Seasons 17-26
Season 17
Destinyof the Daleks
The Doctor and the newly-regenerated Romana land ona strangely familiar planet and investigate the drilling that is going onthere. The Daleks are searching for their creator, Davros, in the hope that hecan assist them in their war with the Movellans. The Doctor has to reach theevil Kaled scientist before the Daleks, but just who can he trust?
City ofDeath
The Doctor and Romana visit Paris for a holiday.When the Mona Lisa is stolen, the Doctor comes upon evidence of sinister timeexperiments being carried out by a wealthy Count, Scarlioni. He soon exposes aplot by Scaroth, the last of the Jagaroth race, to re-write the history ofEarth by avoiding the destruction of his space ship – but it was this explosionthat led to the formation of life on Earth!
TheCreature from the Pit
The Doctor and Romana receive a distress signal andarrive on Chloris, a lush and verdant world that has only small quantities ofmetals, all of which are controlled by its ruler, Lady Adrasta. Adrasta keepsorder with the aid of her Huntsman and his wolfweeds – mobile balls ofvegetation while a band of scruffy thieves, led by Torvin, organize raids onher palace to steal whatever metal they can. The Doctor identifies the distresssignal’s source as a large eggshell-like structure in the forest. He is takenprisoner By Adrasta’s guards and, in order to escape, leaps into the Pit – theentrance to a cave system into which all who incur Adrasta’s wrath are consignedto be devoured by an immense green globular creature living within. Can theDoctor escape from the creature of the Pit and save Chloris?
Nightmareof Eden
Two spacecraft fuse in a hyperspace collision, andwith the dimensional instabilities threatening everyone aboard, it’s fortunatethe Doctor, Romana and K-9 arrive to help. But when a crewmember is found clawedby a ferocious creature, it seems there’s something even more frighteningstalking the corridors. But what can this have to do with a zoologist,Professor Tryst, his CET projection machine, and a planet called Eden?
The Hornsof Nimon
The inhabitants of the planet Skonnos have beenpromised by an alien Nimon that he will restore their empire to greatness ifthey in return provide young sacrifices and radioactive hymetusite crystals,both of which they are obtaining from the nearby planet Aneth. With the TARDISimmobilized for repairs, the Doctor and Romana encounter the Skonnan spaceshiptransporting the latest sacrificial consignment from Aneth.
Season 18
TheLeisure Hive
The Doctor and Romana visit the Leisure Hive on theplanet Argolis, the surface of which is uninhabitable following a twenty minutenuclear war between the Argolins and their enemies, the Foamsi. The Argolinsthemselves are now sterile. Pangol, the youngest, was created by the TachyonRecreation Generator, a machine that runs games in the Hive.
Meglos
On Tigella, two opposing factions are irrevocablydivided over one fundamental issue: the Dodecahedron, a mysterious artefactwhich provides the entire planet’s energy. With the Savants and the Deonslocked in a crippling stalemate, and their civilization on the brink ofcollapse, the Tigellan leader Zastor seeks the Doctor’s help. But the Doctorand Romana have been trapped aboard the TARDIS in a time loop by Meglos, thelast of the Zolpha Thurans, who will stop at nothing to steal back the awesomepower of the Dodecahedron…
FullCircle
The TARDIS falls through a CVE into E-Space andarrives on the planet Alzarius. There the inhabitants of a crashed Starlinerand a group of young rebels called the Outlers, led by a boy named Varsh andincluding his brother Adric, are being terrorized by a race of Marshmen whoemerge from the marshes at a time known as Mistfall.
State ofDecay
The Doctor, Romana, K9 and Adric – an Outler fromAlzarius who has stowed away aboard the TARDIS – arrive on a planet where thenative villagers live in fear of ‘the Wasting’ and of three Lords named Zargo,Camilla and Aukon who rule from an imposing Tower. The Lords are soon revealedto be vampire servants of the last of the Great Vampires, a race referred to inTime Lord Mythology.
Warriors’Gate
The TARDIS is hijacked in the vortex by a timesensitive Tharil named Biroc, and brought to a strange white void. Biroc wantsto free the others of his race who are being transported in a slave ship,captained by Rorvik, which is also trapped in the void. The only other thingpresent in the void is an ancient gateway leading to a decrepit banquetinghall.
TheKeeper of Traken
The Union of Traken has existed as a harmonious andpeaceful planet for millennia, held together by the power of the bioelectricsource under the watchful control of Keepers. The current Keeper’s millenniumis about to end – but he sense an evil force about to invade.
Logopolis
In theory the TARDIS should be able to change itsappearance to blend in unobtrusively wherever it happens to materialize. Inpractice, however, because of a fault in the chameleon circuit, it always lookslike a police box – a minor inconvenience the Doctor hopes to correct. Fixingthe mechanism involves a visit to Earth and a trip to the planet Logopolis –normally a quiet little place that keeps itself to itself.
Season 19
Castrovalva
Still weak and confused after his fourthregeneration, the Doctor retreats to Castrovalva to recuperate. But Castrovalvais not the haven of peace and tranquility the Doctor and his companions areseeking. Far from being able to rest quietly, the unsuspecting time travellersare once again caught up in the machinations of the Master. Only an act ofsupreme self-sacrifice will enable them to escape the maniacal lunacy of therenegade Time Lord.
Four toDoomsday
The Fifth Doctor discovers that his attempt toreturn Tegan to Heathrow Airport has brought the Tardis to a spacecraft thatappears abandoned at first, but actually carries a force of frog-like aliensthat may challenge the future of humankind on Earth.
Kinda
The Tardis visits the planet Deva Loka, where Nyssaremains behind in the ship to recover from a mild mental disorientation whilethe Doctor, Tegan and Adric explore. Tegan falls asleep under some wind chimesand becomes possessed by an evil force, a Mara.
TheVisitation
The Doctor attempts to take Tegan back to HeathrowAirport but the TARDIS arrives in the 17th Century instead of the 20th. Thetime travellers discover that a space capsule has crash-landed nearby and thatits alien occupants, three Terileptil prison escapees, intend to wipe out allindigenous life on Earth by releasing rats infected with an enhanced strain ofthe great plague. The creatures are also using a sophisticated android tostrike terror into the local villagers. Aided by itinerant thespian RichardMace, the Doctor tracks the Terileptils to their base in Pudding Lane, London.The creatures are ultimately destroyed when a fire breaks out and theTerileptil leader’s weapon explodes – also setting off the Great Fire ofLondon.
