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The Second Doctor comic stories is a range of offscreen adventures featuring the second incarnation of the Doctor, the hero of BBC 1's longrunning science fiction series Doctor Who . They initially appeared in TV Comic.
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The Second Doctor comic stories is a range of offscreen adventures featuring the second incarnation of the Doctor, the hero of BBC 1's longrunning science fiction series Doctor Who . They initially appeared in TV Comic.
The TV Comic version of the First Doctor had had as companions John and Gillian. In 1966, when the Doctor changed his appearance on television and in comics, TV Comic has these characters traveling with the "new" Doctor. They were soon replaced with Jamie McCrimmon, to better match televised Doctor Who.
After the concluding Second Doctor television series aired, The War Games, TV Comic continued to print comics featuring the Second Doctor. The stories followed on from the end of that serial, in which the Doctor's people, the Time Lords had exiled him to the 20th century and deemed that he should change his appearance. These stories ignored the second part of the sentence and had the Second Doctor living on Earth with his old body, at least until the concluding story, in which agents of the Time Lords forced the Doctor to regenerate.
Fans would later use these stories as evidence for a fan theory concerning "Season 6B", first discussed for a wide audience in the 1995 episode guidebook The Discontinuity Guide written by Paul Cornell, Martin Day, and Keith Topping.
The Second Doctor has returned for comics printed in Doctor Who Magazine , IDW Publishing and Titan Comics.
| # | Title | Companions | Plot | Writer | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Extortioner" | Gillian/John | The TARDIS lands on an unnamed planet. The Doctor leaves John and Gillian in the ship and explores a nearby volcano. He discovers it is the base of the Extortioner, who plans to blackmail the inhabited universe with his fleet of rockets unless they pay his ransom demands. The Doctor is captured and imprisoned, but escapes with his pocket laser. He throws the missiles' warheads into the volcano's core, causing an eruption which destroys the Extortioner's base. Enraged, the Extortioner pursues the Doctor in his giant mechanical mole. The Doctor lures him to a crack caused by the volcano's eruption and he falls to his doom. The Doctor returns to the TARDIS.
| Roger Noel Cook | 24 December 1966 - 14 January 1967 |
| 2 | "The Trodos Ambush" | Gillian/John | The Doctor, John and Gillian go back to Trodos to sign a peace treaty with the Trods but when they arrive the Trods have, apparently been wiped out by an invasion army of Daleks who are waiting for the time travellers so that they can kill them, too. When the ground collapses beneath their feet the travellers fall into the Trods' underground city and meet some of the surviving Trods. The Daleks search for the travellers but fail to find them. They send a single Dalek into the city as a kind of bait. The Dalek is killed by the Doctor but this only serves to give his position away. The Trods befriend the Doctor and help him and his grandchildren to escape back to the TARDIS. The Doctor promises to carry on his fight against the Daleks just as the Daleks are prepared to chase him to his destruction. | Roger Noel Cook | 21 January - 11 February 1967 |
| 3 | "The Doctor Strikes Back" | Gillian/John | The Second Doctor, John and Gillian materialise in a small cave. After checking the TARDIS's Year Meter the Doctor decides that his grandchildren should stay in the cave while he scouts ahead. He walks a short distance and sees a Dalek outpost. Going back to the TARDIS, he decides to get revenge by infiltrating the garrison with his Dalek disguise. The Doctor successfully walks into one of their main buildings and hides in the planning room. Several minutes later, he overhears that the planet is rich in the materials Daleks use to reproduce, and that the Dalek Supreme is on his way to supervise the production of these Daleks. The Doctor sneaks into the mines where the Daleks are gathering the material and estimates that they have enough to create 10,000 Daleks. He takes off the top of his disguise to get a better look, and some Daleks see that he is an intruder! Luckily, the Doctor's disguise is much faster than the real Daleks. He escapes the Daleks, but they alert the entire outpost to an intruder's presence. The Daleks begin destroying themselves in attempts to find the Doctor. The Dalek Supreme sends a message to all the Daleks to "stop all exterminating at once". This gives the Doctor an idea, and he pinches his nose and impersonates the Dalek Supreme. He sends a message to all the Daleks telling them to destroy themselves. A Dalek enters the room, but the Doctor doesn't notice! The Doctor sees the Dalek and shoots him with his disguise. The Daleks obey the Doctor's order and destroy themselves. The Supreme watches this in his flying saucer and is enraged. The Doctor runs to the TARDIS and dematerialises mere seconds before the Supreme obliterates the cave with strike rockets. The Doctor tells John and Gillian, "By crippling the garrison I have struck a devastating blow against the Daleks... There will be many more!". | Roger Noel Cook | 18 February - 11 March 1967 |
| 4 | "The Zombies" | Gillian/John | The TARDIS malfunctions and only partly materialises so that the Doctor has to affect emergency repairs to complete the landing. Outside, he realises he has arrived in 1969 London where the people have been hypnotised and become human robots. The villains are Zagbors, a humanoid alien race. Zagbors chase the Doctor back to the TARDIS. They take the TARDIS to their spacecraft and try to cut it open with ray cutters. When the Doctor tries to dematerialise again it malfunctions once more so that he, along with John and Gillian, have to surrender. The Doctor asks to be hypnotised first, before his grandchildren and overcomes the hypnotising beam, thus making the Zagbors his slaves. He reverses the hypnosis on the humans, and repairs the TARDIS. | Roger Noel Cook | 18 March - 1 April 1967 |
| 5 | "Master Of Spiders" | Gillian/John | The TARDIS materialises in a sinister swamp where the Doctor intends to test his new invention - a ray gun. All too soon he and his grandchildren are being chased by a giant metal spider that contains the Master of Spiders. He is intent on killing anyone who trespasses on his territory. The Doctor, John and Gillian evade him so he unleashes an army of real giant spiders. The Doctor uses his ray gun to shoot one of the spiders and then the three travellers seek refuge in a cave. To their horror, they find it is the nest of the spiders. The Master seals them inside. They make their way through the cave. Doctor realises that the metal spider controls the other spiders with a high pitched signal. As one of the spiders closes in on them he plays a high pitched note on his recorder. This drives off the spiders but the travellers are trapped in a web and the Master orders his spiders to kill them. The Doctor uses his recorder again which lures the Master into an attempt to crush them with his metal spider and the Doctor gets the chance to destroy the metal spider. He then seals the cave with the real spiders inside. | Roger Noel Cook | 8 -29 April 1967 |
| 6 | "The Exterminator" | Gillian/John | The TARDIS lands on an alien planet and the Doctor and his grandchildren watch a vast futuristic train pass by. When they have followed the train to its destination they see an army of Daleks getting off. They learn that the Daleks have made a powerful weapon - the Exterminator to destroy the Earth. The Doctor eavesdrops on the Daleks and finds out that a specially trained crew will be arriving by train to use the weapon. The Doctor and John's derail the train. Gillian finds the instructions for firing the exterminator in the wreckage. Meanwhile the Daleks in the station come to investigate the crashed train and find the TARDIS. John and Gillian hide from the Daleks while the Doctor makes his way to the station and uses the instructions to operate the weapon. John and Gillian are almost caught by some Daleks but at the last second the Daleks receive a message to say that the Doctor has been seen near the exterminator. The Doctor destroys two Dalek guards with a metal bar before using the exterminator to wipe out not only the Daleks racing back to the weapon but also the Dalek saucers that are arriving. This Dalek threat is over. | Roger Noel Cook | 6 - 27 May 1967 |
| 7 | "The Monsters From The Past" | Gillian/John | t is the 1960s and the TARDIS materialises in a museum in New York City. The travellers emerge in a room full of artificial, model dinosaurs. The Doctor takes John and Gillian on a tour of the city and while they are away a scientist brings the dinosaurs to life. The Doctor manages to escape from the teeth and claws of the creatures and contacts the army. He tells the artillery where to aim their shells but the dinosaurs seem impregnable and burst out onto the streets. The Doctor makes for the zoo where he discovers the scientist giving drugs to the animals that will make them obey him. The scientist orders a panther to attack the Doctor who drives it off with acid. The scientist leaves his laboratory lair on a brontosaurus. This allows the Doctor to create an antidote to the Life drug that the scientist was using. Before he can get the antidote to the army, the scientist and his tame dinosaurs attack the building. The Doctor escapes, however, and gets back to John and Gillian at an army shelter. He puts his antidote into syringes which the army loads into their rifles. The first three dinosaurs to attack are transformed back to the museum models that they began as, but the other one the scientist is riding attacks the Doctor and knocks him out. Gillian shoots the dinosaur with a syringe, the scientist is thrown off as she does so, and the dinosaur becomes a model once more. The soldiers carry away the unconscious scientist on a stretcher and the Doctor, John and Gillian return to the TARDIS. | Roger Noel Cook | 3 June - 1 July 1967 |
