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Doctor Who Season 25 Synopsis
(This episode guide to Season 25 of DOCTOR WHO is done in the format
presented in the Doctor Who Programme Guide by Jean-Marc Lofficier and
is not intended to infringe upon the rights of the BBC or any DW copy-
right holder. Synopses are Copyright 1989 by J.S. Lyon and Steve W.
Hill.)
Twenty-Fifth Season
Producer Script Editor
John Nathan-Turner Andrew Cartmel
7H 5 October 1988 to 26 October 1988
REMEMBRANCE OF THE DALEKS (4 episodes)
Writer Director
Ben Aaronovitch Andrew Morgan
Regular Cast: Sylvester McCoy (the Doctor); Sophie Aldred (Ace)
Cast: Simon Williams (Group Captain Gilmore); Pamela Salem (Professor
Rachel Jensen); Dursley McLinden (Sgt. Mike Smith); George Sewell
(Ratcliffe); Karen Gledhill (Allison Williams); Michael Sheard
(Headmaster); Peter Halliday (Reverend Parkinson); Harry Fowler
(Harry); Peter Hamilton Dyer (Embery); Joseph Marcell (John); Jas-
mine Breaks (Girl); Kathleen Bidmead (Mrs. Smith); William Thomas
(Martin); John Scott Martin, Cy Town, Tony Starr, Hugh Spight, David
Harrison, Norman Bacon, Nigel Wild (Daleks); Royce Mills, Roy Skel-
ton, Brian Miller, John Leeson (Dalek Voices); Terry Molloy (Davros)
Story: The TARDIS arrives in London, late 1963, outside Coal Hill
School, where the Doctor has returned to finish some unspecified busi-
ness. Ace meets Mike Smith, a sergeant working with Professor Rachel
Jensen in the examination of energy readings coming from within the
school. The Doctor and Ace accompany them to 76 Totters Lane, where a
military force led by Group Captain Gilmore is engaged in operations
against a trapped assailant -- a Dalek. The Doctor realizes the Da-
leks are after the Hand of Omega, something he left behind when he was
forced to leave Earth when he originally visited. Visiting Coal Hill
school, the Doctor and Ace find an unusually tense headmaster and a
transmat device in the basement linked up to an orbiting starship.
While the Doctor is able to temporarily halt the transmat, he is near-
ly killed by a Dalek guard and the controlled headmaster. Meanwhile,
Ratcliffe, owner of a building and moving company, takes a Dalek ca-
sing to his yard, where awaits a strange black Dalek controller plot-
ting the theft of the Hand. While Ace stays at Mike's home, the Doc-
tor collects a casket left behind by his first incarnation -- in rea-
lity, the Hand, which is a stellar manipulator used by Omega in the
initial capture of the Eye of Harmony, the black hole from which the
Time Lords draw their power. The Doctor has the casket buried, yet
seems aware the Daleks are on its trail. Ratcliffe's Dalek controller
locates the Dalek mothership -- the controller leads a renegade fac-
tion against the Imperial brand orbiting the planet, and Ratcliffe's
main agent is Mike. Ace returns to Coal Hill where she is confronted
by Imperial Daleks and is saved by the Doctor, Gilmore and Rachel.
Ratcliffe locates the Hand of Omega, and the power emanations are also
detected by the Imperial Daleks. Returning the Hand to the control-
ler, revealed as a young human girl exposed to Dalek mindcontrol
equipment, the renegade Dalek faction prepares to return to its own
time via a time controller device. Mike is exposed as a double agent
while an Imperial Dalek shuttle makes planetfall. While the Imperial
Dalek forces seek out and battle the renegades, the Doctor sneaks
aboard the shuttle and disables its pilot. Mike and Ratcliffe steal
the time controller; Ratcliffe is killed but Mike escapes. The Dalek
shuttlecraft departs with the captive Hand and returns to its mother-
ship, while the Doctor arranges a communications link via television
with the Emperor Dalek -- in actuality, Davros, who has discarded the
last part of his humanity and encased himself. Davros plans to use
the Hand to transform Skaro's star into another black hole which will
give the Daleks an unlimited power source. The device is launched but
it instead destroys Skaro's sun and the planet itself -- all part of
the Doctor's plan. Davros escapes in an escape pod just as the mo-
thership is destroyed by the feedback from the Hand, and the device
returns itself to Gallifrey. The possessed girl kills Mike but is
freed from control when the Doctor confronts the leader of the Rene-
gade Dalek faction and talks it into destroying itself. The Doctor
and Ace leave quietly from a funeral procession for Mike Smith, won-
dering if time will really tell if they did some good.
The credited Roy Tromelly as Emperor Dalek in episode three is an
anagram for Terry Molloy as Davros.
Book: Remembrance of the Daleks by Ben Aaronovitch (August 89 release)
7L 2 November 1988 to 16 November 1988
THE HAPPINESS PATROL (3 episodes)
Writer Director
Graeme Curry Chris Clough
Regular Cast: Sylvester McCoy (the Doctor); Sophie Aldred (Ace).
