Showing posts with label The Visitation. Show all posts
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Monday, May 6, 2013

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: The Visitation





Doctor Who 
The Visitation 
By Eric Saward

“Call yourself a Time Lord? A broken clock keeps better time than you do. At least it's accurate twice a day, which is more than you ever are.”

Trying to get Tegan home The Doctor misses Heathrow Airport by a mere 300 years.  As you can imagine Tegan is not very happy by this and storms out of the TARDIS.  While there they discover that there is something alien going on.  It seems a ship carrying a group of Terileptils has crashed landed on Earth.  Seizing their chance to use the villagers fear against them the Terileptils disguise their robot as death.  A pretty good tactic and very effective considering all the superstition of the time but this ruse is quickly deduced by The Doctor. 
  
It appears the Terileptils want Earth for themselves and have been developing a poison that will wipe out everyone on Earth.  This act will allow them to take over Earth and make it their own planet.   The Doctor realizes the nearest town is London which coincidentally is already being terrorized by the plague.  The Doctor must free Tegan and Richard Mace from the Terileptils controls and then hunt down the Terileptils in London.  Of course they have to wait for Nyssa to get rid of a certain robot that seems to relish its role as the grim reaper.