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"Well, having reached that brilliant conclusion, how about getting on with it?"
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| The
Third Doctor's Adventures Continue |
Companions and Allies: Jo, Lethbridge-Stewart, Benton,
Yates
Major Enemies: The Master, Axos, Azal, Daleks, Sea Devils
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| The Claws of Axos |
| Location: England |
Date: Early 1971 |
UNIT is
visited by Chinn, a government minister, and Bill Filer, an American
agent who's investigating The Master. Radar shows a spacecraft
approaching Earth, which disappears before it can be hit by
missiles. It lands near the Nuton Power Complex. Filer arrives ahead
of UNIT, is captured, and finds The Master is also a prisoner on the
ship. The Doctor, the Brig, Chinn, and others go aboard the ship and
meet the Axons, a lovely race of humanoids who wish to replenish the
craft's energy, and offer axonite, a substance  which mimics other elements, in exchange. The Doctor
points out that with this miracle substance they shouldn't have run
out of fuel, but is overridden by Chinn, who wants Britain to have a
monopoly on axonite. The Doctor wants to study the element, and has
the TARDIS brought to Nuton, hoping that the substance may give him
a way to escape his exile. The Axons free The Master so he can
arrange worldwide distribution of axonite, which will actually drain
Earth's energy. He's agreed to help them in exchange for his
freedom, and a chance to destroy The Doctor. While analyzing
axonite, The Doctor realizes the ship and the Axons are all parts of
a single organism which absorbs energy when it reaches lightspeed.
The Doctor and Jo are captured by the Axons, who force him to reveal
the theory of time travel. They overload the reactor to get power
for this, and the Brigadier must ask The Master for help. The Master
uses the TARDIS to absorb the energy, and when he uses the power to
attack the Axon ship, The Doctor and Jo escape. The Doctor
apparently teams up with The Master, and he offers to give time
travel to Axos in exchange for their promise to attack the Time
Lords. He links the TARDIS to Axos, and throws it into a time loop
as The Master escapes. The Doctor breaks out of the loop, leaving
Axos trapped, and admits to the Brig and Jo that he cannot escape
from Earth while the Time Lords' edict is in force.
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| Colony in Space |
| Locations: UNIT HQ, Exarius |
Dates: 1971, 2472 |
The Master
has stolen the Time Lords' data on the Doomsday Machine, and they
send The Doctor and Jo to Exarius, the planet where the device was
invented. They're soon caught up in a dispute between colonists, led
by Robert Ashe, and a group from the Interplanetary Mining
Corporation, whose operations will make the planet unfit for
agriculture. Complicating things are the planet's natives, the
Primitives, and attacks on colonists by giant lizards. The Doctor
learns that these are being faked by IMC's crew. Ashe and Captain
Dent of IMC have called in an Adjudicator from Earth to settle the
question of the planet's ownership. Jo is captured by Primitives and
The Doctor goes to their city, where he learns that they've
regressed from a powerful society into a culture which makes
sacrifices to a machine. The machine's Guardian, impressed by The
Doctor's intelligence, frees him and Jo. When they return to the
colony they find that The Master, posing as the Adjudicator, has
ruled in favor of IMC, and is trying to learn more about the
Primitives. The Master captures them, and forces The Doctor to take
him to the city. He explains that the Primitives built the Doomsday
Machine, and that the test which convinced them not to use it
created the Crab Nebula. He intends to use the device to hold the
galaxy hostage. The Guardian realizes The Master does not deserve
such power, and shows The Doctor how to destroy the machine. Ashe
sacrifices his life so the colonists can defeat the IMC group. The
Master escapes, and The Doctor and Jo return to UNIT HQ.
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| The Daemons |
| Location: England |
Dates: April 30-May 1, 1971 |
 On the night of the pagan festival Beltane,
Professor Horner plans to open an ancient barrow near Devil's End.
