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number= 97 |
|image= Invasionoftime title.jpg  
doctor= [[Fourth Doctor]] |
|series=[[Doctor Who television stories|''Doctor Who'' television stories]]
companions= [[Leela]] (departure) <br/> [[K-9 Mark I]] (departure)|
|season number= Season 15 (Doctor Who 1963)|
enemy= [[Vardan]]s and<br>[[Sontaran]]s |
|season serial number = 6
year= [[Gallifrey]] |
|story number= 97
writer= [[David Agnew]] |
|doctor= Fourth Doctor  
director= [[Gerald Blake]] |
|companions= [[Leela]], [[K9 Mark I]]
producer= [[Graham Williams]] |
|featuring= {{MacKay}}, [[Andred (The Invasion of Time)|Andred]]
broadcast date= [[4th February]] - [[11th March]] [[1978]] |
|enemy= [[Commander]] [[Stor]], [[Vardan]]s
format= 6 25-minute Episodes |
|setting= {{il|[[Gallifrey]]|[[The Doctor's TARDIS]]}}
production code= [[List of production codes|4Z]] |
|writer= David Agnew (writer)
previous story = [[Underworld]] |
|director= [[Gerald Blake]]  
next story = [[The Ribos Operation]] }}
|producer= [[Graham Williams]]  
|epcount = 6
|broadcast date= 4 February - 11 March 1978
|network = BBC1
|format= 6x25-minute episodes
|serial production code= [[List of production codes|4Z]]  
|prev = Underworld (TV story)
|next = The Ribos Operation (TV story)
|novelisation = Doctor Who and the Invasion of Time (novelisation)
|clip = A Premature Celebration - The Invasion of Time - Doctor Who - BBC
|thwr = 158}}
'''''The Invasion of Time''''' was the sixth and final serial of [[Season 15 (Doctor Who 1963)|season 15]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. It made extensive use of [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] interior and added to the mythology of [[Gallifrey]]. It featured the final regular appearances of [[Louise Jameson]] as [[Leela]] as well as the final appearance of [[K9 Mark I]] — although it also immediately implied that the Doctor was merely replacing K9 with [[K9 Mark II|a new model]].


==Synopsis==
Its script was a last-minute replacement, written quickly by Read and Williams when the original season-ender by [[David Weir]] was abandoned. Contemporary viewers of the programme who participated in the [[Doctor Who Appreciation Society]]'s season 15 poll voted it the best story of the season. ([[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fourth Doctor|The Fourth Doctor Handbook]]'') Narratively, it established that [[Sontaran]]s were a major, credible threat to the [[Time Lord]]s, carrying through on a foreshadowing reference in their first appearance in ''[[The Time Warrior (TV story)|The Time Warrior]]''. It laid the groundwork for future Sontaran stories, including their pursuit of time travel in ''[[The Two Doctors (TV story)|The Two Doctors]]'' and their knowledge of [[Gallifrey]]'s demise in ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)|The Sontaran Stratagem]]''.
Part 1
There are two spaceships near each other. In one, the Doctor faces three chairs of aliens, the aliens unseen. He has been prepared for their plan.  


Leela is waiting in the TARDIS console room. She asks K9 how long the Doctor will be but he can't tell her. He does tell her they have landed on an alien spacecraft. Leela moves to open the scanner screen but the Doctor told them not to. K9 stops her and tells her he is not programmed for emotion -- such as being mad that the Doctor didn't tell them what he was doing. Leela tries to open the scanner but it won't work, so she yells at K9, who begins immediate sulking. Leela tells him that sulking is also an emotion. She apologizes. K9 tells her the Doctor immobilized the scanner. Leela asks, "You mean he doesn't trust me?"  
The fact that Leela remains on Gallifrey with K9 Mark I and she appears to intend to marry [[Andred (The Invasion of Time)|Andred]] forms the basis for many [[Big Finish]] stories in both ''[[The Companion Chronicles]]'' and ''[[Gallifrey (audio series)|Gallifrey]]'' audio series. This story is also the ostensible link between ''Doctor Who'' and the Australian ''[[K9 (TV series)|K9]]'' series, since the K9 at the beginning of ''[[Regeneration (TV story)|Regeneration]]'' appears to be the Mark I, who then "regenerates" into the [[K9 Mark 2|model seen throughout that programme]].


The aliens insist the Doctor sign something without reading it -- something he never does. He then admits he's signed so many things, that one more won't make any difference. This will give him full power over all the Time Lords, serving the aliens' cause.  
== Synopsis ==
[[Fourth Doctor|The Doctor]] returns to [[Gallifrey]], claims his rights and is crowned President. It soon turns out that he has led a group of aliens called [[Vardan]]s to the planet to eradicate them completely. After they are destroyed, the [[Sontaran]]s take their opportunity and follow them in their invasion until they are destroyed by the Doctor.


When the Doctor returns and takes off his jacket to reveal his ruffled shirt, Leela bombards him with questions. The Doctor puts his hand to his face, annoyed, then tells Leela, "Order K9 to tell you to shut up." Leela tells K9 and only then realizes what the Doctor said, "How dare you!" As Leela is about to go on, K9 pulls his laser nose out and tells his Mistress it is imperative that she adopt silent mode. She is horrified and confused.  
== Plot ==
=== Part one ===
[[File:Read before you sign.jpg|left|thumb|"I never sign anything before I've read it."]]
The [[Fourth Doctor]] meets a group of aliens in space and returns to [[Gallifrey]], bringing [[Leela]] and [[K9 Mark I|K9]] with him. He is behaving very strangely, and when the [[Chancellery Guard]] under their [[Commander]], [[Andred (The Invasion of Time)|Andred]], arrive at the [[Panopticon|Panopticon Chamber]] to interrogate him, the Doctor demands to be taken to Chancellor {{MacKay}}, who is now in charge of the [[Time Lord]]s.


Commander Andred on Gallifrey gets a report over a computer bank from someone named Rodan. Andred moves over to a desk where Kelner, a Castellan, sits. The time capsule approaching is in their own continuum; the molecular patina indicated it is a TARDIS. Kelner tells him to go to amber alert and hands him an amber ball which he places into a console.  
The Doctor claims the vacant Presidency of Gallifrey, having been a candidate. After the demise of Chancellor Goth, he is elected automatically. The aliens watch him keenly, stating that they have chosen well. The Doctor chooses a presidential chamber and asks it be redecorated with [[lead]] lining throughout. Shortly afterward, a ceremony is held to swear him in as President of Gallifrey, and he is presented with the trappings of office. However, when [[Crown of Rassilon|the circlet]] connecting him to [[the Matrix]], repository of all Time Lord knowledge, is placed on his head, the Doctor collapses in pain...


Andred and Kelner figure from their computers that the time capsule is Gallifreyan and is unidentified. Kelner reveals there are only two Time Lords out on authorized missions and neither match the encoming TARDIS. Andred asks, "Then who is in that capsule?" Kelner tells him there is only one penalty for unauthorized use of a time capsule and that Andred should see it is carried out. If there is no life in it, the capsule will be destroyed.  
=== Part two ===
[[File:FourthDoctorIOT1.jpg|thumb|The Doctor falling during his coronation as President.]]
The Doctor is taken to the [[Chancellery]] to rest and recover. When he regains consciousness, he reminds the Time Lords that no aliens are allowed on Gallifrey and instructs that Leela be expelled from the [[Capitol]] Citadel, where she will have to fend in the wastelands.


Andred leaves Kelner to personally see to the destruction of the capsule.  
She tries to avoid banishment, but the Doctor insists as president. The Doctor retreats to [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], where he shares a secret plan with K9. He is obviously very concerned about the situation in which he has found himself. Meanwhile, Leela meets [[Rodan]], and they find that a massive warship is moving towards Gallifrey.


The aliens monitor the Doctor; if he is killed, one alien tells the others, "There will be others."
The Doctor is planning to aid an invasion of Gallifrey itself. To this end he sets about destroying the [[transduction barrier]] that shields the planet from external threat. K9 sets about this task while the Doctor returns to the Panopticon, the great hall of the Time Lords. He laughs cruelly as three alien beings start to materialise...


The TARDIS appears in the chamber room. Andred and guards surround it. The Doctor with his scarf, jacket, and hat on, ambers out with Leela behind him. He tells them he is delighted to be back on Gallifrey and glad for such a warm welcome -- they have all pulled gun on him. The Doctor says, "Gallifrey, I never heard of it." He is acting most erratic. He tells this "honour guard" they are no honour and that they are not fit to guard a jelly baby. He tells Leela, "C'mon Leela," then a few seconds as she follows, he snaps, "Just where do you think you're going? Stay here and wait for me." Leela protests but the Doctor moves off with guards. Two guards are on either side of Leela.  
=== Part three ===
[[File:Just over there.jpg|thumb|right|Leela and [[Rodan]] explore the wastes.]]
The invading beings are known as [[Vardan]]s. They appear as shimmering manifestations who made an alliance with the Doctor some time ago. The Doctor advises the Time Lords, including the stubborn Borusa, to submit to their new and powerful masters. He asks Borusa to meet him in his office, where the Doctor explains he had the lead walls installed to prevent the Vardans entering the room on thought waves and reading his mind. He hadn't told the other Time Lords because their minds are too single-minded, and the Vardans would be able to hear them. He sent Leela away to protect her and can now work with Borusa to defeat the Vardan threat.


In the corridors, Andred halts the Doctor, who was leading. The Doctor tells him he is quite right -- he should lead, the Doctor will follow. The Doctor stops at a door and opens it; the Chancellor's Office is behind it. Andred stops him, telling him that no one sees the Chancellor without being announced. The Doctor ask to be announced and Andred does so.  
A new problem has emerged, however, with the ascendancy of the obsequious and compliant [[Castellan]] [[Kelner]]. He is being far too co-operative with the Vardan occupation. The toadying yet ambitious Castellan soon has Borusa placed under house arrest and starts expelling trouble-making Time Lords from the safety of the Capitol.


When they enter the Chancellor's Office, Borusa is there, waiting but is surprised to see the Doctor again. The Doctor doesn't talk to his old mentor and somewhat friend, just stares ahead as he recites his legal right to claim all that was Rassilon's and of all the colleges of Time Lords -- he claims the Presidency over all Time Lords.  
Leela has kept her faith in the Doctor. She decides that if he wishes her to leave the Capitol it is with good reason, so she departs for the wastelands. She is accompanied by Rodan. They are welcomed warily by a tribe of [[Outsider]]s who have rejected Time Lord society and live in the wastelands. Their leader, [[Nesbin]], explains some of the background to his tribe. Back in the Capitol, however, things are looking grim for the Doctor when Andred corners him and decides to execute him in the name of liberty...


Alone with Borusa, the Doctor lays on his back with his hat over his face. He tells Borusa that when he was at the Academy, Borusa always bored him with his lectures on responsibility and duty. Borusa counters that his lectures on them failed. The Doctor agrees, "You taught me nothing. Nothing that instinct couldn't replace." He takes his hat off. Borusa callously tells the Doctor he will do his best to persuade the Cardinals to accept the Doctor as President to which the Doctor yells, "I am the President!" Borusa answers his questions -- there is "unfortunately" no other candidate. Borusa mentions the Doctor had the Constitution at his fingertips once before and the Doctor forgets it was not Borusa who was Chancellor at that time but another Chancellor, who almost had him killed. Borusa makes more caustic comments and starts to leave. The Doctor screams at him that he has not yet been given his leave to depart. Borusa tells him that since the Doctor has not yet been confirmed as President, he doesn't need his leave. The Doctor tells him the Ceremony must be held at once. When Borusa seems to delay, the Doctor screams again, "At once!!!" After Borusa leaves, the Doctor closes his eyes.  
=== Part four ===
[[File:Matrix.jpg|left|thumb|The Doctor consults [[the Matrix]].]]
K9 helps the Doctor overpower Andred. The Doctor explains the danger and abilities of the Vardans to Andred, with his TARDIS providing a shield to his thoughts. The Doctor is hoping to persuade the Vardans to fully materialise so that he can find their planet and [[time loop]] it. Leela has also organised her own resistance movement in the wastelands, comprising Nesbin's people and the exiled Time Lords, all of whom are drilled into a fighting force which soon launches an assault on the Capitol.


