the situation worse. Sarah arrives
and tells
the Doctor about her experience at the refinery. She
thinks
that if someone were causing the Aggedor tricks, the refinery
would be a
perfect place to do it from -- they would have power,
technology
and secrecy. The Doctor agrees to investigate but wants
to talk to
Gebek first.
Ortron
overhears this in the corridor and tells the Doctor he is to
stay in
the Citadel until the investigation is complete. Clearly, he
still
thinks of himself as having all the power.
He goes
into the hall and waits. When the Doctor slips out anyway,
Ortron's
men follow him. They, in turn, are followed by Sarah.
The Doctor
opens the secret door and the guards spring out and
arrest
him. Orton orders the Doctor to be taken to the dungeons.
After they
leave, Sarah takes the secret passage, determined to
carry out
the Doctor's mission for him.
Gebek and
Ettis watch from hiding as Eckersley tries to secure the
sonic
lance. Sarah arrives and, trying to keep her motives secret,
tells
Eckersley the Doctor wants to make sure the lance was secured
from the
rebels. The hiding miners want to attack but Gebek tells
Ettis to
wait a moment.
Alpha
Centauri is again protesting to the queen over the treatment
of the
Doctor. Ortron insists that Thalira told him to investigate
the
rebellion but Alpha Centauri replies that the Doctor has
Federation
protection. Ortron then craftily points out that the
Doctor has
no official identify. But Thalira, inspired by Sarah's
talk,
tells Ortron that she has given the Doctor her personal
protection.
Ortron
insists that the Doctor remain in prison and Sarah be
arrested.
But the queen surprises him by standing her ground,
insisting
that at least Sarah remain free. Ortron agrees but says it
is only
because Sarah, being a female, is unimportant.
Ettis
finally launches his attack on the lance. Eckersley swiftly
activates
the device, making the cave collapse. But Gebek has snuck
up behind
the Federation man and forces him to stop. Sarah now
explains
to Gebek that queen wants to meet with him and he agrees to
come at
the earliest chance. He then sets Eckersley free over Ettis'
objections. But he has the miners secure the lance.
Back in
the throne room, Eckersley tells the queen that the lance,
at full
power, could wipe out the entire Citadel. Alpha Centauri
tries to
assure everyone by telling them Federation troops are on
the way
but this only infuriates everyone. They don't want outside
interference.
Sarah
comes up with a plan. If they all pretend everything is fine
while the
troops are there, the Federation soldiers will quickly
leave.
In the
prison, the Doctor tries a trick to get the keys off the
guard, but
fails.
Sarah and
Alpha Centauri are delighted that Ortron has agreed to her
plan to
fool the Federation troops. She then decides to break the
Doctor out
of the dungeon.
Gebek
sneaks into the Citadel to meet with the queen, but runs into
Sarah. He
advises her to return to the queen -- he'll rescue the
Doctor.
While the
Doctor distracts the guard with a magic trick, Gebek
sneaks up
and knocks the man out. The Doctor asks Gebek to lead him
to the
refinery -- he is now convinced that Sarah is right and it is
the source
of their troubles.
As they
race to the refinery, Ettis finds a rocky outcropping and
points the
sonic lance at the Citadel.
Gebek
explains to the Doctor that the Pels will rebel if Federation
troops
arrive. The Doctor agrees but decides he needs to expose the
Aggedor
fraud first. They hide and see miners walking through the
tunnels,
followed by armed guards. Gebek is outraged - his men won't
work if
they are under constant guard.
In the
communications room, a hissing rasping voice on the console
tells
Alpha Centauri, Sarah and Eckersley that the troops will be
landing
soon. They wonder among themselves if the ruse will last
long
enough to fool the troops.
Gebek
leads the Doctor to the refinery but warns him about the alarm
system.
The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to open the alarm box
and begins
to tinker with it.
Eckersley,
worried about the location of the lance, begins to check
the
surveillance monitors. He spies Ortron talking to the miners;
then sees
the Doctor and Gebek breaking into the refinery.
Alpha
Centauri suddenly wonders if the Doctor is, in fact, in league
with the
rebels. But Sarah explains their theory that the Aggedor
fraud is
being run out of the refinery. Eckersley thinks this is
ridiculous.
Ortron,
meanwhile, is talking to the miners. He tells them about the
Federation
troops and explains that their only choice is to act as
though
everything is fine. He appeals to them for the sake of
Peladon.
He promises that they will have a fair hearing of their
complaints
once the soldiers are gone. The miner are clearly
skeptical,
but agree to go back o work. But suddenly, the image of
Aggedor
appears and blasts down another terrified miner.
At the
refinery, Gebek hears the panicked cries. The Doctor finishes
his
burglary as the miners rush past in a frenzy of terror. But just
as he
finishes, the silver refiner door opens.
Out
strides the unmistakable shape of an Ice Warrior! The green
creature
levels its gun at the Doctor, ready to fire!
Part Four
(drn:
24'50")
The Doctor
and Sarah Jane are in the midst of investigating the
troubles
in the Peladon mines. The Doctor is breaking into the
refinery
when the image of Aggedor attacks the miners. As they
terrified
miners flee, the door to the refinery opens and a massive
ice
warrior steps out, his sonic gun leveled at the Time Lord.
The Ice
Warrior does not fire, but takes the Doctor prisoner.
Eckersley
is watching on the monitor when the Martian commander --
Azaxyr --
strides into the communications room and informs them that
the planet
is now under martial law.
The miners
explain to Ettis that Gebek is meeting with the queen.
The young
man thinks its a trick but won't do anything about it.
This
angers the other miners and he is forced to agree to rescue
Gebek.
Azaxyr
sums up the situation in the throne room. Ortron claims there
is a
rebellion; Gebek says they have been cheated by the nobles.
Ortron
says the Doctor is a spy; Alpha Centauri says he is an old
friend.
Gebek says that Aggedor appears because he is angry; the
Doctor
says it is a trick.
The Doctor
jokes that Azaxyr should be a judge. The Martian coldly
responds
that under martial law, he *is* judge, jury and
executioner.
Azaxyr
notes that only Eckersley hasn't said anything and the miner
replies
that he just wants to do his job. This pleases the Martian
commander.
He doesn't care what the situation is on Peladon -- all
he cares
about is getting the trisilicate. Of course, the Doctor
reminds
him that the situation is what is causing the problems
getting
trisilicate. The problems can not be separated.
Azaxyr
proposes that the miners work under Ortron's armed guards --
and that
the guards kill anyone who refused to work. Both Gebek and
Ortron
refuse to obey this command but Azaxyr tells them he has
taken
hostages and will start executing them if the miners do not go
back to
work.
Ettis has
led the miners to the brink of the Citadel. He has
formulated
a plan. They will tell the Federation to leave or they
will
destroy the Citadel with the lance. After they go through the
secret
door, they capture a guard and demand to be taken to Gebek.
Thalira is
protesting against the Federation's brutal methods. Alpha
Centauri
chimes in that the Federation never uses such methods. But
Azaxyr
reminds them that they are at war -- he must get the
trisilicate at any cost.
The
Doctor, prompted by Sarah, asks what will happen if the terror
tactics
don't work. Azaxyr informs him that they will simply bring
in
Federation miners and do the work themselves. This unites all the
Pels, who
state flatly that they will fight any occupation. But the
Martian
commander is unfazed, angrily telling them that his space
fleet
would respond by blasting the planet to pieces. He then
reiterates
that he wants a peaceful solution.
Just then,
Ettis' men burst in and call out the Gebek. The Ice
Warriors
whirl and open fire, mercilessly gunning down the miners.
Only Ettis
is untouched and he flees for his life.
The Doctor
and Gebek kneel over the bodies as Azaxyr apologies for
the
massacre. He hopes another demonstration will not be necessary.
He orders
his lieutenant -- Skkel -- to take everyone to the
communications room. As he leaves, Thalira and Ortron join Gebek
kneeling
over the bodies of the miners. Ortron vows revenge for the
slaughter.
In the
communications room, Azaxyr tells the Doctor he's not sure
what to
make of the time traveler -- he should probably just let
Ortron
proceed with the execution. Alpha Centauri says that
Federation
regulations forbid it but Azaxyr again replies, "I am the
law."
The Doctor asks if he will get a trial but the Martian replies
that he
just had it.
The Doctor
then tells Azaxyr that it would be foolish to kill the
one man
who can help -- he is the only one Gebek trusts and Gebek is
the key to
the miners. Alpha Centauri and Eckersley hurriedly back
up the
Doctor's claim. Azaxyr relents and agrees to let the Doctor
talk to
Gebek -- but reminds the Time Lord he will be killed if he
fails.
Eckersley
and Azaxyr leave for the refinery. Sarah is angry that
Eckersley
is so callous. She's so frustrated she suggests just
finding
the TARDIS and leaving. But the Doctor reminds her they
don't know
where the TARIS is -- and besides, they can't abandon
their
friends.
The Doctor
then asks Sarah about her visit to the refinery and if
Skkel
looks familiar. Sarah realizes that the Ice Warrior is the
shape she
saw behind the refinery window. Alpha Centauri is
skeptical
but the Doctor is now sure the Ice Warriors were in the
refinery
the entire time. They must have an agenda of their own.
This
shocks the gentle Ambassador -- that would be treason!
The Doctor
leaves to talk to Gebek, Skkel reluctantly letting him
past.
Alpha Centauri decides to report Azaxyr's actions to the
Federation
but, as Sarah guessed, the communications lines are being
jammed by
the Martian fleet.
The Doctor
arrives in the throne room. He tries to persuade the Pels
to work
with Azaxyr but all three now want to resist the occupation.
The Doctor
then comes up with an idea -- they will pretend to
cooperate
long enough to buy some time.
Gebek
gives a speech to the miners in front of the Ice Warriors. He
cleverly
lets them know that they are to cooperate -- just as they
always
have with "our good friend Ortron". Just as they did over the
armory and
the sonic lance. The miners clearly get the point and
agree to
cooperate.
Azaxyr
congratulates the Doctor on his success. He says that he has
suspended
the death sentence but still doesn't trust the Doctor. He
reminds
the Doctor that his only chance of survival lies in
cooperation before sending him back to the communications room.
When the
Doctor gets to the communications room, he starts examining
the
controls. Sarah warns him that Azaxyr will kill him at the first
sign of
treachery, but the Doctor knows that Azaxyr will kill him
sooner or
later. He has to strike first. And he does so by turning
up the
heat in the mines.
While the
miners work, Ettis sneaks in and talks to Preba. He is
furious
they are working. He's convinced Gebek has betrayed them all
and he's
decided to blow up the Citadel with the lance. Preba tries
to stop
him but the insane Ettis stabs him and escapes.
As the
Doctor and Sarah watch the mine thermostat rise, the Doctor
explains
that the Martians will faint from the heat.
Gebek
notices the Ice Warriors are getting woozy. He asks a palace
guard if
they are ready to attack. The Ice Warrior then asks why it
is so hot.
Gebek explains that it is always hot. "If you can't stand
the heat,
keep out of the mine."
Ortron
briefs Thalira on the plan. She's hesitant to endanger her
people but
Alpha Centauri reassures her. Azaxyr enters and Thalira
tells him
she will be making a formal complaint about his behavior.
The
Martian leader hisses that they can't use the communications
lines
until the emergency is over. She argues that the crisis is
over --
the miners are working. But Azaxyr is suspicious of how well
things are
going.
Gebek
finally gives the word and the miners fall upon the sleepy Ice
Warriors.
The Doctor and Sarah see this happening and call Skkel
over to
alert him. While the lumbering Martian stars in shock at the
screen,
the time travelers escape. Sarah worries that Azaxyr will
send more
troops into the mine but the Doctor reminds her the
warriors
will simply pass out from the heat, leaving the Citadel
undefended.
As the
fighting continues, Gebek finds the wounded Preba. Preba
quickly
tells him about Ettis. The Doctor arrives, is told about
Ettis and
decides he will handle that problem. Gebek needs to lead
the
miners. The Doctor grabs a sword and goes off in pursuit of
Ettis
while the Pels continue to pummel the defenseless Ice
Warriors.
Skkel
manages to capture Sarah and drags her back to the
communications room. Azaxyr and Skkel start to interrogate her.
The Doctor
arrives at a rocky cave overlooking the Citadel. He tries
to talk
Ettis out of firing -- explaining that the Pels have united
to fight
the Ice Warriors. Ettis doesn't believe him. Instead, he
draws his
sword and attacks.
Sarah
finally tells Azaxyr about the sonic lance. He calmly replies
that he
knows all about the lance. He turns on the monitor and
watches
Ettis and the Doctor fighting. He explains that he has
already
set the self-destruct on the lance. Even if Ettis wins and
fires the
lance, he will simply blow himself (and the Doctor) to
kingdom
come!
The Doctor
disarms Ettis but is then knocked out by the crazed man.
Ettis
switches on the lance. With a dazzling flash, the weapon
explodes.
Part Five
(drn:
23'56")
The Doctor
is trying to stop the deranged Ettis from using the sonic
lance to
destroy the citadel. Unbeknownst to him, the Martian
commander
has already set the device to destruct if switched on. The
young
miner eventually overpowers the Doctor and fires the lance. A
massive
explosion rips through the cave, knocking the Doctor to the
ground.
Sarah can
only stare in horror at the monitor screen as Azaxyr
assures
her that the Doctor's death was an unfortunate necessity.
But a
bitter Sarah points out that he hasn't won yet -- the rebels
control
the mines. The Martian commander, however, has already
turned off
the heat. And when Eckersley arrives, Azaxyr decides to
shut off
the mine ventilation system.
Sarah
tries pleading with the Federation commander, arguing that
many
miners will be killed if they leave the mines -- just as the
Doctor
already has. But Eckersley is determined not to join the
Doctor and
leaves to do Azaxyr's bidding.
One the
mountain, the Doctor blearily crawls to his feet. He looks
sadly at
he wrecked lance and the body of Ettis before wandering
back
toward the mine. He runs into Gebek and the Doctor sadly
explains
what happened. Gebek tells him that the Ice Warriors have
retreated
from the mines. But the heat has been shut off and the air
is getting
stale. He also reports that Sarah has disappeared.
Thalira
tries to comfort Sarah for the loss of the Doctor. Ortron
assures
her that the Doctor may have escaped -- which only reminds
Sarah of
the Doctor's relentless optimism.
Alpha
Centauri returns to inform them that Azaxyr is planning to
extend
martial law over the entire planet. Sarah wants to inform the
Federation
but Alpha Centauri only has the emergency distress
beacon. To
activate it, though, they would need to get past the Ice
Warrior
guard on the throne room.
Ortron
remembers the secret passage in the throne room. But it is in
view of
the Ice Warrior. Thalira points out that the Martian is too
slow to
stop them all. She wants to join her people in the mine,
although
Ortron doesn't want her endangered. But he finally agrees,
shamed by
her courage.
Alpha
Centauri reports to the Ice Warrior guard that the queen has
fainted.
When he goes in to check, Sarah pushes him and they all
run.
Unfortunately, the Ice Warrior steps on the queen's robe.
Ortron
tries to help her but is gunned down by Skkel. Azaxyr then
returns
and demands to know where the others have gone. Thalira
tells him
they've returned to the mines. He then taunts Thalira
about the
consequences of resistance. She sadly covers the dead
chancellor
with her robe.
The Doctor
and Gebek evade the warriors in the mine and get to the
refinery.
They hide as Azaxyr arrives and begins speaking to
Eckersley,
who seems strangely pleased that that Alpha Centauri and
Sarah have
fled to the mines.
Sarah is
pushing Alpha Centauri to activate the distress beacon, but
the
flustered ambassador can't remember how. It accidentally
switches
on the monitor and the image inside the refinery comes up.
Sarah
notes that the Eckersley and Azaxyr seems very friendly and
turns on
the sound.
As two
different groups listen in, Azaxyr tells Eckersley he sees no
reason to
continue the masquerade -- the planet is practically
theirs. He
then goes on to reveal they are ready to start shipping
trisilicate to Galaxy Five. The shocked listeners realize that they
are both
traitors!
Azaxyr
wants to finish things quickly, which Eckersley assures him
will
happen once the air runs out and they control the mines.
Eckersley
then suggests they smoke the miners out with Aggedor. With
a
flourish, he unveils the image that has been attacking the miners.
He
activates a transmat. Aggedor appears and attacks some miners,
then
returns to the refinery. Sarah realizes that Eckersley was
deliberately making things difficult so that Alpha Centauri would
call for
Azaxyr's help. Then, to her delight, she see the Doctor
peering
into the refinery through the door. She joyously leaves to
join him
in the mine.
Eckersley
receives a report that the miners are fleeing the mines --
only to be
gunned down by Azaxyr's troops. As he works on another
Aggedor
appearance, the Doctor relays the truth to Gebek. Gebek
wants to
rush into the refinery but the Doctor restrains him. They'd
be killed
by the Ice Warriors. They'll go in once the coast is
clear.
Soon
after, the two conspirators leave for the Citadel. The Doctor
and Gebek
hide as Eckersley ruefully notes that because of the
Doctor's
sabotage, he has to reset the alarm from the communications
room. They
leave an Ice Warrior standing guard.
Soon
after, Sarah arrives. When the Ice Warrior turns toward her,
Gebek
clubs the Martian down with a massive boulder. Sarah is
delighted
to see the Doctor but he is in a hurry to get into the
refinery
before the alarm is set. Sarah and Gebek drag the warrior
away as he
attacks the lock.
