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* Spearhead from Space (The Brigadier& Liz) (96' 58")
DVD Commentary – Nicholas Courtney & Caroline John
Exiled to the 20th century by the Time Lords, the newly-regenerated Doctor is immediately
caught up in UNIT's investigation of anomalous meteorite showers. What dark secret does the local plastics factory hold?
* Who Killed Kennedy (The Brigadier, Liz & Jo)
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on 22 November, 1963. Now,
the publication of this volume reveals frightening new information about the assassination, the real reasons why the President
of the United States had to die and an incredible plan to save the man known as JFK! These stunning revelations involve
an ultra-secret military force disguised as a minor off-shot of the United Nations and an international terrorist leader who
has twice brought the world to the brink of nuclear conflict. For more than three decades the public has been fed lies,
half-truths and misinformation. Now -- despite government attempts to halt the publication of this volume -- the complete,
shocking story can be told. Read the book they tried to ban!
* Doctor Who and the Silurians (The Brigadier& Liz) (167' 15")
DVD Commentary: Caroline John, Nicholas Courtney, Peter Miles, Geoffrey Palmer, Timothy Combe,
Barry Letts & Terrance Dicks
Wenley Moor research station is experiencing strange power losses, and off-duty staff have
been killed while potholing in the local caves. What ancient force has the station reactor re-energised? And is Man's civilisation
really the only one in Earth's history?
* The Companion Chronicles: Old Soldiers (The Brigadier)
Old soldiers, comrades in arms - the Brigadier saw many fall during his years with UNIT, but perhaps none
more tragically than those at Kreigskind. Called to help when a friend falls ill, how can Lethbridge-Stewart fight an enemy
that can breach every defence?
* The Ambassadors of Death (The Brigadier, Liz & Benton)
The UK space programme is in crisis as all contact has been lost with
Mars Probe Seven. As the spacecraft returns to Earth, are the astronauts all that they appear to be...?
* Inferno (Brig, Liz & Benton) (167' 05")
DVD Commentary: Nicholas
Courtney, Barry Letts, Terrance Dicks & John Levene
UNIT is providing security for the Stahlmann project, an attempt to tap the Earth's core for
energy. However, toxic emissions from the drill site are causing atavistic mutations amongst project personnel, and a power
surge into the TARDIS console accidentally transports the Doctor into a grim parallel world, populated by fascists who seem
oddly familiar to him...
* The Missing Adventures: The Eye of the Giant (The Brigadier, Liz, Benton &
Mike)
1934: Salutua, a legendary lost island in the Pacific. Millionaire Marshal
J Grover's expedition arrives to uncover and exploit its secrets. But the task is complicated by a film star's fears and ambitions
and a scientist's lethal obsession. Nearly forty years later: UNIT headquarters, London. The Doctor and Liz Shaw are
asked to identify a mysterious artefact and trace its origin. The trail leads them back in time to Salutua and a gigantic
discovery. Meanwhile, the Brigadier faces and epidemic of UFO sightings and supernatural occurrences that threaten to bring
about global panic. Only the Doctor can help him - but he's trapped on a mythical island four decades in the past.
* The Missing Adventures: The Scales of Injustice (The Brigadier, Liz, Benton & Mike)
A little boy goes missing; a policewoman begins drawing cave paintings; and the employees
at the mysterious Glasshouse are desperate to keep everyone away - the Doctor suspects it's all down to a group of homo reptilia.
His assistant, Liz Shaw, has ideas of her own and has teamed up with a journalist to search for people who don't exist.
While the Brigadier has to cope with UNIT funding, the breakdown of his marriage and Geneva's threats to replace him, the
Doctor must find the reptiles alone. And behind it all lies a conspiracy to exploit UNIT's achievements - a conspiracy
reaching deep into the heart of the British Government.
