Information Dr Who - Colin Baker Years Gallery

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Season 21 -( final story)
1. The Twin Dilemma
After a traumatic reaction to his regeneration The Doctor is mentally unstable and tries to kill companion Peri. Meanwhile two mathematical genius twins have been kidnapped by a human named Professor Edgworth. Edgworth is working for Mestor, a giant intelligent slug creature from planet Jaconda who wants the twins to work out calculations to alter Jaconda's moons orbits as part of a plan to hurl the eggs of the giant slugs into space for colonisation purposes. The Doctor is unstable for most of this story but is just about mentally together to destroy Mestor with Edgworth's help, who is revealed to be Time Lord Azmael, a friend of the Doctor. Reckoned by many to be the worst story in Who's history. A poor start for Colin Baker.

 

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Season 22.- 2. Attack Of The Cybermen
Much improved story for Doctor no. 6 from his first one. The Cybermen plan to divert Halley's comet in 1985 to smash into Earth destroying it, thus preventing human race from destroying the Cybermen's original world of Mondas , that happened in 1986, as seen in The Tenth Planet(1966 season 4) The Cybermen based now on Telos, a planet also previously seen , have captured a high tech time vessel from another race to do this time travelling and have engaged the service of Lytton, a character previously employed by Daleks to help. But Lytton is a double agent now working for the Cryons on Telos, a race of females who at war with the Cybermen. The Cybermen have a base in London's sewers and The Doctor and Peri discover this and end up on Telos.

 

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3. Vengeance On Varos
The TARDIS makes an emergency landing on Varos, a planet that used to be a penal colony, and where the native Varosians are presently entertained by broadcasts of real violence and death. Mistaken for rebels, the Doctor and Peri learn that Sil, an evil delegate of the Galatron mining corporation, bids to rule Varos and to control supplies of Zeiton 7 ore, which is the TARDIS's only fuel source.

 

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4. The Mark Of The Rani
In a 19th century mining village, a renegade Time Lady known as The Rani is draining brain fluid from local men, turning them savage and berserk. She needs the fluid for her slaves on a planet she rules. It is here on Earth The Master plans to coerce her help in his vengeance upon The Doctor while also establishing a power base for controlling Earth's future.
A meeting of great minds is taking place and the Master plans to kill some important people of the industrial revolution including George Stephenson.

 

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5. The Two Doctors
Doctor no. 2 is back with assistant Jamie. The Time Lords send the Doctor to a space station where Professor Dastari is doing time travel experiments that the Time Lords want stopped. Dastari is working with the Sontarans and Androgums, a race of brutish base humanoids. Dastari has used surgery to augment Chessene an Androgum to a higher level of intelligence, in fact super intelligence. As Doctor 2 says, " Dastari I'm sure you can augment an earwig so it could understand Einstein but it still would be a bloody stupid thing to do."
Dastari wants to take some nucleus out of the Doctor's body to make his time travel cabinet work. The Doctor is taken by Dastari, Sontarans and Chessene to Seville in Spain. Doctor 6 sensing his past self is in danger and being tortured goes to the space station, where a frightened Jamie is in hiding. They meet and all go to Seville to face the Sontarans as they plot with Chessene to use Dastari's time cabinet for conquest.

 

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6. Timelash
On the planet Karfel, the people live in fear of the ruler, The Borad, who throws those he wants rid of down the Timelash, a sort of time/ space corridor. The tardis contacts this corridor and the Doctor traces one end of it to late 19th century Scotland. There he and Peri rescue a girl thrown down the corridor, and also meet a Victorian gentleman named Herbert. The Doctor takes the girl, Vena back to Karfel and helps rebels overthrow the Borad, who turns out to be someone the Doctor met on a previous visit, a scientist who has since become half man half reptilian after accidently spraying himself with Mustakosene 80 gas, and then attacked by a Morlox creature. Morlox is mentioned in an H.G. Wells novel, and Herbert who stows away in the tardis and helps the Doctor in this adventure is revealed as H.G. Wells.

 

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7. Revelation Of The Daleks
On the planet Necros ,The Doctor and Peri go to pay respect to an old friend of the Doctor who has died. But it's a trap, Davros the creator of The Daleks is there, posing as The Great Healer, someone who is renoun now for saving this part of the galaxy from starvation with his synthetic food process.
It turns out Davros is the power behind Tranquil Repose, a funeral parlour, and the people resting there, hoping one day to be revived and cured of their ailments that took their lives, after being cryogenically frozen, are being either turned into the food that Necros exports or worse turned into Daleks.

