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"Intriguing, isn't it?"
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| The
Third Doctor's Adventures Continue |
Companions and Allies: Jo, Lethbridge-Stewart, Benton, Yates, Sarah
Jane Smith
Major Enemies: Omega, Ogrons, Daleks, BOSS, Sontarans
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| The Three Doctors |
| Locations: England, Anti-Matter Universe |
Date: 1972 |
 Gamekeeper Ollis
vanishes after finding a weather balloon with equipment belonging to
Dr. Tyler, a research physicist. Tyler gets in touch with UNIT,
something he'd intended to do because of his tests, which show an
unknown form of cosmic radiation. While The Doctor and Jo
investigate, Tyler vanishes from The Doctor's lab. When Jo and The
Doctor return, they're attacked by an energy form which apparently
consumes Bessie. The Doctor realizes that Tyler was taken because he
was in the lab, and that he is the being's intended target. UNIT HQ
is attacked by gel creatures, and the Brigadier orders the building
evacuated. The Doctor, Jo, and Sgt. Benton are trapped in the lab,
and The Doctor ushers them into the TARDIS. The Doctor sends an
emergency call to the Time Lords, who have their own problems. Their
energy is being drained through a black hole, and they're unable to
assist The Doctor directly. The Lord President decides to let The
Doctor help himself, and orders that The Second Doctor be lifted out
of his timeline (The Krotons). The
Third Doctor finds a recorder on the TARDIS console, which is
plucked from his hand by his predecessor, who's delighted to see his
old friend Benton. The Doctors link minds so The Second Doctor can
learn the situation, and the two begin to bicker about how to
proceed. The President decides to retrieve The First Doctor (The Massacre) to mediate, but can't
arrange a complete transfer. This Doctor is suspended in the time
vortex in a protective bubble, and his communication with his later
selves (whom he refers to as "a dandy and a clown") is limited. He advises them that the
organism is a bridge to another dimension, and The Third Doctor
decides to use it. Jo tags along, and they vanish. The Brig is
surprised to see The Second Doctor, but is more concerned with
finding a way to stop the creatures.  The Third Doctor and Jo arrive in a bleak
landscape, find Bessie and Tyler, and are captured by the gel
guards. The Second Doctor's attempts to calm the organism fail, and
he, Benton, and the Brig retreat to the TARDIS, where he discovers
that his recorder is missing. The First Doctor advises him to turn
off the TARDIS's force field, and the ship and UNIT HQ are
transferred through the black hole. Jo and Tyler are locked up, and
The Doctor taken to their captor, Omega, the legendary engineer who
gave the Gallifreyans the power to travel in time. Omega has been
trapped for millennia in the anti-matter dimension, which he
controls by force of will. Omega captures the new arrivals, but the
Brig evades the guards and finds Ollis. Omega is angry to learn that
he's captured two incarnations of The Doctor, and imprisons them.
The Doctors pool their mental power to escape, and go to the
singularity chamber which connects to the positive matter universe.
The others escape from Omega's lair, find the Brig and Ollis, and
head for UNIT HQ. Omega finds the Doctors, and angrily forces The
Third Doctor to engage in mental combat. After he releases The
Doctor, he explains that he's trapped in this dimension. Omega
cannot leave unless he abandons control, and if he does so the
dimension will collapse. He wants the Doctors to take his place.
They discover that Omega's physical form has been destroyed, and
that he is a being of pure will, who can never leave the anti-matter
universe. They escape while he's dealing with this revelation, and
return  to UNIT HQ. Along the way, they have an encounter with a creature called
the Ergon, which The Doctor later refers to as one of Omega's less
successful experiments (Arc of Infinity). They confer with The First Doctor, and realize
they can use the TARDIS's force field generator to destroy Omega.
The Second Doctor's recorder has become lodged in the generator.