BlackOrchid
The TARDIS arrives on Earth in 1925 where, due to acase of mistaken identity, the Doctor ends up playing in a local cricket match.The travellers then accept an invitation to a masked fancy dress ball, butevents take on a more sinister tone as a number of murders are perpetrated at the country home of their host Lord Cranleigh.
Earthshock
A fateful landing on Earth in the 26th Centuryfinds the TARDIS deep within a system of subterranean caves and even deeperwithin the mystery surrounding the brutal murder of a group of geologistsworking there. Who is controlling the androids guarding the hatch in the rockface? More importantly, what lies beyond the hatch?
The answers provide a serious threat for the Doctoras the time and place is set for an encounter with his old arch enemies. The Cybermen are well and truly back and the Doctor and his companions could wellbe counting the cost in truly personal terms.
Time-Flight
The Doctor finally manages to deliver Tegan toHeathrow Airport, where he gets drawn into investigating the in-flight disappearance of a Concorde. Following the same flight path in another rConcorde, with the TARDIS stowed in the hold, he discovers that it has been transported back millions of years into the past through a time corridor.
Season 20
Arc ofInfinity
An antimatter creature has crossed into normal space via a phenomenon known as the Arc of Infinity but needs to bondphysically with a Time Lord in order to remain stable. A traitor on Gallifreyhas chosen the Doctor as the victim.
Snakedance
Tegan falls once more under the influence of theMara and directs the Tardis to the planet Manussa. There the Federator’s son Lon and his mother Tanha are preparing for a ceremony to celebrate thebanishment of the Mara five hundred years earlier. It’s up to the Doctor todefeat the evil Mara.
MawdrynUndead
The Black Guardian recruits a young man namedTurlough to assassinate the Doctor. Although outwardly an ordinary pupil at aboys’ private boarding school, Turlough is in fact an alien who believes thatthe Guardian will return him home if he succeeds.
Terminus
The TARDIS attaches itself to a space liner afterTurlough, still under the Black Guardian’s influence, damages its controls. The Doctor and Nyssa meet two space pirates, Kari and Olvir, who have come on boardthe liner in search of plunder, while Tegan and Turlough get lost in theinfrastructure.
Enlightenment
The White Guardian warns of impending danger anddirects the TARDIS to what appears to be an Edwardian sailing yacht, the SSShadow, but is actually one of a number of spaceships taking part in a racethrough the solar system, the prize being Enlightenment. The yacht’s CaptainStriker and his fellow officers are Eternals who feed off the thoughts andemotions of their kidnapped human crew – Ephemerals – in order to fill theirown empty existences.
TheKing’s Demons
The Master forces Kamelion to pose as King John in13th century England.
The Five Doctors
All five Doctors (Peter Davison, Patrick Troughton,Jon Pertwee, Richard Hurndall and Tom Baker) and many of their old companionsare taken out of time and deposited in the Death Zone on Gallifrey. There theymust battle not only the Master, but Daleks, Cybermen and Yeti in order toreach the Dark Tower and discover the Tomb of Rassilon.
Season 21
Warriorsof the Deep
The Doctor, Tegan and Turlough arrive at anunderwater Sea Base on Earth, where a scientific and military team led byCommander Vorshak are monitoring a rival power bloc. The team undergo regularmissile launch test sequences to ensure that they are ready at all times tocombat an attack. Three Silurians led by Icthar – the surviving member of aSilurian triad – revive a colony of Sea Devil Warriors in order to invade thebase and use its weapons to attack the opposing power bloc, thus provoking aglobal war that will allow the reptiles to conquer the Earth…
The Awakening
The TARDIS has brought the Doctor Tegan andTurlough to the English country village of Little Hodcombe in 1984 where analien war machine, the Malus, is affecting its inhabitants. A re-enactment of acivil war battle becomes dangerously real as the Malus gather sufficientpsychic energy to re-awake.
Frontios
An irresistible force draws the TARDIS to thebarren surface of Frontios, where in the far future the last surviving humanscower amongst the ruins of their wrecked spacecraft. Under constant threat fromlethal meteorite bombardments, few of the doomed colony members realize thatthe ground of Frontios itself opens up and devours the unwary. Not permitted toassist, the Doctor attempts to leave, but is thwarted when the unimaginable occurs: the TARDIS is utterly destroyed.
Resurrectionof the Daleks
The TARDIS materializes in present day Londonwithin sight of Tower Bridge. Investigating some nearby warehouses, thetravellers stumble into a trap that the Daleks have set for them…
Planet ofFire
The Doctor and Turlough arrive in Lanzarote onEarth to investigate the transmission of an unusual signal that turns out to beemanating from a mysterious alien artefact.
The Cavesof Androzani
Captured for arms-running on the mining planet of Androzani Minor, the Doctor and Perry are under sentence of death. Then amysterious masked intruder comes to their aid. But is Sharaz Jek, masterandroid creator, really their savior? The rulers of the planet are certainlydesperate for his head. But then, he does control Androzani’s supply of spectrox and it’s a substance men are prepared to die for. Originally transmitted 8-16 March 1984, this four part adventure marks the end of the Peter Davison era for Doctor Who and the Time Lord’s sixth regeneration.
The TwinDilemma
A race of giant gastropods has taken over theplanet Jaconda. Their leader, Mestor, now intends to cause an enormousexplosion in order to spread his people’s eggs throughout the galaxy, and hekidnaps juvenile twin geniuses from Earth to work out the necessarymathematical equations. Space fighters led by Lieutenant Hugo Lang aredispatched to get the twins back, but they come under attack and Lang is thesole survivor when his ship crashes on the asteroid Titan 3.
Season 22
Attack ofthe Cybermen
The TARDIS is lured to Earth, London, 1985 by analien distress signal. Investigating, the Doctor and Peri stumble upon anattempted bank robbery staged through the London sewers by a familiar foe –ex-Dalek agent, Lytton. But who is he working for this time?
