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==Plot== | ==Plot== | ||
===Part One=== | === Part One=== | ||
[[File:Peri_and_5_shot.JPG|thumb|left|150px|The Doctor and Peri before they get shot]]The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARDIS TARDIS] lands on Androzani Minor, one of a pair of twin planets in the Sirius star system. The Doctor and Peri step out and decide to explore a set of tracks that lead into a nearby cave. Peri asks why the Doctor wears a stick of [[celery]]; it is a safety recaution. He is allergic to certain gases in the [[praxis range]] of the spectrum. The core of Androzani Minor is heated mud. The Doctor discovers a strange spaceship has arrived. As he and Peri explore, they enter some caves. They are briefly caught in a ball of an unknown sticky substance, but they easily break free. Further into the caves, a soldier is killed by a fierce monster. The Doctor and Peri both discover a hoard of weapons, but they are then captured by General Chellak's forces, believing the two to be working for gunrunners Stotz and Krepler. Trau Morgus orders their assassination after seeing that Chellak's "gunrunners" are not his own men over holographic communication. | [[File:Peri_and_5_shot.JPG|thumb|left|150px|The Doctor and Peri before they get shot]]The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARDIS TARDIS] lands on Androzani Minor, one of a pair of twin planets in the Sirius star system. The Doctor and Peri step out and decide to explore a set of tracks that lead into a nearby cave. Peri asks why the Doctor wears a stick of [[celery]]; it is a safety recaution. He is allergic to certain gases in the [[praxis range]] of the spectrum. The core of Androzani Minor is heated mud. The Doctor discovers a strange spaceship has arrived. As he and Peri explore, they enter some caves. They are briefly caught in a ball of an unknown sticky substance, but they easily break free. Further into the caves, a soldier is killed by a fierce monster. The Doctor and Peri both discover a hoard of weapons, but they are then captured by General Chellak's forces, believing the two to be working for gunrunners Stotz and Krepler. Trau Morgus orders their assassination after seeing that Chellak's "gunrunners" are not his own men over holographic communication. | ||
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===Part Two=== | ===Part Two=== | ||
Chellak asks the soldiers to check their weapons and as the bodies are cut free of the execution posts, Morgus switches the screen off. He explains to the President that all the people without valid work permits have been sent to Eastern labour camps to be cut down on crime. The President suddenly realises that Morgus has been closing plants in the West and opening them again in the East. If he accepted Morgus' suggestion, the same people would be working for him again, only this time without pay. The Doctor and Peri are rescued by Sharaz Jek, who had been watching them enter the caves and was able to prepare duplicate androids with help of his personal android Salateen. They are taken to his base to become his companions in exile. Chellak and Salateen go over to look at the bodies, but they are found to be two androids. Chellak realises his career will be finished if the word spreads. He decides to cover the incident and not let anyone know about it. Jek asks the Doctor and Peri to stay with him so he can look after them... | [[File:Caves_title.jpg|thumb|150px|Jek, with the Doctor and Peri]]Chellak asks the soldiers to check their weapons and as the bodies are cut free of the execution posts, Morgus switches the screen off. He explains to the President that all the people without valid work permits have been sent to Eastern labour camps to be cut down on crime. The President suddenly realises that Morgus has been closing plants in the West and opening them again in the East. If he accepted Morgus' suggestion, the same people would be working for him again, only this time without pay. The Doctor and Peri are rescued by Sharaz Jek, who had been watching them enter the caves and was able to prepare duplicate androids with help of his personal android Salateen. They are taken to his base to become his companions in exile. Chellak and Salateen go over to look at the bodies, but they are found to be two androids. Chellak realises his career will be finished if the word spreads. He decides to cover the incident and not let anyone know about it. Jek asks the Doctor and Peri to stay with him so he can look after them. Meanwhile, Krepler confronts Stotz. He demands that Stotz pays him and the other gun runners. Stotz tells him he will be payed back on Major, according to contract. Stotz grabs Krepler, pushes him to the edge of a cliff, puts a pill in his mouth and threatens to kill him. He tells Krepler that next time, he will die for real. | ||
