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* Telos Novella: Frayed (Susan)
'I like to stare into the sun, eyes wide. It burns incredible colours
into my head, great shifting continents of them that blot out all else. And I try to keep looking until I imagine all the
pretty blue has boiled away from my eyes and they are left a bright, bloody red and quite sightless.' On a blasted world,
the Doctor and Susan find themselves in the middle of a war they cannot understand. With Susan missing and the Doctor captured,
who will save the people from the enemies from both outside and within?
* Telos Novella: Time and Relative (Susan)
The harsh British winter of 1963 brings a big freeze that extends
into April with no sign of letting up. And with it comes a new, far greater menace: terrifying icy creatures are stalking
the streets, bringing death and destruction. The first Doctor and Susan, trapped on Earth until the faulty TARDIS can
be repaired, are caught up in the crisis. The Doctor seems to know what is going on, but is uncharacteristically detached
and furtive, almost as if he is losing his memory... Susan, isolated from her grandfather and finding it hard to fit
in with the human teenagers at Coal Hill School, tries to cope by recording her thoughts in a diary. But she too feels her
memory slipping away and her past unravelling. Is she even sure who she is any more ...?
* 100,000 BC (Susan, Ian & Barbara) (95' 54")
DVD
Commentary: An Unearthly Child (Pilot Version – Verity Lambert & Waris Hussein
DVD
Commentary: An Unearthly Child – William Russell, Carole Anne Ford & Verity Lambert
DVD
Commentary: The Firemaker – William Russell, Carole Ann Ford & Waris Hussein
London, 1963. Schoolteachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright are perplexed by the
behaviour of one of their pupils, Susan Foreman. Her knowledge of science and history exceeds theirs, yet she seems totally
ignorant of many common aspects of everyday life. They follow her to her home address, a junkyard with a police telephone
box standing in it, and encounter her grandfather, the enigmatic Doctor. When they force their way past him into the police
box, Susan's secret is revealed: she and the Doctor are aliens, and the box is a time machine, the TARDIS. The TARDIS (which
is bigger on the inside than the outside) is capable of visiting any point in the universe at any moment in history; unfortunately,
the Doctor has great difficulty in steering it accurately. Afraid that Ian and Barbara will reveal his secrets to the people
of 20th century Earth, the Doctor abducts them, and the TARDIS travels back to the dawn of human history where the four travellers
are dragged into the savage politics of a tribe of cavemen who have lost the secret of making fire..
* The Masters of Luxor (Susan, Ian & Barbara) (Unmade Story)
A dark and silent planet. A magnificent crystal edifice,
perched on a mountainside. A legion of dormant robots, waiting for the signal to bring them back to life. The Doctor and his
granddaughter Susan, and their reluctant companions, Ian and Barbara, are about to unleash forces which will threaten their
very survival.
* The Dead Planet (Susan, Ian & Barbara) (171' 45")
DVD Commentary: The
Survivors – Verity Lambert & Christopher Barry
DVD Commentary: The
Ambush – William Russell, Carole Ann Ford & Christopher Barry
DVD Commentary: The
Rescue – William Russell, Carole Ann Ford & Richard Martin
The TARDIS transports the Doctor and his companions to the planet Skaro. Here, they
meet two races native to the planet: the Daleks, mutant creatures encased in armoured travel machines; and the Thals, humanoids
who have embraced pacifism following the war which devastated their world, polluting it with radioactive fallout. The Doctor's
selfish attempt to explore the Dalek city leads to the Daleks seizing a vital TARDIS component. Needing their help to continue
their voyage, the travellers try to convince the Thals that they must fight for their own survival; meanwhile, thanks to the
travellers' interference, the Daleks learn that they require radiation to survive, and plan to vent their reactor's waste
into the outside atmosphere, wiping out the Thals once and for all. The Thals launch an attack on the Dalek city, and the
Daleks are all killed when their power supply is cut off during the course of the fighting.
* Inside the Spaceship (Susan, Ian & Barbara) (47' 28")
No DVD
Commentary
A mysterious explosion rocks the TARDIS, and the travellers are knocked unconscious. They
recover to find the TARDIS apparently suspended in mid-flight. At first they appear to be suffering from concussion, and their
companions' behaviour leads them to suspect that a malevolent alien force has entered the ship and is acting thruogh their
bodies. The Doctor, unable to find the cause of the trouble, goes so far as to accuse Ian and Barbara of sabotage and threatens
to expel them from his Ship. However, as the situation deteriorates it becomes clear the the TARDIS itself is trying to communicate
with its passengers. There is a mechanical fault with the TARDIS and that fault has caused the ship to hurtle back through
time toward its own destruction. The Doctor corrects the problem, and, realising how badly he has misjudged Ian and Barbara,
finally accepts them as fellow travellers rather than as uninvited guests.
