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"It is a fact, Jamie, that I do tend to get involved"
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| The Second Doctor's Final Adventures |
Companions and Allies: Jamie, Victoria, Zoe Herriot, Brigadier
Lethbridge-Stewart
Major Enemies: Cybermen, Dominators,
Krotons, Ice Warriors, the War Chief, the War Lord
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| Fury from the Deep |
| Location: Britain |
Date: Late 1960s |
The TARDIS
splashes down in the North Sea, and the crew row to shore in a
rubber raft. The Doctor, using his newly-invented sonic screwdriver,
opens an inspection plate on a natural gas pipeline, a pipeline
which is emitting strange noises. This action soon causes the crew
to become suspects in a series of attacks at the gas refinery,
including one on Maggie Harris, the wife of one of the employees.
The attacks are actually being caused by an intelligent, parasitic,
seaweed creature which has infiltrated the pipeline. The Doctor
discovers that the creature is vulnerable to sound when he observes
it retreating when Victoria screams. He amplifies this sound, and
uses it to destroy the creature. Victoria, who's finally realized
that The Doctor's lifestyle is too adventurous for her, chooses to
stay behind with her new friends, Maggie and Frank Harris.
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| The Wheel in Space |
| Location: Space Station W3 |
Date: Early 21st Century |
 The Doctor and Jamie arrive on a rocket which
services a space wheel near Venus. The wheel is endangered by
Cybermats, and The Doctor and Jamie, aided by Zoe Herriot, the
station's parapsychology librarian, must stop the Cybermen from
destroying the wheel with a diverted meteor storm. The Doctor
augments the station's laser cannon and destroys the Cybermen's
ship. Zoe stows away on the TARDIS, and The Doctor uses a mental
projector to recount the adventure in which he met Victoria (The
Evil of the Daleks) so that Zoe will know the dangers she'll be
facing as a member of the crew.
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| The Dominators |
| Location: Dulkis |
Date: Unknown |
 The Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe arrive
on Dulkis, which The Doctor remembers fondly from a previous visit.
The Dulcians are a race of pacifists who are not prepared to deal
with a force of invading Dominators and their Quark robots. The
TARDIS crew, with the help of Cully, the son of the Dulcian leader,
prevents the Dominators from destroying the planet and using its
energy as a fuel source. The Doctor puts the Dominators' bomb back
on their ship, which is destroyed as it leaves the planet. The force
causes a volcanic eruption, and the TARDIS is caught in the path of
the lava flow.
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| The Mind Robber |
| Location: The Land of Fiction |
Date: Not Applicable |
 To escape from the lava flow, The Doctor takes
the TARDIS out of the space-time vortex. The ship arrives in a white
area of null-space, and The Doctor warns Zoe and Jamie not to go
outside. The alien intelligence which controls this space uses the
TARDIS scanner to tempt them with images of their homes, and Jamie
and Zoe leave the TARDIS and find themselves menaced by White
Robots. The Doctor tries to rescue them, but when they return to the
TARDIS, the ship is attacked and is apparently destroyed. The
travelers awake in a surreal environment which The Doctor calls the
Land of Fiction, whose inhabitants include clockwork soldiers,
Lemuel Gulliver, and Rapunzel. Jamie is attacked by a British
soldier and loses his face, and The Doctor is forced to restore it
from a set of puzzle pieces, which he assembles incorrectly (this is
later corrected with help from Zoe). After encounters with Medusa
and a comic strip hero from Zoe's time called the Karkus, The Doctor
and friends eventually learn that the Land is controlled by a
super-computer, which is using the creative ability of a pulp
fiction writer from 1920s England. This "Master of the Land of Fiction" has run out of ideas, and The Doctor is expected to take
his place. The Doctor narrowly avoids this fate, and the computer is
destroyed. Based on the surreal nature of this
adventure, many historians, including this writer, believe that the
"destruction" of the TARDIS, and the subsequent events which occur
in the Land of Fiction, were merely a shared dream implanted, for
reasons still unknown, by the intelligence which controls this
alternate dimension.
