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Doctor Who Season 21 Synopsis


TWENTY-FIRST SEASON

Producer Script Editor
John Nathan-Turner Eric Saward

6L 5 January 1984 to 13 January 1984
WARRIORS OF THE DEEP (4 episodes)
Writer Director
Johnny Byrne Pennant Roberts
Regular Cast: Peter Davison (the Doctor); Janet Fielding (Tegan); Mark
Strickson (Turlough). Cast: Tom Adams (Vorshak); Ingrid Pitt (Solow);
Ian McCulloch (Nilson); Nigel Humphreys (Bulic); Nitza Saul (Karina);
Martin Neil (Maddox); James Coombes (Paroli); Tara Ward (Preston);
Norman Comer (Icthar); Christopher Farries (Sauvix); Vincent Brimble
(Tarpok); Stuart Blake (Scibus); William Perrie and John Asquith (the
Myrka). Story: The Doctor promises to show Tegan a little of Earth's
future and nearly gets shot out of space by an orbiting satellite. He
lands on a Sea Base and they leave the TARDIS to find people. They
discover canisters of hexachromite, a gas deadly to sea life, in
storage. When they are discovered, the Doctor tries to sabotage the Sea
Base reactor as a diversion, but they are caught too soon and the Doctor
falls into the water. When he finally makes it back to the bridge, he
recognises a Silurian vessel a pproaching the base. Troops go to meet
the invading party of Sea Devils but instead meet the Myrka, a deadly
sea creature. Meanwhile, spies are sabotaging the base to make its
defense systems non-operational. But the Sea Devils and Silurians plan
to launch missiles from to Base to trigger World War Three so they can
reclaim their planet. The Doctor destroys the Myrka with a burst of
ultraviolet light, and floods the complex with hexachromite. He stops
the missile countdow n and tries to save the dying S ilurians but
without success. Book: Warriors of the Deep, by Terrance Dicks.

6M 19 January 1984 to 20 January 1984
THE AWAKENING (2 episodes)
Writer Director
Eric Pringle Michael Owen Morris
Regular Cast: see 6L above.
Cast: Polly James (Jane Hampden); Denis Lill (Sir George Hutchinson);
Glyn Houston (Ben Wolsey); Jack Galloway (Joseph Willow); Keith Jayne
(Will Chandler); Frederick Hall (Andrew Verney); Christopher Saul
(trooper). Story: Tegan wants to visit her grandfather Andrew Verney but
the TARDIS arrives in the middle of a war game run by the town in which
all citizens are taking part, except Jane Hampden. When Sir George
discovers that Tegan came to meet Verney, he orders her captured and
presented as the May Queen. The Doctor discovers Will Chandler who was
transported from 1748 by the will of the Malus, an alien demon commonly
considered to be the Devil. The Doctor is captured and tied to the
maypole but is sav ed by Will. Turlough is locked up inside a hut in
which he finds the missing Andrew Verney. They escape to the old church
which houses the Malus and meet the Doctor and Tegan, who destroy the
Malus. The Doctor is about to take Will home when Tegan reminds him of
why they were there in the first place. Book: The Awakening, by Eric
Pringle.

6N 26 January 1984 to 3 February 1984
FRONTIOS (4 episodes)
Writer Director
Christopher H. Bidmead Ron Jones
Regular Cast: see 6L above.
Cast: Jeff Rawle (Plantagenet); Peter Gilmore (Brazen); William Lucas
(Mr. Range); Lesley Dunlop (Norna); Maurice O'Connell (Cockerill); John
Gillett (the Gravis); John Beardmore (Captain Revere); George Campbell,
Michael Malcolm, Stephen Speed, William Bowen, Hedi Khursandi
(Tractators); Jim Dowdall (warnsman); Judy Collins (paramedic); Richard
Ashley (orderly); Alison Skilbeck (deputy); Raymond Murtagh
(retrograde). Story: Although the Doctor says that he won't land on
Frontios, a remote Earth colony, he does so in order to avoid a meteor
shower. The meteors strike the surface of Frontios at irregular
intervals, generally cutting down the limited populace even further.
The Doctor immediately begins to give medical aid to victims. The
leader of Frontios, Plantagenet, doubts his honesty and blames him for
the meteor "attacks." The TARDIS is seemingly destroyed by another
meteor shower and Plantagenet is hurt and subs equently "swallowed" by
the planet's soil. Turlough and Norna, a young colonist, discover a
hatchway which leads down to the caves below the planet's surface.
Turlough begins to experience delirium and mumbles, "Tractators." The
Tractators are slug-like creatures who, with the aid of a living
colonist's brain, built the cave system as a gravity spiral which is the
cause of the meteor showers. The Doctor tricks the Gravis, leader of
the Tractators, into re-a ssembling the TARDIS, at which point he
demater ialises and drops the Gravis off on an uninhabited planet,
rendering the other Tractators harmless slugs. The Doctor warns the
people of Frontios never to say anything about his visit to anyone.
Book: Frontios, by Christopher H. Bidmead.

