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The Doctor and Peri happen upon yet another [[Crapsack World]], under the heel of a mysterious dictator known as the Borad who is trying to provoke interstellar war with some inoffensive handpuppets for apparently no reason. Mirror-fearing robots keep eveyrone in line, and the preferred method of execution is to be shoved into a one-way portal through time and space. It is called... the Time-Lash. As the quisling council leader and [[Large Ham]] puts it: "Most people depart with a ''scream''."
It seems someone
Anyway. The other end of the Time-Lash turns out to be 12th century Scotland, but, due to a collision with the TARDIS, the girl and her [[MacGuffin]] have ended up in 1885 instead. The Doctor convinces her to come back, but gets saddled with an overly enthusiastic stowaway in the bargain, [[
Back on the [[Crapsack World]], the baddies have rounded up the rebels and have started throwing everyone they can into the Time-Lash, including, of course, the Doctor, once they've got their [[MacGuffin]] back. Oh, and Peri is chained up in the caves being menaced by a Morlock (a giant snake monster thing), for reasons that will probably become clear later. The Doctor and others manage to stage a moderately successful coup, even sending a flaming android back in time for good measure. While the new leader of the planet begs the invading sock puppets not to nuke them all, the Doctor wanders off, Herbert in tow, to deal with the Borad.
The Borad turns out to be a weird mutant experimental mixture of two races (who bear more than a passing resemblance to the Morlocks and Eloi of Wells' ''[[The Time Machine]]''), and now he wants to kill everyone so that he can re-populate the world with more of his own cross-eyed hybrid kind. And, naturally, he has picked Peri for his queen (can't really disagree with this choice, though). The Doctor defeats him handily with a [[Power Crystal]] he picked up from ''inside'' the Time-Lash, frees Peri, and returns just in time to discover that the Sock Puppet Aliens have already fired their missile.
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But what's this? It turns out the Borad is [[Not Quite Dead]] (there were clones or something) and still has designs on Peri. Which he proves by threatening to kill her. Fortunately, the Doctor and Herbert are also [[Not Quite Dead]] for no adequately explained reason, and the Doctor throws the Borad into the Time-Lash so that he can spend the rest of his days swimming around Loch Ness and kickstarting the field of cryptozoology.
This story is one of the most hated, often rated the worst/[[Doctor Who
* [[Ascetic Aesthetic]]: The Karfelon citadel is mostly bland and white.
* [[The Caligula]]: The Borad
* [[Chair Reveal]]
* [[Cool Chair]]: The Borad's throne is another in the Great Chairs of [[
* [[Crapsack World]]
* [[Death Wail]]: The Borad lets out a nice one when he first dies.
* [[Decoy Leader]]: The Borad uses the face of an old man to cover for his true identity.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: When he learns the Borad's true genocidal plan, even Tekker rebels against him. {{spoiler|Unfortunately for him, he chooses to announce this [[Too Dumb to Live|while standing right in front of the Borad's time-accelerating death ray.]] You can probably guess what happens next.}}
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]] Apparently being sent to Scotland is this. Was this episode written by Garth Marenghi?
* [[Ham
* [[Hand Puppet]]: Used to represent an alien ambassador. It says something about "Timelash" that this ''isn't'' the most ludicrously cheap special effect in the story.
* [[Hand Wave]]: How did the Doctor survive his heroic sacrifice near the end? When Peri attempts to ask this pertinent question, the Doctor brushes it aside, and he never does get around to explaining.
* [[Historical Domain Character]]: [[
* [[Historical Person Punchline]]: The stowaway's full name is not revealed until the final scene (though given the number of shout-outs to his work, it's not hard to guess who he's meant to be).
* [[Large Ham]]: Paul Darrow. Dear God, Paul Darrow.
* [[Loch Ness Monster]]: The presumed fate of the Borad. In spite of the fact that the show has [[Doctor Who
* [[Mars Needs Women]]: And the Borad needs Peri.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: The Doctor's previous visit to the planet.
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* [[Rapid Aging]]: What the Borad's chair weapon does.
* [[Shadow Dictator]]: No one has seen the true face of the Borad, only his decoy.
* [[Shout
* [[Slouch of Villainy]]: But it's not like the Borad has any reason to stand up.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: {{spoiler|Tekker}} announces his intention to kill his master after his [[Heel Face Turn]]... while standing right in front of the Borad's time-accelerating death ray. It ends about as well as you'd expect.
* [[Was Once a Man]]: The Borad, until a science experiment went wrong.
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]
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