The Doctor and Jo see a broadcast in which the local white witch,
Miss Hawthorne, attempts to prevent the dig. The Doctor agrees with
her, and he and Jo head for the village, arriving too late to stop
Horner, who's killed by the energy released when the barrow is
opened. The Doctor has fallen into a coma, and Jo calls in Yates and
Benton, who fly to Devil's End after failing to reach the Brig. They
see giant hoof prints near the village. When The Doctor revives, he
discovers that a heat barrier surrounds Devil's End. He learns from
Miss Hawthorne that the new vicar, Mr. Magister, is involved in
these events, and he realizes that he is once again facing The
Master ("Magister" is Latin for "Master"). Jo and The Doctor go to
the barrow, and narrowly escape from a gargoyle after they find a
spaceship buried there. The Master intends to use its occupant, a
member of an ancient race called Daemons who inspired much of human
mythology, in his latest bid for power. The Daemon, Azal, is
considering The Master's request to pass on his power, but wants to
meet The Doctor so that he may decide which of the Time Lords
deserves this gift.  The Brigadier has arrived
with more troops, and The Doctor works with Sgt. Osgood to develop a
device to cut through the barrier. Villagers controlled by The
Master capture The Doctor as he returns to town, but he convinces
them to release him, thanks to some timely assistance from Miss
Hawthorne and Benton, who make it appear that The Doctor has magical
abilities. The Brigadier and his men have broken through the
barrier, and the device begins to drain Azal's power, but it
explodes when the power proves too great. Jo has been captured by
The Master, but is released by Azal when The Doctor arrives. The
Daemon has decided to give The Doctor his power, but offers it to
The Master when The Doctor refuses. Azal decides to kill The Doctor,
but Jo offers herself in his place, and the act of self-sacrifice
confuses the Daemon, who loses control of the power and destroys
himself and the village church. Benton finally succeeds in capturing
The Master, thanks to a remote control device which The Doctor has
installed in Bessie.
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| Unrecorded Events |
| Location: England |
Date: Summer 1971 |
The Doctor
continues to work on the TARDIS (Day of the Daleks). He also
testifies at The Master's trial, a proceeding closed to press and
public, and his eloquent defense of his old friend is largely
responsible for the tribunal's sentence of life imprisonment,
instead of the death penalty (The Sea Devils).
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| Day of the Daleks |
| Location: England |
Dates: September 1971, alternate future |
 The Doctor helps investigate an attack on Sir Reginald
Styles, host of the next peace conference. He learns that guerillas
from the future want to kill Styles, whom they hold responsible for
a bomb which destroyed the conference. This event created their
timeline, an alternate future in which the Daleks conquered Earth (a
century before the events of The Dalek Invasion of Earth). Jo
is transported to this future, and when The Doctor follows, he's
captured by Ogrons, the ape-like humanoid slaves of the Daleks. The
Daleks, who don't recognize The Doctor in this form, probe his mind,
and learn that he is indeed their greatest enemy. The Controller,
the human "ruler" of Earth, who has befriended Jo, convinces the
Daleks to let him interrogate The Doctor. Jo and The Doctor are
rescued by the guerillas, and he realizes the conference was
actually destroyed by one of the rebels. The Controller allows them
to escape back to the 20th century, and is exterminated by the
Daleks. The Doctor convinces The Brigadier to evacuate the diplomats
before the Daleks attack, and tells Shura, a rebel still in this
time, the truth about what is happening. Shura detonates his bomb,
destroying the Daleks and Ogrons, and the conference is saved.
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| The Curse of Peladon |
| Locations: UNIT HQ, Peladon |
Dates: 1971, Unknown |
 As The Doctor and Jo work
in the TARDIS, the Time Lords send the ship to Peladon, which has
applied for membership in the Galactic Federation. The Doctor is
mistaken for the Earth delegate, and he and Jo meet King Peladon,
and the other delegates, Alpha Centauri, Arcturus, and the Ice
Warrior Lord Izlyr and his aide Ssorg. The Doctor saves them from
being crushed by a statue of Aggedor, the sacred beast of Peladon's
legends. Arcturus is also attacked separately, but is rescued by The
Doctor. He suspects his old enemies, the Ice Warriors, of being
behind the attacks, but Jo discovers that they are innocent. During
his investigation The Doctor violates the Temple of Aggedor and is
sentenced to trial by combat with Grun, the King's champion. Hepesh,
the High Priest, offers to help The
Doctor escape, and gives him a map of the tunnels under the palace.
This leads The Doctor to the real Aggedor, but he hypnotizes the
beast with a Venusian lullaby and a spinning mirror attached to his
sonic screwdriver. The King does not believe that Aggedor is real
and orders the combat to proceed. The Doctor defeats Grun, sparing
his life, and Ssorg kills Arcturus, who was about to shoot The
Doctor. Hepesh, who had plotted with Arcturus, attempts a revolt,
but The Doctor brings Aggedor to the throne room and the creature
kills the traitorous priest. The Doctor and Jo leave just before the
real Earth delegate arrives.
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| The Sea Devils |
| Location: England |
Date: 1972 |
 The Doctor and Jo visit The Master in prison.
Trenchard, the prison governor, mentions that several ships have
sunk in the area, and The Doctor investigates. He's arrested and
taken to see Captain Hart at the naval base H.M.S. Seaspite.