Vengeanceon Varos
The Doctor visits the planet Varos to obtainsupplies of a rare ore called zeiton 7, vital to the functioning of the TARDIS.Varos was once a colony for the criminally insane and the descendants of the originalguards still rule over the rest poverty-stricken population. The Doctor and Peri meet two rebels, Jondar and Areta, and Peri and Areta are captured by Qullam, the Dome’s sadistic commandant…
The Markof the Rani
The Doctor and Peri arrive in the north of Englandduring the Luddite uprisings, and discover that brilliant but amoral Time Lord the Rani is stealing the chemical which promotes sleep from the mine workers’ brains. The Master is also in town, planning to use the disruptive Luddites todeprive the Doctor of his TARDIS and destroy him once and for all.
The TwoDoctors
When the Doctor (Colin Baker) lands on a spacestation in the Third Zone, he suspects he’s been there before and when hediscovers his old assistant – Jamie – he’s certain. Accompanied by Jamie andhis present assistant Peri, the Doctor follows himself (Patrick Troughton) to20th Century Seville. There he discovers his old enemies, the Sontarans, aboutto dissect him in a genetic operation. But just why are they operating on theDoctor? And how will their findings aid their enslavement of the universe?Deadly questions to which the Doctors must find answers in order to escapetheir own excruciating death…
Timelash
On the planet Karfel a high ranking official,Maylin Tekker, uses threats against Peri to force the Doctor (Colin Baker) togo to Earth and bring back a young woman called Vena who, while holding aprecious amulet, has accidentally fallen into the Timelash – a time tunnelthrough which the planets tyrannical ruler the Borad banishes all rebels. The Doctor also inadvertently brings back Herbert, a man from the 19th Century, who stows away aboard the TARDIS.
Revelationof the Daleks
The Doctor and Peri arrive on Necros to attend thefuneral of an old friend of the Doctor who has recently died. However, Tranquil Repose is not all it seems and an attempt is made on the Doctor’s life. Soonthe Doctor comes face to face with the Great Healer, only to discover it isnone other than Davros, the creator of the Daleks, intent on rebuilding theDalek race decimated by the Movellans.
Season 23
TheMysterious Planet
The TARDIS is drawn to a space station where theDoctor is subjected to a Time Lord inquiry into his behavior, presided over byan Inquisitor. The prosecuting counsel, the Valeyard, presents the first pieceof his evidence, which consists of a recording played back on a screen linkedto the Matrix. It concerns a visit by the Doctor and Peri to the desolateplanet Ravolox, which turns out to be a future Earth, shifted light-yearsthrough space.
Mindwarp
The Valeyard’s second segment of evidence relatesto the planet Thoros-Beta. Here the Doctor and Peri meet their old adversarySil and others of his Mentor race, whose leader Kiv who is awaiting anoperation from a scientist named Crozier to transplant his brain into anotherbody. They also form an uneasy alliance with a kidnapped Krontep warrior, KingYrcanos, and encounter a group of resistance fighters.
Terror ofthe Vervoids
The distraught Doctor gives the court his evidencefor the defense. He chooses an incident from his own future, in which he andhis companion Mel arrive on the space liner Hyperion III in response to adistress call.
TheUltimate Foe
With the evidence complete, the Doctor learns thatthe Master has gained illicit access to the Matrix in his TARDIS.
Season 24
Time andthe Rani
The Rani has taken control of the planet Lakertyaand forced the peaceful Lakertyans to build a rocket silo-cum laboratory baseinto a cliff face. She is aided by the Tetraps, a race of bat-like creatures,and plans to fire a rocket loaded with loyhargil, a substance with the sameproperties as strange matter, at an asteroid completely composed of the latter.
As a preliminary to this she has created a hugeartificial brain and kidnapped a number of geniuses – Including Pasteur andEinstein from Earth – to imbue it with the ability first to identify and thento calculate the correct way to create loyhargil for her in the laboratory. Thenewly-regenerated Doctor and Mel must stop her and save the planet…
ParadiseTowers
Mel wants to go swimming so the Doctor takes her toa tower block called Paradise Towers where there is reputed to be a fantasticpool. When they arrive they discover that the place is far from being thesuperb leisure resort they had expected – it is run-down and dilapidated.
The hallways are roamed by gangs of young girlsknown as Kangs; the apartments are inhabited by cannibalistic old ladies, theRezzies; and the building is managed by a group of dictatorial caretakers,presided over by the Chief Caretaker…
Delta andthe Bannermen
A Chimeron queen called Delta, the last survivingmember of her race, is being pursued by the evil Gavrok and his Bannermen,intent on a mission of genocide. Delta finds herself on board a space bus oftourists en route to Earth when it is knocked off course by an Americansatellite and ends up at a Welsh holiday camp in 1959.
Dragonfire
On the planet Svartos, the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy)and Mel unexpectedly encounter an old friend – Sabalom Glitz. Joined by Ace, ateenage waitress with a love for explosives, the group ventures off to find thefabled Dragonfire treasure.
Season 25
Remembranceof the Daleks
London, 1963, and the Doctor returns to Coal HillSchool with his new companion Ace, where he has unfinished business. His oldestfoes, the Daleks, are on the trail of Time Lord technology – an artefact theDoctor himself left behind on Earth. Enlisting the assistance of the localmilitary, the Doctor must protect the Gallifreyan secret of time travel as twoopposing Dalek factions meet in an explosive confrontation, with the fate ofthe entire Universe at stake!
TheHappiness Patrol
On the planet Terra Alpha, the populationconstantly displays happy smiles. Anyone feeling remotely glum disappears.Quickly. Having heard disturbing rumors, the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and Acearrive to topple the entire regime.
SilverNemesis
· Aliens/Monsters: Cybermen
· Setting: Earth
Silver Nemesis Synopsis
The Doctor and Ace visit England in 1988, wherethree rival factions – the Cybermen, a group of Nazis and a 17th Centurysorceress named Lady Peinforte – are attempting to gain control of a statuemade of a living metal, validium, that was created by Rassilon as the ultimatedefense for Gallifrey. Can the Doctor plays the three factions off against oneother and eventually defeat to the Cyber Leader?
