Terror of the Autons (TV story): Difference between revisions

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The Doctor struggles with the two Autons, causing the car to veer and crash. He and Jo escape from the car, relentlessly pursued by the Autons. The Brigadier and Captain Yates arrive and rescue them.
The Doctor struggles with the two Autons, causing the car to veer and crash. He and Jo escape from the car, relentlessly pursued by the Autons. The Brigadier and Captain Yates arrive and rescue them.


Back at the lab, the Doctor replaces his non-functional dematerialization circuit with the one he stole from the Master's TARDIS, but they turn out to be incompatible. The Doctor's fury is abated when he realizes that as long as he has the Master's demat circuit, he's stuck on Earth too.
Back at the lab, the Doctor replaces his non-functional dematerialization circuit with the one he stole from the Master's TARDIS, but they turn out to be incompatible. The Doctor's fury is abated when he realizes that as long as he has the Master's circuit, he's stuck on Earth too.


The Master is pleased with the factory's latest product, a realistic-looking plastic daffodil. The Autons, led by Farrel, don enormous carnival masks and matching yellow suits and tour the countryside handing daffodils out to the public.
The Master is pleased with the factory's latest product, a realistic-looking plastic daffodil. The Autons, led by Farrel, don enormous carnival masks and matching yellow suits and tour the countryside handing daffodils out to the public.
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The Brigadier is alerted to a rash of unexplained asphyxiation deaths all over England. Jo's memory is jogged by the mention of Mr Farrel among the casualties. They meet Mr Farrel's grieving widow and take the doll for examination; meanwhile a mysterious repairman replaces the cord on the Doctor's lab phone.
The Brigadier is alerted to a rash of unexplained asphyxiation deaths all over England. Jo's memory is jogged by the mention of Mr Farrel among the casualties. They meet Mr Farrel's grieving widow and take the doll for examination; meanwhile a mysterious repairman replaces the cord on the Doctor's lab phone.


While the Doctor and Brigadier investigate the now-abandoned plastics factory and discover a leftover plastic daffodil (and narrowly elude an Auton), the troll doll attacks Jo. Yates runs into the room and destroys the doll by shooting it. Yates and Jo accidentally discover that the doll is activated by heat while using the Doctor's Bunsen burner to make cocoa.
The Doctor and Brigadier investigate the now-abandoned plastics factory and discover a leftover plastic daffodil (and narrowly elude an Auton).  Meanwhile, Jo and Captain Yates accidentally reactivate the troll doll with the heat from the Doctor's Bunsen burner, which they borrowed to make cocoa.  The doll attacks Jo, but Yates blows it to pieces with his gun.


The Master telephones the Doctor at his lab to say goodbye. He activates a signal and the Doctor's phone cord comes to life. It wraps itself around him, and begins to choke him.
The Master telephones the Doctor at his lab to say goodbye. He activates a signal and the Doctor's phone cord comes to life, wrapping itself around him and squeezing him.


===Episode Four===
===Episode Four===
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