The Master, a renegade Time Lord and a rival of the Doctor’s, arrives on Earth and paves the way for an invasion by the insidious Nestene Consciousness.
- Drama
- Year 1971
- 24 min
The Third Doctor: Jon Pertwee Bursting into colour, Doctor Who underwent a dramatic makeover when Jon Pertwee’s debonair dandy arrived, exiled to Earth for four years of action-packed, moralistic adventures.
- Year: 1971
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E1 • Terror of the Autons: Episode 1
The Master, a renegade Time Lord and a rival of the Doctor’s, arrives on Earth and paves the way for an invasion by the insidious Nestene Consciousness.
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E2 • Terror of the Autons: Episode 2
The Doctor follows the Master’s trail to the circus. Meanwhile, the Master has used his hypnotic powers to take control of a plastics factory where he creates the deadly Autons.
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E3 • Terror of the Autons: Episode 3
The Doctor and the Brigadier trace the Master to the plastics factory but they are too late. The only clue to the Master’s plans is a single plastic daffodil.
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E4 • Terror of the Autons: Episode 4
The Doctor and UNIT race to prevent the Master from broadcasting the deadly activation signal and opening the channel for the Nestene’s arrival on Earth.
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E5 • The Mind of Evil: Episode 1
At Stangmoor Prison, the Doctor and Jo watch a demonstration of the Keller Machine which can extract evil impulses from criminals. But the experiment goes wrong and a man dies.
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E6 • The Mind of Evil: Episode 2
A full scale riot takes place at the Prison and Jo is taken hostage. Meanwhile, at the World Peace conference, the Chinese delegate’s aid prepares to kill the American delegate.
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E7 • The Mind of Evil: Episode 3
The Master is behind the Keller Machine and uses it to recruit the rioting inmates at Stangmoor Prison. He plans to capture a missile and fire it at the World Peace Conference.
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E8 • The Mind of Evil: Episode 4
The mind parasite within the Keller Machine becomes too powerful for the Master to control. It learns how to move of its own accord and goes on the hunt for new minds.
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E9 • The Mind of Evil: Episode 5
The Master forms an uneasy alliance with the Doctor so that between them they can subdue the Keller Machine which is now out of control.
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E10 • The Mind of Evil: Episode 6
The Keller Machine breaks free of the Doctor’s restraining device and the Doctor has no choice but to turn the parasite against the Master.
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E11 • The Claws of Axos: Episode 1
Axos lands on Earth. The Axons ask only to be allowed to repair their damaged ship and offer the gift of the miraculous Axonite in return. But the Axons aren’t all that they seem.
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E12 • The Claws of Axos: Episode 2
The Master is in league with the Axons who intend to consume the Earth. The Doctor subjects Axonite to tests and discovers the terrible truth.
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E13 • The Claws of Axos: Episode 3
The Axons reveal their true nature and attempt to obtain the secret of time travel. Meanwhile, the Master, forced to work for UNIT, concocts a plan to strike back at Axos.
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E14 • The Claws of Axos: Episode 4
With Axos poised to destroy the world, the Doctor appears to switch sides and allies himself with the Master. Together they plan to escape the Earth, leaving it to Axos.
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E15 • Colony in Space: Episode 1
The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Jo to a barren world in the far future where human colonists are scratching a living. But at night, the colonists are menaced by a monster.
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E16 • Colony in Space: Episode 2
The Interplanetary Mining Corporation, represented by Captain Dent, arrives on the planet claiming that the colonists have no right to be there.
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E17 • Colony in Space: Episode 3
When Jo attempts to break into the IMC ship to find incriminating information, she is captured and held hostage. If the Doctor doesn’t cooperate, Captain Dent will have Jo killed.
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E18 • Colony in Space: Episode 4
The Master arrives, posing as an adjudicator from Earth who has come to settle the dispute between the colonists and the miners. However, the Master has an agenda of his own.
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E19 • Colony in Space: Episode 5
With Jo held prisoner in his TARDIS, the Master forces the Doctor to take him to the underground city of the primitives. Any sign of treachery from the Doctor and Jo will die.
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E20 • Colony in Space: Episode 6
In the underground city, the Doctor and the Master confront the guardian of the doomsday weapon. The miners make their last move to force the colonists to leave the planet.
