The Two Doctors
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The two Doctors and Jamie
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| Directed by | Peter Moffatt | ||||
| Written by | Robert Holmes | ||||
| Script editor | Eric Saward | ||||
| Produced by | John Nathan-Turner | ||||
| Executive producer(s) | None | ||||
| Incidental music composer | Peter Howell | ||||
| Production code | 6W | ||||
| Series | Season 22 | ||||
| Length | 3 episodes, 45 minutes each | ||||
| Date started | 16 February 1985 | ||||
| Date ended | 2 March 1985 | ||||
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| Author | Robert Holmes |
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| Cover artist | Andrew Skilleter |
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Doctor Who book: Target novelisations |
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Release number
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100 |
| Publisher | Target Books |
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Publication date
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5 December 1985 |
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The Two Doctors is the fourth serial of the 22nd season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in three weekly parts from 16 February to 2 March 1985. It starred Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant as the Sixth Doctor and his companion Peri, respectively. It also featured return appearances by Patrick Troughton and Frazer Hines in their roles as the Second Doctor and Jamie McCrimmon.
The Second Doctor and Jamie McCrimmon land the TARDIS on board Space Station Chimera in the Third Zone on a mission for the Time Lords, who have also installed a teleport control on the TARDIS. The Doctor explains that the station is a research facility and that they have to talk to Dastari, the Head of Projects. The TARDIS materialises in the station kitchen, where they meet Shockeye, the station cook. Shockeye is an Androgum, a member of a primitive, emotionally and ethically bestial humanoid race, which acts as the station's workforce. As they leave they hear the TARDIS dematerialise. This is observed by Chessene, an Androgum technologically augmented to mega-genius levels. Chessene has plans of her own, involving someone named Stike who will be arriving in force soon, once Shockeye's poisoned meal to the scientists takes effect. She has also taken possession of the Kartz-Reimer module.
The Doctor tells Dastari that the Time Lords want the time experiments of Kartz and Reimer stopped. The Time Lords have an official policy of neutrality, so have sent the exiled Doctor to maintain deniability. Dastari introduces Chessene, but the Doctor is sceptical as to whether such augmentation can change Chessene's essential Androgum nature, and considers such tampering dangerous. Meanwhile, three Sontaran battlecruisers appear near the station. Before the station's defences can be activated, Chessene incapacitates the technician on post and opens the docking bays. Back in the office, the Doctor warns that the distortions from the Kartz-Reimer experiments are on the verge of threatening the fabric of time, but Dastari refuses to order them to cease, accusing the Time Lords of not wanting another race to discover the secrets of time travel. As the argument grows more heated, Dastari grows faint and falls into a drugged stupor. Energy weapons fire begins to sound in the corridors and the Doctor orders Jamie to run as a Sontaran levels a gun at the Doctor.
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