Information Doctor Who -Tom Baker Years Gallery and EPISODE GUIDE

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Season 12 1. Robot
Opening story for 4th Doctor sees him and U.N.I.T. ( United Nations Intelligence Taskforce) face a group of right wing fanatics who have access to a robot created by sympathiser Professor Kettlewell. The group plan to steal a disintegrator gun and set off nuclear missiles using release codes to destroy humanity unless their demands to control the world are met. Sarah Jane Smith continues as the Doc's assistant, joined by UNIT and naval medic Harry Sullivan.

 

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2. The Ark In Space
Thousands of years in the future the remnants of Earth based humanity are in cryogenic sleep on board an orbiting space station having escaped the cataclysmic firestorms on Earth. But they should have woken but the station was attacked by insect like Wirrn. The Doctor, and companions Sarah and Harry face hatching Wirrn intent on literally digesting the humans in deep sleep. The Doctor and friends and the awakened leaders of the Ark fight for humanity's survival.

 

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3. The Sontaran Experiment
Beaming down to Earth after saving Nerva Beacon from the Wirrn ( previous story), The Doctor has to fix the transmat system that has fallen into disrepair over the centuries since humans last were on the Earth. However a Sontaran Major is here conducting cruel experiments on space travellers as a prelude to invasion. Doctor Harry and Sarah try to thwart his plans and stop the Sontaran fleet from landing.

 

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4. The Genesis Of The Daleks

Using the transmat to return to Nerva the Doc and friends are intercepted by the Time Lords and diverted to Skaro, the home of The Daleks. The Time Lords want the Doctor to avert their creation. This story reveals the beginnings of The Daleks. Davros the crippled wheelchair bound madman of the Kaled race has created travel machines that the Kaled people will be housed in after mutation.
The Kaled and Thal races have waged war for centuries on Skaro and Davros will stop at nothing to ensure that the Kaleds will win. But not the humanoid Kaleds but his mutants called Daleks, even if that means destroying his own people.

 

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5. Revenge Of The Cybermen
Returning to Nerva Beacon to pick up the tardis, the Doctor, Harry and Sarah arrive too early, about a few thousand years early. They have to wait until the tardis drifting back through time arrives. Meanwhile the beacon in this period of history is used as a simple space beacon warning ships of a new planet that has entered the solar system. The planet of gold, Voga, isn't the lifeless rock it appears, under the surface the Vogans live in fear of the Cybermen, who wish to destroy Voga because of their gold which is the only metal to destroy Cybermen. The Cybermen have initiated a plague on Nerva and plan to take it over and crash it into Voga.

 

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Season 13 6. Terror Of The Zygons
On present day Earth (1975), The Doctor is asked by UNIT to investigate sunken oil rigs in the North Sea. The Zygons are aliens living under Loch Ness and plan to use their cyborg creature that looks like a reptile,( oh right, Nessie !) to destroy rigs as a prelude to taking over the planet. The Zygons are shape shifters , and can assume human form, so who is a Zygon is the tricky question. Harry after numerous close shaves decides on the quiet life and stays on Earth as The Doctor and Sarah continue their adventures.

 

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8. Pyramids Of Mars - note: this is story 8,story 7 next post, oops slight mistake.
Arriving back at UNIT HQ the Doctor realises the tardis has landed in the right place, but wrong time, it's 1911.
In the old priory, standing on the ground that years later will stand UNIT HQ, strange things are afoot. An Egyptian has taken over the house and is protecting the discoveries that owner Professor Scarman has brought back from his expedition to find a lost pyramid. Scarman did indeed find his lost pyramid in Egypt and opened it to discover Sutekh, an alien from Osiris, imprisoned by fellow Osirans a thousand years ago for crimes against sentient life. Sutekh is a destroyer of life and Scarman inadvertently has set in motion a chain of events that may release Sutekh to cause the destruction of Earth, for starters.

 

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7. Planet Of Evil
On the edge of the known universe is a world where a scientific expedition from the planet Morestra is happening. Professor Sorensen has discovered an energy source to save his planet, but death stalks the expedition and only he survives. A rescue ship from Morestra arrives as does The Doctor and Sarah, and our heroes are immediately assumed to be the killers.
But emerging from a bottomless pit, a black vortex is a creature of anti matter that lives here , on the boundary of matter and anti matter. The energy discharging killer creature is not going to let anyone leave with even a microscopic part of this strange world, and Sorensen wants to remove large amounts of rock for a source of his new energy.

 

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9. The Android Invasion
Arriving in the English village of Devesham The Doctor and Sarah notice the village is deserted, strange men in white uniforms and dark visored helmets are taking pot shots at them, a soldier from the nearby space lauch facility falls over a cliff edge, but later is alive. Sgt Benton and Harry Sullivan, old friends from UNIT are hostile, and rhinoceros faced aliens ,the Kraals are here in Devesham with an ingenious plan for conquest.

 

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10. The Brain Of Morbius
In a straight homage to Frankenstein, on the barren world of Karn, the lunatic Professor Solon is creating a creature from bits of space travellers that crash here. But Solon has a dark secret, he is a follower of Morbius, the evil Time Lord hell bent on conquest. Morbius was executed on Karn, apt as the desolation of Karn is a result of his warmongering, but Solon rescued his brain which he keeps in a tank, and plans to place it in the head of his creation. All he needs is a suitable head....and then the Doctor arrives.