Alpha
Centauri is watching this on the monitor when Azaxyr and
Eckersley
return. Azaxyr is immediately suspicious and then realizes
that the
distress beacon has been activated. He angrily threatens
the
ambassador but Eckersley calms him. Azaxyr agrees to give Alpha
Centauri
one more chance and drags it off to the control room.
Eckersley
then switches on the alarm -- just as the Doctor has
finished
disabling it.
Azaxyr
tells Thalira that the mining will start again soon, using
all
Federation equipment. He demands full cooperation and Thalira
reluctantly agrees. Alpha Centauri then blurts out the Eckersley and
Azaxyr are
both traitors. The Martian orders the ambassador killed
but
Eckersley intervenes again. He admits they are traitors, which
causes
Thalira to refuse cooperation. Skkel simply points his gun at
the queen
to emphasize the threat.
Eckersley
then asks Alpha Centauri how it found out about the
treachery.
When they hear the story, Azaxyr realizes the queen lied
to him
about Sarah's whereabouts. He demands to know her location
but the
queen refuses to speak. He then threatens Alpha Centauri,
who caves
instantly. The Martian commander in enraged that the
Doctor is
still alive and sends Skkel off to kill the Time Lord.
The Doctor
finally breaks into the refinery and switches the mine
ventilation back on. He begins inspecting the Aggedor projection
equipment.
As he does, Skkel arrives and stars to blast the door
with his
sonic gun.
Sarah
smells something burning. The three heroes turn to see the
door
glowing. As they watch, more warriors arrive and add their fire
to
Skkel's. A massive hole begins to appear in the door.
Part Six
(drn:
23'48")
The Doctor
has broken into the Peladon refinery -- the core of a
conspiracy
to betray the Federation. But even as he inspects the
equipment,
the Ice Warriors attack the door, quickly burning a big
hole in
it.
But the
Doctor is ready for them. He operate the controls and makes
Aggedor
appear on the other side of the door. It attacks and kills
one Ice
Warrior. The others flee.
The Doctor
is delighted -- now they can use Aggedor for their side!
When Skkel
returns, Azaxyr boasts to Thalira that the Doctor is
dead. But
Skkel explains about Aggedor. Azaxyr wants to send more
warriors
but has none to send. Eckersley, however, quickly thinks of
a way to
flush the Doctor out.
Gebek
talks to the shaken miners. They are terrified but he explains
that
Aggedor was a trick of their enemies. He is sure the beast will
now fight
on their side and tells them to watch for his appearance.
In the
refinery, the Doctor finishes a countdown and activates the
transmat.
The miners
are losing patience when Aggedor appears. At first, they
are scared
but Gebek advances toward the apparition and is unharmed.
The miners
are impressed and agree to resume fighting.
Eckersley
and Azaxyr watch all this on a monitor. Azaxyr swears to
kill them
but Eckersley reminds him that the Doctor controls
Aggedor.
He brings up the refinery and hears the Doctor admiring the
system. He
thanks the Doctor for the compliment. The Doctor asks him
to give up
but Eckersley explains that the security system works
inside the
refinery as well as out. He turns it on at the lowest
level and
red lights begin to flash in the Doctor and Sarah's heads.
The Doctor
send Sarah to warn Gebek about the Ice Warrior
counterattack while he continues to work the controls. Azaxyr goes
to set an
ambush for the miners while Eckersley turns up the
intensity.
He tells the Doctor that the communications room is
shielded
from Aggedor.
The miners
encounter an Ice Warrior and Aggedor appears, striking
down the
Martian. The inspired Pels rush forward.
Azaxyr
angrily asks Eckersley why the Doctor is still in control.
The miner
turns up the security system to maximum intensity and
assure the
Martian commander that it will be any moment now. The
Doctor's
face is sweaty and strained as he continues to work the
controls.
Azaxyr
follows Skkel into the hallways and sets his ambush. The
miners run
right into it and are killed. But Aggedor reappears and
wipes out
the Martians except for Azaxyr. The miners rush back into
the
Citadel, led by Gebek.
The Doctor
finally gives in to the security system. He leans back in
his chair,
his face covered with sweat, and passes out.
Sarah
takes a gun off one of the bodies in the hall and confronts
Eckersley.
She forces him to turn off the alarm but he gloats that
the Doctor
is already dead. As Sarah stares in horror at the screen,
he takes
the gun. He bitterly laments that everything was going well
until she
and the Doctor arrived. He seems about to kill her but
then
leaves, locking her in. Sarah gazes sadly at the image of the
Doctor.
Eckersley
hides as Gebek passes, then kills one of the miners to get
away.
The rebels
reach the throne room to find Azaxyr and his last soldier
holding
guns on Thalira. They reluctantly lay down their arms. But
as Azaxyr
advances triumphantly on Gebek, they jump on him, turning
him around
so that the blast from his sonic gun kills the remaining
Ice
Warrior. The Martian commander is finally stabbed by a guard and
crumples
to the ground, dead at last.
Gebek goes
to Thalira, who seems unharmed. He tells Alpha Centauri
to contact
the Federation. The hexapod hurries to the communications
room where
it informs Sarah of the good news. But she is in tears
over the
Doctor and sadly walks back to the refinery.
Azaxyr's
body is dragged into the hallway as Eckersley watches from
behind a
tapestry. Alpha Centauri returns to tell Thalira about the
Doctor.
The queen can't believe Eckersley could be so evil. On cue,
he steps
in and kidnaps the queen. He wants to use her as a hostage
while he
flees to a hidden shuttle. He knocks out Alpha Centauri and
catches
Thalira before she can escape through the secret door. He
then drags
her through the door at gunpoint.
Sarah
arrives at the refinery and stands over the Doctor's body. She
begins to
cry again but, to her shock, the Doctor's eyes flutter
open.
"Tears?" he asks. He explains that he put himself into a coma
to survive
the machine. Sarah is outraged she was worried for
nothing
and the Doctor jokes it's like she would have preferred him
dead.
Gebek and
the miners return to the throne room to find Alpha
Centauri
knocked out. Meanwhile, Eckersley continues to drag Thalira
to his
escape. When the Doctor and Sarah return, Gebek is
distraught. Eckersley knows the mines extremely well -- they'll
never be
able to find him. But the Doctor quickly gets an idea.
Eckersley
pauses amidst a pile of dead bodies and the queen rebukes
him for
all the bloodshed he's brought to her planet.
The Doctor
puts his plan into action -- using Aggedor to track down
Eckersley.
The Federation miner takes a wrong turn and can't find
his way
back before the royal beast closes in. Eckersley threatens
to kill
the queen, but she bites his hand, forcing him to loosen his
grip.
With an
angry roar, Aggedor leaps on Eckersley. He fires his gun as
it bites
his neck and they both fall to the ground. The Doctor sadly
inspects
the noble creature but both combatants are dead.
Later,
Thalira is back on her throne, acknowledging her debt to the
Doctor.
She hopes he will stay long enough to be thanked properly.
She says
she needs his help but Sarah point out that she doesn't
need
anyone's help. Thalira then offers the Doctor a position as her
chancellor
but he suggest Gebek for the post. At first, Thalira
objects
that he's only a miner, but Sarah says, "There's nothing
only about
being a miner." Thalira then laments that all she can do
is give
her thanks. The Doctor is content with that.
Alpha
Centauri then reports that the war is over. Once the
trisilicate scheme failed, Galaxy Five was eager for peace.
Gebek then
informs the Doctor that his blue box has been found. The
Doctor
decides to go check on it. He and Sarah turn to leave. But
the queen,
clearly aware this is the last time she will see them,
wishes
them farewell. They turn and bow to her. She then takes her
seat and
calls for Gebek to approach.
The Doctor
and Sarah find the TARDIS. Sarah teases the Doctor that
he should
take the job. After all, it's a civil service post with a
pension.
he tells Sarah to get into the TARDIS but she says she
would hate
to stand in the way of his career. The Doctor playfully
grabs her
ear and drags her into the time machine. They take off,
once more
having saved Peladon.
Source:
Michael H. Siegel
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Planet of the
Spiders
Planet of the
Spiders
Serial ZZZ
Script
Editor
Terrance
Dicks
Designer
Rochelle
Selwyn
Fight
Arranger
Terry
Walsh [4] Written by Robert Sloman*
Directed by Barry Letts
Incidental Music by Dudley Simpson
Jon
Pertwee (Doctor Who)†, Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane
Smith), Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart)
[1-2,6], Richard Franklin (Mike Yates), John Levene (Sergeant
Benton) [1-2], Cyril Shaps (Professor Clegg) [1]; John Dearth
(Lupton), Christopher Burgess (Barnes), Terence Lodge (Moss),
Carl
Forgione (Land) [1-2,4-6], Andrew Staines (Keaver)
[1-2,4-6], Kevin Lindsay (Cho-je) [1-3,5-6]‡, John Kane
(Tommy), Chubby Oates (Policeman) [2], Pat Gorman (Soldier)
[2],
Terry Walsh (Man with Boat) [2], Michael Pinder (Hopkins)
[2],
Stuart Fell (Tramp) [2], Ysanne Churchman [2-6], Kismet
Delgado [3-6], Maureen Morris [3-6] (Spider Voices); Gareth
Hunt
(Arak) [3-6], Geoffrey Morris (Sabor) [3-5], Jenny Laird
(Neska) [3-5], Joanna Munro (Rega) [3-5]; Ralph Arliss (Tuar)
[3-6], Walter Randall [3-5], Max Faulkner [5]¶ (Guard
Captains); George Cormack (K'anpo) [6]§.
*
With Barry Letts, uncredited.
†
Although uncredited, the new Doctor, played by Tom Baker, is
seen
at the conclusion of Part 6.
‡
Credited on Part 2, but does not appear.
¶
Also in Part 4, uncredited.
§
Also in Part 5, uncredited.
In
the last and most dangerous adventure of the Pertwee years,
what
begins as innocuous research into ESP turns into a deadly
mind
battle, with the terrifying spiders from the planet
Metebelis Three pitted against The Doctor, his friends and
Time
Lord K'anpo.
At a
Tibetan-style spiritual retreat deep in rural England, a
clandestine circle of chanting brethren unknowingly call upon
the
evil powers of the Metebelis Spiders, whose quest for the
perfect blue crystal leads them straight to the Doctor. He
must
travel to the alien planet to meet the Great One,
merciless ruler of her spiders and human slaves, who plans to
take
over Earth.
The
future of the entire universe is in the Doctor's hands,
but
if he is to face the fear the Great One sees in his mind,
then
he must face the certainty of total destruction. Could
this
be the Time Lord's final death?
Original
Broadcast (UK)
Part One 4th May, 1974 5h45pm - 6h10pm
Part Two 11th May, 1974 5h40pm - 6h05pm
Part Three 18th May, 1974 5h40pm - 6h05pm
Part Four 25th May, 1974 5h30pm - 5h55pm
Part Five 1st June, 1974 5h35pm - 6h00pm
Part Six 8th June, 1974 5h35pm - 6h00pm
Notes:
Released on video in episodic format. [+/-]
PLANET OF THE SPIDERS
U.K. Release: April 1991 / U.S. Release: May 1994
PAL - BBC video BBCV4491 (2
tapes)
NTSC - CBS/FOX video 8105
NTSC - Warner Video E1262
Novelised as Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders by
Terrance Dicks. [+/-]
Number 48 in the Doctor Who Library.
Hardcover Edition - Allan Wingate Ltd.
First Edition: October 1975. Reprinted in 1977.
ISBN: 85523 052 5.
Cover by Peter Brookes.
Price: £2.25.
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: October 1975.
ISBN: 0 426 10655 5.
Cover by Peter Brookes.
Price: 35p.
Paperback Edition - W.H. Allen.
First Edition: September 1978. Reprinted in 1979,
1980, 1982, 1984.
ISBN: 0 426 10655 5.
Cover by Alun Hood.
Price: 60p.
Paperback Edition - Virgin Publishing Ltd.
First Edition: August 1991.
ISBN: 0 426 10655 5.
Cover by Alister Pearson.
Price: £2.50.
Retitled: Doctor Who - Planet of the Spiders.
Doctor Who Magazine Archive: Issue #314.
Part One
(drn:
24'40")
Somewhere
in the English countryside, a bushy-haired young man is
taking a
relaxing walk. It is Mike Yates -- recently drummed out of
UNIT for
betraying his superiors.
As he
walks, the Doctor and the Brigadier are attending a show. A
comedian
with a thick accent is making bad jokes. The Brigadiers
rolls his
eyes at the Doctor, who looks embarrassed. The Brigadier
comments
to the Doctor that they are wasting their time. But when
the
announcer tells them the next act is an exotic dancer, his
attention
perks up.
Mike
approaches a big country house. He walks in and hears some
quiet
chanting. Ever the operative, he sneaks down into the cellar
to
investigate.
He sees
five men sitting around an ornate Mandela, chanting the
lotus
chant and banging cymbals. He watches in quiet fascination as
the
chanting grows louder and more frantic. A blue glow appears on
the
Mandela. Mike leans forward to get a better look but touches a
spider
web, making him jerk back. He knocks over a candle, which
rolls
loudly down the stairs. The men stop chanting and look around
suspiciously but Mike has vanished.
The exotic
Scheherazade has finished her act. The Doctor teases the
Brigadier
for his rapt attention; the Brigadier deflects it saying
he should
adapt some of her exercises for men. But before the Doctor
can get in
another quip, the next act is announced -- the
mind-reader Professor Clegg. The Doctor eagerly sits up. This is
what they
came for.
The group
of chanting men ask their middle-aged leader -- Lupton --
if they
should try again but the mood is clearly lost. They think
that it
was only the wind that knocked down the candle until they
hear a car
drive off - the sports car belonging to their "new
friend,
Mr. Yates."
The next
day, Clegg arrives at UNIT headquarters to met the Doctor.
He thinks
that the Brigadier wants him to perform his act for some
regimental
show. But the Doctor explains he is researching ESP and
wants
Clegg to help him.
Clegg is a
little embarrassed and the Brigadier asks him if his act
was all a
trick. Clegg admits to this and the Doctor speculates he
was using
a word code with his assistant. Clegg asks him if the
secret of
his act is safe the Doctor assures him that it is: he will
never tell
anyone that Clegg is a powerful clairvoyant. Clegg is
alarmed
but the Doctor points out he made some mistakes the night
before --
giving answers before his assistant had spoken a word.
Clegg
collapses into a chair, lamenting that he doesn't want this
new power.
He was happier just doing his act. The Doctor is
sympathetic, asking if there have been any other power such as
psychokenesis - moving objects with his mind. Clegg nods and the
Doctor
asks the actor to demonstrate his powers.
Clegg
reluctantly agrees and concentrates on a breakfast tray. To
their
astonishment, it rises and floats across the room. But Clegg
can't keep
it up and the tray falls to the ground with a clatter.
The amazed
Brigadier suggest that should be used in his act but
Clegg
thinks he would lose his sanity doing it. The Doctor reassures
him,
explaining that his powers are normal -- they are just dormant
in most
humans. Clegg incredulously asks if the Doctor can figure
out why
he's different and the Time Lord agrees to help all he can.
Lupton
speaks to a young monk named Cho-Je. He objects to the
arrival of
a female journalist but the Tibetan reassures him,
explaining
they can't just shut out the world. Lupton says that he
came there
for solitude but Cho-Je explains that he must learn to
walk in
solitude everywhere. Besides, Mike Yates has already left to
pick her
up.
At the
station, Sarah Jane Smith meets Mike and they hop into his
sports
car. They roar off into the countryside as the pretty
dark-haired journalist pushes the reluctant ex-soldier for an
explanation.
Lupton
explains to Barnes -- one of the men from the Mandela circle
-- that of
course it was Yates who was watching them. The men want
to stop
their experiments but Lupton insists they were on the verge
of a
breakthrough.
They are
interrupted by the arrival of big lumbering man named
Tommy.
Tommy has the mind of a child -- he speaks simply and tries
to show
them a pretty flower. He then tries to drag them off to tea
but they
shove him to the ground, crushing the flower. He starts
crying.
Sarah
continues to taunt Mike, asking what he wants to show her. He
fobs her
off with a vague notion that she can write a story about
the
meditation center in the center of England. But her keen
journalistic instincts are unsatisfied. She asks why he is there and
he
explains that he needed to sort himself out after the business
with the
dinosaurs. He saw an article about the Tibetan monks and
decided to
try it out.
In the
basement, Lupton's men are once again chanting around the
Mandela.
Mike has
now told Sarah about the events of the previous night. She
suggest
that they are doing just doing some extra meditation, but
Mike
wonders why they would be so secretive about it. He thinks they
are
tapping some unholy power -- which would concern UNIT. With a
laugh,
Sarah realizes why he called her.
The
chanting grows in power, Lupton's voice becoming fierce in
concentration.
As Sarah
agrees to act as a go-between with the Brigadier, they
suddenly
see a tractor in the middle of the road. Mike violently
swerves to
avoid it, then looks back to see an empty road. Sarah is
now
convinced something dangerous is going on.
The Doctor
connects Clegg to a machine that monitors brainwaves. He
asks the
Brigadier for an object and the soldier hands him a pocket
watch. As
the Doctor watches an oscilloscope, Clegg contemplates the
shiny
object.
Clegg
drifts out as he begins a psychic reading of the watch. It is
11 years
old. Given to the Brigadier in a hotel by the sea in
Brighton.
From a young lady named Doris in appreciation for . . .
but The
Brigadier looks uncomfortable and grabs the watch back
before
more can be revealed. The Doctor taunts him that maybe too
much has
already been said.
The Doctor
then connects Clegg to an IRIS machine that will make
pictures
from his thoughts. He hands him the sonic screwdriver.
