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"Steady on, Sarah Jane. I'm not exactly here by choice either, you know"
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| The
Third Doctor's Final Adventures |
Companions and Allies: Sarah Jane, Lethbridge-Stewart,
Benton, Yates
Major Enemies: Daleks, Ice Warriors, the Great One
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| Invasion of the Dinosaurs |
| Location: London |
Date: 1973 |
 The Doctor and Sarah return and find London
virtually deserted. They encounter looters, are attacked by a
pterodactyl, and arrested. Their photos are sent to UNIT's field HQ,
where the Brig and General Finch, who's in charge of the operation,
have no idea why London is under attack by dinosaurs. After UNIT
receives the photos, the Brig goes to pick up The Doctor and Sarah.
They've escaped, and hidden in a warehouse, where they encounter a
medieval peasant who vanishes. The Brig finds them and takes them to
UNIT HQ, where Finch refuses to listen to The Doctor's theory that
the dinosaurs, which also disappear, are being brought forward in
time deliberately. The Doctor builds a weapon to stun a dinosaur, so
he can monitor its disappearance and trace the power source behind
the menace. Captain Yates is working with Whitaker and Butler, the
men behind the dinosaur sightings, and warns them of The Doctor's
plan. He is given a device which will neutralize The Doctor's stun
gun, but when the scientists attempt to use a tyrannosaurus against
The Doctor, he removes it, and the dinosaur is captured and taken to
a hangar. Yates is instructed to sabotage The Doctor's equipment so
that he can't trace the power source. Sarah remembers hearing about
Whitaker's temporal theories, and approaches government minister Sir
Charles Grover for help. Sir Charles tells her that the whereabouts of the discredited Whitaker are
unknown. Finch arranges for Sarah to photograph the dinosaur, but
she's trapped in the hangar as it wakes and breaks its chains. The
Doctor saves her, and finds that the chains had been weakened and
his equipment sabotaged. The Doctor theorizes that the power source
is nuclear, and Sarah remembers that government buildings were
equipped with reactors during the Cold War. She goes to Grover, who
takes her to a reactor-equipped bunker under his office, where she
learns that Grover's in league with Whitaker. She's hypnotized, and
finds herself on a spaceship which allegedly left Earth three months
earlier. She realizes this isn't true when she notices that a minor
injury she sustained earlier hasn't healed, but the ship's crew,
chosen from Britain's elite, decide that her briefing was faulty and
she must be re-educated. The Doctor traces the power source, but
Whitaker and Butler steer him away from the complex, and he escapes
after being attacked by another pterodactyl. Grover decides The
Doctor must be discredited, and sets a trap. Whitaker is supposed to
meet him, but when The Doctor arrives, he is confronted by a
stegosaurus, and Finch arrives to arrest him, claiming The Doctor is
behind the menace. Sarah, with help from one of the spaceship's
crew, escapes and find that the "ship" is part of the hidden
complex. She returns to UNIT, where she learns that The Doctor was
arrested, but has escaped, and that Finch has given orders he be
shot on sight. (Sgt. Benton, who believes in The Doctor's innocence,
allowed him to "overpower" him.) When Finch arrives Sarah tells him
what she learned, and they go to Grover's office, where Finch pulls
a gun on her and takes her back down to the base. Grover orders
Whitaker to release a last group of dinosaurs, and Finch orders UNIT
to evacuate London. Grover plans to use Whitaker's machine to turn
back time and restore Earth to a "Golden Age" before mankind
polluted it. He intends that he, his associates, and the "spaceship"
crew, will remake the world (those on the spaceship believe they are
heading for a New Earth and aren"t part of the plot). The Doctor and
the Brig return to UNIT, where they discover that Mike Yates is a
traitor. After they overpower him, they head for the power
 complex. Sarah escapes
from her cell and returns to the "spaceship". One of the crew
summons Grover, who appears from one of the other "ships", and he
overhears Grover gloating to Sarah. After Grover leaves, Sarah and
the crew also leave the ship. The Doctor and the Brig arrive, and
the Brig radios for reinforcements. Benton overpowers Finch, who's
been monitoring their transmission, and sends troops. The Doctor and
the spaceship crew confront Grover, but when the UNIT forces arrive,
Whitaker takes advantage of the distraction and activates his
machine, which places everyone but The Doctor in temporal stasis.