* The Companion Chronicles: The Blue Tooth (Liz)
"I suppose
that was one of the Doctor's most endearing qualities: the ability to make the bizarre and the terrifying seem utterly normal."
When Liz Shaw's friend Jean goes missing, the
Doctor and U.N.I.T. are drawn to the scene to investigate. Soon Liz discovers a potential alien invasion that will have far-reaching
affects on her life… and the Doctor is unexpectedly re-united with an old enemy…
* BBC Novel: The Devil Goblins from Neptune (The Brigadier & Liz)
The Doctor is perturbed when a spate of deaths follows the break-up of
an alien mass in the atmosphere. But this is merely the latest incident in a sinister conspiracy that threatens the entire
planet, and the Doctor himself is embroiled in the plans of all the players. The Brigadier's concern is heightened by
the possibility of traitors at the very heart of UNIT. Leaving for Geneva to discover the truth, he little realises the deadly
motives of an enemy agent on his own doorstep. The Doctor and Liz, meanwhile, discover that London doesn't have a monopoly
on alien invasions. What are the gargoyle-like creatures that kill without mercy? What do they want from our planet
- and how do they figure in top-secret governmental plans? As the lines between allies and enemies begin to blur, the
Doctor finds himself fighting to save the Earth once again. But who will he be saving it for?
* Terror of the Autons (The Brigadier, Benton, Jo & Yates)
The Master - another renegade Time Lord and the Doctor's sworn enemy - arrives and allies
himself with the Nestene Consciousness in an attempt to conquer the planet. But how can plastic flowers be an invasion weapon...?
* The Mind of Evil (The Brigadier, Benton, Jo & Yates)
The Doctor visits Stangmoor Prison to see the Keller Machine, a revolutionary new type of
rehabilitation aid, in action - but finds his fellow observers literally dying of fear. Who is responsible for creating the
Machine? And how does it connect to the peace conference happening in London?
* BBC Novel: Deadly Reunion (The Brigadier & Jo)
Second-Lieutenant Lethbridge-Stewart gets more than he bargained for when he is assigned to
map out Greek islands at the end of the Second World War. Even if he lives to tell the tale, will he remember it? Years
later, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and his colleagues at UNIT investigate a spate of unexplained deaths and murders. Meanwhile,
the Third Doctor and Jo are caught up in strange events in the small English Village of Hob’s Haven. As preparations
get underway for a massive pop concert, a sinister cult prepares for a day of reckoning – business as usual for UNIT.
But can the Brigadier help prevent the end of the world? His friends and colleagues are not so sure, because this time, the
Brigadier has fallen in love...
* The Claws of Axos (The Brigadier, Benton, Jo & Yates) (97' 22")
DVD Commentary: Barry Letts, Katy Manning
& Richard Franklin
The Axons land on Earth, desperately in need of fuel. They propose to
exchange the miracle substance they call Axonite for some much needed energy. Axonite is a "thinking" molecule that can replicate
any substance... or so they claim. As it turns out, the ship is a single organism called Axos whose purpose is to feed itself
by draining all energy through the Axonite (which is just a part of itself), including the energy of every life form on Earth.
The deception about the Axonite's beneficial properties was to facilitate the distribution of Axonite across the globe.
Meanwhile, the Master, who was captured by Axos and used his knowledge of Earth as a bargaining chip for his life and freedom,
escapes Axos and makes his way to the Doctor's TARDIS — his own having been seized by Axos. He plans to repair it to
effect his escape from Earth. Axos itself becomes interested in the Doctor's knowledge of time travel. It now plans
to broaden its feeding base by travelling through time as well as space. The Doctor, realising this, plans to trick Axos into
linking up its drive unit to his TARDIS so that he can send Axos into a perpetual time loop. After tricking the Master into
completing the repairs on his TARDIS, the Doctor does just that. This results in every part of Axos dematerialising from Earth,
including the Axon automatons and the Axonite. At the end, with the Master having escaped in his own TARDIS during the
confusion aboard Axos, the Doctor returns to Earth, but not of his own volition. Apparently, the Time Lords have programmed
the TARDIS to always return to Earth, like some "galactic yo-yo".
