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== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
[[Fourth Doctor|The Doctor]] and his [[companion]] [[Sarah Jane Smith|Sarah | [[Fourth Doctor|The Doctor]] and his [[companion]] [[Sarah Jane Smith|Sarah]] battle against some of the most heinous foes to emerge from the outer [[universe]]: The [[Pescaton]]s. The Doctor finds himself in the capital city of [[London]], where the population is bewildered and trembling beneath the violent onslaught of a merciless [[alien invasion|invader]]. | ||
Who or what is the mighty [[Zor]], whose green slanting luminous eyes glare out from the dark of night like giant emeralds? What is the powerful [[alien]] force that is bringing Earth's civilisation to a standstill, threatening to annihilate everything in its path? | Who or what is the mighty [[Zor]], whose green slanting luminous eyes glare out from the dark of night like giant emeralds? What is the powerful [[alien]] force that is bringing Earth's civilisation to a standstill, threatening to annihilate everything in its path? | ||
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Part one | Part one | ||
The TARDIS arrives on a beach by the Thames Estuary at night, and the Doctor and Sarah | The TARDIS arrives on a beach by the Thames Estuary at night, and the Doctor and Sarah discover a metallic seaweed there. | ||
The Doctor consults with Professor Emerson, who says that three expeditions to recover a recent meteorite from the bottom of the estuary have all vanished. The Doctor goes diving and is nearly killed by something that wraps itself around him, but then lets him go. He discovers that the meteorite is a wrecked spaceship buried under the estuary, and he knows where it comes from | The Doctor consults with Professor Emerson, who says that three expeditions to recover a recent meteorite from the bottom of the estuary have all vanished. The Doctor goes diving and is nearly killed by something that wraps itself around him, but then lets him go. He discovers that the meteorite is a wrecked spaceship buried under the estuary, and he knows where it comes from | ||
The Doctor tells Sarah | The Doctor tells Sarah about the Pescatons, a form of carcharhinidae, or deep water shark. Naturally, the experts scoff until one comes out of the Thames and makes its way to London Zoo in search of [[salt water]]. The Doctor confronts it in the Aquarium, where it dies and disintegrates. | ||
That night, more meteorites land in the Thames. | That night, more meteorites land in the Thames. | ||
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London is invaded, and the Doctor recalls his visit to planet Pesca, home of the Pescatons. He fell down a chasm into a cavern and met Zor, the leader of the Pescatons who informed him that they were going to use him to find a new home now that their own planet was drying out as it fell towards their sun. Zor used his hypnotic powers on the Doctor, who fought back and escaped. | London is invaded, and the Doctor recalls his visit to planet Pesca, home of the Pescatons. He fell down a chasm into a cavern and met Zor, the leader of the Pescatons who informed him that they were going to use him to find a new home now that their own planet was drying out as it fell towards their sun. Zor used his hypnotic powers on the Doctor, who fought back and escaped. | ||
Back in London, Sarah | Back in London, Sarah finds an abandoned baby while the military try to shoot the invading Pescatons to no avail. The Doctor distracts a Pescaton by singing Hello Dolly and doing a dance so that Sarah can get away with the child. Finally the Pescatons retreated back into [[salt water]], except for one trapped in an Underground tunnel. The Doctor and Sarah go in search of it, and the Doctor starts playing his piccolo to calm his nerves. The Pescaton retreats at the sound. | ||
Professor Emerson helps the Doctor build a high frequency sound trap inside a sewer, and Zor is lured there to be destroyed as the planet Pesca disintegrates in its orbit. Without Zor to control it, the Pescaton invasion ends. | Professor Emerson helps the Doctor build a high frequency sound trap inside a sewer, and Zor is lured there to be destroyed as the planet Pesca disintegrates in its orbit. Without Zor to control it, the Pescaton invasion ends. | ||
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* The plot hinges on the [[Fourth Doctor]] playing the [[piccolo]] "whenever he's nervous." This notion has no basis in any other licensed story. It may have been [[writer]] [[Victor Pemberton]]'s attempt to build a kind of continuity between the [[Fourth Doctor]] and the [[recorder]]-playing [[Second Doctor]], since he was one of the architects of the [[Patrick Troughton]] era. | * The plot hinges on the [[Fourth Doctor]] playing the [[piccolo]] "whenever he's nervous." This notion has no basis in any other licensed story. It may have been [[writer]] [[Victor Pemberton]]'s attempt to build a kind of continuity between the [[Fourth Doctor]] and the [[recorder]]-playing [[Second Doctor]], since he was one of the architects of the [[Patrick Troughton]] era. | ||
* Similarly, [[Victor Pemberton|Pemberton]], also wrote the [[Second Doctor]] story [[TV]]: ''[[Fury from the Deep (TV story)|Fury from the Deep]]'', which also featured an aquatic lifeform that was vulnerable to high-pitched sounds (in that case [[Victoria Waterfield|Victoria's]] screams), and opened with [[the TARDIS]] landing on a deserted beach. | * Similarly, [[Victor Pemberton|Pemberton]], also wrote the [[Second Doctor]] story [[TV]]: ''[[Fury from the Deep (TV story)|Fury from the Deep]]'', which also featured an aquatic lifeform that was vulnerable to high-pitched sounds (in that case [[Victoria Waterfield|Victoria's]] screams), and opened with [[the TARDIS]] landing on a deserted beach. | ||
* A scene which once may have played as a "[[Tom Baker]]-ism" now has [[retroactive continuity]] with ''[[A Good Man Goes to War]]'' and ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]''. At one point, the Doctor and Sarah | * A scene which once may have played as a "[[Tom Baker]]-ism" now has [[retroactive continuity]] with ''[[A Good Man Goes to War]]'' and ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]''. At one point, the Doctor and Sarah encounter an abandoned [[baby]] on the streets of [[London]]. The Doctor attempts to talk to him, but flatly says that "he won't talk." Sarah corrects him, saying that "he ''can't'' talk." Since modern listeners know that the [[Eleventh Doctor]] claims to be able to speak "[[Baby (language)|Baby]]," the scene ''now'' plays as though the Doctor's statement is probably more accurate than Sarah's. | ||
* The Doctor asks Sarah | * The Doctor asks Sarah, "What do you take me for, the [[Pied Piper]] of [[Hamelin]]?" The Doctor met the Pied Piper while in his [[First Doctor|first incarnation]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Challenge of the Piper (comic story)|Challenge of the Piper]]'') Sarah would later encounter the Pied Piper herself in [[2009]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Clown (TV story)|The Day of the Clown]]'') | ||
== Home media releases == | == Home media releases == | ||
