Spearhead From Space by Robert Holmes, directed
by Derek Martinus
The newly-regenerated Doctor is exiled to modern-day Earth by the Time
Lords, where he becomes attached to UNIT as their unofficial scientific
advisor. Aided by Liz Shaw, the Doctor's first task is to investigate the
landing of some mysterious meteorites in the countryside. Quickly, the
Time Lord discovers that these are no ordinary meteorites -- the plastic-controlling
alien Nestenes have landed, intending to use their automated servants,
the Autons, to take over the Earth. Liz Shaw joins UNIT as the Doctor's
assistant at the beginning of this story. (Working Title: Facsimile.)
The Silurians by Malcolm Hulke, directed by Timothy
Combe
UNIT is called in when a nuclear reactor on Wenley Moor starts experiencing
strange power disruptions. The Doctor discovers that the activation of
the reactor has accidentally awakened the original inhabitants of the Earth,
the reptilian Silurians, who have lain in suspended animation underground
for millennia. Now, the Silurians wish to reclaim their planet, and unleash
a deadly
virus which will engulf mankind. (Working Title: The Monsters. Also
frequently referred to as Doctor Who And The Silurians. This story has
been recolorized using American videotapes as the original prints are missing.)
The Ambassadors Of Death by David Whitaker, directed
by Michael Ferguson
When a manned mission to Mars returns to Earth, it soon becomes apparent
that the three beings who returned are not the ship's astronauts. The Doctor
realizes that the crew have made contact with an alien force on the Red
Planet, but his investigations are interrupted when the aliens masquerading
as the astronauts are kidnapped by someone who knows them of old. (Working
Titles: The Invaders From Mars, The Carriers Of Death, The Ambassadors.
Episode one is retained in its original color, while episodes five and
six have been recolorised; episodes two to four and seven are only available
in black and white, as the original prints are missing.)
Inferno by Don Houghton, directed by Douglas Camfield
and Barry Letts
Project Inferno is designed to drill down to the center of the Earth,
where it will release a wonderful new energy source called Stahlman's Gas
named after the project's director. But the Doctor realizes that unleashing
Stahlman's Gas will have horrible consequences from the planet, fears confirmed
when a power surge in the TARDIS console sends him to a hostile parallel
universe where the project is nearing completion. Between this story
and the next, Liz Shaw leaves UNIT to return to Cambridge. (Working Titles:
Operation: Mole-Bore, The Mo-Hole Project, Project Inferno.)
Terror Of The Autons by Robert Holmes, directed
by Barry Letts
The Doctor is warned of a new threat to the Earth -- the evil renegade
Time Lord known as the Master has arrived. The Master has allied himself
with the Nestene Consciousness and once again paved the way for an Auton
presence on Earth. The Doctor must stop the Autons for a second time, but
this time with the knowledge that he is going head to head with a being
who
is quite possibly his equal. Jo Grant joins UNIT as the Doctor's new
assistant at the story's beginning. (Working Title: The Spray Of Death.
This story has been recolorized using American videotapes as the original
prints are missing.)
The Mind Of Evil by Don Houghton, directed by Timothy
Combe
The Master, posing as Professor Keller, has created a device he purports
will remove the negative impulses from the brains of convicted criminals.
The Keller Machine in fact contains an alien mind parasite which turns
the convicts into servants of the Master. With their help, the evil Time
Lord hijacks a nerve missile, with which he intends to hold a world peace
conference hostage. (Working Titles: The Pandora Machine, Man Hours, The
Pandora Box. This story is only available in black and white as the original
prints are missing.)
The Claws Of Axos by Bob Baker and Dave Martin,
directed by Michael Ferguson
Beings from space arrive in England, calling themselves Axons. They
bear with them a fantastic substance called Axonite which can affect the
structure of matter. The Axons offer to exchange the Axonite with the various
would powers, but the Doctor discovers there is something sinister behind
the aliens -- not the least of which is their secret allegiance with the
Master. (Working Titles: The Gift, The Friendly Invasion, The Axons, The
Vampire From Space.)
