Doctor Who (1963)an Episode Guideby George FergusLast updated: |
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| aired from: Nov 1963 to: Dec 1989 plus: Nov '93, May '96 |
159 eps in 700 parts 3 specials 2 features 1 revival |
BBC / BBC1 | 25/45 min | mono / stereo | b&w / color |
rc: Susan, Ian, Barbara
Investigating the background of pupil Susan Foreman, her two teachers, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, find that she lives in a time machine called the TARDIS, with her grandfather, the Doctor. The Doctor is forced to take off with all four characters on board, and the ship arrives in 100,000 BC, where a tribe of cavemen, desperate to rediscover the secret of fire, kidnaps them...
w: Anthony Coburn d: Waris Hussein
rc: Susan, Ian, Barbara
The TARDIS arrives on the planet Skaro, where its crew encounters the Thals, a beautiful passive race, and the Daleks, mutations reliant on machine casings for mobility. The Doctor becomes involved in the unending conflict between the two races and manages to persuade the Thals that it's time to fight back after a Dalek trap sees their leader killed.
w: Terry Nation d: Christopher Barry, Richard Martin
A violent explosion knocks the TARDIS crew unconscious, and when they regain their senses, the Doctor discovers that the ship is heading towards its ultimate destruction, and the others begin to suspect one another of sabotage. It's up to the Doctor to find out what has really caused the problem.
w: David Whitaker d: Richard Martin, Frank Cox
rc: Susan, Ian, Barbara
In the 13th century, the TARDIS lands in China where it is taken by Marco Polo as a gift for the mighty Kublai Khan, and the journey the travelers embark on to get to his palace is fraught with danger, as the evil Tegana plots to steal the TARDIS and sabotage Polo's expedition. On finally reaching Khan's domain, the Doctor gambles the time machine away in a game of backgammon and has to figure out how to get it back.
w: John Lucarotti d: Waris Hussein, John Crockett
rc: Susan, Ian, Barbara
The TARDIS lands on one of the islands on Marinus, which is surrounded by an acidic sea. Arbitan, a monk-like figure who is the Keeper of the Conscience of Marinus, captures the TARDIS. The travelers split up to try and find the four keys that can energise the machine, which have been spread across the planet at different points, and have to return before the commando-like Voords take over the machine.
w: Terry Nation d: John Gorrie
rc: Susan, Ian, Barbara
Materialising in an Aztec High Priest's tomb, the TARDIS becomes locked inside as the crew find a secret exit, and Barbara is proclaimed to be a reincarnation of the deceased, Yetaxa. The Doctor has to figure out how to get back to the TARDIS before Barbara's attempts to convince the race to stop sacrificing human leads to danger.
w: John Lucarotti d: John Crockett
rc: Susan, Ian, Barbara
The crew of an Earth spaceship from the 28th century are found to be under the control of a race of creatures called Sensorites when the TARDIS materialises on board. The Doctor finds the Sensorites are really passive telepaths who are terrified of how the humans on the ship might exploit their society, but there is already some trying to poison the creatures' water supply beneath their city. The Doctor intervenes...
w: Peter R. Newman d: Mervyn Pinfield
rc: Susan, Ian, Barbara
Arriving in Paris during the time of Robespierre, the four travelers become separated. With the Doctor in disguise as an official, Ian is held as an English spy and Barbara and Susan are sentenced to death, and due to meet 'Madame Guillotine'. The four have to plot to escape from the city and return to the safety of the TARDIS.
w: Dennis Spooner d: Henric Hirsch
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rc: Susan, Ian, Barbara
The Doctor finally manages to land on modern day earth, but the TARDIS is only an inch high, and the miniaturised crew try to foil the schemes of Forrester, an insecticide maker, facing all kinds of dangers along the way...
w: Louis Marks d: Mervyn Pinfield, Douglas Camfield
rc: Susan, Ian, Barbara
Earth has been conquered by the Daleks, with mankind almost wiped out by a space plague, and all but a handful of resistance fighters who survived have been turned into zombie-like Robomen, to work as drones for the aliens. As the TARDIS arrives, Ian and the Doctor are captured by the Daleks, while Barbara and Susan join the resistance. The Doctor manages to foil the Daleks plan to hollow out the core of the planet and build a propulsion system to make the Earth into a type of giant spaceship. As he prepares to leave with Ian and Barbara, he decides to leave Susan behind with David Campbell, whom she has fallen in love with, so that she can spend the rest of her life on Earth.
w: Terry Nation d: Richard Matrin
rc: Ian, Barbara, Vicki
On the planet Dido, the TARDIS crew split up and Barbara is nearly murdered by a vicious creature called Koquillion, but survives and finds two survivors on board the wreckage of a crashed spaceship. Vicki is friendly enough, but Bennett sees Barbara as a threat. When the Doctor and Ian arrive, the mystery of exactly who, or rather what Koquillion is, is quickly resolved. At the end of the story, Vicki joins the TARDIS crew.
w: Davidm Whitaker d: Christopher Barry
rc: Ian, Barbara, Vicki
On holiday in ancient Rome, the Doctor is mistaken for the recently murdered lyre player, due to appear at the court of Emperor Nero, where he is taken with Vicki. Barbara is taken by slavers and ends up working at Nero's Palace and Ian's journey on a slave ship is curtailed when it sinks, and he ends up as a Gladiator in Rome. Eventually the four of them are reunited back at the villa; oblivious to what has happened to each other...
w: Dennis Spooner d: Christopher Barry
rc: Ian, Barbara, Vicki
The planet of Vortis has been taken over by a parasitic intelligence called the Animus, which has enslaved the ant-like Zarbi, and caused the natural inhabitants, the Menoptera, to flee to another world. The Animus captures the Doctor and tries to take control of the TARDIS so it can control all of time and space, but he manages to defeat it and the Menoptera are able to take control of their home world once more.
w: Bill Strutton d: Richard Martin
rc: Ian, Barbara, Vicki
The Doctor becomes an advisor to Richard the Lionheart. His knights are ambushed by the Saracen hordes, and Ian sets out to rescue Barbara when she is kidnapped and taken to the court of El Akir. The situation becomes more complex when the Doctor accidentally reveals that Richard plans to marry his sister, Joanna, and the Saracen Saphadin learns of this information.