* Colony in Space (The Brigadier & Jo)
The planet Uxarius, in the year 2471. The Time Lords temporarily reactivate the TARDIS to
allow the Doctor and Jo to travel here. They find colonists from Earth struggling to survive on a desolate world, with the
rapacious miners of IMC attempting to drive them away. But what happened to Uxarius' original inhabitants?
* The Daemons (The Brigadier, Benton, Jo & Yates)
When an archaological dig at the village of Devil's End goes disastrously wrong, an ancient
power begins to revive. Can even the Doctor withstand the power of the Daemons? And just what is the local vicar up to in
his spare time?
* Day of the Daleks (The Brigadier, Benton, Jo & Yates)
Diplomat Sir Reginald Styles has started seeing ghosts at his country mansion - an alarming
development given the precarious international situation and his position as possibly the only man capable of stopping the
Third World War. The Doctor and Jo go ghost hunting - but are these ghosts from the past or the future?
* The Companion Chronicles: The Doll of Death (Jo)
“Retrocausation! Events before their cause. Time in reverse.”
While
investigating a temporal anomaly in Central London, the Doctor and Jo Grant meet Professor Harold Saunders, a man who possesses
an unstable alien artefact, and who is seemingly haunted by the ghosts of dolls. Who is the mysterious Mrs Killebrew?
Why is a pack of hounds hunting them in reverse? And can Jo pick up any bargains while backwards shopping on Oxford Street?
* The Curse of Peladon (Jo)
The Doctor and Jo arrive just in time to get involved in the conference to discuss Peladon's
admission to the Galactic Federation. But the King's closest counsel has been murdered, apparently by a ghost... and then
the Doctor learns his old enemies, the Ice Warriors, are also attending the conference...
* BBC Novel: Face of the Enemy (The Brigadier, Benton, Ian, Barbara)
The Doctor and Jo have gone off in the TARDIS,
leaving the Brigadier and UNIT facing a deadly mystery - and a moral dilemma... Robbery and murder
are on the increase in Britain as disputes between underworld gangs escalate into open warfare on the streets. The Master
seems inextricably linked to the chaos - despite the fact he is safely under lock and key. Meanwhile
UNIT is called in when a plane missing in strange circumstances is rediscovered - contaminated with radiation and particle
damage that cannot possibly have occurred on Earth. As the mystery deepens, what little light
they can shed on the matter leads the Brigadier to believe that with the Doctor away, Earth's only hope may lie with its greatest
enemy...
* BBC Novel: Rags (The Brigadier, Benton, Jo & Yates)
A convoy of disenchanted ragamuffins is winding its way through the south-west
of England. At its head, a filthy cattletruck containing four punk mummers... and something else. The band plays sudden, violent
and hate-filled gigs along the way: Dartmoor, Glastonbury Tor, an old cemetery in Bristol. And every time they play, people
die in unspeakable ways. Aristocrats, high-flying stockbrokers, police officers, all find themselves the victims of a Class
War that is threatening to shatter society. Within the dark cattletruck, a malevolent force is leading this ragged army
on a Magical Mayhem Tour towards its final, secret destination. With Jo powerless to resist its seductive influence and the
Doctor lost in a nightmarish void, can the band from hell be prevented from staging its final society-cracking performance,
and thus spelling the end of the road for... everything?
* The Sea Devils (Jo) (148' 01")
DVD Commentary: Michael Briant, Barry Letts & Terrance Dicks
While visiting the Master in his island prison, the Doctor and Jo learn of a series of mysterious
ship-sinkings in the area. Can the Master be involved?