* Marco Polo (Susan, Ian & Barbara)
The TARDIS experiences a total power failure and is stranded in the Himalayas
in the 13th century. The travellers are forced to join the caravan of the famous explorer, Marco Polo, in order to survive
-- but Polo, fascinated by their claims that the TARDIS can fly through the air, seizes it on behalf of Kublai Khan in the
hope that presenting the Khan with such a fabulous gift will convince him to let Polo return home to Venice. The travellers
are forced to accompany Polo on his long trek across Asia to the Khan's court, but their many attempts to reclaim their property
are foiled -- not just by Polo, but by the war lord Tegana, who is apparently on a mission of peace but has entirely different
plans for dealing with Kublai Khan...
* The Missing Adventures: The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Susan, Ian & Barbara)
‘There’s no such thing as
magic,’ the Doctor said. But the land of Elbyon might just prove him to be wrong. It is a place, populated
by creatures of fantasy, where myth and legend rule. Elves and dwarfs live in harmony with mankind, wizards wield arcane powers
and armoured knights battle monstrous dragons. Yet is seems that Elbyon has secrets to hide. The TARDIS crew find a relic
from the thirtieth century hidden in the woods. Whose sinister manipulations are threatening the stability of a once peaceful
lane? And shat part does the planet play in a conflict that may save an Empire, yet doom a galaxy? To solve these puzzles,
and save his companions, the Doctor must learn to use the sorcery whose very existence he doubts.
* The Keys of Marinus (Susan, Ian & Barbara)
The alien world of Marinus. Perfect peace has reigned here for decades
due to the mind-controlling influence of a machine known as the Conscience. But now a race known as the Voord have developed
an immunity and Arbitan, keeper of the machine, has been forced to scatter the vital control keys around the planet. Now he
needs the help of the time travellers to get them back - it will be an extraordinary journey, with perils every step of the
way...
* The Aztecs (Susan, Ian & Barbara) (98' 50")
DVD Commentary: Verity
Lambert, William Russell & Carole Ann Ford
Mexico, the early 15th century.The TARDIS arrives in the tomb of former Aztec High Priest
Yetaxa. The travellers become cut off from the ship when they go and explore the temple outside. Barbara is acclaimed by the
High Priest of Knowledge, Autloc, as Yetaxa's divine reincarnation. However, she incurs the wrath of the High Priest of Sacrifice,
Tlotoxl, when she attempts to use her new-found authority to stop the Aztec practice of human sacrifice. Can Barbara change
the course of history and save the Aztecs? Can the time travellers find a way back into the tomb? Or will they fall victim
to Tlotoxl's altar of sacrifice?
* The Sensorites (Susan, Ian & Barbara)
The 28th century. The TARDIS materialises on a spaceship orbiting a planet
known as the Sense-Sphere, whose natives, the Sensorites have trapped the ship's human crew in a state of paralysis. When
the Doctor investigates, the Sensorites steal the lock mechanism from the TARDIS, thus trapping him and his companions. The
Sensorites allow most of the travellers down to the planet, where Ian falls ill from a sickness that has been killing the
Sensorites. The Doctor finds a cure but his investigations into the cause of the sickness are hampered by the subversive activities
of the City Administrator, Eventually the Doctor finds three deranged human survivors from a past expedition who have been
adding deadly nightshade to the water supply. With the mystery solved the travellers depart in the TARDIS. Ian comments on
how the human crew know where they are going, the Doctor believes him to be implying that he doesn't, outraged he tells the
two schoolteachers that where they land next they will be dropped off the ship...
* The Reign of Terror (Susan, Ian & Barbara)
The Doctor's friends are captured by soldiers in post-Revolutionary France,
during the reign of terror in which anyone suspected of Royalist sympathies is immediately executed. Ian is thrown into jail
with a dying English prisoner, who gives him a vital message for English master spy James Stirling. Robespierre's right-hand
man, Citizen Lemaitre, secretly helps Ian to escape. The Doctor arrives, disguised as a prominent Citizen to arrange for his
friends' release, but Lemaitre sees through his guise and threatens to have Susan executed unless the Doctor leads him to
the escape route run by Jules Renan. There, Lemaitre reveals himself to be Stirling, and enlists Ian and Barbara's help to
complete his mission. So doing, they see Paul Barrass inviting Napoleon Bonaparte to rule the country as part of a triumverate
after Robespierre is overthrown. Stirling tries to stop this for the sake of his own country, but he is too late to prevent
the mob from turning on Robespierre. Nevertheless he is true to his word and releases Susan, allowing the travellers to escape
from Paris.
* BBC Novel: The Witch Hunters (Susan, Ian & Barbara)
The Reverend Samuel Parris, Minister of Salem, follows three strangers
in the forest beyond the village - a forest which is traditionally believed to be the source of much evil. He hears movement
through the trees, steps forward and makes a terrible discovery. It is one which will change life in Salem forever.
