The Time Monster

064 – The Time Monster
Doctor Who serial
Queen Galleia plots with the Master.
Cast
Doctor Jon Pertwee (Third Doctor)
Companion Katy Manning (Jo Grant)
Others Nicholas Courtney — Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart Richard Franklin — Captain Mike Yates John Levene — Sergeant Benton Roger Delgado — The Master Marc Boyle — Kronos Ingrid Bower — Face of Kronos Ian Collier — Stuart Hyde Wanda Moore — Dr Ruth Ingram John Wyse — Dr Percival Neville Barber — Dr Cook Barry Ashton — Proctor Terry Walsh — Window Cleaner George Lee — Farmworker Simon Legree — UNIT Sergeant Gregory Powell — Knight Dave Carter — Roundhead Officer George Cormack — King Dalios Ingrid Pitt — Queen Galleia Donald Eccles — Krasis Aidan Murphy — Hippias Susan Penhaligon — Lakis Derek Murcott — Crito Michael Walker — Miseus Dave Prowse — Minotaur Melville Jones — Guard Keith Dalton — Neophyte Darren Plant — Baby Benton
Production
Directed by	Paul Bernard
Written by	Robert Sloman, Barry Letts (uncredited)
Script editor	Terrance Dicks
Produced by	Barry Letts
Executive producer(s)	None
Incidental music composer	Dudley Simpson
Production code	OOO
Series	Season 9
Length	6 episodes, 25 minutes each
Originally broadcast	20 May–24 June 1972
Chronology
← Preceded by Followed by → The Mutants The Three Doctors

The Time Monster

Author	Terrance Dicks
Cover artist	Andrew Skilleter
Series	Doctor Who book: Target novelisations
Release number	102
Publisher	Target Books
Publication date	13 February 1986
ISBN

The Time Monster is the fifth and final serial of the ninth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from 20 May to 24 June 1972.

The Master has adopted the alias of Professor Thascalos (the Greek version of his name) and is using this cover to tap into the resources of the Newton Research Unit at Cambridge University to conduct time experiments. His TOMTIT (Transmission of Matter Through Interstitial Time) experiment, assisted by Ruth Ingram and Stuart Hyde, is focused around transmitting matter by breaking it down into light waves. Having hypnotised Dr Percival, the Director of the Institute, into doing his bidding, the Master’s cover is maintained. He is particularly interested in examining a trident-shaped crystal in his possession, using it to attract a being he addresses as Kronos.

The Doctor and Jo Grant visit the Institute following a hunch of his that the Master is back on Earth with his TARDIS. He finds time moving slowly as the TOMTIT experiments disrupt the normal flow while Hyde, who is caught in the field of the experiment, ages to more than eighty years. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, who also witnessed the TOMTIT experiment, has the project evacuated and begins to hunt for the Master, whose cover has now been blown. The Doctor explains to Ruth and Jo that Kronos is a powerful Chronovore, a creature from outside time that feeds on time itself, who was once attracted from the vortex to ancient Atlantis using a crystal trident larger than the one used by the Master. That one remains in Atlantis. The Doctor suspects capturing the Chronovore is the Master’s aim too, forecasting such a step is a danger to the entire created universe.

Meanwhile, the Atlantean High Priest of Kronos, Krasis, is transported through interstitial time by the Master and brought to Percival’s office. The Master seizes the Seal of Kronos from the priest and uses it to control the Chronovore, invoking Kronos to materialise in the room. A white, feathered, male-like bird-like figure, Kronos exudes power and devours Percival without compunction. It is contained briefly by the Master, but breaks free and Krasis surmises this is because the Master only has the smaller fragment of the original crystal.