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Season 19. 1. Castrovalva
The Doctor is having some physical trouble after regeneration. The Master using a solid projection of Adric reprogrammes the tardis to send it into the Big Bang. Escaping from that Tegan and Nyssa take the Doctor to Castrovalva to recuperate. Castrovalva is a civilised little town on a nameless planet, but behind it The Master waits with a space-time trap.

 

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2. Four To Doomsday
The Doctor, Tegan Adric and Nyssa arrive on a huge spaceship and meet three Urbankans, frog like aliens coming to Earth in 4 days. The Urbankans have visited Earth many times and taken members of various races, including Chinese, Aborigines, Mayans and Ancient Greeks. Somewhere on the ship is 3 billion Urbankans going to Earth and its Leader Monarch seems to be mad as well as a despot and thinks he will find the ultimate creator of life ...er himself.

 

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3. Kinda
On Deva Loka , the idyllic simple lifestyle of the native tribe The Kinda hides something dark and evil. The Kinda are telepathic but simple tribespeople, but lurking in the dark places of the mind is The Mara, a snake in Eden literally. An entity that wishes to cross into the real world from its abstract existence, by invading the dreams of Tegan and taking her over. Exactly what the Mara is is explained in the sequel next season. On Deva Loka a team of Earth military and science staff are assessing the planet for colonisation, something the Mara that revels in death is determined to stop by mobilising the Kinda.

 

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4. The Visitation
Aliens crash land on 17th century Earth, the Terileptils are escaped prisoners and bring with them a virus which they intend impregnating to black rats to spread bubonic plague to assist their takeover. Also they have a neat looking android dressed up as Death with a scythe to frighten villagers. The tardis team meet Richard Mace an actor and gentleman highwayman and together try to defeat the aliens.

 

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5. Black Orchid
The first true historical story since 1967 and Patrick Troughton's second story. No Sci Fi at all except our heroes time travelling to the 1920's. The Doctor is mistaken by Lord Cranleigh for a medical friend of a friend he was expecting at a cricket match. The Doctor partakes in the game, playing magnificently and then he and companions accept an invitation to a masked ball at Cranleigh's Manor House.
At the ball is Anne Talbot, physically identical to Nyssa and at the ball they dress identically as a jape to cause confusion. But Anne is attacked by a figure in a Harlequin costume, the costume the Doctor was given. The Doctor is arrested but Lady Cranleigh is hiding a secret, someone unseen is being hidden in the house, the ex fiance of Anne and Cranleigh's brother, disfigured by South American natives for attempting to steal the black orchid flower, sacred to the natives.

 

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6. Earthshock
On Earth in the future a military team are investigating a cave system looking for a lost scientific expedition. Two shadowy figures are attacking them and the bodies discovered are burnt to a crisp. The Doctor and team arrive in the caves and notice the fossil remains of dinosaurs, according to the Doctor, wiped out by a cataclysm 65 million years ago. Two androids are found to be the killers, guarding a metal hatchway. After disposing of them with the military teams help , the hatchway is found to contain a bomb capable of blowing Earth asunder. With that deactivated, the signal to set the bomb off is traced to a spaceship heading for Earth. On board hidden away, without the crew's knowledge is an army of Cybermen. After their bomb failed the Cybermen plan to sneak onto Earth via this innocent ship but after the Doctor stops that , the Cybermen have one last chance, to turn the ship into a huge bomb, capable of destroying Earth, but the ship is going back in time as well, back 65 million years.
Last story for Adric.

 

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7. Time-Flight
Trouble at Heathrow Airport with a concorde going missing. The Doctor finally gets Tegan back to present day Earth to start her air hostess job , and the Doc is drafted in to help find the missing plane.
The tardis traces the plane to an unexpected place and time. It's been stolen and sent to prehistoric Earth by the Master.
The Master plans to gain control of a gestalt entity called the Xeraphin and use it to power his tardis. The Xeraphin civilization have split into two thanks to the Master's interference and the evil side wishes to control the universe.
Tegan is shocked at the end when the Doctor and Nyssa leave without her, assuming she wanted to stay on Earth without checking with her or saying goodbye.

 

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Season 20. 8. The Arc Of Infinity
The Doctor passes out in the Tardis, and it's clear that some extra dimensional being attempted to physically bond with him.
On Gallifrey panic by the Time Lords as they discover the being is an anti matter creature and if it tries and succeeds in taking over the Doctor then the Universe will be in peril. The Doctor is summoned diverted to Gallifrey, and though innocent is to be executed to stop this creature bonding with him.
But there's a traitor on Gallifrey , someone helped this being by giving it the Doctor's bio information.
Meanwhile in Amsterdam Tegan having lost her job visits her cousin to find he's gone missing and the Doctor locates the creature in Amsterdam and the threads connect. Tegan resumes her tardis travelling.