The TARDIS arrives in Salem Village, Massachusetts, 1692. The Doctor wishes to effect repairs to his ship in peace and privacy,
and so his companions - Ian, Barbara and Susan - decide to 'live history' for a week or so. But the friendships they make
are abruptly broken when the Doctor ushers them away, wary of being overtaken by the tragic events he knows will occur.
Upon learning the terrible truth of the Salem witch trials, Susan is desperate to return - at any price. Her actions lead
the TARDIS crew into terrible jeopardy, and her latent telepathy threatens to help the tragedy escalate way out of control...
* BBC Novel: City At World's End (Susan, Ian & Barbara)
The inhabitants of the city are pinning all their hopes on a final
desperate gamble for survival. Behind the scenes there are jealous factions at work, secretly contesting for the chance to
shape the destiny of a new world. Beneath its ordered surface, Arkhaven is a city of secrets and mysteries where outward appearances
can be deceptive. Is the thing they call the 'Creeper' really at large in Arkhaven's eerie outer zone - and is it beast
or machine? What is the hidden force at work that has acted so strangely upon Susan? With Barbara lost and the countdown
to doomsday drawing to a climax, the Doctor must discover the true nature of the final enemy - or is that enemy simply fear
itself?
* Campaign (Susan, Ian & Barbara)
'The universe
is dead! Time and space, murdered! Stars and moons, planets, comets, put to the sword! Physics and chemistry,
mathematics, geography, sent to the stake! Mother and father, friend and stranger, snug bound in entropy's coffin!
Love, dead! fear, dead! Dogs and birds and cats and ants and books and pies and cars and lies, all dead and gone
to less than dreams these long ten years! Everyone that ever lived, every thought that ever held meaning,
every flower that ever cupped dew and every equation that ever brushed a portrait of truth-' Somewhere inside ian's mind a page turned. 'All
that we have is in here-' he stamped the ground with a child's foot,'-now-' he waved with a child's windmill arm at the universe
the Ship had built for us to live out our lives in. 'There's
nothing else worth remembering anymore.'
This book was scheduled
to be a BBC Past Doctor novel but was cancelled by BBC Books due to contractual reasons. It was published independently by
the author to benefit the Bristol Area Down Syndrome Association.
* BBC Novel: The Time Travellers (Susan, Ian & Barbara)
The TARDIS touches down in London, 2006, in the
middle of a war that has left the city a ruin. Mistaken for vagrants, the First Doctor's granddaughter and companions find
themselves in the execution blocks. The Doctor must help the military refine its ultimate weapon. The British Army has discovered
time travel. And the consequences are already terrible.
* The Companion Chronicles: Here There Be Monsters (Susan, Ian & Barbara)
“It was a terrible sound, like someone had just stabbed
the Universe and it was crying out in pain”
The distant future. The TARDIS, with the Doctor, Susan, Ian and
Barbara aboard, is drawn out of the Vortex and lands aboard the Earth Benchmarking Vessel Nevermore, where Captain Rostrum
is navigating by punching holes in the very fabric of space. The Doctor is appalled by this act of vandalism, and fearful
that it could unleash monsters from the dark dimensions. As the benchmarking holes begin to fray, the fate of the universe
is at stake. And while the Doctor contemplates a terrible sacrifice, Susan befriends the Nevermore’s First Mate - someone
she will remember for the rest of her life…
* The Companion Chronicles: Transit of Venus (Susan, Ian & Barbara)
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* Planet of the Giants (Susan, Ian & Barbara)
Earth, 1964. An accident on landing vastly reduces the TARDIS and the
travellers in size. They come across a scheme run by Forester, a ruthless businessman and his misguided scientist colleague
Smithers to launch a new insecticide which is capable of destroying the local ecology. Forester is prepared to commit murder
to secure the success of this project - can the inch-high travellers somehow foil him?
* The Dalek Invasion of Earth (Susan, Ian & Barbara) (148' 46")
DVD Commentary: William
Russell, Carole Ann Ford, Richard Martin & Verity Lambert
The TARDIS materialises in London in mid-22nd century. Dalek invaders are now ruling the Earth
with the aid of humans converted into zombie-like "Robomen", but they are opposed by a group of resistance fighters. The Doctor
and his companions discover that the Daleks have created a large mine in the English countryside for the purpose of removing
the Earth's core (using a massive explosive device) and replacing it with a powerful drive system so that they can pilot the
planet around the galaxy. Ian manages to create a barrier in the shaft in order to intercept and deflect the bomb. The resulting
explosion destroys the Daleks and their mine. The Earth is safe once again! However, Susan has fallen in love with resistance
fighter David Campbell, and the Doctor decides to leave her on Earth to find a new life with him. The Doctor continues on
his travels with Ian and Barbara.