w: David Whitaker d: Douglas Camfield
rc: Ian, Barbara, Vicki
On the planet Xeros, in a museum of the Morok Empire, the TARDIS crew find it mysterious that neither the Moroks nor the subservient Xerons can see them, and are alarmed when they find a museum exhibit containing themselves. The Doctor deduces that time shifts experienced as they arrived have put them on a different time track, slightly in their own future, but this is suddenly rectified and a fight to avoid their future enslavement begins...
w: Glyn Jones d: Mervyn Pinfield
rc: Ian, Barbara, Vicki, Steven
The Daleks are pursuing the TARDIS in their own Time Machine, moving from the planet Aridius, to the Empire State Building, the Mary Celeste, the Festival of Ghana and finally the planet of Mechanus, where the Doctor foils an attempt by the Daleks to destroy him using a robot double and a gigantic battle between the aliens and the Mechanoids takes place. At the conclusion, Ian and Barbara use the Dalek Time Machine to get back to present day earth, and the stranded space pilot Steven Taylor Joins the TARDIS crew as the ship leaves.
w: Terry Nation d: Richard Martin
rc: Vicki, Steven
Off the English coastline in 1066, the TARDIS crew hear strange stories about a mysterious monk when they explore a Saxon village and find artifacts from the future, such as a wristwatch and a tape recorder. The Monk is revealed to have his own TARDIS, and enjoys meddling with history, his latest scheme being to change the outcome of the Battle of Hastings.
w: Dennis Spooner d: Douglas Camfield
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Dr. Who activates his new invention, the TARDIS, a time machine disguised as a police telephone box. Dr. Who, his two grand-daughters, and Barbara's boyfriend Ian are transported through time and space to the planet Skaro, where a peaceful race, the Thals, are under threat of nuclear attack from the planet's other inhabitants: the evil Daleks.
w: Terry Nation, Milton Subotsky, Max Rosenberg d: Gordon Flemyng
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rc: Vicki, Steven
The Drahvins are stranded on a planet that is about to be destroyed, and want to escape by capturing the spaceship of the Rills, hideous walrus-like creatures, leaving them behind to die. The Rills exist in a special environment and use their robotic servants, the Chumblies, to carry out any maintenance outside their ship. The Doctor and the TARDIS crew soon come to the conclusion that the Rills may not be as evil as the Drahvins say, and that the situation might be exactly the opposite.
w: William Emms d: Derek Martinus
On the planet Kembel, an agent of the Space Security Service, called Marc Cory, unearths evidence of the Daleks plotting to stage a concentrated attack on the solar system. His crew is killed one by one, by both the deadly Vaaga plants and the Daleks, and when the Daleks track him down he is exterminated, but the tape recording of his findings survives.
w: Terry Nation d: Derek Martinus
rc: Vicki, Steven, Katarina
The TARDIS is mistaken for the Temple of Zeus in Troy, in the midst of the Trojan War, and the Doctor is thought to be a God. Steven, disguised as a warrior, takes on Achilles, whom the Doctor helps to defeat Hector, and bring about the fall of Troy. Vicki falls in love with Troilus, and decides to stay behind, while an unexpected new companion arrives on board the TARDIS, as Katarina, a slave girl, helps the badly injured Steven on board the vessel.
w: Donald Cotton d: Michael Leeston-Smith
rc: Steven, Katarina
Six months has passed since Marc Cory's death, when the TARDIS materialises on Kembel, and SSS Agent, Bret Vyon, is looking into his death. Mavic Chen, the Guardian of the Solar System, has betrayed his position and joined forces with the Daleks, who now have an awesome weapon in the shape of a Time Destructor, but need a Taranium Core to power it. Both Vyon and Katarina die in the early stages of the race to stop the Daleks, and Bret's sister, Sara Kingdom joins the TARDIS crew as the Doctor successfully steals the core. The vast Dalek forces set off after him in pursuit. The chase moves through the earth of the 1920s and on to ancient Egypt, where the travelers come across the Meddling Monk. In the end, Chen is killed by the Daleks when his usefulness is at an end, and Sarah Kingdom sacrifices her life to switch the Time Destructor off, once it has been energised.
w: Terry Nation d: Derek Martinus
rc: Steven, Dodo
Exhausted, and in need of a rest, Steven and the Doctor retreat to 16th Century France, and arrive in the midst of a bitter feud between the Catholics and Protestants. They rescue a young servant girl, who has overheard plans made by the Catholic Queen Mother to massacre all Protestant citizens. Steven gets confused when the Abbot of Amboise arrives on the scene, as he is the exact double of the Doctor. The Doctor is unable to alter history and stop the bloodshed, and the TARDIS lands on modern day earth on Wimbledon Common, where a young woman charges in, mistaking the time machine for a real Police Box. Her surname is the same as the servant girl's, suggesting that she might have survived the massacre...
w: John Lucarotti d: Paddy Russell
rc: Steven, Dodo
Mistaking the jungle they have landed in for the surface of a normal planet, the TARDIS crew find they are actually inside a gigantic spaceship. The miniaturised population of earth is being taken to Refusis to start a new population there with the Guardians monitoring their safety, while the reptilian Monoids act as their servants. Dodo's cold starts to infect them all and the travelers are put on trial but the Doctor soon puts this right, and they depart, only to materialise on the Space Ark again, hundreds of years in the future when the Monoids now rule, and the humans are their slaves...
w: Paul Erickson d: Michael Imison
rc: Steven, Dodo
The Doctor is turned invisible, and realises that the TARDIS has become trapped in the domain of a being known as the Toymaker. He is separated from Steven and Dodo, who have to complete a series of tests to win the TARDIS back, while the Doctor plays the Trilogic Game. If any of the Travellers fail to win, they will become the Toymaker's playthings for all eternity...
w: Brian Hayles d: Bill Sellers
rc: Steven, Dodo
The search for a dentist to cure the Doctor's bad toothache takes the TARDIS to Tombstone in the Wild West, and the only physician in the area happens to be Doc Holliday, fore whom the Doctor is mistaken. With Steven and Dodo working as entertainers to avoid being executed as outlaws, the Doctor has to get them away from the town before the legendary gunfight at the OK Corral takes place...
w: Donald Cotton d: Rex Tucker
rc: Steven, Dodo
Returning to a planet he has been to once before, the Doctor finds a sinister situation has arisen since his last visit. The Elders are experimenting on the primitives of their race, and draining their life force to prolong their own lifespans. After the Doctor finds a way to stop this taking place, Steven decides to stay behind on the planet to try and bring the two races together...