| 8 | "The TARDIS Worshippers" | Gillian/John | The Madar, a South American tribe, are praying for help to their gods to protect them from their enemies when the TARDIS materialises in the place where their idol is standing and knocks it over. The tribe thus begins to worship the TARDIS, the Doctor and his grandchildren. The Doctor agrees to help the tribe by making fireworks from gunpowder. The attackers are scared off and the Doctor tracks them back to their homes village. Their witch doctor explains that he knows how the gunpowder trick worked. The Doctor, listening in, realises that he will have to think of a new plan to keep 'his' tribe safe. He gets them to dig traps around their, including one with a jaguar. The enemy tribe sends an army of a thousand men but they are confounded by the traps and retreat. The Doctor's followers tell him that they now feel able to defend themselves rather than calling on 'gods' to protect them. The Doctor and his grandchildren leave. | Roger Noel Cook | 8 - 29 July 1967 |
| 9 | "Space War Two" | Gillian/John | Earth has recently won a victory in a space war with robots from Verno in the Thirtieth Century. The traitor, Earthman Arborge Quince has survived the defeat and is keen to get his revenge on Earth. The Doctor lands on Verno where he and his grandchildren find Quince in a subterranean base where he is rebuilding a robot army to relaunch the assault the Earth. The Doctor sends John and Gillian back up to the surface of the planet while he goes in search of Quince. On the way he is attacked by a trio of robots. John and Gillian rescue him by returning to the base and knocking out Quince. They then destroy the control panel for the robots. They escape back to the surface in an elevator which they try to disable while the Doctor returns to the TARDIS to radio back to Earth for help. Quince dispatches four more robots to the surface to prevent the Doctor from getting back to John and Gillian. The Doctor tosses a grenade down the lift shaft and blows up Quince and the production line for the robots. The four robots are left leaderless and end up destroying each other. | Roger Noel Cook | 5 - 26 August 1967 |
| 10 | "Egyptian Escapade" | Gillian/John | The TARDIS materialises in Egypt, 1880, right in the middle of a cricket match which is ended by an Arab attack on the British. The attackers force the British to flee and take the TARDIS, still with the Doctor, John and Gillian trapped inside, to their leader, Mahadi. He orders it to be opened and his men try to burn their way inside without success. The TARDIS is carried to Mahadi's his cave of treasures. Meanwhile, plans are being made to attack the British at Fort Cavendish. The Doctor decides to save the British soldiers in the fort and puts on an Arab costume so that he can escape from the Arab encampment. British soldiers find him and he is mistaken for a spy and beaten to the ground with rifles. When they hear him speak English they take him to General Harvey, who still thinks he is a spy and so the Doctor is locked up. The Arab attack takes place and the fort is set on fire. The wooden floorboards in the Doctor's cell collapse due the heat, allowing him to use smoke bombs to scare off the Arabs. The Doctor has more smoke bombs left which he uses to get away from the British. When he gets back to the Arab camp it is deserted and he re-enters the TARDIS. | TBA | 2 - 23 September 1967 |
| 11 | "The Coming Of The Cybermen" | Gillian/John | The TARDIS lands on the deserted planet Minot where the Doctor finds a crashed spaceship. He tells his grandchildren to wait behind some rocks while he investigates. However, the ship's crew of Cybermen comes back. The Doctor hides inside the ship while the crew repairs it and then lifts off. The Doctor searches the ship and finds a giant bomb that the Cybermen are going to use to destroy Earth. He sets the bomb to explode in twenty-five minutes which should give him time to get into one of their patrol ships and escape but he is discovered. The Cybermen fire at him but he escapes by hiding inside bomb. When he tries to get back out with ten minutes left on the countdown he finds he has been sealed inside. He manages to kick the casing open and gets back to a patrol ship where he overpowers a Cyberman before flying into space. The Cybermen try to shoot his ship but their spaceship explodes first. He flies back to Minot and meets up again with John and Gillian.
| Roger Noel Cook | 30 September - 21 October 1967 |
| 12 | "The Faithful Rocket Pack" | Gillian/John | After the TARDIS arrives in a desert in Arizona, sometime in 1988, the Doctor and his grandchildren see a new jet aircraft crash. A rescue part arrives and the Doctor talks to them, telling them that he is able to fly the plane. They warn him that the last four test flights have ended in crashes but he is keen to pilot the next prototype. Not long after he takes off the plane plummets towards the ground. Fortunately, he has his faithful rocket pack and ejects to safety. He has noticed that all of the planes came down in the same area so he sets out to investigate. Using a detector, he finds there is a powerful magnet hidden below the sand but almost straight away he is attacked by enemy agents and taken to their subterranean control room. When he fails to report back to the base John and Gillian start to get worried begin to panic. The Doctor realises that he is an enormous base hidden in the caverns under the desert and that the enemy are deliberately destroying the planes. The enemy agents decide to shoot him but he still has his rocket pack and uses it to escape into the tunnels underground. Sadly, he loses his way. His solution is to radio to John and tell him to get the U.S military to fill a jet pack with explosives and send it over the base where it will be drawn down and destroy the agents. This duly happens and the base is destroyed. The explosion causes a crack to appear in the roof of the cavern that he can escape through and the Doctor makes it back to his grandchildren. | TBA | 28 October - 18 November 1967 |
| 13 | "Flower Power" | Gillian/John | The TARDIS lands in a meadow on a new and strange planet. The meadow is full of moths and butterflies as well as a giant wasp. This is soon revealed as a flying machine containing the curious Professor Gnat. He invites the Doctor and his grandchildren to help him look for rare insects but instead they find a dead Cybermat lying in some flowers. The Doctor warns the professor that this could mean danger but Gnat ignores him and is taken prisoner by Cybermen. The Doctor realises that the Cybermat must have been killed by the flowers and he decides that the same weapon could work on the Cybermen. They use the flowers to get past one party of Cybermen and find their way into the Cybermen's mountain headquarters. They trigger an alarm and are forced to hide and overcome the Cybermen in small groups. The Doctor, John and Gillian find Professor Gnat's prison cell but he won't leave because he has discovered a rare insect. They have to pull him away but now they find that the Cybermen are wearing face masks to protect themselves against the flowers. One of the dead Cybermen was carrying a gun which the Doctor uses to open up a shaft so that they can get back to the surface. As the shaft collapses the pursuing Cybermen think that the travellers are dead but the Doctor blast a path through the rubble. They are chased by more Cybermen and just make it back to the TARDIS with the professor. | TBA | 25 November - 23 December 1967 |
| 14 | "The Witches" | Gillian/John | The annual reunion of witches is taking place on Vargo when the TARDIS materialises. The Doctor steps outside and tries to pretend that he is the Wizard of Omega. The Grand Witch doesn't believe him so she conjures a large monster which the Doctor destroys with a ray gun from his utility belt. This convinces most of the witches that he is who he says, and they are so scared of his magical powers that they run away. Only the Grand Witch and two others stay behind. They spy on the Doctor and realise he is not who he says so the Grand Witch calls up a giant crab which pulls the Doctor from the TARDIS. The witches take him to their cave and strap him to a wheel that will drag the Doctor through boiling lead. Fortunately, John and Gillian have followed and John calls out from his hiding place, pretending to be the All Powerful Voice of Witchcraft. The witches have never heard of this but they let the Doctor go anyway. He runs back to the TARDIS but the Grand Witch uses x-ray vision to see John and Gillian. As the travellers reach the TARDIS the witches create an indestructible net over the TARDIS. The Doctor, John and Gillian hide behind a bush and then head back to the witches' cave where the Doctor finds a book of spells including one that turns witches to dust. When the three witches come back he uses the spell and destroys them. | Roger Noel Cook | 30 December 1967 - 27 January 1968 |