Omega allows The Doctor to move the TARDIS to his palace, and The
Doctors convince him to let their friends return to Earth through
the singularity chamber. The Doctors offer him the generator and
recorder, but Omega angrily knocks them aside, triggering an energy
surge. The Doctors flee in the TARDIS, and are returned to Earth,
along with UNIT HQ. The energy creates a supernova which provides
the Time Lords with a new power source. The earlier Doctors are
returned to their own timelines. The Third Doctor explains that the
recorder wasn't converted to anti-matter when the TARDIS came to
Omega's realm, and the collision of matter and anti-matter caused
the energy surge. He regrets tricking Omega, who was one of his
childhood heroes. A new dematerialization circuit appears on the
TARDIS console, and The Doctor's knowledge of time travel theory
returns. The Time Lords have ended his exile, but much work remains
to be done to get the TARDIS in working order.
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| Carnival of Monsters |
| Location: Inter Minor |
Date: Unknown |
The Doctor
tries to take Jo to the beautiful planet Metebelis 3 to celebrate
the return of his freedom, but the TARDIS materializes in the hold
of the S.S. Bernice, which vanished from the Indian Ocean in
1926. The ship is attacked by a dinosaur, and the travelers soon
learn that its crew and passengers are repeating the same sequence
of events. The Doctor discovers that a deck hatch, which the crew
can't see, is held with anti-magnetic cohesion. The Doctor and Jo
retrieve a device from the TARDIS to open the hatch. As they leave
the hold, a giant hand comes through the ceiling and takes the
TARDIS away. When The Doctor opens the hatch, he discovers they're
inside a giant machine. He cuts through a wall, and he and Jo enter
a cave, which leads to a swamp inhabited by ravenous monsters The
Doctor identifies as Drashigs. The Doctor realizes that he and Jo
are inside a miniscope, a device used to store miniaturized
specimens, which The Doctor convinced the High Council to ban. Jo is
captured by the crew, but The Doctor escapes from the miniscope and
returns to his full size. The  Doctor learns that the scope belongs to a Lurman
showman named Vorg, who is being held for questioning, with his
assistant Shirna, by a tribunal of the planet Inter Minor. Two of
the tribunal members plan to use the Drashigs to destroy their
ruler. The Doctor intends to rescue Jo and the others by linking the
scope to the TARDIS. After he builds the link, he returns to the
scope to find Jo. The miniscope fails, and a Drashig escapes and
kills a tribunal member. Vorg destroys the other Drashigs and
operates The Doctor's device, restoring the scope's inhabitants to
their proper places (since the Bernice was recorded as lost,
it's likely that something happened after its return which kept it
from reaching port). The miniscope is destroyed, and The Doctor and
Jo leave, as Vorg tries another way of making a profit from the
natives of Inter Minor.
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| Frontier in Space |
| Locations: See below |
Date: 26th Century |
The TARDIS
nearly collides with a freighter in hyperspace, but The Doctor
materializes it inside the ship, which is attacked by what seems to
be a Draconian cruiser. Jo believes that the ship's pilot is a
Drashig, and he sees Jo and The Doctor as Draconians. They are taken
hostage, and the ship is  boarded by Ogrons, who steal its cargo and the TARDIS. The
Doctor and Jo are transferred to an Earth battle cruiser, and are
taken to Earth. The Doctor tries to convince Earth's president of
their innocence, but her military commander, General Williams (who
has fought Draconians before), refuses to believe him. There have
been several attacks on Earth ships by Draconian cruisers, but the
Draconians insist their ships are being attacked by Earth forces.
