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* [[Crystal Spires and Togas]]: The Time Lord council are shown wearing the latest Roman fashions.
* [[Crystal Spires and Togas]]: The Time Lord council are shown wearing the latest Roman fashions.
* [[Doomsday Device]]
* [[Doomsday Device]]
* [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]]
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Ashe}}
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Ashe}}
* [[Hive Caste System]]: the Uxarian warriors, priests and leader.
* [[Hive Caste System]]: the Uxarian warriors, priests and leader.
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* [[Knockout Gas]]
* [[Knockout Gas]]
* [[The Master]]
* [[The Master]]
* [[Minion With an F In Evil]]: Caldwell
* [[Minion with an F In Evil]]: Caldwell
* [[The Mole]]
* [[The Mole]]
* [[No Ontological Inertia]]: the ending implies that without the radiation created by the Doomsday Weapon the planet will instantly become fertile.
* [[No Ontological Inertia]]: the ending implies that without the radiation created by the Doomsday Weapon the planet will instantly become fertile.

Revision as of 15:23, 9 April 2014
All colonists are eccentric. That's why they're colonists.
—Captain Dent

The Master is at it again - this time he's stolen the Time Lords' files on The Doomsday Weapon, and they decide to let the Doctor off his leash a bit so that he can go and retrieve the files for them. The Doctor ends up on the desolate planet of Uxaerius, in the year 2472, where a small colony and an orbiting ship from the Intergalactic Mining Corporation are arguing about who owns the planet. Meanwhile the primitive natives are worshipping a strange machine guarded by a fearsome creature.

The Master shows up, posing as an Earth Adjudicator there to decide the fate of the planet. He forces the Doctor to take him to the Primitives' underground city, and it transpires that the strange machine is, inevitably, the Doomsday Weapon itself. Capable of destroying whole planets when activated, even when dormant its radiation has killed most of the race of the machine's guardian, as well as causing the colonists' crops to fail.

The Doctor persuades the last Guardian to destroy the machine rather than let the Master get his hands on it, and the Doctor and Master get away just as it explodes. The Master escapes in his TARDIS while the Doctor is sent back to Earth in his.

Tropes

  • Actor Allusion: the Brigadier tells the Doctor he'd nearly arrested the Spanish ambassador, mistaking him for the Master. The actor who played the Master, Roger Delgado, had previously played Mendoza, the Spanish envoy to the court of Elizabeth I in Sir Francis Drake.
  • BBC Quarry
  • Big Bad Ensemble: Dent is the main villain of the story though the Master is naturally plotting to take over the universe as usual. Although they help each other out in the trial they have conflicting agendas, with the Master even offering to help the colonists.
  • Brick Joke: One of the best in the series.

 Brigadier: Doctor, come back at once.

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