w: Ian Stuart Black d: Christopher Barry
rc: Ben, Dodo
Finally arriving back in modern London, the Doctor is intrigued by the recently completed GPO Tower, and senses something is wrong. Investigating further, he finds that an artificial intelligence computer, called WOTAN, has been built within. Dodo is put under the machine's control, and after the Doctor has recovered from an attempt to take over his mind, he finds that WOTAN has unleashed a number of tank-like machines throughout central London. Helped by a sailor, Ben Jackson, and a secretary, Polly, the Doctor manages to defeat WOTAN, and sets off for the TARDIS alone, as Dodo has decided to stay behind, but Ben and Polly soon join him...
w: Ian Stuart Black d: Michael Ferguson
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After picking up a passenger in the early 1900's, the Doctor and his companions arrive on Earth in the year 2150 AD, only to discover that the planet has been invaded and its population enslaved by the dreaded Daleks. The time travelers assist human resistance groups to foil the Daleks' plan to mine the Earth's core.
w: Terry Nation, Milton Subotsky, David Whitaker d: Gordon Flemyng
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rc: Ben, Polly
Arriving on the Cornish Coast in the 17th Century, a seemingly harmless message from a church warden leads the TARDIS crew into a confrontation with some Pirates. The Doctor has to persuade Customs and Excise Officers to help him defeat Captain Pike, who is in league with the local Squire, before sentence is passed on Ben and Polly, who have been framed for the murder of the now dead Church warden...
w: Brian Hayles d: Julia Smith
rc: Ben, Polly
At a tracking station on the South Pole, radars pick up signals from a new planet heading into orbit, which drains the energy from a space shuttle, and then starts to do the same to the Earth. Its inhabitants are revealed to be the Cybermen, who need the energy to carry out their plan to turn humans into their own kind. A first invasion force is defeated, and after the Doctor manages to overcome a second, Mondas (Earth's long-lost twin world) is blown up. The experience seems to age the Doctor, and on returning to the TARDIS, Ben and Polly can only watch as he collapses and starts to regenerate...
w: Kit Pedler, Pat Dunlap, Gerry Davis d: Derek Martinus
rc: Ben, Polly
Still suspicious of the stranger claiming to be the Doctor, Ben and Polly keep a careful eye on him as the TARDIS arrives on Vulcan, where the Doctor is mistaken for being the Earth Examiner. Nobody takes heed of his warnings as he realises the implications of three Daleks being reactivated, after being found in a capsule in a Mercury swamp. Sure enough, a Dalek production line is quickly up and running, with the creatures attempting to over-run the colony before the Doctor can defeat them...
w: David Whitaker d: Christopher Barry
rc: Ben, Polly, Jamie
The TARDIS lands in Scotland during the Battle of Culloden in 1746, and the Doctor and his companions become involved with a group of slave traders. The Doctor sets about freeing the men and arming them, whilst revealing to the English Redcoats the identity of the man behind the operation, a solicitor called Grey. With everything resolved, the TARDIS leaves with an extra occupant, the piper Jamie McCrimmon...
w: Elwyn Jones, Gerry Davis d: Hugh David
rc: Ben, Polly, Jamie
Materialising on an apparently uninhabited extinct volcano on Earth, the TARDIS crew are captured by primitive Atlanteans and taken below ground, where they find they are entering the lost city of Atlantis. They are saved from being sacrificed by Professor Zaroff, an insane scientist intent on destroying the world, who has made a false promise to the Atlanteans that he will raise their city from the ocean floor. The Doctor has to convince city's slaves and workers that Zaroff has to be stopped...
w: Geoffrey Orme d: Julia Smith
rc: Ben, Polly, Jamie
The year is 2070, and a machine called the Gravitron, housed on the moon, is controlling the Earth's weather. Exploring the lunar surface, the TARDIS crew head towards the moon base when Jamie is injured. They find the staff on the moon-base under siege from a mysterious illness and sabotage. The Cybermen are revealed to be behind it, with a plan to use the Gravitron to help render the Earth powerless to an invasion attempt. The Doctor has very little time to stop them...
w: Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis d: Morris Barry
rc: Ben, Polly, Jamie
On a planet where an Earth colony is run like a holiday camp, the Doctor begins to suspect that something is wrong when the TARDIS lands there. The colonists are under the control of the Macra, giant crab-like creatures, who use them to mine for the gas that is vital for the creatures' survival. With the Doctor imprisoned and Ben under the power of the Macra, Jamie and Polly have to try and save them both, before they too succumb to the Macra.
w: Ian Stuart Black d: John Davis
rc: Ben, Polly, Jamie
The TARDIS arrives in 1966, and lands on the runway of Gatwick Airport. The Doctor becomes suspicious of one of the tour groups, and it's revealed that Chameleon Tours is run by a group of aliens who have no identity, and they're using charter flights to kidnap both airline staff and passengers to steal their likenesses. Realising they're back on Earth on the day they left on their first trip in the TARDIS, Ben and Polly elect to stay behind, and as the Doctor and Jamie return to the time machine, they see it being driven away on the back of a lorry...
w: David Ellis, Malcolm Hulke d: Gerry Mill
rc: Jamie, Victoria
Trying to trace the TARDIS eventually leads Jamie and the Doctor to Edward Waterfield, an antique dealer with items that are just too good. Both of them are then kidnapped and taken back to 1866, where it is revealed that Waterfield and his associate, Theodore Maxtible, are in league with the Daleks, who are holding his daughter, Victoria Waterfield, as a hostage to ensure he complies with their plans. Their plan is to distil the 'Human Factor' and destroy it, and use the Doctor, once he has the 'Dalek Factor' installed in him, to conquer both time and space. Taken to Skaro, where the Doctor confronts the Emperor Dalek, the situation is saved by Waterfield, who sacrifices himself to end the evil. With her Father dead, the Doctor promises to take care of Victoria, and she joins the TARDIS crew...
w: David Whitaker d: Derek Martinus
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rc: Jamie, Victoria
An earth expedition is trying to excavate the tombs of the Cybermen on the planet Telos, and when the TARDIS crew arrive, they are immediately suspected as a rival party. One member of the expedition, Klieg, deliberately reactivates the Cybermen, thinking that he can control them, but they attack the humans using the rodent-like Cybermats, which home in on brain waves. The Doctor has to overcome Klieg's schemes, and the ruthless Cybercontroller, and reseal the tombs before the TARDIS can leave the planet...
