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Doctor Who: Earthshock

3.67/ 5 277 votes*

Released Thursday, August 18, 1983
Written by Ian Marter
Pages 128
Story Type Companion Exit
Time Travel Past Future
Tropes: (Potential Spoilers!) Companion Death
Story Arc: (Potential Spoilers!) Cyber-Wars
Synopsis

A group of palaeontologists have been savagely attacked while carrying out a study of fossilised dinosaur remains in an underground cave system on twenty-fifth-century Earth.

A party of troopers and Professor Kyle, the only survivor of the attack, are investigating the deaths of her colleagues when they discover the Doctor and his companions at the site of the massacre. The time-travellers are immediately suspected.

In trying to establish their innocence and find out who - or what - was responsible for the killings, the Doctor is confronted by an old enemy...

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