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* Robot (Brig, Benton, Sarah & Harry) (98' 22")
DVD Commentary: Tom Baker, Liz
Sladen & Terrance Dicks
Something inhumanly strong and resilient is raiding
scientific establishments across the country. Can the new Doctor help UNIT? And what are the staff of the secret government
Thinktank working on in their spare time?
* The Ark in Space (Sarah & Harry) (98' 50")
DVD Commentary: Tom Baker, Liz
Sladen & Philip Hinchcliff
Following Earth's devastation by solar flares, the survivors
of mankind are in cryogenic suspension aboard the Nerva Beacon space station. The Doctor, Sarah and Harry arrive on board
just as the menace of the insectoid Wirrn becomes apparent...
* The Sontaran Experiment (Sarah & Harry) (49' 34")
DVD Commentary: Liz Sladen, Philip Hinchcliffe & Bob Baker
Beaming down from the Nerva Beacon, the Doctor and his friends
discover Earth is habitable once more. Unfortunately a Sontaran officer is conducting tests on a group of human colonists
to determine their ability to withstand a full-scale invasion...
* Genesis of the Daleks (Sarah & Harry) (142' 57")
DVD Commentary: Tom Baker, Liz Sladen, Peter Miles & David
Maloney
The Time Lords divert the Doctor, Sarah and Harry to this
war-torn world, and give the Doctor a mission: the evil of the Daleks is about to be born here, and the Doctor is to try to
ensure they evolve into less lethally aggressive beings - or, failing that, to avert their creation altogether. But has even
the Doctor the right to commit genocide?
* The Missing Adventures: A Device of Death (Sarah &
Harry)
Sarah is marooned on a slave world where the only escape is
death. Harry is caught in the middle of an interplanetary invasion, and had to combine medicine with a desperate mission.
And the Doctor lands on a world so secret it does not even have a name. Why have the TARDIS crew been scattered across
the stars? What terrible accident could have wiped the Doctor's memory? And what could interest the Time Lords in this war-torn
sector of space? At the heart of a star-spanning conspiracy lies an ancient quest: people have been making weapons since
the dawn of time - but perhaps someone has finally discovered the ultimate device of death.
My
Review: Not a bad story, although it does get needlessly complicated at times for for appearances and to keep information
from the reader, than to serve the plot and characters. There seems to be an undue dwelling upon Genesis of the Daleks,
giving it more importance than it deserves, although Sarah's remembrances of the K1 from Robot are welcome. The needless
ham-fisted assertion that the Movellans will develop from the actions of the Doctor, Sarah and Harry have all the subtlety
of a chainsaw.
* Revenge of the Cybermen (Sarah & Harry)
Arriving back on the Nerva Beacon much earlier in history,
the Doctor and his friends discover the satellite beset by space plague while it struggles to keep space traffic away from
Voga, the newest moon of Jupiter. But what is the connection between Voga, the plague, and some old enemies of the Doctors'?
* BBC Novel: Wolfsbane (Sarah & Harry)
Features the 8th Doctor
Harry is dead. Having left him abandoned and alone in pre-war
Britain, the Doctor and Sarah try to solve the mystery of his death. But the only witness is in a lunatic asylum, driven mad
by what he has seen. He tells of murder and mutilation, of living trees and long-dead legends, of wolfmen and war... And of
a mysterious stranger known only as The Doctor. Can it be true that Harry discovered the last resting place of the Holy Grail?
Why are the flowers and trees in a Somerset village in full bloom at Christmas? And is it just a coincidence that Harry died
under a full moon... ?
* Terror of the Zygons (Brig, Sarah & Harry)
Something is smashing oil rigs off the Scottish coast, and
UNIT have been called in to investigate. The Doctor discovers a colony of shapeshifting Zygons and their cyborg weapon, the
Skarasen, and in the process solves one of Scotland's greatest mysteries...
* Planet of Evil (Sarah) (94' 25")
DVD Commentary: Tom Baker, Liz Sladen,
Prentis Hancock & Philip Hinchcliffe
The TARDIS lands on the planet Zeta Minor, where a Morestran
survey team has suffered a series of horrific killings. What dark secret does the team leader keep - and will the planet permit
anyone to leave?