* The Missing Adventures: Venusian Lullaby (Ian & Barbara)
Venus is dying. When the Doctor, Barbara and Ian arrive they find an
ancient and utterly alien civilisation on the verge of oblivion. War is brewing between those who are determined to accept
death, and those desperate for salvation whatever the cost. Then a spacefaring race arrives, offering to rescue the Venusians
by moving them all to Earth - three billion years before mankind is due to evolve. Are the newcomers' motives as pure as they
appear? And will the Doctor allow them to save his oldest friends by sacrificing the future of humanity?
* The Rescue (Ian, Barbara & Vicki)
Sometime in the 25th century, the Doctor and his friends land on the
planet Dido and happen across a spaceship (from Earth) that has crash-landed. Its two occupants - a man named Bennett and
a young girl called Vicki - are living in fear of a creature called Koquillion, a native of Dido possibly responsible for
murdering other members from the spaceship. However, the Doctor realises after a while that Koquillion is in fact Bennett
in disguise; it was Bennett who killed the others so as to conceal an earlier murder that he had performed on ship. In a confrontation
with Dido humanoid inhabitants Bennett dies as he falls from a cliff. Not wishing the girl Vicki to be alone, the Doctor takes
her with him in the TARDIS as a new companion.
* BBC Novel: Byzantium! (Ian, Barbara & Vicki)
Byzantium. The imperial city. It rises, dramatically, as if by
a trick of the light from the peninsular of the Bosphorus and the Black Sea. Its domes and towers and minarets overlooking
a place of intrigue, lust, power, oppression, resistance and murder. Romans, Greeks, Zealots and Pharisee all mix in the market
squares of the town, but mutual loathing and suspicion are rife. Into this cauldron, the Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki
arrive expecting to view the splendour of the Roman empire. But events cast them into a deadly maelstrom of social and political
upheaval. In the eye of the hurricane they must individually face the possibility of being stranded, alone, in a culture bunker
in which they do not belong.
* The Romans (Ian, Barbara & Vicki)
Doctor and his three friends arrive in Rome and are 64 AD enjoying
a holiday at an Italian villa but the Doctor gets bored and sets off to visit nearby Rome, taking Vicki with him. While they
are away, Ian and Barbara are captured by slave traders. In Rome the Doctor is mistaken for a musician and is asked to perform
at Emperor Nero's Court. The Doctor, however, can't play a note and has to come up with elaborate schemes to avoid revealing
this!!. Ian becomes a galley slave, while Barbara is sold to Nero's slave buyer Tavius at an auction in Rome. Ian and another
slave escape from the galley when it is wrecked in a storm. They make their way to Rome to try to find and rescue Barbara
but are recaptured and forced to fight as gladiators in the Arena. Events climax when, by accidentally setting fire to Nero's
plans for the rebuilding of Rome, the Doctor gives him the idea of having the city burned to the ground. Nero plays the lyre
while Rome burns, and the Doctor, Vicki and a now reunited Ian and Barbara go back to the villa.
* BBC Novel: The Eleventh Tiger (Ian, Barbara & Vicki)
The TARDIS crew have seen many times. When they arrive in China in 1865,
they find banditry, rebellion, and foreign oppression rife. Trying to maintain order are the British Empire and the Ten Tigers
of Canton, the most respected martial arts masters in the world. There is more to chaos than mere human violence and
ambition. Can legends of ancient vengeance be coming true? Why does everyone Ian meets already know who he is? The Doctor
has his suspicions, but he is occupied by challenges of his own. Soon, the teachers must learn that sometimes the greatest
danger is not from the enemy, but from the heart. In interesting times, love can be a weakness, hatred an illusion,
order chaos, and ten Tigers not enough.
* The Web Planet (Ian, Barbara & Vicki) (146' 30")
DVD Commentary: William
Russell, Verity Lambert, Richard Martin & Martin Jarvis
The TARDIS arrives on the planet Vortis. There the Doctor and his companions discover and
become involved in the plans of butterfly-like creatures (Menoptra) to reclaim their planet from a spidery parasite that is
steadily enveloping it in a web-like structure. They join up with a party of Menoptra and their allies (the underground-dwelling
Optera) and manage to destroy the parasite.
* The Crusade (Ian, Barbara & Vicki)
DVD Commentary: The
Wheel of Fortune – Julian Glover
The TARDIS materialises in the Holy Land during King Richard I's crusade against the Muslims.
Saracen raiders led by the evil El Akir attack the King's hunting party, and when the travellers stumble into the fray the
King escapes and Barbara is captured. The King, weary of the fighting, knights Ian and sends him to the Sultan Saladin's court,
to negotiate Barbara's release and offer the hand of the King's sister in marriage to the Sultan's brother, Saphadin. However,
Ian learns that El Akir, humiliated by his failure to capture Richard, has taken Barbara to add to his harem. With the help
of a mischievous bandit and a merchant whose family was murdered by El Akir, Ian rescues Barbara and takes her back to Jaffa.
