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Peter
Davison's tenure in the role marked the last era of stability
of the programme. Although the show lost it's longest
running and 
arguable most popular star, viewers took to the new vulnerable
fifth Doctor and for a time the ratings for the show rose
beyond what they had been during Tom Baker's final years.
This period also saw the return of the Doctor's arch nemesis
the Master, in the form of the dastardly Anthony Ainley.
Other element's from the show's past such as Omega, the
Black and White Guardians and the Sea Devils also reappeared.
This culminated in the nostalgiafest of the 20th anniversary
special 'The Five Doctors', which saw as many doctors,
companions and enemiesthrown together as possible. While
the production team proudly showcased the best from the
show's past, little did they know once Davision decided
to quit, how unstable it's future would be.
Stories:
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Project
Zeta-Sigma (or Project 4G) |
by:
Colin Flanagan and Andrew McCullough
Episodes:
4
Submitted for:
Season 19
Story:
In an alien galaxy, two
super-planets are engaged in arms escalation when one
side creates an ultimate defence shield around their
world which nothing can penetrate. The TARDIS manages
to get through to some extent, leaving the crew invisible
and intangible to their surroundings. A peace conference
between the two sides has been organized, attended by
both antagonists, the Hawks and Doves. A Dove speaker
says that now they have the defence shield they can
force the other world to disarm and also to withdraw
from a similar world which the Hawks have annexed. The
Hawks refute this and plan a final attack; they are
playing for time since their reason for invading the
smaller world was to mine a vital ingredient for their
latest weapon - a coating which will allow a missile
to be fired into the sun, start a chemical reaction
and burn out the solar system.
The Hawks' chief scientist, Sergio, is a maniac who
wishes to use the deterrent to force power away from
the politicians and into the hands of the rational scientists
(in later versions of the script, the character became
the Master, plotting to dominate the solar system).
The missile is fired, and the Doctor suggests that both
sides must fire all of their weapons at it to stop it
reaching the sun; all warheads are deployed but the
missile is too close to the sun and they melt before
reaching their target.
At the start of the final episode, Sergio/the Master
escapes as the Doctor's party manage to enter his control
room. The Doctor attempts to activate the missile's
fail-safe and put it into orbit around the sun, but
bungles his plan. The missile enters the sun... and
emerges through the other side, as the Doctor knew it
would. The missile is too resistant, and the Doctor
exploited the situation to melt the stockpiles of Hawks
and Doves and end the conflict. One of the Doctor's
companions comments that the Doctor knew the outcome
all along, to which the Doctor smiles. "That's
a very disarming smile, Doctor!" comments the companion.
Notes: This story was
meant to be the opener for season 19, and latterly part
of a trilogy introducing the new Master. When it was
realised that extensive rewrites were required it was
pushed back to second, then last of the season before
being finally dropped and replaced by 'Castrovalva'.
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Romaniods |
by:
Geoff Lowe
Episodes:
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Genesis
of the Cybermen |
by:
Gerry Davis
Episodes:
Submitted for:
Story:
Intending to fix the TARDIS’s
faulty zero regulator, the Doctor and his companion
(Peri?) land on a pre-cybernised Mondas, where they
meet the benevolent King Paulus and his two sons, the
scientist prince Dega, and the artist prince Sylvan.
While the Doctor repairs the zero regulator Peri, who
has taken a shine to prince Sylvan, shows him the TARDIS.
The Doctor returns just in time to find Sylvan tinkering
with the TARDIS controls, and accidentally sends the
ship into flight. The Doctor quickly lands, but when
they step outside they find that they have moved 50
years into the future.
Mondas has become a changed
world, now under the leadership of Dega, the pursuit
of scientific achievement is the primary goal, with
the greatest advances being in the field of cybernetics.
The king has had his arms and legs replaced with cybernetic
limbs and is about to have his head replaced and his
brain augmented, turning himself into the first Cyberman.
The Doctor, now realising what
is happening, begs Dega to reconsider. The king is furious
at this insolence and orders the royal guards to take
the Doctor away. In the confusion Peri is able to slip
away from the palace into the surrounding forest.
The King expains to his brother
that through the process of cybernisation, his people
would achieve immortality and would be unstoppable,
able to conquer the universe, starting with Mondas’
twin: Earth. Monda’s resouces are limited and
they need energy to survive, energy which Earth has
in abundance. Dega offers Sylvan joint kingship over
the Earth and Mondas if he will agree to be cybernised.