* The Missing Adventures: Managra (Sarah)
Europa, designed
by lunatics a thousand years in the future, is a resurrected Europe that lives in an imaginary past. In Europa, historical
figures live again: Lord Byron combats Torquemada's Inquisition, Mary Shelley is writing her sequel to Frankenstein, and Cardinal
Richelieu schemes to become Pope Supreme while Aleister Crowley and Faust vie for the post of Official Antichrist. When
the Doctor and Sarah Jane arrive, they are instantly accused of murdering the Pope. Aided only by a young vampire hunter and
a revenant Byron, they confront the sinister Theatre of Transmogrification in their quest to prove their innocence.
* Pyramids of Mars (Sarah) (98' 34")
DVD Commentary: Liz Sladen, Michael Sheard,
Philip Hinchcliffe & Paddy Russell
The TARDIS is drawn off-course and lands in the country house
of archaeologist Marcus Scarman. But what did Scarman unearth on his last visit to Egypt, and how can the Doctor defeat his
most powerful foe yet - Sutekh, the God of Destruction?
* The Android Invasion (Benton, Sarah & Harry)
The TARDIS lands in the woods near Devesham
Space Centre, and mysteries abound: soldiers rise from the grave, men lost in deep space are alive and well, and the entire
population behaves very oddly indeed. What has happened to Earth - or is the true threat yet to come?
* The Brain of Morbius (Sarah)
DVD Commentary: Tom Baker, Liz Sladen,
Philip Madoc, Philip Hinchcliffe and Chris Barry
Near a graveyard of crashed starships, the demented surgeon
Solon hides in his castle, the last acolyte of the Time Lord despot Morbius. He only needs one final item to make his master
live again... and then the Doctor and Sarah arrive...
* The Missing Adventures: Evolution (Sarah)
Sarah Jane wants to meet her fellow journalist
Rudyard Kipling, and the Doctor sets the co-ordinates for England, Earth, in the Victorian Age. As usual, the TARDIS materialises
in not quite the right place, and the time travellers find themselves pursued across Devon moorland by a huge feral hound.
Children have gone missing; at the local boarding school, the young Rudyard Kipling has set up search parties. Lights have
been seen beneath the waters of the bay, and fishermen have been pulled from their boats and mutilated. Graves have been robbed
of their corpses. Something is going on, and Arthur Conan Doyle, the ship's doctor from a recently berthed arctic whaler,
is determined to investigate. The Doctor and Doyle join forces to uncover a macabre scheme to interfere with human evolution
- and both Sarah Jane and Kipling face a terrifying transmogrification.
* The Seeds of Doom (Sarah)
A strange seed-pod is unearthed from million-year-old ice.
The Doctor and Sarah are sent to investigate, but are too late to prevent the pod infecting a scientist and unleashing a threat
to all animal life on Earth...
* Doctor Who and the Pescatons (Sarah) (45' 56")
The Doctor
and his companion Sarah Jane battle against some of the most heinous foes to emerge from the outer universe: The Pescatons.
The Doctor finds himself in the capital city of London, where the population is bewildered and trembling beneath the violent
onslaught of a merciless invader. Who or what is the mighty Zor, whose green slanting luminous
eyes glare out from the dark of night like giant emeralds? What is the powerful alien force that is bringing Earth's civilisation
to a standstill, threatening to annihilate everything in its path? This is the story of a
dying Planet, of a Deadly Weed, and the merciless Creatures themselves. It is a Challenge to the Doctor -- a frightening race
against time.
* The Missing Adventures: System Shock (Sarah)
A rebellion on another planet. A kidnapping
in central London. The head of MI5 assassinated. A hostage siege suddenly and violently lifted by the SAS. A computer CD slipped
into the Doctor's pocket by a dead man. It's 1998, and the global information superhighway is about to come on line.
OffNet controls everything digital from cars to sliding doors, from interactive television to military command and control
systems. the Doctor and Sarah must join forces with an old friend in a race against time to prevent the breakdown of
technological society and foil an unconventional alien takeover bid.
* The Masque of Mandragora (Sarah)
Not realising the TARDIS has been infiltrated
by the malevolent Mandragora Helix, the Doctor and Sarah arrive in the tiny duchy of San Martino. With the locals preoccupied
by the struggle for the Dukedom, will the time travellers be able to resist a force that threatens to drag Earth into a new
Dark age?
* Exploration Eath: The Time Machine (Sarah) (19' 39")
The TARDIS
takes the Doctor and Sarah back in Time to witness stages of the Earth's development. However, as the planet evolves from
a mass of heat and gas, Megron the High Lord of Chaos has his own designs on our homeworld. If his threats to endanger the
stability of Earth have any substance, the existence of Mankind itself is in question!
