Information Doctor Who -Tom Baker Years Gallery and EPISODE GUIDE

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21. The Sun Makers
Remnants of the human race live on Pluto, underground in cites called Megropolises.
Pluto heated by 6 artificial suns, fusion stations in orbit, paid for by The Company, which then tax the life out of the workers to get their money back. The Company is represented on Pluto by The Collector, a Usarian, a seaweed like alien in human form. This is unusual form of enslavement, an economic one rather by military means, and when the fusion stations run down the Usarians will leave humanity to die. The Doctor and Leela with K9 in tow help try to overthrow the tyranny on Pluto.

 

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22. Underworld
The four man crew of the Minyan ship have been tracking the ship the P7E for thousands of years. The crew use Time Lord tech to regenerate themselves over and over again, hundreds of times. They are mentally wearied, but continually track the P7E, a ship containing the race bank of the Minyans, the means to populate a new Minyos. The ship is located inside the core of a new formed planet, and it's been there long enough for the descendants of the P7E to have forgotten their heritage and live as slaves to the Oracle , the deranged P7E computer protecting the race banks with the Seers, guards that are also descended from the P7E crew.

 

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23. The Invasion Of Time
The Doctor returns to Gallifrey to claim the Presidency of his home world. But he is in league with the invading Vardans who thanks to the Doctor dismantling the protective energy barrier take over the Capitol. Is the Doctor a traitor? Leela is thrown out of the Capitol by the Doctor and left to fend for herself in the wastelands. Leela teams up with expelled Gallifreyans to attack the Capitol to oust the Vardans , which is what the Doctor wanted, but the Vardans can read his mind, so his plans to defeat them had to be kept secret while appearing to help them. In a twist it transpires the Vardans were mere pawns for the Sontarans who invade Gallifrey after the Vardans are got rid of, now the troubles really start. Last story for Leela who stays on Gallifrey to get married, K9 stays too. But the last scene shows the Doctor unpacking K9 mark 2.

 

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Season 16. 24. The Ribos Operation
The Doctor is given a task by the White Guardian, a powerful but good being with almost godlike powers. The key to time is a perfect cube of crystal that keeps time stable. The key is divided into 6 segments and scattered throughout time and the universe, and disguised to boot. The White Guardian needs the segments collected and returned to his keeping so he can stop time to rectify the equilibrium which is out of sync because of forces in the universe. Romana is the new assistant given to him by the White Guardian, she is an academy graduate from Gallifrey, so a Time Lady.
Using a tracer device they locate the first segment on Ribos. The despotic Graff Vynda K ousted Levithian Empire ruler wants to buy Ribos as a base to launch an attempt to win back power. Garron is a conman selling this primitive planet to the Graff , but in reality he is a rip off merchant trying to grab the Graff's loot and run, by fooling him into thinking that a Jethryk mine is located on the planet. The piece of Jethryk Garron has is segment number 1 of the key to time that the Doctor has to get hold of.

 

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25. The Pirate Planet
The second segment of the key to time is on Calufrax but when trying to land the tardis ends up on Zanak. Where is Calufrax? The tracer device registers the 2nd segment is here somewhere. Zanak is ruled by The Captain, a man but with a mechanical left side of his face and torso, with a robot parrot on his shoulder. Well this is a Douglas Adams story so weirdness abounds. The people of Zanak rejoice each time the stars in the sky change which happens regularly, because then all the planet's mines suddenly fill up again. Diamonds, Rubies and Emeralds litter the streets, vast wealth for everyone. However the telepathic Mentiads urge the overthrow of the Captain. The Doctor and Romana discover the most heinous crime in the galaxy, because Zanak is a hollow planet with engines to dematerialise itself and rematerialise around another planet, crush it , even with people living on it, and mine the goodness out of it. Calufrax is buried inside Zanak, the pirate planet.

 

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26. The Stones Of Blood
The third segment is on Earth in the present ('78) , The Doctor and Romana help two ladies carrying out a survey of a Megalithic stone circle, a mini Stonehenge, and discover the key to time segment is located in the center of the stone circle, but it doesn't seem visible. Meanwhile Mr De Vries is the Head of a Druidic cult worshiping the stones and the deity The Cailleach. He captures the Doctor and tries to sacrifice him to The Cailleach who appears as a female in a bird costume! Someone has got the 3rd segment and is utilising its power. The stones in this circle have a strange history of being miscounted a number of times, and when three go missing the Doctor realises the silicon lifeform the Ogri are here , so moving stones crushing people, add to that a ship trapped in hyperspace, and we have an usual story.