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| The Invasion |
| Location: London |
Date: Late 1960s |
 After narrowly escaping a missile fired from
Earth's moon, the TARDIS lands near London, where a damaged visual
stabilizer circuit renders the ship invisible. The Doctor seeks the
help of Professor Travers to repair the circuit, but Travers is in
America, and has leased his house to Professor Watkins and his niece
Isobel. Watkins hasn't been seen since he accepted a job with
International Electromatics, Earth's leading supplier of electronic
circuitry. The Doctor and Jamie break into IE and are taken to see
its director, Tobias Vaughn, whose behavior makes The Doctor
suspicious. As they leave, they are taken into custody by Corporal
Benton of the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce (UNIT), whose
British branch is under the command of the newly-promoted Brigadier
Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart. The Brigadier tells them that other
missing persons have been connected to IE, but that UNIT can't act
without proof. Vaughn, meanwhile, has learned of The Doctor's visit
to Planet 14, and takes Zoe and Isobel hostage when they come
looking for the others. The Doctor and Jamie, with help from UNIT,
rescue the girls, and learn that Vaughn is collaborating with the Cybermen. Watkins, who's
invented a device which Vaughn believes will control the Cybermen,
learns that Vaughn has already undergone partial cybernetic
conversion. The Cybermen plan to use circuits in Vaughn's electronic
equipment to control Earth's people. Watkins is rescued by UNIT, and
he and The Doctor jam this control. The Cybermen launch a
counterattack, but Zoe's calculations help the Army destroy their
missiles. The Doctor, meanwhile, convinces Vaughn that the Cybermen
will use and discard him, and the crazed inventor agrees to help
stop them from using their megabomb, not for noble reasons, but
because he has been humiliated by the aliens. Vaughn is killed, as
is most of the Cyberman landing force (the
survivors remain in London's sewers, and spend the next few years
upgrading themselves; they are involved in a later Cyberman plot to
alter Earth's history: Attack of the Cybermen). The
Cybermen's mothership attempts to launch the bomb, but the British
missile command destroy the ship and save Earth. The Doctor and
Watkins repair the TARDIS circuit, and the travelers depart.
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| The Krotons |
| Location: Unknown |
Date: Unknown |
 The Doctor and his
friends arrive on an unidentified planet whose primitive
inhabitants, the Gonds, are controlled by the crystalline-based
Krotons. These invaders periodically take the two most intelligent
Gonds, supposedly as servants, but The Doctor and friends discover
that they are actually being drained of their mental energy so that
the immobile Krotons may be reanimated. During
this adventure, The Doctor is temporarily taken out of his timeline
by the Time Lords (see next entry). Zoe and The Doctor take
the intelligence test, and their mental energy reactivates the
Krotons. The Doctor saves the situation when he discovers that the
aliens can be destroyed by sulfuric acid.
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| The Three Doctors |
| Locations: UNIT HQ, Anti-Matter Universe |
Date: 1972 |
 The Doctor is taken from
his timeline by order of the President of the High Council to help
his next incarnation battle a threat from the Old Time. He
materializes inside the TARDIS, where he's reunited with Benton, and
meets The Third Doctor and his companion Jo Grant. The Doctor annoys
his next persona with his recorder, and their personality clash
causes the President to order that The First Doctor be retrieved to
sort them out. The Third Doctor and Jo are transported from UNIT HQ,
and when the Brigadier sees The Doctor he initially believes that
The Third Doctor has somehow reverted to his previous appearance.
The Second Doctor discovers how to follow his later self into a
universe of anti-matter, and together they defeat the menace, thanks
to the recorder, which has fallen into the TARDIS console and
remained positive matter. With the threat ended, the First and
Second Doctors are restored to their proper places in time. 
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| The
Seeds of Death |
| Locations: Earth, the Moon |
Date: Mid-21st Century |
 The TARDIS arrives in the middle of the 21st
century (in a time period between The Enemy of the World and
The Moonbase), and the crew discover that Earth has virtually
abandoned rockets in favor of the transmat, a teleportation system
operated from the moon. The T-Mat system has mysteriously broken
down, and with the help of an eccentric rocket scientist, The Doctor
and friends travel to the moon, where they find that the T-Mat
station has been overrun by Ice Warriors under the command of the
sadistic Slaar. The Ice Warriors intend to use the T-Mat to send
lethal seed pods to Earth as a prelude to their invasion. The Doctor
escapes back to Earth, and discovers that the seed pods can be
destroyed by water. Rain generated by Earth's weather control
station is used to end the menace of the pods, and The Doctor
returns to the moon via the repaired T-Mat. He diverts the invading
Ice Warrior ships into the sun, and he and Jamie defeat Slaar and
his remaining Warriors.