Hiding in the forest Peri is
found by a group descended from the artists of King
Paulus’ time, the Sylvans, named after the artist
prince. Forced to abandon their artistic ways the Sylvans
sole purpose is to collect food for the palace. Peri
tells the Sylvans that their prince has returned. They
decide to rescue their prince and the Doctor before
they are turned into cold unfeeling Cybermen.
The Doctor and Queen Meta are taken to the Transformer
room where they witness the final part of Dega’s
cybernisation. The king then instructs that the Doctor
be cybernised.
The Sylvans, having infiltrated
the palace, storm the transformer room only to be repelled
by the palace guards, but not before they free the Doctor;
however peri and Sylvan are recaptured. Dega decides
to start the mass production of cybermen and to ready
his space fleet for the invasion of Earth, with peri
the first to be cybernised. Peri appeals to the queen,
hoping that there is still a shred of fem ale
compassion in her newly cybernetic body. Her pleas fall
on deaf ears.
Seeing Sylvans discomfort at
Peri’s distress, Dega’s chief of Staff Krail
offers him a bargain: Peri’s life in exchange
for the location of the TARDIS. Sylvan tells him but
Krail reneges on the deal saying that bargains are illogical
and have no meaning; before throwing Peri into the transformation
chamber. This betrayal angers the Queen who orders Krail
to stand down. Krail complies but insists that this
be reported to the King and storms out. The Queen leads
Sylvan and Peri to a secret passageway used to get to
the royal launchpad.
In the throne room the new Cyberman
army is lining up before the King. Krail informs Dega
of what took place at he transformation room. Furious,
the King rushes to confront his Queen, where he finds
the prisoners gone. Meta refuses to tell him where they
are, but he is able to extract the information by reading
her thoughts. He races after the prisoner followed by
Krail and a phalanx of Cybermen.
At the other end of the passage
Sylvan and Peri emerge onto the launchpad where they
find the Doctor and the rebels preparing to board the
spacecraft and escape. In the distance they hear the
sound of Cybermen approaching, Slyvan hurries the rebels
onto the ship and urges the Doctor and Peri to follow.
The Doctor tells Sylvan that they will not be coming
with them as they have to find their way back to the
TARDIS. Suddenly they find themselves surrounded by
Cybermen led by Dega. Dega accuses Sylvan of being a
traitor and tries to kill him, only to be shot down
by Queen Meta before landing the killing blow. Sylvan
makes his way into the ship, but Krail arrives with
more Cybermen and kills the Queen.
The Sylvans start the ships
engines and in the confusion the Doctor and Peri are
able to escape back to the TARDIS only to find it surrounded
by Cybermen, however the tremors from the escaping ship
put the Cybermen off balance and the pair are able to
weave between them and get inside. The Doctor realises
that the huge impact of the rocket’s engines must
have thrown the planet out of it’s orbit, and
opens the scanner to find Mondas heading away from Earth
and out into the solar system.
Notes:
Having found out that the production team had used the
Cybermen without first seeking his permission, Davis
contacted them and sumitted this story. it was rejected
as substandard by Eric Saward, who went on to write
the next Cyberman story, 'Attack of the Cybermen', himself.
This story later appeared in David Banks' 'Cybermen'
book. |
The
Enemy Within |
by:
Christopher Priest
Episodes:
Submitted for:
Season 19
Story: A living
entity has found it's way into the heart of the TARDIS
and is menacing the crew. The Doctor tries to find a
way to expel it before the creature destroys all aboard
and finds that it is actually a manifestion of the Doctor's
fears. Unfortunately he is unable to save Adric from
the creature's wrath.
Notes: After the failure
of Preist's first script (Sealed Orders) to make it
to screen, Christopher H. Bidmead decided to commission
a second story, stipulating that the character of Adric
had to be killed off. He worked closely with Eric Saward
to ensure that his scripts were suitable, however some
time later he discovered that he had not been paid.
He contacted John Nathan-Turner, who informed him that
he would not be paid unless major rewrites were carried
out. He took the case to the Writers’ Guild and
won payment. Later, he learned that Saward had described
his work as ‘disastrous’, and won a written
apology from the production team after taking his case
to then Head of Series David Reid.
The story was replaced by Earthshock.
