The Dominators

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The Dominators, self-acclaimed masters of the ten galaxies, and their deadly robots the Quarks, arrive on the planet Dulkis with cruel and evil intentions as the Doctor and his friends touch down for a peaceful holiday. Life is about to change dramatically for the pacifist Dulcians who, with no weapons on their planet, soon become enslaved to the Dominators. The fight is on! The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe join a handful of determined Dulcians bent on outwitting the Quarks and struggling to escape the violent brutality of the Dominators. But the whole planet is doomed to become a mass of radioactive material - fuel for the enemy's invasion fleet whose war mission will spread even to Earth unless the Doctor can devise an infallible plan.

The Mind Robber

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The TARDIS is in the path of molten lava and the Doctor is forced to activate the emergency unit to move it . . . out of the time space dimension and out of reality! When the TARDIS crew land "nowhere" they stumble into a world where fiction appears as reality and where things exist only when men believe in them. It is a world peopled by White Robots and a race of fictional characters and monsters, by Gulliver and Rapunzel, by D'Artagnan and Sir Lancelot, and worse, by the Unicorn, the Minotaur and the Medusa. As they explore the forest of words and the maze in this Land of Fiction, new horrors await the Doctor and his companions around each corner . . . will Zoe and Jamie be turned into fictional characters? . . . Is the Doctor at the mercy of a higher intelligence or force outside of time and space as he knows it? Can he outwit the brain that is the source of this terrifying creative power?

The Invasion

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When the Doctor, Zoe and Jamie investigate the mysterious disappearance of an eminent scientist, their search takes them to International Electromatics, a powerful firm run by the sinister Tobias Vaughn. Under surveillance by the Brigadier's top secret United Nations Intelligence Task Force (UNIT), it soon becomes apparent that there is more to Vaughn's activities than meets the eye. Just who ware his mysterious allies? What is lurking down the sewers of London? Is the Doctor ready to face an old enemy once more?

The Krotons

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As the TARDIS door opens onto a barren planet, the Doctor steps straight into a struggle to destroy the merciless Krotons, the unseen rulers of the Gond people. Conditioned to obey by teaching machines, the Gonds put up no resistance until, with the Doctor's help, they discover exactly what has been happening to their best students.

Battling against the Kroton's vast scientific knowledge, the Doctor and Zoe must stop them turning mental power into pure energy. With a brave band of Gonds and Jamie prepared to fight to the end, it may be defeat for the Krotons, but ultimately it will be a test of knowledge that only Doctor Who can match...

Review [***]
I like this story. I really do! The reasons are two: The story is well written and rather intriguing, featuring the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe on the planet Gond, where they come upon a strange test where the brightest of the planets inhabitants, the Gonds, enter a strange machine to be one with its masters, The Krotons. Of course, the Doctor soon realises that the Krotons are absorbing the mental powers of the Gonds, killing them in the process.

Reason number two is that although the Krotons look stupid, their voices are great, making them efficient villains. Of course, there are things about this story that aren't so good. The budget must have been smaller than usual, making for some truly pitiful scenes. And, as mentioned above, the Krotons looks like egg cartons.

The regulars perform well as usual. But the rest of the cast? Well, some are ok, some are not, though it's nothing that is truly as annoying as that shot of the gond city where you can clearly see it's a bunch of pebbles in sand. Overall, a good story that has been let down by a meager budget.

Reviewed by: Blor

The Seeds of Death

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Its is now the 21st Century and Earth is completely dependent on "T-Mat," a revolutionary form of instant travel. When the system breaks down, Doctor Who (Patrick Troughton) leads a dangerous expedition to the T-Mat relay station on the moon. There he finds that the relay station has fallen into the hands of the Ice Warriors who are planning an invasion of Earth! The Ice Warriors use T-mat to transport seed pods to Earth. When the pods burst, they disgorge a deadly Martian fungus which spreads rapidly, extracting vital oxygen from the atmosphere. The only hope for a dying world is for the Doctor somehow to outwit the Ice Warriors and destroy the fungus before it’s too late.

The Space Pirates

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The TARDIS and the travellers become separated when they land in a space beacon, and an eccentric old miner is their only means of help. The international Space Corps are on his trail, wrongly believing Milo Clancey to have stolen one of the beacons. The Doctor has to travel to the planet Ta, where the true culprits, the Space Pirates led by the murderous Caven.

The War Games

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Inheriting the mantle of Doctor Who from William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton confronted some of the Doctor's deadliest enemies in the galaxy, but for his last action-packed adventure he returns to Earth in the midst of time zones crossing wars in mankind's history. Going out in a blaze of glory, Troughton faces capture not by Yeti or Cybermen or Ice Warriors, but by his own people . . . the omnipotent Time Lords!

When the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrive on Earth they find themselves caught up in the terrifying events of World War I, but new and unexpected horrors await them as they cross landscapes full of enemies and time zones confounded by centuries of wars. At the center of the mystery stand the aliens who have captured soldiers from different periods of Earth's history and brainwashed them into fighting each other. When the Doctor learns the terrible purpose of the War Games he has one chance to defeat the aliens and end the Games . . . but to take it means risking recapture by his own people, the all powerful Time Lords who are waiting to bring him to trial and who are capable of ending his very existence...