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TARDIS Guide

Overview

First aired

Saturday, February 3, 1968

Production Code

QQ

Directed by

Douglas Camfield

Runtime

150 minutes

Time Travel

Present

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Base Under Siege, Body Possession, Earth Invasion

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Earth, England, London, London Underground

Synopsis

The TARDIS narrowly avoids becoming engulfed in a cobwebby substance in space. It arrives in the London Underground railway system, the tunnels of which are being overrun by the mysterious web, produced by the Great Intelligence's robot Yeti.

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6 Episodes

Episode 1

First aired

Saturday, February 3, 1968

Runtime

25 minutes

Directed by

Douglas Camfield

UK Viewers

7.2 million

Appreciation Index

54

Synopsis

The TARDIS becomes trapped in space before ending up in an underground station of a mysteriously deserted London.


Episode 2

First aired

Saturday, February 10, 1968

Runtime

25 minutes

Directed by

Douglas Camfield

UK Viewers

6.8 million

Appreciation Index

53

Synopsis

Jamie and Victoria are reunited with Travers before Jamie joins the soldiers in attempting to find out what has happened to the Doctor.


Episode 3  Missing

First aired

Saturday, February 17, 1968

Runtime

25 minutes

Directed by

Douglas Camfield

UK Viewers

7 million

Appreciation Index

51

Synopsis

The Doctor and Victoria are taken back to the Goodge Street base by Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart where the Doctor becomes convinced there is a traitor in their midst.


Episode 4

First aired

Saturday, February 24, 1968

Runtime

25 minutes

Directed by

Douglas Camfield

UK Viewers

8.4 million

Appreciation Index

53

Synopsis

With Travers having been captured by the Yeti, the Doctor attempts to find a way to gain control of the robots while Lethbridge-Stewart tries to recover the TARDIS.


Episode 5

First aired

Saturday, March 2, 1968

Runtime

25 minutes

Directed by

Douglas Camfield

UK Viewers

8 million

Appreciation Index

55

Synopsis

Victoria and Travers are held prisoner by the Great Intelligence, who is planning to drain the Doctor's mind.


Episode 6

First aired

Saturday, March 9, 1968

Runtime

25 minutes

Directed by

Douglas Camfield

UK Viewers

8.3 million

Appreciation Index

55

Synopsis

The Doctor and his friends are held prisoner by the Intelligence and their only hope lies with Jamie, Arnold and a reprogrammed Yeti.



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Quotes

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DOCTOR: Oh, it's all right. You can relax. The electricity is off.

JAMIE: What was all that about?

DOCTOR: If there had been a current running through these rails, you'd have been fried!

JAMIE: Hey?

DOCTOR: Electrified. Brunched! Burnt up! Now, come along. It's safe now, I think, but we'd better be careful. Follow me.

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Episode One

(From the Lost in Time DVD)

[TARDIS]

(The Doctor's evil double, Salamander, has been sucked out of the TARDIS while it is in flight. The Doctor and Victoria are hanging on to the console base.)

DOCTOR: Jamie! Jamie! The doors! We've got to close the doors! Can you do it?


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