w: Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis d: Morris Barry
rc: Jamie, Victoria
The Doctor and his companions arrive in Tibet in the mid-1930s, where he plans to return a holy relic to the Det-Sen monastery, having been asked to look after it by Phadmasambhava decades previously. Travers, one of the members of an expedition attacked by Yetis, accuses the Doctor of murdering his partner. The Doctor is shocked to learn that Phadmasambhava is still alive; he is possessed by the 'Great Intelligence', who has used him to construct the robot Yetis roaming the wilderness and plans to take over the Earth. The Doctor must outwit the 'Intelligence' and tree his old friend from his torment...
w: Mervyn Haisman, Henry Lincoln d: Gerald Blake
rc: Jamie, Victoria
During the second ice age in the Earth's future, a computer is used at the Brittanicus Base; to keep the ice flows at bay. A towering alien warrior is excavated from the snow, thought to be long dead, but it slowly comes back to life. Varga's ship crash-landed in the ice centuries ago, and he is determined to revive his men, who are still frozen. He kidnaps Victoria when the TARDIS arrives, and the Doctor has to outwit him to get her back and stop Leader Clent at Brittanicus from using an ioniser to destroy the Martian ship...
w: Brian Hayles d: Derek Martinus
rc: Jamie, Victoria
After being attacked and rescued by a helicopter pilot called Astrid on an Australian beach, her boss, Giles Kent, reveals that the Doctor is a doppelganger for the corrupt political leader, Salamander, The Doctor tries to expose Salamander for what he really is, and in a final confrontation on board the TARDIS the dictator gets ejected into space.
w: David Whitaker d: Barry Letts
rc: Jamie, Victoria, Lethbridge-Stewart
Attacked by a mysterious web-like substance in space, the TARDIS has to materialise on Earth to escape and lands in a London underground station. The Doctor and his two companions meet up with Professor Travers, who explains that the web has caused London to be evacuated, after it started killing people on the Underground system, where Yetis have been sighted. The 'Great Intelligence' is once again on the planet, and the Doctor is assisted in defeating it by Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart, without either of them realising how much they would come to rely on each other in the future.
w: Mervyn Haisman, Henry Lincoln d: Douglas Camfield
rc: Jamie, Victoria
At a refinery off the North Sea, its boss, Robson, blames the Doctor for the disappearance of several staff members and for sabotaging the pipes. Others believe that there is something mysterious in the pipes, and whatever it is seems to control the mysterious Mr. Quill and Mr. Oak. They are the human agents for a lethal, mutant seaweed creature, which is trying to expand its race by taking over humans. The amplified sounds of Victoria's screams kill it, and when it comes to leaving, she opts to stay behind on the Earth.
w: Victor Pemberton d: Hugh David
rc: Jamie, Zoe
The TARDIS materialises on an abandoned rocket, where the Doctor is attacked and knocked out by a Servo Robot. On arriving at a giant space station, where the Doctor receives medical treatment and recovers, both he and Jamie are alarmed by the rumours that metal rodents are on board. They soon find out they're Cybermats, and that the Cybermen are planning to use the station as part of an invasion attempt on the Earth. The Doctor defeats them and as he and Jamie leave, they find they have a stowaway in the form of Zoe Heriot.
w: David Whitaker, Kit Pedler d: Tristan de Vere Cole
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rc: Jamie, Zoe
The Dominators have taken over the planet of Dulkis with their robotic Quarks, with a plan to detonate a vast nuclear device in the planet's core that would turn the world into nothing more than radioactive waste. This would then be used to power the Dominators' fleet of spacecraft. The Dulcians are natural pacifists, and so the Doctor must find a way to stop the Dominators' scheme.
w: Norman Ashby d: Morris Barry
rc: Jamie, Zoe
To escape a lava rush from a volcano, the Doctor uses an emergency take-off, and the TARDIS lands in a white void. As they try to escape, the TARDIS disintegrates and the three travelers find they are now in the Land of Fiction. The Doctor has to defeat the Master of the Land, who is capable of creating characters out of nothing by simply thinking them into reality, by taking him on in the same way and calling up all the characters from literature he can think of. If he fails, the TARDIS crew will become absorbed into fiction, and the Doctor's mind will be absorbed...
w: Peter Ling d: David Maloney
rc: Jamie, Zoe, Lethbridge-Stewart, Benton
On the TARDIS scanner, the Doctor and his companions see a vast fleet of ships hidden behind the dark side of the Earth's moon. Materialising on the planet, the TARDIS crew try and find Professor Travers, whom they discover has leant his home to a colleague, Professor Watkins, while he and Anne are away. The Doctor learns from Watkins' niece, Isobel that Watkins is working for magnate Tobias Vaughn who is in reality using the scientist's work to make a device that can induce emotions in Cybermen. Vaughn is helping the aliens orchestrate an invasion of Earth, with their battle fleet waiting behind the moon, and wants the Cerebraton Mentor as a fail-safe to control them. As the Doctor tries to prevent his plans, he once again meets Lethbridge-Stewart, now a Brigadier, who has set up the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce (UNIT) to counter attack such threats and the two join forces to try and save mankind.
w: Derrick Sherwin d: Douglas Camfield
rc: Jamie, Zoe
The Gonds are all controlled by the Krotons, and each year, the brightest male and female students of their race are selected and sent into the Kroton's machine to work with them, or so they are led to believe. The Doctor discovers that they are actually being mentally absorbed, with their bodies then being vaporised. The Doctor has to fight to defeat them, before any other Gonds are destroyed...
w: Robert Holmes d: David Maloney
rc: Jamie, Zoe
A T-Mat station on the moon seems to have broken down, when in reality it's been invaded by Ice Warriors, under the command of their Ice Lord, Slaar. The T-Mat system transports anything to any point in an instant, and the breakdown has stopped food supplies being moved around worldwide. The Ice Warriors use the system to send deadly seedpods to various points around the globe, with the resulting fungus quickly sucking all the oxygen Out of the atmosphere. The TARDIS lands in a museum, and the Doctor has to pilot one of its old rockets to the moon to be able to defeat the Martians...