* The Mutants (Jo)
As Earth slowly moves towards granting Solos its' independence, the Doctor
and Jo arrive on a mission for the Time Lords. How far will the brutal Marshal go to retain his power over the planet? And
why are the native Solosians undergoing a gradual mutation into hideous, insect-like creatures?
* The Time Monster (The Brigadier, Benton, Jo & Yates)
Professor Thascales' TOMTIT project is nearing completion... but why is a simple matter transmitter
causing disruption to the flow of time? And what exactly is Kronos, the time monster itself?
* BBC Novel: Verdigris (Jo)
Jo Grant had no inkling of the ship that revolved in orbit like a discreet, preposterous
thought in the mind of someone serene but bonkers. High above London and its crust of smog, stretched tall above the
soapy atmosphere of the Earth, is a ship the size and exact shape of St Pancra railway station. On board, the Doctor
and that mysterious lady adventurer, Iris Wildthyme, are bargaining for their lives with creatures determined to infiltrate
the 1970s in the guise of characters from nineteenth-century novels. Without the help of UNIT, the Doctor and his friends
face the daunting task of defeating aliens, marauding robot sheep, the mysterious Children of Destiny and... the being who
calls himself Verdigris.
* The Three Doctors (The Brigadier, Jo & Benton) (98' 38")
DVD Commentary: Katy Manning, Nicholas Courtney
& Barry Letts
A strange anti-matter creature arrives on Earth and attacks UNIT HQ. It seems to be specifically
seeking the Doctor out - but why? With the Time Lords themselves unable to help, it seems the only person who can help the
Doctor is himself - or selves...
* BBC Novel: The Wages of Sin (Jo & Liz)
With the secrets of time travel restored to him after his long exile
on Earth, the Doctor has made a test flight into the past. Accompanying him are his assistant, Jo, and an old friend, scientist
Liz Shaw. The travellers realise they are visiting one of the most significant times in Earth's history - and one of the most
dangerous. It is Russia, 1916, and Europe is in the grip of the Great War. With the TARDIS missing, its crew find themselves
trapped in a country on the brink of revolution. The Doctor and Liz are soon caught up in the deadly machinations of
Tsar Nicholas' court, while Jo appears to fall under the sinister spell of the infamous Mad Monk, Rasputin...
* Carnival of Monsters (Jo) (98' 17")
Full commentary – Katy Manning & Barry Letts
The Indian Ocean, 1935 - or is it? The Doctor and Jo arrive on the SS Bernice, a ship due
to mysteriously vanish without trace. But why do events seem to repeat themselves, and why is a plesiosaur attacking the ship?
Meanwhile, on the planet Inter Minor, travelling showman Vorg arrives with his remarkable Miniscope...
* BBC Novel: The Suns of Caresh (Jo)
Jo gripped the sides of the console. Even over the roar of the engine
she could hear branches whipping and snapping against the TARDIS exterior.The view on the scanner was receding at the speed
of an express train. It showed the swathe of destruction they were leaving behind them, a ragged, police box-shaped tunnel
through the forest. In England a hotel worker has been turned to stone, an ancient lake has vanished, and the inmate
of a mental hospital is being terrorised by unseen creatures. In Israel, in the shadow of Masada, an archaeological dig unearths
something that should have stayed buried. The Doctor is sure he is dealing with a local and relatively straightforward
temporal anomaly. Troy Game, a refugee from the planet Caresh, is not so certain. She believes the impending destruction of
her home world is somehow linked to the events on Earth, and she is pinning her hopes on the Doctor to avert the catastrophe.
But can the Doctor interfere with a planet’s destiny? And should he risk his new-found freedom to do it?
* Frontier in Space (Jo)
The space powers of Earth and Draconia stand at the brink of war, as each seems to be guilty
of pirate raids on the others' ships. But who would truly benefit from such a conflict...?
* Planet of the Daleks (Jo)
The space powers of Earth and Draconia stand at the brink of war, as each seems to be guilty
of pirate raids on the others' ships. But who would truly benefit from such a conflict...?