Drashigs
appear on the monitor with scenes of the Doctor using the
screwdriver to create explosions and drive them off.
Sarah has
now arrived at the monastery and is interviewing Cho-Je.
He
explains that he wants men to face their fears and find their
true self.
He will see the true mind -- which is no mind. The old
man will
die and the new man will discover to his inexpressible joy
that he
has never existed! Sarah asks if exploring the subconscious
is
dangerous, if it can turn up nasty thing. Cho-Je explains that
their way
uses the power to help. But he must end the interview to
meditate.
Mike then
asks if the powers they are developing could be used for
evil.
Cho-Je reassures him that could never happen in his monastery.
Clegg is
still upset by his visions. The Doctor asks abound bending
forks but
Benton arrives, see the IRIS machine and, not realizing
the
Brigadier is there, asks the Doctor if he is taking up
hair-dressing. The Brigadier chides him and an abashed Benton
explains
that a package has arrived addressed to the Doctor, the
Brigadier,
Captain Yates or Sergeant Benton. When he explains that
the
package is from South America, the Doctor realizes it's from Jo
Grant.
The Doctor
eagerly grabs it, but then hands it to Clegg. The
Professor
sees that it has come a long way -- not just from South
America
but from the star. It's not a meteorite, but something
beautiful,
a crystal.
The Doctor
and the Brigadier realize it is the blue crystal from
Metabilis
3. He opens it up and holds up the sparkling blue gem.
Sarah and
Mike overhear some chanting in the monastery. They quietly
peer in to
see a group of men meditating to a tape of monastic
chants.
Sarah asks what they are meditating about and Mike explains
they are
not meditating "about" anything. They're supposed to be
watching
their tummies as they breath. Sarah jokes they are
contemplating their belly buttons.
They get
ready to leave but are approached by Lupton and Barnes.
Mike
introduces them. Sarah is about to explain about the accident
on the
road, but Mike deflects her. When Lupton asks is they want to
have some
tea, Mike suddenly says Sarah Jane has to leave right away
and drags
the protesting girl off. Lupton delightedly watches as
Mike
guides Sarah to his car and drives away.
Mike
explains to Sarah who Lupton was. He speculates the Lupton
created
the hallucination of the tractor. Sarah asks why they are
running
away but Mike explains they will return later in secret.
The Doctor
reads a letter from Jo. She explains that they haven't
found the
mushroom Cliff is seeking. But they are having problems
because
the Indians don't like the crystal. So she's sent it back to
whoever
happens to be around.
Sarah and
Mike sneak back into the monastery through a window but
are caught
by Tommy. He thinks they are playing a game and Sarah
acts on
this, saying it's a secret game and he shouldn't tell anyone
about
them. He spies her broach, comments on how pretty it is and
she gives
it to him. He wanders off, cooing over the pretty object.
Mike
taunts Sarah about her "shameless display of feminine wiles"
which
Sarah says is nonsense.
They sneak
into the basement and hide as Lupton and his followers
arrive,
brushing against numerous spider webs. The men begin their
chanting
and cymbal-crashing once again.
The Doctor
is still reading the letter when Clegg begins to sense
something.
Suddenly, the lab starts shaking as fire glows deep
inside the
crystal. Objects fly all over the lab as the Doctor
struggles
to get the crystal out of Clegg's hands. When he does, the
Professor
slumps in his chair, stone dead.
In the
monastery, the chanting grows. Sarah and Mike watch in horror
as a shape
appears in a blaze of blue light in the center of the
Mandela.
It is a giant spider!
Part Two
(drn:
25'02")
Sarah Jane
and Mike Yates are investigating the mysterious events at
monastery
in rural England. They watch as a group of men, led by the
enigmatic
Lupton, chant around a Mandela. And amidst a bright blue
glow, a
giant spider materializes.
One of the
men tries to run but the spider blasts him down with a
flash of
blue lightning. Lupton tries to banish it but it speaks to
him! It
promises to give him the power he seeks. It instructs him to
turn
around and then, to everyone's horror, leaps on his back. It
disappears
and Lupton turns around with a strange smile on his face.
The police
have removed Clegg's body from the lab. The Brigadier
asks what
Clegg died from -- was it the crystal? The Doc realizes
that Clegg
was connected to the IRIS machine when he died. Perhaps
it
recorded his thoughts. He switches it on and watches as spiders
appear on
the screen.
Lupton's
unconscious colleague is carried away. They ask him where
the spider
has gone but he doesn't answer, telling them to go back
to their
rooms and not talk to anyone. Barnes asks if he's all right
and Lupton
replies that he's never felt better.
The Doctor
switches off the IRIS and decides to look into the
crystal
for himself. The Brigadier worries about the danger and
Benton
suggests he try first, since he's expendable. But the Doctor
doesn't
want to risk the Sergeant's life now that Clegg has been
killed.
Mike helps
Sarah out a window and urges her to tell UNIT what's
going on.
She realizes she doesn't really know what's going on, but
Mike tells
her to just tell them what she saw. He will try to speak
to the
abbot.
But then
he sees Barnes and Lupton in the hallway. Barnes asks if
the spider
is a demon and Lupton assures him it isn't. He explains
that the
spider is still there and that, if he concentrates, he can
hear it
speaking in his mind. The spider tells him that Barnes is
stupid --
he should be sent away. Lupton tells Barnes the spider has
said he
looks tired and should get some sleep. Barnes worries that
he won't
be able to sleep after what he's seen.
Lupton is
about to head to his room but the spider stops him. She
can feel
the crystal. She explains that she has come to get a
crystal --
one that will give them immense power. She tells him to
concentrate and he sees a man staring into the blue light of a
crystal.
He is
seeing the Doctor staring into the Metabilis crystal in a
rapture.
The Brigadier calls out to him, but the Doctor is
unresponsive. Benton arrives with coffee as the Brigadier calls the
Medical
Officer (a certain Lt. Sullivan). But even as he calls the
MO, the
Doctor begins speaking, revived by the smell of Benton's
coffee.
Before
Benton can explain how he makes his coffee, the Brigadier
asks about
the spiders. The Doctor instead launches into a story
about his
youth. He tells them that when he was a young man, a
hermit
lived in a mountain behind his house. He spent some of the
best hours
of his life with the hermit. It was there he first
learned to
look into his own mind. And when he looked into the
crystal,
all he could see was the face of his old teacher.
Yates goes
to talk to the abbot K'anpo, but is stopped by Tommy. He
threatens
to hit Mike if he bothers K'anpo. He notices a necklace
Mike is
wearing and Mike gives it to him. Tommy, delighted, goes
away with
one last order for Mike to got bed. Yates waits, then
starts
heading back up the stairs. But he is stopped by Lupton, who
tells him
to heed Tommy's advice. Mike retreats beneath Lupton's
confident
gaze.
The next
morning, Sarah tells her story to the Doctor as he
continues
to examine the crystal. But the Time Lord is not really
paying
attention, concentrating on the crystal lattice, realizing
that it
reflects thought. But he suddenly realizes Sarah has gotten
to the
part of the story about the spiders. He eagerly asks her to
repeat it.
Lupton
arrives at UNIT and speaks to a soldier working on the
Whomobile.
He asks about the Doctor and is pointed in the right
direction.
But the UNIT man then asks for a pass. Lupton responds
with a
bolt of blue lightning that knocks him to the ground.
Sarah
gazes at the crystal as the Doctor explains where he got it.
He tells
her that it has strange properties -- it can affect the
mind,
clearing and amplifying it. She wonders if the giant spiders
want it
back but the Doctor explains there weren't any spider on
Metabilis
3.
Benton
sees Lupton in the hall and tries to stop him. But Lupton
knocks him
out with another bolt of lightning.
The Doctor
realizes that the spiders could be coming from a
different
time on Metabilis 3. As he speaks, Lupton peers in and
sees the
crystal. The spider tells him to concentrate.
As Sarah
muses on how calmly they can discuss such outrageous
things,
the crystal vanishes. It appears in Lupton's hand, who
knocks out
the recovering Benton again and runs out of the building.
The Doctor
and Sarah find Benton in the hall and he explains what
happened.
Lupton exits the building and sees the Brigadier. As the
Brigadier
opens fire, he races across the lot and finally jumps into
the
Doctor's car and races off. Benton starts up Bessie and they all
jump in to
give chase.
They drive
the Doctor over to a tiny helicopter and then begin a
long chase
after the Whomobile. The Doctor directs the chase from
the
copter. They race past a policeman who roars after them.
They
finally track down the Whomobile, only to find it empty. The
constable
tries to get an explanation while Lupton watches from
hiding.
The spider urges him to steal the helicopter. He doesn't
know how
to fly it, but she insists they can figure it out. He
breaks
cover, jumps into he helicopter and takes off. The Doctor and
Sarah pile
into the Whomobile, which launches into the air in
pursuit.
The
constable tries to report in, decides no one will believe him
and
instead reports in sick.
Sarah
spots Lupton's helicopter and they pursue him until he runs
out of
fuel. The spider makes him land and he then steals a
motorboat.
The Doctor and Sarah reach the shore as he leaves and the
Time Lord
jumps into a hovercraft. He cuts across the land, racing
over a
vagrant and closes the gap.
The spider
is frustrated and tells Lupton to concentrate. The Doctor
closes in
and makes a bold leap into the motorboat. But Lupton has
vanished
into thin air!
Part Three
(drn:
24'58")
The
Doctor, after a long chase, has just managed to capture Lupton,
who has
stolen the blue crystal of Metabilis 3. But even as the
Doctor
jumps on Lupton's boat, Lupton vanishes into thin air.
Tommy is
walking down a hallway in the monastery when he sees Lupton
materialize out of thin air. He spies the blue crystal and is
fascinated. Cho-Je passed Lupton in the hallway with a contended
grin.
Exhausted
but triumphant, Lupton stumbles into his room. The spider
promises
him the crystal will give him more power than he can
imagine.
But she cautions him to cloak his mind -- her sisters on
Metabilis
3 will kill him if they know his thoughts.
A link
forms between them and they can see the home of the spiders
-- a
council chamber filled with huge spiders sitting on blue
benches.
On a raised platform sits the biggest spider -- the queen.
Lupton and
his host report their success and they are told to hurry
back.
Lupton wants to know how he will be rewarded but the queen
dismisses
him as a "two leg". The queen says his reward will be to
serve them
in their conquest of the Earth -- the secret plan of "the
Great
One". At the sound of the name, all the spiders chant, "All
Praise to
the Great One". Shortly after, the power is exhausted and
the link
breaks.
Lupton is
almost dead and opens the window for some fresh air. The
spider
advises him to rest and regain his strength and he collapses
into bed.
She then reappears on his back and scuttles off.
The Doctor
and Sarah arrive at the monastery and, with Mike,
confront
Cho-Je about what happened. Cho-Je calmly explains that he
saw Lupton
in the corridor at the precise time they claim they were
chasing
him -- so he couldn't have stolen the crystal. As they talk,
both
Barnes and the spider listen in.
Barnes
wakes up Lupton and explains the situation. He sees the
crystal
and realizes that the Doctor's story is true. He warns
Lupton
that they are in great danger, messing with things they don't
understand. When Lupton tells him the spider has gone, Barnes pushes
him to run
away.
Lupton
instead explains why he came to the monastery. He was a
salesman
but was fired after 25 years of service. As he talks Tommy
peers in
the open window and snatches the crystal.
Lupton
continues, telling Barnes that he came to the monastery to
get power
-- power to take over his old firm, the country, even the
world.
He'll make everyone else grovel. Barnes is appalled -- he
just
wanted to find peace of mine.
Tommy goes
into a small cupboard under the stairs. He opens a chest
and takes
out a box filled with pretty trinkets. He happily puts the
crystal
in.
Lupton
explains to Barnes that once he controls the crystal, he
won't need
the spiders anymore. But as he speaks, the spider returns
and tells
him Cho-Je is coming for him. Barnes can't hear the spider
and she
tells Lupton to send "this fool" away. Lupton gets him to
leave.
The spider
wants him to meet with the Doctor but Lupton refuses. She
then
twists his mind, creating tremendous pain. She mocks him for
claiming
he won't need the spiders anymore as he begs her to stop.
She
relents. But then he figures out what she did and turns it back
on her.
The spider writhes in agony as Lupton makes her grovel.
Finally,
he lets up and she admits he is much smarter than the
two-legs
on Metabilis 3. He boasts that he's smarter than most of
them on
Earth, too.
She agrees
to avoid the Doctor and return to Metabilis. He's not
sure he
wants to go back and be a slave. She agrees that the queen
is
arrogant and confesses that she doesn't like the queen any more
than
Lupton Perhaps they can help each other when they return.
She then
jumps on his back and returns to his mind. Lupton reaches
for the
crystal and realizes it has disappeared.
The Doctor
pushes Cho-Je to let him see Lupton soon, but the monk
delays,
espousing a more philosophical outlook. Tommy looks in and
beckons
Sarah over. He wants to give her a present and she agrees to
go with
him. Cho-Je finally asks Mr. Moss to bring Lupton to them.
Lupton and
Barnes can not figure out what has happened to the
crystal.
The spider then warns that the power is building and they
will soon
have to return to Metabilis 3. If the queen finds out they
don't have
the crystal, she will kill them. He decides they have no
choice but
to bluff.
Tommy
takes Sarah to his cupboard. While he's inside, she spots
Lupton
talking to Barnes and Moss. Lupton instructs Moss to tell the
Doctor he
can't find him and goes to the basement. Sarah is eager to
follow.
Even as Tommy emerges with the crystal, she tells him to
find Mike
Yates and explain she's gone into the cellar. She is in
such a
hurry she doesn't see Tommy holding out the crystal to her.
Sarah
sneaks down into the basement and watches as Lupton spreads
out the
Mandela and begins to chant.
The Doctor
is pacing Cho-Je's room when Tommy arrives and tries to
tell them
where Sarah has gone. They don't pay attention until Moss
returns,
telling them Lupton can't be found. Tommy finally gets them
to
understand and they hurry off to the basement.
Lupton's
chanting grows. A blue light envelopes him and he vanishes.
Sarah,
astonished, steps forward onto the Mandela as Mike and the
Doctor
arrive. They push past Barnes at the cellar door but can only
watch in
astonishment as Sarah vanishes.
Sarah
finds herself in a barren wasteland. She looks around and see
Lupton
walking toward the cliff. But she is grabbed from behind
before she
can follow.
When Mike
and the Doctor emerge from the cellar, Barnes is gone. The
Doctor
decides to follow Sarah to Metabilis 3 in the TARDIS. Mike is
skeptical
that he can make it but the Doctor tells him he fixed the
coordinates on his last visit. Mike then asks how he will know where
on the
planet to find Sarah and the Doctor can only reply that he
trusts the
TARDIS to find her. Mike laughs that the Doctor talks
about the
TARDIS as though it were alive. "Yes, I do, don't I?"
answers
the Time Lord cryptically.
Sarah is
brought into a village. Her captor - Tuar -- thinks she is
a spy but
an old man named Sabor persuades them to let her go. Sarah
explains
to a woman named Rega that she's not a spy. Who would she
be spying
for -- the spiders?
The word
"spiders" frightens the villagers, who refer to the spiders
as
"eight-legs". Now convinced that she is a spy, they push her
toward a
cliff, but Tuar's brother Arak stops them. He points out
that she's
wearing strange clothes. Sarah then explains that she's
from Earth
and they ask if she came in a spaceship like their
ancestors.
Just then,
a trumpet rings out. The villagers realize an eight-leg
is coming
and they hide Sarah.
A group of
human guards march in, carrying a pallet with the queen
spider on
it. They call out for Arak, for having attacked a guard.
If he does
not surrender, they will kill one man in each family.
Before
Arak can surrender, however, Sabor, who is his father, steps
out. He
first pleads that the guard was a cruel to the villagers,
but the
queen is unsympathetic. He then tells her he helped Arak
flee and
she decides he will go in Arak's place -- which Arak
explains
to Sarah means he will be eaten by the spiders. Rega runs
out to him
but the guards stun her with a staff fixed with a blue
crystal.
But in the
confusion, the queen spots Sarah leaning out of the door.
The guards
rush to arrest her and she steps out to keep them from
catching
Arak.
The Doctor
brings the TARDIS to Metabilis 3 -- only to find he has
appeared
right in the center of the town square. They tell him to
kneel
before the queen and he does, asking her what they intend to
do with
Sarah. The queen instead asks him where he has come from.
When he
tells her he has come from Earth, she is quite agitated. She
tells her
guards to take him and a fight breaks out. In the
confusion,
the villagers hide Sarah. But one of the guards fires a
lightning
bolt out of his staff which knocks the Doctor down. He
falls
before the TARDIS as though dead.
Part Four
(drn:
23'53")
The Doctor
has arrived on Metabilis 3 to find the spiders in the
process of
capturing Sarah. He fights with the guards only to be
struck
down by a lightning bolt from their staff.
As the
guards struggle with the villagers, one suggests that the
queen
leave. He's never seen them so rebellious before. They notice
that Sarah
is gone, but decide the villagers are too restless to
stay. They
withdraw, taking Sabor with them.
Back on
earth, Mike watches as Lupton's friends go into his room.
The
villagers return to their houses while Sarah kneels over the
Doctor.
The villagers are sure he is dead and want her to get in
before
curfew. But even as they try to drag her inside, she see the
Doctor
move. He is indeed alive and starts groaning.
Mike
listens at the door to Lupton's friends. They are scared,
wondering
what's happened. The doorknobs starts turning and they
fling it
open to reveal not Mike, but Tommy. He's come to clean the
room but
couldn't read the "Do Not Disturb" sign on the door. They
shove him
out and Tommy tries to read the sign, then muses that he
should do
some reading. After he leaves, Mike emerges from hiding
and
returns his attention to the door.