There, despite their best efforts to avoid palace politics, the Doctor and Vicki have made an enemy of the Earl of Leicester,
and the travellers barely escape with their lives.
* The Space Museum (Ian, Barbara & Vicki)
Having been displaced across a 'time track' the TARDIS with the Doctor
et al arrives on the planet Xeros. There the travellers find their future selves displayed in a museum! The museum is actually
a monument to the conquests of belligerent invaders (Moroks) who now rule Xeros. When time shifts back to normal, the Doctor
realises that he and his companions have to do whatever they can to try to avert this future. They help the native people
of Xeros to revolt against the Moroks. The revolution succeeds and the future is changed.
* The Missing Adventures: The Plotters (Ian, Barbara & Vicki)
London, November 1605. The TARDIS materialises at a crucial moment in
British history. While Ian and Barbara set off for the Globe Theatre, Vicki accompanies the Doctor on a mysterious mission
to the court of King James. What connects the King's adviser Robert Cecil with the sinister hooded figure known only
as 'the Spaniard'? Why is the Doctor so anxious to observe the translation of the Bible? And could there be some dastardly
plot brewing in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament? As a history teacher, Barbara thinks she knows what to expect
when she encounters a man called Guy Fawkes. But she is in for a very unpleasant surprise.
* The Chase (Ian, Barbara, Vicki & Steven)
The Doctor and his companions learn that a group of Daleks, equipped with a time machine
of their own, are on their trail with orders to exterminate them. The Doctor et al flee in the TARDIS and a chase begins!
First stop is the planet Aridius and they then go onto various other places including New York's Empire State Building, the
ship Mary Celeste and a haunted house! Eventually both time machines arrive on the planet Mechanus, where the Daleks try to
kill the Doctor's group using a robot double of him. The travellers are taken prisoner by the Mechanoids - a group of colonizing
robots - and meet Steven Taylor, a stranded astronaut who has been the Mechanoids' captive for the past two years. The Daleks
and the Mechanoids do battle, leading to their mutual destruction, whilst the Doctor and his companions escape with Ian and
Barbara returning home to Earth in the Dalek's time machine.
* The Time Meddler (Vicki & Steven) (97' 47")
DVD Commentary: Verity Lambert,
Peter Purves, Donald Tosh & Barry Newberry
Northumbria, 1066. The time-travellers
are bemused to find high-technology artefacts littering the 11th-century countryside. Is it just a coincidence that one of
the key events in English history is only days away? No, it is not!!!! A Time Lord called the Monk is planning to give King
Harold a new army to help him win the Battle Of Hastings. However the Doctor puts a stop to the Monk's plans.
* The Missing Adventures: The Empire of Glass (Vicki & Steven)
A strange invitation brings the Doctor, Steven and Vicki to Venice in
the year of our Lord 1609: a place of politics and poison, science and superstition, telescopes and terror. Galileo Galilei
is there demonstrating his new invention to the Doge, and William Shakespeare is working as a spy for King James I. And there
are other visitors too: inhuman ones that lurk in the shadows, watching - and killing. Vicki is abducted to a flying
island. Steven is accused of murder and challenged to a duel. The Doctor, meanwhile, finds himself at the centre of what looks
like an attempted invasion. But who are the invaders? And why can't they proceed without his help?
* The Companion Chronicles: Frostfire (Vicki & Steven)
Vicki has a tale to tell.
But where does it start and when does it end?
Ancient Carthage. 1164 BC.
Lady Cressida has a secret. She keeps it deep
in the cisterns below the Temple of Astarte with only one flame for warmth. And it must never get out.
Regency London, 1814 AD.
The first Doctor, Steven and Vicki go to the
fair and meet the fiery Dragon, the novelist Miss Austen and the deadliest weather you ever did see.
But which comes first?
The Future or the Past?
The Phoenix or the
Egg?
The Fire or the Frost?
Or will Time freeze over forever?
* Galaxy Four (Vicki & Steven)
The TARDIS materialises on a doomed planet in Galaxy 4, and the travellers
are captured by warriors of the beautiful female clone race known as Drahvins. According to the Drahvins' leader, Maaga, their
ship was shot down in an unprovoked attack by the vicious alien Rills, but they managed to inflict damage on the Rill ship
as well; now both ships are stuck here, on a planet doomed to explode in fourteen days. Maaga orders the Doctor to help her
and her warriors capture the Rill ship, and keeps Steven hostage to ensure his co-operation; however, the Doctor soon learns
that Maaga is both lying and mistaken. The Drahvins are in fact the aggressors, and the peaceful Rills want nothing more than
to escape in one piece – and help their enemies do so as well, if they can. Unfortunately, that may not be possible,
as the Doctor discovers that time is shorter than they thought; the planet in fact has less than a day of life remaining...