* BBC Novel: Catastrophea (Jo)
The planet's real name is Kastopheria, but generally it's been rechristened
Catastrophea - it's a catastrophe waiting to happen. Supposedly civilised races are exploiting the world, squabbling over
its wealth and resources, while the indigenous population - golden-skinned giants - seem not to care what their own fate might
be. The Doctor and Jo soon become embroiled in a plan to keep peace between different parties vying for control over the planet. But
what is the strange glowing crystal lying hidden in impenetrable jungle? How will the arrival of the proud, warlike Draconians
affect the fragile peace? In his quest to find the truth behind the secret history of the People, the Doctor risks unleashing
a force more terrible than the galaxy has known for aeons...
* Telos Novellas: Nightdreamers (Jo)
Perihelion Night on the wooded moon Verd. A time of strange sightings,
ghosts, and celebration before the morn, when Lord Esnic marries the beautiful Lady Ria. However Ria has other ideas, and
flees through the gravity wells which dot the moon to meet with her true love Tonio. When the Doctor and Jo arrive on Verd,
drawn down by the fluctuating gravity, they find themselves involved in the unpredictable events of Perihelion. But
what of the mysterious and terrifying Nightdreamers? And of the Nightdreamer King?
My Review: A simple story that seems
to owe more to Shakespeare than the Pertwee era of action and rage against the machine and perhaps all the better for it as
it put the scientific Doctor in a story outside of his normal comfort zone and we get to see a fresh side to his character.
* BBC Novel: Last of the Gaderene (Jo)
The new owners of a Second World War aerodrome promise a golden dawn of prosperity for the
East Anglian village of Culverton. The population rejoices - with one exception. Former spitfire pilot Alec Whistler knows
the aerodrome of old, having found a strange, jade-coloured crystal there years before. When black-shirted troops appear
on the streets, Whistler takes his suspicions to his old friend Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. The Doctor and Jo are sent to
investigate and soon discover that all is not well in the seemingly idyllic village. What are the black coffin-like
objects being unloaded at the aerodrome? What horror lies behind Legion International's impeccable facade? And what is the
monstrous creature growing and mutating in the marsh. As Culverton gears up for its summer fete, the Doctor finds himself
involved in a race against time to prevent a massive colonisation of Earth. For the last of the Gaderene are on their way...
* The Missing Adventures: Dancing the Code (The Brigadier, Jo, Yates)
The Doctor builds a machine designed to predict the future. It shows
the Brigadier murdering him and Jo in cold blood. Unable to tell where or when this event is destined to occur, the Doctor
and Jo decide that they must stay apart. Jo is sent on a top-secret mission to the war-torn Arab nation of Kebiria.
But upon arrival, she is immediately arrested and consigned to a brutal political prison. The Kebirians have something to
hide: deep in the North African desert, an alien infestation is rapidly growing. And the Doctor and UNIT soon discover that
unless it is stopped, the alien presence will spread to overrun the entire world.
* The Missing Adventures: Speed of Flight (Jo & Yates)
The TARDIS lands on Nooma, a world in the midst of an industrial revolution.
But the Doctor, Jo and Mike Yates quickly discover that there is no limit to the upheaval. The sky is alive, and at war with
the ground. The continents are on the move, competing for a place under the sun. And somewhere, there is a starship.
Mike finds himself committed to a fight where his only option is to kill or be killed. Jo is caught in a workers' revolt.
And the Doctor must find out what is really happening to Nooma before the struggle for survival kills the world and everyone
on it.
* The Green Death (The Brigadier, Benton, Jo & Yates) (154' 31")
DVD Commentary: Katy Manning, Barry Letts
& Terrance Dicks
While the Doctor finally gets to visit Metebelis Three, Jo and UNIT investigate a spate of
strange deaths near Global Chemicals' plant. What effect has the company's toxic waste had on the local wildlife...?