The Doctor
has been taken into Arak's house. He is fading fast.
Sarah
holds his hand, keeping up hope.
The queen
is brought into the council chamber and finds Lupton
casually
sitting in her place. She is outraged at his insolence but
Lupton's
spider challenges her right to rule. The queen wants them
both
killed but Lupton points out that they still need the crystal.
The queen
reminds them that it is the Great One who wants the
crystal,
but Lupton says she will have to wait until he's been
rewarded.
This blasphemy bothers the spiders but Lupton's spider
stands by
him.
The queen
tries another tack, telling them they were followed. The
male is
dead, but the female lives and is a danger to them. She
suggests
that until Sarah is captured, they should delay any
discussion.
Tommy
takes the blue crystal out of his box. He then picks up a
children's
book and tries to read it. But he struggles badly. But
then he
looks up and see the crystal glowing. It mesmerizes him and
he slowly
reaches out to them gem. When he touches it, he falls
unconscious to the ground.
Even as
Sarah continues to stand vigil over the Doctor, Tommy wakes
up and
begins reading the book again. Suddenly, it is easy. With
increasing
alarm, he rapidly reads through page after page.
Arak is
raging against the spider tyrants and wondering if they
should try
a rescue. Tuar suggests they attack the spiders directly
but Arak
says it would be no use. Sarah explains that the Doctor
could help
them if he were healthy. The Doctor speaks and manages to
ask her to
get a machine out of the TARDIS. Sarah takes his key,
determined
to get it despite Arak's warnings.
She goes
into the square, evades the guards and enters the TARDIS.
After a
moment, she steps out with a leather satchel. But she is
caught by
Lupton, who taunts her that this is one story that will
never be
published.
Arak wants
to rescue her but his brother stops him, warning that the
village
might be wiped out if he's caught. He is frustrated that he
can't act
against the spiders. But then he spots Sarah's dropped
bag. He
quickly slips out and grabs it.
They take
out a strange device and give it to the Doctor. He flips a
lever
which starts a very loud noise and ends with a massive
electric
discharge. The Doctor, obviously much better, thanks them
and falls
into a natural healing sleep.
Tommy
finds the library in the monastery. He pulls down a book and
beings
reading Blake's Tyger of Wrath. He calls it pretty -- then
corrects
himself to beautiful. He starts pulling down more books.
Sarah is
thrust into the spider larder. She sees Sabor trussed up in
a web. She
tries to run but the guards knock her out.
Barnes and
his friends are again deciding what to do. Mike knocks on
the door
and Barnes makes the others hide before admitting him. Mike
explains
that he wants to talk but a panicked Moss knocks him out.
Dawn
breaks on Metabilis 3 with the ringing of bells. The Doctor
sits up,
bright and awake.
Sarah also
wakes and finds herself wrapped in web. Sabor explains
that it is
no good struggling -- she'll be eaten soon enough.
The Doctor
has breakfast in the village. Slowly, the villagers tell
the Doctor
their situation at the same time as Sabor tells Sarah.
It turns
out that 433 years ago, an Earth colony ship crash-landed
on
Metabilis 3. The spiders were blown from the crash into a
mountain
with blue crystals. The crystals made the spiders larger
and
smarter. But the time they found out about the spiders, it was
too late.
They were subjugated by both the spider's fearsome mental
powers and
just plain fear. The spiders maintain a reign of terror
-- having
recently wiped out a village of 216 people because they
were
hoarding food.
The Doctor
asks the villagers to gather stones. He has a theory he
wants to
try out.
Mike wakes
up on Earth, but finds he's been tied up.
The Doctor
begins to test stones with his machine. He explains that
there may
be a stone that will block the spider attacks. Finally,
when he
tests one gray stone, the machine rings out with a loud
tone.
Shortly
after, he set off for the spider lair, the machine and a
gray stone
with him. As he ascends the mountain, Sarah tries to get
out of her
cocoon. Sabor is no help, telling her to give up -- they
have no
hope of any rescue.
The Doctor
enters the spider lair and a guard tries to shoot him
with a
staff. But he uses the machine to absorb the blast. The
guards
jumps on him, knocking the machine free. Before the Doctor
can get it
back, Lupton appears and orders the guards to kill the
Doctor.
But the chief guard stops them -- he has orders from the
queen to
arrest Lupton. They drag him off to the council. The Doctor
casually
tries to walk away but is stopped.
In the
larder, Sarah is delighted to see the Doctor -- until she
sees the
guards behind him.
Part Five
(drn:
24'01")
Sarah is a
prisoner of the spiders. She is delighted to see the
Doctor
appear -- until she sees the guards and realizes he is a
prisoner
too.
At the
council, Lupton's spider tells him that the others know they
don't have
the crystal. They have traced its vibrations back to
Earth. But
Lupton is unflappable, telling them he never claimed it
was on
Metabilis 3 -- it's still hidden. And they still need his
help if
they want to invade Earth.
His spider
points out that the queen has once again endangered the
Great
One's plan with her mistakes. She wonders if the queen is too
old and
perhaps another coronation is needed.
But the
queen plays for time again -- telling them she will talk to
the Great
One and get her advice.
The bound
Doctor is fascinated with the experience -- thinking this
must be
what it's like to be a fly. He keeps up good spirits, joking
about
their situation. Sarah wonders why the spiders didn't take the
crystal in
the first place, but the Doctor reminds her that he
visited
long before the spiders arrived.
The Doctor
then reveals that Arak is planning to attack. Sabor is
appalled
at this. But before the Doctor can explain about the
stones,
the guards return. They pull a knife on Sarah, but then just
cut her
free. As they drag her away, the Doctor calls out for her to
stall the
spiders.
Arak is
preparing his attack. His mother tries to stop him but they
are
insistent. They put on head bands with the gray stones and call
out
"Death to the Eight-Legs!" which slowly turns into "Death to the
Spiders!"
The
Doctor, ignoring Sabor's negativism, starts to wriggle free,
using a
trick he learned from Harry Houdini (although it takes a
long time
for him to remember the name). He rushes after Sarah,
promising
to come back and rescue Sabor.
Sarah is
brought before the queen, who sends the guard out and
reassures
the girl. She explains that she doesn't agree with the
council's
plans -- she thinks the invasion of Earth would be a
mistake.
She wants peace. She will help Sarah get back to Earth to
get the
crystal. Sarah asks about the villagers and the queen
promises
to let Sabor go and listen to the villagers' grievances.
Sarah asks
what she needs to do.
Barnes
releases Yates and asks him what they should do. Mike
suggests
they try to re-establish the link so Lupton can return.
Barnes
wonders why he wants to help and he points out that Sarah is
gone as
well. Barnes agrees to work with him.
Lupton and
his spider whisper in the council chamber. He wants to go
to Earth
and get the crystal to open the path for invasion. But the
other
spiders want to hear the queen's plan first. They don't trust
Lupton's
spider -- especially now that she's allied with a two-leg.
Lupton's
spider then turns on him, telling him she is loyal to her
sisters.
When he tries to assert himself, the spiders blast him with
pain. His
head fills with their voices telling him "You will obey!"
He finally
agrees. Her loyalty to the council now established,
Lupton's
spider decides they will go ahead with their plans for
invasion.
The Doctor
is wandering through the lair when he hears Sarah's
voice. He
hurries toward the sound.
Tommy is
now reading some quite complex books on the nature of
intelligence. He doesn't understand what has happened to him. He
then
decides to ask Yates about it.
He opens
the door and see Barnes and Yates agreeing to meet in the
cellar. He
retreats into the cupboard and thinks about all he's
heard and
seen -- Lupton's materialization in the hall, Sarah's
disappearance. He finally decides to talk to Cho-Je. He hides the
crystal
and goes to see the monk.
The Doctor
hurries through the blue tunnels, following Sarah's
voice. But
then a spider voice rings out and tells him to stop
before he
gets killed. He asks about Sarah and the voice cackles,
then calls
out to him with Sarah's voice again, singing "Pop Goes
the
Weasel" with the final line in his voice. He asks who it is and
identifies
herself as the Great One. She tells him that he will see
her in
good time -- but only when he brings back the crystal. She
explains
that it is the last perfect crystal of power. She has
searched
all time and space and must have it.
He refuses
but she laughs at his pride. The Doctor winces in pain
and starts
marching around in circles as she cackles with insane
glee.
"Is that fear I feel in your mind? You're not accustomed to
being
frightened, are you Doctor? You are very wise to be afraid of
me!"
The insane spider then demands that he go and get the crystal,
shrieking
angrily at him that she must have it.
In the
monastery the men chant over the Mandela. The spiders are
also
chanting, establishing contact. Their scouts are now ready.
Lupton
warns them to be careful and they agree to use secrecy. A
spider
goes to the center of the room and vanishes.
Barnes
thinks it isn't working but Mike insists they keep trying. As
they
continue, a spider appears in a dark corner. More spiders
vanish in
the council chamber and appear in the corners of the
cellar,
surrounding the men.
Tommy
explains events to Cho-Je. He says they should tell the abbot
-- but
only when they know what to tell him. He tells Tommy to get
the
crystal while he finds out "what these naughty chaps are about."
Tommy then
asks Cho-Je why he's not surprised in his own change.
Cho-Je
simply replies that when everything is new, can anything be a
surprise?
The Doctor
finds his way through the blue caves, eager to find Sarah
and
escape.
Cho-Je
bursts in on the men and tells them to stop. He warned them
about
this. But a spider scuttles out and strikes him down with a
lightning
bolt. They men try to run and Mike is struck down. Tommy
appears
and watches in horror as the spiders close in. He decides to
go to
K'anpo.
The Doctor
finds Sarah. She takes his hands as they hear Arak and
his men
attacking. They vanish as Arak arrives and cuts Sabor free.
They
appear in the village. The Doctor asks Sarah how she learned to
do that
and she explains that the queen taught her. Nesta comes out
and Sarah
explains that Arak's attack is succeeding. She then drags
the Doctor
into the TARDIS and they take off.
Lupton's
friends are being taken over by spiders when the TARDIS
materializes in the cellar. The Doctor and Sarah check the bodies of
Cho-Je and
Yates. Barnes tells them they are only alive from
oversight.
The men start firing blue bolts at the Doctor but he
absorbs
them with a dark crystal. Tommy then appears and tells them
to run,
taking the lightning bolts attack with little effect.
They lock
the door as the men pound on it from the other side. Sarah
comments
that Tommy is just like everyone else, to which he answers,
"I
sincerely hope not." Tommy then leads then to the abbot.
They are
brought to an ancient Tibetan man. Sarah asks the Doctor
about the
crystal but he doesn't answer. He greets the abbot in
Tibetan,
apologizing for not bringing him a scarf. K'anpo
cryptically replies that no such symbol is needed between them.
Tommy then
goes out to guard the door.
K'anpo
asks the Doctor for his story. The Doctor begins but not
before
asking the abbot if they've met before.
In the
cellar, Moss tries to run away but the spiders make him stay
to get the
crystal. They can feel the vibrations. (Note, this scene
was added
to the reprise in Part Six).
The Doctor
has finished explaining the situation to K'anpo. The
abbot
wonders if the spiders should just be allowed to have the
crystal.
The Doctor replies that nothing would stop them from taking
over the
world -- or even the Universe itself, Sarah adds. The
Doctor
wonders where the crystal is and the Abbot reveals it,
explaining
that Tommy gave it to him.
Sarah
suddenly demands the crystal in the queen's voice. She hits
the Doctor
with a blue bolt. But K'anpo is calm. He tells her to
concentrate. The massive queen appears on Sarah's back as she begins
to fight
the spider.
The men
approach and Tommy stands against them. Barnes tells him to
back down
but Tommy refuses. He fires a bolt to little effect. Then
the men
advance on him but Tommy hurls them back. The spiders scream
at the men
to kill him and they open fire, energy blasts crackling
into
Tommy's chest.
Part Six
(drn:
24'43")
Sarah and
the Doctor have returned to Earth and met K'anpo. But they
have been
followed. As the queen-possessed Sarah demands the
crystal,
spider-possessed men attack Tommy, trying to break down the
door.
The Doctor
and K'anpo work to break the queen's hold on Sarah. The
Doctor
tells her to look into the crystal. The queen tries to stop
her but
the blue glow captivates the young woman. Sarah's own voice
finally
begins to sound from her lips. She struggles against the
queen and
finally breaks free. The spider dies, falls from Sarah's
back and
vanishes.
Tommy
endures the ongoing assault of lightning bolts, hurt but not
beaten.
Barnes realizes they need to try a different approach. They
quickly
form a circle and begin chanting to concentrate their power.
Sarah
apologizes to the Doctor for her actions but he assures her
she did
fine. K'anpo points out that everyone is apt to surrender to
domination
-- even the most strong-willed. Looking at the Doctor, he
comments
that "not all spiders sit on the back." The Doctor explains
to Sarah
that K'anpo means the Doctor's own greed for knowledge that
made him
take the crystal in the first place.
Suddenly,
the Doctor realizes something. He turns to K'anpo and
tells him
he knows who he is. They shake hands and the Doctor
explains
the K'anpo was his teacher -- his guru as a young Time
Lord.
Sarah realizes this means K'anpo is a Time Lord. The abbot
explains
that the discipline of their people wasn't for him --
although
the wasn't quite as naughty as to steal a TARDIS. He just
regenerated and fled to Tibet.
Sarah asks
if Cho-Je is a Time Lord. K'anpo laughs that Cho-Je is a
Time Lord
in one sense -- and in another sense he doesn't exist. He
is a
projection of K'anpo.
Cho-Je
wakes up Mike Yates and says they must hurry. They stumble
out of the
cellar toward the abbot's residence.
Barnes and
his men continue to focus their power. The spiders are
also
meditating back on Metabilis. They explain to Lupton that they
are
sending power back to Earth.
K'anpo
says that the moment of truth is coming for both of them. He
asks the
Doctor if he knows what to do. He must face his fear. The
Doctor
recalls how the Great One taunted him for being afraid.
K'anpo
insists that there is no other way out of this. He hands the
crystal
over and the Doctor tells Sarah he will give it back to the
Great One.
Sarah is alarmed -- the radiation in the cave will kill
him. But
he is determined. He must go and face his fear.
The men
outside break their circle and raise their hands. They fire
off a
ferocious blast of mental energy at Tommy. Even as they fire,
the Doctor
takes K'anpo's hands in his, taking part in his mental
powers.
Mike steps
in front of Tommy and is struck down. Tommy is devastated
and bends
over Mike, letting the men rush the room. But even as they
come in
and blast down K'anpo, the Doctor vanishes into thin air.
They
realizes that he has gone to the cellar and run out, leaving
Sarah to
look over the mortally wounded abbot.
The Doctor
reappears in the cellar and takes off in the TARDIS just
ahead of
Barnes' men. He appears on Metabilis 3 where he is greeted
by a
victorious Arak. The Doctor tells them he needs to go to the
crystal
cave and they agree to lead him there.
Tommy
bends over Mike, worried that he might be dying. Cho-Je tells
him to
take him into the abbot's room.
Arak
brings the Doctor to the spider council chamber. The Time Lord
realizes
that they didn't win the battle after all. The spiders
taunt him,
asking if he really thought the two-legs could beat the
eight-legs. They asks him why he has returned and he shows them the
crystal.
They demand it but he tells them he will only return it to
the Great
One herself. He asks if any of them would dare oppose him.
Lupton
tries but is stopped by the spiders. They explain that the
Great One
is all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful. They must obey
her. They
acknowledge that the Doctor has beaten them but are
grateful
that he will die anyway. Arak and Tuar reluctantly let him
leave.
Lupton
then loses it. He yells at the spiders that they've cost him
his chance
at power. They are infuriated by the use of the word
"spiders". He finally moves to hit the new queen but she
strikes him
down.
K'anpo
lays his hand on Mike's head. He explains that Mike'
compassion
protected him from being killed -- just as Tommy's
innocence
protected him. To the delight of Sarah, Mike stirs and
wakes. But
K'anpo slumps back into his chair, dead.
Cho-Je
reassures them but then vanishes. K'anpo's features blur and
change
before reappearing as Cho-Je, who finishes his sentence,
telling
them not concern themselves. He is only regenerating. Tommy
calls him
Cho-Je, but he replies that it is really K'anpo. K'anpo
laughs and
asks Sarah if she will put this in her magazine.
The Doctor
returns to the cave of crystal. The Great One lets him in
once he
confirms he brought back the blue crystal. He enters and see
a truly
monstrous spider dominating the huge cave. He asks her to
take the
crystal and leave the humans alone. But she doesn't care
about one
planet amongst millions.
The Doctor
asks why she wants the crystal. She indicates a crystal
web above
her head and explains that it amplifies her mind. One
perfect
crystal is all that is need to finish it. Then her every
though
well resonate in the web and grow in power. The Doctor tries
to reason
with her, pointing out that she has built a positive
feedback
circuit that will increase her mental power to infinity.
She
cackles that it will make her the ruler of the Universe.
The Doctor
is fading from the radiation. He tries once again to
explain
that she will only destroy herself if she tries this. She
mocks the
way the radiation is destroying his body. She will grant
him one
last favor -- he can watch her triumph. The crystal leaves
his hand
and moves up into the web.
The Great
One cries out in triumph. The Doctor watches in growing
illness as
she calls out for all to praise her. She tells the
planets,
the stars and the galaxies to bow to her. But after a
moment, a
bright glow envelopes her bloated body and she screams in
terror and
agony. Her mind is on fire from the influx of energy. The
Doctor
races out as the cave collapses around the thrashing spider.