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Hebos |
by:
Rod Beacham
Episodes:
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Season 19
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The
Torsum Triumviratae |
by:
Andrew Smith
Episodes:
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The
Mouth of Grath |
by:
Malcome Edwards
Submitted for:
Season 19
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Farer
Nohan |
by:
Andrew Stephenson
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Season 19
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Soldar
and the Plastiods |
by:
John Bennett
Submitted for:
Season 19
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Psychrons |
by:
Terence Greer
Episodes:
4
Submitted for:
Season 19
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The
Dogs of Darkness |
by:
Jack Gardener
Episodes:
4
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Season 19
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Way
Down Yonder |
by:
Lesley Elizabeth Thomas
Episodes:
4
Submitted for:
Season 20
Story:
Set in New Orleans, and teaming
up the Second & Sixth Doctors
Notes: Inspired
by Nathan-Turner's visit to New Orleans and comments
by Patrick Troughton that he'd like to play the Doctor
again. Originally this was planned to be a major co-production
deal with Doctor Who's USA distributor and written by
Lesley Thomas. The script was later turned over to Robert
Holmes and would basically be The Two Doctors; when
the deal fell through, the story was renamed and relocated
to Spain.
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Song
of the Space Whale |
by:
Pat Mills & John Wagner
Episodes:
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Season 20
Story:
Notes:
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Warmongers |
by:
Marc Platt and Charles M Stevens
Episodes:
Submitted for:
Season 20
Story: Set in London during the
Blitz, the Sontarans and the Rutans are carrying on
their unending war of attrition. In addition, the warloving
Sontarans are sending secrets to the Nazis in a bid
to spice up the conflict.
Notes: A storyline was
submitted in 1983 by Marc Platt (later to write ‘Ghost
Light’) and Charles M Stevens (a pseudonym for
J Jeremy Bentham, a Doctor Who historian). They met
with script editor Eric Saward but the idea was not
taken forward.
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The
Return (or Warhead) |
by:
Eric Saward
Episodes:
4
Submitted for:
Season 20
Story:
No sooner has the Doctor welcomed Kamelion aboard the
TARDIS when it is dragged through time and space to
the docklands of 1984 where a bomb disposal squad have
found alien cannisters. Two false policemen attack and
wipe out the squad and then transform into duplicates
- they are androids like Kamelion, who is in fact a
product of Dalek technology. Kamelion's former programming
takes him over and he captures the Doctor and in the
TARDIS they head to the far future.
It transpires that in Genesis
of the Daleks, the Doctor DID affect the development
of the Daleks making them less cunning though more aggressive
creatures. Now on the verge of extinction after being
defeated by the Movellans, the Gold Emperor of the Daleks
hires Lytton and his mercenaries to break into a space
station. The crew are apathetic because in this new
history the Daleks are not considered a threat, and
so when the mercenaries attack they win. The survivors
of the crew flee to the self-destruct chamber and set
up a Mexican stand off situation.
Davros is revived and decides
the Daleks are a lost cause and wants to start again.
The Doctor escapes and resolves to kill Davros as if
he is allowed to live he will save the Daleks from extinction.
At the last moment, the Doctor cannot bring himself
to commit murder as it would also mean genocide - killing
Davros kills the Daleks. Kamelion breaks his conditioning
and releases the Movellan virus. The humans escape as
Davros dies from the virus. In order to stop the other
Kamelion androids from continuing the Dalek plan to
enslave the galaxy, Kamelion uses the self-destruct
on the station to wipe out the others.
Back on Earth, the Doctor, Tegan
and Turlough return to the TARDIS only to discover the
Gold Emperor has escaped - someday, somehow, the Daleks
will rise again...
Notes:
This storyline was immediately rejected by Terry Nation
who did not want to see a story where the Daleks were
defeated for good. He demanded that the Daleks be 'toughened
up', the Gold Emperor replaced with his own creation
the Supreme Dalek and Davros to survive the story but
assumed to be dead. Industrial action meant the story
was abandoned (losing Michael Wisher who was to return
as Davros) and also meaning the story could not continue
right after The King's Demons. The increasing problems
with the Kamelion android prop meant that angle no longer
worked. Eric Saward rewrote Kamelion's story arc as
Stein and also made the Daleks stronger with their plans
to conquer Earth and Gallifrey, however did not change
the scene which established the Daleks had lost the
Movellan war and were significantly weakened. This story
was accepted as The Ressurection, and eventually mutated
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The
Six Doctors |
by:
Robert Holmes
Episodes:
1
Submitted for:
20th Anniversary Special
Story: The
first Doctor and Susan are walking across planet Maladoom
exploring the local flora and fauna. unbeknownst to
them they are being watched on a video camera. 'incredibly
lifelike' says an unseen voice approvingly.