The aliens watching, claim it is a waste to kill off the Doctor after they have used him. Perhaps they will keep him alive. "He understands discipline."
Meanwhile, the aliens and Kelner have decided the Doctor is behaving in an untrustworthy manner. The Doctor reaffirms his loyalty to them by agreeing to dismantle the final [[force field]] protecting Gallifrey from attack. He does not fully disable it, but rather places a large hole in it. The Vardans use the hole to properly invade Gallifrey and appear as humanoid warriors. In space, a ship approaches Gallifrey. Their manifestation enables K9 to track down their home planet and supply the Doctor with the correct co-ordinates.


Borusa is telling Kelner that the Doctor's problem is that he "never understood discipline." The Doctor accepts nothing. Andred interrupts them, telling them the President Elect demands their presense. Borusa snaps, "Let him rot in a black star." Kelner defers to the Doctor's call, "After all, a request is a request."
[[File:Gallifrey (The Invasion of Time, Part IV).jpg|right|thumb|A spaceship approaches Gallifrey.]]
He uses this to beam the Vardans back to [[Varda|their home world]] and then traps it in a [[time loop]] at the same time Leela and her warriors reach the Panopticon.


They go to the Doctor who is to show them his new office, a barren office that the Doctor wants for his own. The Doctor wants it furnished -- he hates squatting. When Borusa makes subtle complaints about how the Doctor is treating him, the Doctor reminds Borusa of the knowledge that Borusa is the Chancellor illegally. The Doctor walks around the office in circles -- he wants it decorated in Quasar 5, Rega, Simian Empire, 2nd Dynasty -- in other words, Earth, 20th Century. The Doctor claims he grew used to it and at times, actually found it quite pleasant. He wants clothes given to Leela and accommodations given her; she is in attend his induction. After Kelner leaves, the Doctor discusses more with Borusa. He wants the primitive panels of Earth lining every spot in the room. As Borusa leaves, the Doctor reminds him -- lead panels everywhere, even the door.  
When the Doctor is giving a celebratory speech to everyone in the Panopticon, everyone but the Doctor becomes silent, while the Doctor looks confused. Looking behind him, he sees three [[Sontaran]] soldiers. The leader raises his gun...


Andred is showing Leela clothes from everywhere in the whole cosmos but she throws them all down, not liking any. Andred keeps calling her Madam to which she yells, "And stop calling me Madam. My name is Leela." He asks what she wants and she tells him: a quiver, a bow, and bunch of janus thorns, and her knife back. He can't give her any weapons. She goes on complaining, telling him to keep his clothes and his President Elect also!!! She moves off from him.  
=== Part five ===
Gallifrey has now been invaded by the Sontarans, led by Commander [[Stor]], who reveal that they used the Vardans to open up the force field to let them in and have served their purpose. The Doctor and his party escape to the President's office, while Kelner pledges support to the invaders. Borusa has placed [[titanium]] alloy on the door to reinforce it. The Sontarans are delayed while the Doctor and his party escape through another exit.


In the office, Borusa and the Doctor go over the induction ceremony. The Doctor will have access to the matrix, where all the information of all Time Lord's memories and personalities are stored -- all information that can be stored anywhere is installed in the matrix, not just Time Lord info. The Doctor will be part of it and it will be a part of him. He entered it once before and didn't care for it. Borusa tells him that was just the APC net -- the Amplified Panatropic Computer net -- which is only a small part of the Matrix. Once completely inducted to the Matrix, the Doctor will have the most complete power in the known universe over all the known universe.  
The Doctor uses his freedom to try to pressure Borusa into revealing to him the location of the [[Great Key of Rassilon]], a missing item of the Presidential regalia. On the way back to the TARDIS, Nesbin is killed by a Sontaran. The Doctor looks for the Great Key in a large group of keys, and Borusa pulls it out of a drawer keyhole. Meanwhile, the Sontarans have been trying to get Kelner to widen the gap in the force field.


The aliens ready their battle fleet, summoning a commander. The first phase of their plan is nearing completion.  
They then regroup at the TARDIS where Rodan is put to work using the TARDIS' controls to repair the hole in the force field, while the Doctor explains that the Sontarans want domination over all universes and all time. However, Kelner imperils their resistance when he manipulates the stabiliser banks of the Doctor's TARDIS to try to destroy the resistance force within by hurling them to the heart of a [[black star]]...


Leela tells Andred she will not let the Doctor down since this ceremony will bring much honour to the Doctor. As they talk, Leela pulls her knife from Andred's shirt. She asks about what rites she is to follow. None. Andred does tell her, "If you could avoid killing anyone it would help." Leela thinks about it and seriously says, "I...will...try."
=== Part six ===
[[File:The One and Only...DEMAT GUN!!.jpg|right|thumb|The Doctor presents the [[De-mat Gun|de-mat gun]].]]
The Doctor overrides the threat, so their enemies change tactics. Commander Stor and one of his troopers, assisted by Castellan Kelner, gain access to the Doctor's TARDIS. They pursue the Doctor and his friends through the labyrinth of corridors. Stor is after the Great Key too, knowing the Doctor has now persuaded Borusa to yield it to him. The Doctor uses distractions to buy time. On the Doctor's instruction, a hypnotised Rodan and K9 construct a special forbidden Time Lord weapon: the [[De-mat Gun]]. Powered by the Great Key itself, the de-mat gun erases its victims from time itself. The Doctor takes the gun and confronts Stor in the Panopticon. Stor intends to destroy the galaxy, and the Time Lords and Sontarans with it, with a grenade, but the blast is cancelled out by the Doctor using the de-mat gun. It obliterates Stor, wipes the Doctor's mind of recent events, and also destroys itself. Kelner is arrested and Borusa begins the process of rebuilding Gallifrey.


In the Panopticon, two old Time Lords talk. One is Gomer, the Surgeon General. The other is Savar. Gomer and he discuss that it usually takes about a year just for inductions to be considered. Gomer is anxious to get on with his hobby -- cyclic burst ratio study; that wavelength broadcast power transfer can be done on narrow bands.  
The Doctor is ready to leave, but Leela decides to stay on Gallifrey because she has fallen in love with Commander Andred. K9 decides to stay behind to look after Leela, and they both watch as the TARDIS dematerialises. Inside the TARDIS, the Doctor pushes out a box labelled "K9 MII." He grins mischievously.


The Ceremony starts and the Doctor comes down the steps as organ music plays. The Gold Usher, in golden robes and top cap, conducts the ceremony asking if he will honour the will and wisdom of Rassilon. When the Doctor answers, the Gold Usher bangs his staff three times for each question answered. The Gold Usher asks if any will contest his right to the Sash of Rassilon and the Rod Of Rassilon. The Doctor will seek to find the missing Great Key, the task of the President. The Gold Usher invests the candidate as President of the Supreme Council of Time Lords on Gallifrey.
== Cast ==
* [[Fourth Doctor|Doctor Who]] - [[Tom Baker]]
* [[Leela]] - [[Louise Jameson]]
* [[Vardan]]s - [[Stan McGowan]], [[Tom Kelly]]
* [[Andred (The Invasion of Time)|Andred]] - [[Christopher Tranchell]]
* [[Kelner]] - [[Milton Johns]]
* {{MacKay}} - [[John Arnatt]]
* Lord [[Gomer]] - [[Dennis Edwards]]
* Lord [[Savar]] - [[Reginald Jessup]]
* [[Gold Usher (The Invasion of Time)|Gold Usher]] - [[Charles Morgan]]
* Voice of [[K9 Mark I|K9]] - [[John Leeson]]
* [[Guard (The Invasion of Time)|Guard]] - [[Christopher Christou]]
* [[Rodan]] - [[Hilary Ryan]]
* [[Ablif]] - [[Ray Callaghan]]
* [[Jasko]] - [[Michael Mundell]]
* [[Varn (The Invasion of Time)|Bodyguard]] - [[Michael Harley]]
* [[Nesbin]] - [[Max Faulkner]]
* [[Presta]] - [[Gai Smith]]
* [[Castellan guard|Castellan Guard]] - [[Eric Danot]]
* [[Stor]] - [[Derek Deadman]]
* [[Sontaran]] - [[Stuart Fell]]


Watching on their screen, one of the aliens comments, "Now we have them."
=== Uncredited cast ===
* Vardan - [[Julian Hudson]] ([[DWMS Holiday 1992]])


The Sash is put around the Doctor's neck. A guard brings the Rod on a red plastic pillow and the Doctor is given it by the Gold Usher, who goes over the task of finding the lost Great Key.
== Crew ==
* [[Writer]] - [[David Agnew (writer)|David Agnew]]
* [[Incidental Music]] - [[Dudley Simpson]]
* [[Production Assistant]] - [[Colin Dudley]]
* [[Production Unit Manager]] - [[John Nathan-Turner]]
* [[Studio Lighting]] - [[Mike Jefferies]]
* [[Studio Sound]] - [[Anthony Philpott|Anthony Philpot]]
* [[O.B. lighting|O.B. Lighting]] - [[John Sterling]]
* [[O.B. sound|O. B. Sound]] - [[Ian Leiper]]
* [[Visual effects designer|Visual Effects Designers]] - [[Colin Mapson]], [[Richard Conway]]
* [[Special sounds|Special Sound]] - [[Dick Mills]]
* [[Costume designer|Costume Designer]] - [[Dee Kelly]]
* [[Make-up artist|Make-up Artist]] - [[Maureen Winslade]]
* [[Script Editor]] - [[Anthony Read]]
* [[Designer (crew)|Designer]] - [[Barbara Gosnold]]
* [[Producer]] - [[Graham Williams]]
* [[Director (crew)|Director]] - [[Gerald Blake]]
* [[Film Cameraman]] - [[Ken Westbury]]
* [[Film sound|Film Recordist]] - [[Graham Hare]]
* [[Film Editor]] - [[Chris Wimble]]
* [[Doctor Who theme|Title Music]] - [[Ron Grainer]] and the [[BBC Radiophonic Workshop]]
* [[Title sequence|Title Sequence]] - [[Bernard Lodge]]


One of the aliens panics but another tells him, "All is as expected."
=== Uncredited crew ===
* [[Costume assistant|Costume Assistants]] - [[Dennis Brack]], [[Terrance Parker]], [[Richard Winter]] ([[INFO]]: ''The Invasion of Time'')
* [[Graphics]] - [[Elizabeth Freeman]] ([[INFO]]: ''The Invasion of Time'')
* [[Design assistant|Design Assistant]] - [[Bob Steer]] ([[INFO]]: ''The Invasion of Time'')
* [[Costume dresser|Dressers]] - [[Sheila Parkinson]], [[Mervin Bezar]], [[Michael Chard]], [[Steve Cornish]], [[Mark Creed]], [[Tony Mannings]] ([[INFO]]: ''The Invasion of Time'')
* [[Grams operator|Grams Operator]] - [[Gerry Borrows|Jerry Borrows]] ([[INFO]]: ''The Invasion of Time'')
* [[Floor assistant|Floor Assistants]] - [[Renny Tasker]], [[Sue Williams]] ([[INFO]]: ''The Invasion of Time'')
* [[Technical manager|Technical Manager]] - [[Errol Ryan]] ([[INFO]]: ''The Invasion of Time'')
* [[O.B. lighting|O.B. Lighting]] - [[Tommy Thomas]] ([[INFO]]: ''The Invasion of Time'')
* [[Film camera assistant|Film Camera Assistant]] - [[John Sennett]] ([[INFO]]: ''The Invasion of Time'')
* [[Electronic effects|Electronic Effects]] - [[Dave Chapman]] ([[INFO]]: ''The Invasion of Time'')
* [[Vision Mixer]] - [[Shirley Coward]] ([[INFO]]: ''The Invasion of Time'')
* [[Props buyer|Props Buyer]] - [[Brenda Barker]] ([[INFO]]: ''The Invasion of Time'')
* [[Film operations manager|Film Operations Manager]] - [[Ian Brindle]] ([[INFO]]: ''The Invasion of Time'')
* [[Film operative|Film Operatives]] - [[John Francis]], [[Alan Twine]] ([[INFO]]: ''The Invasion of Time'')
* [[Grip]]s - [[Roy Caney]] ([[INFO]]: ''The Invasion of Time'')
* [[Engineering co-ordinator|Engineering Co-Ordinators]] - [[Trevor Gibbs]], [[Bob Newton]] ([[INFO]]: ''The Invasion of Time'')
* [[OB engineering manager|OB Engineering Manager]] - [[Bob Wade]] ([[INFO]]: ''The Invasion of Time'')
* [[Make-up assistant|Make-Up Assistants]] - [[Norma Hill]], [[Vicky Pocock]], [[Vanessa Poulton]], [[Karen Sherrie-Morton]] ([[INFO]]: ''The Invasion of Time'')
* [[Visual effects assistant|Effects Assistant]] - [[Chris Lawson]] ([[INFO]]: ''The Invasion of Time'')
* [[Senior cameraman|Senior Cameraman]] - [[Jim Atkinson]] ([[INFO]]: ''The Invasion of Time'')
* [[OB cameraman|OB Cameramen]] - [[David Goutier]], [[Alan Hayward]] ([[INFO]]: ''The Invasion of Time'')
* [[Film sound assistant|Film Sound Assistant]] - [[Patrick Quirke]] ([[INFO]]: ''The Invasion of Time'')
* [[Director's assistant|Director's Assistant]] - [[Joy Sinclair]] ([[INFO]]: ''The Invasion of Time'')