The Prince of Draconia captures The Doctor, but he too does not
believe the stories of hallucinatory enemies. The Doctor is
recaptured by Earth troops, and is imprisoned on the Moon. Jo learns
that The Master, who claims to be a commissioner from an Earth
colony with a prior claim on The Doctor and Jo, is behind the
attacks. The President agrees to turn them over to him, and after he
retrieves The Doctor, they leave in his prison ship. The ship is
captured by Draconians, but The Master sends a signal to his Ogron
allies. The Doctor, who informs the Draconian emperor that one of
his predecessors knighted The Doctor some 500 years before, attempts
to convince him of what The Master is doing. The emperor's court is
attacked, apparently by humans, and The Master is rescued. The
Emperor believes The Doctor's story when he sees a captured "human"
revert to Ogron form, and he sends The Doctor, Jo, and the Prince to
warn Earth. They are attacked by The Master, and a docking party of
Ogrons captures Jo. The others are rescued by an Earth cruiser, and
Williams, who's learned that what he believed to be an act of
treachery by the Draconians in the last war was the result of
misinformation, accompanies them in pursuit of The Master, who has
fled to the Ogron homeworld. The Master unsuccessfully tries to
hypnotize Jo, and she's also able to overcome the effects of the
device which causes the illusions. She escapes from her cell, and
transmits a message which is intercepted by the ship carrying The
Doctor and his allies. Jo soon learns that this was all a ruse by
The Master, who wants The Doctor to find him. After being attacked
by Draconians, The Doctor's ship arrives on the Ogron world. The
group are attacked by Ogrons, who are frightened away by the
appearance of a monstrous creature they regard as a god. The Master
appears with his other allies, a squad of Daleks, who capture The
Doctor, Williams, and the Prince. The Daleks leave the prisoners
with The Master. Jo has stolen the illusion device, which The Doctor
uses to convince their Ogron guard that they are actually Daleks,
and the guard frees them. The Prince and the general escape, and The
Doctor and Jo head for the TARDIS, which has been brought to the
planet. They encounter The Master and a squad of Ogrons, and in the
ensuing scuffle The Doctor is shot by The Master. Jo and The Doctor
get into the TARDIS, and as the ship dematerializes The Doctor sends
a message to the Time Lords.
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| Planet of the Daleks |
| Location: Spiridon |
Date: 26th Century |
 The Doctor collapses as
the TARDIS materializes on Spiridon. Jo leaves to get help, and the
ship is engulfed in a fungus which drains its oxygen supply. Jo
enters a crashed spaceship and is found by two Thals, Taron and
Vaber. When they are called away by a third Thal, Codal, she hides
in a storage hold and observes as an invisible creature explores the
ship. The Doctor has recovered, and is rescued by the Thals, who
remove the fungus from the TARDIS. Jo is befriended by one of the
invisible creatures, called Spiridons. The Doctor and the Thals
discover that the Daleks are trying to learn the secret of
invisibility, and he and Codal are captured. The other Thals debate
the merits of blowing up the Daleks' base, but are interrupted by
the crash of another Thal ship which was sent to rescue them. One of
its crew warns them that an army of 10,000 Daleks is hidden on the
planet. The Thals discover that Spiridon's interior contains a
bizarre form of liquid ice, which can erupt from "ice volcanoes".
The Doctor and Codal have escaped, and rescue the others from one of
these eruptions. The Doctor discovers that the Dalek army is in
suspended animation in an ice cave. Jo's Spiridon friend sacrifices
himself to prevent the Daleks from releasing a bacteria which will
kill all other life on the planet. After a series of escapes from
the Daleks in which several Thals are killed, The Doctor and the
others enter the Dalek city, where The Doctor intends to use the
cave's temperature controls to seal the Dalek army in ice forever.
He is thwarted by the Dalek Supreme, who's arrived to take charge of
the operation. The Doctor then uses a Thal bomb to activate an ice
volcano which traps the Dalek army and destroys the other Daleks.
One of the Thals, Latep, has fallen in love with Jo and asks her to
go to Skaro with him, but she refuses, and the Thals leave. The
Doctor and Jo return to the TARDIS, pursued by the Dalek Supreme,
who fails to prevent their escape.
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| Undocumented Adventure |
| Location: Karfel |
Date: Unknown |
The Doctor
and Jo arrive on Karfel, where they pass into legend after The
Doctor saves the planet and reports an unscrupulous scientist for
unauthorized experiments. The Doctor seems to have had another
companion on this journey, but surviving records give no indication
of this person's identity (Timelash).