 

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9. Snakedance
Sequel to Kinda : On the planet Manussa the Summaran empire is at it's height. A civilised society with a legend of the Mara, an evil entity that no one really thinks was anything other than myth. However the Mara, a snake like other dimensional being is lurking in Tegan's subconscious, a consequence of Tegan's encounter with it on the Kinda world, and unknowingly she has diverted the tardis to Manussa. The Mara was first created by use of a giant blue crystal that the ancient Summarans created that made solid the darker thoughts of their consciousness. The Mara wants to return to Manussa to step into our universe then possess the crystal so it cannot be sent back to the dark dimension.

 

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10. Mawdryn Undead
The Brigadier is back, now retired from the army and teaching mathematics at a boys school. The Doctor finds a seemingly deserted ship in space but discovers someone has transmatted down to Earth '83, near to the school where the Brig works. The Doctor meets his old friend, who has no memories of him at all.
Something strange is going on, particularly as one of the boys is an alien posing as a human schoolboy, named Turlough. Turlough is involved in a car crash after an unsuccessful prank and while unconscious is mentally contacted by The Black Guardian, last seen in the Key To Time season. The Guardian wants Turlough to kill the Doctor in return for passage off Earth. Turlough agrees and assists the Doctor in finding out why the Brigadier has lost his memories. To further complicate things Tegan and Nyssa end up in 1977 and meet a younger Brigadier at the school. Behind these mysteries is Mawdryn and his band of brothers, a group who tried to turn themselves into Time Lords with disastrous results.

 

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11. Terminus
Turlough now is aboard the tardis with a mission to kill the Doctor. Meanwhile the tardis homes in on Terminus, a gigantic ship now immobile with engines dead, and has been stationary for so long no-one realised it was once capable of movement. It is known as the place where sufferers of Leprosy go to die or get treated by the staff there. A dog like being called The Garm takes the leprosy sufferers to a radioactive area of Terminus for crude radiation therapy .The staff are sufferers themselves an live on Hydromyl, a drug supplied by Terminus Inc that runs the place. Nyssa discovers that by using her scientific skills she can synthesise the drug and free Terminus from the control of the company that has no interest in curing leprosy. Turlough meanwhile has had opportunities to kill the Doctor but can't bring himself to do it. The Black Guardian has manoeuvred the Doctor into this mess on Terminus to give Turlough ample scope to kill the Doctor, but the Guardian is losing patience with Turlough, and is going to give him one more chance to do the job.....or else.
Last story for Nyssa.

 

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12. Enlightenment
Final story in this little trilogy known as the Black Guardian trilogy. A race of timeless beings called Eternals race huge spaceships across the solar system. These Eternals are so powerful that the ships are literally created by reading the minds of the human sailors they have kidnapped to crew the ships. The White Guardian contacts the Doctor to urge him to attend the race to stop the winner attaining enlightenment. This is very vague and puzzling but the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough go on board Captain Striker's ship, a recreated Victorian sailing ship, with electrical engines , racing other ships across the solar system using solar winds to gain speed. This is a very inventive and mind blowing concept. Enlightenment is a huge crystal that will bring ultimate power. The Black Guardian wants the Eternals to have it as they are creatures with no concept of right and wrong and will invade time itself and bring chaos to the universe. Turlough's inability or desire to kill the Doctor means he faces the wrath of the Black Guardian and jumps overboard in a suicidal attempt to free himself.

 

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13. King's Demons
The Master is posing as a French Knight in the service of England King John in the 13th century. The Master plans to steal Magna Carta and thus undermine civilisation, he has a phoney King John at a castle of Ranulf Fitz William at a feast. The phoney King is a shape shifting robot called Kamelion that The Master acquired on Xeraphas (see Timeflight). The Doctor is welcomed by King John as demons but the Master as the Knight Sir Gilles turns everyone against the Doc, Turlough and Tegan, before the Doctor has to defeat The Master with mental powers, which is how the Master is controlling Kamelion/ King John. Kamelion stays on the tardis at the story's conclusion.

 

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14. The Five Doctors
20th anniversary story sees the President of The Time Lords up to no good. He has time scooped up four previous incarnations of the Doctor and placed them in the Death Zone, a forbidden area of Gallifrey surrounding the tomb of Rassilon , the revered architect of Time Lord society.
The spirit or mind of Rassilon lives on and can bestow immortality to whoever is judged by Rassilon as worthy. The Doctors are sent to repel the hostile traps that wait the unwary, to pave the way for the President to claim his immortality. The 5th Doctor is sent by the High Council unaware of the President's involvement, to rescue his earlier selves. Appearances for Troughton, Pertwee, briefly by Tom Baker as he didn't want to participate, and Richard Hurndall standing in for the deceased William Hartnell. The Brigadier, The Master and old companion Sarah Jane Smith also appear.

