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*[[PDA]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel]]'' is a sequel to this story.
*[[PDA]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel]]'' is a sequel to this story.
* Another Chronovore appears in [[NA]]: ''[[No Future]]''.
* Another Chronovore appears in [[NA]]: ''[[No Future]]''.
*This features (another) explanation of how Atlantis was destroyed; [[DW]]: ''[[The Underwater Menace]]'' and ''[[The Dæmons]]'' also featured explanations of this.
*This features (another) explanation of how Atlantis was destroyed; [[DW]]: ''[[The Underwater Menace]]'' and [[DW]]: ''[[The Dæmons]]'' also featured explanations of this.
*The Doctor goes for another 'dip' in the time vortex in [[DW]]/[[WC]]: ''[[Shada]]'' and [[BFA]]: ''[[Seasons of Fear]]''.
*The Doctor goes for another 'dip' in the time vortex in [[DW]]/[[WC]]: ''[[Shada]]'' and [[BFA]]: ''[[Seasons of Fear]]''.
*The Doctor builds a similar device to his time sensor in [[DW]]: ''[[Blink]]''.
*The Doctor builds a similar device to his time sensor in [[DW]]: ''[[Blink]]''.

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Synopsis

The Master, in the guise of Professor Thascalos, has constructed at the Newton Institute in Wootton a device known as TOMTIT - Transmission Of Matter Through Interstitial Time - with which to gain control over Kronos, a creature from outside time. The creature is summoned but the effect proves uncontrollable.

Plot

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Cast

Crew

References

  • The TOMTIT machine works with assistance from the Master.
  • The Doctor has built a time sensor which detects disturbances in the time field.
  • The Master uses his TARDIS to Time Ram the Doctor's.
  • A Chronovore spares the Master.
  • The Doctor gets ejected into the time vortex and speaks to Jo through the TARDIS telepathic circuits.
  • This is show (another) exploration of the destruction of Atlantis.
  • The Seventh Enabling Act allows the Brigadier to take over from government forces.
  • The Doctor makes a Time flow analogue from a Moroccan burgundy bottle, spoons, forks, corks, keyrings, tea leaves and a mug.
  • The Doctor talks to Jo (while they're tied up) about his home; "When I was a little boy, we used to live in a house that was perched halfway up the top of a mountain. Behind our house, there sat under a tree an old man. A hermit, a monk. He'd lived under this tree for half his lifetime, so they said, and had learned the secret of life. So, when my black day came, I went and asked him to help me.'" The hermit appears on screen in Planet of the Spiders.
  • Kronos knows of the Doctor.

Story Notes

  • This is the only appearance of the "washing up bowl" interior for the TARDIS (designed by Tim Gleeson).
  • Dave Prowse, later to play (but not voice) the masked Darth Vader in the Star Wars films, features in an equally incognito role as the Minotaur.

Ratings

  • Episode 1 - 7.6 million viewers
  • Episode 2 - 7.4 million viewers
  • Episode 3 - 8.1 million viewers
  • Episode 4 - 7.6 million viewers
  • Episode 5 - 6.0 million viewers
  • Episode 6 - 7.6 million viewers

Myths

  • Well-known actress Susan Penhaligon, making an early television appearance as Galleia's handmaiden Lakis, was originally to have been credited as Virginia Mull. (Virginia Mull was a different actress who had a small uncredited walk-on role as a serving girl in the Atlantis scenes of this story. Susan Penhaligon, who was a late replacement for actress Ann Michelle, was always to have been credited under her own name.)
  • The Master's alias is 'Thascales'. (The majority of printed and online episode guides say this. Unfortunately, (a) 'Thascales' isn't the Greek for 'Master', and (b) no-one in the story says 'Thascales'. They all say 'Thascalos', which is the Greek for 'Master'. The error first appears in the second edition of Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke's The Making of Doctor Who, and presumably has been taken from there by all subsequent episode guides, without checking against the broadcast episodes. Terrance Dicks, however, has the correct spelling in the novelization.)

Filming Locations

  • Swallowfield Park, Swallowfield, Berkshire
  • Stratfield Saye Park, Stratfield Saye, Hampshire
  • Old Church Farm (road), Hartley Wintney, Hampshire
  • Park Lane, Fair Cross, Berkshire
  • School Lane, Heckfield Heath/Riseley, Hampshire
  • Ealing Television Film Studios, Ealing Green, Ealing
  • BBC Television Centre (Studio 3 & 4), Shepherd's Bush, London

Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

  • In episode one, the interior of the police box prop is visible.
  • The V1 is on black and white film.
  • The Doctor's supposedly backwards dialogue when played backwards is still gibberish.

Continuity

DVD, Video and Other Releases

to be added

Novelisation

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Main article: The Time Monster (novelisation)

External Links

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