* The Hand of Fear (Sarah) (99' 11")
DVD Commentary: Tom Baker, Liz Sladen,
Judith Paris, Bob Baker & Philip Hinchcliffe
The TARDIS materialises in a quarry and Sarah is trapped under
a rockfall. But what is the origin of the fossilized hand she is found gripping? And who is the Eldrad she keeps mumbling
about?
* The Deadly Assassin
Summoned home by a premonition of murder, the Doctor discovers
a dark conspiracy at the highest levels of Time Lord society... and his oldest enemy, who poses a threat to the existence
of Gallifrey itself...
* Tellos Novellas: Ghost Ship
Perhaps sensing the Doctor's deepening mood
of introspective melancholy, the TARDIS lands in the most haunted place on Earth, the luxury ocean liner the Queen Mary on
its way from Southampton to New York in the year 1963. But why do ghosts from the past, the present and, perhaps even
the future, seek out the Doctor? What appalling secret is hidden in Cabin 672? And will the Doctor be able to
preserve his sanity as he struggles to save the lives of the passengers against mighty forces which even he does not fully
understand?
My Review:
A short story that suffers badly from setting it through the Doctor's POV. There's precious little time to introduce
any characters because too much time is wasted detailing irrelevent thoughts about nothing that serves the story. The
resolution is almost an afterthought, it;'s embarassingly swift wrap up loses any charitable feelings synonymous of the DW
name. More care and focus is all this story needed, and a different POV should have been insisted upon too by the publishers.
* BBC Novel: Millennium Shock (Harry)
It's 1999 and the Millennium Bug is threatening
to bring the world's computers to a standstill. Experts struggle to avert disaster, but a powerful force seems determined
to work against them. As the government realises the full implications of Year 2000, one company seems to promise all
the technological answers... but what exactly are the methods and motives benind the operation? What is the connection
between the Millennium Bug, a raid on a Russian nuclear base, a break-in at a British defence contractor, and a pen that Sarah
Jane Smith kept as a memento of a past adventure? The Doctor and Commander Harry Sullivan of MI5 must discover the truth before
the world is plunged into a digital winter. No longer just an expensive miscalculation, the Millenium Bug could also
be the key to an alien take-over of Earth.
* BBC Novel: Asylum (Nyssa)
Nyssa felt a pang of disappointment. He had
gone. She would probably never see him again. The town of Oxford in AD 1278 seems a haven of tranquillity. Under the
summer sun, merchants, students and clerics go about their daily, unhurried tasks. Alfric, the proctor of the Franciscan friary,
has only two minor problems: one of the friars has gone missing, and there's a travelling showman, calling himself the Doctor,
with a pretty young noblewoman by his side, attracting crowds in the narrow streets. When the missing friar is found
dead, the Doctor is convinced he has been murdered. There is a ruthless killer at large, and Alfric reluctantly teams up with
the Doctor to track him down. Their investigation leads towards the most celebrated of the Franciscan brotherhood: Roger Bacon,
famed throughout Christendom as a scholar - and, in the far future, the subject of a revolutionary thesis by technographer
Nyssa of Traken.
* The Face of Evil (Leela)
Arriving in a place that seems oddly
familiar, the Doctor finds the savage Sevateem tribe battling to free their captive god, Xoanon, from the Evil One and his
Tesh servants. But can the whole situation really be the Doctor's fault?
* The Robots of Death (Leela) (95' 58")
DVD Commentary: Chris Boucher & Philip
Hinchcliffe
A vast mining vessel trawls a sea of mineral sand for valuable
ores, the tiny human crew served by an army of humanoid robots. But as the Doctor and Leela arrive, one of the crew is found
murdered... and if they didn't do it, who did?
* BBC Novel: Last Man Running (Leela)
The TARDIS has arrived on a world of
violence, where hideous creatures hunt and kill endlessly, vying for supremacy at the top of the food chain. But is evolution
on the planet natural or engineered by some higher power? And why has an aggressively suspicious alien police force sent a
secret mission here? With no one safe from the planet's tireless predators, Leela's warrior instincts are tested to
the full. The Doctor, meanwhile, begins to suspect that there is a scientific purpose to the planet - one married to a sinister
intelligence. Whatever the data being collated from the planet, the Doctor soon realises its usage may have far-reaching
consequences for all humanity.
* BBC Novel: Corpse Marker (Leela)
To a society dependant on robots, the
news that these benign, tireless, obedient labourers could be turned into killers would cause panic. So it was kept a secret.