The Doctor tampers with the machine, and when Grover and Whitaker
try to stop him they vanish into the distant past, where they are
certain to be killed by the dinosaurs. The Brigadier allows Yates to
resign from UNIT rather than pressing charges against him. The
Doctor decides that he and Sarah need a holiday, and he tempts her
with his stories of the beautiful planet Florana.
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| Death to the Daleks |
| Location: Exxilon |
Date: Unknown |
The TARDIS
has a power failure while on the way to Florana, and makes an
emergency landing. The Doctor investigates, and after a hostile
encounter with natives, meets an expedition which is searching for
parrinium, a mineral needed to cure a galactic plague. Their
commander has been attacked by the native Exxilons, and is near
death. Sarah, who's been looking for The Doctor, has entered the
Exxilons' sacred city  and been captured and sentenced to be sacrificed.
To complicate matters, a Dalek ship has also been forced to land,
and the Daleks, whose energy weapons don't work, agree to an
alliance with the humans, since they also seek the parrinium. The
group are captured by the Exxilons, though The Doctor delays the
sacrifice of Sarah. The Daleks negotiate with the natives' high
priest to buy time while Daleks on the ship test a projectile weapon
system which will function despite the energy drain. When they
succeed, they attack the Exxilons, and The Doctor and Sarah escape
in the confusion. The human commander dies, and Galloway, senior
member of the expedition, assumes command. He suggests that the
humans and Daleks use the defeated Exxilons to do the mining for
them, and the Daleks agree. The Doctor and Sarah, meanwhile, are
being pursued by Daleks, and have heard a creature ahead of them
which The Doctor surmises is the beast to whom Sarah was to be
sacrificed. Sarah meets Bellal, a friendly Exxilon, who takes her
into a side tunnel. The Doctor encounters the creature, a living
root which discharges electrical energy. He escapes but a pursuing
Dalek is destroyed. When The Doctor rejoins Sarah, Bellal helps them
escape from another Dalek. He explains that the ancient Exxilons
built the city, which became a living entity that expelled them.
There are now two groups of Exxilons: those who worship the city,
and Bellal's group, who wish to destroy it.  The Doctor recognizes the city's markings and has
seen similar runes in Peru. Meanwhile, the Daleks have given
explosive charges to Galloway and Hamilton, who are to climb the
city walls and destroy a beacon which they believe is the reason for
the energy drain. The Doctor tells Sarah to make sure the humans are
ready to leave when power is restored, and he and Bellal enter the
city, pursued by Daleks. The Doctor and Bellal solve a series of
deadly puzzles designed to keep intruders out, and The Doctor begins
to rewire the city's controls. Sarah and Jill Tarrant, another
expedition member, replace the parrinium in the sacks with ordinary
rocks. Galloway and Hamilton set one bomb at the beacon, but
Galloway keeps the other. As The Doctor finishes his work, the city
creates guards to destroy them, but these are distracted by the
pursuing Daleks, and Bellal and The Doctor escape as the city begins
to die. The Daleks force Galloway and Hamilton to load the sacks
onto their ship, and they leave when the beacon is destroyed. They
intend to launch a plague missile to wipe out life on the planet,
but Galloway has stowed away on their ship, and uses the other bomb
to destroy it. The Doctor, Sarah, and the others watch as the City
of the Exxilons dies.
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| The Monster of Peladon |
| Location: Peladon |
Date: Unknown |
 The TARDIS arrives on
Peladon fifty years after The Doctor's previous visit. The Galactic
Federation is at war with Galaxy 5, and Peladon is a major source of
the mineral trisilicate, desperately needed for the war effort.
There is unrest among the miners, who believe the Federation
equipment is unsafe, and Queen Thalira, daughter of King Peladon,
must also contend with the apparent reappearance of the spirit of
Aggedor, which has killed some miners. The Doctor and Sarah are
captured, but are released when Alpha Centauri vouches for The
Doctor. As the unrest continues Federation engineer Eckersley
suggests that troops be called in. A squad of Ice Warriors arrives,
and their commander, Azaxyr, places the planet under martial law,
threatening to start executions if the miners don't return to work.
