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Classic Who S22 • Serial 5 · (2 episodes)

Timelash

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First aired Saturday, March 9, 1985
Production Code 6Y
Written by Glen McCoy
Directed by Pennant Roberts
Runtime 90 minutes
Time Travel Past
Tropes: (Potential Spoilers!) Celebrity Historical
Locations Karfel Earth Scotland
Synopsis

On the planet Karfel and in 1885 Scotland, the Sixth Doctor and Peri, together with a young man named Herbert, become entangled with the machinations of the despotic Borad.

2 Episodes:

First aired Saturday, March 9, 1985
Runtime 45 minutes
Written by Glen McCoy
Directed by Pennant Roberts
UK Viewers 6.7 million
Appreciation Index 66

Synopsis

The planet Karfel, in the distant future. The tyrannical Borad rules with an iron fist, and any who oppose him are cast into the Timelash - a space-time tunnel leading to the past of an alien world called Earth...

First aired Saturday, March 16, 1985
Runtime 45 minutes
Written by Glen McCoy
Directed by Pennant Roberts
UK Viewers 7.4 million
Appreciation Index 64

Synopsis

The Borad accepts no opposition and enables Maylin Tekker to expose the rebels and trap Peri with the Morlox. The Doctor tries to avert a war between Karfel and the Bandrils.

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