TheGreatest Show in the Galaxy
Although Ace hates clowns, the Doctor decides totake his companion to the Psychic Circus on the planet Segonax. There they finda group of scared performers who live in fear of the sinister and creepy ChiefClown. But what is so dangerous about this particular circus, why is there sucha small audience and will Ace be able to overcome her fear before it’s toolate?
Season 26
Battlefield
Doctor and Ace receive a mysterious distress signaland land in the Earth village of Carbury, where a nuclear convoy has halted.The Doctor’s concern is heightened when knights from another dimension begin toland in the area. Nearby is Lake Voortigen, the mythical resting-place ofExcalibur, King Arthur’s mystical sword… But the lake holds a more sinistersecret. A spaceship from the same alien dimension lurks under the lake – butdoes it really contain Arthur’s corpse? And what is it that the Witch Queen,Morgaine, is really after?
GhostLight
The Doctor brings Ace to Gabriel Chase, an oldhouse that she once burnt down in her home town of Perivale. The year is 1883and the house is presided over by Josiah Samuel Smith, who turns out to be theevolved form of an alien brought to Earth in a stone spaceship that is now inthe basement…
The Curseof Fenric
The TARDIS materializes at a secret naval base off thecoast of Northumberland toward the end of the Second World War. Doctor Judson,a scientist there, has created the Ultima Machine, an early computer designedto break German codes. The base’s Commander Millington plans to let a Russiancommando unit led by Captain Sorin steal the Machine’s core, which he hasbooby-trapped with deadly toxin…
Survival
Something savage is stalking the streets of London,and humans are its prey. People are vanishing. But only young, healthy people.When the Doctor takes Ace on a sentimental journey to her old neighborhood,they discover all her friends are missing. The Doctor and Ace are drawn intoinvestigating, and become prey themselves.
Destinyof the Daleks
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 4th Doctor
- Companions: Romana II, K9 II
- Aliens/Monsters: Movellans, Daleks
- Setting: Skaro
The Doctor and the newly-regenerated Romana land ona strangely familiar planet and investigate the drilling that is going onthere. The Daleks are searching for their creator, Davros, in the hope that hecan assist them in their war with the Movellans. The Doctor has to reach theevil Kaled scientist before the Daleks, but just who can he trust?
City ofDeath
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 4th Doctor
- Companions: Romana II, K9 II
- Aliens/Monsters: Jagaroths
- Setting: Earth
The Doctor and Romana visit Paris for a holiday.When the Mona Lisa is stolen, the Doctor comes upon evidence of sinister timeexperiments being carried out by a wealthy Count, Scarlioni. He soon exposes aplot by Scaroth, the last of the Jagaroth race, to re-write the history ofEarth by avoiding the destruction of his space ship – but it was this explosionthat led to the formation of life on Earth!
TheCreature from the Pit
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 4th Doctor
- Companions: Romana II, K9 II
- Aliens/Monsters: N/A
- Setting: Chloris
The Doctor and Romana receive a distress signal andarrive on Chloris, a lush and verdant world that has only small quantities ofmetals, all of which are controlled by its ruler, Lady Adrasta. Adrasta keepsorder with the aid of her Huntsman and his wolfweeds – mobile balls ofvegetation while a band of scruffy thieves, led by Torvin, organize raids onher palace to steal whatever metal they can. The Doctor identifies the distresssignal’s source as a large eggshell-like structure in the forest. He is takenprisoner By Adrasta’s guards and, in order to escape, leaps into the Pit – theentrance to a cave system into which all who incur Adrasta’s wrath are consignedto be devoured by an immense green globular creature living within. Can theDoctor escape from the creature of the Pit and save Chloris?
Nightmareof Eden
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 4th Doctor
- Companions: Romana II, K9 II
- Aliens/Monsters: Mandrels
- Setting: The Empress
Two spacecraft fuse in a hyperspace collision, andwith the dimensional instabilities threatening everyone aboard, it’s fortunatethe Doctor, Romana and K-9 arrive to help. But when a crewmember is found clawedby a ferocious creature, it seems there’s something even more frighteningstalking the corridors. But what can this have to do with a zoologist,Professor Tryst, his CET projection machine, and a planet called Eden?
The Hornsof Nimon
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 4th Doctor
- Companions: Romana II, K9 II
- Aliens/Monsters: Skonnans, Nimon
- Setting: Skonnos, Crinoth
The inhabitants of the planet Skonnos have beenpromised by an alien Nimon that he will restore their empire to greatness ifthey in return provide young sacrifices and radioactive hymetusite crystals,both of which they are obtaining from the nearby planet Aneth. With the TARDISimmobilized for repairs, the Doctor and Romana encounter the Skonnan spaceshiptransporting the latest sacrificial consignment from Aneth.
Season 18
TheLeisure Hive
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 4th Doctor
- Companions: Romana II, K9 II
- Aliens/Monsters: Argolins
- Setting: Earth, Argolis
The Doctor and Romana visit the Leisure Hive on theplanet Argolis, the surface of which is uninhabitable following a twenty minutenuclear war between the Argolins and their enemies, the Foamsi. The Argolinsthemselves are now sterile. Pangol, the youngest, was created by the TachyonRecreation Generator, a machine that runs games in the Hive.
Meglos
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 4th Doctor
- Companions: Romana II, K9 II
- Aliens/Monsters: Gaztaks, Zolfa-Thurans
- Setting: Zolfa-Thura, Tigella
On Tigella, two opposing factions are irrevocablydivided over one fundamental issue: the Dodecahedron, a mysterious artefactwhich provides the entire planet’s energy. With the Savants and the Deonslocked in a crippling stalemate, and their civilization on the brink ofcollapse, the Tigellan leader Zastor seeks the Doctor’s help. But the Doctorand Romana have been trapped aboard the TARDIS in a time loop by Meglos, thelast of the Zolpha Thurans, who will stop at nothing to steal back the awesomepower of the Dodecahedron…
FullCircle
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 4th Doctor
- Companions: Romana II, K9 II, Adric
- Aliens/Monsters: Marshman, Alzarians
- Setting: Alzarius
The TARDIS falls through a CVE into E-Space andarrives on the planet Alzarius. There the inhabitants of a crashed Starlinerand a group of young rebels called the Outlers, led by a boy named Varsh andincluding his brother Adric, are being terrorized by a race of Marshmen whoemerge from the marshes at a time known as Mistfall.