In Kaldor City, only the three survivors of the Sandminer massacre know the truth. But now, several years later, they are
beginning to show signs of mental breakdown. And once again, the robots are being programmed to kill. Can the dead genius
Taren Capel possibly be involved in this new outrage? Worst of all, this time the deady robots are not confined to a
Sandminer. This time they are loose in Kaldor City. And this time, unless the Doctor and Leela can stop them, they really
will destroy the world.
* BBC Novel: Psi-ence Fiction (Leela)
It's Reading Week at the University of
East Wessex, but not everything comes to a stop. The wood is still haunted. Experiments in telepathy, remote viewing,
precognition and other paranormal phenomena continue in the Parapsychology Department. The department heads still think the
Kellerfield Research Fellow is out for publicity rather than psychic results. A grizzly murder remains unsolved by local police.
The students are still holding seances in the graveyard. When the TARDIS arrives in Norswood, the Doctor and Leela are
caught up in events that are spiralling out of control. Leela is chased by a phantom, and the Doctor take the waters. But
soon it isn't the Parapsychology Department's funding that's in question - it's the whole of existence.
* BBC Novel: Match of the Day (Leela)
There were the contracts, the agents,
the local sponsors, the pay-per-view broadcasts, the independent verification of results, the laws which made murder legal
in carefully defined circumstances… It had taken a long time for the system of freelance duellists to be established,
and an even longer time to develop the league of interplanetary superstars the others fought to reach and to challenge. And
just when it was all working satisfactorily and profitably someone or something started interfering with the set up.
Famous fighters died in private duels. Up-and-coming professional fighters began to fall victim to casual, one-time challengers
– the sort of psychos and testosterone-addled drunks who would themselves be expected to die quickly and routinely.
When Leela is challenged to a duel to the death, the Doctor realizes that there is more to the situation than simple murder
and mayhem. But before he can sort it out, he needs to save his client – Leela. How long can she survive on a planet
where not to kill is an offence punishable by death?
* BBC Novel: Drift (Leela)
White consumes the New Hampshire landscape,
as troops move in on a survivalist cult following a spate of unnaturally severe blizzards. The Special Forces group, White
Shadow, are searching for the missing fragments of a US Air Force jet, which crashed while engaged in top secret test flights
over the region. The Doctor and Leela have arrived at quite literally the wrong time. Thanksgiving is approaching. Traditionally
it is a holiday all about home and family. This year all of that is lost. Lost: like the local community, in the grip
of something far more sinister than a harsh winter. Like young Amber Mailloux, victim of a broken home that won’t even
settle in one place. Even White Shadow, entirely out of their depth and up against an enemy that not even the Doctor can find
in this world of white. An enemy which promises the bleakest of midwinters for the people of New Hampshire and, certainly
before springtime, the end of life on Earth.
* The Talons of Weng-Chiang (Leela) (144' 22")
DVD Commentary: Louise Jameson, Philip
Hinchcliffe, David Maloney, John Bennett & Christopher Benjamin
As magician Li H'Sen Chang captivates audiences, a spate of
disappearances amongst young women goes largely unnoticed. But almost upon their arrival, the Doctor and Leela find themselves
confronting the feared Tong of the Black Scorpion, and a menace from another time. And there's something fishy in the sewers,
too...
* The Companion Chronicles: Mahogany Murders (Jago &
Litefoot)
(placement to be confirmed)
synopsis tbc
* BBC Novel: Eye of Heaven (Leela)
Easter Island, 1832. Horace Stockwood,
eminent archaeologist, has stolen a stone tablet sacred to the islanders. He escapes into the open sea, but massive, sinister
stone figures are lining the cliff tops, watching him go. Thirty years later, Stockwood is desperate to return. He has
devoted his life to studying the sacred stone, and needs to know if his theories are correct. Visiting Earth with Leela, the
Doctor's interest is piqued, and he offers to fund Stockwood's expedition. But their journey proves more hazardous than anyone
would have expected. What is the terrible secret that pushes Stockwood on - and what is his real agenda? Who is trying
to stop their mission before it has even begun? As the Doctor begins to piece the answers together, it seems he may become
an unwitting accomplice to the terrible tragedy that threatens to befall the island. Ancient powers are invoked, and dangerous
secrets may soon be secret no longer.
* The Companion Chronicles: The Catalyst (Leela)
The pride of the Z'nai matches that of Leela of the
Sevateem. Why would the Doctor imprison one in such an unlikely place, and what terrors will be brought about by
letting it loose?