* Mission of the Unknown
Space Security agent Marc Cory visits the planet Kembel to investigate rumours of Dalek activity
in the area. However, his ship is shot down and his crewmates are poisoned by the thorns of Varga plants, genetically engineered
carnivores which transform their unlucky victims into Vargas as well. Despite these dangers, Cory discovers that the Daleks
have formed an alliance with several other alien species, intending to launch a war against Earth. He makes a tape of his
discoveries -- but is exterminated before he can get word to his superiors...
* The Myth Makers (Vicki & Steven)
The TARDIS arrives on the plains of Asia Minor during the Trojan War,
and when the Doctor emerges the credulous Achilles mistakes him for Zeus. The brutal Odysseus finds this highly unlikely,
especially when he catches Steven trying to rescue his friend. When the TARDIS disappears, and the Doctor is thus unable to
present a miracle to the Greeks, he is sentenced to death – but Odysseus, intrigued by the newcomers, offers to spare
the Doctor's life if he comes up with a way to end the war. The TARDIS has in fact been captured by the Trojans and taken
into the city, where Vicki befriends the royal family, adopts the name Cressida – and makes a bitter enemy of the high
priestess Cassandra, who feels she has a monopoly on foretelling the future. Outside the city, the Doctor eventually has little
choice but to suggest the construction of a large wooden horse, and history takes its unfortunate course. Vicki, who has fallen
in love with the Trojan prince Troilus, rescues him from the massacre, and together they join cavalry leader Aeneas and set
off to found another city – Rome. Having lost one companion, the Doctor and Steven depart from Troy with a temple handmaiden
named Katarina. The Doctor, anxious to get help for Steven, decides he must land somewhere...
* The Dalek's Master Plan (Steven & Sara)
DVD Commentary: Day
of Armageddon – Peter Purves, Kevin Stoney & Raymond Cusick
The Daleks assemble the leaders of several alien empires, apparently intending to unite them
in an Alliance which will then declare war on Earth. In fact, each empire has brought components or technology which the Daleks
require to construct the ultimate weapon – a Time Destructor. The last component they require is the power source, a
core of the rare element Taranium – and Mavic Chen, the Guardian of the Solar System, intends to supply it to them and
then betray them, seizing the Time Destructor for himself. The Doctor and his companions stumble into this affair when the
TARDIS materialises on Kembel, and with the aid of Space Security Service agent Bret Vyon, sent to investigate the disappearance
of Marc Cory, the Doctor steals the taranium core. The Daleks pursue the Doctor and his companions across the galaxy to get
it back, and in the course of the flight the Trojan handmaiden Katarina gives her life to help the Doctor escape from a vicious
criminal. When the Doctor and his friends arrive on Earth, they find that Chen has already denounced them as traitors,
and Vyon is shot and killed by his own sister, Sara Kingdom. Sara eventually discovers the truth for herself, and helps the
Doctor and Steven to recover the TARDIS and escape. However, the Daleks then pursue them through Time, and are joined by the
Doctor and Steven's old enemy, the Meddling Monk – who realises that he's in over his head and switches sides depending
upon who seems to be on top. After an encounter in ancient Egypt, the Doctor strands the Monk on an ice planet, but the Daleks
get away with the taranium core, and the Doctor uses the navigational unit from the Monk's TARDIS to pursue them back to Kembel.
There, the Daleks exterminate Mavic Chen, but the Doctor manages to activate the Time Destructor. Sara rapidly ages to death
before she can reach the safety of the TARDIS, but the Doctor and Steven escape while the Dalek force on Kembel crumbles to
dust.
* The Companion Chronicles: Home Truths (Steven & Sara)
(Occurs between episodes 7 & 8 of The Dalek's Master Plan)
There’s a house across the waters at Ely where an old woman tells
a strange story. About a kind of night constable called Sara Kingdom. And her friends, the Doctor and Steven. About
a journey they made to a young couple’s home, and the nightmarish things that were found there. About the follies of
youth and selfishness. And the terrible things even the most well-meaning of us can inflict on each other. Hear
the old woman's story. Then decide her fate.
* The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve (Steven)
The TARDIS materialises in Paris in the year 1572, and the Doctor leaves
Steven on his own while he visits the apothecary Charles Preslin. However, Preslin faces persecution at the hands of the Catholics,
and the Doctor thus comes up with a scheme to get him out of Paris. Steven, meanwhile, falls in with a group of Huguenots
who fear that the Catholics are plotting against them, but when Steven recognises the Abbot of Amboise as the Doctor, his
Huguenot friends conclude that he's part of the conspiracy. As it happens, the Abbot in fact only looks like the Doctor, but
since the Huguenots won't listen to Steven's warnings, the Admiral de Coligny is mortally wounded in an assassination attempt
orchestrated by the Queen Mother, Catherine de Medici. When the attempt fails, the Queen Mother manages to convince her weak-willed
son that the Huguenots will respond violently, and he authorises the slaughter of all Huguenots within the city. The real
Doctor returns, and he and Steven escape just as the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre begins. The TARDIS then materialises briefly
in present-day Wimbledon, where a young girl named Dodo Chaplet stumbles aboard the TARDIS and is whisked away on new adventures.