| 15 | "Cyber-Mole | Gillian/John | A Cybership lands in a forest near London in 1970. The Cybermen open up their ship to release a huge drill which they use to burrow into the ground. The Doctor arrives after the local security forces but he finds a piece of metal and concludes that Cybermen are around. He keeps a vigil on the hole while the Cybermen tunnel into a secret weapons bunker to steal a doomsday bomb which they can use to destroy the Earth. The Doctor discovers their plan the following morning after he buys a newspaper. He takes John and Gillian to the Ministry of Defence and finds out that the Cybermen have made their terms known: the destruction of all Earth's weapons and demobilization of every army in the next five days. The Cybermen can then launch their invasion without receiving casualties. The Doctor takes a party of commandoes into the tunnel and finds the Cyber-mole. The Doctor knocks on the door and the Cybermen open it, allowing the soldiers to kill them with ray guns. The Doctor drives the Cyber-mole back to the bunker and gives the doomsday bomb back. | John Canning | 3 - 24 February 1968 |
| 16 | "The Sabre Toothed Gorillas" | Gillian/John | The TARDIS lands on a beautiful, wild planet where the Doctor and his grandchildren discover some sabre toothed gorillas in a cave. They decide to watch the gorillas from behind a bush until John treads on a twig and the gorillas are alerted to their presence. The gorillas chase them into a ravine when a stranger appears and tells them to go into a narrow crevice. As they do, Gillian twists her ankle so John and the stranger go to the man's laboratory to get some weapons. They return with clubs made of 'squidge' and drive away the gorillas. Once everyone is in the laboratory, the professor explains squidge, a material he has been developing for years. It is similar to rubber, but ten times more bouncy, and full of other wonderful properties. The demonstration of squidge is interrupted when the gorillas attack. The professor fights them off with his squidge clubs and the Doctor and his grandchildren take a squidge rope that they use to build catapult which holds off the gorillas for a while until the professor joins them. When the gorillas are too numerous to fight off, the Doctor, John, Gillian and the professor use the catapult to fire themselves into some trees beyond their attackers. They run to the TARDIS and escape, and agree to drop the professor on a safe planet to carry on creating squidge. | TBA | 2 - 23 March 1968 |
| 17 | "The Cyber Empire" | Gillian/John | The Cybermen are at the height of their powers and are building a new city with a giant statue of the Cyber Controller. The TARDIS lands in the construction site where slave labour is being used to do the building work. The Doctor plans to liberate the slaves until a Cyberman lands near the TARDIS. The Doctor uses a pipe to knock out the Cyberman and then he and his grandchildren use the Cyberman's hovercraft to fly over the city with the cockpit windows painted black so that they can't be seen. They see that there are three gun positions guarding the slaves. Nearby is a rocket base. The Doctor goes back to the TARDIS and puts on a disguise to look like a slave. He also takes his utility belt. He gives the slaves their instructions and blows up the statue with a bomb. When it collapses the slaves take their cue and overpower the guards on the gun positions. The Doctor, John and Gillian pick up the guns dropped by some of the Cybermen and kill the Cybermen in the gun positions. The slaves take possession of the guns and the Doctor wipes out the guards at the rocket base so that the slaves can use the rockets to escape back to Earth. | TBA | 30 March - 20 April 1968 |
| 18 | "The Dryons" | Gillian/John | The TARDIS lands on a volcanic planet and the Doctor, John and Gillian meet two boys who are part of a stranded school party that crashed on the planet. Their pilot and teacher are killed and the children are hiding from tentacled monsters called the Dyrons. The Doctor and his grandchildren ride on two of the boys' bikes to a volcano but he the tyres are ripped on the rocks and they have to hide before the Dyrons catch and eat them. The Dyrons miss them so the Doctor and his companions decide to head to a cave where the other boys are hiding. The Dyrons attack but it is growing dark and the creatures withdraw to the swamp where they spend the night. The Doctor uses this opportunity to get back to the TARDIS and gets a bomb that he intends to use to start earthquakes that will kill the Dyrons. Unfortunately it also causes the volcano to erupt. The earthquake kills a lot of the Dyrons and the Doctor uses his ray gun to start more tremors to finish off the rest. Fortunately, the seismic tremors alert a rescue party that has been searching for the boys and they rescue the party. | TBA | 27 April - 25 May 1968 |
| 19 | "Dr. Who And The Space Pirates" | Gillian/John | The planet of Neon is facing a problem: the ships carrying food supplies from the nearby planet Barren are being stolen by space pirates. The Doctor lands and offers to help by piloting one of the ships collecting the food. On the way back the ship is captured by the pirates and the captain, Burglass, orders the Doctor and his companions to walk the plank. The space police arrive to rescue them but are forced off by the pirates and the plank-walk is about to happen again when one of the ships stabilizers breaks off. The ship hurtles towards neon but the Doctor wrestles control with the retro rockets and manages to land safely. Burglass and his pirates are captured. | TBA | 1 - 29 June 1968 |
| 20 | "Car Of The Century" | Gillian/John | When the TARDIS lands on the planet Velon in 1989 the Doctor finds that he is on a racetrack during the Interplanetary Motor Racing Meeting. One of the cars crashes but the Doctor rescues the driver and to make it up to him he builds an indestructible car using the same material as the same TARDIS. The car is stolen that night and is used to smash its way into a bank truck and steal bullion belonging to the Central Interplanetary Bank. When the Doctor hears that the car is heading towards a police roadblock he hires a helicopter in order to run it off the road. He lowers himself down a rope with a can of oil but before he can make an oil slick he falls from the rope into the path of the car. John and Gillian pull him back into the helicopter and the car smashes the roadblock. The Doctor then uses radio control to take over the car's steering and the criminal is arrested. | Roger Noel Cook | 6 - 27 July 1968 |
| 21 | "The Jokers" | Gillian/John | The Doctor, John and Gillian land on the planet Comedy where they become the victims of some evil creature, the Jokers, who play deadly practical jokes. The travellers are lifted high into the air to make them fall and then attacked by a paper snake with a real poisonous snake inside and then strangled by string. When the jokers play tennis with an explosive ball the Doctor hits it at them but one of them bats the ball into the distance. The joker then pulls a gun and leads the Doctor and his grandchildren into a funfair where they have to ride a disintegrating roller coaster. As the cars fall from the track the travellers jump clear and are left hanging by their fingertips while the jokers stamp on them. The three travellers fall but the jokers catch them and take them to the stocks to pelt them with missiles but the Doctor blows snuff in their faces. John, Gillian and the Doctor lock them in the stocks and throw rotten eggs at them before leaving in the TARDIS. | TBA | 3 - 24 August 1968 |
| 22 | "Invasion Of The Quarks" | Gillian/John | The Doctor, John and Gillian are on the planet Zebadee, an intellectual meeting place. While John and Gillian go to meet some of the young friends they've made at the university, the Doctor visits Madam Rosa, a fortune teller who informs him that he will soon encounter deadly robots. The Doctor realises, if his next adventure will take him to the edge of death, he must leave John and Gillian on Zebadee. He talks to the children and convinces them to enrol at Zebadee University before he travels on alone. The TARDIS lands in the cellar of an old castle in Scotland, where the Doctor sees a flying saucer land in the castle courtyard — piloted by Quarks. The Doctor is spotted and the Quarks are soon in pursuit. The Doctor tumbles down a flight of stairs, but is saved at the last minute by his old friend Jamie McCrimmon. However, the damaged Quark's cries brings a whole squad after them. The Doctor and Jamie elude them and hide in the castle's torture chamber, where Jamie explains that he had called to see Professor Quantril at a tracking station about half a mile from the castle. The Professor spotted the Quark ship on the radar. Just as he was about to warn Earth's defences, the Quarks destroyed the station. Jamie was the only survivor and saw the Quark ship land inside the castle, so he went there, intent on finding out how large an invasion force they were up against. With little time to act before the main invasion force arrives, the Doctor and Jamie seize the Quark ship and take off. Once in flight, the Doctor flies straight into the approaching fleet and opens fire. The Quarks attempt to retaliate, but not knowing which ship is firing causes chaos. The Doctor's ship is hit but he still has limited control. As the two remaining Quark ships destroy each other, the Doctor pilots the ship back to the castle and Jamie blasts it to pieces, destroying the Quarks stationed there with their own weapon. Landing, the Doctor and Jamie board the TARDIS, but they are observed by Quark leaders in another galaxy who order all Quarks to search for and destroy the two Earthlings.