State ofDecay
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 4th Doctor
- Companions: Romana II, K9 II, Adric
- Aliens/Monsters: Great Vampires
- Setting: N/A
The Doctor, Romana, K9 and Adric – an Outler fromAlzarius who has stowed away aboard the TARDIS – arrive on a planet where thenative villagers live in fear of ‘the Wasting’ and of three Lords named Zargo,Camilla and Aukon who rule from an imposing Tower. The Lords are soon revealedto be vampire servants of the last of the Great Vampires, a race referred to inTime Lord Mythology.
Warriors’Gate
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 4th Doctor
- Companions: Romana II, K9 II, Adric
- Aliens/Monsters: Tharils
- Setting: The Gateway
The TARDIS is hijacked in the vortex by a timesensitive Tharil named Biroc, and brought to a strange white void. Biroc wantsto free the others of his race who are being transported in a slave ship,captained by Rorvik, which is also trapped in the void. The only other thingpresent in the void is an ancient gateway leading to a decrepit banquetinghall.
TheKeeper of Traken
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 4th Doctor
- Companions: Adric, Nyssa
- Aliens/Monsters: Trakenites, Melkur, The Master
- Setting: Traken
The Union of Traken has existed as a harmonious andpeaceful planet for millennia, held together by the power of the bioelectricsource under the watchful control of Keepers. The current Keeper’s millenniumis about to end – but he sense an evil force about to invade.
Logopolis
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 4th Doctor
- Companions: Adric, Nyssa, Tegan
- Aliens/Monsters: Logopolitans, The Master
- Setting: Earth, Logopolis
In theory the TARDIS should be able to change itsappearance to blend in unobtrusively wherever it happens to materialize. Inpractice, however, because of a fault in the chameleon circuit, it always lookslike a police box – a minor inconvenience the Doctor hopes to correct. Fixingthe mechanism involves a visit to Earth and a trip to the planet Logopolis –normally a quiet little place that keeps itself to itself.
Season 19
Castrovalva
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 5th Doctor
- Companions: Adric, Nyssa, Tegan
- Aliens/Monsters: N/A, The Master
- Setting: Earth, Castrovalva
Still weak and confused after his fourthregeneration, the Doctor retreats to Castrovalva to recuperate. But Castrovalvais not the haven of peace and tranquility the Doctor and his companions areseeking. Far from being able to rest quietly, the unsuspecting time travellersare once again caught up in the machinations of the Master. Only an act ofsupreme self-sacrifice will enable them to escape the maniacal lunacy of therenegade Time Lord.
Four toDoomsday
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 5th Doctor
- Companions: Adric, Nyssa, Tegan
- Aliens/Monsters: Urbankans
- Setting: Monarch’s ship
The Fifth Doctor discovers that his attempt toreturn Tegan to Heathrow Airport has brought the Tardis to a spacecraft thatappears abandoned at first, but actually carries a force of frog-like aliensthat may challenge the future of humankind on Earth.
Kinda
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 5th Doctor
- Companions: Adric, Nyssa, Tegan
- Aliens/Monsters: Mara
- Setting: Deva Loka
The Tardis visits the planet Deva Loka, where Nyssaremains behind in the ship to recover from a mild mental disorientation whilethe Doctor, Tegan and Adric explore. Tegan falls asleep under some wind chimesand becomes possessed by an evil force, a Mara.
TheVisitation
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 5th Doctor
- Companions: Adric, Nyssa, Tegan
- Aliens/Monsters: Terileptils
- Setting: Earth
The Doctor attempts to take Tegan back to HeathrowAirport but the TARDIS arrives in the 17th Century instead of the 20th. Thetime travellers discover that a space capsule has crash-landed nearby and thatits alien occupants, three Terileptil prison escapees, intend to wipe out allindigenous life on Earth by releasing rats infected with an enhanced strain ofthe great plague. The creatures are also using a sophisticated android tostrike terror into the local villagers. Aided by itinerant thespian RichardMace, the Doctor tracks the Terileptils to their base in Pudding Lane, London.The creatures are ultimately destroyed when a fire breaks out and theTerileptil leader’s weapon explodes – also setting off the Great Fire ofLondon.
BlackOrchid
- Episodes: 2 Episodes
- Doctor: 5th Doctor
- Companions: Adric, Nyssa, Tegan
- Aliens/Monsters: N/A
- Setting: Earth
The TARDIS arrives on Earth in 1925 where, due to acase of mistaken identity, the Doctor ends up playing in a local cricket match.The travellers then accept an invitation to a masked fancy dress ball, butevents take on a more sinister tone as a number of murders are perpetrated at the country home of their host Lord Cranleigh.
Earthshock
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 5th Doctor
- Companions: Adric, Nyssa, Tegan
- Aliens/Monsters: Cybermen
- Setting: Earth, Briggs’ freighter
A fateful landing on Earth in the 26th Centuryfinds the TARDIS deep within a system of subterranean caves and even deeperwithin the mystery surrounding the brutal murder of a group of geologistsworking there. Who is controlling the androids guarding the hatch in the rockface? More importantly, what lies beyond the hatch?
The answers provide a serious threat for the Doctoras the time and place is set for an encounter with his old arch enemies. The Cybermen are well and truly back and the Doctor and his companions could wellbe counting the cost in truly personal terms.
Time-Flight
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 5th Doctor
- Companions: Nyssa, Tegan
- Aliens/Monsters: The Master, Plasmatons, Xeraphins
- Setting: Earth
The Doctor finally manages to deliver Tegan toHeathrow Airport, where he gets drawn into investigating the in-flight disappearance of a Concorde. Following the same flight path in another rConcorde, with the TARDIS stowed in the hold, he discovers that it has been transported back millions of years into the past through a time corridor.