 

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Season 21. 15. Warriors Of The Deep
The Silurians and Sea Devils from the third Doctor era return and unite to try and start a war to wipe out humanity. An undersea military base armed with nuclear weapons is the target of the reptilians who emerge from their undersea bases with the Myrka, a cyborg which is used to break into the human base.

 

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16. The Awakening
Taking Tegan to visit her uncle in the English village of Little Hodcombe , The Doctor Tegan and Turlough discover the village is in turmoil. Sir George Hutchinson the Squire who organises war re- enactments, has inadvertently awakened something nasty in the church. The Malus, a machine cross sentient life that feeds on mental energy and has been here since the English Civil War. The Malus controls Sir George and wants the re- enactment this year of the 1643 battle in Little Hodcombe to be real to create more terror and mental energy to feed The Malus.

 

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17. Frontios
Turlough faces creatures that are remembered via the race memory of his people. Tractators are insect like creatures with the power to generate gravity. They are hidden underneath an Earth colony in the far far future, and using gravity to bring down meteorites onto the planet surface to destroy the colony. Their aim is to soften the colony up and use the bodies of colonists sucked into the ground and use them in their mining machines. They have honeycombed the planet with tunnels carved to mathematical perfection to turn the planet itself as a gravity driven vehicle to wander the cosmos conquering whoever they fancy.

 

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18. Resurrection Of The Daleks
Davros , imprisoned on a prison space station for crimes against sentient life, the Dalek creator is rescued by The Daleks wanting his help to combat a virus killing them. The tardis team arrive in London near Tower Bridge, and face pistol shooting coppers, fugitives from the future, the army and cylinders containing the virus. There's a time tunnel linking this time with the space prison era. Davros when freed has his own Daleks obeying him, instead of the Supreme Dalek, and thus starts a split in Dalek ranks that will reverberate in future stories. The battle on the space station to free Davros, and the battle on Earth as the Daleks travel down the time corridor to stop The Doctor getting hold of the cannisters of virus, results in many deaths. This story body count is massive and Tegan has had enough and decides to leave the tardis and stay on Earth.

 

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19. Planet Of Fire
Kamelion the shape shifting android from The King's Demons story is still in the tardis, and reprogrammes the tardis to home in on a signal its picking up. The signal is from a piece of metal recovered from the sea bed in the Mediterranean. A salvage operation to lift a boat from the bed of the Mediterranean is led by Howard Foster, his step daughter is Perpegillium Brown aka Peri. The Doctor and Turlough are here in Lanzarote to track the signal and Peri is rescued by Turlough after she nearly drowned in the sea. Peri is taken on-board and with her is this piece of metal that is emitting the signal that she stole from her stepdad wanting to sell it to finance her gap year travels. Kamelion changes shape to Howard, reading Peri's thoughts then changes to The Master.
Kamelion is mentally linked to the Master from their past association. Phew! Complicated this.....now The Master is in trouble on the planet Sarn and Kamelion is coming to his rescue, unbeknown to the Doctor who is just following the signal , goes to Sarn to meet colonists sheltering in volcanic tunnels and worship Logar the Fire God. This does all tie in, and Turlough reveals Sarn is a Trion prison planet and the Sarn people are the indigenous people and their God Logar was volcanologists taming the Volcano from Trion, Turlough's home planet. Last story for Turlough.

 

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20. Caves Of Androzani
Last story for 5th Doctor. On Androzani Minor a war is raging between Androzani Major military and Sharez Jek, a genius in Android technology, and an outcast from homeworld Androzani Major. Jek and his Android army are in cahoots with mercenaries protecting their huge supply of Spectrox. Spectrox is mined here on Androzani Minor, a moon, and is the most valuable of substances. It when drank can extend human life by up to 50 years, holding back ageing. Jek is holding the Government on Major to ransom, no deal no Spectrox. The Doctor and Peri arrive on Minor , mistaken for rebel mercenaries by the army and executed by firing squad. But they were rescued by Jek at the last moment and perfect Android versions of them are the ones executed.
Sharez Jek wears a hood to hide his horribly burnt face for which he blames Government official Morgus, and his price to release the Spectrox to a desperate people clamouring for their elixir of youth, is the head of Morgus, at his feet. The Doctor and Peri are infected by touching a sticky fugus ball, and have Spectrox Toximia and are going to die. This does bring about the regeneration of the 5th Doctor , who although has found the cure, bats milk, there's enough for Peri but not him.

And the fifth Doctor becomes the sixth.

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