 

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27. The Androids Of Tara
A homage to Anthony Hope's novel The Prisoner of Zenda. On Tara the population decimated by plague hundreds of years ago are reliant on androids to some extent to function as a society. The Doctor and Romana get involved in the internal politics of Tara after finding the 4th segment of the key to time easily. Prince Reynart needs to get to the throne room at a certain time to be crowned king of Tara, but Count Grendel of Gracht, a pretender to the throne has a scheme to stop this. Princess Strella the fiance of Reynart is Imprisoned by Grendel and an android double with killing capabilities has been made. The Doctor helps the Prince by repairing the android double of Reynart that was going to be used to divert Grendel so the real Reynart can get to his coronation on time. Grendel kidnaps Reynart and now has both Reynart and Stella and he has captured Romana too who is an identical twin of Strella. The Doctor proposes crowning the android Reynart as king whilst trying to get the real Reynart to safety. To add to the complicated scenarios, Grendel can also use Romana, posing as Strella to marry Reynart before he kills Reynart, marries Romana (as Strella), now Queen, then kills her and becomes ruler himself, ...clear?!

 

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28. The Power Of Kroll
The 5th segment is on the third moon of Delta Magna, a swampy rainy, storm lashed marshland. The local natives, the primitive Swampies worship Kroll, a gigantic squid.
A refinery on the bay extracting methane is run by Thawn , a hard faced man determined to get rid of the troublesome Swampies by teaming up with Rohm Dutt, a gun runner. The Swampies have backing from Delta Magna from the Sons of Earth who champion their cause, that the moon is their home and the government plan to remove them from it so more refineries can be built. Rohm Dutt has supplied weapons to the Swampies telling them that the Sons of Earth provided them, but really Thawn is behind it, the weapons are old and rusty, useless, and can be used by Thawn as an excuse to wipe out the Swampies. Unfortunately the giant squid Kroll is on the move and is hunting for food, ie the people on this moon, Swampies, Refinery staff, The Doctor and Romana. The Doctor wonders how the bay can produce so much methane, why is Kroll so huge and is the 5th segment involved.

 

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29. The Armageddon Factor
Last episode for the search of the key to time. The 6th segment is buried in the 6th generation of the 6th Dynasty of the House of Atrios. Atrios and Zeos are at war, terrible nuclear war, that has decimated Atrios. The Mashal of Atrios is in league with a third force, an artificial planet between Atrios and Zeos, controlled by the Shadow, a servant of the Black Guardian, opposite in power to the White Guardian, who wants the key for evil purposes. Princess Astra of Atrios is captured by black cowled servants of The Shadow, she holds the secret of where the 6th segment is, and if the Black Guardian gets it this Atrios Zeos conflict will be just a prelude to a war that will rip the cosmos in two and darkness will descend and the universe will be lifeless. Last appearance for Romana in this incarnation.

 

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Season 17. 30 Destiny Of The Daleks
On Skaro the Doctor and a newly regenerated Romana face the Movellans and Daleks , both races hunting for the remains of Davros, creator of the Daleks.
Davros last seen being blasted by a dalek is alive, his wheelchair contains a tissue regeneration device. The Daleks are struggling in their war the Movellans and want Davros to help. The Doctor is wanted by the Movellans for the same reason.

 

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31 City Of Death
In Paris 1979 the Doctor and Romana visit the Louvres to see the Mona Lisa. Strange time cracks are causing moments of time to repeat themselves. The cause is an alien piece of tech in a Paris château, supervised by Count Scarlioni, an alien intent on stealing the Mona Lisa despite already having 6 other genuine Da Vinci painted Mona Lisas in the cellar. Back in renaissance Italy, The Doctor tries to visit Da Vinci but instead sees Scarlioni who is here too, as well as 1979 and is forcing Leonardo to paint the other Mona Lisas. The Count is the last of the Jagaroth race and plans to use the Mona Lisas to finance a time journey to save his race and destroy humanity.

 

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32. The Creature From The Pit
The story with the giant penis creature!
In the densely wooded planet of Chloris metal is rare, the monopoly of it is held by Lady Adrastra and therefore power. Down the bottom of a pit lives a huge green blob creature who Adrastra delights in feeding people she wants to get rid of to it.
The Doctor and Romana fall foul of Adrastra and the Doctor jumps into the pit to face the biggest creature he's ever seen. A huge blob skulking in a labyrinth of passages, but why, what's it doing here?
The creature is a Tythonian ambassador, from the metal rich but chlorophyll poor planet of Tythonia, and came to Chloris for a trade deal, metal for plant life, but Adrastra the monopoly holder of metal chucked him down a pit.

 

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33. Nightmare Of Eden
Two ships smash into each other, but one was coming out of hyperspace, so in fact, one ship is literally sticking out of the other. On board the Empress space liner is Tryst who claims he is engaged in the preservation of endangered animals by collecting specimens and putting them in his CET machine, a sort of electronic zoo, the animals live on as recordings on crystals in the machine. But the machine is dangerous, the unstable situation with the ships colliding hasn't helped and Mandrel creatures from planet Eden have escaped the CET machine and are roaming the Empress killing passengers. Also someone is drug smuggling Vraxoin, a deadly addictive substance, and using the Eden crystal to avoid detection.