Season 20
Arc ofInfinity
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 5th Doctor
- Companions: Nyssa, Tegan
- Aliens/Monsters: The Ergon, Time Lords, Omega
- Setting: Earth, Gallifrey
An antimatter creature has crossed into normal space via a phenomenon known as the Arc of Infinity but needs to bondphysically with a Time Lord in order to remain stable. A traitor on Gallifreyhas chosen the Doctor as the victim.
Snakedance
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 5th Doctor
- Companions: Nyssa, Tegan
- Aliens/Monsters: Mara, Manussans
- Setting: Manussa
Tegan falls once more under the influence of theMara and directs the Tardis to the planet Manussa. There the Federator’s son Lon and his mother Tanha are preparing for a ceremony to celebrate thebanishment of the Mara five hundred years earlier. It’s up to the Doctor todefeat the evil Mara.
MawdrynUndead
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 5th Doctor
- Companions: Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough, Lethbridge-Stewart
- Aliens/Monsters: The Black Guardian
- Setting: Earth, Mawdryn’s ship
The Black Guardian recruits a young man namedTurlough to assassinate the Doctor. Although outwardly an ordinary pupil at aboys’ private boarding school, Turlough is in fact an alien who believes thatthe Guardian will return him home if he succeeds.
Terminus
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 5th Doctor
- Companions: Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough
- Aliens/Monsters: The Black Guardian, Vanir
- Setting: Terminus
The TARDIS attaches itself to a space liner afterTurlough, still under the Black Guardian’s influence, damages its controls. The Doctor and Nyssa meet two space pirates, Kari and Olvir, who have come on boardthe liner in search of plunder, while Tegan and Turlough get lost in theinfrastructure.
Enlightenment
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 5th Doctor
- Companions: Tegan, Turlough
- Aliens/Monsters: The Black Guardian, Eternals
- Setting: N/A
The White Guardian warns of impending danger anddirects the TARDIS to what appears to be an Edwardian sailing yacht, the SSShadow, but is actually one of a number of spaceships taking part in a racethrough the solar system, the prize being Enlightenment. The yacht’s CaptainStriker and his fellow officers are Eternals who feed off the thoughts andemotions of their kidnapped human crew – Ephemerals – in order to fill theirown empty existences.
TheKing’s Demons
- Episodes: 2 Episodes
- Doctor: 5th Doctor
- Companions: Tegan, Turlough, Kamelion
- Aliens/Monsters: The Master
- Setting: Earth
The Master forces Kamelion to pose as King John in13th century England.
The Five Doctors
- Episodes: Special Episode
- Doctor: 1st Doctor, 2nd Doctor, 3rd Doctor, 4th Doctor, 5th Doctor
- Companions: Susan, Lethbridge-Stewart, Sarah-Jane, Romana II, Tegan, Turlough
- Aliens/Monsters: Time Lords, Yeti, Daleks, Cybermen, The Master
- Setting: Earth, Gallifrey
All five Doctors (Peter Davison, Patrick Troughton,Jon Pertwee, Richard Hurndall and Tom Baker) and many of their old companionsare taken out of time and deposited in the Death Zone on Gallifrey. There theymust battle not only the Master, but Daleks, Cybermen and Yeti in order toreach the Dark Tower and discover the Tomb of Rassilon.
Season 21
Warriorsof the Deep
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 5th Doctor
- Companions: Tegan, Turlough
- Aliens/Monsters: Sea Devils, Silurians
- Setting: Earth
The Doctor, Tegan and Turlough arrive at anunderwater Sea Base on Earth, where a scientific and military team led byCommander Vorshak are monitoring a rival power bloc. The team undergo regularmissile launch test sequences to ensure that they are ready at all times tocombat an attack. Three Silurians led by Icthar – the surviving member of aSilurian triad – revive a colony of Sea Devil Warriors in order to invade thebase and use its weapons to attack the opposing power bloc, thus provoking aglobal war that will allow the reptiles to conquer the Earth…
The Awakening
- Episodes: 2 Episodes
- Doctor: 5th Doctor
- Companions: Tegan, Turlough
- Aliens/Monsters: Malus
- Setting: Earth
The TARDIS has brought the Doctor Tegan andTurlough to the English country village of Little Hodcombe in 1984 where analien war machine, the Malus, is affecting its inhabitants. A re-enactment of acivil war battle becomes dangerously real as the Malus gather sufficientpsychic energy to re-awake.
Frontios
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 5th Doctor
- Companions: Tegan, Turlough
- Aliens/Monsters: Tractators
- Setting: Frontios
An irresistible force draws the TARDIS to thebarren surface of Frontios, where in the far future the last surviving humanscower amongst the ruins of their wrecked spacecraft. Under constant threat fromlethal meteorite bombardments, few of the doomed colony members realize thatthe ground of Frontios itself opens up and devours the unwary. Not permitted toassist, the Doctor attempts to leave, but is thwarted when the unimaginable occurs: the TARDIS is utterly destroyed.
Resurrectionof the Daleks
- Episodes: 2 Episodes (45 mins)
- Doctor: 5th Doctor
- Companions: Tegan, Turlough
- Aliens/Monsters: Daleks
- Setting: Earth
The TARDIS materializes in present day Londonwithin sight of Tower Bridge. Investigating some nearby warehouses, thetravellers stumble into a trap that the Daleks have set for them…
Planet ofFire
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 5th Doctor
- Companions: Turlough, Peri, Kamelion
- Aliens/Monsters: The Master
- Setting: Earth
The Doctor and Turlough arrive in Lanzarote onEarth to investigate the transmission of an unusual signal that turns out to beemanating from a mysterious alien artefact.
The Cavesof Androzani
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 5th Doctor
- Companions: Peri
- Aliens/Monsters: N/A
- Setting: Androzani Minor, Androzani Major
Captured for arms-running on the mining planet of Androzani Minor, the Doctor and Perry are under sentence of death. Then amysterious masked intruder comes to their aid. But is Sharaz Jek, masterandroid creator, really their savior? The rulers of the planet are certainlydesperate for his head. But then, he does control Androzani’s supply of spectrox and it’s a substance men are prepared to die for. Originally transmitted 8-16 March 1984, this four part adventure marks the end of the Peter Davison era for Doctor Who and the Time Lord’s sixth regeneration.
