Doctor Who
Mawdryn Undead
By Peter Grimwade
“I, Mawdryn, have
returned. It is time for the awakening.”
The TARDIS is caught in a
warp ellipse and materializes on a starliner that appears to be empty. What they find out that it isn’t as Turlough transmats
to the starliner on orders of The Black Guardian to kill The Doctor. The Doctor and Turlough take the transmat
back to Earth to shut the transmat signal off so the TARDIS will be free to
leave. What happens is that when the
transmat signal is shut off the TARDIS arrives in 1977 and not 1983 where The
Doctor and Turlough are.
When Tegan and Nyssa arrive
in 1977 they find a charred being in the capsule that they believe is The
Doctor. So Tegan decides to head for
Brendon School to get some help. She
runs into an old friend of The Doctor as The Brigadier now teaches math at the
school. The pair head back to the
TARDIS where Nyssa is anxious to leave but when they enter the TARDIS the
person they see looks nothing like The Doctor at all.
Back in 1983 The Doctor
runs into The Brigadier also but for some reason he does not remember who he is.
For some reason he has no recollection of the last six years. Once The Doctor helps The Brigadier regain
his memory they work on trying to get back to the Starliner by the transmat
capsule. With the aid of the homing beacon The Brigadier had from six years ago
The Doctor, Turlough and Brigadier make it back to the Staliner but there is a
problem. Unfortunately the 1977
Brigadier arrived on the Starliner with Mawdryn , Nyssa and Tegan and if they
meet it would be really bad or as Tegan says “ZAP!”