| TBA | 31 August - 28 September 1968 |
| 23 | "The Killer Wasps" | Jamie McCrimmon | The Doctor and Jamie land on the planet Gano. The Quarks have made giant wasps which they send after the travellers who try to hide, but when the wasps attack the Doctor and Jamie have to use an abandoned mortar gun to drive them away. When the wasps attack again the Doctor and Jamie escape underground into a subterranean city. Unfortunately, Quarks are waiting for them in the city. The travellers find themselves in a scooter factory and use scooters to get away but end up trapped in a cul-de-sac. The Quarks close in but the giant wasps arrive at the vital moment and attack the robots. The battle between the two sides results in the Quarks being destroyed and a single surviving wasp which chases the Doctor and Jamie as they try to climb away from the city. It attempts to sting them but misses and when its sting hits the girder they are clinging to it dies. the Doctor and Jamie return to the TARDIS as, yet again, the Quarks watch them go. | TBA | 5 - 26 October 1968 |
| 24 | "Ice Cap Terror" | Jamie McCrimmon | In the year 1970 a space craft from a distant galaxy, touches down near the South Pole. It is glowing with heat after entering the Earth's atmosphere, and as planned melts the ice around them, sinking their craft to a depth of one hundred feet before the shell of the vehicle cools off and the melting process stops. As the craft sinks deeper into the polar ice cap, the slush above it freezes solid again. The space suited aliens then plug themselves into the world television networks in order to inform the Earthlings of their demands, saying that unless the people of Earth do as their leader says an explosive device will be detonated at the South Pole, that will throw the planet off balance. To add strength to their demands the aliens explode a smaller device, which rocks the Earth violently. This they say should serve as a warning. The devastating blast also jolts the Tardis as it whirls through time and space, shaking its mechanisms and forcing it to materialise nearby. In the deep crater below the mushroom cloud, strange underground caverns have been exposed by the explosion, caverns containing creatures that have never before been seen by Human eyes. Huge white, primitive Apes. The Doctor and Jamie are looking around with their binoculars, with the Doctor stating that he can't see any observers shelters, that usually if an air force is testing a large bomb, they have observers close to the explosion. Jamie suggests they tune the Tardis's television into the Earth's frequency and see if there's anything on the news about it, which they do. The alien is still broadcasting, saying that, Earth's government's have been told that they have twenty four hours before a larger device is detonated, which will hurl Earth off its axis. Using an advanced transmitting detector in the Tardis the Doctor pin points the position of the alien craft as being just half a mile away, telling Jamie that they must do something, before they leave the world's population to become slaves. Dressed in warm clothing, the Doctor and Jamie set out following the detector, with the Doctor's intent being to damage the alien craft in some way that prevents it blasting the Earth off its axis. Deep in the crater they are headed through however huge, terrifying creatures stir from the underground caverns, that the Doctor identifies as Ice Apes [Glacies Simiae]. He tells Jamie that he'd heard they lived in underground tunnels and surmises that the explosion must have released them. In order to make their escape, the Tardis crew push two huge blocks of ice down the crater toward the Ice Apes. This said, after discovering the alien craft is one hundred feet below the ground they soon return, with the Doctor descending into the crater and Jamie joining him there after fetching three sticks of dynamite from the Tardis's Armoury. Using the detector, the Doctor and Jamie are making their way through the tunnels, listening to the Ice Apes as they go, and sneaking by the cave chamber that they have made their home. The space travellers discover that the cave is a dead end but that they are only twelve feet from the alien space ship, and use the dynamite to not only blast a hole to extend the tunnel, but also to rip a further hole in the alien space vehicle. When the flying debris settles, the aliens leave their craft saying that those responsible for this damage can't be far away and that they will die for what they've done. This said, as the Doctor had planned, the aliens end up meeting the Ice Apes and a fierce battle commences, during which, despite the aliens possessing laser guns, the Ice Apes fight their way into the space ship to crush the last alien resistance. The Apes then return to their chamber victorious, as the Doctor and Jamie search for the bomb amid the wreckage of the space craft, and thereafter defuse it. When the Doctor returns to the Tardis, he plugs himself into the world television networks and makes a special announcement, "You will not know who I am viewers... It matters little! What does matter is that the alien threat has been dealt with and Earth is safe". | TBA | 2 - 23 November 1968 |
| 25 | "Jungle Of Doom" | Jamie McCrimmon | The TARDIS lands beside a cliff near a jungle. The Quarks fire at the cliff and cause a rock fall that buries the TARDIS. The Doctor and Jamie are unable to return to the ship and are chased by Quarks through the jungle. They try to hide up a tree and discover a leopard in the branches. The Doctor drops the leopard onto the Quarks to cause a distraction while he and Jamie escape to a clearing in the jungle. They warn some men who are felling trees to get away before the Quarks arrive. The men leave some bulldozers behind which The Doctor and Jamie use to fight against the robots. When the Quarks blow the front off Jamie's bulldozer he dashes into the Doctor's. The Doctor uses his bulldozer to obliterate the Quarks and decides to drive back to the rock fall to dig out the TARDIS. Before they get there a group of local natives attack them with spears but the Doctor uses the bulldozer to fend off the spears. The natives return to the Quark ship and tell them that the Doctor is coming but he takes the silencer off the vehicle's engine. The noise causes a stampede of animals that trample the Quarks, allowing him to get back to the TARDIS and dig it out from the rocks. | TBA | 30 November - 28 December 1968 |
| 26 | "Father Time" | Jamie McCrimmon | The TARDIS arrives at the Time Temple, full of enormous clocks. The Doctor and Jamie step out next to a large grandfather clock and then go on to meet Father Time. This man is upset when he hears that they are time travellers. He uses the bell on a giant alarm clock to knock them out. When they come round the Doctor is tied to a pendulum which is swinging him ever nearer to boiling. Jamie is slowly being buried alive in an hourglass. Father Time leaves them to their deaths so the Doctor swings his pendulum faster until the bolt flies out and the pendulum smashes the glass imprisoning Jamie. Father Time hears the crash takes up a clock hand to throw at them but the Doctor jumps onto a giant cuckoo as and is pulled into a clock. Father Time then arms himself with a crossbow and waits for the clock to strike again. As it does, Jamie leaps at him to stop him taking his shot. the Doctor falls from the clock and hurts his ankle. Jamie's sporran is full of sand and he throws it in Father Time's face so that he can escape with the Doctor. Clock robots are blocking the route to the TARDIS but Jamie uses Father Time's scythe to fight them off. When one of the robots knocks Father Time over they take their opportunity to get into the TARDIS. | TBA | 4 - 25 January 1969 |