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| The Green Death |
| Locations: UNIT HQ, Wales, Metebelis 3 |
Date: 1973 |
 In the Welsh village of Llanfairfach, mines are closed by
Global Chemicals, and the miners are protesting. A miner is found
dead, his skin glowing green. UNIT is called to investigate, and to
provide protection for Global, whose owner, Stevens, has powerful
friends in the government. Global's activities are also coming under
fire from Professor Clifford Jones, a Nobel Prize winner whose
commune of scientists, called the Nuthatch by the locals, is
investigating pollution caused by the company. Jo plans to go to
Wales to join Jones, and refuses to help the Brig, who still allows
her to travel there with him. The Doctor, disappointed by Jo's
refusal to try another visit to Metebelis 3, goes alone, arriving in
the wrong time period, and is attacked by the planet's inhabitants.
He escapes, and brings back a blue crystal as a souvenir. Stevens
maintains that Global's processes are non-polluting, but Jones
disagrees. Jo investigates the mine, which she thinks is being used
to dump the pollutants. She is aided by some of the miners, one of
whom, Bert, is exposed to the chemical which killed the other miner.
They're trapped in the mine when its sabotaged lift breaks down.
Stevens, under orders from a mysterious BOSS, refuses the Brig's
request to help rescue them, falsely claiming that Global does not
have the equipment. While The Doctor and the Brig look for other
equipment, Jo and Bert explore. Bert's condition worsens, and Jo
proceeds alone. She finds a pool of green slime, which is infested
with giant maggot-like creatures. The Doctor and another miner find
Bert, who's taken back to the surface. The Doctor tracks down Jo,
but they're trapped when a section of the roof collapses. They
escape via a shaft which leads into Global's complex. At the
Nuthatch, The Doctor observes that Jo is attracted to Professor
Jones. He also sees that the scientists use the local fungus as
food. After another maggot sighting, the Brigadier decides to seal
the mines. Stevens receives a visitor from the government, who's
actually Captain Yates, working undercover. Although the mine is
sealed, the maggots find other routes to the surface, and they're
impervious to conventional weapons. The Doctor decides that a
biological weapon is needed, and breaks into Global to steal some
oil waste, disguising himself as a milkman to infiltrate the
complex, and then assuming the guise of a cleaning lady. He
encounters an amused Yates, who tells him that there is a special
lift, used only by Stevens, to the top floor. Jo, meanwhile, has
spilled fungus powder on one of Cliff's slides, and attempts to make
it up to him by capturing a maggot for study. Cliff finds that Jo's
accident has shown him that the fungus neutralizes the infection,
and may be a clue to the end of the menace. He finds Jo, but they
are trapped in a cave when the RAF, who've been called in by the
Brig, bomb the maggot swarm. The Doctor discovers that BOSS is a
sentient computer which controls Stevens. The machine can't control
The Doctor, and he escapes with help from Yates, who's captured. The
Doctor and Sgt. Benton rescue Jo and the infected Cliff, who
deliriously repeats the word "serendipity". Yates arrives, under
control, and pulls a gun on The Doctor, who uses his blue crystal to
free Mike from hypnosis. Yates returns to Global with the crystal,
and after freeing one of Stevens' aides, discovers when BOSS's plan
will take effect. While The Doctor continues to look for a solution,
a commune member discovers that a maggot has died after eating
fungus. The Doctor and Benton drive Bessie through the maggots,
using the fungus to kill them. Back at the Nuthatch, The Doctor
tells Jo that "serendipity" means "a happy accident" and she
explains how she spilled the powder on Cliff's slides. The Doctor
realizes that the fungus will cure the infection as well. After
making sure that Cliff will be all right, he returns to Global,
where he uses the blue crystal to free Stevens from BOSS's control.