The Doctor swears to uphold the Laws of Gallifrey, the wisdom of Rassilon, and to protect the law and wisdom. The crown floats up and the Gold Usher takes it and puts it on the Doctor's head -- connecting the Doctor to the Matrix. All bow but Leela, who bows only when she realizes Andred and all the others are bowing.  
== Worldbuilding ==
=== Gallifreyan artefacts ===
* The [[Sash of Rassilon]], the [[Rod of Rassilon]], [[the Great Key]] and the [[Crown of Rassilon]] are all Artefacts of Rassilon given to a Gallifreyan President when he is elected.


The Doctor bows slightly bending. Suddenly, his head hurts. The energy in the head band crown builds up and he slowly falls to his side. He closes his eyes in pain..
=== Gallifreyan weapons ===
* [[Iridium alloy]] is used in the construction of the de-mat gun.


Part 2
=== History From the real world ===
Leela tries to get the crown off the Doctor while Borusa debates with Gomer about the Doctor being rejected. Borusa wants the guards to seize the Doctor. The Doctor has not been rejected by the Matrix, Gomer asserts and the crown can't be removed. The Doctor is the President now. If they decide against that, then they will have to go through this whole boring ceremony again, one asserts. Leela tells them the Doctor is no coward even though the Time Lords see that the Doctor has self induced a cataleptic state. Gomer will take the Doctor to rest and will supervise this himself, warning Borusa to watch his moves but not in those words. Borusa complains to Kelner, who tells Borusa that Gomer (even if he looks very old) is still young.
* The Doctor tells Borusa that he had "nothing to do with" the sinking of the ''[[Titanic]]''. However, several of his later incarnations would indeed find themselves on the ship, including [[Ninth Doctor]] who apparently "ended up clinging to [the] iceberg", commentating that "it wasn't half cold." ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'')


The Doctor is brought to the Chancellory to rest and is in shock. Gomer has given him a dose of Duranga and presumes it will take hours for the Doctor to recover. Therefore, he is amazed when the Doctor opens his eyes. Leela and Andred arrive. Borusa tells the Doctor that his alien friend -- Leela -- attacked him. The Doctor tells them there are no aliens allowed in here and orders Leela expelled to outside the Citadel. Before the guards can take her, Leela pushes through them and runs out, getting away. A guard manages to get a few ray gun shots off at her but she pushes past two more Time Lords, two older ones. Alarms go off. The Doctor tells Borusa and Andred that Leela can be dangerous. Kelner is there also and tells Andred and the Doctor that he will personally take charge of her capture. As Kelner and Andred go, the Doctor calls after them and slams the doors, asking the alarms to go off. Borusa wonders what the Doctor is playing at. The Doctor wants respect from Borusa who tells him he never admired respect before. The Doctor tells him that was before and that he thought Borusa knew him better. Borusa tells the Doctor he never deceived him at the Academy, wondering if this is a prank of some kind. The Doctor tells him he has never been more serious in any of his lives -- with Leela free in the Citadel, they are in danger.  
=== K9 ===
* Whilst in the TARDIS, the Doctor offers K9 a [[ball bearing]].


Later, the Doctor gets up and puts on his jacket, hat, and scarf. Finding guards of Borusa at his door, the Doctor goes behind a curtain and he finds a metal door which resists the sonic screwdriver, "Even the sonic screwdriver won't get me out of this one." He goes to a chair behind the desk and talks to himself as if he were talking to Borusa. He wonders if a key is stolen or lost or if Borusa himself is the key. Borusa likes the sound of his own voice. Open sesame doesn't work on the door. The Doctor recalls Borusa saying, "There's nothing more useless than a lock with a voice print." Saying this twice opens the door and lock. The Doctor strolls out.  
=== Literature from the real world ===
* Borusa reads a copy of the ''[[Daily Mirror]]'' from [[1912]].


The Doctor hop scotches down a corridor past a hiding Leela who has her knife out. She shakes her head, smiles, and follows the Doctor.  
=== Music from the real world ===
* The Doctor whistles the [[Colonel Bogey March]].


Andred puts this view on Kelner's own mixer board and Kelner sees the Doctor and Leela on his screen. He sends Andred after them.  
=== Planets and timeline ===
* The Doctor discusses [[Quasar Five]], [[Riga (The Invasion of Time)|Riga]], [[Simian Empire]] second dynasty and [[Earth]] 073 period architecture with Kelner.
* A [[Thessorian Empire]] is mentioned.


As the Doctor passes a lot of guards, he makes them bow their heads to the Sash of Rassilon, which he wears around his neck. As they bow, Leela moves past them, unseen but she says, '"I'm with him." The Doctor goes into the TARDIS and shuts the door before Leela can get in.  
=== Psychic powers ===
* Borusa taught the Doctor advanced techniques of [[telepathy]].


Andred supervises the guards to follow the Doctor and Leela.  
=== Spacecraft ===
* The Vardans and the Sontarans approach Gallifrey in a [[Sontaran assault ship]].


Leela can't open the TARDIS door with her knife so tries the lock but cannot open it either. Kelner watches her on his screen.  
== Story notes ==
* Even though [[Louise Jameson]] was adamant that this would be her last story and [[Romana|a new companion]] had been developed, [[Graham Williams]] remained optimistic that he could persuade her to stay. As such, he gave little thought to Leela's departure because he was anticipating a last-minute rewrite to retain her. He tried to persuade right up to the studio recording, until it turned out that she'd accepted a stage role (Portia in a production of Shakespeare’s ''The Merchant of Venice''), meaning that she couldn't appear in [[Season 16 (Doctor Who 1963)|Season 16]] anyway. This resulted in Leela's exit being abrupt, much to Jameson's displeasure.
* The Sontarans return in this story, making it their third appearance on TV and their last (save flashbacks) until ''[[The Two Doctors (TV story)|The Two Doctors]]''.
* [[Stan McGowan]] (Vardan) is credited as "Vardan Leader" in ''Radio Times''.
* [[Christopher Tranchell]] (Andred) has his first name billed as "Christopher" on-screen for parts one and two; and as "Chris" on-screen for parts three to six, and in ''Radio Times'' for all episodes.
* [[Rodan]] is the first female Gallifreyan to appear on screen since [[Susan Foreman]] more than a decade earlier.
* According to ''[[Into the Unknown (documentary)|Into the Unknown]]'', a featurette on the DVD release of the preceding story, ''[[Underworld (TV story)|Underworld]]'', the budget on that story was so tight consideration was given to cancelling it and allotting the story's budget to ''The Invasion of Time''.
* This story provides one of the most extensive views of the interior of the TARDIS ever provided on television. As in ''[[The Masque of Mandragora (TV story)|The Masque of Mandragora]]'', the deep TARDIS interior is shown to be an eclectic combination of rooms with highly variable designs, such as an indoor swimming pool and an industrial building. The interior TARDIS became much more homogenised after this. In the [[John Nathan-Turner]] era, the TARDIS interior greatly resembled the [[TARDIS console room|console room]], with white, [[roundel]]ed walls throughout. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', et al.) Such an extensive exploration of the TARDIS interior would not be undertaken again until the 2013 television story ''[[Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)|Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS]]''.
* This story replaced the cancelled ''[[Killers of the Dark]]'' story.
* Working titles for this story included ''The Invaders of Time''.<ref>http://www.shannonsullivan.com/doctorwho/serials/4z.html</ref>
* Leela was supposed to be killed off in this episode, dying defending the Doctor against the Sontarans. Ultimately, [[Graham Williams]] and [[Anthony Read]] felt that this would traumatise children. [[Louise Jameson]] would have much preferred this exit, as she was unhappy with the one she got.
* [[Robert Holmes]] was supposed to write this story, but he declined, not wanting to return to the series having just left his post as script editor. He did suggest that the first four episodes focus on Gallifrey and the last two feature the Sontarans.
* Initially, it was revealed that the Time Lords were not native Gallifreyans, but rather had been permitted to construct their Citadel there in return for ensuring that the planet's populace lived in total comfort and security. It was these indigenous Gallifreyans that Leela met following her banishment.
* The Doctor's actions as President originally threw the Time Lords into open civil war, and part two ended with several rebellious Time Lords threatening to execute the Doctor (much as Andred does in the part three cliffhanger of the finished serial).
* The Vardans were originally going to betray the Doctor, ordering his annihilation at the close of part three.
* [[Angus MacKay]] was unable to reprise his role as {{Arnatt}} from ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'', so [[John Arnatt]] took over. The character’s two subsequent appearances would also see different actors in the role: [[Leonard Sachs]] ([[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]) and [[Philip Latham]] ([[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]).
* [[Graham Williams]] loved the Sontarans, hence their reappearance.
* [[Gerald Blake]] had previously directed ''[[The Abominable Snowmen (TV story)|The Abominable Snowmen]]''. He recalled chastising a typically badly behaved [[Tom Baker]] by saying, "I remember when you were [[Patrick Troughton]]".
* Following the troubled shoot, [[Graham Williams]] sent a memo to his superiors that in future, all directors would take the show seriously.
* The closing credits of parts three, four, and six feature the return of the section of the ''Doctor Who'' theme commonly called the "Middle Eight", this sequence not having been heard since the early [[Jon Pertwee]] era.
* The production team considered writing K9 out of the show altogether at the end of the serial due to the technical problems caused by the prop.
* In rehearsals, [[Louise Jameson]] and [[Christopher Tranchell]] tried to introduce additional moments of tenderness between Leela and Andred in order to make Leela's exit more credible.
* [[Roger Murray-Leach]] was supposed to work as production designer in order to maintain continuity with ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'', but he was unavailable. [[Barbara Gosnold]] took his place.
* [[Graham Williams]] was unhappy with [[Derek Deadman]]'s choice of accent for Commander Stor, and the actor refused to heed the producer's request to modify it.
* The giant plant which consumed the Sontaran trooper inspired [[Tom Baker]] to suggest that his next companion should be a talking [[cabbage]], to whom he could explain the plot as it perched on the Doctor's shoulder.
* [[Graham Williams]] suggested the alias “Richard Thomas”, after his young son, but Head of Serials [[Graeme MacDonald]] requested that “David Agnew” receive the credit. This was a ''nom de plume'' used on a variety of BBC programmes dating back to 1971, and would be used again for the [[Douglas Adams]]/Graham Williams rewrite of [[David Fisher (writer)|David Fisher]]’s ''The Gamble With Time'', which was broadcast under the title [[City of Death (TV story)|''City of Death'']].
* [[Graham Williams]] had planned for [[Season 16 (Doctor Who 1963)|Season 16]] to explore more of the TARDIS interior. He used that idea in this serial.
=== Ratings ===
* Part one - 11.2 million viewers
* Part two - 11.4 million viewers
* Part three - 9.5 million viewers
* Part four - 10.9 million viewers
* Part five - 10.3 million viewers
* Part six - 9.8 million viewers


Inside the TARDIS, the Doctor and K9 hear Leela's desperate banging on the doors to get in. The Doctor stands against the door, covering his ears. K9 bows his head in shame.  
=== Myths ===
* [[Rodan]] was the prototype for [[Romana I]]. Related rumours include actress [[Hilary Ryan]] being unavailable for the following season, which resulted in Romana being created as a replacement for Rodan.


