Tag: Classic Doctor Who

The Web of Fear

The TARDIS narrowly escapes being engulfed in a cobwebby substance in space. It arrives in the London Underground, the tunnels of which are being overrun by the web and the Great Intelligence’s robotic Yeti.

The time travellers lean that this crisis was precipitated when Professor Travers, whom they first met in the Himalayas, some thirty years earlier, accidentally caused one of the Yeti to be reactivated, opening the way for the Intelligence to invade again.

The travellers work alongside army forces – led initially by Captain Knight, and then by Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart – as they battle the alien menace, hampered by the fact that one of their number has fallen under the Intelligence’s influence and is a traitor in their midst.

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The Romans

Landing in Rome, A.D. 64, the travellers take a rare holiday. While Ian and Barbara are happy to relax, the Doctor and Vicki set off to pursue adventure.

However, adventure soon finds Ian and Barbara too as they are kidnapped by slave traders, and the Doctor’s imitation of Maximus Pettulian sees him taken to the court of Emperor Nero, where he will play an inadvertent role in deciding the course of history…

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The Curse of Fenric

The TARDIS materalises at a secret naval base off the coast of Northumberland during the Second World War. Dr Judson, a scientist there, has created the Ultima Machine, an early computer designed to break German codes. But Judson also has a much more sinister use for the machine. He plans to translate the ancient runes in a crypt of the nearby St Jude’s Church, which will release Fenric, an evil entity from the dawn of time whom the Doctor trapped seventeen centuries earlier.

As Fenric’s Haemovores attack, the Doctor must once again face the entity in a battle which will reveal devastating truths for Ace…

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