w: Brian Hayles d: Michael Ferguson
rc: Jamie, Zoe
The TARDIS and the travelers become separated when they land in a space beacon, and an eccentric old miner is their only means of help. The international Space Corps are on his trail, wrongly believing Milo Clancey to have stolen one of the beacons. The Doctor has to travel to the planet Ta, where the true culprits, the Space Pirates led by the murderous Caven.
w: Robert Holmes d: Michael Hart
rc: Jamie, Zoe
Materialising in No Man's Land during the First World War, the TARDIS crew are captured and General Smythe insists that they are executed, but the Doctor and his companions manage to escape. Moving through a strange area of mist, they suddenly find themselves entering Roman times. The Doctor uncovers the fact that they are in the middle of a vast war game being played out by aliens, using captured soldiers from various periods in Earth's history. The whole thing is masterminded by a renegade from the Doctor's own race, known as the War Chief, who answers to the War Lord. When he arrives, the Doctor realises he can't win, and calls for help from his people, the Time Lords, but tries to get away from the planet before they arrive. There is no escape, and they force his TARDIS to land back on his home planet, where he is put on trial for 'interference', the greatest crime a Time Lord can commit. Jamie and Zoe are returned to their own times, with their memories wiped of all bar their first adventure with the Doctor, who is exiled to earth, with a forced regeneration.
w: Malcolm Hulke, Terrance Dicks d: David Maloney
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rc: Liz, Lethbridge-Stewart
A swarm of Nestene meteorites lands in Oxley Woods, as does the newly regenerated Doctor, who collapses outside the TARDIS and is taken to a nearby hospital. The Brigadier is not convinced that the man who claims to be the Doctor is the same one that he knew. The Nestenes, who are able to control and bring plastic to life, have taken over a plastics factory and are mass-producing Autons. Disguised as shop-window dummies, the Autons start to slaughter the general public. The Doctor has to prevent the octopus-like Nestene consciousness from wiping out mankind.
w: Robert Holmes d: Derek Martinus
rc: Liz, Lethbridge-Stewart
At a power station on Wenley Moor, energy from the generators is being siphoned off, with the help of Doctor Quinn, into the Silurian base deep in the rocks below, where the creatures are slowly being revived. They were the original dominant race on earth, but went into hibernation when they saw a satellite heading towards their world, thinking it would land and cause mass destruction. The satellite became the moon, and their machines never woke them. The Doctor makes con-tact and one of the older creatures is keen for their race to live in peace with the humans, but a younger Silurian and a Silurian scientist plot against this and release a lethal plague to rid the planet of what they see as an intruding race. The Doctor has to find a cure and bring peace to the situation, but the Brigadier has other plans for the fate of the reptiles.
w: Malcolm Hulke d: Timothy Combe
rc: Liz, Lethbridge-Stewart, Benton
Space Control are deeply worried about the fact that there has been radio silence from the Mars Probe Seven ship since it started the return journey to Earth seven months earlier. A recovery ship makes contact, but its radio also goes dead. The Doctor discovers that there are signals, but they're being rerouted to a warehouse, and the UNIT troops storm it. The Recovery Seven lands and General Carrington's men kidnap all three astronauts on board. They are in reality aliens, who have replaced the Earth astronauts, and Carrington plans to discredit them and bring in a policy that all aliens should be destroyed. The Doctor travels to the aliens' ship, finds the humans are safe, and manages to negotiate a peaceful swap with the aliens to get the crew back, but Carrington has other ideas.
w: David Whitaker d: Michael Ferguson
rc: Liz, Lethbridge-Stewart, Benton
A potential energy source has been discovered at the Earth's core and Professor Stahlman has a drilling operation underway to release it, but a strange green slime is being brought up the mineshaft that induces extreme personality changes when it comes into contact with flesh. Skin turns green and anything the victims touch becomes red hot. The Doctor is using the drilling plant's energy banks to try and get the TARDIS console working again and is accidentally projected into a parallel universe, where he meets the fascist counterparts of both the Brigadier and Liz. The drilling there has nearly been completed, and the slime has turned people into rampaging creatures. The Doctor realises the Earth is doomed on that time line, and only just manages to escape. He has to stop Stahlman causing the destruction of the planet in his own time stream.
w: Don Houghton d: Barry Letts, Douglas Camfield
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rc: Jo, Lethbridge-Stewart, Benton, Yates
A renegade Time Lord called the Master arrives on Earth with a plan to use new Autons to instigate a second Nestene invasion attempt. The Doctor, working alongside his new assistant, Jo Grant, has to contend with all manner of Nestene devices, ranging from lethal plastic daffodils to animated troll dolls, before stopping the Master from allowing the Nestene consciousness to land on Earth.
w: Robert Holmes d: Barry Letts
rc: Jo, Lethbridge-Stewart, Benton, Yates, Master
The Keller Machine extracts all evil impulses from the human mind and the Doctor and Jo visit a prison to watch the tests being carried out on convicts. A series of bizarre deaths at the prison follow, and the Doctor realises that the machine is using people's worst fears to frighten them to death. The creator of the machine is in reality the Master, who plans to kidnap a thunderbolt missile, which UNIT are escorting, and use it to threaten and then blackmail a world peace conference. The Keller Machine contains a mind parasite, which is quickly growing too powerful to control. Somehow, the Doctor has to destroy the machine and stop the Master...
w: Don Houghton d: Timothy Combe
rc: Jo, Lethbridge-Stewart, Benton, Yates, Master
The organic Axon spaceship, with its beautiful gold-skinned crew, lands near a power station and asks for help to restore its depleted power supply. It offers Axonite, which has the properties to make living matter grow, as an exchange for energy. The Master is trapped on the ship and has lead the creatures to Earth, because behind the facade, they are really a power absorbing parasitic organism and they plan to drain the planet dry. The Doctor has to join forces with the Master to try and trap Axos in a time loop, but can their combined efforts succeed?
w: Bob Baker, Dave Martin d: Michael Ferguson
rc: Jo, Lethbridge-Stewart, Master
The Doomsday Weapon is one of the most powerful in existence, and the Master has discovered where it is. The Time Lords dispatch the Doctor, with Jo Grant, to the world of Exarius, where they find the earth colonists being killed off by giant lizards, or so they think. The Interplanetary Mining Corporation wants to get rid of the settlers and exploit the minerals of the planet. They use a mining robot to commit the murders, using vast reptilian claws, to try and scare them away. The war between the factions has to be settled and an Earth adjudicator arrives - The Master in disguise. The Doctor has to stop him reaching the weapon at all costs.