Colony In Space by Malcolm Hulke, directed by Michael
Briant
The Time Lords send the Doctor and Jo to an Earth colony in the 25th
century. There, the time travellers discover the colonists being ravaged
by a weird dinosaur-like beast while sinister miners try to force them
to abandon the planet. Meanwhile, the Master has also arrived, searching
for a legendary doomsday device believed to be buried in the ruins adjacent
to the colony. (Working Title: Colony.)
The Daemons by Guy Leopold, directed by Christopher
Barry
The Master poses as the new vicar of the community of Devil's End just
as an archaeologist begins work on opening an ancient barrow in the village.
Despite the Doctor's attempts to stop the work, a Daemon named Azal is
released from the barrow. A member of an ancient race who guided humanity
during its early years, Azal has remained behind to judge humanity's worthiness,
and to pass on his power if need be. And the Master will stop at nothing
to gain that power. (Working Title: The Demons. This story was recolorized
using American videotapes as the original prints are missing.)
Day Of The Daleks by Louis Marks, directed by Paul
Bernard
The Doctor is alerted to a disturbance in the time stream when guerrillas
from the 22nd century arrive, trying to assassinate Sir Reginald Styles,
who is about to host an important international peace conference. The Doctor
learns that Styles is destined to blow up the conference, instigating World
War Three. As a result, Earth in two hundred years is dominated by one
race -- the Daleks, with their brutish footsoldiers the Ogrons. (Working
Titles: The Ghost Hunters, Years Of Doom.)
The Curse Of Peladon by Brian Hayles, directed
by Lenny Mayne
The Doctor and Jo are sent by the Time Lords to Peladon, a planet attempting
join the interstellar Federation. Someone is sabotaging the negotiations,
however, and the Doctor suspects it is the Ice Warrior delegates. But as
the mystery deepens and the murders mount, even the Doctor may prove to
be very, very wrong. (Working Titles: The Curse, Curse Of The Peladons.)
The Sea Devils by Malcolm Hulke, directed by Michael
Briant
The Master escapes from incarceration and allies himself with the newly-awakened
Sea Devils, the aquarian cousins of the Silurians who have also been dormant
in suspended animation. With an army of Sea Devils at the Master's command,
the Doctor soon realizes that even with the entire military to help him,
there may be no stopping his arch foe this time. (Working Title: The Sea
Silurians.)
The Mutants by Bob Baker and Dave Martin, directed
by Christopher Barry
The Time Lords send the Doctor and Jo to the planet Solos in the dying
days of Earth's decadent intergalactic Empire. An Earth delegation, led
by the maniacal Marshal, has arrived on Solos, seeking to convert its atmosphere
into one more suitable for habitation by humans. As the native Solonians
oppose this, however, they also discover a crippling plague has befallen
their people, turning them into hideously mutated monsters. (Working Titles:
Independence, The Emergents.)
The Time Monster by Robert Sloman, directed by
Paul Bernard
The Master, posing as Professor Thascales, obtains the Crystal of Kronos,
a relic of ancient Atlantis. Using the Crystal, the evil Time Lord summons
Kronos, a powerful Chronovore native to the time vortex. The Doctor pursues
his enemy back in time to Atlantis, where he has one last chance to stop
the Master from gaining permanent control over Kronos, and unleashing the
unstoppable force onto the world.
The Three Doctors by Bob Baker and Dave Martin,
directed by Lennie Mayne
The Time Lords' energy is being drained through a black hole, so all
three Doctors are summoned to investigate. While the First Doctor advises
them from the TARDIS scanner, the Second and Third Doctors travel through
the black hole. There they discover that Omega, one of the greatest Time
Lords in the history of their people, is imprisoned therein. Believing
he has been abandoned, Omega -- now wielding supreme power over the anti-matter
universe within the black hole -- is determined to destroy the Time Lords,
and force the Doctors to remain in the black hole in his place. (Working
Title: The Black Hole.)
Carnival Of Monsters by Robert Holmes, directed
by Barry Letts
With the Doctor once again free to wander in time and space, the TARDIS
brings he and Jo to a cargo ship. The Doctor believes it is the 1920s,
but when he realizes the boat was one which disappeared without a trace,
it soon becomes clear that the two time travellers are trapped within an
illicit Time Scope, collecting specimens from planets across the galaxy.
(Working Titles: The Labyrinth, Peepshow.)