 

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11. Seeds Of Doom
An Antarctic expedition discovers a strange pod buried in the snow , the pod is brought inside to the research huts, and germinates, a shoot springs out of the opened pod and attaches itself to one of the scientists. He turns into something nasty and not human. The Doctor contacted by the Ecology Bureau flies to Antarctica with Sarah, but its too late, the poor man is dead. The Doctor recognises the Krynoid, an alien mammal devouring plant. A second pod is located but unfortunately that is stolen by henchmen working for plant lover Harrison Chase and taken to England. Chase is a fanatical Ecology warrior and in his estate, guarded by armed men, he unleashes the Krynoid.

 

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Season 14. 12. The Masque Of Mandragora
The tardis is stopped in space by the Mandragora Helix, an energy cloud thought to contain an intelligence. Unbeknown to The Doctor a piece of Helix energy gets into the tardis and the tardis lands in renaissance Italy. The Mandragora intelligence has deliberately chosen renaissance Italy to spread its influence in this important period of Earth history. Mandragora plan to use the pagan cult of Demnos to reverse the renaissance and thwart humanity's progress.

 

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13. The Hand Of Fear
The Doctor and Sarah land in a quarry and before they can get out a demolition team blow it up, part of a construction project. Luckily they both survive but Sarah is unconscious and found clutching a stone hand which was buried in the substrata.
In the nearby hospital Sarah awakes and is under hypnotic influence directed by the hand! The hand is all that remains of Eldrad from Kastria. But Eldrad is alive, dormant in the hand, a silicon based lifeform that needs radiation to recreate itself. Sarah under hypnosis takes the hand to a nearby nuclear plant where the hand takes over a worker who walks into the nuclear furnace with it, Eldrad is rebuilding its body and emerges renewed and powerful and ....it's trouble for Earth and The Doctor needs to get it away and back home to Kastria. Last story for Sarah Jane Smith.

 

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14. The Deadly Assassin
The story that in many ways rewrote the show's mythology. On the Time Lords home planet of Gallifrey the President has been assassinated and The Doc arrives alone having had a precognition of the assassination in the tardis. He is arrested for the murder when he is discovered with the murder weapon. He claims he didn't kill the President but was aiming for the real killer standing close by during the ceremony marking the President's farewell speech. The Doctor has to enter the matrix to prove his innocence. Yes, The Matrix, years before the film! The Matrix is an unreal landscape, an electronic virtual reality where dead Time Lords minds are transferred moments before death. The Matrix has been invaded by an old enemy...The Master is back with a plan to extend his life beyond the permitted 12 incarnations and destroy the Doctor and Gallifrey to boot.

 

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15. The Face Of Evil
The Doctor arrives on an unnamed planet where the survivors of a crashed survey team have degenerated to tribalism. The Sevateem tribe are at war with the Tesh , who hold their God Xoanon hostage. An impenetrable force barrier separates the tribes in the forest, and on the mountainside is a carving of The Doctor. The forest contains a stalking energy being in the shape of the Doctor and the Sevateem refer to him as the Evil One. Obviously the Doctor realises he's been here before and left quite an impression. Sevateem girl Leela joins the Doctor in the tardis.

 

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16. The Robots Of Death
A sandminer vessel is a sort of mobile mining operation, going over the surface of this unnamed world sucking out the valuable minerals from the sand. On board a small crew use hundreds of robots to carry out the menial tasks. The Doctor and Leela arrive and find a dead body in a hop, a container for the sucked in sand. One by one the crew die, strangled, and the Doctor is number 1 suspect. But a breed of killer robots is on board, programmed by Taren Capel, lunatic roboticist , in cognito masquerading as a crew member. Capel wants to free the robots from human control and take over the sandminer and then the world.

 

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17. The Talons Of Weng Chiang
In Victorian London death stalks the streets. The Chinese Tong criminals are taking orders from Li Chang a master mesmeritist working at the Palace theatre.
Chang believes he is working for Weng Chiang a Chinese deity who skulks in the sewers under London. Posing as this God is Magnus Greel , a fugitive from the 51st century, he is searching for his time cabinet, a device that allowed him to escape a death penalty in his own time. He has traced it to London and he is using Chang and the tongs to recover it.

 

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Season 15. 18. Horror Of Fang Rock
Still in Victorian times The Doctor and Leela land on Fang Rock, in the English Channel. The small rock has a lighthouse on it, but death stalks it, as a shooting star heralds the murder of the keeper. A boat shipwrecks on the rock and The Doctor realises the falling star was a spaceship crashing into the sea. A Rutan warrior, enemies of the Sontarans has survived the crash and is now picking off the humans trapped in the lighthouse.

 

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19. The Invisible Enemy
The Doctor is infected by an intelligent virus called the Swarm. The Swarm wants to spread from the micro universe to macro human sized. Using a piece of equipment from the tardis clones of The Doctor and Leela shrink to microscopic size and injected into the Doctor's body to confront this intelligent virus. The Swarm uses this method to escape and grows to human sized , and previous infected victims have been getting ready on Titan , a moon of Jupiter, a breeding tank so the Swarm can breed millions of large sized virus entities. Covid magnified a million times more dangerous!! First appearance of K9, robot dog, that is given to the Doctor by Professor Marius at conclusion of story.

 

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20. Image Of The Fendahl
The Doctor traces the use of a dangerous time scanner to Earth and the English countryside. In a quiet secluded house four scientists led by Professor Fendleman have made an incredible discovery. They are archaeologists and have unearthed a skull buried in a strata of rock millions of years before mankind was around. Fendleman is using his time scanner to trace the origin of the skull, but is inadvertently opening up a fissure in spacetime. The skull is the remains of the Fendahl, an entity which is the result of evolution going up a blind alley, it feeds on its own kind, and on life itself. The Fendahl is using energy created by Fendleman's scanner to recreate itself. Fendleman and Fendahl...coincidence or not ?