In the TARDIS the Fifth Doctor is struggling with
the controls as the ship is pulled into a time vortex.
The Doctor explains that someone must be interfering
with the polarity of time and matter. With a great deal
of effort Doctor manages to bring the ship into land
safely on Maladoom and resolves to find the person behind
the temporal distortion. Across the Doctors time stream,
his previous incarnations all encounter the same distortion
and come to the same decision
The fifth Doctor and Tegan come across a rectangular
panel inset into a craggy rock face. As the he examines
it, jets slide out and puff out a va pour which makes
the pair collapse unconscious. One by one the other
Doctors are lured into similar automated traps and imprisoned
in a cryogenic chamber. After a time the Master comes
into the cryogenic chamber and gloats over his success
at bringing the Doctor, in all his incarnations, to
his knees.
The second doctor's unconscious body is taken to an
operating theatre, where two Cybermen are preparing
to examine the doctor's physiology to find out the organic
mechanism that separates Time Lords from other species.
Once they find it they intend to implant it into the
Cybermen and become lords of time.
During an attempt to revive the Doctor, he goes into
terminal collapse and is eventually pronounced extinct.
The Cybermen are unconcerned since they have 4 more
doctors to experiment on an return him to the cryogenic
chamber. Once the doors have closed the second Doctor
revives himself from his self induced cataleptic state.
He then disconnects the freezer panels and the other
Doctors and companions slowly start to awaken.
having revaluated their reviving techniques the cybermen
return to the chamber to collect another doctor for
analysis only to be taken unawares by the newly revived
time lords who subsequently escape.
Back out on the surface of the planet they meet the
First doctor and Susan, who are actually cyborg copies.
The Cyberdoctor tries to lead them into an ambush but
he is unmasked as a fake just in time and destroyed.
The eventually come to a shining hill. At it's centre
is a mass of technology linked to the Master's TARDIS
which has increased it's power a thousand fold. This
power has created a time vacuum to which all the time
travelers were drawn. The Doctors find out however that
it is now feeding back into itself and will soon cause
an implosion in this part of space, leaving nothing
but a black hole.
By working together the doctors are able to stabilize
the machinery and eventually bringing it to a halt,
but not before the master turns up with one last trick
which the Doctors must overcome. Once the Master's TARDIS
and it's extension has been stopped the Doctors one
by one are returned to their own time streams leaving
the fifth Doctor and Tegan alone. |
Wargame |
Story:
The Cybermen team up with the Daleks
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Untitled
(Haunted House) |
by:
Tanith Lee
Episodes:
4
Submitted for:
Season 20
Story: A haunted house-style story featuring only the
regulars, and how their relationship with each other
is effected by an outside force that slowly drains the
life out of them.
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Parasites
|
by:
Bill Lyons
Episodes:
4
Submitted for:
Season 20
Story:
The Doctor discovers that an alien race apparently enslaved
by humanity is in fact secretly controlling their 'masters'
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Poison |
by:
Rod Beecham
Episodes:
2
Submitted for:
Season 20
Story:
Concerned mysterious goings-on in a rural English village.
Notes:
Rod Beacher appeared in Doctor Who as Corporal Lane
in The Web of Fear.
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The
House that Ur-Cjak Built |
by:
Andrew Stephenson
Episodes:
4
Submitted for:
Season 20
Story:
A mansion of death traps is where the mysterious dictator
of an alien planet keeps the natives from revolting
against him.
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The
Place Where All Times Meet |
by:
Colin Davis
Episodes:
4
Submitted for:
Season 20
Story: People from different periods
in history find themselves able to move between times
in the English countryside.
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Fenris |
by:
Marc Platt
Episodes:
2
Submitted for:
Season 20
Story: The Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa arrive
aboard the Trans-Amazon express monorail. In the year
2150, the Amazon basin has become the Amazon desert.
