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Doctor Who and the Deadly Assassin

3.81/ 5 363 votes*

Released Thursday, October 20, 1977
Written by Terrance Dicks
Pages 122
Story Type Companion-Lite
Tropes: (Potential Spoilers!) Breaking the Fourth Wall Miniaturisation
Story Arc: (Potential Spoilers!) Regeneration Limit
Synopsis

The Doctor is suddenly summoned to Gallifrey, the home of the Time Lords, where his ghastly hallucination of the President's assassination seems to turn into reality. When the Doctor is arrested for the murder, there is a hideous, dark, cowled figure gleefully watching in the shadows.

Faced with his old enemy, the Master, Doctor Who approaches defeat in a battle of minds in a nightmare world created by the Master's imagination. But the Master's evil intentions go much further – he has a Doomsday Plan. It is up to the Doctor to prevent him from destroying Gallifrey and taking over the universe!

DOCTOR WHO scripts – awarded The Writers' Guild Award for the best British children's original drama script.

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