Leela flees to an overhead ledge as Andred and guards come to the TARDIS. Andred recognizes the TARDIS as an old Type 40 and knows they have a Trillogic Locking Device which can be opened with a set of Cyber Keys. He sends a guard to get one.
=== Filming locations ===
* Beachfields Quarry, Cormongers Lane, Redhill, Surrey
* St Anne's Hospital, Redstone Hill, Redhill, Surrey
* British Oxygen, Blacks Road, Hammersmith
* [[Bray Studios]], Slough
* [[BBC Television Centre]] (TC8), Shepherd's Bush, [[London]]


K9 and the Doctor talk inside the TARDIS. K9 puts an antenna to the Doctor's head: his cerebral circuits are in order but his physiognomy is dubious. K9 rates their chances of success at 39.75% which raises to 48.3% when the Doctor tells him more of his plan. The Doctor has found the security control room beneath the Panopticon on level 3-0. If the Doctor puts up a meta caste -- a shifting shadow to Space Traffic Control -- this will help. A reflection transmission beam off the security shield fed back through a linked crystal bank and through an inducer will do the trick. K9 admits he couldn't have said it better. The Doctor argues a little with K9, then tells him to destroy the control center after he activates the dopler effect and eliminates the red shift. Then the invasion will succeed. K9 agrees -- a 98.2% success rate.  
=== Production errors ===
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* When the Doctor hops down the corridor in part two, he knocks the camera as he goes past.
* When the Doctor is on the spaceship at the beginning of the story, he has his hat and [[The Doctor's scarf|scarf]] with him but when he enters the TARDIS, they are on the hatstand, and not being worn by the Doctor.
* In one scene there is a dirt mark one side of the Doctor's face, but in the next scene it is on the other side of his face.
* In the end scene of part four Commander Stor holds his gun between his fingers, but at the start of part five his grip is different.
* In part five, when Commander Stor is attempting to get Kelner to widen the gap in the Citadel's force field, the mesh in his helmet's eye holes is missing, leaving his actual eyes clearly visible.
* When K9 blasts the guard protecting the transduction barrier equipment, the guard drops his staser as he falls, and the gun breaks apart as it hits the floor.
* The Sontaran costumes were cumbersome and limited the field of vision of the actors wearing them, so much so that they are often seen tripping through and over props. At one point, a Sontaran (played by [[Stuart Fell]]) nearly takes a fall after missing a short jump and landing on a pool chair. As the aliens originate on a planet of notably high gravity, however, their clumsiness is easily explained.


Leela has her knife out as she runs to an area with coloured chairs -- the Space Traffic Control entrance area. She goes down to steps and sees a Gallifreyan woman, her hair up in a bun, sitting in a chair, not really worried about Leela. There is a force field between this woman, who is named Rodan, and everyone else. This is one of the highest security rooms in the Citadel and Rodan is surprised Leela doesn't know that. She guesses Leela is that alien that everyone is after, but she's a Traffic Guard so she won't give her away -- that is not her concern. Turning to her consol, Rodan sees lights which represent primitive space ships of a Neo Crystal Structured Fleet powered by atomic drive and with atomic weaponry. This fleet might be en route to blast some part of the galaxy, Rodan figures. Leela tells her she must stop the fleet. Rodan gave the fleet clearance. She tells Leela to stop the fleet would break one of the cardinal rules of Gallifrey -- to never interfere; to only observe. Leela asks what if Gallifrey was attacked. Rodan thinks that impossible since the induction barrier would stop any invaders.  
== Continuity ==
* Andred uses the term "[[Relative Time]]", which previously appeared in [[TV]]: {{cs|Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)}}.
* The Doctor assuming the Presidency is a direct consequence of putting himself up for the position as a ploy during a previous trip to Gallifrey. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'')
* The Doctor brings Leela to Gallifrey, although he had previously shown reluctance to bring an outsider there. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Hand of Fear (TV story)|The Hand of Fear]]'')
* Leela complains about the lack of her [[janis thorn]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Face of Evil (TV story)|The Face of Evil]]'' et al.)


The Doctor, in the TARDIS, stands up again and tells K9 to destroy the induction barrier soon and asks K9 to get off his foot. The Doctor goes out of the TARDIS to Andred who was inspecting the ridiculous shape the TARDIS has been stuck in. He gives Andred a jellybaby and shows him how to eat it. Andred realizes that Earth is the same as the Gallifrey name for Sol 3 Mutter Spiral. The Doctor then reminds Andred it is vital that girl be caught and put outside the citadel.
== Home video and audio releases ==
=== DVD releases ===
* Region 2 (PAL) [[5 May (releases)|5 May]] [[2008 (releases)|2008]]
* Region 4 (PAL) [[3 July (releases)|3 July]] 2008
* Region 1 (NTSC) [[2 September (releases)|2 September]] 2008


Kelner watches the Doctor and Andred on his screen, sitting at his desk console.  
==== Special features ====
* Commentary by [[Louise Jameson]] ([[Leela]]), [[John Leeson]] ([[K9 Mark I|K-9]]), [[Anthony Read]] (Writer) and [[Mat Irvine]] (Visual Effects Designer)
* ''[[Out of Time (documentary)|Out of Time]]'' - The cast and crew look back at the making of this story, featuring [[Christopher Tranchell|Chris Tranchell]] ([[Andred]]), [[Milton Johns]] ([[Kelner|Castellan Kelner]]) and [[Colin Mapson]] (Visual Effects Designer)
* ''[[The Rise and Fall of Gallifrey (documentary)|The Rise and Fall of Gallifrey]]'' - A look at how the portrayal of the [[Time Lord]]s and [[Gallifrey|their home planet]] has changed over the years
* ''[[The Elusive David Agnew (documentary)|The Elusive David Agnew]]'' - Script editors [[Terrance Dicks]] and Anthony Read try to find out who really wrote ''The Invasion of Time'' (in actuality, "David Agnew" was a house pseudonym used by several ''[[Doctor Who]]'' writers)
* Deleted Scenes - From the film sequences for Parts Five and Six
* Optional CGI effects - New CGI effects to accompany this story
* Continuity - [[BBC One|BBC1]] continuity announcements from 1978
* ''[[Radio Times]]'' Billings - Artwork and articles for this story from the ''Radio Times'' (PDF DVD-ROM)
* Photo Gallery - A selection of rare production photos from this story
* Coming Soon Trailer - ''[[K9 Tales]]''
* Production Information Subtitles
* [[Easter Egg]]:  Bonus interview in which Visual Effects Designer Colin Mapson discusses the [[Crown of Rassilon]]. To access this hidden feature, press left at ''Radio Times'' Listings on Disc Two to reveal a hidden ''Doctor Who'' logo.


Andred leads the guards off, toward Space Traffic Control. The Doctor starts to follow them, then turns abruptly and heads up the great steps, his own way.  
Notes:
* Editing for the DVD release was completed by the [[Doctor Who Restoration Team]].


After they leave, a guard returns with a set of keys to open the Type 40 TARDIS. There is a red one, a blue, silvery one, and a disk-like shape one. He opens the TARDIS but K9 comes out. The guard bends and extends his hand but K9 stuns him. The guard falls, unconscious.  
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Kelner goes to Borusa's Office and finds out Borusa still believes the Doctor to be resting. Kelner wants to speak to the President. When Borusa takes Kelner to the Doctor's office, it is Kelner who is surprised.. .the Doctor is there, having come through the secret door and curtain a moment earlier. They find the Doctor laying down. Borusa awakens the Doctor. Kelner hopes the Lord President Doctor feels better for his rest. He tells the Doctor about the girl, Leela. The Doctor stands full up and imposes himself on Kelner, whispering, telling him it is his job to find her and that he better see to getting her. He tells Borusa he wants a meeting of the council at once. When Borusa begins protestations, the Doctor yells at Borusa loudly. He screams at them and slams the door on their backs. He leans against the door in agitation, a worried look on his face, almost as if he is about to sob uncontrollably.  
==== Boxed set release ====
This story was re-released in the ''[[Bred for War]]'' DVD boxset on [[5 May (releases)|5 May]] alongside all the classic series Sontaran stories (''[[The Time Warrior (TV story)|The Time Warrior]]'', ''[[The Sontaran Experiment (TV story)|The Sontaran Experiment]]'', ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'' and ''[[The Two Doctors (TV story)|The Two Doctors]]''). The DVD is the same as the one sold separately. It was released [[8 July (releases)|8 July]] in [[Australia]].


K9 moves over a bridge toward the level he is supposed to find the induction barrier machinery.  
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Rodan is talking to Leela, finishing her talk about astrophysics, finding astrophysics a bore. She tells Leela they must fight them on their own terms. Leela, standing with her arm up on the ceiling, says, "One must, one must." Rodan tells Leela she knew she'd like her and lowers the force field to let Leela inside to her office.  
=== VHS releases ===
This story was released as ''Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time''.


Rodan spots an alien ship and calls a Code Beta 3 -- transduction barrier Factor 5. This barrier protects Gallifrey from invasion.  
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* [[UK]] March 2000 (Double tape set)
* [[Australia]] August 2000 (Single tape set)
* [[US]] August 2000 (Same as UK edition)
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K9 stuns a guard at the transduction barrier level. He then moves to the devices and uses his nose blaster to destroy the barrier machinery.  
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Rodan puts a call to urgently speak to the Lord Castellan, telling whoever she is talking to that the transduction barrier has failed, "We are being invaded!"
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At his meeting with the Council of old Time Lords, the Doctor makes them all bow and bows himself -- introducing them all to their new masters... alien shimmering lights that crackle into being before them. There are three of these beings in the Panopticon room now. Kneeling, the Doctor starts to chuckle evilly...
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Part 3
[[de:The Invasion of Time]]
A guard shoots at the Vardan shimmering shape and the energy seems turned back on him. He falls. The Doctor tells the others that "resistance is useless." The Vardans have more knowledge and he met them a long time ago. Borusa expected better from the Doctor but the Doctor tells them all to submit to the Vardans, as he has done.
[[es:The Invasion of Time]]
 
[[ru:Временное вторжение]]
In Traffic Control, Leela tells Rodan the Doctor has a plan -- "He always has a plan."
 
The Doctor whispers to Borusa, asking if the redecorations on his office are complete. They are, so the Doctor asks Borusa to meet him there within the hour. After Borusa and the other Time Lords leave, the Vardans tell the Doctor he would make a great first rate dictator. The Doctor starts to leave, mumbling about the Vardans, who ask what he said. But more importantly, they ask him about finding the Great Key, stunning him.
 
Leela tells Rodan that discussion is for the wise or helpless. Rodan keeps talking of surrender, making Leela asks her why she is talking of giving up. Leela asks if all of her race are such cowards. Rodan talks of reason and that reason dictates the Doctor is a traitor. Leela tells her then reason is wrong -- the Doctor wanted her banished for a purpose and she will go out of the Citadel, asking Rodan if she will join her. She puts her hand out to Rodan. Rodan takes it.
 
The Doctor is in his office with Borusa, the decorations the finest in the whole Risonian empire. They can talk at last, the Doctor says.
 
A guard stops Leela and Rodan.
 
The Doctor apologizes for all the insults and indignities he has thrown at Borusa. The Vardans can travel on wavelengths, read thoughts but a lead lined room can shield minds from these aliens. For a time, the Doctor shielded his mind unaided -- the benefit of Borusa's training.
 
It is Andred that has stopped Leela and Rodan. He thinks Leela had something to do with the invasion but Rodan tells him that Leela was with her when the aliens entered the Citadel and Leela was also with her when the barrier was destroyed. Andred will stay in the Citadel and balance out the evil that Kelner is doing. Kelner is using this invasion as an opportunity to settle old scores and lock people up he doesn't like. Andred wants to have a go at the invaders...and he doesn't tell Leela or Rodan... but he wants a go at the President as well.
 