At Jek's base, the Doctor and Peri complain about rashes and cramps in their bodies where they touched the sticky substances in the caves. Jek tells them that Major Salateen will be bringing them some food. Jek will not be seriously threatened for years, the people of Androzani Major will rise up. They can have all the Spectrox they want, when Jek has the head of Morgus at his feet. Meanwhile at Morgus' headquarters, Morgus is surprised to hear from Timmin that the Northcawl copper mine has exploded. This solves the problem of overproduction and causing the market price of copper to increase. Morgus tells her he wants every solder to leave his place and stand in silence. Back at Jek's base, the Doctor meets Salateen. He has been a prisoner here, too. Jek captured him months ago and replaced him with an android that looked like him. The real Salateen realises that Jek will kill him now he has them for company. He laughs at the fact that the two are dying. He discovers that they had been subjected to the first stages of spectrox [[Wikipedia:Toxemia|toxemia]] from exposure to unrefined spectrox, and that while there is an anti-toxin, it requires the milk of the queen bat. Unfortunately, due to the mining activity, all the bats have migrated to deeper levels of the caves where there is no oxygen. | |||
Before Jek is leaving to meet with Stotz and the gunrunners, Peri accidently asks why he wears a mask. Jek flies into rage and explains that when one of Minor's mud bursts erupted, he had no warning and Morgus left him to die in the mudburst. Jek survived, but he was horribly scalded. He leaves the two under his androids' guard, leaves, and meets Stotz. Jek eventually agrres to pay half the price for the shipment of Spectrox. In Jek's HQ, the Doctor goes outside, and reprograms the android outside the door, allowing him, Peri and Salateen to escape. The Doctor heads off into the lower levels of the caves to find the queen bat. The three friends try to find the way to the TARDIS. Suddenly, an android fires at them, one of the shots hitting the Doctor. Salateen fires back at the android and destroys it. The Doctor wakes up, and discovers Peri has vanished, so he goes off to find her. Jek returns to his base, but flies into rage, only to find Peri has gone. The Doctor enters the lower levels of the caves, but takes cover behind a rock as Stotz and his band of gun runners enter. Suddenly, one of the gun runners is attacked by a fierce magma beast. As the soldiers open fire on the beast, it ignores them, and approaches the rock where the Doctor is crouching... | Menawhile, Stotz contacts Jek and tells him his ship is in good faith and it wasn't his fault that the androids didn't show up. Before Jek is leaving to meet with Stotz and the gunrunners, Peri accidently asks why he wears a mask. Jek flies into rage and explains that when one of Minor's mud bursts erupted, he had no warning and Morgus left him to die in the mudburst. Jek survived, but he was horribly scalded. He leaves the two under his androids' guard, leaves, and meets Stotz. Jek eventually agrres to pay half the price for the shipment of Spectrox. In Jek's HQ, the Doctor goes outside, and reprograms the android outside the door, allowing him, Peri and Salateen to escape. The Doctor heads off into the lower levels of the caves to find the queen bat. The three friends try to find the way to the TARDIS. Suddenly, an android fires at them, one of the shots hitting the Doctor. Salateen fires back at the android and destroys it. The Doctor wakes up, and discovers Peri has vanished, so he goes off to find her. Jek returns to his base, but flies into rage, only to find Peri has gone. The Doctor enters the lower levels of the caves, but takes cover behind a rock as Stotz and his band of gun runners enter. Suddenly, one of the gun runners is attacked by a fierce magma beast. As the soldiers open fire on the beast, it ignores them, and approaches the rock where the Doctor is crouching... | ||
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Stotz thinks the Doctor is a goverment spy. The Doctor is now entering the third stage of Spectrox, but Stotz doesn't care, the Doctor will live long to be questioned. In the army base, Peri isn't feeling well, but General Chellak doesn't care, she and the Doctor have been working with Jek. Chellak orders the first assault on Jek's base and for more belt buckles. Salateen agrees to tell Morgus about the assault and to throw Jek off guard when he broadcasts a message. | Stotz thinks the Doctor is a goverment spy. The Doctor is now entering the third stage of Spectrox, but Stotz doesn't care, the Doctor will live long to be questioned. In the army base, Peri isn't feeling well, but General Chellak doesn't care, she and the Doctor have been working with Jek. Chellak orders the first assault on Jek's base and for more belt buckles. Salateen agrees to tell Morgus about the assault and to throw Jek off guard when he broadcasts a message. | ||