In the
council chamber, the spiders are dying, curling up as the
Great
One's death throes kill them. Arak and his men are suddenly
free and
they run for their lives.
Back on
Earth, Barnes and his men stop meditating. Dead spiders
appear on
their backs and drop to the ground.
The Doctor
finds the TARDIS and takes off as the mountain explodes.
Three
weeks later, Sarah is sadly tidying up the Doctor's office.
The
Brigadier arrives and she explains that she came back to see if
the Doctor
had returned. The Brigadier tells her that once the
Doctor
disappeared for months -- and when he returned, he had a new
face.
Sarah laments that the Doctor knew he was going to die but
went back
anyway.
Suddenly,
the TARDIS materializes in the corner. The door opens and
the Doctor
stumbles out. He mumbles that he got lost in the time
vortex but
the TARDIS brought him back. Then he collapses onto the
floor.
The
Brigadier grabs a blanket and puts it under the Doctor's head.
Sarah asks
him why he went back and the Doctor again tells her he
had to
face his fear. It wasn't worth living if he didn't. "Tears,
Sarah
Jane?" he says, "Don't cry. While there's life, there's . . ."
But he
doesn't finish the sentence. He stops breathing, his eyes
fixed.
Sarah tearfully closes them and looks up at the Brigadier in
despair.
But with a
whirring sound, the young K'anpo appears, floating in
mid-air.
He explains that the Doctor is not dead. Sarah introduces
him to the
Brigadier, trying not to break down.
K'anpo
tells them that the Doctor's cells have been destroyed. But
he is a
Time Lord. K'anpo will give him a little push and his cells
will
regenerate. "Not again!" laments the Brigadier. K'anpo goes on
to say
that the Doctor's brains cells will be shaken up and he be
erratic
for a while. Then he vanished like a Cheshire cat.
Sarah and
the Brigadier turn and see the Doctor's face shift and
change.
"Here we go again!" says the Brigadier.
Source:
Michael H. Siegel.
Continuity Notes:
The Spiders reappear in the short story Return of the
Spiders and in the Seventh Doctor’s segment in The Eight
Doctors.
Although unnamed, K'anpo was mentioned when the Doctor and
Jo
were trapped in the Labyrinth of Atlantis in The Time
Monster.
Following the events in Interference: Book Two, these events
never actually took place, which does leave room open as to
what happened to the Spiders…
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BBCP25 City
at World's End Novel
ST1 The Last Days Short
Story
ST3 Nothing at
the End of the Lane Short
Story
ST6 Mire and Clay Short
Story
DWM Who Discovered
America? Short
Story
DWM Rennigan's Record Short
Story
BBCP09 The
Witch Hunters Novel
ST9 The Thief of
Sherwood Short
Story
ST15 The Duke's
Folly Short
Story
9 Planet of
Giants
3 episodes
BBCP75 The
Time Travellers Novel
10 The Dalek
Invasion of Earth
6 episodes
MA03 Venusian Lullaby Novel
DEC1 The Book of
Shadows Short
Story
ST18 Set in Stone Short
Story
DEC2 The
Nine-Day-Queen Short
Story
ST4 The True and
Indisputable Facts in the Case of the Ram's Skull Short Story
ST5 A Long Night Short
Story
11 The Rescue
2 episodes
BBCP44 Byzantium! Novel
ST2 Romans
Cutaway Short
Story
12 The Romans
4 episodes
BBCP66 The
Eleventh Tiger Novel
13 The Web
Planet
6 episodes
14 The Crusade
4 episodes
15 The Space
Museum
4 episodes
MA28 The Plotters Novel
ST14 Every Day Short
Story
16 The Chase
6 episodes
DWM A Religious
Experience
Comic
17 The Time
Meddler
4 episodes
DWM Are You
Listening?
Comic
MA16 The Empire of
Glass Novel
ST8 Corridors of
Power Short
Story
ST11 The Schoolboy's
Story
Short Story
18 Galaxy 4
4 episodes
19 Dalek
Cutaway
1 episode
ST3 Planet of the
Bunnoids Short
Story
ST17 Mars Short
Story
20 The Myth
Makers
4 episodes
ST10 Scribbles in
Chalk Short
Story
21 The Daleks'
Master Plan 12 episodes
ST5 The Little
Drummer Boy Short
Story
ST6 Ash Short
Story
ST7 Katarina in
the Underworld Short
Story
ST16 Making History Short
Story
ST16 Waiting for
Jeremy Short
Story
DWM Roses Short
Story
-- The events in The Five Doctors would
take place here --
A66 Peril in
Mechanistria Short
Story
A66 The Fishmen
of Kandalinga Short
Story
--- Doctor
Who and the Invasion From Space Short
Story
A67 The Cloud
Exiles Short
Story
A67 The Sons of
Grekk Short
Story
A67 Terror on
Tiro Short
Story
A67 Mission for
Duh Short
Story
A67 The Devil
Birds of Corbo Short
Story
A67 The Plathings
of Fo Short
Story
A67 Justice of
the Glacians Short
Story
A67 Ten Fathom
Pirates Short
Story
DWM Cambridge
Previsited Short
Story
ST7 The Glass
Princess Short
Story
22 The
Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
4 episodes
BBCP18 Salvation Novel
23 The Ark
4 episodes
24 The
Celestial Toymaker
4 episodes
25 The
Gunfighters
4 episodes
ST2 64 Carlysle
Street Short
Story
DEC1 The Golden Door Short
Story
BBCP39 Bunker
Soldiers Novel
26 The Savages
4 episodes
MA19 The Man in the
Velvet Mask Novel
DEC3 Tarnished Image Short
Story
ST1 There Are
Fairies at the Bottom of My Garden Short
Story
27 The War
Machines
4 episodes
ST11 The Rag and
Bone Man's Story Short
Story
28 The
Smugglers
4 episodes
DWM Food For Thought Comic
BBCP54 Ten
Little Aliens Novel
ST4 Five Card
Draw Short
Story
ST14 The Feast of
Seven... Eight (and Nine) Short
Story
DWM The Meeting Short
Story
BBCP09 The
Witch Hunters (Epilogue) Novel
ST19 The Three Paths Short
Story
29 The Tenth
Planet
4 episodes
Comic
Strips
Doctor Who
Magazine
TV Comic
Annuals
The
Splintered Gates
Short
Trips: Companions
Distance
Short
Trips: Companions
Curriculum
Vitae
Short
Trips: Companions
COMPANIONS
(External
links to Wikipedia)
Susan
Foreman
John and
Gillian
Barbara
Wright
Ian
Chesterton
Vicki
Pallister
Steven
Taylor
Katarina
Sara
Kingdom
Dorothea
'Dodo' Chaplet
Polly
Wright
Ben
Jackson
[TOP]
Second Doctor
Patrick
Troughton
30 The Power
of the Daleks
6 episodes
ST17 Pluto Short
Story
MA13 Invasion of the
Cat-People Novel
BBCP02 The
Murder Game Novel
BBCP47 Dying
in the Sun Novel
TEL07 Wonderland Novella
ST18 The Feast Short
Story
31 The
Highlanders
4 episodes
32 The
Underwater Menace
4 episodes
33 The
Moonbase
4 episodes
34 The Macra
Terror
4 episodes
BBCP06 The
Roundheads Novel
35 The
Faceless Ones
6 episodes
36 The Evil of
the Daleks
7 episodes
37 The Tomb of
the Cybermen
4 episodes
ST10 The Age of
Ambition Short
Story
ST13 The Last
Emperor Short
Story
ST20 The Lost Short
Story
BBCP32 Heart
of TARDIS Novel
38 The
Abominable Snowmen
6 episodes
39 The Ice
Warriors
6 episodes
BBCP14 Dreams
of Empire Novel
BBCP55 Combat
Rock Novel
ST6 Face-Painter Short
Story
ST7 The
Astronomer's Apprentice Short
Story
ST11 The Farmer's
Story Short
Story
ST18 Saint Nicholas'
Bone Short
Story
40 The Enemy
of the World
6 episodes
41 The Web of
Fear
6 episodes
ST19 Father Figure Short
Story
DWM Bringer of
Darkness
Comic
MA26 Twilight of the
Gods Novel
MA32 The Dark Path Novel
ST12 Screamager Short
Story
42 Fury from
the Deep
6 episodes
ST4 Twin Piques Short
Story
ST18 The
Revolutionaries Short
Story
43 The Wheel
in Space
6 episodes
44 The
Dominators
5 episodes
45 The Mind
Robber
5 episodes
46 The
Invasion
8 episodes
ST16 Undercurrents Short
Story
DEC3 Aliens and
Predators Short
Story
ST2 uPVC Short
Story
BBCP61 The
Colony of Lies Novel
BBCP69 The
Indestructible Man Novel
TEL05 Foreign Devils Novella
47 The Krotons
4 episodes
DWM Land of the Blind Comic
ST9 One Small
Step... Short
Story
48 The Seeds
of Death
6 episodes
DEC2 Vortex of Fear Short
Story
BBCP24 The
Final Sanction Novel
ST3 Please Shut
the Gate Short
Story
ST4 Constant
Companion Short
Story
ST14 Goodwill
Towards Men Short
Story
ST15 That Which Went
Away Short
Story
ST17 Mercury Short
Story
49 The Space
Pirates
6 episodes
MA10 The Menagerie Novel
DEC1 Fallen Angel Short
Story
ST16 Visiting Hours Short
Story
50 The War
Games 10 episodes
Season 6B
ST1 War Crimes Short
Story
BBCP74 World
Game Novel
-- The events in The Two Doctors would take
place here --
ST9 That Time I
Nearly Destroyed the World whilst Looking for a Dress Short Story
ST1 Mother's
Little Helper Short
Story
ST2 Scientific
Adviser Short
Story
ST3 Reunion Short
Story
ST8 Dust Short
Story
ST11 The Steward's
Story Short
Story
TVC The
Extortioners
Comic
TVC The Trodos
Ambush Comic
TVC The Doctor
Strikes Back
Comic
TVC The Zombies
Comic
TVC Master of the
Spiders Comic
TVC The
Exterminator
Comic
TVC Barnabus
Comic
TVC Jungle
Adventures
Comic
TVC Attack of the
Daleks Comic
TVC Pursued by
the Trods Comic
TVC The Monsters
from the Past Comic
TVC The TARDIS
Worshippers
Comic
TVC Space War Two
Comic
TVC Egyptian
Escapade
Comic
TVC The Coming of
the Cybermen
Comic
TVC The Faithful
Rocket Pack Comic
TVC Flower Power Comic
TVC The Witches
Comic
TVC Cyber-Mole
Comic
TVC The Sabre
Toothed Gorillas Comic
TVC The Cyber
Empire
Comic
TVC The Dyrons
Comic
TVC Return of the
Witches Comic
TVC Masquerade
Comic
TVC Dr. Who and
the Space Pirates Comic
TVC Car of the
Century
Comic
TVC The Jokers
Comic
TVC The Time
Museum Comic
TVC The
Electrodes
Comic
TVC Invasion of
the Quarks Comic
TVC The Killer
Wasps
Comic
TVC Ice Cape
Terror Comic
TVC Jungle of
Doom
Comic
TVC Father Time
Comic
TVC Martha the
Mechanical Housemaid Comic
TVC The Duellists Comic
TVC Death Race
Comic
TVC Test Flight
Comic
TVC Eskimo Joe Comic
TVC Perils at 60
Fathoms Comic
TVC The Champion
Comic
TVC The
Entertainer
Comic
TVC Operation
Wurlitzer
Comic
ST14 The Man Who
(Nearly) Killed Christmas Short
Story
TVC Action in
Exile
Comic
TVC The Mark of
Terror
Comic
TVC The
Brotherhood Comic
TVC U.F.O. Comic
TVC The Night
Walkers
Comic
Comic
Strips
Doctor Who
Magazine
TV Comic
Annuals
Downtime
The
Missing Adventures #18
Mondas
Passing
Short
Trips
COMPANIONS
(External
links to Wikipedia)
Polly
Wright
Ben
Jackson
Jamie
McCrimmon
Victoria
Waterfield
Zoe
Heriot
John and
Gillian
[TOP]
Third Doctor
Jon Pertwee
51 Spearhead
from Space
4 episodes
TVC The Arkwood
Experiments
Comic
TVC The
Multi-Mobile
Comic
TVC Insect
Comic
52 Doctor Who
and the Silurians
7 episodes
DEC1 The Straw that
Broke the Camel's Back Short
Story
TVC The Metal
Eaters
Comic
TVC The Fishmen
of Carpantha Comic
TVC Assassin From
Space
Comic
TVC Undercover
Comic
TVC Doctor Who
and the Rocks from Venus Comic
53 The
Ambassadors of Death
7 episodes
54 Inferno
7 episodes
ST4 Still Lives Short
Story
DEC1 Prisoners of the
Sun Short
Story
ST14 First Christmas Short
Story
MA21 The Eye of the
Giant Novel
MA24 The Scales of
Injustice Novel
BBCP01 The
Devil Goblins from Neptune Novel
TVC Castaway
Comic
TVC Levitation
Comic
TVC Doctor Who
and the Robot Comic
TVC Trial by Fire
Comic
TVC The Kingdom
Builders
Comic
ST18 Danse Macabre Short
Story
55 Terror of
the Autons
4 episodes
56 The Mind of
Evil
6 episodes
BBCP63 Deadly
Reunion Novel
ST14 Christmas Truce Short
Story
57 The Claws
of Axos
4 episodes
ST18 The Thousand
Years of Christmas Short
Story
DWM Change of Mind
Comic
58 Colony in
Space
6 episodes
ST5 The Tip of
the Mind Short
Story
59 The D mons
5 episodes
ST1 Degrees of
Truth Short
Story
ST1 Freedom Short
Story
ST15 Angel Short
Story
60 Day of the
Daleks
4 episodes
61 The Curse
of Peladon
4 episodes
BBCP07 The
Face of the Enemy
Novel
ST2 Honest Living Short
Story
BBCP40 Rags Novel
DWM The Man in the
Ion Mask
Comic
ST4 The Switching
Short Story
62 The Sea
Devils
6 episodes
63 The Mutants
6 episodes
ST12 The Touch of
the Nurazh Short
Story
TVA Gemini Plan
Comic
TVA Timebenders
Comic
TVA The Vogan
Slaves
Comic
TVA The Celluloid
Midas Comic
TVA Backtime
Comic
TVA The Plant
Master
Comic
TVA The Eternal
Present
Comic
TVA *Subzero
Comic
TVA The Planet of
the Daleks Comic
TVA A Stitch in
Time
Comic
TVA The Enemy
From Nowhere
Comic
TVA The Ugrakks
Comic
TVA Steelfist
Comic
TVA Ride to
Nowhere
Comic
TVA Zeron
Invasion
Comic
ST3 Countdown to
TV Action Short
Story
TVA Deadly Choice
Comic
TVA Who is the
Stranger
Comic
64 The Time
Monster
6 episodes
ST16 Morphology Short
Story
DEC2 Where the Heart
Is Short
Story
DWM Target Practice
Comic
BBCP30 Verdigris Novel
65 The Three
Doctors
4 episodes
BBCP19 The
Wages of Sin Novel
ST6 Losing Track
of Time Short
Story
ST8 Deep Stretch Short
Story
66 Carnival of
Monsters
4 episodes
BBCP56 The
Suns of Caresh Novel
67 Frontier in
Space
6 episodes
68 Planet of
the Daleks
6 episodes
BBCP11 Catastrophea Novel
TEL03 Nightdreamers Novella
ST5 Hidden Talent Short
Story
MA09 Dancing the Code Novel
BBCP28 Last
of the Gaderene Novel
ST20 Echoes Short
Story
MA27 Speed of Flight Novel
ST19 The Bad Guy Short
Story
DEC3 ...And Eternity
in an Hour Short
Story
ST11 The
Seismologist's Story Short
Story
ST9 Come Friendly
Bombs... Short
Story
ST13 /Carpenter/Butterfly/Baronet/ Short
Story
69 The Green
Death
6 episodes
TVA The Glen of
Sleeping Comic
TVA The Threat
From Beneath Comic
TVA kcaB to the
Sun
Comic
TVA Fogbound
Comic
TVA Secret of the
Tower
Comic
TVA The Labyrinth
Comic
TVA The Spoilers
Comic
TVA The Vortex
Comic
TVA The Unheard
Voice
Comic
TVA The Hungry
Planet
Comic
TVC Children of
the Evil Eye Comic
TVC Nova
Comic
TVC The Amateur
Comic
TVC The
Disintegrator
Comic
TVC Is Anyone
There?
Comic
TVC Size Control
Comic
TVC The Magician
Comic
TVC The Metal
Eaters
Comic
TVC Petrified
Comic
TVC Lords of the
Ether
Comic
TVC The Wanderers
Comic
ST20 Dream devils Short
Story
70 The Time
Warrior
4 episodes
TVA Doomcloud
Comic
TVA Perils of
Paris
Comic
TVA Who's Who?
Comic
RD3 The Paradise
of Death
5 episodes
71 Invasion of
the Dinosaurs
6 episodes
72 Death to
the Daleks
4 episodes
ST17 Neptune Short
Story
ST11 The Dead Man's
Story Short
Story
ST17 Sedna Short
Story
RD4 The Ghosts of
N-Space
6 episodes
73 The Monster
of Peladon
6 episodes
ST19 Separation Day Short
Story
ST10 Primitives Short
Story
ST6 The Discourse
of Flies Short
Story
BBCP52 Amorality
Tale Novel
BBCP71 Island
of Death Novel
ST18 The Lampblack
Wars Short
Story
ST7 An Overture
Too Early Short
Story
74 Planet of
the Spiders
6 episodes
ST20 Ancient
Whispers Short
Story
Comic
Strips
Doctor Who
Magazine
Countdown/TV Action
TV Comic
Annuals
The
Ultimate Adventure
Stage Play
Who Killed
Kennedy?