In the lead lined office, the Doctor tells Borusa that Leela is the biggest danger of all... thus she had to be banished. Her mind can be read easily. Borusa mentions the outer wilds of Gallifrey's desert to be a barbaric garden. The Doctor mentions that is Leela's natural habitat...
 
Leela and Rodan, wearing cloaks flee out of the Citadel over a hill in a desert. Rodan has never been outside. Leela thinks it is much better out here but Rodan calls it frightening and all natural, something that scares her even more. Leela lets Rodan rest for a bit; Rodan thinks it was a stupid idea to come out here. But with the alien invaders in the Citadel, they are safer out here... or are supposed to be. A spear lands near Rodan. Savages arrive and Leela faces off with one...
 
Kelner assigns a bodyguard to the Doctor, one who will report on the Doctor's every move to Kelner. If anything should happen to the Doctor, Kelner will become President, something he doesn't yet want... but it is implied that this bodyguard will soon kill the Doctor for Kelner.
 
Leela and Rodan are brought by the savages to their leader, Nesbin, a man with long grey hair. Kaska, one of the savages, mistook the two women for game and it was he who tossed the spear at them. It took all the savages to get Leela's knife away from her. When Nesbin touches Leela, she flips him over and gets her knife back. Nesbin introduces the girls to the other savages... female Presta, Ablif, and Jasko. Nesbin tells the girls to go back to the citadel, they cannot survive out here. Leela stares off into the distance, "I can survive anywhere." Nesbin says he believes that. He asks about her and she proclaims she is a warrior of the Sevateem. Nesbin reminds her of her friend, Rodan: how will she fend for herself, what will she eat? Rodan lamely takes out capsule food pills. Nesbin's speech about survival reduces Rodan to tears. He asks her if she has ever eaten flesh or fruit and wonders what she will use for shelter. He doesn't think Rodan will last three days. Rodan cries, is cold, and slumps down. Presta holds her, compassionately. Nesbin wants to hear the girls' story and then will decide if they can stay with them but first Rodan needs rest in shelter and food.
 
In the lead office, the Doctor has told Borusa as much as he dared, telling the older man, "You're a brave man, Borusa." They leave the room, not wanting to arouse suspicions among the Vardans.
 
K9 is in the TARDIS and opens a panel on the console stand.
 
The Doctor takes Borusa to the Vardans in the Panopticon where Kelner awaits. The Doctor apologizes to the Vardans, to have kept them waiting. The Doctor fakes that he wants Borusa to pledge loyalty to the Vardans. When Borusa refuses, the aliens hit him with a beam but the Doctor stops them, telling he may be useful. The Doctor calls Borusa a stiff necked old Chancellor. Kelner has Borusa taken to his room under guards and house arrest. The Vardans tell the Doctor they want complete dominance and will reveal their plans and selves to the Doctor only when they do. The Doctor puts his arm around Kelner, asking for his help. He doesn't want any resistance from other Time Lords. The Doctor wants Kelner to assume himself Vice President. Anyone in official positions who were reliable to the old ways and might be troublemakers should be put on a list. Kelner goes off to ready the list.
 
Later, Kelner brings the list to the Doctor in Kelner's office. Time Lord rebels were checked in the bio data extracts by Kelner. The Vardans want the rebels or would be rebels destroyed but the Doctor offers expulsion. No one can survive outside the Citadel without help... and there is no help out there, the Doctor says. Borusa and other high ranking officials will be kept. The Doctor tells Kelner to put out the Time Lord rebels one by one. The Vardans surprise him by asking him to dismantle the quantum force field around all of Gallifrey, an act which could, if gone wrong, vaporize the entire planet.
 
Nesbin, while eating with Leela and Rodan, tells them that he and his outsiders are all Time Lords who went back to nature. Rodan tells him that this is never mentioned. Nesbin tells her it wouldn't be and that he and his followers dropped out, which confuses Leela. Leela tells Nesbin to listen to her before it is too late.
 
Andred is escorting Gomer to a hall out of the Citadel. Guards that are loyal to Andred are with him. Considered lively in his younger days, Gomer is old but if he has a weapon to fight these invaders, he would. That is why he is being expelled. Gomer is in his tenth regeneration but tells Andred he was considered lively in his younger days. Gomer explains that Kelner and he never on; Kelner never let bygones be bygones or forget the past. Gomer and Kelner never saw eye to eye. Gomer tells him, "Personally, I can't stand the fellow." Andred agrees but tells Gomer he and some others will do something. But Andred must put Gomer out, telling him he Gomer might find help from Leela and Rodan.
 
Outside, Nesbin doubts Leela's plan to fight the invaders will work. Leela tells Nesbin to fight her. He tells her when he has the time. Rousing them some more, Leela gets the outsiders to agree. Leela says, "We shall fight!"
 
In a hallway of the Citadel, Andred gets two Time Lords and other guards to join his alliance against the President; their plan: dispose of the President who is considered a traitor, "He must die."
 
The Doctor goes to the TARDIS and leaves his bodyguard at the door, making the guard bow to the Sash. The Doctor goes inside the TARDIS. Andred arrives and shoots the bodyguard down as the guard went to draw on him.
 
In the TARDIS, the Doctor throws his hat onto the hat stand and puts the crown onto K9's head, the primary circuits and secondary feeds hooking into the Matrix. As he does this, Andred opens the TARDIS doors, and enters. The Doctor is glad he is there and tells Andred he has a surprise for him. The Doctor is the one surprised when Andred pulls his staser gun on the Doctor, "In the name of liberty and honour, I sentence you to DEATH, traitor...!" The Doctor stares at him...
 
Part 4
K9 stuns Andred and the Doctor catches the falling Gallifreyan. K9 reconnects to the TARDIS and matrix.
 
Kelner orders the arrest of Andred and all those with him, if they resist they are to be killed. Kelner goes to the Vardans and cooperates with them fully.
 
As the Doctor works, Andred gets up and points his staser at the Doctor, "Die, traitor." The Doctor tells him due to the relative dimensional stabilizer field, the gun won't work in the TARDIS. Andred comments about the Doctor's effective treachery.
 
Outside, all of Andred's men and the two Time Lords helping him are shot by the guards.
 
Andred takes his helmet off inside the TARDIS. The Doctor leaves the TARDIS, telling Andred that K9 is in charge and warning him not to touch anything.
 
Exiting the TARDIS, The Doctor asks the guard in charge if he had to kill all the fallen Time Lords and Andred's men. The guard tells him he did. It is a serious matter, trying to depose or kill the Lord President. The Doctor is told Andred is still loose so the Doctor tells the guards to get off after him. After they go, the Doctor re-enters TARDIS and tells Andred what's happened. He tells Andred he is stuck in the TARDIS due to his men being killed and wonders what good he is if he can't pull off a simple palace revolution. Andred finds the screen jammed but the Doctor exclaims he is the living proof his men are dead. In the TARDIS, the Vardans cannot read Andred's thoughts. The Doctor explains this and also tells him that the Vardans travel on broadcast wavelengths and materialize at the end of them. Until these Vardans materialize and show their true form, the Doctor cannot Time Loop their home planet. He needs to find out more about them and where their home planet is. Andred tells the Doctor he has the greatest source of information and wisdom at his disposal -- the Matrix. Doing that would give the Doctor away, which is why the Doctor has hooked K9 up to the Matrix -- he has no brain. The Vardans would, otherwise read the Doctor's encephalographic reading and know what the Doctor would be up to if the Doctor entered the Matrix; the Vardans are already in the Matrix, having invaded it earlier. Andred wonders if they can trust a machine. The Doctor tells him that dog is his second best friend.
 
Kelner tells the Vardans that the President is behaving strangely. The Vardans wondered when Kelner would mention or notice that. They suspect him of being against them.
 
In the TARDIS, the Doctor tells Andred the Vardans don't suspect him. Andred realizes now that banishing Leela and the others was the best way to protect them. The Doctor wants to go off and rig up Andred's helmet with a barrier so that the Vardans cannot read Andred's thoughts. As the Doctor continues to ramble and leaves the room, Andred talks to himself, thinking that one of them is mad, either the Doctor or he -- well, he is the one talking to himself, he realizes.
 
Kelner reports the death of the rebels to the Vardans.
 
Outside the Citadel, Leela knows archery and tells this to Nesbin. She wants them to attack the Citadel.
 
In the TARDIS, the Doctor returns from the back rooms to give Andred his newly lined helmet, which now has a barrier inside it -- all Andred has to do is concentrate. The channel is located by K9, who cannot tell the Doctor all the info yet. The Doctor must play along with the Vardans some more until he can force their materialization. To play along, he will have to go along with their request to dismantle the force field around Gallifrey. He asks Andred about this and Andred isn't sure; The Doctor leaves once again with K9 in charge.
 
Outside, a golden dressed Time Lord shoots an arrow... badly. Leela and Nesbin both comment on how worthless the Time Lords are. Leela thinks she and Nesbin and his warriors will have to attack the Citadel using Rodan as their guide. Nesbin mentions that the Doctor is not on their side; he is a traitor. Leela insists, "Never!"
 
The Doctor carries the crown to the Vardans, who are watching his every move and making no secret about it now. They are monitoring his every thought, they tell him. He puts the crown on and leaves them, heading for the forcefield devices.
 
In the TARDIS, K9 is still working with Andred.
 
The Doctor moves to the force field device and a Vardan shimmering form watches. He takes some wires and puts them in his mouth as he works, feeling disconcerted to have the Vardan watching. He tells the Vardan, when almost finished, "Hold your breath or whatever it is you fellows hold."
 
Outside, the savages, Leela, and Rodan run over a hill near some covering rocks.
 
K9 comes out of the TARDIS, reminding Andred to put on his helmet before he can follow K9 out.
 
The Doctor tells the Vardans the force field is impossible to destroy but he has put a sizeable hole in it. Later he will find a more permanent solution. The Vardan spaceship is seen over Gallifrey and comes closer. The Vardans appear out of their shimmering forms... just humans. The Doctor tells Kelner they are a bit disappointing. The Doctor moves to go do more work on the field and tells a Vardan he doesn't need its help. When the other Vardan, the smaller one, the one who seems to be in control of the other two, orders that the Vardan go with the Doctor, the Doctor asks that Vardan if he will assist him in his work.
 
Andred shoots a guard.
 
As they prepare to enter the Citadel, Leela tells Nesbin to create a diversion with some of his men while she takes Jasko, Rodan, and Rodan to another side.
 
Walking quickly, with his hat on again, the Doctor walks far ahead of the Vardan, a humanoid in blue one piece and helmet. The Doctor hits his head by mistake on a beam over him. He keeps walking.
 
K9 and Andred go to the Doctor's lead lined office where K9 closes down to conserve resources, Andred closes the doors and then removes his helmet.
 
The Doctor stops abruptly and enters his office, locking the confused Vardan outside with many wheel locks on the inside of the office.
 
When this is reported, the Vardan leader sends the other one to kill the Doctor. He also makes Kelner in control of the planet. Kelner bows to the Vardan leader.
 
Leela bangs on the TARDIS doors but cannot get in. The others with her suggest they go to the President's Office. Leaving in frustration, Leela kicks at the TARDIS doors with her foot. They move out for the President's Office.
 
Kelner orders the President shot on sight.
 
In the office, the Doctor shows Andred the Rod, the Sash, and the Crown. He also makes K9 come back on line and asks Andred to trust him, putting the crown on K9 again.
 
Outside the office doors, two Time Lord guards trying to get in, are shot in their backs with arrows and fall dead. The Vardan with them, vanishes. Leela's group arrive from one side, Leela asking, "What was that?" Rodan says, "Someone vanishing." Leela rolls her eyes. The savages break at the door.
 
Andred opens the door at the Doctor's request. He tries to stop the savages from attacking the Doctor. They stop. The Doctor is told by K9 that the frequency tracer has found the Vardan home planet.
 
The Vardans go on alert.
 
K9 has got the coordinates; it is in a modulation rejection pattern.
 
The Vardans vanish before Kelner's eyes.
 
K9 tells the Doctor the Vardans are negative, there is no trace of the "alien wave pool" anywhere on Gallifrey. The Doctor walks to the door, his head down. Leela asks him what's the matter. He turns to them all, "We've won again." He has sent the aliens back to their home planet and now he plans to jury rig a time loop in his TARDIS against their planet using the matrix.
 
