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|featuring10 = Fourth Doctor | |featuring10 = Fourth Doctor | ||
|featuring12 = Romana II | |featuring12 = Romana II | ||
|enemy = [[Lord President|President]] | |enemy = [[Lord President|President]] {{Latham}} | ||
|setting = [[Gallifrey]] | |setting = [[Gallifrey]] | ||
|writer = Terrance Dicks | |writer = Terrance Dicks | ||
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All the Doctors and their companions, save the Fourth Doctor and Romana, have actually been deposited on a desolate, rocky landscape — the [[Death Zone]] on [[Gallifrey]]. Figures of the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough have been placed on the diorama section next to the First Doctor — the spot where the Fourth Doctor and Romana should have been placed is flashing. | All the Doctors and their companions, save the Fourth Doctor and Romana, have actually been deposited on a desolate, rocky landscape — the [[Death Zone]] on [[Gallifrey]]. Figures of the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough have been placed on the diorama section next to the First Doctor — the spot where the Fourth Doctor and Romana should have been placed is flashing. | ||
Meanwhile, in the Capitol on Gallifrey, the [[Inner Council]] of [[Time Lord]]s, headed by [[Lord President]] | Meanwhile, in the Capitol on Gallifrey, the [[Inner Council]] of [[Time Lord]]s, headed by [[Lord President]] {{Latham}} and consisting of [[Lord Chancellor|Chancellor]] [[Flavia]] and [[Jerricho|the Castellan]], are in session. Despite the recently regenerated and still arrogant Borusa's misgivings, the High Council has voted unanimously to call in {{Ainley}} to go into the Death Zone to help the Doctor, who has been taken out of time and no longer exists in any of his regenerations. They explain that the [[Eye of Harmony]] is being drained by whoever is taking the Doctors out of [[time]], endangering all of Gallifrey. Offered a [[pardon]] and a new cycle of regenerations if he rescues the Doctors, the Master accepts. He is given a copy of the [[Seal of Rassilon|Seal of the High Council]] by the Castellan to prove his credentials and a [[transmat]] recall device. He is transmatted to the Death Zone. | ||
In the Zone, the Doctors face many dangers. The First Doctor finds himself in a corridor with mirrored walls and is reunited with his granddaughter, [[Susan Foreman|Susan]]. Their reunion is cut short when | In the Zone, the Doctors face many dangers. The First Doctor finds himself in a corridor with mirrored walls and is reunited with his granddaughter, [[Susan Foreman|Susan]]. Their reunion is cut short when [[Dalek (The Five Doctors)|a Dalek]] arrives and tries to kill them. They trick the Dalek into destroying itself by pushing it into a dead end, where a beam from its energy weapon bounces back off the shiny walls and destroys it; as the Doctor points out, "It's very dangerous to fire energy weapons in an enclosed space!" The explosion has blasted a hole in the wall, out which is what the Doctor and Susan recognise as the Death Zone on Gallifrey. | ||
The Second Doctor and the Brigadier escape from a squad of [[Cyberman|Cybermen]], and the Third Doctor rescues Sarah from her fall down an embankment. Sarah is confused; she had watched the Third Doctor regenerate into the Fourth, but is glad to see the Doctor she once knew. | The Second Doctor and the Brigadier escape from a squad of [[Cyberman|Cybermen]], and the Third Doctor rescues Sarah from her fall down an embankment. Sarah is confused; she had watched the Third Doctor regenerate into the Fourth, but is glad to see the Doctor she once knew. | ||
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* {{Ainley|c}} — [[Anthony Ainley]] | * {{Ainley|c}} — [[Anthony Ainley]] | ||
* [[Romana II|Romana]] — [[Lalla Ward]] | * [[Romana II|Romana]] — [[Lalla Ward]] | ||
* [[Lord President]] | * [[Lord President]] {{Latham}} — [[Philip Latham]] | ||
* [[Chancellor]] [[Flavia]] — [[Dinah Sheridan]] | * [[Chancellor]] [[Flavia]] — [[Dinah Sheridan]] | ||
* [[Jerricho|The Castellan]] — [[Paul Jerricho]] | * [[Jerricho|The Castellan]] — [[Paul Jerricho]] | ||
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=== Culture === | === Culture === | ||
* The [[Fifth Doctor]] misquotes a line from the novel ''[[Through the Looking-Glass]]'', saying "Like Alice, I try to believe three impossible things before breakfast." The actual line is "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as | * The [[Fifth Doctor]] misquotes a line from the novel ''[[Through the Looking-Glass]]'', saying "Like Alice, I try to believe three impossible things before breakfast." The actual line is "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast" and it is said by the White Queen, not Alice. | ||
== Story notes == | == Story notes == | ||