| 27 | "Martha The Mechanical Housemaid" | Jamie McCrimmon | The Doctor invents a mechanical housemaid called Martha and, landing in Central Park in New York City, 1971, goes to a company called Inventions International, who are interested in modern inventions. There, Jamie and he meet American tycoon Mr C. G. Slattery who promises them that a million homes will have Marthas installed within a few weeks. They have hit the big time. The Doctor appears on television to promote Martha and, within a few weeks, hundreds of thousands of Marthas have been sold. However, the Quarks are watching and plan to override the frequency on which the robots operate, gaining control. Once the robots have wreaked havoc, the Quarks will move in and take over. The signal is sent and the Marthas go berserk, turning on their human masters. Impervious to bullets, the robotic reign of terror continues. The Doctor guesses what has happened to his invention and that the Quarks are behind it. Returning to Central Park, he plans to boost his own signal and regain control of the Marthas, but already the Quark fleet is moving in towards America. The Doctor boosts his signal and reclaims control of the Marthas. Meanwhile, a Quark ship touches down on a farm close to New York. Other ships land close to all major cities. The Quark invasion begins, but the Doctor has a plan and sends a special command to the Marthas, ordering them to attack Quarks on sight. The battle between Marthas and Quarks rages all across the United States, assisted by the armed forces wherever they can help. Badly beaten, the surviving Quarks retreat to their saucer and return to their home planet, yet again swearing revenge against the Doctor. The Doctor, meanwhile, is hailed as a national hero and again appears on television. This time they want to elect him president. | TBA | 1 February - 1 March 1969 |
| 28 | "The Duellists" | Jamie McCrimmon | In 2044, a group of English gentlemen colonised Hekton and set up a society of Regency gentry. Unfortunately, they became fond of duelling and cruel sports — such as pursuing a hapless manservant on horseback with a pack of dogs, which is what Richard and Clive are doing when the TARDIS materialises, startling the horses. Doctor Who finds himself threatened and taken to their mansion for their amusement. Richard sets the first test: the Doctor must snatch three ball bearings from a table before Clive brings an axe down on his hand. The Doctor cheats by using a magnet, which the gentlemen applaud, but the real test will be to face Clive in a duel with pistols at dawn. However, as the duel is about to begin, the Quarks are watching and waiting to kill the Doctor if Clive fails. The duel goes ahead. Clive fires and misses. The Doctor shoots but only to disarm his opponent. The Quarks then open fire, but Doctor Who evades their shots too, hiding in the woods. With the regency rogues and the Quarks at each others throats, the Doctor sneaks back to the TARDIS, but a Quark is waiting for him. His death is but a moment away. The Doctor's death is delayed by the intervention of Richard and Clive, who capture both him and the Quark and return them to the mansion. There they are forced to fight with whips on a board above a fire. They claim the winner will go free, but the Doctor has his doubts. The Doctor unbalances but does not destroy the Quark and Richard decides to finish them both off with his pistol, but the Doctor uses the whip to disarm him and then to swing himself out of the mansion through a window. The manhunt is on! The Doctor eludes his hunters for a while, but soon has a skirmish with Richard. He knocks the man to the ground and steals his horse. When he comes across the Quark ship he realises he can use it to find the TARDIS in the dark, but the gentry are waiting for him outside the ship. The Doctor fires all the engines and the noise causes the horses to stampede. The Doctor lands and slips away in the TARDIS. | TBA | 8 - 29 March 1969 |
| 29 | "Eskimo Joe" | Jamie McCrimmon | The Doctor lands on a snow-covered planet and decides to have a ski. He sees a group of Cybermen and turns to get back to the TARDIS at once but slips into a crevasse. The Cybermen notice him falling and when they also see the TARDIS they are delighted to think that their enemy is dead. They go back to their base to tell the rest of the Cyber Empire the good news. The Doctor has managed to grab hold of the edge of the crevasse and is pulled to safety by Eskimo Joe and his robot gull. Joe tells him that his own people have been attacked by the Cyberman and those that survived are scattered and hiding. He is going to use his robot gulls and egg bombs to fight back but the Cybermen have locked onto the gulls' control frequency and are using it to track Joe. Joe and the Doctor use the gulls' bombs to escape the Cybermen and head for the base. The Doctor realises that the bombs are nearly all gone and uses the last to start an avalanche. It buries the base and kills the Cybermen. | TBA | 5 - 26 April 1969 |
| 30 | "Peril At 60 Fathoms" | Jamie McCrimmon | The TARDIS lands on the water planet Nook, and sinks. The Doctor puts on a diving suit and leaves through an airlock in the roof. He finds a crashed space ship that has plunged into the water nearby and goes to see if he can help. The ship is from Earth, and the Captain explains that the ship is almost out of oxygen. The Doctor wonders if the ship could relaunch if it was upright, but the fuses are damaged and there are no spares. The Doctor has a fuse in the TARDIS and goes back to get it. When he gets there, the TARDIS is being attacked by a giant squid. The Doctor shoots it with his ray gun but it grabs him. He manages to shoot it between its eyes and it lets go. He gets into the TARDIS and locates the equipment before returning to the sunken rocket. The Captain makes the repairs while the Doctor tries to get the ship upright. The task seems impossible until the giant squid reappears. When the Doctor hides underneath the rocket, the squid lifts it into an upright position to reach him. The Doctor shoots the squid again and kills it. The ship can now lift off and reach the planet Ebor to get more oxygen. The Doctor makes his way back to the TARDIS. | TBA | 3 - 24 May 1969 |
| 31 | "Operation Wurtlizer" | Jamie McCrimmon | Jason Wurlitzer, son of one of the universe's wealthiest men, is flying over a strange planet when he is kidnapped by a group of dwarfs. The Doctor arrives, and tries to save him. The dwarfs send the Doctor to deliver the ransom note to his father, Kurt Wurlitzer. Knowing he can't possibly give them the three million tonnes of uranium they're asking for, as they'd be able to build nuclear rockets, Wurlitzer offers to hire any help the Doctor may need to rescue Jason from the dwarfs' confinement. The Doctor requests three people for his rescue mission: Hik Wellar, the "greatest" big game hunter known, "Fingers" O'Flannegan, "the slickest jail breaker on record", and Professor Neob Frankel from the Advanced Space Travel Institute. With the professor's special space vehicle from the Institute, they arrive back on the planet of the dwarfs undetected. Making their way through fifty miles of dense jungle, Wellar takes down a giant beast. The team makes their way down to the underground base where Jason is being held, but they are apprehended as Fingers is trying to open a combination lock. As the group is led to the cells to be held there as well, the Doctor notices spray cans of foam, a substance he remembers the dwarfs using when they took down Jason's plane. It turns into solid bubbles when released. Fingers nicks a canister on orders, and the Doctor immobilises one of the captors. The others follow suit, encasing the dwarfs in bubbles. Finally, they reach Jason's cell. Fingers gets the cell door open, and the five make their way out, canisters in hand to immobilise those who stood in their way. Jason Wurlitzer was saved. | TBA | 31 May - 28 June 1969 |
| 32 | "Action In Exile" | Exiled to Earth by the Time Lords, the Doctor books a suite of rooms at the Carlton Grange Hotel, in London, to take it easy for a while. He tells the hotel manager that it'll be nice to sleep in a great big comfy bed as life in the TARDIS all these centuries has been far from cosy. He then partakes a hearty meal and thereafter decides to take a nap, But he is soon disturbed by a thumping on the wall between his suite and the next, and peeps through the keyhole of his neighbour. The Doctor sees three young boys playing football and their manservant Chester warning them what their guardian Mr Fitz-Walker will say. and just then Fitz-Walker arrives and tells them off for their behaviour. The aforementioned Harrington Fitz-Walker, then enters the room and threatens to thrash the lot of them. The boys are sick of having to behave like young gentlemen and decide on the spur of the moment to steal Fitz-Walker's private plane and fly off to another part of the world. The Doctor has been listening throughout and then enters the room telling them not to do it, but he is knocked unconscious as one of the children throws a vase at him. The Doctor regains consciousness and explains to Mr Fitz-Walker that the boys are on their way to the airfield and about to steal his plane. As the Time Lord leaves, Fitz-Walker informs Chester that his henchmen are stealing weapon secrets from a nuclear arsenal that day, near to the airfield, and that they're