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Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead

3.48/ 5 221 votes*

Released Thursday, January 12, 1984
Written by Peter Grimwade
Pages 119
Time Travel Past Present
Story Arc: (Potential Spoilers!) Black Guardian Trilogy
Synopsis

The Doctor's time-travelling machine is trapped in the flight-path of an alien spacecraft in orbit around the Earth. To avoid the fatal impact of a head-on collision the TARDIS resorts to the only escape possible and materialises onboard the on-coming liner.

This solves the immediate problem, but a new difficulty arises - the TARDIS cannot get off the ship until a radio signal transmitting from Earth has been disconnected.

The Doctor sets off in a Transmat Capsule, having programmed the TARDIS to enable Tegan and Nyssa to follow him once he has dealt with the interference.

Naturally enough, things don't go quite as planned...

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