Sarah, who's seen a mysterious figure in the refinery earlier,
realizes it was an Ice Warrior, and that they were already on
Peladon when Eckersley called the Federation. The Doctor, meanwhile,
tries to convince Gebek, leader of the miners, to get his men to go
back to work, while The Doctor finds a way to deal with the Ice
Warriors. Ettis, another miner who's favored open revolt, attempts
to use a sonic lance to destroy the citadel of Peladon. The Doctor
tries to stop him, and Azaxyr, who's booby-trapped the lance, sees
it explode, and assumes that both have died. The Doctor has survived
and heads for the refinery, where he overhears a conversation
between Azaxyr and Eckersley, who plan to sell the trisilicate to
Galaxy 5. They're also behind the appearances of Aggedor,
transmatting a statue linked to a heat ray which has caused the
deaths. Sarah, who's also overheard the conversation, joins The
Doctor and Gebek as they get into the room from which the statue is
controlled. The miners start a revolt against the Ice Warriors,
culminating in the death of Azaxyr, who's been holding Thalira
hostage. Eckersley kidnaps the Queen, intending to use her as a
shield while he escapes, but The Doctor uses the real Aggedor, whom
he'd encountered earlier, to track him. The monster kills Eckersley,
but is fatally wounded in the struggle. Thalira asks The Doctor to
remain as an advisor, but he suggests she choose Gebek for the
position. Alpha Centauri announces that Galaxy 5, low on resources
without the trisilicate they planned to get from Peladon, wants to
end the war, and The Doctor and Sarah leave.
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| The Five Doctors |
| Locations: England, Gallifrey |
Dates: Late 1973, Unknown |
Soon after returning from Peladon, The Doctor is driving in Bessie when he's captured by a time
scoop. He arrives in a desolate landscape and rescues an older
Sarah, who's been kidnapped from 1983. After some confusion as to
why The Doctor is in this form, rather than the one with "teeth and curls" with whom Sarah had last traveled, they set off in Bessie.
The Doctor realizes they're in the Death Zone on Gallifrey, and they
head for the Tomb of Rassilon, where The Doctor believes they'll
find answers. On the way The Doctor is hailed by a figure who he
realizes is The Master in a new form. The Master claims he's been
sent to help by the High Council and produces their seal, which The
Doctor takes, believing it a forgery. He thinks The Master is
setting a trap, and this seems confirmed when they are attacked by
energy bolts. The Doctor and Sarah flee, leaving The Master to fend
for himself. Bessie is disabled by an energy blast and they proceed
on foot. They discover that they are being pursued by Cybermen. As
they approach a cave in the mountains, The Doctor sees it is guarded
by a Raston Warrior Robot, an immensely fast killing machine with
built-in weaponry and sophisticated sensors which detect movement.
He realizes the pursuing Cybermen will be a perfect distraction, and
he and Sarah slip into the cave while the robot slaughters the
Cybermen. While there, they take a metal cable and some of the
robot's arrows. They climb a mountain which overlooks the Tomb, and
The Doctor uses the cable and arrows to catch hold of its roof.
Despite Sarah's vertigo, they slide along the cable and enter the
Tomb. As they proceed Sarah is gripped by fear, and The Doctor,
who's experiencing the feeling himself, scouts ahead. He finds Mike
Yates and Liz Shaw, who tell him four of his other selves are
waiting for him, but their behavior arouses his suspicions and he
realizes they're illusions. He rejoins Sarah and they proceed to
Rassilon's crypt, where The Doctor meets an older Brig (also from
1983), and, with his first and second 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. 
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| Unrecorded Events |
| Location: UNIT HQ |
Date: Early 1974 |
The Doctor
completes his new vehicle, adding an enclosed canopy and flight
capabilities, and begins a project to study the psychic potential of
humans (Planet of the Spiders), a study
which may have been prompted after he noticed that Brigadier
Lethbridge-Stewart was briefly able to resist the will of the
renegade Time Lord who brought them to the Death Zone (The Five
Doctors). Whatever inspired the project, he apparently forgets
it following his next regeneration.