Wartime
The
Killing Stone
Daemos
Rising
COMPANIONS
(External
links to Wikipedia)
Elizabeth 'Liz' Shaw
Josephine Grant
Sarah
Jane Smith
UNIT
(External
links to Wikipedia)
Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
Captain
Mike Yates
Sergeant
John Benton
0. The
Coup
1. Time
Heals
2. Snake
Head
3. The
Longest Night
4. The
Wasting
AUTON
TRILOGY
Auton
Auton 2:
Sentinel
Auton 3:
Awakening
P.R.O.B.E.
The Zero
Imperative
The
Devil of Winterborne
Unnatural Selection
Ghosts
of Winterborne
[TOP]
Fourth Doctor
Tom Baker
75 Robot
4 episodes
TVC Death Flower Comic
76 The Ark in
Space
4 episodes
77 The
Sontaran Experiment
2 episodes
78 Genesis of
the Daleks
6 episodes
MA31 A Device of
Death Novel
79 Revenge of
the Cybermen
4 episodes
DWM Black Destiny
Comic
BBCP62 Wolfsbane Novel
ST9 To Kill a
Nandi Bear
Short Story
ST16 The Last
Broadcast Short
Story
80 Terror of
the Zygons
4 episodes
81 Planet of
Evil
4 episodes
ST11 The
Republican's Story Short
Story
ST1 Rights Short
Story
MA14 Managra Novel
ST9 All Done With
Mirrors Short
Story
82 Pyramids of
Mars
4 episodes
DEC1 Scarab of Death Short
Story
ST14 Ships That Pass Short
Story
DEC1 The Duke of
Dominoes Short
Story
ST12 Categorical
Imperative Short
Story
ST13 Observer Effect Short
Story
83 The Android
Invasion
4 episodes
84 The Brain
of Morbius
4 episodes
MA02 Evolution Novel
TVC Return of the
Daleks Comic
TVC The Wreckers Comic
TVC The Emperor's
Sky Comic
TVC The Sinister
Sea Comic
TVC Woden's
Warrior
Comic
TVC The Space
Ghost
Comic
TVC The Dalek
Revenge Comic
TVC Virus
Comic
TVC Treasure
Trails
Comic
TVC Hubert's
Folly Comic
TVC Counter-Rotation Comic
TVC Mind Snatch Comic
TVC The Hoaxers Comic
TVC The Tansbury
Experiment Comic
TVC The Mutant
Strain Comic
TVC Double
Trouble Comic
85 The Seeds
of Doom
6 episodes
MA11 System Shock Novel
86 The Masque
of Mandragora
4 episodes
RD1 The Pescatons 2
episodes
ST8 Eternity Short
Story
ST3 The Android
Maker of Calderon IV Short
Story
TVC Dredger
Comic
TVC Jackals of
Space Comic
DWM The Naked Flame
Comic
ST1 Old Flames Short
Story
87 The Hand of
Fear
4 episodes
88 The Deadly
Assassin
4 episodes
TEL04 Ghost Ship Novella
ST18 Ode to Joy Short
Story
TVC The False
Planet Comic
TVC The Fire
Feeders Comic
TVC Kling Dynasty Comic
TVC The Sky
Warrior
Comic
BBCP22 Millennium
Shock Novel
DEC3 UNITed We Fall Short
Story
BBCP42 Asylum Novel
ST10 The Northern
Heights Short
Story
ST13 The Baron
Wastes Short
Story
ST17 Earth Short
Story
ST18 Callahuanca Short
Story
ST20 Direct Action Short
Story
89 The Face of
Evil
4 episodes
90 The Robots
of Death
4 episodes
BBCP50 Drift Novel
BBCP15 Last
Man Running Novel
BBCP27 Corpse
Marker Novel
BBCP46 Psi-ence
Fiction Novel
BBCP70 Match
of the Day Novel
ST2 One Bad Apple Short
Story
ST11 The
Bushranger's Story Short
Story
ST14 It's a Lovely
Day Tomorrow Short
Story
ST16 The Sooner the
Better Short
Story
ST18 The Prodigal
Sun Short
Story
DWM Rest and
Re-Creation
Comic
91 The Talons
of Weng-Chiang
6 episodes
TVC The Orb Comic
TVC The Mutants Comic
TVC The Evil's
Mouth Comic
TVC The Aqua-City
Comic
BBCP08 Eye
of Heaven Novel
ST19 The Very Last
Picture Show Short
Story
92 Horror of
Fang Rock
4 episodes
ST7 The Brain of
Socrates Short
Story
ST10 The Destroyers Short
Story
93 The
Invisible Enemy
4 episodes
DEC2 Crimson Dawn Short
Story
94 Image of
the Fendahl
4 episodes
95 The Sun
Makers
4 episodes
96 Underworld
4 episodes
DEC2 People of the
Trees Short
Story
97 The
Invasion of Time
6 episodes
TVC The Snow
Devils
Comic
TVC The Space
Garden Comic
TVC The Eerie
Manor
Comic
TVC Guardian of
the Tomb Comic
TVC The Image
Makers Comic
DEC3 Timevault Short
Story
ST6 The Fear Short
Story
98 The Ribos
Operation
4 episodes
DWM The Seventh
Segment
Comic
BBCP29 Tomb
of Valdemar Novel
99 The Pirate
Planet
4 episodes
100 The Stones of
Blood
4 episodes
MA25 The Shadow of
Weng-Chiang Novel
BBCP32 Heart
of TARDIS Novel
101 The Androids
of Tara
4 episodes
102 The Power of
Kroll
4 episodes
103 The
Armageddon Factor
6 episodes
104 Destiny of
the Daleks
4 episodes
DWM Victims
Comic
ST15 Suitors, Inc. Short
Story
ST5 The Lying Old
Witch in the Wardrobe Short Story
105 City of Death
4 episodes
106 The Creature
from the Pit
4 episodes
MA06 The Romance of
Crime Novel
MA20 The English Way
of Death Novel
ST2 Return of the
Spiders Short
Story
ST3 Special
Occasions 1 Short
Story
ST3 Special
Occasions 2 Short
Story
ST14 The Little
Things Short
Story
ST3 Special
Occasions 3 Short
Story
ST3 Special
Occasions 4 Short
Story
ST14 The Clanging
Chimes of Doom Short
Story
ST14 Present Tense Short
Story
107 Nightmare of
Eden
4 episodes
108 The Horns of
Nimon
4 episodes
109 Shada
Incomplete
ST1 Glass Short
Story
ST8 Doing Time Short
Story
MA33 The
Well-Mannered War Novel
BBCP35 Festival
of Death Novel
DWM The Iron Legion
Comic
DWM City of the
Damned
Comic
DWM K9's Finest Hour Comic
DWM The Star Beast
Comic
DWM The Dogs of Doom Comic
DWM The Time Witch
Comic
DWM Dragon's Claw
Comic
DWM The Collector
Comic
DWM Dreamers of Death Comic
DWM Starbeast II
Comic
DWM The Life Bringer Comic
DWM War of the Words Comic
DWM Spider-God
Comic
DWM The Deal
Comic
DWM End of the Line
Comic
DWM The Freefall
Warriors Comic
DWM Junkyard Demons
Comic
DWM Junkyard Demons
II Comic
DWM Neutron Knights
Comic
ST19 Into the Silent
Land Short
Story
110 The Leisure
Hive
4 episodes
ST4 I Was a
Monster!!! Short
Story
ST20 Checkpoint Short
Story
111 Meglos
4 episodes
112 Full Circle
4 episodes
113 State of
Decay
4 episodes
ST8 O, Darkness Short
Story
114 Warriors'
Gate
4 episodes
115 The Keeper of
Traken
4 episodes
ST6 Mauritz Short
Story
116 Logopolis
4 episodes
Comic
Strips
Doctor Who
Magazine
TV Comic
Annuals
Exploration Earth
Part 3:
The Time Machine
Harry
Sullivan's War
The
Companions of Doctor Who
The Man
From DOCTO(R)
Short
Trips: Companions
A Boy's
Tale
Short
Trips: Companions
Jealous,
Possessive
Short
Trips: Zodiac
Kept Safe
and Sound
Short
Trips: Companions
COMPANIONS
(External
links to Wikipedia)
Sarah
Jane Smith
Harry
Sullivan
Leela
K-9
Romanadvoratrelundar
Sharon
Adric
Nyssa
Tegan
Jovanka
ADVENTURES
IN A POCKET UNIVERSE
The
Choice
The
Search
Kaldor
City
Spin-off
Series
K-9 and
Company
A Girl's
Best Friend
Housewarming
Decalog 2:
Lost Properties
The Sow in
Rut
More Short
Trips
Balloon
Debate
Short
Trips: Companions
Moving On
Decalog 3:
Consequences
1.1
Comeback
1.2 The
TAO Connection
1.3 Test
of Nerve
1.4 Ghost
Town
1.5
Mirror,Signal,Manoeuvre
2.1 Buried
Secrets
2.2 Snow
Blind
2.3 Fatal
Consequences
2.4
Dreamland
School
Reunion
Invasion
of the Bane
[TOP]
Fifth Doctor
Peter Davison
117 Castrovalva
4 episodes
ST6 The Comet's
Tail Short
Story
MA29 Cold Fusion Novel
ST9 The Immortals Short
Story
118 Four to
Doomsday
4 episodes
119 Kinda
4 episodes
ST20 First Born Short
Story
120 The
Visitation
4 episodes
BBCP26 Divided
Loyalties Novel
121 Black Orchid
2 episodes
ST14 In the TARDIS:
Christmas Day Short
Story
ST5 Hearts of
Stone Short
Story
122 Earthshock
4 episodes
ST19 The Wake Short
Story
123 Time-Flight
4 episodes
BBCP65 Empire
of Death Novel
ST6 Long Term Short
Story
ST13 Artificial
Intelligence Short
Story
DEC2 Lonely Days Short
Story
BF04 Land of the
Dead
4 episodes
DEC3 Past Reckoning Short
Story
BF10 Winter for the
Adept
4 episodes
BF15 The Mutant
Phase
4 episodes
BF26 Primeval
4 episodes
ST1 The
Parliament of Rats Short
Story
ST2 The Eternity
Contract Short
Story
BF34 Spare Parts
4 episodes
ST7 Confabula Short
Story
BF44 Creatures of
Beauty
4 episodes
ST12 Not So Much a
Programme, More a Way of Life Short
Story
BF66 The Game
6 episodes
ST15 The 57th Short
Story
ST17 Saturn Short
Story
ST18 The Church of
Saint Sebastian Short
Story
BF91 Circular Time
[Spring, Summer, Autumn]
4 episodes
124 Arc of
Infinity
4 episodes
BF47 Omega
4 episodes
DWM The Tides of Time Comic
DWM Stars Fell on
Stockbridge Comic
DWM The Stockbridge
Horror
Comic
DWM Lunar Lagoon
Comic
DWM 4-Dimensional
Vistas Comic
DWM The Moderator
Comic
BBCP58 Fear
of the Dark Novel
DEC1 Lackaday Express Short
Story
BBCP13 Zeta
Major Novel
MA22 The Sands of
Time Novel
ST6 Soul Mate Short
Story
ST8 No Exit Short
Story
125 Snakedance
4 episodes
DWM Blood Invocation Comic
MA01 Goth Opera Novel
126 Mawdryn
Undead
4 episodes
127 Terminus
4 episodes
128 Enlightenment
4 episodes
129 The King's
Demons
2 episodes
ST20 Falling From
Xi'an Short
Story
MA04 The Crystal
Bucephalus Novel
130 The Five
Doctors TV-Movie
ST14 Lily Short
Story
BF01 The Sirens of
Time
4 episodes
ST5 Qualia Short
Story
ST10 Lant Land Short
Story
ST11 The Assassin's
Story Short
Story
ST19 The Velvet Dark Short
Story
131 Warriors of
the Deep
4 episodes
BBCP20 Deep
Blue
Novel
132 The Awakening
2 episodes
BBCP37 The
King of Terror Novel
DWM The Lunar
Strangers
Comic
133 Frontios
4 episodes
ST19 Life After
Queth Short
Story
BFE1 Excelis Dawns
2 episodes
ST18 Rome Short
Story
ST14 Last Minute
Shopping Short
Story
134 Resurrection
of the Daleks
2 episodes
MA17 Lords of the
Storm Novel
DEC3 Zeitgeist Short
Story
BF02 Phantasmagoria
4 episodes
BF20 Loups-Garoux
4 episodes
BF76 Singularity
4 episodes
BBCP34 Imperial
Moon Novel
ST9 White Man's
Burden Short
Story
ST10 Observation Short
Story
ST12 Flashpoint Short
Story
ST16 One Wednesday
Afternoon Short
Story
ST18 Comforts of
Home Short
Story
135 Planet of
Fire
4 episodes
ST4 Five Card
Draw Short
Story
ST8 Light at the
End of the Tunnel Short
Story
ST19 Black and White Short
Story
ST20 The Church of
Football Short
Story
ST2 Hot Ice Short
Story
BF08 Red Dawn
4 episodes
BBCP03 The
Ultimate Treasure
Novel
ST3 A Town Called
Eternity Short
Story
ST5 The Canvey
Angels Short
Story
ST14 Never Seen
Cairo Short
Story
ST16 A Life in the
Day Short
Story
BF24 The Eye of the
Scorpion
4 episodes
BF38 The Church and
the Crown
4 episodes
DWM3 No Place Like Home
1 episode
BF41 Nekromanteia
4 episodes
TEL14 Blood and Hope Novella
BF56 The Axis of
Insanity
4 episodes
ST9 Graham Dilley
Saves the World Short
Story
BF59 The Roof of the
World
4 episodes
ST11 The Gangster's
Story Short
Story
BF69 Three's a Crowd
4 episodes
BF71 The Council of
Nicaea
4 episodes
BF81 The Kingmaker
4 episodes
DWM6 The Veiled Leopard
2 episodes
BF87 The Gathering
2 episodes
DWM The Curse of the
Scarab
Comic
DEC1 Fascination Short
Story
BBCP43 Superior
Beings
Novel
BBCP53 Warmonger Novel
136 The Caves of
Androzani
4 episodes
BF91 Circular Time
[Winter]
4 episodes
Comic
Strips
Doctor Who
Magazine
Annuals
Turlough
and the Earthlink Dilemma
The
Companions of Doctor Who
COMPANIONS
(External
links to Wikipedia)
Adric
Nyssa
Tegan
Jovanka
Sir
Justin
Gus
Goodman
Vislor
Turlough
Kamelion
Perpugilliam 'Peri' Brown
Erimem
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Sixth Doctor
Colin Baker
137 The Twin
Dilemma
4 episodes
138 Attack of the
Cybermen
2 episodes
ST12 Trapped! Short
Story
139 Vengeance on
Varos
2 episodes
ST15 Telling Tales Short
Story
BBCP31 Grave
Matter Novel
ST2/DRK Moon
Graffiti Audio
TEL08 Shell Shock Novella
MA30 Burning Heart Novel
ST8 House Short
Story
BBCP67 Synthespians
Novel
140 The Mark of
the Rani
2 episodes
BBCP21 Players Novel
141 The Two
Doctors
3 episodes
ST20 Old Boys Short
Story
BBCP59 Blue
Box Novel
BF48 Davros
2 episodes
BF77a Cryptobiosis
1 episode
ST10 The
Reproductive Cycle Short
Story
142 Timelash
2 episodes
BF90 Year of the Pig
4 episodes
DEC2 Timeshare Short
Story
DRK Vigil Audio
ST3 Turnabout is
Fair Play Short
Story
143 Revelation of
the Daleks
2 episodes
ST8 The Ruins of
Heaven Short
Story
ST10 A Star is
Reborn Short
Story
X01 The Nightmare
Fair Novel
X02 The Ultimate
Evil Novel
X03 Mission to
Magnus Novel
RD2 Slipback
6 episodes
BF03 Whispers of
Terror
4 episodes
BF35 ...ish
4 episodes
BF86 The Reaping
2 episodes
MA05 State of Change Novel
BBCP51 Palace
of the Red Sun Novel
ST9 CHAOS Short
Story
DWM The Shape-Shifter Comic
DWM Voyager
Comic
DWM Polly the Glot
Comic
DWM Once Upon a
Time-Lord... Comic
DWM War-Game
Comic
DWM Funhouse
Comic
DWM Kane's Story /
Abel's Story / Warriors' Story / Frobisher's Story Comic
DWM Exodus /
Revelation / Genesis Comic
DWM Nature of the
Beast Comic
DWM Time Bomb
Comic
DWM Salad Daze
Comic
DWM Changes
Comic
DWM Profit of Doom
Comic
DWM The Gift
Comic
DWM World Shapers
Comic
-- The events in The Mysterious Planet
would take place here --
ST4 The Stabber Short
Story
DWM Emperor of the
Daleks
Comic
DWM Up Above the Gods Comic
-- The events in Mindwarp would take place
here --
The
Trial of a Time Lord
144 The
Mysterious Planet
4 episodes
145 Mindwarp 4 episodes
146 Terror of the
Vervoids
4 episodes
147 The Ultimate
Foe 2 episodes
MA08 Time of Your
Life Novel
MA23 Killing Ground Novel
BF51 The Wormery
4 episodes
BFE2 Excelis Rising
1 episode
BF33 The Maltese
Penguin
1 episode
BBCP12 Mission:
Impractical Novel
BF14 The Holy Terror
4 episodes
ST13 The Last
Emperor Short
Story
DWM The Age of Chaos Comic
DWM2 The Ratings War
1 episode
ST14 Christmas
Special Short
Story
ST16 The Terror of
the Darkness Short
Story
ST20 Incongruous
Details Short
Story
DEC1 The Golden Door Short
Story
ST3 Gone too Soon Short
Story
ST1/DRK Wish
You Were Here Short
Story
ST6 Whiskey and
Water Short
Story
ST6 The Death of
Me Short
Story
ST7 Teach
Yourself Ballroom Dancing Short
Story
ST11 The
Inquisitor's Story Short
Story
ST13 Outsourcing Short
Story
BF64a Her Final Flight
2 episodes
BF06 The Marian
Conspiracy
4 episodes
BF01 The Sirens of
Time
4 episodes
BF09 The Spectre of
Lanyon Moor
4 episodes
BF11 The Apocalypse
Element 4 episodes
BF22 Bloodtide
4 episodes
BF23 Project:
Twilight
4 episodes
BF37 The Sandman
4 episodes
ST17 Jupiter Short
Story
BF40 Jubilee
4 episodes
BF43 Doctor Who and
the Pirates
4 episodes
ST20 Old Boys Short
Story
BBCi02 Real
Time
6 episodes
BF45 Project:
Lazarus
4 episodes
BF57 Arrangements
for War
4 episodes
ST9 Mortlake Short
Story
ST11 The Diplomat's
Story Short
Story
BF60 Medicinal
Purposes
4 episodes
ST18 Christmas on
the Moon Short
Story
BF78 Pier Pressure
4 episodes
BF84 The Nowhere
Place
4 episodes
ST18 She Won't Be
Home Short
Story
BBCP41 The
Shadow in the Glass Novel
ST14 Water's Edge Short
Story
BBCP04 Business
Unusual Novel
DEC3 Fegovy Short
Story
MA15 Millennial Rites Novel
-- The events in Terror of the Vervoids
would take place here --
BBCP38 The
Quantum Archangel Novel
BF27 The One Doctor
4 episodes
BF65 The Juggernauts
4 episodes
BF68 Catch-1782
4 episodes
ST9 The Man Who
Wouldn't Give Up Short
Story
ST10 Mortal Thoughts Short
Story
ST18 Home Fires Short
Story
ST16 Sold Out Short
Story
ST20 Old Boys Short
Story
BBCP48 Instruments
of Darkness Novel
BF73 Thicker Than
Water
4 episodes
ST19 Curtain Call Short
Story
BBCP72 Spiral
Scratch Novel
Comic
Strips
Doctor Who
Magazine
Annuals
A Fix With
Sontarans
Fixing a
Hole
Short
Trips: Past Tense
The
Ultimate Adventure
Stage Play
Face Value
Short
Trips and Side Steps
Missing,
Part One:
Business
as Usual
More Short
Trips
Missing,
Part Two:
Message in
a Bottle
More Short
Trips
COMPANIONS
(External
links to Wikipedia)
Perpugilliam 'Peri' Brown
Frobisher
Grant
Markham
Emily
Chaudhry
William
Hoffman
Evelyn
Smythe
Melanie
Bush
THE
STRANGER
Summoned
by Shadows
More
Than a Messiah
In
Memory Alone
The
Terror Game
The Last
Mission
Breach
of Peace
Eye of
the Beholder
[TOP]
Seventh Doctor
Sylvester McCoy
148 Time and the
Rani
4 episodes
BF70 Unregenerate!