w: Malcolm Hulke d: Michael Briant
rc: Jo, Lethbridge-Stewart, Benton, Yates, Master
The Devil's Hump barrow is due to be opened by an archaeologist live on BBC3, and as a result, psionic alien forces are unleashed and the village of Devil's End becomes trapped inside a vast force field dome, much to the delight of the new vicar, Reverend Magister, in reality the Master. He is trying to summon up Azal, last of the Daemons, to claim the right to inherit his powers, by using a black magic coven in the Church's crypt. With the creature being more than capable of destroying the world, the Doctor has to try and stop the Master.
w: Guy Leopold d: Christopher Barry
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rc: Jo, Lethbridge-Stewart, Benton, Yates
With Sir Reginald Styles, a major diplomat at the World Peace Conference due to be held at Auderley House, attacked by what he describes as a ghost, the Doctor and Jo decide to spend a night there to see if it returns. It does, and in force, as a team of rebels from the 22nd century arrives, and say Styles is responsible for a war that will take place allowing the Daleks to take over the Earth. The Doctor travels to the future, joining the freedom fighters to try and defeat the Daleks, but the aliens travel back to the 20th century intent on mass destruction.
w: Louis Marks d: Paul Bernard
rc: Jo
Arriving on the planet Peladon, the Doctor is quickly mistaken as the Earth delegate of the Galactic Federation and Jo is thought to be a Princess. With two Ice Warriors present, the Doctor is immediately suspicious, thinking they are behind the various sabotage attempts to destroy Peladon's credibility and chances of joining the federation, but he has to look within the ranks of Peladon's high-ranking officials to find the real villain.
w: Brian Hayles d: Lennie Mayne
rc: Jo, Master
The Doctor and Jo visit the Master on his remote island prison, where the Governor, Colonel Trenchard, says he's now a changed man. The Doctor investigates reports that shipping in the area has been attacked, and uncovers the fact that the Sea Devils, distant aquatic cousins of the Silurians, have been woken in their sea bed base. The Master is communicating with them, trying to persuade them to destroy mankind. Trenchard has been conned by the Master, believing his lies that agents are destroying the submarines and ships, so he has been compliant and helped him with his plans. The Doctor has to stop the Sea Devils when a series of depth charges convince them mankind should be eradicated.
w: Malcolm Hulke d: Michael Briant
rc: Jo
Armed with a container from the Time Lords, which will only open for one special person, the Doctor and Jo are taken in the TARDIS to a space station orbiting the planet Solos. The planet is meant to have its independence, but the evil Marshal is not willing to give up his control of the natives so easily. The Solonians are going through a bizarre period of mutations, genetically reshaping into giant insects, and the Marshal plans to wipe them out using a bomb to purity the atmosphere. The container turns out to be for the rebel leader, Ky. The Doctor has to stop the Marshal, and allow the mutants to evolve into their next stage of existence...
w: Bob Baker d: Christopher Barry
rc: Jo, Lethbridge-Stewart, Benton, Yates, Master
The Master uses the Transmission Of Matter Through Interstitial Time (TOMTIT) machine, to try and ensnare the power of the Chronovore, Kronos, a creature that feeds off time. To be able to complete his power, the Master heads back to Atlantis where he plots with Queen Galleia. When the Doctor arrives to try and stop him, the inevitable destruction of Atlantis is brought about in the ensuing confrontation.
w: Robert Sloman d: Paul Bernard
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rc: Jo, Lethbridge-Stewart, Benton
The Time Lords are under siege, with their power being drained into a world of antimatter where the embittered galactic engineer, Omega, who discovered the energy source in the first place, is absorbing it and planning his revenge. The UNIT Headquarters comes under attack from Omega's shapeless guards, as they hunt the Doctor down and trap him inside the TARDIS. His second incarnation is sent by the Time Lords to help, but their personalities clash, and the first Doctor acts as a mediator, trapped in a time bubble and only able to give advice from a monitor screen. They travel to Omega's domain, where they have to combine their wits to try and stop him.
w: Dave Martin, Bob Baker d: Lennie Mayne
rc: Jo
With the Doctor's exile on Earth now lifted, he takes Jo on a test flight in the TARDIS, and they land on a cargo ship in 1926, but the crew keep going through the same set of motions again and again, with history repeating itself. They are trapped in a miniscope, on the planet Inter Minor, and have become part of a peepshow. One of the politicians sees his chance to seize power by releasing the deadly Drashigs from the machine, which run riot through the capitol. The Doctor has to fight to stop the carnage.
w: Robert Holmes d: Barry Letts
rc: Jo, Master
To avoid a crash, the TARDIS materialises on a craft that is attacked by Ogrons, though a strange sound makes the crew see them as being reptilian Draconians, a race whose relationship with the Earth is worsening. With the TARDIS stolen by the Ogrons, the Doctor and Jo are taken to Earth, where their story falls on disbelieving ears. The Doctor is taken to a prison colony, while the Master rescues Jo, and then goes on to free the Doctor. He is working for a 'Third Party', with his task being to start a war between the humans and Draconians, but the Doctor manages to arbitrate and, with representatives of both sides, he heads to the Ogron's planet, where the Master reveals the 'Third Party' are the Daleks.
w: Malcolm Hulke d: Paul Bernard
rc: Jo
Tracking the Daleks to the jungle world of Spiridon, the Doctor and Jo meet a party of Thals on a suicide mission to destroy the small number of Daleks there. With the help of Wester, one of the invisible Spiridons, Jo and the others discover the fact that there are tens of thousands of Daleks in hibernation beneath their base, waiting to be reactivated with their plan being to conquer space. The Doctor realises the answer might lie in activating an ice volcano...
w: Terry Nation d: David Maloney
rc: Jo, Lethbridge-Stewart, Benton, Yates
In Wales, a community of miners becomes suspicious when one of their number dies from an infection that turns his skin bright green. They blame Global Chemicals for dumping waste in the mines, and Jo joins the group protesting against their continual pollution, led by Professor Jones. The Doctor and the Brigadier discover that the waste is causing mutations, with giant maggots and flies slowly starting to infest the mines. Captain Yates is sent undercover into the company, but is hypnotised by the computer running it, BOSS. The Doctor manages to overcome it, after defeating Yates' attempts to kill him on BOSS's orders. Everything returns to normal with all of the maggots now destroyed. Jo decides that she and the Professor are going to get married, and that it's time to leave UNIT and the Doctor.