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| The Space Pirates |
| Locations: Unknown |
Date: Unknown |
In a period
later than Zoe's time, The Doctor and his companions land on a space
beacon, which is then broken up by pirates, separating them from the
TARDIS. The crew are rescued by eccentric miner Milo Clancey, who's
been blamed for the piracy by the International Space Corps. The
Doctor, with Clancey's help, finds that the thefts are the work of a
criminal named Caven, with the unwilling assistance of Madeline
Issigri, the daughter of Clancey's former partner. Once she's
assured of her father's safety, Madeline helps The Doctor bring
Caven to justice.
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| The War Games |
| Locations: War Zone Planet, Gallifrey |
Date: Unknown |
 The TARDIS lands in a war zone, and the travelers
initially believe they've arrived in France during World War I. They
eventually discover that they have materialized on an alien world,
which has been divided into several such zones, with its human
soldiers believing that they are still fighting their various
conflicts (which include the Boer War, the American and English
Civil Wars, and others). Their captors intend to use the brainwashed
soldiers to conquer the galaxy. The alien leader, the War Lord, is
assisted by the War Chief, a renegade Time Lord who recognizes The
Doctor. The War Chief has used SIDRATs, a sort of short-lived
TARDIS, to bring the captives to this world. The Doctor and his
friends break the conditioning of many of the humans, and in the
ensuing rebellion, the War Chief is killed and the War Lord
captured. The Doctor, who realizes that he cannot return all the
soldiers to their own times, is forced to call upon the Time Lords
for help, which he accomplishes by mentally assembling a message
cube which transports itself to them. The Time Lords sentence the
War Lord to  non-existence, and return the
soldiers to their proper places. They then turn their attention to
The Doctor, and tell him that he is to be tried for the crime of
interference. He attempts to escape with Jamie and Zoe, but the
TARDIS is brought back to Gallifrey by remote control. The Doctor's
companions are returned to their own times, with their memories
selectively erased by the Time Lords (they remember everything about
their first adventures with The Doctor except for their departures
in the TARDIS). Although The Doctor makes an impassioned defense of
his actions, citing his battles against the Daleks, Cybermen, and
others as justification for his interference, the Tribunal convicts
him. In consideration of his defense, however, they decide to exile
him to Earth at a critical point in its history. They also rule that
since his current face is known on Earth in this time period, he
must undergo a change of appearance. While they initially give him a
choice, his indecision causes them to take the matter out of his
hands, and he vanishes from the courtroom, and appears on its
observation screens, seemingly beginning the process of regeneration
for the second time.
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| The Five Doctors |
| Locations: UNIT HQ, Gallifrey |
Dates: 1983, Unknown |
As the TARDIS makes its way to 1970s Earth, The
Doctor's regeneration is halted, and the ship is diverted from its
course. The Doctor apparently
gains control of the TARDIS and arrives in London in 1983. He sees a
story in The Times about Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart's
speech at a UNIT reunion the day before, and travels back to see
him. After the two friends reminisce about old times The Doctor
prepares to leave, but they are captured by a time scoop and
deposited in the Death Zone on Gallifrey. (The scoop's operator was responsible for delaying
The Doctor's regeneration and diverting the TARDIS so that The
Doctor would be reunited with the Brigadier.) The Doctor and the Brigadier encounter a Cyberman and a Yeti
while journeying to the Tomb of Rassilon, where The Doctor believes
the answers to their dilemma lie. Once inside the Tomb, they
encounter Jamie and Zoe, whom The Doctor identifies as phantoms
because their memories have not been erased. They arrive in
Rassilon's crypt, where The Doctor, with his first and third selves,
translates an inscription which gives them a clue to what's at
stake. The First Doctor realizes how to deal with the Time Lord who
brought them there, and Rassilon returns everyone to their proper
timelines. Before the delayed regeneration
finally takes effect, The Doctor dons a watch which will allow him
to trace the TARDIS (Spearhead from Space).
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