The Doctor comes to Kelner, leading him on and tells him he is just a glorified guard and not very good at it anyway, the Doctor talking faster and faster. He also thinks that this oligarchy gets the Castellan it deserves -- and for a bit he will let Kelner be. The Doctor stands in the Panopticon and raises his hands to the others, a large group, telling them the future of Gallifrey is assured. He notices everyone turning their eyes off him and onto something behind him. He turns to see three squat figures of Sontaran storm troopers behind him. The Doctor is wide eyed and speechless. The Sontarans have their helmets on and a fourth one steps forward. The leader raises his arm, his strange gloved hand holding a wand-like weapon to fire at them.
 
Part 5
Borusa goes to the desk and sounds the celebration chimes of the induction ceremony but at 50 times the normal decibels. The Doctor and everyone but Kelner and the Sontarans run out. The sound stopped the Sontarans from following. When Kelner tries to help Stor, Stor hits him down.
 
Stor calls all units -- the President is to be apprehended but not killed, "Kill those with him."
 
Leela wonders why the Doctor is leading them to the office; the Doctor has an urgent appointment.
 
The Doctor and his party are running up steps, followed by Sontarans. The Doctor stops at the top and before a small clearing -- this is the dangerous part. He does a countdown and rushes out into the door of his office. The others follow. Inside, they are faced with Borusa, who raises a gun at them.
 
Stor orders his troopers to stop banging on the door and to go down and get the heavy artillery.
 
In Borusa's office, the Doctor tells Leela to take the others to the TARDIS. She protests at first, but finally leads the group out, leaving the Doctor and Borusa. The Doctor asks Borusa if he is going to help him or kill him.
 
In Borusa's office, the Doctor asks him for the key which Borusa insists is only a myth, a legend. The Doctor reminds Borusa of his oath to find the Great Key. All the Presidents since Rassilon have taken the oath and none have ever found the Great Key.
 
In Borusa's office, the Doctor tells Borusa that men, women, even Time Lords are dying out there. Borusa tells the Doctor that is why he taught detachment. The Doctor says he'd rather care. If the Sontarans get what they want, millions of Sontarans will be on Gallifrey through the hole in the forcefield and millions of them will threaten time. Borusa is aggravated by this into making a slip about the Great Key being real and that he has it. Leela gets Andred and Rodan to the TARDIS with K9. Andred takes rather a long time opening it with his device.
 
The Doctor has his hat on and walks quickly with Borusa. They walk in the hallway past two Sontaran troopers. The Doctor bluffs his way by, without stopping, telling the two that there are new orders from Commander Stor and tells them to get in touch with Stor. They call Stor and find out there are no new orders. A Sontaran fires at the two Time Lords but the blasts have no affect on the two men. The Doctor has his arm around Borusa, thinking it is the Great Key that is protecting them, but it isn't. Borusa's pendant powers the Chancellor's personal force shield but the batteries are low. The Doctor suggests running and the two run for the Panopticon, stopping at a way in. Borusa calls all this running undignified, "I haven't run like this for centuries." The Doctor tells him the problem with him is he is out of condition and asks if the force shield can make it to the TARDIS. With luck. He crosses his fingers and the pair of them run out of hiding to the TARDIS. The Doctor rushes in and the door closes as Borusa stopped to turn to look behind them. Locked out, Borusa bangs on the doors, '"If you could just open the door." The Doctor lets him inside. Sontarans arrive and shoot at the TARDIS.
 
The Doctor asks Rodan what she does. She is a technician. He tells her to stand over in a certain spot. He orders Leela to take Borusa to the VIP chancellor's suite and tells Andred to go to Room 12-0-7 on the right. He gives the key to Leela for safe keeping, making Borusa shocked. The Doctor tells her it is important and Leela takes Borusa out of the console room. The Doctor asks Rodan her name and spells it out for her. He asks what she knows about quasitronics, something he doesn't know much about. She does know -- a simple field study exercise. The Doctor asks her about astrophysics and is glad to hear she knows about that as well. He then asks if she can forget everything she's learned. He wants her to use the primary and secondary circuits of his TARDIS to link up to the primary defense shield. She realizes he wants to switch the control of the force barrier around Gallifrey to his TARDIS mechanism -- he wants to close the hole in the barrier. Rodan thinks for a moment, "Have you got a screwdriver?"
 
Rodan works on the under console in the Doctor's console room. He asks her if she is sure she knows what she's doing.
 
In his TARDIS, the Doctor talks rapidly to Rodan, telling her the Sontarans want to rampage throughout this universe, "and not just this universe, all the universes". Rodan asks for a vrinkle grubber. The Doctor asks if she is listening to what he's been saying. She tells him no. He tells her the Sontarans will have the Sash, the Rod, and the Key if they get in here and the sum of all Time Lord power, "That's what they want!"
 
Rodan asks the Doctor for a hand. He puts it out and she reaches for it, helping herself up using the Doctor's hand. She calls the TARDIS a load of junk. Rodan opens the screen and sees the perfect arrow formation of the Sontaran fleet. The defense screen will hold up as long as this TARDIS remains secure.
 
The console room wavers and shimmers. A sound hums to a rising crescendo. Someone's reversed the stabilizer banks. Rodan thinks that is impossible, since only a Time Lord can do that! The Doctor realizes it is Kelner! The TARDIS jolts, throwing the two onto their backs. Rodan hits the wall behind her hard and falls unconscious. The Doctor almost flips over, "We'll be thrown into a black star!!!" He and the TARDIS turn negative as they glow with raging power...
 
Part 6
Leela runs into the control room, calling the Doctor, helping him up. He orders her to get Rodan, then moves to a small room outside the console room, pulling a switch on the brick wall -- he has stabilized the fail safe; the switch has put the TARDIS in fixed state for eternity until the switch is thrown back. Stor orders Kelner to get an entrance probe to enter the TARDIS. Leela locks the door from the console room into the TARDIS's inner rooms. The Doctor takes a piece from the switch -- now the systems cannot be reset.
 
The Sontarans enter the console room. Stor takes off his helmet and calls this TARDIS a load of obsolete rubbish. Kelner, with the Sontarans, tells him this model was withdrawn centuries ago. Stor orders Kelner to work or die even though Kelner insisted he is not an engineer. Stor thinks this is the only way out of the TARDIS. He wants the Great Key after which he will deal with the Doctor personally.
 
The Doctor leads Leela and Rodan through an old stone section that looks like an empty swimming pool area of steps and banisters. He claims he has a perfect sense of direction and this is storeroom 23-A en route to the workshop. Leela takes Rodan's hand and they follow him. The Doctor tells them what no one realizes is his TARDIS is fully equipped and completely reliable, "...well, almost reliable. Almost completely reliable." They have to go up the service tunnel past blue Section 2-5. The Doctor leads them into a stone alcove hallway up a step, telling them everything is going to be all right. They enter another pool area, Leela thinking they have been here before. The Doctor tells them this is Level 23-B.
 
They go into another alcove hallway with a stone semi circle overhead. Rodan tells him they passed this way ten minutes ago. The Doctor tells them he knows this TARDIS like the back of his hand -- which Leela has to turn over for him to see.
 
The trio enter a lighter area where the Doctor checks a clock that is slow.
 
The Sontaran trooper brings in a heat gun to blast the lock. It will take some time.
 
The Doctor is laying down while Rodan sits behind his head and Leela sits in front of his legs, her hand on her head. All is quiet but the Doctor blasts up, wanting to go. Leela tells him he just said he wanted a rest. He's had it, he wants to go find K9. The three run off to find him.
 
In a workshop, Andred wonders what he could do with a model like K9 in his unit. He would make him a sergeant.
 
Leela, Rodan, and the Doctor enter another pool like area. Rodan wonders why the Doctor can't just use a modern 706 model TARDIS. The Doctor thinks that model has no character. Leela sits down, upset, telling them they have been here before! The Doctor continues, telling her this is storeroom 14-D.
 
The three go to K9 and Andred. K9 has been working on something in this workshop. Without the primary refraction tube the Doctor took from the switch, the Sontarans cannot destroy the TARDIS. The Doctor gets the Great Key from Leela.
 
The trooper has blasted through the console room door lock.
 
While the Doctor considers he doesn't like the thought of inertia being perfect, they are warned by an alarm that something has broken in upstairs.
 
Stor comments he will do battle with the Doc-Tor on his own ground.
 
The Doctor quickly puts Rodan into a state of deep hypnosis, telling her to listen to everything K9 says, to watch the door, and to keep the Great Key and give it to no one but K9. There are windows in this workshop.
 
The Doctor, Leela, and Andred go down flights steps past a cage like structure -- the lift. The Doctor is sorry this lift is out of order. Leela asks where they are going and he tells her, "Why the bathroom, of course!"
 
In a TARDIS hallway above, Stor figures the Doctor is clever: the Doctor has thrown up a barrier making the tracers the Sontarans are using unable to trace life signs of humans. They will have to return to the console room to eliminate the barrier but Kelner has a better way. There is an ancillary generator in the TARDIS ancillary power station. This powers the barrier.
 
Leela, Andred, and the Doctor run through the TARDIS. Soon, Kelner and two Sontarans are marching down the steps past the lift.
 
In a recreation room, Borusa sits and reads the Daily Mirror which has reported the Titanic sinking. Borusa drinks from a psychedelic loop straw. The Doctor comes in with his two friends, moving past potted plants, statues, and trees. He sees the newspaper and takes it from Borusa. It would be bad if Borusa were to fall into the hands of the Sontarans -- he knows about the Great Key, the Sash, the Rod of Rassilon. The Sontarans have no breeding. They are a clone species who can replicate in the amount of 4 million every four minutes. Borusa, the Doctor, and Leela run. Andred tosses a chair at a Sontaran trooper who enters with Stor.
 
Borusa, Leela, Andred, and the Doctor rush to a large hallway with doors, the Doctor telling them to pick a door, any door. They do and hide in shower stalls. The Doctor moves a curtain and somehow ends up where Leela and Borusa are hiding in the same shower. Leela is startled and nearly gasps. They enter Sickbay and Andred locks the glass windowed door. They hide behind stalls with curtains! The Sontaran breaks the window on the door and opens the lock. He comes in and fires in anger, not finding anyone. Andred is behind one stall and gets his arm nicked by the ray from the Sontaran wand weapon. The Sontarans and Kelner leave the area.
 
Leela takes Andred out. She takes him to the Doctor and Borusa, where Andred apologizes that he won't be of much use to the Doctor now. The Doctor checks his arm and tells Leela to take him and Borusa to the Workshop. As they leave, the Doctor looks at a giant plant.
 
Leela leads Borusa and Andred into an empty pool area - -another workshop just like the ones she, the Doctor, and Rodan were constantly finding themselves walking through.
 
The Doctor whistles to draw a Sontaran trooper toward the giant plant. The Sontaran fires. The Doctor makes strange cartoonish sounds. It sounds like he is playing a kazoo. The Sontaran walks backward into the plant's mouth and it closes on him. The Doctor shakes the hand of the trooper as it sticks out of the plant. The Doctor leaves and goes through another one of those workshops. He trips on his scarf but recovers quickly. He whistles a type of army song as he walks through a stone hallway.
 
Stor opens the plant and lets the Sontaran trooper out. Stor orders the trooper to go with Kelner.
 
In a stone hallway, Leela takes out her knife as Borusa and Andred follow behind her. She hears something. Suddenly, the Doctor pops out of an adjoining hallway, in front of them.
 
Stor walks through the TARDIS halls.
 
Kelner and the trooper walk into the ancillary power station which resembles an art exhibition. Kelner moves a piece on the Venus De Milo statue and it vanishes, along with the art pieces. He pulls a switch which has appeared and the Sontaran can now trace the humans -- they are three levels below them!
 