* BBC Novel: Salvation (Steven & Dodo)
New York, 1965. A time of conflict between ideologies, races, generations
and genders, when crime runs rife and an unpopular war drags on in a distant land. In the midst of this turmoil, people cry
out to their gods. And now, it seems, the gods have answered their call. Walking the slums and tenements of downtown
Manhattan, demonstrating extraordinary powers, five strangers are gathering a growing crowd of worshippers. Steven wants
to believe in miracles, but the Doctor is more sceptical. What are the strangers' real motives, and why does history make
no mention of these events? As New York begins to tear itself apart, the Doctor's principles are tested to their limits. Which
side should he choose to help? And what part will a London schoolgirl named Dorothea Chaplet play in the ensuing chaos?
What price is humankind willing to pay for salvation?
* The Ark (Steven & Dodo)
The TARDIS arrives some 10,000,000 years in the future on a giant
spaceship. The ship is carrying all of the Earth's surviving plant, animal and human life (and is hence nicknamed The Ark)
on a 700 year-long trip to a new home on the planet Refusis. The Doctors' companion Dodo has a head cold but the human Guardians
of the ship, and their servant race the Monoids, have no resistance, and so a plague breaks out!! The Guardians place the
travellers on trial and Steven has to defend them against the charge that they deliberately spread the disease. However, the
Doctor finds a cure. The TARDIS leaves the spaceship only to arrive back there as it is approaching the end of its voyage.
As a result of the earlier plague, the Monoids have now grown strong and enslaved the humans. They plan to make Refusis their
own but the Doctor persuades the two races to live together in peace.
* The Celestial Toymaker (Steven & Dodo)
The Doctor, Steven and Dodo fall into the clutches of the Celestial Toymaker,
an immortal who challenges his victims to games – with their souls forfeit to him should they lose. While the Doctor
plays the Trilogic Game, a variation on the classic Towers of Hanoi puzzle, Steven and Dodo are sent on a quest to find the
TARDIS, against opponents who may be figments of the Toymaker's imagination – or may be living beings, ensnared in his
clutches, who seek to escape. If they win their games, the Toyroom will be destroyed, and the Toymaker will go on to construct
another… but this means that the Doctor must find a way to make the last move of his game without destroying himself
and his friends along with the Toyroom.
* The Gunfighters (Steven & Dodo)
Suffering from toothache, the Doctor puts down in Tombstone, Arizona,
where the local dentist is none other than the notorious Doc Holliday. The Clanton brothers have ridden into town, looking
for the man who killed their brother – and when they see the Doctor in Doc Holliday's office, and he answers to the
name "Doc," they think they've found him. Marshall Wyatt Earp plays along with the mistake in order to give his old friend
Holliday enough time to get out of town – but events get out of control when the Clantons threaten to lynch Steven in
order to lure the Doctor out of hiding. Wyatt is forced to arrest Phineas Clanton, and when the others break their brother
out of jail they shoot and kill Wyatt's own brother Virgil. The grief-stricken Wyatt thus calls them out, and the Doctor finds
himself unable to prevent the infamous gunfight at the OK Corral.
* BBC Novel: Bunker Soldiers (Steven & Dodo)
A terrifying alien army is sweeping across the landscape, decimating
towns and subjugating everyone and everything in its path. With their astute military tactics and advanced weaponry, the invaders
seem unstoppable. But this is no distant star, no alternate timeline. Trapped in a frightened city, the Doctor and his
companions discover that this is Earth history, and they are powerless to intervene. The impending slaughter of thousands
is a matter of grim historical fact. Not everyone within the city is prepared to accept their fate. Desperate people
embark upon desperate courses of action. They may even succeed. For, deep beneath the city, something truly alien is
stirring...
* The Companion Chronicles: Mother Russia (Steven & Dodo)
It's 1812 and the Doctor, Steven and Dodo get ready to spend their winter in a Russian
village. The French are on their way, but that's not the only invasion the travellers will have to deal with.
* The Savages (Steven & Dodo)
The TARDIS materialises in what the Doctor claims is a time of great
peace and prosperity – but if the Elders of the city are so wise and powerful why do savages still live in the wilderness
outside the city walls? And why do the people of the city apparently hunt and harvest the savages? The Doctor learns that
all of the Elders' great achievements are based on a terrible form of exploitation; the people of the city are harvesting
the life essence of the savages, reducing them to little more than cattle and devastating their civilisation while the Elders
prosper. When the Doctor vows to put an end to this, the leader of the Elders, Jano, has him sent to the laboratories –
but Jano, unwilling to risk the life essence of an alien on any of his people, takes it all into himself, and thus acquires
the Doctor's morals and ethics as well. With Jano's help, the Doctor, Steven and Dodo organise the savages and help them strike
back against the cruel Elders. They will require a strong leader to guide them, however, and they choose Steven, who leaves
the Doctor's company to lead the newly united people.