The TwinDilemma
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 6th Doctor
- Companions: Peri
- Aliens/Monsters: Gastropods, Jacondans
- Setting: Titan III, Jaconda
A race of giant gastropods has taken over theplanet Jaconda. Their leader, Mestor, now intends to cause an enormousexplosion in order to spread his people’s eggs throughout the galaxy, and hekidnaps juvenile twin geniuses from Earth to work out the necessarymathematical equations. Space fighters led by Lieutenant Hugo Lang aredispatched to get the twins back, but they come under attack and Lang is thesole survivor when his ship crashes on the asteroid Titan 3.
Season 22
Attack ofthe Cybermen
- Episodes: 2 Episodes (45 mins)
- Doctor: 6th Doctor
- Companions: Peri
- Aliens/Monsters: Cybermen, Cryons
- Setting: Earth, Telos
The TARDIS is lured to Earth, London, 1985 by analien distress signal. Investigating, the Doctor and Peri stumble upon anattempted bank robbery staged through the London sewers by a familiar foe –ex-Dalek agent, Lytton. But who is he working for this time?
Vengeanceon Varos
- Episodes: 2 Episodes (45 mins)
- Doctor: 6th Doctor
- Companions: Peri
- Aliens/Monsters: Mentors
- Setting: Varos
The Doctor visits the planet Varos to obtainsupplies of a rare ore called zeiton 7, vital to the functioning of the TARDIS.Varos was once a colony for the criminally insane and the descendants of the originalguards still rule over the rest poverty-stricken population. The Doctor and Peri meet two rebels, Jondar and Areta, and Peri and Areta are captured by Qullam, the Dome’s sadistic commandant…
The Markof the Rani
- Episodes: 2 Episodes (45 mins)
- Doctor: 6th Doctor
- Companions: Peri
- Aliens/Monsters: The Rani, The Master
- Setting: Earth
The Doctor and Peri arrive in the north of Englandduring the Luddite uprisings, and discover that brilliant but amoral Time Lord the Rani is stealing the chemical which promotes sleep from the mine workers’ brains. The Master is also in town, planning to use the disruptive Luddites todeprive the Doctor of his TARDIS and destroy him once and for all.
The TwoDoctors
- Episodes: 3 Episodes (45 mins)
- Doctor: 2nd Doctor, 6th Doctor
- Companions: Peri, Jamie
- Aliens/Monsters: Sontarans, Androgums
- Setting: Earth, Space Station Chimera
When the Doctor (Colin Baker) lands on a spacestation in the Third Zone, he suspects he’s been there before and when hediscovers his old assistant – Jamie – he’s certain. Accompanied by Jamie andhis present assistant Peri, the Doctor follows himself (Patrick Troughton) to20th Century Seville. There he discovers his old enemies, the Sontarans, aboutto dissect him in a genetic operation. But just why are they operating on theDoctor? And how will their findings aid their enslavement of the universe?Deadly questions to which the Doctors must find answers in order to escapetheir own excruciating death…
Timelash
- Episodes: 2 Episodes (45 mins)
- Doctor: 6th Doctor
- Companions: Peri
- Aliens/Monsters: Megelens, Karfelons
- Setting: Karfel
On the planet Karfel a high ranking official,Maylin Tekker, uses threats against Peri to force the Doctor (Colin Baker) togo to Earth and bring back a young woman called Vena who, while holding aprecious amulet, has accidentally fallen into the Timelash – a time tunnelthrough which the planets tyrannical ruler the Borad banishes all rebels. The Doctor also inadvertently brings back Herbert, a man from the 19th Century, who stows away aboard the TARDIS.
Revelationof the Daleks
- Episodes: 2 Episodes (45 mins)
- Doctor: 6th Doctor
- Companions: Peri
- Aliens/Monsters: Daleks
- Setting: Necros
The Doctor and Peri arrive on Necros to attend thefuneral of an old friend of the Doctor who has recently died. However, Tranquil Repose is not all it seems and an attempt is made on the Doctor’s life. Soonthe Doctor comes face to face with the Great Healer, only to discover it isnone other than Davros, the creator of the Daleks, intent on rebuilding theDalek race decimated by the Movellans.
Season 23
TheMysterious Planet
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 6th Doctor
- Companions: Peri
- Aliens/Monsters: Andromedans, L3 robot, Time Lords
- Setting: Earth
The TARDIS is drawn to a space station where theDoctor is subjected to a Time Lord inquiry into his behavior, presided over byan Inquisitor. The prosecuting counsel, the Valeyard, presents the first pieceof his evidence, which consists of a recording played back on a screen linkedto the Matrix. It concerns a visit by the Doctor and Peri to the desolateplanet Ravolox, which turns out to be a future Earth, shifted light-yearsthrough space.
Mindwarp
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 6th Doctor
- Companions: Peri
- Aliens/Monsters: Mentors, Time Lords
- Setting: Thoros Beta
The Valeyard’s second segment of evidence relatesto the planet Thoros-Beta. Here the Doctor and Peri meet their old adversarySil and others of his Mentor race, whose leader Kiv who is awaiting anoperation from a scientist named Crozier to transplant his brain into anotherbody. They also form an uneasy alliance with a kidnapped Krontep warrior, KingYrcanos, and encounter a group of resistance fighters.
Terror ofthe Vervoids
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 6th Doctor
- Companions: Mel
- Aliens/Monsters: Vervoids, Mogarians, Time Lords
- Setting: Hyperion III
The distraught Doctor gives the court his evidencefor the defense. He chooses an incident from his own future, in which he andhis companion Mel arrive on the space liner Hyperion III in response to adistress call.
TheUltimate Foe
- Episodes: 14 Episodes
- Doctor: 6th Doctor
- Companions: Mel
- Aliens/Monsters: Time Lords
- Setting: The Matrix
With the evidence complete, the Doctor learns thatthe Master has gained illicit access to the Matrix in his TARDIS.