* The Companion Chronicles: Empathy Games (Leela)
The present: Leela is doomed, trapped inside a prison
cell of a dead race. The past: After a disaster aboard the TARDIS, the Doctor and Leela arrive at the capital city of
Synchronis, a world renowned for peace and civility. But an attack by a vicious creature leaves the Doctor in a coma, and
Leela is persuaded to fight in the forthcoming Empathy Games, where she discovers that nothing on this world is as it seems.
* Horror of Fang Rock (Leela) (95' 27")
DVD Commentary: Louise Jameson, John Abbott & Terrance
Dicks
The TARDIS lands on barren Fang Rock, inhabited until now
only by three light-house keepers. But what is the strange fog covering the island, and can it be connected to the falling
star sighted earlier that night?
* The Invisible Enemy (Leela & K9)
An Earth supply shuttle is infected by
a strange sentient space-borne virus, which quickly spreads to the crew of the refuelling station on the moon Titan. Even
worse, the Doctor himself falls victim. But why is Leela immune, and what is the virus' ultimate goal?
* Image of the Fendahl (Leela & K9)
At Fetch Priory, Dr Fendelman's experiments
with the new Time Scanner are disrupted by the mysterious death nearby of a hiker. Then there's the mysterious skull, also
being used as part of his work - a skull that seems to predate the evolution of mankind. What is the true role of the Fendahl
in humanity's evolution? And how do you kill a creature that is death incarnate?
* The Sun Makers (Leela & K9)
Pluto has been terraformed and is now
orbited by artificial suns, provided by the rapacious company who ruthlessly exploit the relocated human workforce. The Doctor,
Leela, and K9 arrive and befriend a luckless drone worker - but will overthrowing the company's rule prove too taxing a problem
for the time travellers?
* Underworld (Leela & K9)
The Doctor encounters the Minyans, survivors
of a race the Time Lords unwittingly obliterated early in their own history. The Minyans are searching for their race's lost
gene banks, a quest which takes them to the edge of the galaxy...
* The Invasion of Time (Leela & K9)
DVD Commentary: Louise Jameson, John Leeson, Anthony Head
and Mat Irvine
The Doctor has claimed the presidency of the planet and his
behaviour is even more eccentric than usual in other ways, too: he refuses to speak to Leela and seems only to trust K9. But
has he really betrayed Gallifrey to a Vardan invasion force? And is there a further power behind the Vardans?
* The Ribos Operation (Romana & K9) (99' 34")
DVD Commentary: Tom Baker & Mary
Tamm
The White Guardian, protector of light and order in the cosmos,
orders the Doctor to collect together the Key to Time - an artifact of limitless power which has been split into six segments
and scattered across the universe. With K9 and a new companion, trainee Time Lady Romanadvoratrelundar (also known as Fred),
the Doctor arrives on the icy world of Ribos in search of the First Segment. The exiled despot the Graff Vynda K has been
offered the planet in a deal with the shady trader Garron. But where's the Segment...?
* BBC Novel: Tomb of Valdemar (Romana & K9)
Millennia ago, the great god Valdemar
held sway over the universe. Somehow the Old Ones defeated this dark presence and entombed him beneath the acid skies of Ashkella,
before disappearing themselves for ever. Over the centuries, the myths of Valdemar grow, crossing solar systems and
races. A novellist, Miranda Pelham, pieces together the Dark God's story. Unfortunately for her, revolution and the rise of
of a New Protectorate force her to strike an agreement with the decadent necromancer Paul Neville to find the lost Ashkellia.
The Doctor and Romana, despite their best efforts, become embroiled in the complex conspiracies and attempts to rediscover
Valdemar. High in the boiling sulphuric acid clouds, in the Palace of the Old Ones, a place where reality and dreams collide,
the way is being prepared for the resurrection of the Dark One. The Doctor faces an agonising choice: should he continue
with his quest to gather the segments of the Key to Time, or prevent the rebirth of a being so powerful that its release will
alter the entire fabric of the universe?
* The Pirate Planet (Romana & K9) (101' 54")
DVD Commentary 1: Tom Baker, Mary Tamm
& Anthony Read
DVD Commentary 2: Bruce Purchase & Pennant Roberts
In search of the Key's Second Segment, the TARDIS is on course
for the planet Calufrax - so why do the time travellers materialise on Zanak? Ruled by the cyborg Captain and his robot parrot,
Zanak seems a world of mysteries - hostile psychics are massing in the wilderness, the constellations change on a regular
basis and the planet's mines seem to refill themselves. But what's happened to Calufrax and the Segment?