4 episodes
BF85 Red
4 episodes
149 Paradise
Towers
4 episodes
DWM Plastic Millenium Comic
ST4 The
Invertebrates of Doom Short
Story
ST13 Daisy Chain Short
Story
BF39 Bang-Bang-A-Boom!
4 episodes
BF46 Flip-Flop
4 episodes
150 Delta and the
Bannermen
3 episodes
ST17 Uranus Short
Story
BF12 The Fires of
Vulcan
4 episodes
ST2 Special
Weapons Short
Story
151 Dragonfire
3 episodes
ST10 Echo Short
Story
ST14 A Yuletide Tale Short
Story
152 Remembrance
of the Daleks
4 episodes
ST2 uPVC Short
Story
ST9 Ante Bellum Short
Story
ST11 The Ghost's
Story Short
Story
153 The Happiness
Patrol
3 episodes
154 Silver
Nemesis
3 episodes
DWM Seaside
Rendezvous
Comic
155 The Greatest
Show in the Galaxy
4 episodes
ST10 A Rose By Any
Other Name Short
Story
156 Battlefield
4 episodes
BBCP49 Relative
Dementias Novel
157 Ghost Light
3 episodes
158 The Curse of
Fenric
4 episodes
BBCP10 The
Hollow Men Novel
ST7 Hymn of the
City Short
Story
ST12 Last Rites Short
Story
ST18 The Anchorite's
Echo Short
Story
159 Survival
3 episodes
TEL02 Citadel of
Dreams Novella
ST1 Stop the
Pigeon Short
Story
ST1 Ace of Hearts Short
Story
ST3 Monsters Short
Story
BBCP05 Illegal
Alien Novel
BBCP16 Matrix Novel
BBCP23 Storm
Harvest Novel
BF07 The Genocide
Machine
4 episodes
BBCP33 Prime
Time Novel
BBCP57 Heritage Novel
BBCP60 Loving
the Alien Novel
BBCP68 The
Algebra of Ice Novel
BBCP76 Atom
Bomb Blues Novel
BF21 Dust Breeding
4 episodes
BF25 Colditz
4 episodes
BF36 The Rapture
4 episodes
BF58 The Harvest
4 episodes
ST12 These Things
Take Time Short
Story
ST16 The Heroine,
the Hero and the Megalomaniac Short
Story
BF67 Dreamtime
4 episodes
ST16 Six Impossible
Things Before Breakfast Short
Story
BF74 Live 34
4 episodes
ST18 Presence Short
Story
BF79 Night Thoughts
4 episodes
DWM6 The Veiled Leopard
2 episodes
BF82 The Settling
4 episodes
BF89 No Man's Land
4 episodes
BF92 Nocturne
4 episodes
NA01 Timewyrm:
Genesys Novel
NA02 Timewyrm: Exodus Novel
NA03 Timewyrm:
Apocalypse Novel
NA04 Timewyrm:
Revelation Novel
NA05 Cat's Cradle:
Time's Crucible Novel
DWM A Cold Day in
Hell
Comic
DWM Redemption Comic
DWM The Crossroads of
time
Comic
DWM Claws of the
Klathi Comic
DWM Culture Shock
Comic
DWM Keepsake
Comic
DWM Planet of the
Dead
Comic
DWM Echoes of the
Mogor Comic
DWM Time and Tide
Comic
DWM Follow that
TARDIS!
Comic
DWM Invaders from
Gantac
Comic
DH Time Bomb
Comic
DWM Nemesis of the
Daleks
Comic
DWM Stairway to
Heaven
Comic
HK Once in a
Lifetime Comic
HK/DWM Hunger
From the End of Time Comic
HK War World Comic
HK Technical
Hitch Comic
HK A Switch in
Time Comic
HK The Sentinel Comic
HK Who's That
Girl Comic
HK The
Enlightenment of Ly-Chee the Wise Comic
HK Slimmer Comic
HK Nineveh Comic
DWM Doctor Conquerer Comic
DWM Trainflight
Comic
DWM Fellow Travellers Comic
DWM Darkness Falling
/ Distractions / The Mark of Mandragora Comic
DWM Party Animals
Comic
DWM The Chameleon
Factor
Comic
DWM Under Pressure Comic
DWM The Good Soldier Comic
DWM A Glitch in Time Comic
DWM Evening's Empire Comic
DWM The Grief
Comic
NA06 Cat's Cradle:
Warhead Novel
DWM Ravens Comic
NA07 Cat's Cradle:
Witch Mark Novel
NA08 Nightshade Novel
DWM Memorial Comic
DWM Cat Litter Comic
BF05 The Fearmonger
4 episodes
BBCP36 Independence
Day Novel
DWM Metamorphosis Comic
NA09 Love And War Novel
DWM Pureblood Comic
DWM Younger and Wiser Comic
NA10 Transit Novel
DEC1 Playback Short
Story
NA11 The Highest
Science Novel
DWM Emperor of the
Daleks Comic
NA12 The Pit Novel
DEC3 Continuity
Errors Short
Story
NA13 Deceit Novel
NA14 Lucifer Rising Novel
NA15 White Darkness Novel
NA16 Shadowmind Novel
DWM Flashback Comic
NA17 Birthright Novel
NA18 Iceberg Novel
DWM The Last Word Comic
NA19 Blood Heat Novel
DWM Final Genesis Comic
NA20 The Dimension
Riders Novel
NA21 The Left-Handed
Hummingbird Novel
NA22 Conundrum Novel
NA23 No Future Novel
DWM Time and Time
Again Comic
DWM Cuckoo
Comic
NA24 Tragedy Day Novel
NA25 Legacy Novel
NA26 Theatre of War Novel
NA27 All-Consuming
Fire Novel
DEC2 Question Mark
Pyjamas Short
Story
BF13 The Shadow of
the Scourge
4 episodes
ST4 Virgin Lands Short
Story
BF42 The Dark Flame
4 episodes
ST8 Cold War Short
Story
NA28 Blood Harvest Novel
NA29 Strange England Novel
NA30 First Frontier Novel
NA31 St Anthony's
Fire Novel
NA32 Falls the Shadow Novel
NA33 Parasite Novel
NA34 Warlock Novel
NA35 Set Piece Novel
NA36 Infinite Requiem Novel
NA37 Sanctuary Novel
DEC2 The Trials of
Tara Short
Story
ST9 Of the
Mermaid and Jupiter Short
Story
ST14 Last Christmas Short
Story
ST14 Spookasem Short
Story
ST18 Nobody's Gift Short
Story
ST20 Log 384 Short
Story
ST16 How You Get
There Short
Story
NA38 Human Nature Novel
NA39 Original Sin Novel
NA40 Sky Pirates! Novel
NA41 Zamper Novel
NA42 Toy Soldiers Novel
NA43 Head Games Novel
NA44 The Also People Novel
NA45 Shakedown Novel
NA46 Just War Novel
NA47 Warchild Novel
NA48 Sleepy Novel
NA49 Death and
Diplomacy Novel
NA50 Happy Endings Novel
NA51 GodEngine Novel
NA52 Christmas on a
Rational Planet Novel
NA53 Return of the
Living Dad Novel
MA29 Cold Fusion Novel
ST13 The Nuclear
Option Short
Story
ST13 Anteus Short
Story
NA54 The Death of Art Novel
NA55 Damaged Goods Novel
NA56 So Vile a Sin Novel
NA57 Bad Therapy Novel
NA58 Eternity Weeps Novel
ST15 Too Rich For My
Blood Short
Story
ST10 The Southwell
Park Mermaid Short
Story
NA59 The Room With No
Doors Novel
BF01 The Sirens of
Time
4 episodes
BBCP45 Bullet
Time Novel
ST13 Culture War Short
Story
NA60 Lungbarrow Novel
ST20 Testament Short
Story
DWM Uninvited Guest Comic
DWM1 Last of the Titans
1 episode
BF90a Return of the
Daleks
1 episode
BBCi01 Death
Comes to Time
5 episodes
DWM Ground Zero Comic
BFE3 Excelis Decays
1 episode
TEL13 Companion Piece Novella
BF45 Project:
Lazarus
4 episodes
BF49 Master
4 episodes
ST11 The Tramp's
Story Short
Story
ST8 Monitor Short
Story
ST8 Inmate 280 Short
Story
ST19 Utopia Short
Story
ST13 Separation Short
Story
ST14 Perfect Present Short
Story
ST5 Notre Dame du
Temps Short
Story
Comic
Strips
Doctor Who
Magazine
The
Incredible Hulk Presents
Death's
Head
Dimensions
in Time
Search Out
Science
Search Out
Space
Time Rift
COMPANIONS
(External
links to Wikipedia)
Melanie
Bush
Dorothy
'Ace' McShane
Frobisher
Olla
Thomas
Hector 'Hex' Schofield
Bernice
Summerfield
Roz
Forrester
Chris
Cwej
Antimony
Catherine Broome
THE TIME
TRAVELLERS
Republica
Island
of Lost Souls
Prosperity Island
The Left
Hand of Darkness
The
Other Side
Guest
for the Night
Ghosts
Only
Human
Punchline
[TOP]
Eighth Doctor
Paul McGann
160 Doctor Who TV-Movie
BBC801 The
Eight Doctors Novel
E&B Bounty Audio
ST1 Model Train
Set Short
Story
ST7 The Glass
Princess Short
Story
ST2 Totem Short
Story
NA61 The Dying Days Novel
ST13 Thinking
Warrior Short
Story
ST13 The Ethereal Short
Story
ST14 ...Be Forgot Short
Story
ST18 Not in my
Backyard Short
Story
ST19 The Wickerwork
Man Short
Story
RT Dreadnought
Comic
RT Descendance
Comic
RT Ascendance Comic
RT Perceptions Comic
RT Coda
Comic
BBCi03 Shada
6 episodes
ST11 The Time Lord's
Story Short
Story
ST11 The Juror's
Story Short
Story
ST15 Seven Deadly
Sins Short
Story
ST18 The Long
Midwinter Short
Story
ST20 Dear John Short
Story
BF16 Storm Warning
4 episodes
BF17 Sword of Orion
4 episodes
ST11 Repercussions... Short
Story
ST12 Best Seller Short
Story
BF18 The Stones of
Venice
4 episodes
BF19 Minuet in Hell
4 episodes
ST8 A Good Life Short
Story
ST17 Venus Short
Story
ST18 Be good for
Goodness' Sake Short
Story
BF28 Invaders From
Mars
4 episodes
BF29 The Chimes of
Midnight
4 episodes
DWM4 Living Legend
1 episode
BF30 Seasons of Fear
4 episodes
BF31 Embrace the
Darkness
4 episodes
ST16 The Heroine,
the Hero and the Megalomaniac Short
Story
BF32 The Time of the
Daleks
4 episodes
ST5 Apocrypha
Bipedium Short
Story
BF33 Neverland
2 episodes
BF50 Zagreus
3 episodes
BF52 Scherzo
4 episodes
BF53 The Creed of
the Kromon
4 episodes
BF54 Natural History
of Fear
4 episodes
BF55 The Twilight
Kingdom
4 episodes
BF61 Faith Stealer
4 episodes
BF62 The Last
4 episodes
BF63 Caerdroia
4 episodes
BF64 The Next Life
6 episodes
BF72 Terror Firma
4 episodes
ST16 Round Trip:
Before Midnight Short
Story
ST16 Round Trip:
After Midnight Short
Story
BF75 Scaredy Cat
4 episodes
BF77 Other Lives
4 episodes
BF80 Time Works
4 episodes
BF83 Something
Inside
4 episodes
BF88 Memory Lane
4 episodes
ST20 Forgotten Short
Story
BBC701 Blood
of the Daleks
2 episodes
BBC702 Horror
of Glam Rock
1 episode
BBC703 Immortal
Beloved
1 episode
BBC704 Phobos
1 episode
BBC705 No
More Lies
1 episode
BBC706 Human
Resources
2 episodes
DWM End Game
Comic
DWM The Keep
Comic
DWM A Matter of Life
and Death Comic
DWM Fire and
Brimstone
Comic
DWM By Hook or By
Crook Comic
DWM Tooth and Claw
Comic
DWM The Final Chapter Comic
DWM Wormwood
Comic
ST10 Syntax Short
Story
DWM Happy Deathday
Comic
DWM The Fallen
Comic
DWM Unnatural Born
Killers
Comic
DWM The Road to Hell Comic
DWM TV Action!