* The Missing Adventures: The Man in the Velvet Mask (Dodo)
24 Messidor, XXII: the TARDIS has landed in post-revolutionary France,
or so it appears. But the futuristic structure of the New Bastille towers over a twisted version of Paris. And First Deputy
Minski, adopted son of the infamous Marquis de Sade, presides over a reign of terror that has yet to end. Revolutionary soldiers
arrest an ailing Doctor as a curfew breaker. Dodo is recruited by a band of wandering players whose intentions are less than
pure. Deep in the dungeons of the Bastille, Prisoner 6 tries desperately to remember who he is. And outside time and space,
a gathering of aliens watch in horror as their greatest experiment goes catastrophically wrong.
* The War Machines (Dodo, Ben & Polly)
DVD Commentary: Anneke Wills and Michael Ferguson
London 1966 and the Doctor and Dodo, on a visit to the Post Office Tower, meet Professor
Brett whose new computer WOTAN can actually think for itself and is soon to be networked with other computers around the world.
However, WOTAN believes that humans are inferior to machines and should, therefore, be ruled by them. Exerting a hypnotic
influence, WOTAN arranges for the construction of War Machines - heavily-armed, self-contained mobile computers - with which
to take over the world. These prove more than a match for the Army, but the Doctor is able to capture one of them, which he
then re-programs to destroy WOTAN. When the crisis is over, Dodo chooses to remain in London; Ben and Polly, however, inadvertently
become the Doctor's new companions when they enter the TARDIS to return his lost key.
* The Smugglers (Ben & Polly)
Ben and Polly's first trip by TARDIS takes them to the 17th-century Cornish
coast, in the era of smugglers and pirates. There, the Doctor receives a clue to the location of hidden pirate treasure –
making him a target for the vicious captain Pike. His interrogation is delayed when a smuggler named Jacob Kewper contacts
Pike, erroneously believing him to be a fellow smuggler; when Pike learns that the local Squire is the head of a smuggling
ring, he decides to impersonate a smuggler, learn the location of the smugglers' hoard, and then kill them all and acquire
the goods for himself. The Doctor and Kewper manage to escape, but Kewper goes straight to the Squire with news of the hidden
treasure. The Doctor and his friends have only one ally – Revenue man Josiah Blake, who has been investigating smuggling
in the area but now finds that all hell is about to break loose. While Blake rides for the militia, the Doctor struggles to
decipher the clue he's been given, knowing that only by locating the treasure himself can he bargain with the pirates and
smugglers and prevent a battle which will inevitably result in the deaths of innocent townsfolk.
* BBC Novel: Ten Little Aliens (Polly & Ben)
Far out in space, on the ragged edges of Earth's bloated empire,
an elite unit of soldiers is on a training mission. But deep in the heart of the hollowed-out planetoid that forms their
battleground, a chilling secret waits to be discovered: ten alien corpses, frozen in time at the moment of violent, bloody
death. The bodies are those of the empire's most wanted terrorists, and their discovery could end a war of attrition
devastating the galaxy. But is the same force that slaughtered them still lurking in the dark tunnels of the training ground?
And what are its plans for the people of Earth? When the Doctor arrives on the planetoid with Ben and Polly, he soon
scents a net tightening about them. And as the soldiers begin to disappear one by one, paranoia spreads; is the real enemy
out there in the darkness, or somewhere among them?
* The Tenth Planet (Ben & Polly)
The TARDIS materialises decades in the future, in the year 1986, at Snowcap Tracking
Station at the South Pole. There, an international team is struggling to bring down a shuttle which has inexplicably been
drawn out of orbit – by the gravity of a tenth planet, Earth's exact mirror twin. The Doctor realises what's about to
happen, but before he can deliver his warning, Snowcap is invaded by the Cybermen – natives of the planet Mondas who
have slowly replaced most of their body parts with cybernetic prostheses, and who have now returned to their twin to drain
the energy away from Earth. However, the Doctor and his friends soon find themselves fighting a threat closer to home –
in order to save his astronaut son, the American General Cutler intends to attack Mondas with a Z-Bomb despite the danger
that the radiation from the explosion will render half of Earth uninhabitable. The Doctor realises that the Cybermen have
invaded Earth because Mondas is drawing away too much energy, and that their best hope is simply to stall the Cybermen until
Mondas explodes of its own accord. But the energy drain is affecting the elderly Doctor's health, and when he finally returns
to his TARDIS he collapses – and before Ben's and Polly's eyes, he seems to change into an entirely different person...
* The Three Doctors
* The Five Doctors
* Dimensions in Time
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