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==== Episode 1 ==== | ==== Episode 1 ==== | ||
With the [[United Nations Intelligence Taskforce]] providing security, the British Space Programme under Professor [[Ralph Cornish]] oversees the launch of the ''Recovery 7'' probe. This has been sent to [[Mars]] to make contact with the missing ''Mars Probe 7'' and its three astronauts, who lost contact with [[Earth]] eight months earlier. | With the [[United Nations Intelligence Taskforce]] providing security, the British Space Programme under Professor [[Ralph Cornish]] oversees the launch of the ''Recovery 7'' probe. This has been sent to [[Mars]] to make contact with the missing ''Mars Probe 7'' and its three astronauts, who lost contact with [[Earth]] eight months earlier. | ||
[[File:VanLyden.jpg|left|thumb|[[Charles Van Lyden|Van Lyden]] is captured after linking up ''[[Recovery 7]]'' and ''[[Mars Probe 7]]'']] | [[File:VanLyden.jpg|left|thumb|[[Charles Van Lyden|Van Lyden]] is captured after linking up ''[[Recovery 7]]'' and ''[[Mars Probe 7]]''.]] | ||
The pilot of ''Recovery 7'' , [[Charles Van Lyden]], makes contact with the probe but is then silenced by a piercing unearthly sound. The noise troubles the [[Third Doctor]], who travels with his assistant [[Liz Shaw]] to the Space Centre to investigate the situation, offering insights into the origin and meaning of the sound, which he interprets as coded messages. When he says that the sound was going to be repeated, he is proven correct. | The pilot of ''Recovery 7'' , [[Charles Van Lyden]], makes contact with the probe but is then silenced by a piercing unearthly sound. The noise troubles the [[Third Doctor]], who travels with his assistant [[Liz Shaw]] to the Space Centre to investigate the situation, offering insights into the origin and meaning of the sound, which he interprets as coded messages. When he says that the sound was going to be repeated, he is proven correct. | ||
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==== Episode 6 ==== | ==== Episode 6 ==== | ||
[[File:ThreeInsideAlienShipTAOD.jpg|thumb|left|[[Third Doctor|The Doctor]] on board the alien spacecraft]] | [[File:ThreeInsideAlienShipTAOD.jpg|thumb|left|[[Third Doctor|The Doctor]] on board the alien spacecraft.]] | ||
The object is revealed to be an alien spaceship, which brings the Doctor aboard. Once there, the Doctor discovers the three original astronauts are unharmed but mentally deluded into believing they are in quarantine. An alien being now reveals itself to the Doctor and explains the humans are being held aboard the craft pending the safe return of the alien ambassadors. They had been sent to Earth following a treaty between the race and mankind, but the terms of this agreement have now been broken because of the detention of the ambassadors. The Doctor offers his personal guarantee to help return the ambassadors to their mother ship and resolve the conflict before a state of war is declared, and is permitted to leave the alien craft and return to Earth. When the Doctor touches down he is gassed and kidnapped by Reegan, who takes him to Liz. Reegan’s real paymaster, the real organiser of the situation, is revealed to them: General Carrington. Declaring that he had intended Reegan to kill the Doctor, the General pulls a gun on him, declaring that killing him is his "moral duty". | The object is revealed to be an alien spaceship, which brings the Doctor aboard. Once there, the Doctor discovers the three original astronauts are unharmed but mentally deluded into believing they are in quarantine. An alien being now reveals itself to the Doctor and explains the humans are being held aboard the craft pending the safe return of the alien ambassadors. They had been sent to Earth following a treaty between the race and mankind, but the terms of this agreement have now been broken because of the detention of the ambassadors. The Doctor offers his personal guarantee to help return the ambassadors to their mother ship and resolve the conflict before a state of war is declared, and is permitted to leave the alien craft and return to Earth. When the Doctor touches down he is gassed and kidnapped by Reegan, who takes him to Liz. Reegan’s real paymaster, the real organiser of the situation, is revealed to them: General Carrington. Declaring that he had intended Reegan to kill the Doctor, the General pulls a gun on him, declaring that killing him is his "moral duty". | ||
==== Episode 7 ==== | ==== Episode 7 ==== | ||
[[File:BrigFiresLeftTAOD.jpg|thumb|[[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|The Brig]] and his men fire at [[Reegan]]'s henchmen]] | [[File:BrigFiresLeftTAOD.jpg|thumb|[[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|The Brig]] and his men fire at [[Reegan]]'s henchmen.]] | ||
Reegan convinces Carrington to spare the Doctor and make use of his scientific ability. The General reveals his actions have been prompted by xenophobia driven by his own encounter with the alien beings when he piloted ''Mars Probe 6'' some years earlier. His co-pilot, [[Jim Daniels]], was killed on contact with the aliens and the General signed the treaty with the aliens to lure three of their number to Earth, where he hoped he could unveil their real agenda of alien invasion. The use of the ambassadors to kill people was similarly done to arouse public opinion against them. The next phase of his plan is to force the ambassadors to confess their plot on public television. Leaving the Doctor and Liz working on a new and improved communication device to translate the aliens, Carrington departs for the Space Centre, where he aims to unmask the alien ambassador before the eyes of the world – and then call on the powers of the Earth to blast the spaceship from the skies. Using his work on the translator as a cover, the Doctor transmits a morse code SOS to the Brigadier's men. UNIT soldiers then raid the secret base and rescue the Doctor and Liz, apprehending Reegan and his thugs. The Doctor races to the Space Centre, and he and the Brigadier apprehend Carrington before he can make his broadcast. Carrington is taken away, protesting he was only following his moral duty. He asks the Doctor if he understands why he took such actions, and the Doctor sadly sympathises with the general, regretting that it came to this. The Doctor arranges for Cornish and Liz to send the ambassadors back to their own people, after which the three human astronauts will be returned. He says his goodbyes to Liz and the Brigadier, departing back to his UNIT laboratory. | Reegan convinces Carrington to spare the Doctor and make use of his scientific ability. The General reveals his actions have been prompted by xenophobia driven by his own encounter with the alien beings when he piloted ''Mars Probe 6'' some years earlier. His co-pilot, [[Jim Daniels]], was killed on contact with the aliens and the General signed the treaty with the aliens to lure three of their number to Earth, where he hoped he could unveil their real agenda of alien invasion. The use of the ambassadors to kill people was similarly done to arouse public opinion against them. The next phase of his plan is to force the ambassadors to confess their plot on public television. Leaving the Doctor and Liz working on a new and improved communication device to translate the aliens, Carrington departs for the Space Centre, where he aims to unmask the alien ambassador before the eyes of the world – and then call on the powers of the Earth to blast the spaceship from the skies. Using his work on the translator as a cover, the Doctor transmits a morse code SOS to the Brigadier's men. UNIT soldiers then raid the secret base and rescue the Doctor and Liz, apprehending Reegan and his thugs. The Doctor races to the Space Centre, and he and the Brigadier apprehend Carrington before he can make his broadcast. Carrington is taken away, protesting he was only following his moral duty. He asks the Doctor if he understands why he took such actions, and the Doctor sadly sympathises with the general, regretting that it came to this. The Doctor arranges for Cornish and Liz to send the ambassadors back to their own people, after which the three human astronauts will be returned. He says his goodbyes to Liz and the Brigadier, departing back to his UNIT laboratory. | ||