 

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34. The Horns Of Nimon
On the planet Skonnos , gullible leader Soldeed is obeying the orders of The Nimon, a bull like alien who has promised power to rebuild the Skonnos empire. All Soldeed has to do is bring from nearby Anneth radioactive crystals the Nimon needs. Anneth is a defeated planet, cowering in fear of the might of Skonnos , or fearful of the memories of the days when Skonnos defeated them. In any case Annethans meekly travel to Skonnos with Hermetusite crystals and enter the Nimon's power complex to hand over the " tribute".
But it's a deception, the Nimon are scavenging invaders using Soldeed's lust for power to trick him into getting the crystals so the Nimon invasion by transmat capsules from Crinoth, the previous planet they duped, can proceed after they sucked the life out of it. Part of this journey of life as the Nimon calls it is creating a black hole that the tardis is almost trapped in bringing the Doctor to Skonnos to investigate.

 

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35. Shada
Due to a technicians strike this story was never completed. Only half the scenes were filmed, and the story was abandoned.
Then nearly 40 years later the BBC finally commissioned the story to be completed using animation to cover missing scenes.

In a lecturer's living quarters at Cambridge University the Doctor meets old friend Professor Chronotis who teaches there. Chronotis is actually a Time Lord and his tardis is cleverly disguised as the living quarters. Chronotis wants The Doctor to return to Gallifrey a rather important book the Professor borrowed. The book is the key to Shada the Time Lord prison planet. The book itself when opened over the tardis controls will steer the tardis to Shada.
Someone else wants it, Skagra, an alien who has constructed a sphere that can suck out a person's mind and deposit it in the sphere. Skagra wants to go to Shada to release the criminal Salyevin, who has extraordinary mental powers. With Salyevin's mind in the sphere ,Skagra will command vast mental powers to subjugate the cosmos.

 

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Season 18. 36. The Leisure Hive
The Doctor and Romana visit the leisure world of Argolis where the science of tachyons are used for entertainment purposes. A group of intelligent lizards, the formasi want to buy the financially desperate Argolis from the Argolin people.
Argolis is a planet decimated by war ,beaten by the formasi, so selling to them is humiliating. But son of Argolin leader Mina, Pangol is determined to use tachyonics to create a new race of Argolin, to once again revel in the glories of conquest as in the past.

 

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37. Meglos
Meglos an intelligent cactus has acquired the services of a band of Gaztak mercenaries to invade Tigella to steal the dodecahedron, a source of energy for the Tigellans, but is the property of the neighbouring planet Zolpha Thura, home of Megols the last Zolpha Thuran. Meglos can't just walk in and steal it, but the Doctor is visiting an old friend on Tigella and Meglos can shape change and impersonates the Doctor. The Tigellans worship the dodecahedron, even though it's a huge crystal, and the real Doctor turns up after Meglos has taken the crystal by shrinking it using advanced technology. The Doctor is arrested and is to be sacrificed for his crime unless he returns the dodecahedron.

 

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38. Full Circle
On the planet Alzarius the people who live in a landed spaceship called the Starliner face hostile marshmen emerging from mist. The tardis falls through a rare space event called a CVE, and ends up in E-space, a small branch universe separate from the normal N - Space universe. Alzarius is in E space and The Doctor and Romana help the Alzarians with their problems with the marshmen. The Starliner is a damaged ship from Terradon and the Alzarians are descendants of Terradons, and hope to repair the ship one day to return to Terradon. But its a lie, The Doctor realises that the ship could take off if the leaders really wanted to, so why don't they, what secret is kept from the people, a study of the DNA of the marshmen reveals the truth.
Young Adric a boy who helped the Doctor stows away in the tardis.

 

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39. State Of Decay
Still trapped in E space the Doctor and Romana visit an unnamed world, with one village of peasants who serve the Lords in the tower. After The Doctor and Romana leave the tardis , stowaway Adric emerges and follows. The tower looks like a rocket ship, and indeed it is. The three Lords who rule also came through the CVE from N space many hundreds of years ago. While the peasants grow old and die, the Lords have immortality from drinking blood, yes vampires! The Doctor has heard of legends of a race of mighty vampires that his people destroyed, all but one was killed, the king Vampire escaped, here into E Space where it is ready to rise again and feed. Adric is captured and the Doctor not too pleased to find out he had a stowaway, rescues him as the king Vampire rises.

 

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40. Warriors' Gate
At the intersection of E and N space, a ship is marooned in a featureless white void. The gateway to N Space is nearby, the tardis arrives and meets a lionine biped called Birok , who warns them of the humans of the stranded ship. Captain Rorvik and his crew are slavers and the lionine creatures they have imprisoned in their ship are time sensitives and can when plugged in to ship's control systems can navigate through this strange void. We also have the Gundan robots, servants of humans enslaved themselves by Birok's kind and the Doctor gets a glimpse of Birok's people's past when they were the slavers, and now they are enslaved. The Doctor is able to flit back and forth between past and present with Birok's help, and Birok can show how to get back to N space in return for the Doctor's help in freeing Birok's people from Rorvik's ship. Last episode for Romana and K9 who stay in E space to free Birok's people from other worlds. Doctor leaves with Adric to return to N Space.