supposed to use his plane as a getaway. They are soon in pursuit in Fitz-Walker's car, with him revealing that he had been planning this raid on the nuclear arsenal for months and that it was worth a fortune to him. Ironically they are slowed down in their attempts to get to the airfield by a nuclear bomb protest march. At this point Doctor Who flies by on a motorbike, telling Fitz-Walker that he will catch up with the boys, which he eventually does, however they throw a suitcase from their taxi, causing him to crash. When the Doctor finally reaches the airfield the children are already airborne, but the eldest of them, Cecil, who is flying the plane, has lost control. Set on helping them before they're killed, Doctor Who sets to work making adjustments to another aircraft on the field, and flies after them. He closes in on them, but suddenly sees a cloud of black smoke, emanating from the ground, which both planes disappear into. When the Doctor breaks clear the other plane has already crashed but thankfully the boys are parachuting to safety. However, the wind is carrying them toward the burning building from where the smoke was coming. This said, they tug on their chute strings and guide themselves away from the fire. On landing they spot Doctor Who, and enter the burning building to hide from him. Heading into the nuclear arsenal, the boys find unconscious guards, and become suspicious. Fitz-Walker's henchmen then hold them at gunpoint. Two others then emerge from the nuclear arsenal admitting that the explosives they used on the strong room had set part of the building ablaze, but that they had retrieved the weapon secrets despite the fire. The henchmen lash out at the kids when they find out the plane's been wrecked, and so the Doctor leaps forward to knock the men over, engaging thereafter in fisticuffs. However he soon finds himself held at knifepoint. While Fitz-Walker's henchmen discuss their new escape plan, Doctor Who comes up with a plan of his own, as he spots some rounded ball like explosives, that apparently wouldn't explode unless detonated. He kicks one at Cecil, who shoots the football shape at the men's faces. One of the other boy's Tommy joins in, too. Fitz-Walker and Chester have arrived by car, and hear the commotion, as a police car, they shoot at, arrives and they are arrested. The police officers and their colleagues gather up the battered thieves, while one of the police men explains to the boys that their uncle Tom will be taking care of them from now on. "Oh, boy... That's great!" says Cecil. "He's a marvellous fellow, just like the Doctor here!"
| TBA | 5 July - 2 August 1969 | |
| 33 | "The Mark Of Terror" | Dr Rowan Cartwright | Exiled to Earth by the Time Lord s as punishment for stealing a TARDIS many centuries ago, the Doctor has taken up residence in the Carlton Grange Hotel in London. Not far away top medical brains are huddled around a newspaper with a picture of the Doctor on its front page, supporting the headline, "Time and Space traveller residing in London". Dr Rowan Cartwright calls the Carlton Grange Hotel and tells the Doctor that he may be of invaluable assistance to him and his colleagues at the Medical Research Center. A thorough examination is arranged for the Doctor, who can't think what Cartwright and his fellow doctors are going to learn about his time battered body. He tells them that he is not constructed in the same way as an Earth-man. Cartwright then remarks that there is much they can learn from his tissues, and that they are the same as a Human's. As Cartwright bares the Doctor's chest for examination, an incredible arrowhead mark is revealed, that Cartwright calls the mark of terror. He then collapses and passes out into a deep coma. Dr Who explains that it is actually The Mark Of Blenhim, and tries to work out why it should have such a devastating effect on Cartwright. The Doctor gropes back through the past, and recalls that several hundred years ago, a master race called the Blenhims wreaked a reign of terror on all the planets in their solar system. He says that he had heard some refugees fled through space toward our galaxy, and surmises that a few space refugees landed on Earth in the eighteenth century and it could well be that Cartwright is one of their descendants. The Doctor's hypothesis continues with him stating that The Mark Of Blenhim, which spelled terror for Cartwright's ancestors, and left its mark on their minds, could have been passed down through the generations to Cartwright himself. The other doctors have tried everything they can to bring him round, but the Doctor tells them that they wont be able to until the horror of the Blenhims is erased from his memory. The Doctor then asks the doctors if they have any thought-transference equipment, and some time later he and Cartwright are hooked up to such a device, with the idea being that the Doctor relating his encounter with the Blenhims, passing his own thoughts into Cartwright's head, may help shake him from his coma. The Doctor remembers a huge rally of vicious dark robed, hooded warriors, saluting an all powerful leader. He remembers materializing the TARDIS in an underground car park full of futuristic vehicles, and seeing hundreds of these hooded warriors making their way to a stadium, he then sneaked into through a window. The experiment is said to be going fine with Cartwright receiving all of the Doctor's thoughts. The Time Lord finds spare robes and hoods, disguising himself, so as the Blenhims would never know they had a stranger in their midst. The stadium is filled to capacity, with everyone dressed in the same way. Their leader then speaks from a stage, saying that he has some important news regarding their plans to dominate all the planets in their galaxy, telling them that at this very moment their missiles were being launched against all the planets that had refused to accept them as their masters. He adds that the Blenhim reign of terror had begun. The Doctor's recollections are now having a terrifying affect on Cartwright, who is said to be close to breaking point, but still the experiment continues in the hope the Doctor's story will shake him out of it. Back in the stadium, the Blenhim Leader has a large video screen that is showing all those gathered, Blenhim rocket-craft strafing the defenses of many of the surrounding civilizations, and inflicting terrible damage. Not even the most isolated dwellings on remote planets escaped their vicious terrorism. The devastation rendered millions all over the galaxy homeless, with space refugees fleeing for their lives. The mention of the space refugees really upset Cartwright with the other doctor's concurring with the Doctor, that he has an inborn fear of the Blenhims passed down by the forefathers who suffered at their hands. The Blenhim Leader's film show was over but the Doctor knew that the warmongers among them had to be stopped, so he moved toward the leader's platform and spoke into a microphone in front of the entirety of all those seated in the stadium. The Doctor is called to the Blenhim Leader, and said, "I question you're right to govern us. I question your power". The Leader tells his guards to seize the Doctor, but he is reminded that it is the right of all Blenhims to challenge the leadership. The Doctor boasts that his powers are greater than the leader's and he wishes to be put to the test. The Leader agrees to the contest, but tells the Doctor that when he proves himself superior, he will have this wretch torn limb from limb. The Leader inflicts wounds upon one of his own kind, using only his eyes, but the Doctor calls this a cheap trick, and says that he will treat them to something of a more sensational order. A monument that stood in the center of the stadium was then atomized seemingly by a beam that shot out of the Doctor's outstretched hand. In reality however he had used the laser ring he had taken from a Cyberman in a previous encounter. It was enough to turn the Blenhims loyalties and for them to demand Dr Who become their leader. Again taking the microphone, Dr Who commanded that his orders be transmitted to all fighting forces attacking other planets, and that they should all fly due east, something that because of their obedience to their leader causes them to plummet into the sun. The Doctor tells the assembled doctors and an awoken Cartwright that this was how he destroyed the Blenhim Master Race. Cartwright says that knowing Dr Who had destroyed the Blenhims centuries ago has put his mind at rest, with the Doctor himself concluding that there was no point in fearing a race that no longer exists.