Stevens activates the computer's self-destruct sequence, and The
Doctor escapes from the complex before it explodes. Back at the
Nuthatch, Jo tells The Doctor that she has fallen in love with
Cliff, who reminds her of The Doctor in many ways. She intends to
marry him, and plans to use an expedition to the Amazon, arranged by
the uncle who got her the UNIT job, as a honeymoon. The Doctor is
saddened by her decision, but gives Jo the crystal as a wedding
present. As the members of UNIT and the Nuthatch congratulate the
happy couple, The Doctor slips out into the night and drives away in
Bessie.
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| Unrecorded Events |
| Location: England |
Date: 1973 |
Following
Jo's departure, there's a lengthy period of inactivity for UNIT. The
Doctor begins work on a new vehicle (Invasion of the Dinosaurs, Planet of the Spiders), and learns to play cricket, becoming an accomplished
slow bowler (The Ark in Space, The Hand of Fear). 
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| The Time Warrior |
| Location: England |
Dates: 1973, 12th Century |
 Several prominent scientists disappear, and the
Brig, who's arranged a secure facility for others, asks The Doctor
to investigate. The Doctor meets journalist Sarah Jane Smith, who's
infiltrated the facility by impersonating her Aunt Lavinia, an
eminent virologist. The Doctor thinks the scientists have been taken
through time, and sets up sensors to detect temporal disturbances.
Another scientist, Rubeish, disappears, and when The Doctor uses his
sensors he sees the ghostly traces of a Sontaran warrior. He follows
the Sontaran in the TARDIS, unaware that Sarah, who thinks The
Doctor is the villain, is in the ship. Sarah leaves the TARDIS after
The Doctor's departure, and prevents an archer named Hal from
shooting Irongron, the local robber baron. They're captured, and
Sarah initially believes that she's been transported to an elaborate
medieval theme park. She's questioned by the Sontaran, Linx, who
soon realizes that she is a time traveler. Linx has crashed his ship
near Irongron's castle, which he's using as a base while he makes
repairs. He's providing weapons for the baron, and has kidnapped the
scientists because Irongron's people aren't advanced enough to help
him. He gives Irongron a fighting robot, which he tests against Hal,
but The Doctor shoots the control from Irongron's hand, and the
archer and Sarah escape from the castle in the confusion. The Doctor
finds the scientists, and learns that they've been hypnotized,
except for the near-sighted Rubeish. Linx appears and takes The
Doctor prisoner, after refusing his offer of assistance.  Rubeish releases The Doctor after Linx departs. Sarah,
meanwhile, has met Hal's lord, Edward of Wessex, and convinced him
to send men to kidnap The Doctor. Once The Doctor is brought to
Edward's castle he convinces him, and Sarah, of his good intentions,
and with the use of dummies, and smoke and stink bombs, helps defend
the castle from an assault by Irongron. The Doctor proposes that
they go on the offensive, and asks Edward's wife, Lady Eleanor, for
ingredients to make a sleeping potion. He and Sarah disguise
themselves as monks, and while The Doctor assists the scientists,
Sarah slips the potion into the castle's evening meal. The Doctor
uses his penlight to break the trance in which the scientists have
been placed, and when Linx returns, he distracts him while Rubeish
hits him in the probic vent at the back of his neck, a hole through
which Sontarans ingest energy, and their only weak spot. The Doctor
trusses up the Sontaran, and disguises himself as the robot to
distract Irongron. The robber baron sees through the disguise, but
The Doctor is rescued by Sarah, and they return to Edward's castle,
intending to go back after the sleeping potion has time to work.
Linx escapes from his bonds and begins his countdown. The Doctor
returns to Irongron's castle with Sarah and Hal, and uses Linx's
equipment to return the scientists to their own time. Hal is sent to
wake up Irongron's men so they can flee the castle, which will be
destroyed when the Sontaran ship takes off. Irongron has already
awakened and confronts Linx, who kills him before he enters his
ship. Hal returns to the workshop, and kills Linx by firing an arrow
into his probic vent. The Doctor is unable to abort the countdown,
and he, Sarah, and Hal escape from the castle just before it
explodes.
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