* The Time Warrior (The Brigadier & Sarah)
DVD Commentary: Liz Sladen, Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks
Robber baron Irongron is recruited by Linx, a Sontaran warrior whose starship has been forced
down on Earth. Linx is forced to use a time-travel device to steal resources and scientists from the future to repair his
ship, but in doing so involves UNIT and the Doctor...
* The Paradise of Death (The Brigadier, Sarah & Jeremy) (146' 41")
When a horrific and inexplicable death occurs at Space World, a new theme park on Hampstead
Heath, UNIT is called in to investigate. The Doctor is highly suspicious. Just who controls the Parakon Corporation, the shadowy
organization behind the running of the park? What is “Experienced Reality” and what are the limits of its awesome
powers?
* Invasion of the Dinosaurs (The Brigadier, Benton, Yates & Sarah)
The Doctor and Sarah return to a deserted city under martial law. Dinosaurs
are running amok in the streets - but how can this be happening? And who stands to gain from it?
* Death to the Daleks (Sarah)
The TARDIS is forced down by a total power failure and the Doctor and Sarah meet a stranded
Earth crew who came here to mine for priceless medical supplies. But what is causing the power failures? And why have the
Daleks come here too?
* The Ghosts of N-Space (The Brigadier, Sarah & Jeremy) (164' 47")
Sarah Jane Smith, on holiday with her chum Jeremy and a bad case of writer's block, is amazed
to find the Brigadier in the same part of Italy. He is there to help a distant relative whose tiny island home has been threatened
by American mobster Max Vilmio. When the ghosts that haunt the island's crumbling castle are joined by less benign spectres,
the Brigadier summons the Doctor - who discovers that the whole of mankind is threatened by the plans of the ruthless Vilmio
and his mysterious, hooded henchman.
* BBC Novel: Island of Death (Sarah & Jeremy)
Sarah Jane Smith and her friend Jamie Fitzoliver investigate a strange
New Age cult; business as usual for investigative journalists. But what is less usual is the demon-like creature the cultists
worship. When the Doctor and UNIT arrive to investigate they discover a plot involving government ministers, alien narcotics,
and an official cover-up. As an evil scheme develops on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, the Doctor enlists the help of
the Royal Navy to investigate. But can they uncover the truth in time to avert disaster?
* The Monster of Peladon (Sarah)
Mining disputes threaten the peace of the planet, and as the Doctor and Jo arrive, it seems
that the ghost of Aggedor walks once more...
* BBC Novel: Amorality Tale (Sarah)
East End gangster Tommy Ramsey emerges from prison in 1952, determined
to retake control of his territory on the streets of Shoreditch. But new arrivals theaten his grip on all illegal activity
in the area. An evangelical minister at St Luke's Church is persuading people to seek redemption for their sins. A new
gang is claiming the streets for their own. And a watchmender called Doctor John Smith is leading a revolt against the Ramsey
Mob's protection racket. But when Tommy strikes back against his enemies, a far more terrifying threat is revealed.
Within hours the city's air begins turning into nerve gas and thousands are killed by the choking fumes. London is dying...
* Alien Bodies
* Interference - Book One: Shock Tactics
* Interference - Book Two: The Hour of the Geek
* Glorious Goodwood (Sarah)
A rarely heard, ten minute mini-drama specially recorded for Glorious Goodwood in 1974, it has
never been broadcast and features a host of familiar enemies – including the Daleks!
* The Companion Chronicles: The Magician's Oath (Yates)
(placement to be confirmed)
synopsis tca
* Planet of the Spiders (The Brigadier, Benton, Yates & Sarah)
As the Doctor receives a parcel from South America, Mike Yates asks Sarah to visit the meditation
centre where he's been recuperating. But what is the true significance of the blue crystal of Metebelis Three? And is this
adventure one too many for the Doctor?
* The Five Doctors
* Dimensions in Time
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