There they encounter the mysterious Elvira de Burgos,
who they discover is the leader of a gathering of a
whole pack of werewolves. Normally solitary creatures,
the werewolves are exhibiting the social behaviour of
normal wolves.
Notes:
Marc Platt submitted a werewolf storyline to script
editor Eric Saward around 1982. Nothing came of it,
though he later resurrected it as the basis for his
Big Finish play Loups Garoux, with Turlough replacing
Tegan and Nyssa.
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The
SCI |
by:
William Emms
Submitted for:
Season 20
Story: The Doctor and his companions
land on the planet Alden where they discover the population
are under mental control.
Notes:
This was one of two storylines
submitted by Williams Emms, who had written
‘Galaxy Four’ for the First Doctor, during
the early 1980s
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The
Zeldan |
by:
William Emms
Submitted for:
Season 20
Story:
Notes:
This was one of two storylines
submitted by Williams Emms, who had written
‘Galaxy Four’ for the First Doctor, during
the early 1980s
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Manwatch |
by:
Christopher
Bailey
Submitted for:
Season 21
Story: The
Doctor and his companions become involved in the intrigue
and events in Byzantium.
Notes: Following on from
Snakedance, Bailey sumbitted a third storyline, set
in Byzantium as he was interested in the subject at
the time. The storyline started life as Maytime, then
became Manwatch. Bailey struggled to find a story to
link the events together, and despite being reworked
for the Sixth Doctor as The Children Of Seth, the story
was never completed.
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Hex |
by:
Peter Ling
Episodes:
2
Submitted for:
Season 21
Story:
The TARDIS alerts the Doctor to a massive influx of beings
from an unknown alien planet to the Earth. Landing to
investigate he finds that there have been a spate of mysterious
kidnaps of the worlds eminent scientists. using the TARDIS
the doctor manages to locate the destination of the force
beam that is bringing the aliens to earth to home of a
professor Sallinger.
The Doctor and Peri visit the professor and try to warn
him that he will probably be the next kidnap victim, and
suggests that he use himself as bait to expose and trap
the aliens. the professor refuses to believe them, and
shoos them out, however the Doctor is able to attach a
mind bug to him so should the professor disappear, he
can be traced.
later that evening the professor is attacked by a insect
creature, in the TARDIS the doctor receives a garbled
message form the Mind bug "..hex". Thinking
that "hex" may refer to the planet Hex agora,
the doctor checks the co-ordinates and sure enough, it
leads to the planet. They set off in search of the professor.
Looking around he they find that it is very similar to
earth, both topographically, culturally and technologically.
they only realises the difference when a policeman sprouts
wings and flies into the air.
They are met by a young man who takes them to honeycomb
like royal palace to meet Zafia, the beautiful queen of
Hexagoria The Queen explains to them that the reason for
their trips to Earth is because the planet is cooling
down. Earth at one point went through a similar change
and they are conducting research into the possible effects.
She takes them to a hospital where they find many rooms
containing cocooned in a spider web like material Hexagorians
on life support machines. Hexargorians are dependant on
the Solar energy, the Queen tells them with tears in her
eyes, and her people are dying out. The Doctor pledges
to do anything he can to help, but must first get some
things from the TARDIS.
Once inside the Doctor tells Peri that the mind bug had
been activated while the were in the hospital, so the
Professor must have been close by. He lands the TARDIS
inside the hospital and the pair search for the professor.
They find him in one of the cocoons, but are before they
can free him they captured by two guards, however after
a time they are able to escape and take the professor
to the TARDIS. Still in a coma like state, He is hooked
up to a mindforce machine which can display the professors
dreams on a small scanner and the pair find that the professor
is reliving his moment of capture over and over again.
The Doctor increases the power to the Mindforce machine
which causes the professor to come to. and make for the
palace to confront Zafia, her ruse exposed the explains
that he need the brain power of the Earth scientists to
boost the Hexagorians central power source, the brain
bank. All Hexagorians are dependant on the brain ban,
which is controlled by the Zafia.
The Doctor suggests that their only option for survival
is to abandon the brian bank and move to a new planet
where they can cultivate their own sources of power. Zafia
agrees on the condition that the doctor to marry her.
She reveals that she is a Time Lord, and through their
union there would be no limit to their powers.
Meanwhile, the professor and Peri go to look for the doctor
in the palace. They find the Doctor in the queens quarters,
covered in webbing and flanked by two insects. the queen
instructs them to take the doctor back to the TARDIS.