6P 8 February 1984 to 15 February 1984
RESURRECTION OF THE DALEKS (4:2 episodes)
Writer Director
Eric Saward Matthew Robinson
Regular Cast: see 6L above.
Cast: Terry Molloy (Davros); Maurice Colbourne (Lytton); Rodney Bewes
(Stien); Rula Lenska (Styles); Jim Findley (Mercer); Les Grantham
(Kiston); Del Henney (Col. Archer); Chloe Ashcroft (Prof. Laird); Philip
McGough (Sgt. Calder); Mike Mungarvin (soldier); Sneh Gupta (Osborne);
Linsey Turner, John Adam Baker (crewmembers); Roger Davenport (trooper);
William Sliegh (Galloway); John Scott Martin, Cy Town, Tony Starr, Toby
Byrne (Daleks); Royce Mills, Brian Miller (Dalek voices). Story: The
TARDIS is trapped in a Dalek time corridor and lands in 1984 London near
an abandoned warehouse in which was discovered cylinders containing a
Movellan virus deadly to Daleks. The Doctor, Turlough, and Tegan meet
Stien, who has just seen many other people brutally murdered by London
policemen who were under Dalek control. They enter the warehouse where
Turlough suddenly disappears. Their shouting attracts the bomb disposal
squad dispatc hed to investigate the strange cylinders. A Dalek appears
in the warehouse where the time corridor ends. The squad shoots the
Dalek's eye stalk and the Doctor pushes it out of the window.
Meanwhile, a spaceship is being invaded by Daleks whose purpose is to
release the spaceship's prisoner, Davros. They reach Davros just in
time and Davros soon discovers why they have come for him again: to save
them from the Movellan virus which had nearly wiped them all out. The
ship's self-destruct is almost triggered by some crewmembers but they
are killed before activati ng the device. The Doctor travels down the
time corridor with Stien at which point Stien reveals himself to be a
Dalek agent. Davros plans to drain the Doctor's mind to use his
knowledge. Before the draining can complete, Stien temporarily breaks
free of the Dalek conditioning and saves the Doctor. Tegan is sent to
the Dalek ship where she meets Turlough and Mercer, a crewmember of the
attacked ship. They find the Doctor and return to the TARDIS. The
Doctor decides he must k ill Davros and leaves the T ARDIS on a timer,
sending Tegan and Turlough back to Earth. The Doctor can't bring
himself to murder Davros and escapes back to the warehouse. The Supreme
Dalek decides that Davros has become unreliable and must be
exterminated. Davros releases the virus to kill his Dalek executioners,
but the virus attacks him as well. Tegan and Turlough get one of the
virus cylinders and when the Doctor returns he uses it to kill the
remaining Daleks. They watch as Stien triggers the self-destruct on the
spaceship, k illing those in space. The Doctor explains that the
Dalek-conditioned humans already on Earth will soon break free of their
conditioning. Tegan sees the enormous amounts of death and destruction
and decides it has been enough and it is time for her to part company
with the Doctor.