| TBA | 9 - 30 August 1969 |
| 34 | "The Brotherhood" | Exiled to Earth by the Time Lord s, The Doctor is living in the Carlton Grange Hotel in London. A learned professor thereafter implores him to speak at the London University on the subject of advanced engineering techniques, which indeed he willingly does. Writing an equation on the classroom blackboard The Doctor tells the students that he encountered a super race on the planet Ebor who used this explosive to move themselves nearer to the sun in order to improve their weather. Listening to the lecture, two people in particular are noting The Doctor's unparalleled knowledge, with one saying to the other that the Elder was right, "The Doctor is our man". Afterwards outside the university, The Doctor is being congratulated on a most stimulating lecture, as the two men tell their driver to get them to the meeting place fast. The Elder is holding a meeting with gangster types, in a dimly lit basement, by the time the two men arrive. He is saying that The Brotherhood, an international crime syndicate, needs funds to take control of the world's protection rackets and that he had planned the usual massive robbery but something far better had come to light. He asks Brother Carlos, one of the two men, to explain. Carlos then informs him, and the other brothers, that his story begins centuries ago in Mexico, when the Spanish conquistadors pillaged and slaughtered their way through the Aztecs nation. Detachments of Spanish soldiers were sent into the hills to strike at one of the most isolated Aztec settlements, but look outs warned the tribe, and they had time to hide their treasure by hurling it into a mountain lake, believing that if they survived, their divers could retrieve it. Carlos tells The Brotherhood that needless to say the Aztecs didn't survive and their treasure laid on the lake bottom undisturbed for five centuries, until four years ago in 1965. That year American millionaires financed an attempt to drain the lake, but sadly for them discovered the treasure had sunk deep into an oozing mud bed. Before any attempt could be organised to extract the treasure from the lake bottom, the blazing Mexican sun baked the mud harder than concrete. No drilling gear could penetrate the mud effectively enough to make the operation economical, but historians claim the Aztec treasure to be worth around ten million pounds. Carlos informs the gangsters that there is only one man capable of extracting it, The Doctor. The Doctor is relaxing on a sun lounger on the roof garden of the Carlton Grange Hotel, asking to himself what could possibly be more pleasant on a sunny afternoon than a spot of sunbathing, and the feeling that it certainly beat dashing around the universe. A helicopter flies over the penthouses of London and lands on the roof garden, as two previously unseen men step out and walk over to The Doctor. Pretending, to all the other people around them, that they are business friends, the two men kneel besides their surprised victim, knocking his leg with a brief case that jabs him with a hidden syringe, a hidden syringe that renders The Doctor unconscious. The two men tell the onlookers that their friend has taken ill and they are going to use their helicopter to fly him to hospital. The helicopter then lifts skywards, flying not to hospital but to The Brotherhood's headquarters. In a dark room, the Elder, explains what is required of The Doctor, saying that he will extract the Aztec gold for The Brotherhood or he will suffer the penalty, and that the penalty is death. The Doctor spends days in The Brotherhood's fabulously equipped laboratory, eventually coming up with an explosive formula that he had previously used on the planet Eon. When The Doctor's experiments are complete, a plane leaves for a rough airstrip, twenty miles south of the dried up lake in Mexico. At ten o clock the following morning, The Doctor is examining the solid mud bed at Lake Arkon, working out that the cracks in the ground will take his explosives perfectly. He is however secretly concerned that he is about to put the most valuable buried treasure on Earth into the deadliest of criminal minds. The Doctor's explosives work, detonating open the cracks in the lake bed, to create a hole large enough for a party of men to be lowered into. Two days later, after the mud had cooled sufficiently, the Elder, wished the party good luck on their pot holing and told them to bring him back sacksful of Aztec gold, as The Brotherhood had a use for it. The Doctor and his exploratory team then begin the roped descent, unaware that a hundred feet below, a writhing creature noses up from the shadows, it is a gigantic earthworm, hundreds of feet long. Treasures soon begin to be found, with Carlos finding an Aztec helmet encrusted with gems, and that of a dagger he estimates must be worth a hundred thousand pounds. The Doctor, at this point, thinks to himself, that finding stuff at this rate, The Brotherhood, will be able to finance a criminal army, that will terrorise the world, and that he will have helped them do it. Suddenly fate takes a hand, as the massive earthworm, twists and curls its long body upward toward them, with The Doctor surmising that not only could the creature be prehistoric, but that there would be other creatures like it all around them. Carlos shoots at the monstrous being, as The Doctor tells everyone to climb for their lives. Back on the surface, the Brotherhood Leader, the Elder, also shoots at the towering earthworm, as The Doctor informs him that they'll never recover the Aztec valuables, as his explosives had roused these giant earthworms and the mud is infested with them. Pulling his gun on The Doctor and that of his own men, The Elder, insists that they take their chances down below or die here and now. However, just as they agree, the monster rises up and grabs The Elder, in a bone crushing grip that kills him. The Doctor sees his chance to get the drop on the thugs, and grabs their dead leaders gun, pointing it at them and convincing them he will shoot them if anyone tries to give him the slip. The Doctor tells them that he is sure the authorities will be glad to get their hands on a group of The Brotherhoods top men, further stating that every country on Earth, would like to see their organisation put out of action. The Mexican police are soon on the scene, saying that The Doctor had done the world a great favour, as rogues like them were a threat to peace everywhere. The Doctor concludes that the worms would keep scientists fascinated for months to come, and that when they'd been destroyed he would return to supervise the extraction of the treasure, provided it was donated to charity, and not The Brotherhood. | TBA | 6 - 27 September 1969 | |
| 35 | "U.F.O." | "Specs" Crabshaw | In the blackness of space, not far beyond Earth's atmosphere, distress signals crackle from an alien craft. In a basement below Crabshaw Manor, ten year old "Specs" Crabshaw picks up the message and heads directly over to the Ministry Of Defence, gaining access using his father's card. Tuning in the ministry's receiver, their operator determines that no transmitter on Earth could send out a signal like that. An hour later, the Doctor is disturbed by his bedside phone ringing. It is the Minister Of Defence, who tells the Doctor that he would deem it a personal favor if he'd pop over to his office as soon as possible. At the ministry they listen to a recording of the signal, which the Doctor recognizes as an SOS from a Quotron space craft. Electing to keep this information to himself, he asks the Minister, who put him onto it in the first place, and he tells the Doctor, that it was the young son of Colonel Crabshaw. The Doctor makes his way over to see the boy, whose parents are on a short vacation, and tells him that what he heard was an alien space craft appealing for help. The Doctor tells "Specs" that from what he can gather from their transmissions, the Quotrons have a damaged navigational system that he may be able to assist them with. If he doesn't assist them, they may never be able to return to their home planet. "Specs" says that the only thing to do is contact them on his powerful transmitter, adding that he knows the alien frequency. The Doctor replies that he was hoping "Specs" would want to help, informing the boy that the lives of many Quotrons may be in the balance. The Quotron code is a variation of Morse Code, and the two soon make contact with the aliens. The Quotrons reply saying that if the Doctor can repair their navigational equipment, they would be deeply indebted. They offer a rendezvous in space, but the Doctor has no transport to get there, and says that they'll have to meet him on Earth. The Doctor suggests they rendezvous in the Arizona Desert, as UFO's are always being reported there, so one more wont cause alarm. The Quotrons consult their maps and suggest an area known as Three Pillars, Wednesday at 1am. The Doctor and Specs leave on the first available flight for Tucson Arizona. The Doctor tells "Specs" that he's not sure he should be accompanying him on his trip, as his parents would have a fit if they found out, but "Specs" reassures him that they wont be back from holiday for a week and need never know a thing about it. Two night's later, a strange shape flits over farm buildings on the outskirts of Tuscon, with Jess and his fellow farmer, believing it to be a space ship. The Midnight News on Tucson Local Radio then report that there had been a spate of UFO sightings but the police say such rumors are usually started by cranks. This said, deep in the desert wastes of Arizona, monstrous alien beings emerge from their craft. Black in color, the Quotrons are crustaceans, with frog like heads, and crab like arms and pincers, who stand using a plated tail that forms their body, and two skeletal legs emanating from just beneath the head. Driving a jeep across the desert, the Doctor and "Specs" listen to the radio broadcast, with "Specs" commenting that it was a good job everyone thinks the farmers were cranks, as they didn't want people snooping around out here. The Doctor tells the child that there had been hundreds of reports in the last few centuries but they had all been laughed at. He wonders if the world would laugh if they could watch their meeting in a couple of hours with the Quotrons. The aliens themselves are beginning to move and in doing so emit a strange rattle, which awakes a camping prospector by the name of Sam McLintock, who after declaring that the creatures were not from Earth, makes his escape on his horse Moonshine. A few miles away, Sam meets the Doctor and "Specs" warning them of the scary creatures he's just seen. At the foot of the famous Three Pillars, the meeting takes place, with the Quotron's reprogramming themselves to speak English, and the Doctor telling them that he will do his best to put right their navigational equipment. The Doctor works for an hour, with only thirty minutes of darkness remaining before dawn. Eventually the fault is discovered and repaired with the Quotrons telling the Doctor that they will forever be in his debt. However, when the Doctor and "Specs" try to leave, the Quotron Leader tells them they cannot, because if Earth people were to hear from them that aliens actually exist, a disastrous panic would follow, something the Quotrons could not be responsible for. The Doctor is outraged, stating that never in any of his travels has he been treated like this by so called friends, that he and "Specs" had gone to a lot of trouble to help them and that this is how they were rewarded. The Quotrons are moved by the Doctor's outburst saying that he should be returned to Earth as Quotron justice demands. Their leader however is adamant, silencing them and telling them his decision is final and that the Doctor must stay. At that moment though, the navigational computers jam and put the craft on a collision course with the moon, with the Quotron Leader stating that it would appear the adjustments to their equipment have proved fatal and that there was no need to discuss the Doctor's future any more, as in a few moments, he and his companion would die with the rest of them. The Quotron leader gives the Doctor his pledge that if he saves them, he will return him to Earth, but the craft's throttle has been pre-set and the craft cannot reduce speed. It will collide with the moon in two minutes. Fortunately with seconds to go, the Doctor discovers the problem is caused by two unattached wires, and gets the navigational computers functioning again, pulling the craft away from the moon. The Quotron Leader tells the Doctor his race will be permanently in his debt, and acknowledges his swift action had saved them all. The leader goes onto assure the Doctor that he and his young friend, will be returned to the Arizona Desert that night. That evening as the Quotron craft descends, a group of oilmen witness its landing, and their story is again reported on Tucson local Radio, but this time with the announcer confirming that at the beginning of the week space expert the Doctor was seen heading for the Three Pillars and maybe investigating the earlier sightings. The Doctor and "Specs" say farewell to the parting Quotron Leader saying that their secret will be safe with them. When the Doctor and "Specs" thereafter emerge from the desert dozens of reporters are waiting for them, but the Doctor assures them that these UFO sightings are pure fantasy. On the flight back to England, the Doctor tells "Specs" Crabshaw that they had sworn to keep their secret, but that one day the world would have to face up to the fact, that people from outer space are a reality. | TBA | 4 October - 1 November 1969 |
| 36 | "The Night Walkers" | The Doctor has become a celebrity in the early days of his Time Lord imposed exile on Earth. He is a panellist on the game show Explain My Mystery. One of the callers, Mr. Glenlock-Hogan, a farmer, has a mystery, a strange case of scarecrows who walk at night, which stumps the Doctor. Intrigued, he goes to visit the farm for a weekend and explore the land at night so he can see the walking scarecrows for himself. When the Doctor does, the scarecrows call to him — "Step forward, Dr. Who!" — and reveal they are servants of the Time Lords, sent to begin the second phase of the Doctor's sentence: his change of appearance. The scarecrows capture the Doctor with an energy weapon and, as he is carried off, he calls out to the frightened farmer: "Fear no more, Hogan... After this dreadful night has passed your scarecrows will not walk again!" With the captured Doctor in tow, the scarecrows head for the TARDIS, which stands in the field. Once inside, they force his regeneration and set the TARDIS controls to dematerialise. The scarecrows leave the TARDIS to land somewhere else on Earth, before becoming inanimate straw dummies once more. Glenlock-Hogan flees, saying "No human being will believe the account of what Oi've witnessed!"
| Roger Noel Cook | 8 - 22 November 1969 |
| # | Title | Featuring | Writer | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Barnabus" | Roger Noel Cook | 1967 | |
| 2 | "Jungle Adventure" | Roger Noel Cook | 1967 | |
| 3 | "Return Of The Witches" | TBA | 1968 | |
| 4 | "Masquerade" | The Doctor and his grandchildren John and Gillian are captured by the Cybermen. | TBA | 1968 |
| 5 | "The Champion" | TBA | 1969 | |
| 6 | "The Entertainer" | TBA | 1969 |
| # | Title | Featuring | Writer | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Attack Of The Daleks" | TBA | 1968 | |
| 2 | "Pursued By The Trods" | TBA | 1968 | |
| 3 | "The Time Museum" | TBA | 1969 | |
| 4 | "The Electrodes" | TBA | 1969 | |
| 5 | "Death Race" | TBA | 1970 | |
| 6 | "Test Flight" | The Cybermen return. | TBA | 1970 |
| # | Title | Featuring | Writer | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Tests Of Trefus" | Ben and Polly | TBA | 1968 |
| 2 | "World Without Night" | Ben and Polly | TBA | 1968 |
| 3 | "Freedom By Fire" | Jamie and Polly | TBA | 1969 |
| 4 | "Atoms Infinite" | Jamie and Victoria | TBA | 1969 |
| 5 | "The Vampire Plants" | Jamie and Zoe | TBA | 1970 |
| 6 | "The Robot King" | Jamie and Zoe | TBA | 1970 |
| # | Title | Featuring | Writer | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Bringer of Darkness" | Jamie and Victoria, the Daleks | TBA | |
| 2 | "Land of the Blind" | Jamie and Zoe | TBA |
| # | Title | Featuring | Writer | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Time and Time Again" | Jamie and Zoe | 1967 |
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