w: Robert Sloman d: Michael Briant
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rc: Sarah, Lethbridge-Stewart
A Sontaran, named Linx, crash lands in 12th century England, and starts kidnapping scientists from the late 20th century to help with repairs to his ship. The Doctor, with a stowaway in the form of reporter Sarah Jane Smith, tracks Linx to the Castle of local warlord Irongron in his TARDIS. The Sontaran would rather use the Doctor's mind than co-operate peacefully, and Sarah joins the rival castle owned by the nobility to try and defeat Irongron. Not only does the Doctor have to stop Linx, he also has to convince Sarah that he's not the villain!
w: Robert Holmes d: Alan Bromly
rc: Sarah, Lethbridge-Stewart, Benton, Yates
Returning to an apparently deserted London, the Doctor and Sara Jane are arrested as looters and put on trial, but they escape from the vehicle transporting them when a Tyrannosaurus Rex attacks it. On finding the Brigadier, he explains that the evacuation took place when dinosaurs started to appear on the streets, although they soon vanish without trace. The whole thing is part of a plot by Sir Charles Grover and a group of scientists to revert the Earth to a time before technology corrupted society, and it's up to the Doctor to try and defeat their Operation Golden Age.
w: Malcolm Hulke d: Paddy Russell
rc: Sarah
All of the TARDIS power banks are drained, and it has to land on the planet Exxilon, where a vast city absorbs all of the energy of passing spacecraft, forcing them down on the rocky terrain. The Doctor and Sarah meet a stranded Earth expedition, who is trying to find Parranium, the only known cure to a deadly space plague. When the Daleks arrive, unable to use their guns due to the power drain, an unholy alliance between them and the humans occurs, but can the Daleks be trusted?
w: Terry Nation d: Michael Briant
rc: Sarah
The TARDIS lands on Peladon, fifty years after the Doctor's last visit. Queen Thalira, the daughter of King Peladon, is trying to control the miners of the planet, who are rebelling against using Federation equipment, as it offends Aggedor's spirit, which appears and kills anyone who operates the machines. The Doctor uncovers a conspiracy by enemy agents, led by Eckersley and a group of Ice Warriors, led by Azaxyr. The Doctor has to try and defeat them and return peace to Peladon.
w: Brian Hayles d: Lennie Mayne
rc: Sarah, Lethbridge-Stewart, Benton, Yates
Jo Grant sends the blue crystal from Metebilis Three that the Doctor gave to her as a wedding present back to him. A giant spider from that planet materialises at a meditation centre, and takes over Lupton, commanding him to retrieve the said gem. The Doctor, Sarah and Lupton end up on the planet where the spiders rule, and their powerful queen, 'The Great One' needs the missing crystal to complete a giant one which will give it immense power. The Doctor confronts it, and the radiation from its cave destroys his body. The TARDIS manages to get him back to the UNIT lab, where the Brigadier and Sarah watch in amazement as he collapses and regenerates...
w: Robert Sloman d: Barry Letts
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rc: Sarah, Harry, Lethbridge-Stewart, Benton
Some powerful creature is stealing all the components to build a disintegrator gun, and the newly regenerated Doctor deduces that it must be something big. The K Robot Sarah is investigating fits the bill. The Robot is being used by a group of elitist scientists who want to a new ruling order of only the highest intelligences. When the robot's creator, Professor Kettlewell, is killed, it goes on the rampage. The Doctor has to take on the vast creature, when the Brigadier unwittingly causes it to grow to gigantic proportions.
w: Terrance Dicks d: Christopher Barry
rc: Sarah, Harry
The test flight for the new Doctor in the TARDIS lands him, along with Sarah and Harry, on the space station Nerva, in the distant future. The Earth has been laid to waste by solar flares and the Nerva holds an enormous cryogenic store of all the survivors, waiting to be revived when enough time has passed for the planet to be habitable again. An alien parasitic insect, the Wirrn, invaded the station and laid its eggs in one of the sleeping humans. The Doctor has to race to stop the creatures from using the rest of the humans as incubators for their larvae.
w: Robert Holmes d: Rodney Bennett
rc: Sarah, Harry
Sent to Earth to try and repair the Nerva's transmat beam, they find it a wasteland of weeds, but habitable and seemingly deserted. The Doctor and his two companions soon discover that there is a group of Galsec colonists stranded there, and that one by one they're being captured and tortured by a Sontaran, Styre, who's carrying out experiments to assess whether humans would be a threat to a Sontaran invasion force. The Doctor has to take the warrior on in combat to try and defeat him.
w: Bob Baker d: Rodney Bennet
rc: Sarah, Harry, Davros
Diverted from the transmat beam taking them back to the Nerva, the Doctor, Sarah and Harry find themselves on Skaro. The Time Lords have given the Doctor a mission to stop or at least hinder the creation of the Daleks, and in the Kaled bunker, he witnesses the crippled scientist Davros proudly showing off his new Mark Three travel machine, housing the genetically mutated body of a Kaled - primitive, but it's undoubtedly a Dalek. As Davros betrays his own race, and then wipes out the Thals, the Doctor has to try and find it within himself to commit genocide and wipe out the Daleks forever.
w: Terry Nation d: Devid Maloney
rc: Sarah, Harry
The Time Ring given to the travelers by the Time Lord when they arrived on Skaro returns them to Nerva, but it's in an earlier time period when the station was still a beacon. A plague has killed off a large percentage of the crew, leaving only four survivors, one of which is the treacherous Kellman. He is working for the Vogans, using Cybermats to kill off the humans, whilst laying a trap for the Cybermen, who want to destroy Voga, the planet of gold -the only substance that can kill them. The Cybermen arrive, and send the Doctor down to Voga with two of the beacon's crew as living bombs. He has to overcome that situation, and save Sarah and Harry, who are still on the beacon, before the Cybermen find out.
w: Gerry Davis d: Michael E Briant
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rc: Sarah, Harry, Lethbridge-Stewart, Benton
Arriving back on Earth, following a mayday call from the Brigadier, the TARDIS lands near Loch Ness. The famous 'Nessie' is apparently destroying oil Rigs, and the Doctor's investigations reveal some startling facts; the creature is actually a vast Cyborg, under the control of the Zygons, whose spacecraft is at the bottom of the Loch. They have a shape shifting ability, which they use to full advantage to take over positions of authority, and the Doctor has to thwart their plans to take over the Earth for colonisation. Rather than travel back to UNIT Headquarters in the TARDIS, Harry decides to head back to London with the Brigadier on a train, leaving the Doctor and Sarah to take off on their own.