6Q 23 February 1984 to 2 March 1984
PLANET OF FIRE (4 episodes)
Writer Director
Peter Grimwade Fiona Cumming
Regular Cast: Peter Davison (the Doctor); Mark Strickson (Turlough); and
introducing Nicola Bryant (Peri Brown). Guest Cast: Anthony Ainley (the
Master), Gerald Flood (Kamelion). Cast: Peter Wyngarde (Timanov); Dallas
Adams (Howard Foster); Barbara Shelley (Sorasta); James Bate (Amyand);
Jonathan Caplan (Roskal); Edward Highmore (Malkon); Max Arthur (Zuko);
Michael Bangerter (Curt); Simon Sutton (lookout); John Alkin (Lomand).
Story: The TARDIS is landed on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands where the
Doctor and Turlough search for the source of signals which Turlough
identifies as Trion, from his home planet. While the Doctor is away
Turlough saves Peri, a young American girl, from drowning and brings her
into the TARDIS. He finds her carrying the source of the Trion signals
and begins to dismantle it when the Doctor returns. Kamelion changes
into Peri's step father Howard as the TARDIS takes off and lands on
Sarn, a planet where the people worship the Logar, god of fire from an
active volcano. After the Doctor and Turlough leave to explore,
Kamelion changes into the Master and forces Peri to help him. Turlough
discovers ruins of a Trion ship that he believes was his own father's.
The Master arrives on Sarn to rejuvenate himself in the blue flame of
life from the volcano, as he is only a few inches tall. He controls
Kamelion who is destroyed by the Doctor after he aids the Master to
begin rejuvenation. The volcano has begun er upting when the flame of
life that the now fully-grown Master is standing in turns to an ordinary
flame and incinerates him. Turlough has called for a Trion ship to save
Sarn's inhabitants, many of whom are Trions. He reveals himself to be a
prisoner exiled to Earth in punishment. He goes back to Trion after his
punishment is revoked and Peri asks to be the Doctor's new travelling
companion. Book: Planet of Fire, by Peter Grimwade.

6R 8 March 1984 to 16 March 1984
THE CAVES OF ANDROZANI (4 episodes)
Writer Director
Robert Holmes Graeme Harper
Regular Cast: Peter Davison (the Doctor); Nicola Bryant (Peri); and
introducing Colin Baker (The Doctor). Cast: Christopher Gable (Sharaz
Jek); John Normington (Morgus); Maurice Roeves (Stotz); Robert Glenister
(Salateen); Barbara Kinghorn (Timmin); David Neal (President); Martin
Cochrane (Chellak); Roy Holder (Krelper); Ian Staples (soldier). Story:
The TARDIS lands on Androzani Minor, a sand-covered sister planet to the
heavily populated Androzani Major. The Doctor and Peri venture into the
planet's cave systems where Peri falls into a sticky mass. The Doctor
gets some on his hands while helping her out of it. Just before they
come across some gun-runners hiding in the caves, soldiers arrest them
for gun-running. They are ordered executed as the real gun-runners dump
their wea pons and leave. The Doctor and Peri are saved from the
machine-g un execution by Sharaz Jek, a fugitive android maker who
creates replicas of them to be killed instead. He wears a mask over his
face to cover terrible burns and is very interested in Peri. The Doctor
and Peri find out that they are suffering from Spectrox Troxaemia, a
lethal disease whose only cure is the milk of the queen bat hibernating
in an airless chamber deep in the planet. They escape but the Doctor is
recaptured by Sharaz Jek who tortures him for the whereabouts of Peri.
He is then ta ken to the gun-runners' ship and handcuffed to the wall.
The ship is placed in orbit but the Doctor frees himself and takes it
out of orbit while Peri, back on the planet, is found again by Jek. The
Doctor crashes the ship on Androzani Minor and escapes out the hatchway
followed by two armed gun-runners. The chase is cut short when the mud
bursts from the planet begin, releasing pressure built up from the
planet's proximity to Androzani Major. The Doctor goes back into the
caves, narrowly avoiding death by red ho t mud flow. He returns to
Sharaz Jek before going deep into the planet for the queen bat's milk.
The gun-runners reach Jek and kill him just as the Doctor returns.
Jek's lab explodes as the Doctor carries Peri out. He stumbles to the
TARDIS and lays Peri on the floor, giving her all of the bat's milk.
She is cured instantly but the Doctor falls over, dying. His delirium
increases and before he can pass out, his regeneration completes. Book:
The Caves of Androzani, by Terrance Dicks. Coming Soon : Colin Baker
Story Summaries! All I need is complete cast lists. Probably late in
Summer 1986.

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