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| Planet of the Spiders |
| Locations: England, Metebelis 3 |
Dates: March 1974, Unknown |
Mike Yates
has been at a meditation center since leaving UNIT. He's become
suspicious of a group of acolytes led by Lupton, and asks Sarah to
help investigate. Mike introduces Sarah to Cho-Je, the aide to abbot
K'anpo Rimpoche, and to Lupton. He fakes her departure from the
retreat, and convinces Tommy, a young retarded man who works there,
to keep her presence secret. Sarah and Mike hide in the cellar, and
watch Lupton's group as they summon an enormous spider, which
attaches itself to Lupton's back and disappears. The Doctor and the
Brig have been attending a variety show, and The Doctor convinces a
mentalist named Clegg to assist in his experiments on psychic
potential. Clegg claims his "powers" are an act, but The Doctor
discovers his abilities are genuine, and include telekinesis and the
ability to read objects for traces of psychic residue. Sgt. Benton
arrives with a package, and Clegg determines that it contains the
blue crystal The Doctor gave to Jo Grant. Jo has returned the gift
because it frightened the Amazon natives she and Cliff Jones have
encountered. Clegg looks into the crystal, and dies of fright. Sarah
arrives and tells The Doctor about the center, and he's intrigued by
the spider, since Clegg's last words concerned spiders. The spider
determines the crystal's location, and Lupton comes to UNIT HQ and
steals it. He leads The Doctor, Sarah and the Brig on a long chase
before he disappears, materializing back at the center. Tommy, who
has a fondness for shiny objects, steals the crystal. The Doctor and
Sarah arrive, and while The Doctor talks with Cho-Je, Sarah
overhears plans for another ceremony, and tells Tommy to alert The
Doctor. She heads for the cellar, and as The Doctor gets there,
Lupton disappears, followed by Sarah, who finds herself on Metebelis
3. The natives are slaves of the spiders, and when The Doctor
follows Sarah in the TARDIS, he ends up fighting the Queen's guards,
and is seriously injured. Back on Earth, Tommy, who's fallen asleep
with the crystal, discovers he is suddenly able to read easily.
While The Doctor recovers, Arak, a rebel leader, explains that his
people are descended from an Earth expedition. The spiders were on
their ship, and exposure to the blue crystals has mutated them into
their current forms. Sarah and The Doctor are captured by the
spiders, and Sarah is brought before the Queen, who claims to need
the crystal on Earth to prevent her subjects from invading that
planet. Sarah agrees to help, and after she is reunited with The
Doctor, they return to Earth.  The Doctor has met the Great One, ruler of all
spiders, who has demanded that he return the crystal he stole. Back
on Earth, more spiders have appeared and are controlling the other
acolytes. They attack Cho-Je, and Tommy runs to tell the Abbot what
is happening. When The Doctor arrives, he's able to deflect the
acolytes' attacks with a stone he picked up on Metebelis, and goes
to meet the Abbot. K'anpo Rimpoche is a Time Lord, a hermit who was
The Doctor's childhood mentor, and he now has the crystal. Sarah,
who's controlled by the Queen, demands it be given to her, but The
Doctor uses it to free her from control.  K'anpo tells The Doctor that since the trouble has been
caused by his greed for knowledge, he must make amends by returning
the crystal to Metebelis. As The Doctor leaves, the acolytes renew
their attack. K'anpo regenerates into Cho-Je, who was a projection
of his future self. Back on Metebelis 3, The Doctor is taken to the
spiders by Arak and his men, who've fallen back under their control.
He tells them that he is there to return the crystal to the Great
One, and when Lupton protests, he is killed. The Doctor returns to
the Great One's lair, and realizes her plan to use the crystal to
make her omnipotent will destroy her. Though weakened by the
radiation which fills her cavern, he manages to return to the
TARDIS. As the Great One dies, the other spiders die with her
(including those on Earth) and the humans are freed. Back at UNIT,
Sarah asks the Brig for news of The Doctor, who's been missing for 3
weeks. The TARDIS arrives, and The Doctor, nearly dead from
radiation, tells them he was lost in the time vortex, but the TARDIS
brought him home. He collapses, and as the Brig and Sarah mourn him,
Cho-Je appears and tells them The Doctor is not dead. He uses his
abilities to enable The Doctor to overcome the damage to his body,
and Sarah and the Brig watch in awe as The Doctor regenerates for
the third time.
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