The Missing Episodes
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The Missing Episodes was a BBC Sounds collection of the audio remasters of Doctor Who missing stories, which Mark Ayres worked on.
Stories[[edit] | [edit source]]
| Story | Episode | Doctor | Synopsis | Linking Script |
Read by | Length | Original Broadcast |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marco Polo | The Roof of the World (Episode 1) |
First Doctor | The TARDIS lands in the Himalayas and the Doctor, Barbara, Ian and Susan meet Marco Polo and join him on his journey to Peking. | Michael Stevens | William Russell | 24 minutes | 22 February 1964 |
| The Singing Sands (Episode 2) |
The caravan journeys across the dry Gobi desert. Tegana secretly slashes the water gourds, losing almost all of the precious water. | 27 minutes | 29 February 1964 | ||||
| Five Hundred Eyes (Episode 3) |
At the Cave of Five Hundred Eyes, Tegana has a secret meeting with a bandit who he instructs to kill Marco Polo. Barbara overhears the plans but is captured and imprisoned. | 23 minutes | 7 March 1964 | ||||
| The Wall of Lies (Episode 4) |
In an effort to divert attention from himself, Tegana encourages Marco to be suspicious of the Doctor. As the caravan passes through the bamboo forest, Tegana's allies attack. | 24 minutes | 14 March 1964 | ||||
| Rider from Shang-Tu (Episode 5) |
Marco Polo will not accept that Tegana is plotting against him. Ping Cho returns the TARDIS key to Susan so that the travellers might escape. But Tegana has other plans. | 23 minutes | 21 March 1964 | ||||
| Mighty Kublai Khan (Episode 6) |
When Marco Polo discovers Ping Cho's betrayal, the girl runs away. Ian follows her to Cheng-Ting and there discovers that the TARDIS has been stolen by Tegana's allies. | 25 minutes | 28 March 1964 | ||||
| Assassin at Peking (Episode 7) |
Arriving at Kublai Khan's palace in Peking, the Doctor loses the TARDIS key to the Khan in a game of backgammon. Marco is now convinced of Tegana's treachery. | 24 minutes | 4 April 1964 | ||||
| The Wheel in Space | "Episode 1" | Second Doctor | The Tardis finds itself inside a rocket drifting in space and seemingly abandoned. The Doctor and Jamie emerge with caution and find that they are not alone. In the rocket is a 'Servo Robot' which seems curiously hostile. The rocket itself is drifting in the orbit of a wheel in space - a giant space station. What's the connection, and who's controlling the robot? Could it be that the Doctor's old enemies the Cybermen have something to do with it? | Wendy Padbury | 27 April 1968 | ||
| "Episode 2" | Jamie and the Doctor are taken on board The Wheel in space. Jamie finds the crew preparing to destroy the abandoned rocket with the Tardis still on board. | 23 minutes | 4 May 1968 | ||||
| "Episode 3" | The Cybermats appear on board the Wheel - advance guard of the attacking Cybermen. | 24 minutes | 11 May 1968 | ||||
| "Episode 4" | The Cybermen step up their attack and the Doctor and Jamie are in deadly peril. | 18 May 1968 | |||||
| "Episode 5" | The Doctor continues his fight with the Cybermen - and the Wheel is attacked by a Meteorite storm. | 22 minutes | 25 May 1968 | ||||
| "Episode 6" | The Cybermen's terrible plan is revealed-and the Doctor prepares for the final battle. | 23 minutes | 1 June 1968 | ||||
| The Daleks' Master Plan | Mission to the Unknown (Episode 0) |
N/A | With allies from other galaxies the Daleks prepare their Master Plan... Starring Edward de Souza, this is the only episode of Doctor Who not to feature the Doctor himself. | Sue Cowley | Peter Purves | 24 minutes | 9 October 1965 |
| The Nightmare Begins (Episode 1) |
First Doctor | The TARDIS lands on the planet Kembel and the Doctor goes to find help for the injured Steven. He discovers that the Daleks are on Kembel and are planning to conquer Earth. | 25 minutes | 13 November 1965 | |||
| Day of Armageddon (Episode 2) |
Disguised as one of the members of the Dalek Aalliance, the Doctor discovers that the Daleks have built a deadly weapon known as the Time Destructor. | 24 minutes | 20 November 1965 | ||||
| Devil's Planet (Episode 3) |
Having stolen the vital taranium core from the Daleks, the Doctor and his friends have escaped Kembel in Mavic Chen's ship but the Daleks give chase. | 27 November 1965 | |||||
| The Traitors (Episode 4) |
Arriving on Earth, the Doctor, Steven and Bret Vyon alert Vyon's friend, Daxtar, to the Dalek threat and Mavec Chen's treachery. But whose side is Daxtar really on? | 4 December 1965 | |||||
| Counter Plot (Episode 5) |
The Doctor and Steven, along with Space Security Service agent Sara Kingdom are transported to the planet Mira. There, unseen creatures stalk the jungle and the Daleks close in. | 11 December 1965 | |||||
| Coronas of the Sun (Episode 6) |
Forced to return to the planet Kembel, the Doctor tries to fool the Daleks and their allies by giving them a fake taranium core – but will the Daleks see through the ruse? | 18 December 1965 | |||||
| The Feast of Steven (Episode 7) |
Arriving in present day England, the Doctor and his companions are arrested. Escaping in the TARDIS, they find themselves on a film set before celebrating Christmas in the TARDIS. | 25 December 1965 | |||||
| Volcano (Episode 8) |
Realising that the Doctor has tricked them and is still in possession of the taranium core, the Daleks prepare to give chase in their own time/space machine. | 1 January 1966 | |||||
| Golden Death (Episode 9) |
The TARDIS lands in ancient Egypt at the Great Pyramid. The Daleks and the Meddling Monk also arrive in pursuit of the Doctor. The Monk is forced into an alliance with the Daleks. | 8 January 1966 | |||||
| Escape Switch (Episode 10) |
Steven and Sara are held hostage by the Daleks who demand that the Doctor hand over the vital taranium core, or his companions will be exterminated. | 23 minutes | 15 January 1966 | ||||
| The Abandoned Planet (Episode 11) |
Returning to Kembel, the Doctor, Sara and Steven discover the Dalek base has been abandoned and that the leaders of the alliance have been imprisoned. | 24 minutes | 22 January 1966 | ||||
| The Destruction of Time (Episode 12) |
Mavic Chen proclaims himself leader of the Daleks' alliance. With the Time Destructor now complete and operational, the Doctor fears the Daleks will become unstoppable. | 23 minutes | 29 January 1966 |
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The single-part TV story Mission to the Unknown [+]Loading...["Mission to the Unknown (TV story)"] was listed as being the equivalent of an "Episode 0" under the larger TV story The Daleks' Master Plan [+]Loading...["The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)"] in this collection, thus effectively making the latter a 13-part story.