Season 24
Time andthe Rani
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 7th Doctor
- Companions: Mel
- Aliens/Monsters: The Rani, Tetraps, Lakertyans
- Setting: Talk Lakertya
The Rani has taken control of the planet Lakertyaand forced the peaceful Lakertyans to build a rocket silo-cum laboratory baseinto a cliff face. She is aided by the Tetraps, a race of bat-like creatures,and plans to fire a rocket loaded with loyhargil, a substance with the sameproperties as strange matter, at an asteroid completely composed of the latter.
As a preliminary to this she has created a hugeartificial brain and kidnapped a number of geniuses – Including Pasteur andEinstein from Earth – to imbue it with the ability first to identify and thento calculate the correct way to create loyhargil for her in the laboratory. Thenewly-regenerated Doctor and Mel must stop her and save the planet…
ParadiseTowers
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 7th Doctor
- Companions: Mel
- Aliens/Monsters: Robotic Cleaners
- Setting: Earth
Mel wants to go swimming so the Doctor takes her toa tower block called Paradise Towers where there is reputed to be a fantasticpool. When they arrive they discover that the place is far from being thesuperb leisure resort they had expected – it is run-down and dilapidated.
The hallways are roamed by gangs of young girlsknown as Kangs; the apartments are inhabited by cannibalistic old ladies, theRezzies; and the building is managed by a group of dictatorial caretakers,presided over by the Chief Caretaker…
Delta andthe Bannermen
- Episodes: 3 Episodes
- Doctor: 7th Doctor
- Companions: Mel
- Aliens/Monsters: Bannermen, Chimerons
- Setting: Earth
A Chimeron queen called Delta, the last survivingmember of her race, is being pursued by the evil Gavrok and his Bannermen,intent on a mission of genocide. Delta finds herself on board a space bus oftourists en route to Earth when it is knocked off course by an Americansatellite and ends up at a Welsh holiday camp in 1959.
Dragonfire
- Episodes: 3 Episodes
- Doctor: 7th Doctor
- Companions: Mel, Ace
- Aliens/Monsters: Proamonians, Dragon
- Setting: Ice world
On the planet Svartos, the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy)and Mel unexpectedly encounter an old friend – Sabalom Glitz. Joined by Ace, ateenage waitress with a love for explosives, the group ventures off to find thefabled Dragonfire treasure.
Season 25
Remembranceof the Daleks
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 7th Doctor
- Companions: Ace
- Aliens/Monsters: Daleks
- Setting: Earth
London, 1963, and the Doctor returns to Coal HillSchool with his new companion Ace, where he has unfinished business. His oldestfoes, the Daleks, are on the trail of Time Lord technology – an artefact theDoctor himself left behind on Earth. Enlisting the assistance of the localmilitary, the Doctor must protect the Gallifreyan secret of time travel as twoopposing Dalek factions meet in an explosive confrontation, with the fate ofthe entire Universe at stake!
TheHappiness Patrol
- Episodes: 3 Episodes
- Doctor: 7th Doctor
- Companions: Ace
- Aliens/Monsters: Kandyman
- Setting: Terra Alpha
On the planet Terra Alpha, the populationconstantly displays happy smiles. Anyone feeling remotely glum disappears.Quickly. Having heard disturbing rumors, the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and Acearrive to topple the entire regime.
SilverNemesis
- Episodes: 3 Episodes
- Doctor: 7th Doctor
· Aliens/Monsters: Cybermen
· Setting: Earth
Silver Nemesis Synopsis
The Doctor and Ace visit England in 1988, wherethree rival factions – the Cybermen, a group of Nazis and a 17th Centurysorceress named Lady Peinforte – are attempting to gain control of a statuemade of a living metal, validium, that was created by Rassilon as the ultimatedefense for Gallifrey. Can the Doctor plays the three factions off against oneother and eventually defeat to the Cyber Leader?
TheGreatest Show in the Galaxy
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 7th Doctor
- Companions: Ace
- Aliens/Monsters: Gods of Ragnarok
- Setting: Segonax
Although Ace hates clowns, the Doctor decides totake his companion to the Psychic Circus on the planet Segonax. There they finda group of scared performers who live in fear of the sinister and creepy ChiefClown. But what is so dangerous about this particular circus, why is there sucha small audience and will Ace be able to overcome her fear before it’s toolate?
Season 26
Battlefield
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 7th Doctor
- Companions: Ace, Lethbridge-Stewart
- Aliens/Monsters: The S’rax, The Destroyer
- Setting: Earth
Doctor and Ace receive a mysterious distress signaland land in the Earth village of Carbury, where a nuclear convoy has halted.The Doctor’s concern is heightened when knights from another dimension begin toland in the area. Nearby is Lake Voortigen, the mythical resting-place ofExcalibur, King Arthur’s mystical sword… But the lake holds a more sinistersecret. A spaceship from the same alien dimension lurks under the lake – butdoes it really contain Arthur’s corpse? And what is it that the Witch Queen,Morgaine, is really after?
GhostLight
- Episodes: 3 Episodes
- Doctor: 7th Doctor
- Companions: Ace
- Aliens/Monsters: N/A
- Setting: Earth
The Doctor brings Ace to Gabriel Chase, an oldhouse that she once burnt down in her home town of Perivale. The year is 1883and the house is presided over by Josiah Samuel Smith, who turns out to be theevolved form of an alien brought to Earth in a stone spaceship that is now inthe basement…
The Curseof Fenric
- Episodes: 4 Episodes
- Doctor: 7th Doctor
- Companions: Ace
- Aliens/Monsters: Haemovores
- Setting: Earth
The TARDIS materializes at a secret naval base off thecoast of Northumberland toward the end of the Second World War. Doctor Judson,a scientist there, has created the Ultima Machine, an early computer designedto break German codes. The base’s Commander Millington plans to let a Russiancommando unit led by Captain Sorin steal the Machine’s core, which he hasbooby-trapped with deadly toxin…
Survival
- Episodes: 3 Episodes
- Doctor: 7th Doctor
- Companions: Ace
- Aliens/Monsters: The Cheetah People, The Master
- Setting: Earth, Cheetah World
Something savage is stalking the streets of London,and humans are its prey. People are vanishing. But only young, healthy people.When the Doctor takes Ace on a sentimental journey to her old neighborhood,they discover all her friends are missing. The Doctor and Ace are drawn intoinvestigating, and become prey themselves.