w: Robert Banks Stewart d: Douglas Camfield
rc: Sarah
The Doctor answers a distress call from the edge of the universe, and the TARDIS lands on Zeta Minor, where a scientific expedition has been picked off one by one by an alien force. When a rescue ship arrives from Morestra, the Doctor and Sarah are immediately accused of being guilty of the murders. When the ship tries to take-off, it's dragged back to the planet's surface, because the only survivor of the expedition, Professor Sorenson, has taken samples of anti-matter - the planet acts as a gateway between worlds of anti-matter and matter - and a powerful creature from the other universe wants them back. The Doctor has to persuade the Morestrans to hand back the anti-matter, and overcome Sorenson, now mutating through exposure to anti-matter.
w: Louis Marks d: David Maloney
rc: Sarah
The TARDIS finally returns to the UNIT Headquarters, but it's 1911, and the Doctor and Sarah are in the old priory that the building was later built over. Lawrence Scarman and his associate, Doctor Warlock, are protesting to Namin, an uncivil Egyptian, over his apparent take-over of the priory in the absence of its owner, Lawrence's brother, Marcus Scarman. Namin worships the evil God, Sutekh, whom he manages to summon and then is promptly killed for his trouble. Sutekh uses the body of Marcus Scarman, captured when he broke into his tomb in Egypt, as the creature is actually an Osirian who was imprisoned in the tomb by his own race. Capturing the Doctor, Sutekh forces him to take the TARDIS to Mars, where a series of traps have to be solved to free him from his prison. Unfortunately, if he does escape, it will mean the end of the universe.
w: Stephen Harris d: Paddy Russell
rc: Sarah, Benton, Harry
The TARDIS lands in the picturesque village of Devesham, which has a space defence centre stationed nearby. The Doctor soon realises something is wrong with the behaviour of the local people, and discovers that they are all android duplicates, and that they're not on Earth at all. The Kraals of the planet Oseidon have laid their own world to waste, and are planning to stage an invasion of Earth, spearheading the way with the androids, which include Benton and Harry. The Doctor has to stop them when they arrive on Earth, before a lethal plague can be unleashed that will eradicate mankind.
w: Terry Nation d: Barry Letts
rc: Sarah
On the planet Karn, the brilliant Surgeon Mehendri Solon is searching for a suitable head to house the brain of Morbius, a renegade Time Lord executed on the planet years before with Solon retrieving the only surviving organ before the rest of the body was atomised. When the Doctor and Sarah arrive, Solon sees the perfect cranium for Morbius on the Time Lord. The Doctor has to contend with the Sisterhood of Karn, suspicious of his motives for visiting their world, thinking the Time Lords have sent him to steal their elixir of life, and then the mobile form of Morbius, when Solon puts the brain in a container fixed to a body constructed out of many parts retrieved from the wreckage of space crashes on the planet's surface.
w: Robin Bland d: Christopher Barry
rc: Sarah
Sent to the Antarctic by the World Ecology Bureau, the Doctor and Sarah find that a Krynoid pod has been excavated from the ice. Once unleashed, its spores infect flesh and take over, mutating into sentient vegetable life. With the potential disaster averted there, the Doctor traces a second pod to Harrison Chase, a multi-millionaire in England, who is obsessed by all forms of plant life. He lets the pod infect another man, who mutates until he becomes a full Krynoid and starts to manipulate vegetation, using it to kill humans. The Doctor has to destroy the creature before its infection spreads worldwide.
w: Robert Banks Stewart d: Douglas Camfield
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rc: Sarah
Part of the malevolent Mandragora Helix energy gets on board the TARDIS, and the Doctor accidentally transports it to Italy in the fifteenth century, where it uses the ancient cult of Demnos to instigate plans to take over the Earth, A celebration by the local nobility will see a party where all the guests will be the great thinkers and artists of the period. The Doctor has to stop the Mandragora energy before it can kill them all, and as a result, some of the greatest inventions will never be made, and the Earth will remain in the dark ages for eternity.
w: Louis Marks d: Rodney Bennett
rc: Sarah
The TARDIS land in a quarry on Earth as several large explosions take place, and Sarah gets buried under rubble. She grips a fossilised hand, which the detonation unearthed, and it starts to control her mind, making her take it to a nuclear reactor. Feeding on the radiation, the hand grows a new body, in the shape of Eldrad, a Kastrian criminal, who demands that the Doctor takes her back to her home planet so she can exact her revenge on her race, for executing her in the first place. Kastria is, however, a dead world, but a series of traps set in case Eldrad ever returned lead to the creature's demise. The Doctor is summoned back to Gallifrey, and leaves Sarah on Earth, unable to take her with him.
w: Bob Baker, Dave Martin d: Lennie Mayne
rc: Master #2
The Doctor has a premonition that someone is about to assassinate the President on Gallifrey, so he tries to find the murderer before he can carry out his plan. The assassination, however, goes ahead and the Doctor is framed so that he is caught with the gun in his hand. The Doctor buys time before his inevitable execution for the crime, by declaring himself as a candidate for Presidential election, and then finds that the Master is behind the whole set-up. The Doctor has to stop the Master from absorbing a new cycle of bodily regenerations from the Eye of Harmony, and stop him from destroying Gallifrey.
w: Robert Holmes d: David Maloney
rc: Leela
On a primitive world, the tribe of the Sevateem fears the mighty God, Xoanon, while the Tesh work for it. The Doctor has been there before, when he helped repair a vast computer by giving it his personality, but it's now totally schizoid and trying to create the perfect species. The Doctor repairs the machine, and bridges the gap between the tribes so they can live in peace. One of the Sevateem, Leela, joins him to travel on the TARDIS.
w: Chris Boucher d: Pennant Roberts
rc: Leela
The decadent crew of the vast sandminer, ploughing across an alien wasteland mining for minerals, are served by a series of robots, with varying degrees of intelligence; the Dums are basic labourers, the Vocs have a certain amount of intelligence, while the Super-Vocs actually co-ordinate the whole mining operation. As the TARDIS arrives, the Doctor and Leela become immediate suspects for the murders that are taking place amongst the crew. None of them wi