Peri and the professor meet the young man who brought
them to the palace, Jezz, and plead with him to help them
saves the Doctor. When they tell him of the insect like
monsters Jezz does not believe them, so peri take him
up to the queens quarters, where they find the doctor
up and about, and no sign of the monsters. As they return
to the TARDIS Peri tells the Doctor what she saw. The
doctor theorizes that the insects are the guards true
form, and goes to the TARDIS library to consult his books
on Hexagoria. To his surprise he finds that all the books
with reference to hexagoria have been destroyed, and sticky
web like material left in their wake. In the meantime
Peri consults her own biology books about insect species,
and concocts a theory.
Anxious to test out her theory she makes for the hospital
and starts peeling of the cocoon material from one of
the patients To her horror she fins that it is Jezz, who
has been replaced by a copy or something. The duplicate
Jezz enters and takes her prisoner.
The Doctor rushes to the palace and confronts zafia about
the destruction of his books and she assures him that
the culprits will be found . The professor comes after
him and tells then doctor that Peri has been captured.
The queen orders the guards to detain the two, however
they are able to escape.
In the clinic ward, peri is wrapped in webbing to be prepared
to have her mind drained. Jezz appears and Peri begs him
to help her, Jezz concedes but he is unsure why. Peri
theorizes that the emotions of the real Jezz have somehow
rubbed of on him. Peri asks him to set her free but he
refuses, however he sets up the bed so it looks like Peri
is actually plugged into the brain bank. Peri, pleads
for Jezz to at least let the Doctor know where she is
so that he can come and find her, Jezz agrees.
In the TARDIS the Doctor asks the professor what happened
to Peri. The professor explains the situation and the
Doctor rushes to find her, taking a torch with him. Arriving
at the palace gardens the Doctor hangs the lamp to the
branch of a tree so that it moves in the wind. This captivates
the insect guards allowing the doctor to slip into the
hospital were a new batch of humans have arrived. As the
doctor looks on one of the insect creatures is hooked
up to an unconscious human and gradually assumes his form.
While he is watching the Doctor is captured by two guards
. Jezz arrives and orders the guards to hold him in the
TARDIS.
In the clinic jezz has returned to help peri escape. Peri
asks him why they are cocooning humans and jezz tells
her the queens plan. the hexagorians intend to take on
the identities and physical appearances of the humans
they are abducting, until enough people have been abducted
so that they are the dominant species, whereupon they
will be able to shed their disguises and take control
of the planet.
the guards take the Doctor to the palace and furious,
he accuses the queen of taking Peri prisoner. The queen
admits her crime but says that circumstance has forced
her to take desperate measures in order to save her people.
The Doctor insists that the marriage will only go ahead
if Peri is released, the Queen reluctantly agrees and
sends guards to fetch her.
The guards walk in on Jezz as he is trying to free Peri,
the professor has found them but, seeing the guards Takes
cover . Jezz is able to convince them that there is nothing
awry and they are led to the throne room for the marriage
ceremony. Once the coast is clear the professor starts
to release the rest of the humans from their cocoons and
disconnecting them from the brain bank.
As the power in the throne room begins to fade the marriage
ceremony commences. The doctor nervously delays proceedings
until Peri arrives. he says that today is Peri's birthday
and that they should join the two celebrations as one.
He tells Peri's that he has a present for her in the TARDIS
and that she should fetch it. After a time Peri returns
with her present, a birthday cake with 21 candles on it.
The insects recoil in horror, terrified by the flames.
Jezz attempts to take the cake from peri but only succeeds
in throwing it against the wall of the honeycombed throne
room and setting fire to the curtains and wall. the fire
quickly becomes and inferno and there is panic. The doctor
Peri and the professor are able to escape but the queen
and jezz are caught in the blaze. They rush to help the
remaining humans out of the cocoons and into the TARDIS
as the city is engulfed. |
Ghost
Planet |
by:
Robin Squire
Episodes:
4
Submitted for:
Season 21
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Circus
of Destiny |
by:
Ben Steed
Episodes:
2
Submitted for:
Season 21
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The
Zeldan (or The SCI) |
by:
William Emms
Episodes:
Submitted for:
Season 21
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The
Darkness |
by:
Eric Pringle
Episodes:
4
Submitted for:
Season 21
Story: Featured the Daleks.