In the workshop, the Doctor wakes Rodan up. The work she has been doing under K9's guidance is finished. He had to wake her up since he needed the Great Key from her. Borusa is horrified at what the Doctor has made K9 and Rodan do: build the DeMat Gun. Rodan cannot believe it so the Doctor tells her her part in its building. The Doctor takes the Key and arms it, "I can rule the universe with this, chancellor, do you realize that?" Borusa orders him to destroy it now. The Doctor tells him he knows how vulnerable they are to the Sontarans. The trooper arrives and the Doctor destroys him with the DeMat Gun blast. Leela puts a knife to Kelner's throat but the Doctor stops her from killing him. When he refuses to answer the Doctor's question about where Stor is, the Doctor asks Leela to kill him." Kelner answers now -- Stor has headed for the Panopticon and the Matrix.
 
Stor is not out of the TARDIS yet. The Doctor follows. Soon, Stor leaves the TARDIS. The Doctor steps out of it also, his hat on now. He takes his hat off and puts it in his pocket. He confronts Stor in the Panopticon, getting there first. Stor has a grenade that if set off will destroy the entire galaxy including the Sontaran's own battle fleet. Stor considers it glory to die for the glorious Sontaran Empire, ridding the universe of the Time Lords and their power, "Good-bye, Dok-Tor!" The DeMat gun goes off. Afterwards, the Sontarans are all gone and the Doctor is on the floor on his face. The Great Key is near his hand.
 
Andred alerts Leela to footsteps marching toward the workshop aboard the Doctor's TARDIS. It sounds like a Sontaran but it's not. It is the Doctor. Kelner is on his knees. The Doctor wonders what is going on -- it is not like Borusa to make jokes and yet the Chancellor is asking strange questions. Borusa takes the sash off the Doctor. The Doctor asks Leela what she thinks of what he is saying. Leela looks at the Doctor, "I think you've gone mad." The Doctor has forgotten all about what happened with the Vardans, the Sontarans, and the DeMat Gun. Borusa claims this to be the wisdom of Rassilon.
 
When the Doctor re-enters the TARDIS area, all clap for him. Among these are Nesbin and Presta. Other Outsiders are there. The Doctor opens the TARDIS doors and says, "C'mon Leela." Leela puts her head down and tells him she's staying." When the Doctor asks why, she holds hands with Andred. When the Doctor tells K9 to come on, K9 tells him that he, too, is staying. K9 wants to stay to look after his Mistress. The Doctor starts to say something but stops and goes into the doors. Leela stops him, "Doctor...I will miss you." She smiles. He smiles and laughs a bit. He shuts the doors and leans on them inside where no one can see him, "I'll miss you too, savage."
 
The TARDIS starts up and vanishes. Borusa comments, "Where will he go now, I wonder." Leela stares at the empty space where the TARDIS once was a moment ago, "Somewhere else..."
 
In the TARDIS console room, the Doctor pushes a big box in from the inner door.
 
Back on Gallifrey, as Leela holds hands with Andred, she leans down to K9, "Will he be lonely, K9?" K9 answers, "Insufficient data, Mistress." K9 and Leela both bow their heads in sadness.
 
The Doctor, in his TARDIS, is at the console. He looks toward the box. On it is writing that says, "K9 MARK II." The Doctor smiles a broad grin.
 
 
==Plot==
''to be added''
 
==Cast==
*[[Fourth Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Tom Baker]]
*[[Leela]] - [[Louise Jameson]]
*Voice of [[K9]] - [[John Leeson]]
*[[Ablif]] - [[Ray Callaghan]]
*[[Andred]] - [[Christopher Tranchell]]
*Bodyguard - [[Michael Harley]]
*[[Borusa]] - [[John Arnatt]]
*Castellan Guard - [[Eric Danot]]
*[[Gold Usher]] - [[Charles Morgan]]
*Guard - [[Christopher Christou]]
*[[Jasko]] - [[Michael Mundell]]
*[[Kelner]] - [[Milton Johns]]
*Lord [[Gomer]] - [[Dennis Edwards]]
*Lord [[Savar]] - [[Reginald Jessup]]
*[[Nesbin]] - [[Max Faulkner]]
*[[Presta]] - [[Gay Smith]]
*[[Rodan]] - [[Hilary Ryan]]
*[[Sontaran]] - [[Stuart Fell]]
*[[Stor]] - [[Derek Deadman]]
*[[Vardan]] - [[Stan McGowan]]
*[[Vardan]] - [[Tom Kelly]]
 
==Crew==
*[[Assistant Floor Manager]] - [[Terry Winders]], [[Romey Allison]]
*[[Costumes]] - [[Dee Kelly]]
*[[Designer]] - [[Barbara Gosnold]]
*[[Film Cameraman]] - [[Ken Westbury]]
*[[Film Editor]] - [[Chris Wimble]]
*[[Incidental Music]] - [[Dudley Simpson]]
*[[Make-Up]] - [[Maureen Winslade]]
*OB Cameraman - [[David Goutier]], [[Alan Hayward]]
*[[Producer]] - [[Graham Williams]]
*[[Production Assistant]] - [[Colin Dudley]]
*[[Production Unit Manager]] - [[John Nathan-Turner]]
*[[Script Editor]] - [[Anthony Read]]
*[[Special Sounds]] - [[Dick Mills]]
*[[Studio Lighting]] - [[Mike Jefferies]]
*[[Studio Sound]] - [[Anthony Philpott]]
*[[Theme Arrangement]] - [[Delia Derbyshire]]
*[[Title Music]] - [[Ron Grainer]]
*[[Visual Effects]] - [[Colin Mapson]], [[Richard Conway]]
 
==References==
*While in [[the Matrix]] the Doctor learns of the [[Timewyrm]] but erases his memory to protect himself from it and leaves a message for his future self.
*The [[Sash of Rassilon]], The [[Rod of Rassilon]], [[The Great Key]], The [[Coronet of Rassilon]] are all [[Artefacts of Rassilon]] given to a Gallifreyan President when they're elected.
*The Doctor has [[Rodan]] and K9 build the [[De-Mat Gun]], powered by [[The Great Key]].
*[[The Capitol]] is a part of the [[Citadel]].
*Those who live outside the Citadel are [[The Outsiders]].
 
==Story Notes==
''to be added''
 
===Ratings===
*Part 1 - 11.2 million
*Part 2 - 11.4 million
*Part 3 - 9.5 million
*Part 4 - 10.9 million
*Part 5 - 10.3 million
*Part 6 - 9.8 million
 
===Myths===
''to be added''
 
===Location Filming===
''to be added''
 
===Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors===
''to be added''
 
==Continuity==
*The Vardans reappear in [[No Future]].
* The Doctor receives his past self's message of the Timewyrm in [[Timewyrm: Genesys]].
*Leela and K9 re-meet the Doctor in [[Lungbarrow]] and [[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]].
*Lord Savar is mentioned in [[Seeing I]] and [[The Infinity Doctors]].
*The Doctor is again offered the Presidancy in [[The Five Doctors]].
*Gallifrey is invaded again in [[The Apocalypse Element]].
*The Sontarans return in this story making it their third appearence on TV.
 
==DVD, Video and Other Releases==
This story is due to be released in the [[Bred for War]] DVD boxset on the [[5th May]] alongside all the classic series Sontaran stories. it will also be available by itself.
 
==Target Novelisations==
''to be added''
 
==See Also==
''to be added''
 
==External Links==
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/invasiontime/ BBC Episode Guide for '''The Invasion of Time''', with video clips]
* [http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_4z.htm Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed sypnosis of '''The Invasion of Time''']
* [http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/4z.html '''The Invasion of Time''' entry at A Brief History of Time (Travel)]
* [http://www.gallifreyone.com/episode.php?id=4z Outpost Gallifrey entry for '''The Invasion of Time''']
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The Invasion of Time was the sixth and final serial of season 15 of Doctor Who. It made extensive use of the TARDIS interior and added to the mythology of Gallifrey. It featured the final regular appearances of Louise Jameson as Leela as well as the final appearance of K9 Mark I — although it also immediately implied that the Doctor was merely replacing K9 with a new model.

Its script was a last-minute replacement, written quickly by Read and Williams when the original season-ender by David Weir was abandoned. Contemporary viewers of the programme who participated in the Doctor Who Appreciation Society's season 15 poll voted it the best story of the season. (REF: The Fourth Doctor Handbook) Narratively, it established that Sontarans were a major, credible threat to the Time Lords, carrying through on a foreshadowing reference in their first appearance in The Time Warrior. It laid the groundwork for future Sontaran stories, including their pursuit of time travel in The Two Doctors and their knowledge of Gallifrey's demise in The Sontaran Stratagem.

The fact that Leela remains on Gallifrey with K9 Mark I and she appears to intend to marry Andred forms the basis for many Big Finish stories in both The Companion Chronicles and Gallifrey audio series. This story is also the ostensible link between Doctor Who and the Australian K9 series, since the K9 at the beginning of Regeneration appears to be the Mark I, who then "regenerates" into the model seen throughout that programme.

Synopsis[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor returns to Gallifrey, claims his rights and is crowned President. It soon turns out that he has led a group of aliens called Vardans to the planet to eradicate them completely. After they are destroyed, the Sontarans take their opportunity and follow them in their invasion until they are destroyed by the Doctor.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

Part one[[edit] | [edit source]]

"I never sign anything before I've read it."

The Fourth Doctor meets a group of aliens in space and returns to Gallifrey, bringing Leela and K9 with him. He is behaving very strangely, and when the Chancellery Guard under their Commander, Andred, arrive at the Panopticon Chamber to interrogate him, the Doctor demands to be taken to Chancellor Borusa, who is now in charge of the Time Lords.

The Doctor claims the vacant Presidency of Gallifrey, having been a candidate. After the demise of Chancellor Goth, he is elected automatically. The aliens watch him keenly, stating that they have chosen well. The Doctor chooses a presidential chamber and asks it be redecorated with lead lining throughout. Shortly afterward, a ceremony is held to swear him in as President of Gallifrey, and he is presented with the trappings of office. However, when the circlet connecting him to the Matrix, repository of all Time Lord knowledge, is placed on his head, the Doctor collapses in pain...

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The Doctor falling during his coronation as President.

The Doctor is taken to the Chancellery to rest and recover. When he regains consciousness, he reminds the Time Lords that no aliens are allowed on Gallifrey and instructs that Leela be expelled from the Capitol Citadel, where she will have to fend in the wastelands.

She tries to avoid banishment, but the Doctor insists as president. The Doctor retreats to the TARDIS, where he shares a secret plan with K9. He is obviously very concerned about the situation in which he has found himself. Meanwhile, Leela meets Rodan, and they find that a massive warship is moving towards Gallifrey.

The Doctor is planning to aid an invasion of Gallifrey itself. To this end he sets about destroying the transduction barrier that shields the planet from external threat. K9 sets about this task while the Doctor returns to the Panopticon, the great hall of the Time Lords. He laughs cruelly as three alien beings start to materialise...

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Leela and Rodan explore the wastes.

The invading beings are known as Vardans. They appear as shimmering manifestations who made an alliance with the Doctor some time ago. The Doctor advises the Time Lords, including the stubborn Borusa, to submit to their new and powerful masters. He asks Borusa to meet him in his office, where the Doctor explains he had the lead walls installed to prevent the Vardans entering the room on thought waves and reading his mind. He hadn't told the other Time Lords because their minds are too single-minded, and the Vardans would be able to hear them. He sent Leela away to protect her and can now work with Borusa to defeat the Vardan threat.

A new problem has emerged, however, with the ascendancy of the obsequious and compliant Castellan Kelner. He is being far too co-operative with the Vardan occupation. The toadying yet ambitious Castellan soon has Borusa placed under house arrest and starts expelling trouble-making Time Lords from the safety of the Capitol.

Leela has kept her faith in the Doctor. She decides that if he wishes her to leave the Capitol it is with good reason, so she departs for the wastelands. She is accompanied by Rodan. They are welcomed warily by a tribe of Outsiders who have rejected Time Lord society and live in the wastelands. Their leader, Nesbin, explains some of the background to his tribe. Back in the Capitol, however, things are looking grim for the Doctor when Andred corners him and decides to execute him in the name of liberty...

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The Doctor consults the Matrix.

K9 helps the Doctor overpower Andred. The Doctor explains the danger and abilities of the Vardans to Andred, with his TARDIS providing a shield to his thoughts. The Doctor is hoping to persuade the Vardans to fully materialise so that he can find their planet and time loop it. Leela has also organised her own resistance movement in the wastelands, comprising Nesbin's people and the exiled Time Lords, all of whom are drilled into a fighting force which soon launches an assault on the Capitol.