Hart is convinced of his good intentions when Jo arrives with their
UNIT IDs. The Doctor and Jo visit a sea fort which he believes may
hold a clue to the sinkings, and they find a caretaker ranting about
Sea Devils. The Doctor encounters one of the creatures, which are
related to the Silurians, and drives it away. Back at the naval
base, Jo sees The Master dressed as a naval officer. They return to
the prison, where The Doctor learns that The Master has been using
Trenchard, and is stealing parts from the base to build a machine to
control the Sea Devils. Jo and The Doctor avoid capture by the
creatures. Hart has ordered a submarine to investigate the fort, but
it is disabled and captured by the Sea Devils. The Doctor goes down
in a diving bell, and he too is captured. The Master summons a group
of Sea Devils, who free him from prison and kill Trenchard. He
arrives at the reptiles' base and finds that The Doctor is
attempting to convince their leader to seek peace. This attempt is
ruined when the navy drops depth charges, but The Doctor escapes,
along with the sub's crew. The Sea Devils want The Master to revive
more of their people, and they recapture The Doctor when they attack
the naval base to get more electronic parts. The Master wants The
Doctor's help in reviving the creatures, but The Doctor sabotages
his device by reversing the polarity of the neutron flow. The Doctor
and The Master escape from the Sea Devils' lair just before it is
destroyed, and The Master steals a hovercraft and retains his
freedom.
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| The Mutants |
| Locations: UNIT HQ, Solos |
Dates: 1972, 30th Century |
The Time
Lords send a message container, a device which only opens for its
intended recipient, to The Doctor, and he and Jo use the TARDIS to
deliver it. They arrive on Skybase One, which orbits Solos. The
planet is about to be freed by the Earth Empire, a decision The
Marshal commanding the base disagrees with. He hates the Solonians
and plans to destroy them by altering the planet's atmosphere. The
Doctor discovers that the message is intended for Ky, leader of the
Solonian rebels. With the help of Professor Sondergaard, The Doctor
discovers that the Solonians undergo a natural mutation which the
Marshal's plan has accelerated. The Doctor prevents the planet's
atmosphere from being altered, and Ky, who has mutated into a
super-being, kills the Marshal.
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| The Time Monster |
| Locations: England, Atlantis |
Dates: September 1972, circa 1500 BC |
 The Doctor has a dream in
which he sees The Master with a crystal of power. When Jo wakes him
with news of volcanic eruptions near the site of Atlantis, he's
convinced the dream is a clue to The Master's latest plan. He builds
a device to trace his enemy, and turns down the Brig's invitation to
witness Professor Thascales' demonstration of TOMTIT (Transfer of
Matter Through Interstitial Time) at the Newton Institute. Thascales
is really The Master, who intends to use the device, powered by the
crystal, to control Kronos, one of the legendary Chronovores
(time-eaters). The Doctor tracks down The Master, and despite his
enemy's use of TOMTIT to create distractions, pursues him,
materializing his own TARDIS inside The Master's. (This also encases
The Master's TARDIS inside his own.) The Master frees his TARDIS,
and ejects The Doctor into the time vortex. The Doctor saves himself
(using his training in
vortex-walking: Shada) and
uses the TARDIS's telepathic circuits to tell Jo to activate the
ship's "extreme emergency" switch, which pulls him into the ship
(this is the use of the
ship's tractor beam "12 years ago" which The Fourth Doctor later
mentions to Romana: The Creature from the Pit). When The Doctor and Jo arrive in Atlantis, they
learn that The Master is attempting to gain power by romancing the
queen, Galleia. After a battle with a minotaur, they are imprisoned
in a dungeon, where the dying King Dalios begs The Doctor to save
his people. The Master has been crowned as king, but Galleia turns
against him when The Doctor reveals the villain's part in her
husband's death. Krasis, an Atlantean priest who's been coerced into
serving The Master, activates TOMTIT, and Kronos begins to destroy
Atlantis. The Master takes the crystal, intending to flee in his
TARDIS, and is attacked by Jo, whom he overpowers and takes along.
The Doctor follows, intending to use his own TARDIS to destroy The
Master's by Time Ram (a deliberate attempt to materialize a TARDIS
in the same co-ordinates as another TARDIS), but can't bring himself
to do so, since Jo will also die. Jo decides to make the sacrifice,
but the two time machines end up in a void, where the now-recovered
Kronos thanks The Doctor for her release. The Chronovore intends to
punish The Master, who escapes while The Doctor pleads with Kronos
to spare his enemy.
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