Frontier In Space by Malcolm Hulke, directed by
Paul Bernard
The Earth Federation is at the brink of war with the rival Draconian
Empire. When the Doctor and Jo arrive, they discover someone is trying
to inflame the tensions between the two space powers. They quickly learn
that the culprit is the Master, but before they can deal with him, the
evil Time Lord has them framed as Draconian spies. Worse still, the Master
is not working alone..
Planet Of The Daleks by Terry Nation, directed
by David Maloney
The TARDIS materialises on Spiridon, where the Doctor and Jo are aware
a Dalek plot is afoot. Teaming up with a band of Thals, the companions
soon discover an enormous army of Daleks is present on the planet, and
a Dalek scientific team is getting ever-closer to gifting their siblings
with the invisibility powers of the Spiridon natives. (Working Title: Destination:
Daleks.)
The Green Death by Robert Sloman, directed by Michael
Briant
Waste from a chemical plant, Global Chemicals, in Wales has mutated
the insects, resulting in deadly, giant monsters. With the aid of a team
of local ecologists, Jo sets about stopping the monsters and the environmental
destruction being wrought by the refinery. But when Mike Yates goes in
undercover, he discovers that Global Chemicals' director is not just unscrupulous...
he's
inhuman. At the story's end, Jo leaves UNIT to marry ecologist Professor
Clifford Jones.
The Time Warrior by Robert Holmes, directed by
Alan Bromly
UNIT is called in when scientists begin disappearing and, with the
help of journalist Sarah Jane Smith, the Doctor discovers they are being
taken back in time. Travelling to the Middle Ages, the Doctor discovers
a Sontaran, Linx, has crashlanded on the planet and allied himself with
a cutthroat named Irongron who has been using Linx's weaponry to terrorise
the countryside. Sarah Jane Smith joins the Doctor during this adventure.
(Working Titles: The Time Fugitive, The Time Survivor.)
Invasion Of The Dinosaurs by Malcolm Hulke, directed
by Paddy Russell
When the Doctor and Sarah Jane return to modern-day England, they find
London deserted and dinosaurs on the loose. It transpires that a group
of politicians and scientists are trying to right what they perceive as
the cause of all our planet's wrongs by turning back time and returning
the Earth to a pre-technological level. To make matters worse, they have
help -- from inside UNIT and amongst the Doctor's closest friends. (Working
Titles: Bridgehead from Space, Timescoop). Episode one of this story exists
only in black and white as the original print is missing.)
Death To The Daleks by Terry Nation, directed by
Michael Briant
On the planet Exxilon, two groups have crashlanded, both searching
for the mineral parrinium, ostensibly to a cure space plague which is wreaking
havoc throughout the cosmos. One is a band from Earth; the other, Daleks.
But the Doctor discovers that both parties are powerless, rendering the
Daleks' weapons inoperable. As his oldest foes begin to show their true
colors, however, the Doctor must brave the dangers of the lost city of
the Exxilons in order to deliver the parrinium into rightful hands. (Working
Titles: The Exilons, The Exxilons.)
The Monster Of Peladon by Brian Hayles, directed
by Lennie Mayne
The TARDIS returns to Peladon fifty years after its first visit, and
the time travellers find the planet in disorder once again. The Federation
desperately needs trisilicate -- in which Peladon is rich -- in order to
wage a war against the oppressive Galaxy Five. But this has lead to claims
amongst the Pels that the Federation is raping their planet. To make matters
worse, the ghost of
Aggedor, the Sacred Beast, has been appearing, apparently condemning
the Federation. Once more it seems as if the Ice Warriors are to blame.
Can the Doctor be wrong twice?
Planet Of The Spiders by Robert Sloman, directed
by Barry Letts
Mutant Spiders rule the planet Metebelis 3 in the far future, holding
a regressive Earth colony in a grip of fear. The leader of the Spiders,
the mammoth Great One, is constructing a device using Metebelis' powerful
blue crystals in order to increase her mental powers a millionfold. But
the Doctor is in possession of the last crystal, and soon finds himself
pursued by the Spiders
and their human agents. The Doctor regenerates into his fourth incarnation
at the story's conclusion. (Working Title: The Final Game.)