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Doctor Who Season Four

The Smugglers

  • Episodes: 4 Episodes
  • Doctor: 1st Doctor
  • Companions: Ben, Polly
  • Aliens/Monsters: N/A
  • Setting: Earth

The Smugglers Synopsis

The TARDIS lands on the seveneenth century Cornish coast, and its crew stumble upon a plot by the local Squire to receive and offload contraband goods. The Doctor meets the churchwarden, whose last words to him concern the whereabouts of hidden treasure. When pirate captain Samuel Pike learns of this, he kidnaps the Doctor and demands to be given the cryptic clue…

The Tenth Planet

  • Episodes: 4 Episodes
  • Doctor: 1st Doctor
  • Companions: Ben, Polly
  • Aliens/Monsters: Cybermen
  • Setting: Earth

The Tenth Planet Synopsis

The TARDIS brings the Doctor and his friends to a space tracking base in the Antarctic – and straight into trouble. A space mission is going badly wrong, and a new planet has appeared in the sky. Mondas, ancient fabled twin planet of Earth has returned. Soon its inhabitants arrive. But while they used to be just like the humans of Earth, now they are very different. Devoid of emotions, their bodies replaced with plastic and steel, the Cybermen are here.

Humanity needs all the help it can get, but the one man who seems to know what’s going on is terminally ill. As the Cybermen take over, the Doctor is dying…

The Power of the Daleks

  • Episodes: 6 Episodes
  • Doctor: 2nd Doctor
  • Companions: Ben, Polly
  • Aliens/Monsters: Daleks
  • Setting: Vulcan

The Power of the Daleks Synopsis

Landing on the planet Vulcan in 2020AD the Doctor, Polly and Ben are horrified to find two inanimate Daleks. They are even more alarmed when they discover that the colonists plan to reactivate the Daleks and use them as their slaves.

The Highlanders

  • Episodes: 4 Episodes
  • Doctor: 2nd Doctor
  • Companions: Ben, Polly, Jamie
  • Aliens/Monsters: N/A
  • Setting: Earth

The Highlanders Synopsis

Scotland, 1745. The Doctor, Ben and Polly arrive in Scotland after the Battle of Culloden and meet a band of Highlanders who are fleeing in defeat. Their Laird is injured and the three offer to help tend his injuries. Polly and Kirsty McLaren, the Laird’s daughter go to fetch some water but whilst they are gone the others are captured by Redcoat troops.

Things become worse when the group is taken again … this time by the crooked Solicitor Grey, who is part of the West Indian slave trade. The prisoners, Ben amongst them, are bundled on board the Annabelle where the wicked Captain Trask issues dire threats of drowning. Meanwhile the Doctor is on dry land confusing all and sundry in a variety of disguises. However, his bumbling manner hides a sharp brain and eventually he, Polly and Ben are reunited in the TARDIS together with young piper Jamie McCrimmon.

The Underwater Menace

  • Episodes: 4 Episodes
  • Doctor: 2nd Doctor
  • Companions: Ben, Polly, Jamie
  • Aliens/Monsters: N/A
  • Setting: Earth

The Underwater Menace Synopsis

The TARDIS arrives on an extinct volcanic island, beneath which lies a fantastic subterranean world inhabited by the primitive Atlanteans. The Doctor and his companions move from the frying pan to fire when they are rescued, from death at the jaws of hungry sharks, by the mad Professor Zaroff – whose plans involve nothing less than the destruction of the whole world.

The Moonbase

  • Episodes: 4 Episodes
  • Doctor: 2nd Doctor
  • Companions: Ben, Polly, Jamie
  • Aliens/Monsters: Cybermen
  • Setting: The Moon

The Moonbase Synopsis

The year is 2070, and Earth’s weather is controlled by a device called the Gravitron, based on the Moon and manned by an international team of experts. The TARDIS arrives to find the base in the grip of a plague epidemic which is drastically reducing the personnel. Before long an even greater menace is proved to be responsible – an invasion force from the planet Mondas, home of the Cybermen…

The Macra Terror

  • Episodes: 4 Episodes
  • Doctor: 2nd Doctor
  • Companions: Ben, Polly, Jamie
  • Aliens/Monsters: Macra
  • Setting: N/A

The Macra Terror Synopsis

The Doctor, Polly and Ben visit a human colony that appears to be one big holiday camp. They soon discover, though, that its inhabitants have been brainwashed by the Macra, giant crab-like creatures who have taken over the colony. The humans are being forced to mine a gas that is essential for the Macra to survive – but fatal to them.

The Faceless Ones

  • Episodes: 6 Episodes
  • Doctor: 2nd Doctor
  • Companions: Ben, Polly, Jamie
  • Aliens/Monsters: Chameleons
  • Setting: Earth

The Faceless Ones Synopsis

The TARDIS makes a hazardous return to contemporary Earth – materialising at Gatwick Airport in the path of an oncoming aeroplane! The travellers split up in order to evade airport security, but in doing so they become embroiled in a plot to steal the personalities of young human beings.

The Chameleons: faceless aliens who have lost their very identities following a disaster on their home world. Now they have infiltrated the airport, setting up the bogus Chameleon Tours in order to kidnap passengers and take over their very identities. As the Doctor and his companions become mixed up in the alien machinations, it soon becomes difficult for them to distinguish friends from enemies…

The Evil of the Daleks

  • Episodes: 7 Episodes
  • Doctor: 2nd Doctor
  • Companions: Jamie, Victoria
  • Aliens/Monsters: Daleks
  • Setting: Skaro, Earth

The Evil of the Daleks Synopsis

The TARDIS has been stolen from Gatwick Airport, and the Doctor and Jamie are hot on its trail. A series of cryptic clues lead them to an antiques shop owned by Edward Waterfield, and there it becomes clear that an elaborate trap has been laid for them – but by whom, and for what purpose? Only a journey back in time to the 1860s will reveal the answer…

The Daleks are in search of the Human Factor, something which they believe will help their quest for universal domination. In order to achieve their aim they need the Doctor’s help – and the use of his TARDIS.