Meanwhile, the aliens and Kelner have decided the Doctor is behaving in an untrustworthy manner. The Doctor reaffirms his loyalty to them by agreeing to dismantle the final force field protecting Gallifrey from attack. He does not fully disable it, but rather places a large hole in it. The Vardans use the hole to properly invade Gallifrey and appear as humanoid warriors. In space, a ship approaches Gallifrey. Their manifestation enables K9 to track down their home planet and supply the Doctor with the correct co-ordinates.

A spaceship approaches Gallifrey.

He uses this to beam the Vardans back to their home world and then traps it in a time loop at the same time Leela and her warriors reach the Panopticon.

When the Doctor is giving a celebratory speech to everyone in the Panopticon, everyone but the Doctor becomes silent, while the Doctor looks confused. Looking behind him, he sees three Sontaran soldiers. The leader raises his gun...

Part five[[edit] | [edit source]]

Gallifrey has now been invaded by the Sontarans, led by Commander Stor, who reveal that they used the Vardans to open up the force field to let them in and have served their purpose. The Doctor and his party escape to the President's office, while Kelner pledges support to the invaders. Borusa has placed titanium alloy on the door to reinforce it. The Sontarans are delayed while the Doctor and his party escape through another exit.

The Doctor uses his freedom to try to pressure Borusa into revealing to him the location of the Great Key of Rassilon, a missing item of the Presidential regalia. On the way back to the TARDIS, Nesbin is killed by a Sontaran. The Doctor looks for the Great Key in a large group of keys, and Borusa pulls it out of a drawer keyhole. Meanwhile, the Sontarans have been trying to get Kelner to widen the gap in the force field.

They then regroup at the TARDIS where Rodan is put to work using the TARDIS' controls to repair the hole in the force field, while the Doctor explains that the Sontarans want domination over all universes and all time. However, Kelner imperils their resistance when he manipulates the stabiliser banks of the Doctor's TARDIS to try to destroy the resistance force within by hurling them to the heart of a black star...

Part six[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor presents the de-mat gun.

The Doctor overrides the threat, so their enemies change tactics. Commander Stor and one of his troopers, assisted by Castellan Kelner, gain access to the Doctor's TARDIS. They pursue the Doctor and his friends through the labyrinth of corridors. Stor is after the Great Key too, knowing the Doctor has now persuaded Borusa to yield it to him. The Doctor uses distractions to buy time. On the Doctor's instruction, a hypnotised Rodan and K9 construct a special forbidden Time Lord weapon: the De-mat Gun. Powered by the Great Key itself, the de-mat gun erases its victims from time itself. The Doctor takes the gun and confronts Stor in the Panopticon. Stor intends to destroy the galaxy, and the Time Lords and Sontarans with it, with a grenade, but the blast is cancelled out by the Doctor using the de-mat gun. It obliterates Stor, wipes the Doctor's mind of recent events, and also destroys itself. Kelner is arrested and Borusa begins the process of rebuilding Gallifrey.

The Doctor is ready to leave, but Leela decides to stay on Gallifrey because she has fallen in love with Commander Andred. K9 decides to stay behind to look after Leela, and they both watch as the TARDIS dematerialises. Inside the TARDIS, the Doctor pushes out a box labelled "K9 MII." He grins mischievously.

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Uncredited cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]

Uncredited crew[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Gallifreyan artefacts[[edit] | [edit source]]

Gallifreyan weapons[[edit] | [edit source]]

History From the real world[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Doctor tells Borusa that he had "nothing to do with" the sinking of the Titanic. However, several of his later incarnations would indeed find themselves on the ship, including Ninth Doctor who apparently "ended up clinging to [the] iceberg", commentating that "it wasn't half cold." (TV: The End of the World)

K9[[edit] | [edit source]]

Literature from the real world[[edit] | [edit source]]

Music from the real world[[edit] | [edit source]]

Planets and timeline[[edit] | [edit source]]

Psychic powers[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Borusa taught the Doctor advanced techniques of telepathy.

Spacecraft[[edit] | [edit source]]

Story notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Even though Louise Jameson was adamant that this would be her last story and a new companion had been developed, Graham Williams remained optimistic that he could persuade her to stay. As such, he gave little thought to Leela's departure because he was anticipating a last-minute rewrite to retain her. He tried to persuade right up to the studio recording, until it turned out that she'd accepted a stage role (Portia in a production of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice), meaning that she couldn't appear in Season 16 anyway. This resulted in Leela's exit being abrupt, much to Jameson's displeasure.
  • The Sontarans return in this story, making it their third appearance on TV and their last (save flashbacks) until The Two Doctors.
  • Stan McGowan (Vardan) is credited as "Vardan Leader" in Radio Times.
  • Christopher Tranchell (Andred) has his first name billed as "Christopher" on-screen for parts one and two; and as "Chris" on-screen for parts three to six, and in Radio Times for all episodes.
  • Rodan is the first female Gallifreyan to appear on screen since Susan Foreman more than a decade earlier.
  • According to Into the Unknown, a featurette on the DVD release of the preceding story, Underworld, the budget on that story was so tight consideration was given to cancelling it and allotting the story's budget to The Invasion of Time.
  • This story provides one of the most extensive views of the interior of the TARDIS ever provided on television. As in The Masque of Mandragora, the deep TARDIS interior is shown to be an eclectic combination of rooms with highly variable designs, such as an indoor swimming pool and an industrial building. The interior TARDIS became much more homogenised after this. In the John Nathan-Turner era, the TARDIS interior greatly resembled the console room, with white, roundeled walls throughout. (TV: Castrovalva, et al.) Such an extensive exploration of the TARDIS interior would not be undertaken again until the 2013 television story Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS.
  • This story replaced the cancelled Killers of the Dark story.
  • Working titles for this story included The Invaders of Time.[1]
  • Leela was supposed to be killed off in this episode, dying defending the Doctor against the Sontarans. Ultimately, Graham Williams and Anthony Read felt that this would traumatise children. Louise Jameson would have much preferred this exit, as she was unhappy with the one she got.
  • Robert Holmes was supposed to write this story, but he declined, not wanting to return to the series having just left his post as script editor. He did suggest that the first four episodes focus on Gallifrey and the last two feature the Sontarans.
  • Initially, it was revealed that the Time Lords were not native Gallifreyans, but rather had been permitted to construct their Citadel there in return for ensuring that the planet's populace lived in total comfort and security. It was these indigenous Gallifreyans that Leela met following her banishment.
  • The Doctor's actions as President originally threw the Time Lords into open civil war, and part two ended with several rebellious Time Lords threatening to execute the Doctor (much as Andred does in the part three cliffhanger of the finished serial).
  • The Vardans were originally going to betray the Doctor, ordering his annihilation at the close of part three.
  • Angus MacKay was unable to reprise his role as Borusa from The Deadly Assassin, so John Arnatt took over. The character’s two subsequent appearances would also see different actors in the role: Leonard Sachs (Arc of Infinity) and Philip Latham (The Five Doctors).
  • Graham Williams loved the Sontarans, hence their reappearance.
  • Gerald Blake had previously directed The Abominable Snowmen. He recalled chastising a typically badly behaved Tom Baker by saying, "I remember when you were Patrick Troughton".
  • Following the troubled shoot, Graham Williams sent a memo to his superiors that in future, all directors would take the show seriously.
  • The closing credits of parts three, four, and six feature the return of the section of the Doctor Who theme commonly called the "Middle Eight", this sequence not having been heard since the early Jon Pertwee era.
  • The production team considered writing K9 out of the show altogether at the end of the serial due to the technical problems caused by the prop.
  • In rehearsals, Louise Jameson and Christopher Tranchell tried to introduce additional moments of tenderness between Leela and Andred in order to make Leela's exit more credible.
  • Roger Murray-Leach was supposed to work as production designer in order to maintain continuity with The Deadly Assassin, but he was unavailable. Barbara Gosnold took his place.
  • Graham Williams was unhappy with Derek Deadman's choice of accent for Commander Stor, and the actor refused to heed the producer's request to modify it.
  • The giant plant which consumed the Sontaran trooper inspired Tom Baker to suggest that his next companion should be a talking cabbage, to whom he could explain the plot as it perched on the Doctor's shoulder.
  • Graham Williams suggested the alias “Richard Thomas”, after his young son, but Head of Serials Graeme MacDonald requested that “David Agnew” receive the credit. This was a nom de plume used on a variety of BBC programmes dating back to 1971, and would be used again for the Douglas Adams/Graham Williams rewrite of David Fisher’s The Gamble With Time, which was broadcast under the title City of Death.
  • Graham Williams had planned for Season 16 to explore more of the TARDIS interior. He used that idea in this serial.

Ratings[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Part one - 11.2 million viewers
  • Part two - 11.4 million viewers
  • Part three - 9.5 million viewers
  • Part four - 10.9 million viewers
  • Part five - 10.3 million viewers
  • Part six - 9.8 million viewers

Myths[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Rodan was the prototype for Romana I. Related rumours include actress Hilary Ryan being unavailable for the following season, which resulted in Romana being created as a replacement for Rodan.

Filming locations[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Beachfields Quarry, Cormongers Lane, Redhill, Surrey
  • St Anne's Hospital, Redstone Hill, Redhill, Surrey
  • British Oxygen, Blacks Road, Hammersmith
  • Bray Studios, Slough
  • BBC Television Centre (TC8), Shepherd's Bush, London

Production errors[[edit] | [edit source]]

If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.
  • When the Doctor hops down the corridor in part two, he knocks the camera as he goes past.
  • When the Doctor is on the spaceship at the beginning of the story, he has his hat and scarf with him but when he enters the TARDIS, they are on the hatstand, and not being worn by the Doctor.
  • In one scene there is a dirt mark one side of the Doctor's face, but in the next scene it is on the other side of his face.
  • In the end scene of part four Commander Stor holds his gun between his fingers, but at the start of part five his grip is different.
  • In part five, when Commander Stor is attempting to get Kelner to widen the gap in the Citadel's force field, the mesh in his helmet's eye holes is missing, leaving his actual eyes clearly visible.
  • When K9 blasts the guard protecting the transduction barrier equipment, the guard drops his staser as he falls, and the gun breaks apart as it hits the floor.
  • The Sontaran costumes were cumbersome and limited the field of vision of the actors wearing them, so much so that they are often seen tripping through and over props. At one point, a Sontaran (played by Stuart Fell) nearly takes a fall after missing a short jump and landing on a pool chair. As the aliens originate on a planet of notably high gravity, however, their clumsiness is easily explained.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Andred uses the term "Relative Time", which previously appeared in TV: Genesis of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)"].
  • The Doctor assuming the Presidency is a direct consequence of putting himself up for the position as a ploy during a previous trip to Gallifrey. (TV: The Deadly Assassin)
  • The Doctor brings Leela to Gallifrey, although he had previously shown reluctance to bring an outsider there. (TV: The Hand of Fear)
  • Leela complains about the lack of her janis thorns. (TV: The Face of Evil et al.)

Home video and audio releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

DVD releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

Special features[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes:

  • DVD Region 2 UK cover

    DVD Region 2 UK cover

  • DVD Region 4 Australian cover

    DVD Region 4 Australian cover

  • DVD Region 1 US cover

    DVD Region 1 US cover

Boxed set release[[edit] | [edit source]]

This story was re-released in the Bred for War DVD boxset on 5 May alongside all the classic series Sontaran stories (The Time Warrior, The Sontaran Experiment, The Invasion of Time and The Two Doctors). The DVD is the same as the one sold separately. It was released 8 July in Australia.

  • DVD Region 2 UK cover

    DVD Region 2 UK cover

  • DVD Region 4 AUS cover

    DVD Region 4 AUS cover

VHS releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

This story was released as Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time.

Released:

  • UK March 2000 (Double tape set)
  • Australia August 2000 (Single tape set)
  • US August 2000 (Same as UK edition)

Note: For all VHS releases, the video sleeve credited Louise Jameson as well as Tom Baker.

  • VHS Australian cover

    VHS Australian cover

  • VHS US cover

    VHS US cover

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ http://www.shannonsullivan.com/doctorwho/serials/4z.html
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