* The Stones of Blood (Romana & K9) (96' 04")
DVD Commentary 1: Mary Tamm & Darrol
Blake
DVD Commentary 2: Tom Baker, Mary Tamm, Susan Engel & David Fisher
England, the late 1970s. The TARDIS materialises near an ancient
stone circle, from where the Third Segment's signal emanates... but it doesn't seem to be there. Who is responsible for the
recent sacrifices in the circle? And is there any truth to the legend that the stones can move?
* The Missing Adventures: The Shadow of Weng-Chiang (Romana
& K9)
The search for the fourth segment of the Key to Time brings
the TARDIS to 1930s Shanghai: a dark and shadowy world, riven by conflict and threatened by the expansion of the Japanese
Empire. Meanwhile, the savage Tongs pursue their own mysterious agenda in the city's illegal clubs and opium dens. Manipulated
by an elusive foe, the Doctor is obliged to follow the Dragon Path - the side-effect of a disastrous experiment in the far
future. But would two segments of the Key be on the same planet? Is the Black Guardian behind the dark schemes of the
beautiful Hsien-Ko? And who is the small child who always accompanies her?
* BBC Novel: Heart of TARDIS (Romana & K9)
Features the 2nd Doctor, Jamie &
Victoria
In the American Midwestern town of Lychburg, something is
afoot. Its citizens are being killed in inexpressibly horrible and brutal ways and the police don't have a clue who's responsible.
The only suspects are a mysterious and sinister stranger, who calls himself the Doctor, and his young companions Jamie and
Victoria. The Doctor and Romana have been summoned by the Gallifreyan High Council. A force has been unleashed into
the space/time continuum... a force so unimaginably terrible that it is set to rip the universe itself apart and plunge it
into primal, screaming chaos from which nothing will survive. Of course, since something of this nature happens every
other day of the week, the Doctor's really far more interested in finding out what's happened to a close personal friend,
who seems to have vanished under mysterious circumstances. And quite right, too. The fate of a universe plunging into fetid
and unending chaos can damn well look out for itself for a change.
* The Androids of Tara (Romana & K9) (98' 12")
DVD Commentary: Tom Baker, Mary Tamm
& Michael Hayes
Arriving on the techno-Ruritanian world of Tara, Romana quickly
locates the Fourth Segment after the Doctor decides to go fishing. However, both Time Lords are dragged into the struggle
for the planet's succession after the rightful heir is kidnapped and a double has to be arranged for the coronation...
* The Companion Chronicles: Ferril's Folly (Romana)
(placement to be confirmed)
synopsis tbc
* The Power of Kroll (Romana) (91' 23")
DVD Commentary: Tom Baker & John
Leeson
Arriving on the swamp-covered third moon of Delta Magna in
search of the Fifth Segment, the Doctor and Romana are dragged into the conflict between the disgruntled natives and the refinery
workers exploiting the environment. But there's a very big blip on the refinery sonar screen and it's heading their way...
* The Armageddon Factor (Romana & K9) (148' 28")
DVD Commentary 1: Mary Tamm, John Woodvine
& Michael Hayes
DVD Commentary 2: Tom Baker, Mary Tamm & John Leeson
The quest is nearly over: the Doctor needs only to find the
Sixth Segment of the Key to Time. It seems to be located on Atrios, a planet locked in all-out nuclear war with its' neighbour,
Zeos. But how far is the Doctor prepared to go to complete his mission? And agents of the Black Guardian have been hunting
for the Key, too...
* Destiny of the Daleks (Romana & K9) (100'
10")
DVD Commentary: Lalla Ward, David Gooderson & Ken Grieve
The TARDIS lands in the irradiated ruins of the old Kaled
city, and the Doctor has a strange sense of deja vu. It transpires the Daleks have returned to the place of their origins,
but why? Fortunately the Doctor can rely on the help of the crew of a Movellan starship who've come to observe the Daleks
- or can he?
* City of Death (Romana & K9) (99' 57")
DVD Commentary: Michael Hayes, Julian Glover & Tom Chadbon
The Doctor and Romana are here on holiday, but something is
disturbing the flow of time. Could the time travel experiments of Count Scarlioni be to blame? And why has the Count got six
apparently genuine Mona Lisas in his cellar?