Cast: Sheila Hancock (Helen A); Ronald Fraser (Joseph C); Georgina
Hale (Daisy K); Rachel Bell (Priscilla P); Harold Innocent (Gilbert
M); John Normington (Trevor Sigma); Lesley Dunlop (Susan Q); Richard
D. Sharp (Earl Sigma); Tim Barker (Harold V); Jonathan Burn (Silas
P); David John Pope (Kandy Man); Mary Healy (Killjoy); Tim Scott
(Forum doorman); Steve Swinscoe, Mark Carroll (Snipers); Philip Neve
(Wences); Ryan Freedman (Wulfric); Annie Hulley (Newscaster).
Story: The Doctor and Ace arrive on Terra Alpha to investigate rumours
of unexplained disappearances. They soon discover that the governing
forces of the planet are led by Helen A, whose sole will is that
everyone stays happy, under penalty of execution, or "disappearance".
The planet's commerce seems to lie in candy manufacturing... there are
thousands of sugar factories on the planet. So he can get involved
easily, the Doctor decides that he and Ace should get arrested. After
a few minutes of trying, they are sent by the Happiness Patrol (the
armed squads that enforce Helen A's will) to the Waiting Zone (in lieu
of a prison, of which there are none on Terra Alpha). Here they meet
Harold V, who was arrested for trying to find out what happened to his
brother, who disappeared. He tells them to beware of the Kandy Man, a
man made out of candy, who is conducting evil experiments in his Kandy
Kitchen. Harold V is killed by Helen A via an electrified video dis-
play. Ace and the Doctor escape, but Ace gets herself recaptured and
is sent to audition for the Patrol. Susan Q, an unhappy H.P. girl,
lets Ace escape. The Doctor meets Earl Sigma, a visitor who enjoys
playing the blues on his harmonica. They go to the Kandy Kitchen and
are captured by the Kandy Man. At the same time, Ace is caught once
again and sent back to the Waiting Zone. The Doctor and Earl escape
from the Kandy Man by sticking his feet to the floor with lemonade.
They go underground into the pipes, a labyrinth in which live the
planet's original inhabitants. Wences, one of the natives, helps Ace
escape from the Waiting Zone. Meanwhile, the Doctor goes to meet
Helen A, whom he sees about to execute Susan Q. He goes back to the
Kitchen to get the Kandy Man to stop the execution. Ace, who ended up
in the execution chamber, is sent to the Late Show, another "disappea-
rance" method, by Helen A. The Doctor, by being exuberantly happy,
frees Ace and Susan Q and also gets one Patrol to arrest another. The
Doctor and his group go into the pipes. Helen A sends her best friend
Fifi, a carnivorous dog-like rodent, into the pipes after them. The
Doctor manages to get the roofs to collapse upon Fifi. Wences and his
gang kill the Kandy Man with help from Ace and the Doctor, who has now
gone to intercept the shuttle-bound Helen A. He tells her she can
never escape from herself, but she denies his claims. She sees Fifi
lying dead and finally breaks down and cries... she is unhappy and has
been defeated. A rebellion touched off by the initial Patrol versus
Patrol feud and the Doctor's urging has run its course and Terra Alpha
now has sadness to go along with its happiness. Ace paints the TARDIS
blue to cover the pink paint that the first Happiness Patrol coated it
with.
7K 23 November 1988 to 7 December 1988
SILVER NEMESIS (3 episodes)
Writer Director
Kevin Clarke Chris Clough
Regular Cast: see 7H above
Cast: Fiona Walker (Lady Peinforte); Gerard Murphy (Richard); Anton
Diffring (De Flores); Metin Yenal (Karl); Dolores Gray (Mrs
Remington); Leslie French (Mathemetician); Martyn Read (Security
Man); Christopher Chering (First Skinhead); Symond Lawes (Second
Skinhead); Mary Reynolds (the Queen); David Banks (Cyberleader);
Mark Hardy (Cyberlieutenant); Brian Orrell (Cyberman); David Ould,
John Ould (Walkmen); Terry Duran (Gardener); Jacquella Trew (Maid);
Courtney Pine (Jazz Musician); Danny Boyd, Paul Barrass, Scott
Mitchell, Tony Charlton, Bill Malin (Cybermen).
