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==Plot== | ==Plot== | ||
===The Edge of Destruction (1)=== | ===The Edge of Destruction (1)=== | ||
[[file:EdgeofDestruction1.jpg|right | [[file:EdgeofDestruction1.jpg|right|thumb|The situation takes its toll on the [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] crew]]The [[First Doctor|Doctor]], while attempting to correct the TARDIS's faulty navigation circuits, causes a small explosion. The Doctor, [[Barbara Wright|Barbara]], [[Ian Chesterton|Ian]] and [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] are all temporarily rendered unconscious. Barbara is the first to recover and awakens Ian and Susan, who appear to have slight cases of [[amnesia]]. The Doctor is lying on the floor with a gash on his head. Susan recovers her senses enough to retrieve a special [[healing bandage]] from the ship's first aid kit, and water from the [[food machine]] for her injured grandfather. Suddenly, Susan becomes convinced that an [[alien]] presence is on board and has seized control of the ship. | ||
The TARDIS doors begin intermittently opening and closing whenever Ian moves towards them, and when Susan attempts to operate the door switch on the console, she receives an electrical shock. As the Doctor revives, Barbara tends to him while Ian carries Susan to her room. There she stabs at him with a pair of scissors, rips her bed to shreds, then collapses. | The TARDIS doors begin intermittently opening and closing whenever Ian moves towards them, and when Susan attempts to operate the door switch on the console, she receives an electrical shock. As the Doctor revives, Barbara tends to him while Ian carries Susan to her room. There she stabs at him with a pair of scissors, rips her bed to shreds, then collapses. | ||
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The Doctor's attacker is none other than Ian. A strange force has overridden the effects of the drug and compelled Ian to stop the Doctor from operating the TARDIS controls. Ian recognises the Doctor and collapses. Barbara enters and finds herself and Ian openly accused by the Doctor of sabotage. | The Doctor's attacker is none other than Ian. A strange force has overridden the effects of the drug and compelled Ian to stop the Doctor from operating the TARDIS controls. Ian recognises the Doctor and collapses. Barbara enters and finds herself and Ian openly accused by the Doctor of sabotage. | ||
[[file:EdgeofDestruction2.jpg|left | [[file:EdgeofDestruction2.jpg|left|thumb|The [[First Doctor|Doctor]] solves the mystery]]As Barbara tries to reason with the Doctor, Susan enters the room and sides with her grandfather, but then finds herself believing in her teachers' innocence. The Doctor is threatening to put the humans off his ship when an alarm sounds. The [[fault locator]] lights up, showing faults in every system. An explosion rocks the ship. The Doctor realises that the TARDIS's power source, located beneath the console, is trying to force its way out and they are only minutes from destruction. | ||
Faced with a common peril, the travellers forget their differences and begin to work together. Barbara deduces that the strange events are an attempt by the TARDIS itself to warn the crew that something is wrong. The Doctor traces the problem to a broken spring in the [[Fast Return Switch]]. The malfunction is causing the TARDIS to head back to the creation of a [[Solar System]]; the strange events were just the TARDIS's attempts to warn its passengers before the ship is destroyed. Fixing the switch brings all back to normal. The Doctor apologises to Ian, who accepts his apology straight away. Barbara needs more convincing but she is eventually won around by the Doctor and the foursome prepare to go out and explore their new surroundings, this time a snowy planet. When Barbara and Susan go outside they discover a giant footprint in the snow. | Faced with a common peril, the travellers forget their differences and begin to work together. Barbara deduces that the strange events are an attempt by the TARDIS itself to warn the crew that something is wrong. The Doctor traces the problem to a broken spring in the [[Fast Return Switch]]. The malfunction is causing the TARDIS to head back to the creation of a [[Solar System]]; the strange events were just the TARDIS's attempts to warn its passengers before the ship is destroyed. Fixing the switch brings all back to normal. The Doctor apologises to Ian, who accepts his apology straight away. Barbara needs more convincing but she is eventually won around by the Doctor and the foursome prepare to go out and explore their new surroundings, this time a snowy planet. When Barbara and Susan go outside they discover a giant footprint in the snow. | ||