* The Creature from the Pit (Romana & K9)
Drawn here by a mysterious distress signal,
the Doctor discovers a world where any metal is a valuable commodity, where the ruthless Lady Adrasta has absolute power,
and where anyone who opposes her is flung into the Pit to face its' monstrous occupant. But is the Creature as mindless as
it seems...?
* The Missing Adventures: The Romance of Crime (Romana
& K9)
The TARDIS brings the fourth Doctor,
Romana and K-9 to the Rock of Judgement: a court, prison and place of execution built into a rocket-powered asteroid. There
they become embroiled in an investigation by the system's finest lawman. What connects the macabre gallery of artist
Menlove Stokes with the slaughter of a survey team on a distant planet? Why is Margo, chief of security, behaving so strangely?
And which old enemies of the Doctor are aboard the unmarked spaceship making its way towards the Rock?
* The Missing Adventures: The English Way of Death (Romana
& K9)
It's the sweltering summer of 1930, and Londoners are enjoying
the heatwave. The Doctor, Romana and K-9 plan to take a rest after their recent adventures, but the TARDIS warns them of time
pollution in the locality. What connects the isolated Sussex resort of Nutchurch with the secret society run by the
eccentric Percy Closed? Why has millionaire Hepworth Stackhouse dismissed his staff and hired assassin Julia Orlostro? And
what is the truth behind the infernal vapour known only as Zodaal? The Doctor's tribulations as he attempts to answer
these questions will excite and enthral discerning readers throughout the land.
* Nightmare of Eden (Romana & K9)
The starships Empress and Hecate
are fused together after an accident in hyperspace. Naturally the Doctor thinks he can find a solution, but has the accident
unleashed a far more deadly menace?
* The Companion Chronicles: The Beautiful People (Romana & K9)
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* The Horns of Nimon (Romana & K9)
The TARDIS encounters a Skonnon battlecruiser
transporting Anethan 'tribute' - young Anethan people and hymetusite power cells - to Skonnos. The crumbling Skonnon homeworld
has a new benefactor in the shape of the bull-headed Nimon... but what are the true motives of this creature? And why is a
Black Hole forming close to the ship...?
* Shada (Romana & K9)
The Doctor and Romana visit Chronotis, a retired Time Lord
living in Cambridge, who admits that he's lost a book dating back to the time of Rassilon and needs their help to find it.
In fact he's accidentally lent it out to graduate student Chris Parsons, who soon realises that this is an extraordinary text
indeed. The book is also sought by the evil scientist Skagra, who has developed a sphere capable of drawing its victims' minds
out of their bodies. Skagra needs the book to reach the Time Lord prison Shada, which even the Time Lords have forgotten.
Long ago they imprisoned the criminal Salyavin there, as punishment for using his powers to transfer his mind into other people's
bodies. Chronotis is eventually forced to admit that he himself is Salyavin; he escaped long ago and used his powers to cause
the Time Lords to forget about his prison. However, he's now repented of his crimes and wishes to live a quiet, peaceful life.
Skagra drains Chronotis' mind and thus acquires the ability to transfer his own mind into other bodies; with the aid of the
sphere and his crystalline servants, the Krargs, he will spread his own mind throughout the Universe and become immortal.
However, when the Doctor pretends to be stupid, the sphere fails to drain his mind completely; he thus survives, and since
there's a copy of his mind inside the sphere, he is able to use the resonance to turn Skagra's possessed slaves against him.
Skagra is imprisoned by his own Ship, and Chronotis returns to Earth to resume his peaceful retirement.
* The Missing Adventures: The Well-Mannered War (Romana
& K9)
Barclow - an Earth-type planet on the
fringes of space at an inestimably distant point in the future. Two factions have laid claim to it: humans from the nearby
colony world of Metralubit, and a small group of Chelonian troopers. But in nearly two hundred years of conflict not one chot
has been fired in anger, there are regular socials in the trenches, and the military commanders are the best of friends.
The Doctor, Romana and K-9, arriving in the midst of these bizarre hostilities, find there's real trouble to come. A crucial
election on Metralubit is looming, and K-9 is forced to begin a new career as a politician. Meanwhile, Romana meets and old
friend and the Doctor discovers that a sinister hidden force may be attempting to alter the war's friendly nature. What
are the plans of Galatea, leader of the beautiful but robotic Fendroids? Who is killing soldiers on both side of the battle
lines? And will K-9's oratory save the day?
* BBC Novel: Festival of Death (Romana & K9)
The Beautiful Death. The ultimate theme-park
ride. For twenty galactic credits, you can find out what it's like to be dead. But something has gone wrong. Visitors
expecting a sightseeing tour of the afterlife have been transformed into mindless zombies set on a killing rampage.