Story: The Doctor and Ace arrive in a peaceful jungle in 1988, unaware
that the great Nemesis is about to crash into Earth. The Nemesis is a
statue made of living metal that, disguised as a comet, is in a decay-
ing orbit around the solar system. Launched by the Doctor in 1638, it
is scheduled to crash back to Earth on 23 November 1988. Three par-
ties are endeavouring to gain possession of the Nemesis, which gives
power of life and death over anything at all in the Universe. Lady
Peinforte, who built the statue, transports herself from 1638 to 1988
with her aide Richard. She has the silver arrow which, along with a
silver bow, is needed to revive and claim the statue. In possession
of the bow is De Flores, leader of a neo-Nazi group who intend to
create the Fourth Reich. After the "comet" crashes to Earth in Wind-
sor, the Cybermen arrive with the same goal in mind. After a con-
frontation between all parties involved, the Doctor steals the bow and
leaves in the TARDIS while the Cybermen steal the statue and conceal
it in a warehouse. The Doctor discovers a fleet of thousands of Cy-
berships above Earth and jams the Cyberleader's communications to
prevent the ships from being called in to attack. All parties con-
verge on the warehouse. The statue, already with the arrow, is re-
vived by the Doctor using the bow. While the statue comes to life the
Doctor and Ace escape the warehouse still with the bow, which the
statue follows. Before the others can track the statue down, the
Doctor gives it orders to destroy the Cyberfleet. De Flores and his
assistant Karl are killed by Cybermen while Lady Peinforte leaps at
the statue and is strangely assimilated by it. The Doctor sends the
Nemesis on its mission and they watch as the Cyberfleet is destroyed.
The remaining Cyberleader is killed by Richard by a gold-tipped arrow.
The Doctor and Ace return Richard to his own time.
This story marked the show's 25th anniversary.
7J 14 December 1988 to 4 January 1989
THE GREATEST SHOW IN THE GALAXY (4 episodes)
Writer Director
Stephen Wyatt Alan Wareing
Regular Cast: see 7H above
Cast: T.P. McKenna (The Captain); Jessica Martin (Mags); Ricco Ross
(the Ringmaster); Deborah Manship (Morgana); Ian Reddington (Chief
Clown); Chris Jury (Deadbeat/Kingpin); Peggy Mount (Stallslady);
Gian Sammarco (Whizzkid); Christopher Guard (Bellboy); Dee Sadler
(Flower Child); Dean Hollingsworth (Bus Conductor); Daniel Peacock
(Nord); David Ashford (Dad); Janet Hargreaves (Mum); Kathryn Ludlow
(Little Girl); Alan Heap, Paul Sadler, Phil Sadler, Patrick Ford
(Clowns)
Story: The Doctor and Ace are invited by a robotic advertisement to
visit the Psychic Circus, a famous entertainment spectacle currently
based on the backwater planet Segonax. Meanwhile, two escapees from
the Circus, Bellboy and Flower Child, are hunted by mysterious kites
bearing strange eye symbols and the Chief Clown. The Doctor and Ace
meet Nord, who is on his way to the Circus to join in a talent con-
test, and then encouter Captain Cook, a famous intergalactic explorer,
and his attache, Mags, whom he regards as a "specimen". The Captain
and Mags join the two in the exploration of a strange bus that was
destroyed while appearing to be en route to the Circus, along with a
robotic Conductor who earlier killed Flower Child, who had arrived at
the bus in search of something. Bellboy is captured and taken back to
the circus by the malevolent Chief Clown. The Captain and Mags arrive
at the circus to see Bellboy being tortured. Morgana, the ticket
taker and Psychic Circus fortune teller, tries to warn the Doctor but
he and Ace are taken captive and set to perform in the ring, the pen-
alty for failure in which to amuse the audience is death. Nord is
killed in the ring but Mags helps the Doctor escape and the two dis-
cover that part of the circus tent encloses a strange alien ruin,
wherein lies a deep chasm from which a hideous eye peers up. Ace
befriends Bellboy, but then is captured by the Clown after meeting up
with Deadbeat, the irrational caretaker. Whizzkid, the Circus' self-
proclaimed biggest fan, also arrives and is sentenced to the ring,
while the Captain merely proclaims the event survival of the fittest.
Bellboy tells Ace that the Psychic Circus was never like this before
arriving at Segonax; something or someone has usurped control, killing
those in the ring and stealing the memories from those who oppose it -
- like Deadbeat, who in times before was really Kingpin, a bright lad
who stumbled onto the truth. The Doctor, Mags and the Captain enter
the ring, where the Captain takes advantage of Mags' alterego -- a
werelady -- which destroys him before returning to normal. The three
members of the audience -- a family who seem to be the judges of each
act -- demand more satisfaction, and in the process the Ringmaster and
Morgana are killed by the Clowns. The Doctor uses Morgana's crystal
ball to create a doorway into an alternate dimension where he believes
the answer lies, and enters a huge stone chamber -- the Ring in the
other dimension -- where he confronts the Gods of Ragnarock, three
alien beings (who manifest as the family in real space) who invigorate
themselves with the circus performers. Ace, Kingpin and Mags make it
back to the bus, where they discover a piece of an amulet Kingpin
wears that returns his memory back to normal, then return to the
chasm. Stalling for time by performing for the Gods of Ragnarock, the
Doctor catches the amulet when it is tossed into the chasm and uses it
to reflect their energy. The Psychic Circus consumes itself and the
Doctor and Ace leave Mags and Kingpin to their own devisings -- to
create a brand new circus lacking the sinister touch of the Greatest
Show in the Galaxy.
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