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Overview

First aired

Saturday, January 3, 1976

Production Code

4K

Directed by

Christopher Barry

Runtime

100 minutes

Time Travel

Future

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Karn

Synopsis

Mad scientist Mehendri Solon is building a body from spare parts to house the disembodied brain of the evil Time Lord Morbius. He fancies the Doctor's head as the final piece...

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4 Episodes

Part One

First aired

Saturday, January 3, 1976

Runtime

25 minutes

Directed by

Christopher Barry

UK Viewers

9.5 million

Synopsis

The storm-lashed planet Karn. Near a graveyard of crashed starships, the demented surgeon Solon hides in his castle, the last acolyte of the Time Lord despot Morbius. He only needs one final item to make his master live again... and then the Doctor and Sarah arrive...


Part Two

First aired

Saturday, January 10, 1976

Runtime

25 minutes

Directed by

Christopher Barry

UK Viewers

9.3 million

Synopsis

The Doctor is captured by the Sisterhood, and Sarah Jane is blinded freeing him. The Doctor has no choice but to go back for a cure, unaware that he is leaving Sarah Jane in the hands of a treacherous Dr. Solon and the renegade Time Lord Morbius.


Part Three

First aired

Saturday, January 17, 1976

Runtime

25 minutes

Directed by

Christopher Barry

UK Viewers

10.1 million

Appreciation Index

57

Synopsis

While the Doctor goes to confront the Sisterhood to seek a cure for Sarah Jane's blindness, Solon realizes that he must transfer Morbius' brain into a new body before it is too late.


Part Four

First aired

Saturday, January 24, 1976

Runtime

25 minutes

Directed by

Christopher Barry

UK Viewers

10.2 million

Synopsis

Morbius lives once more, but as a rampaging beast. The Doctor is forced to ally with Dr. Solon to bring him to heel, but the two disagree about what should happen to Morbius.



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MORBIUS: I am a Time Lord of the first rank. What are you?

DOCTOR: Oh, nothing, nothing. A mere nobody, but I don't think you're in the first rank any more.

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Part One

(On a distant planet, an alien, insectoid by the looks of it, crawls through some ruins towards a small craft with a bubble dome. A humanoid with a hook instead of one hand watches, draws a knife then pounces. The alien squeals as it is stabbed.)

[Solon's parlour]

(Philip Madoc is putting the final touches to a bust he is sculpting when the man with the hook enters carrying something covered in a sack.)

SOLON: You were quick, Condo. Were there no survivors?
CONDO: One, an oxygen breather.
SOLON: Humanoid? Excellent. Let me see.


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