The TARDIS arrives in the aftermath of the disaster and, to the Doctor's baffled delight, he is immediately congratulated
for saving the population from certain and terrible destruction. The only problem is, he hasn't actually done it yet.
Aided and abetted by a drug-addled lizard, a hard-hitting investigative reporter and a suicidal ship's computer, the Doctor
has no choice but to travel back in time and discover exactly how he became a hero. And then he finds out. He did it
by sacrificing his life.
* The Leisure Hive (Romana & K9) (87' 12")
DVD Commentary: Lalla Ward, Lovett Bickford
& Christopher H. Bidmead
The Argolins live in a huge shielded city, protected from
the irradiated wasteland outside. The planet's survival depends on the tourists their Leisure Hive attracts. But a series
of horrific deaths seems to jeopardise that future - can the Doctor and Romana find a solution?
* Meglos (Romana & K9)
Giant intelligent megalomaniac cactus Meglos is planning to
conquer the galaxy but first it needs the dodecahedron, a powerful energy source currently on the planet Tigella. To get it
back Meglos recruits a band of galactic mercenaries and hatches a cunning scheme requiring it to impersonate the Doctor...
* Full Circle (Romana, K9 & Adric)
DVD Commentary: Matthew
Waterhouse, Andrew Smith and Christopher H. Bidmead
On course for Gallifrey, the TARDIS passes through a strange
disruption. When they materialise, the scanner shows the Time Lord homeworld... but the travellers have passed into the negative
pocket universe of E-Space and are in fact on the planet Alzarius, where evolution works very differently...
* State of Decay (Romana, K9 & Adric)
DVD Commentary: Matthew Waterhouse, Peter Moffatt and Terrance Dicks
Still trapped in E-Space, the TARDIS lands on an unnamed world
to find a society sliding back into feudalism. What is the secret of the Three Who Rule? And what ancient enemy of the Time
Lords is stirring again on this world...?
* Warrior's Gate (Romana, K9 & Adric)
DVD Commentary: Lalla
Ward, John Leeson, Paul Joyce, Christopher H Bidmead and Mat Irvine
Nowhere, literally - the Zero Point between the positive and
negative universes. The TARDIS materialises in a white void, but the travellers are not alone. A stone gateway, filled with
ageing warrior robots and a very strange hall of mirrors, is also in the void. As is a slaver ship filled with the time-riding
Tharils, and captained by the increasingly unstable Rorvik...
* The Keeper of Traken (Adric & Nyssa) (98' 17")
DVD Commentary: Anthony Ainley, Sarah Sutton, Matthew Waterhouse
& Johnny Byrne
The Traken union is a society living in perfect harmony, watched
over by the powerful but benign Keeper. But now the Keeper is dying, and he senses a great evil within his protectorate. Can
the Doctor help him discover the secret of the Melkur?
* Logopolis (Adric, Nyssa & Tegan) (98' 25")
DVD Commentary: Tom Baker, Janet Fielding & Christopher
H. Bidmead
Air hostess Tegan's first day on the job does not go as planned
when she pulls over by a police box with a flat tyre en route to the airport. Why is the Doctor suddenly interested
in genuine police boxes? And what is the terrible secret of the planet Logopolis?
My Review: An interesting story with a
paper-thin premise that somehow manages to fill itself full of rich characterisation and wonderfully tragic events despite
this. The Doctor wants to refresh the TARDIS and gets caught up in the Master's plan to blackmail the universe.
That's it but it's so much more. There's the introduction of Tegan, the return of Nyssa, the first outing of the rejuvinated
Master and Adric's there too. The end is nigh however as the Doctor has a meeting with fate, destiny and the inevitable
in the shape of his future self in disguise! The destruction of Logopolis is one of the greatest crimes the Master has
ever committed as he obliterates not only this world but others too, including the worlds of the Traken Union. The Doctor
and the Master working together is a shock worthy event needing a cliff-hanger ending all to itself and the resultant saving
of the universe by the Master (with the Doctor's help) really shows how similar and yet different they are. The Doctor
is willing to sacrifice himself to save the universe while the Master is willing to sacrifice everyone else to save himself.
This means of course that the Master escapes in the nick of time and the Doctor faces the worst, a long drop and a regeneration
into a new and younger body. A wonderful finale for the 4th Doctor.
* Dimensions in Time
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