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Underworld |
by:
Barbara Clegg
Submitted for:
Season 21
Story:
Ancient Greece. A young girl is dragged down into a
cleft in the ground by
long black tentacles. The TARDIS lands nearby; the Doctor
meets a young
musician, Orfeo, and his girlfriend, Erdiss. At the
nearby temple, they
discover another young man and woman, both suffering
from snake bites and
under the care of the local medicine man, Herm. The
man is in a coma, but
the woman is pronounced dead and consigned to the river
Styx - a new custom
which has recently replaced burial.
When Erdiss is bitten and sent down the river, Herm
is overcome by remorse
and confesses to knowledge of a secret city under the
ground which harbours
the tentacles creatures. He and the Styx bargeman, Kairon,
have been
working together to drug any girl the creatures select
and deliver her to
the creatures.
There are two entrances to the Underworld - one beneath
the temple altar and
one via the Styx. Orfeo and the Doctor’s companion
enter the former, while
the Doctor pretends to be dead and is boated downriver
by Herm. A
three-headed guard dog of legend turns out to be a digging
machine with
searchlight arms; the creatures are humanoid beings
wearing protective suits
to blast through the rock underground.
The two parties eventually meet up, and the Doctor discovers
a large group
of unharmed girls. He is told by the creatures - the
highly advanced
Hadeans - that their own female population were made
barren by an energy
accident. He offers advice on genetics to put things
right.
Note: This was one of three storylines
submitted by ‘Enlightenment’ author Barbara
Clegg during 1982. It drew heavily on the Greek myths
connected with the
underworld of Hades, with mentions of Kairon [Charon],
a three-headed guard
dof [Cerberus], and the river Styx. The character Of
Orfeo could have been
derived from Orpheus. The idea was not developed further.
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The
Rogue TARDIS |
by:
Barbara
Clegg
Episodes:
4
Submitted for:
Season 21
Story: A TARDIS is lost between space
and time, and the Gallifreyan search parties
which have been sent out have failed to establish contact
with its Time
Lord, Ajon. The mission falls to the Doctor. He locates
the missing TARDIS
and is allowed by it to materialize his own TARDIS aboard.
But there is no
sign of Ajon. Apart from a new computer in the control
room, the vehicle
seems deserted.
Not for long. Monsters emerge. The boarding party open
doors onto deep
forest, whose inhabitants begin to erupt. The laws of
cause and effect are
reversed, and the whole adventure assumes a nightmare
quality.
Contact with the TARDIS computer banks reveal that Ajon
had a human mother.
By clever detective work, and by braving the terrifying
lower levels of
Ajon’s TARDIS, the Doctor rescues several human
characters - whom Ajon had
tried to help and jettisoned - and also Ajon himself.
The Time Lord has
suppressed all his human qualities and, at his last
regeneration, emerged as
a computer. Ajon regenerates once more and is restored.
Note: This
was one of three storylines submitted by ‘Enlightenment’
author Barbara
Clegg during 1982. Particularly of note is the concept
of Ajon having a
human mother - an idea later used in the 1996 TV Movie.
The storyline was
not developed further.
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The
Elite |
by:
Barbara Clegg
Submitted for:
Season 21
Story:
The TARDIS lands in an underground city on an alien
planet. The Doctor and his companion are captured and
taken before the Council of the Elite - three unsmiling
20-year olds. The entire civilization is geared towards
producing brilliant computer brains, with rigorous training
and selection, to give them the edge in a long, drawn-out
war. Sensory stimuli are banned in this society, so
when the Doctor offers around a chocolate bar, he and
his companion are condemned as enemy agitators.
The savages turn out to be good guys - rejects who were
no good at maths and
computing and who were expelled from the city. They
plan to attack the bunker of the High Priest of Power,
who controls the city and has so far frustrated the
Doctor’s efforts.
General Aubron rescues the Doctor from the High Priest,
and the Elite forces join the savages to unmask the
High Priest - a lone Dalek, the survivor of an expedition
which arrived centuries earlier. Its plan was for the
two human societies to exterminate each other while
it would use the computer geniuses being bred to return
home. The savages and the Elite decied to work together
from now on.
Note:
This was one of several story outlines submitted by
Barbara Clegg (‘Enlightenment’) during 1982.
It was not taken further.
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