Jek discovers the real Salateen is free to walk around the planet, leaving Peri unguarded. Meanwhile, Stotz chains the Doctor inside his spaceship and calls Morgus. As Stotz discusses the situation with Morgus via holographic communication en route, Morgus sees the Doctor still alive, and tells Stotz that Chellak faked the attack on Jek's base. Morgus is worried that the president will see his double dealings. Morgus tells Stotz to remain in orbit and Stotz leaves the Doctor on his own. When Stotz is gone, the Doctor tries to escape. | Jek discovers the real Salateen is free to walk around the planet, leaving Peri unguarded. Meanwhile, Stotz chains the Doctor inside his spaceship and calls Morgus. As Stotz discusses the situation with Morgus via holographic communication en route, Morgus sees the Doctor still alive, and tells Stotz that Chellak faked the attack on Jek's base. Morgus is worried that the president will see his double dealings. Morgus tells Stotz to remain in orbit and Stotz leaves the Doctor on his own. When Stotz is gone, the Doctor tries to escape. He eventually manages to pull himself free from the wall and uses the power core in the centre of the ship's bridge to sear the chains from his hands. He is still very weary from the Spectrox but manages to programe the spaceship to land or "crash" on Androzani Minor. | ||
Meanwhile, Morgus, fearing deception, invites the President into his HQ, and opens a lift. He pushes the President into it and the President falls to his death. He then informs Timmin to have the lift maintenance engineer shot and makes his own plans to travel to Androzani Minor to put the situation right himself. Meanwhile, Jek has kidnapped Peri and taken her back to his HQ. He discovers the Doctor has gone. He is now very insane and needs Peri's beauty to forget all about the trouble that Morgus has put him in. Peri tells him the army will attack soon, but Jek already knows that - he has changed the recongnation code for the belt buckle. General Chellak and his men are in for a shock... | Meanwhile, Morgus, fearing deception, invites the President into his HQ, and opens a lift. He pushes the President into it and the President falls to his death. He then informs Timmin to have the lift maintenance engineer shot and makes his own plans to travel to Androzani Minor to put the situation right himself. Meanwhile, Jek has kidnapped Peri and taken her back to his HQ. He discovers the Doctor has gone. He is now very insane and needs Peri's beauty to forget all about the trouble that Morgus has put him in. Peri tells him the army will attack soon, but Jek already knows that - he has changed the recongnation code for the belt buckle. General Chellak and his men are in for a shock... | ||
The Doctor | The Doctor is in the centre of the ship's bridge. Stotz hears a loud rumbling noise and demands the Doctor to open the door. He regains access to the bridge by burning through the door, but he can't reach the control panel. Instead, he points his gun at the Doctor and orders him to return the ship to orbit. The Doctor refuses to give up until he rescues Peri. The planet looms large on the ship's view screen and the Doctor tells Stotz: "'''I'M NOT GOING TO LET YOU STOP ME NOW!"''' Stotz gets ready to fire and the Doctor closes his eyes as the ship prepares for a crash landing... | ||
===Part Four=== | ===Part Four=== | ||
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*Editing for DVD release completed by [[Doctor Who Restoration Team]]. | *Editing for DVD release completed by [[Doctor Who Restoration Team]]. | ||
2|entertain has announced that a new edition of the DVD, with additional special features and restoration, will be included in a box set entitled Revisitations scheduled for release in 2010.<ref>[http://twitter.com/classicdw/statuses/9245676802 2|entertain Classic Doctor Who Twitter feed]<small>Accessed 25th February 2010</small></ref> Confirmed extras include a chat show appearance from Peter Davison and Colin Baker from 1984, along with Directing Who feature on Graeme Harper and it will be a 2 disc set <ref>[http://twitter.com/classicdw/statuses/9640419636 2|entertain Classic Doctor Who Twitter feed]<small>Accessed 25th February 2010</small></ref> | 2|entertain has announced that a new edition of the DVD, with additional special features and restoration, will be included in a box set entitled Revisitations scheduled for release in 2010.<ref>[http://twitter.com/classicdw/statuses/9245676802 2|entertain Classic Doctor Who Twitter feed]<small>Accessed 25th February 2010</small></ref> Confirmed extras include a chat show appearance from Peter Davison and Colin Baker from 1984, along with Directing Who feature on Graeme Harper and it will be a 2 disc set. <ref>[http://twitter.com/classicdw/statuses/9640419636 2|entertain Classic Doctor Who Twitter feed]<small>Accessed 25th February 2010</small></ref> | ||
'''VHS releases''' | '''VHS releases''' | ||