Comic
DWM The Company of
Thieves
Comic
DWM The Glorious Dead Comic
DWM The Autonomy Bug Comic
DWM Ophidius
Comic
DWM Beautiful Freaks Comic
DWM The Way of All
Flesh Comic
DWM Children of the
Revolution Comic
DWM Me and My Shadows Comic
DWM Uroburus
Comic
DWM Oblivion
Comic
DWM Where Nobody
Knows Your Name Comic
DWM Doctor Who and
the Nightmare Game Comic
DWM The Power of
Thoueris
Comic
DWM The Curious Tale
of Spring-Heeled Jack Comic
DWM The Land of Happy
Endings Comic
DWM Bad Blood
Comic
DWM Sins of the
Father
Comic
DWM The Flood
Comic
TEL06 Rip Tide Novella
TEL12 Eye of the Tyger Novella
BBC802 Vampire
Science
Novel
BBC803 The
Bodysnatchers Novel
BBC804 Genocide Novel
ST2/E&B Dead
Time Audio
BBC805 War
of the Daleks Novel
BBC806 Alien Bodies Novel
BBC807 Kursaal Novel
BBC808 Option
Lock Novel
ST1/E&B The
People's Temple Short
Story
ST3 The Queen of
Eros Short
Story
BBC809 Longest
Day Novel
BBC810 Legacy
of the Daleks Novel
BBC811 Dreamstone
Moon Novel
BBC812 Seeing
I Novel
BBC813 Placebo
Effect Novel
BBC814 Vanderdeken's
Children Novel
BBC815 The
Scarlet Empress Novel
BBC816 The
Janus Conjunction Novel
BBC817 Beltempest Novel
BBC818 The
Face-Eater Novel
ST2 Femme Fatale Short
Story
BBC819 The
Taint Novel
BBC820 Demontage Novel
BBC821 Revolution
Man Novel
BBC822 Dominion Novel
BBC823 Unnatural
History Novel
BBC824 Autumn
Mist Novel
BBC825 Interference:
Book One Novel
BBC826 Interference:
Book Two Novel
BBC827 The
Blue Angel Novel
BBC828 The
Taking of Planet 5 Novel
BBC829 Frontier
Worlds
Novel
BBC830 Parallel
59
Novel
ST4 Growing
Higher Short
Story
BBC831 The
Shadows of Avalon
Novel
BBC832 The
Fall of Yquatine
Novel
BBC833 Coldheart Novel
BBC834 The
Space Age
Novel
BBC835 The
Banquo Legacy
Novel
BBC836 The
Ancestor Cell
Novel
BBC837 The
Burning
Novel
ST14 Evergreen Short
Story
BBC838 Casualties
of War
Novel
BBCP62 Wolfsbane Novel
BBC839 The
Turing Test
Novel
BBC840 Endgame Novel
ST7 Mordieu Short
Story
BBC841 Father
Time Novel
BBC842 Escape
Velocity Novel
BBC843 EarthWorld Novel
BBCP73 Fear
Itself Novel
BBC844 Vanishing
Point Novel
BBC845 Eater
of Wasps Novel
BBC846 The
Year of Intelligent Tigers Novel
BBC847 The
Slow Empire Novel
BBC848 Dark
Progeny Novel
BBC849 The
City of the Dead Novel
BBC850 Grimm
Reality Novel
BBC851 The
Adventuress of Henrietta Street
Novel
BBC852 Mad
Dogs and Englishmen Novel
BBC853 Hope Novel
BBC854 Anachrophobia Novel
BBC855 Trading
Futures Novel
BBC856 The
Book of the Still Novel
BBC857 The
Crooked World Novel
TEL10 Fallen Gods Novella
BBC858 History 101 Novel
BBC859 Camera Obscura Novel
ST5 Notre Dame du Temps Short
Story
BBC860 Time
Zero Novel
BBC861 The
Infinity Race Novel
BBC862 The
Domino Effect Novel
BBC863 Reckless
Engineering Novel
BBC864 The
Last Resort Novel
BBC865 Timeless Novel
BBC866 Emotional
Chemistry Novel
BBC867 Sometime
Never... Novel
BBC868 Halflife Novel
BBC869 The
Tomorrow Windows Novel
BBC870 The
Sleep of Reason Novel
BBC871 The
Deadstone Memorial Novel
BBC872 To
the Slaughter Novel
BBC873 The
Gallifrey Chronicles Novel
ST6 Gazing Void Short
Story
ST8 Reversal of
Fortune Short
Story
ST9 Far From Home Short
Story
ST10 Jonah Short
Story
ST10 The End Short
Story
160 Doctor Who TV-Movie
BBCi03 Shada
6 episodes
ST11 The Time Lord's
Story Short
Story
ST11 The Juror's
Story Short
Story
ST15 Seven Deadly
Sins Short
Story
ST18 The Long
Midwinter Short
Story
ST20 Dear John Short
Story
BF16 Storm Warning
4 episodes
BF17 Sword of Orion
4 episodes
ST11 Repercussions... Short
Story
ST12 Best Seller Short
Story
BF18 The Stones of
Venice
4 episodes
BF19 Minuet in Hell
4 episodes
ST8 A Good Life Short
Story
ST17 Venus Short
Story
ST18 Be good for
Goodness' Sake Short
Story
BF28 Invaders From
Mars
4 episodes
BF29 The Chimes of
Midnight
4 episodes
DWM4 Living Legend
1 episode
BF30 Seasons of Fear
4 episodes
BF31 Embrace the
Darkness
4 episodes
ST16 The Heroine,
the Hero and the Megalomaniac Short
Story
BF32 The Time of the
Daleks
4 episodes
ST5 Apocrypha
Bipedium Short
Story
BF33 Neverland
2 episodes
BF50 Zagreus
3 episodes
BF52 Scherzo
4 episodes
BF53 The Creed of
the Kromon
4 episodes
BF54 Natural History
of Fear
4 episodes
BF55 The Twilight
Kingdom
4 episodes
BF61 Faith Stealer
4 episodes
BF62 The Last
4 episodes
BF63 Caerdroia
4 episodes
BF64 The Next Life
6 episodes
BF72 Terror Firma
4 episodes
ST16 Round Trip:
Before Midnight Short
Story
ST16 Round Trip:
After Midnight Short
Story
BF75 Scaredy Cat
4 episodes
BF77 Other Lives
4 episodes
BF80 Time Works
4 episodes
BF83 Something
Inside
4 episodes
BF88 Memory Lane
4 episodes
ST20 Forgotten Short
Story
BBC701 Blood
of the Daleks
2 episodes
BBC702 Horror
of Glam Rock
1 episode
BBC703 Immortal
Beloved
1 episode
BBC704 Phobos
1 episode
BBC705 No
More Lies
1 episode
BBC706 Human
Resources
2 episodes
160 Doctor Who TV-Movie
DWM End Game
Comic
DWM The Keep
Comic
DWM A Matter of Life
and Death Comic
DWM Fire and
Brimstone
Comic
DWM By Hook or By
Crook Comic
DWM Tooth and Claw
Comic
DWM The Final Chapter Comic
DWM Wormwood
Comic
ST10 Syntax Short
Story
DWM Happy Deathday
Comic
DWM The Fallen
Comic
DWM Unnatural Born
Killers
Comic
DWM The Road to Hell Comic
DWM TV Action!
Comic
DWM The Company of
Thieves
Comic
DWM The Glorious Dead Comic
DWM The Autonomy Bug Comic
DWM Ophidius
Comic
DWM Beautiful Freaks Comic
DWM The Way of All
Flesh Comic
DWM Children of the
Revolution Comic
DWM Me and My Shadows Comic
DWM Uroburus
Comic
DWM Oblivion
Comic
DWM Where Nobody
Knows Your Name Comic
DWM Doctor Who and
the Nightmare Game Comic
DWM The Power of
Thoueris
Comic
DWM The Curious Tale
of Spring-Heeled Jack Comic
DWM The Land of Happy
Endings Comic
DWM Bad Blood
Comic
DWM Sins of the
Father
Comic
DWM The Flood
Comic
It has long been acknowledged by fans that the Eighth Doctor
audios
and comics
strips are set in the gap between The Eight Doctors and
Vampire
Science.
The Big
Finish audio Zagreus on the other hand suggests the various
ranges of
the Eighth Doctor Adventures take place in parallel
timelines.
Until the
matter is definitively resolved in book or audio, we've
decided to
follow the parallel timelines theory and list the various
ranges
separately.
However,
we still consider the idea of a continuous timeframe and
offer the
possibility to set your preference between the two
formats.
Set
Preference to Parallel Timelines
Set
Preference to Continuous Timeline
Download
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Comic
Strips
Doctor Who
Magazine
Radio
Times
Syntax
Short
Trips: Life Science
COMPANIONS
(External
links to Wikipedia)
Grace
Holloway
Samantha
Jones
Stacy
Townsend
Ssard
C'rizz
Fritz
Kreiner
Laura
'Compassion' Tobin
Anji
Kappoor
Beatrice
'Trix' MacMillan
Isabelle
'Izzy' Sinclair
Kroton
Fey
Truscott-Sade
Destrii
Samson Griffin
Gemma Griffin
Charley Pollard
Lucie Miller
1.1 Weapon of Choice
1.2 Square
One
1.3 The
Inquiry
1.4 A
Blind Eye
2.1 Lies
2.2 Spirit
2.3
Pandora
2.4
Insurgency
2.5
Imperiatrix
3.1
Fractures
3.2
Warfare
3.3
Appropriation
3.4
Mindbomb
3.5
Panacea
Faction
Paradox
Spin-off
Series
Miranda
Comic
Books
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Ninth Doctor
Christopher
Eccleston
DWA What I did on
my Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow Short
Story
161 Rose
1 episode
162 The End of
the World
1 episode
163 The Unquiet
Dead
1 episode
DWA Doctor VS
Doctor Short
Story
164 Aliens of
London / World War Three
2 episodes
DWM The Love Invasion Comic
DWA Mr. Nobody
Comic
BBCN01 The
Clockwise Man
Novel
BBCN02 The
Monsters Inside Novel
BBCN03 Winner
Takes All
Novel
DWA The Masks of
Makassar Short
Story
DWA Pitter-Patter Short
Story
DWM Art Attack!
Comic
DWM The Cruel Sea
Comic
165 Dalek
1 episode
166 The Long Game
1 episode
DWM A Groatsworth of
Wit Comic
167 Father's Day
1 episode
168 The Empty
Child / The Doctor Dances
2 episodes
BBCN04 The
Deviant Strain Novel
BBCN05 Only
Human Novel
169 Boom Town
1 episode
BBCN06 The
Stealers of Dreams
Novel
170 Bad Wolf /
The Parting of the Ways
2 episodes
Comic
Strips
Doctor Who
Magazine
Annuals
COMPANIONS
(External
links to Wikipedia)
Rose
Tyler
Adam
Mitchell
Jack
Harkness
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Tenth Doctor
David Tennant
--- Children
in Need Special
1 episode
171 The Christmas
Invasion
1 episode
--- Attack of
the Graske
1 episode
DWM The Bethrotal of
Sontar Comic
DWM The Lodger
Comic
172 New Earth
1 episode
DWAM Which Switch? Comic
BIT Growing
Terror Comic
BIT Hyperstar
Rising Comic
BIT Death Race
Five Billion Comic
BIT The Macrobe
Menace Comic
BIT The Hunt of
Doom Comic
BIT Reunion of
Fear Comic
BIT The
Glutonoid Menace Comic
DWAM Mirror Image Comic
173 Tooth and
Claw
1 episode
DWAM Under the Volcano Comic
DWM F.A.Q.
Comic
DWM The Futurists
Comic
DWM Interstellar
Overdrive
Comic
DWM The Green-Eyed
Monster
Comic
BBCN07 The
Stone Rose
Novel
BBCN08 The
Feast of the Drowned
Novel
BBCN09 The
Resurrection Casket
Novel
BBCQR1 I am a
Dalek
Novel
174 School
Reunion
1 episode
175 The Girl in
The Fireplace
1 episode
176 Rise of the
Cybermen / The Age of Steel
2 episodes
177 The Idiot's
Lantern
1 episode
BBCN10 The
Nightmare of Black Island
Novel
DWAM The Germ War Comic
DWAM Warfreekz! Comic
178 The
Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit
2 episodes
BBCN11 The
Art of Destruction
Novel
BBCN12 The
Price of Paradise
Novel
DWAM A Delicate
Operation Comic
DWAM Blood and Tears Comic
DWAM Bizarre Zero Comic
DWAM Save the Humans! Comic
DWAM Bat Attack! Comic
DWAM The Battle of
Reading Gaol Comic
DWAM Triskaidekaphobia Comic
DWAM Smarts Bomb Comic
DWAM Pinball Wizard Comic
DWAM Gangsters'
Paradise (Part 1) Comic
DWAM Heads You lose
(Part 2) Comic
DWAM A Date to Remember
(Part 1) Comic
DWAM Snowflakes (Part
2) Comic
179 Love &
Monsters
1 episode
180 Fear Her
1 episode
181 Army of
Ghosts / Doomsday
2 episodes
182 The Runaway
Bride
1 episode
DWM Warkeeper's Crown Comic
DWAM The Hunters (Part
1) Comic
DWAM Cliffhanger (Part
2) Comic
DWAM 13 O'Clock (Part
1) Comic
DWAM 13 O'Clock (Part
2) Comic
DWAM Green Fingers,
Part One Comic
DWAM Green Fingers,
Part Two Comic
BIT The Power
of the Cybermen Comic
BIT Drones of
Doom Comic
BIT Enemy Mine Comic
BIT Time of the
Cybermen Comic
BIT Beneath the
Skin Comic
BIT The Sky
Below Comic
BIT Beyond the
Sea Comic
TIMES Deep and
Dreamless Sleep Short
Story
183 Smith and
Jones
1 episode
184 The
Shakespeare Code
1 episode
185 Gridlock
1 episode
186 Daleks in
Manathan / Evolution of the Daleks
2 episodes
187 The Lazarus
Experiment
1 episode
188 42
1 episode
189 Human Nature
/ The Family of Blood
2 episodes
190 Blink
1 episode
191 Utopia
1 episode
192 The Sounds of
Drums / Last of the Time Lords 2
episodes
Future Doctors
ST2 Good
Companions Short
Story
ST3 Revenants Short Story
ST5 Greenaway Short
Story
Comic
Strips
Doctor Who
Magazine
Doctor Who
Adventures
Battles in
Time
Annuals
Storybooks
COMPANIONS
(External
links to Wikipedia)
Rose
Tyler
Mickey
Smith
Donna
Noble
Martha
Jones
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Peter Cushing
Dr. Who
and the Daleks
The House
on Oldark Moor
Short
Trips and Side Steps
The Five
O'Clock Shadow
Short
Trips: A Day in the Life
Dr. Who:
Dalek Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.
Comic
Strips
Rowan Atkinson
The Curse
of Fatal Death
Richard E. Grant
Scream of
the Shalka
The Feast
of the Stone
?????
The
Infinity Doctors
BBC Past
Doctor Adventures #17
The
Cabinet of Light
Telos
Novella #9
The Dalek
Factor
Telos
Novella #15
The Colour
of Monsters
Short
Trips: Monsters
1. Auld
Mortality
2.
Sympathy for the Devil
3. Full
Fathom Five
4.
"He Jests at Scars..."
5.
Deadline
6. Exile
7. A Storm
of Angels
Sustainable Energy
Short
Trips: 2040
All Our
Christmases
Short
Trips: A Christmas Treasury
The
Innocents
Short
Trips: The History of Christmas
RECURRING
VILLAINS
(External
links to Wikipedia)
Cybermen
Daleks
Ice
Warriors
Sea
Devils
Slitheens
Sontarans
Black
Guardian
The
Master
Nimrod
Omega
The Rani
The
Valeyard
1.1
Invasion of the Daleks
1.2 The
Human Factor
1.3 'Death
to the Daleks!'
1.4.
Project Infinity
2.1 Dalek
War - Chapter 1
2.2 Dalek
War - Chapter 2
2.3 Dalek
War - Chapter 3
2.4 Dalek
War - Chapter 4
3.1 The
Exterminators
3.2 The
Healers
3.3 The
Survivors
3.4 The
Demons
3.5 The
Warriors
3.6 The
Future
Dalek
Comic Strips
published
in TV Century 21
1.
Scorpius
2. Fear
3.
Conversion
4. Telos
Cyberon
Spin-off
video
1.
Innocence
2. Purity
3.
Corruption
4. Guilt
1.
Frostfire
2. Fear of
the Daleks
3. The
Blue Tooth
4. The
Beautiful People
MINDGAME
SERIES
Mindgame
Mindgame: Trilogy
The New
Adventures
featuring
Bernice Summerfield
Brief
Encounters
and other
short stories
from
Doctor Who Magazine
NOVELS
1. Wildthyme on Top
2. The Coming of the Queen
3. Project: Valhalla
AUDIOS
1. Wildthyme at Large
2. The Devil in Ms Wildthyme
ANTHOLOGIES
Decalog
Decalog
2: Lost Properties
Decalog
3: Consequences
Short
Trips
More
Short Trips
Short
Trips and Side Steps
Short
Trips: Zodiacs
Short
Trips: Companions
Short
Trips: A Universe of Terror
Short
Trips: Muses
Short
Trips: Steel Skies
Short
Trips: Past Tense
Short
Trips: Life Science
Short
Trips: Repercussions
Short
Trips: Monsters
Short
Trips: 2040
Short
Trips: A Christmas Treasury
Short
Trips: Seven Deadly Sins
Short
Trips: A Day in the Life
Short
Trips: Solar System
Short
Trips: The History of Christmas
Short
Trips: Farewells
Short
Trips: The Centenarian
Short
Trips: Time Signature
Short
Trips: Dalek Empire
Perfect
Timing
Perfect
Timing 2
Tales of
the Solar System
Missing
Pieces
The Cat
Who Walked Through Time
Lifedeath
Walking
in Eternity
TIME
HUNTER
The
Cabinet of Light
The
Winning Side
The
Tunnel at the End of the Light
The
Clockwork Woman
Kitsune
The
Severed Man
Echoes
Peculiar Times
Deus Te Volt
The Albino's Dancer
The
Sideways Door
BBV - CD
& DVD Releases
Adventures
in Time & Space
Big Finish
- Non Fiction
Special
Video Releases
[TOP]
DOCTOR
WHO THEMES
Hartnell Theme
Troughton Theme
Pertwee Theme
Tom Baker Theme
Davison Theme
Trial of a Time Lord Theme
McCoy Theme
TV
Movie Theme
Eccleston Theme
Tennant Theme
K-9 and Company Theme
Torchwood Theme
Sarah Jane Adventures Theme
Dimensions in Time Theme
8th Doctor Big Finish Theme
Scream of the Shalka Theme
'Years' Tapes Theme
Doctor Who Confidential Theme
Totally Doctor Who Theme
There are
worlds out there where the sky's burning, where the sea's
asleep,
and the rivers dream. People made of smoke and cities made
of song.
Somewhere there's danger. Somewhere there's injustice. And
somewere
else the tea is getting cold. C'mon, Ace. We've got work to
do.
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