 

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Season 23- The Trial Of A Time Lord.
8. The Mysterious Planet.
The Doctor is pulled out of his time stream and summoned to a Time Lord space station above Gallifrey. On his arrival it is announced by the Inquisitor that the Doctor will stand trial. Accused of conduct unbecoming a Time Lord, the Doctor refutes the allegations made against him and chooses to mount his own defense rather than entrust his fate to a fellow Time Lord. Opposing the Doctor and appearing for the prosecution is the Valeyard, an enigmatic figure who is clearly out for the Doctor. Suffering from short term memory loss as a result being taken out of time, and puzzled as to the absence of his companion Peri, the Doctor can only sit back and watch as the Valeyard mounts his case against the eccentric time traveler. The first piece of evidence is taken from the Matrix, the repository of all Time Lord knowledge. It chronicles the Doctor's interference in affairs of the planet Ravalox, a planet very similar to Earth and which was partly decimated by a fireball several centuries ago. Accompanied by Peri in this adventure, the Doctor and his young friend discover there is more to the planet than meets the eye. Why do the duo discover what appears to be an old abandoned subway station with an old sign that reads 'Marble Arch'? Who are the underground dwellers that live beneath the train station? What are the motivations of the Tribe of the Free who are ruled over by Queen Katryca? Why do the two villainous rogues, Glitz and Dibber, want to destroy the totem to the Free's god? And who or what is the god-like immortal of whom or of which the underground dwellers speak? As these questions and others are answered, the Doctor realizes he might be the only one capable of saving Ravalox from becoming the flash point of universal destruction.

 

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9. Mindwarp
The court looks into the Doctor's investigation of Thoros Beta, home planet of the Mentors whom the Doctor suspects of selling advanced weaponry to primitive cultures. The Valeyard continues to use the matrix to show to the court the Doctor's meddling. Sil who we met last season, the reptilian Thoros Betan, and human Dr. Crozier are conducting surgical experiments to try and save Lord Kiv , leader of Thoros Beta, and decide his only chance is a brain transplant....but into whose body? The Doctor is put in a machine to extract information and appears to go unhinged as a result. He abandons Peri, and she is captured and will be the host of Kiv's brain. At this point the Time Lords removed the Doctor from time as they could no longer stand by as these dangerous experiments of Crozier were progressing, but too late. Peri dies as Kiv's complete personality is transferred into Peri, but the Peri/Kiv being is assassinated by warrior King Yrcanos, guided remotely by mental force by the Time Lords.
The Doctor watches aghast as on the courtroom screen the end of Peri is viewed. The Valeyard concludes the case for the prosecution, The Doctor caused Peri's death by meddling and being there in the first place, and his punishment should be death.

 

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10. Terror Of The Vervoids
The Doctor distraught by Peri's death, now has to compose himself and present evidence for his defence. Using the matrix he shows the court an adventure from his future. Along with new companion Mel, he goes on board the ship Hyperion 3 to answer a distress call from Capt. Travers.
Murders are being committed on this luxury ship which contains paying passengers, scientists, aliens , and someone is a killer. The scientists have been developing Vervoids, plant creatures they hope can be used as cheap labour. This is clearly immoral, and against the law. The Vervoids are smarter than thought and have escaped captivity and killing people. The Doctor ingeniously uses bright light to accelerate their life cycle thus killing them. The Doctor tries to prove this action saved lives and the human race if the Vervoids had got off the ship. The Valeyard gleefully says the Doctor has committed genocide and now must forfeit his life.

 

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11. The Ultimate Foe
Two episode finale to the trial. The Master gives evidence, oh no, but hold on, he's on the Doctor's side here. The Master reveals the Valeyard IS THE DOCTOR!! An evil incarnation from the future in league with the High Council of Time Lords.
The Time Lords destroyed Ravelox ( story 1) ,once known as Earth, to cover up the theft of secrets from The Matrix. The Valeyard wants the Doctor's remaining lives so did a deal to discredit the Doctor in this farcical trial in return for his remaining regenerations. Most of the scenes shown by the Valeyard in his presentation of the case for the prosecution were accurate, but some scenes the Valeyard faked, including Peri's death. She is alive and well and married to the warrior King Yrcanos. Various other scenes were concocted by the Valeyard to make the Doctor look bad.
The Valeyard flees the courtroom pursued by the Doctor and they head for a showdown in the virtual reality world of the matrix. The Master having no interest in justice revealed what he did to bring about the Time Lords collapse and hopefully one of the Doctors will kill the other.

It was a difficult time for the show and Colin Baker. The BBC hierarchy really wanted the show cancelled and Baker only got to do two years even though he was contracted for three. A year hiatus in production as the BBC rested the show. Fan pressure meant the show did return, but on condition that a new Doctor was introduced. Baker furious at being ,not sacked because his contract was up, but told his services would no longer be required, declined to do his regeneration scene. Sylvester McCoy, Doctor no. 7 wearing a wig and facing away from the camera, did the scene.

 

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