The 10th Doctor tells Rose they have landed on the planet Shantella Prime. Rose looks out the open doors and a car passes by and water gets splashed up at her. She wonders why things like that still happen to him after operating the TARDIS as long as he told her he has. He claims to know every button and switch on the console. She asks him what one does and he presses it. It is a wraparound hologram switch and the salesbrochure said the would be transported to a million destinations. Another switch and they are entered into a galactic lotto drawing as viewed on the scanner. The Doctor loses. Rose hits a switch and they shrink. The Doctor's swapped a stereo for a micromodulator switch. They have to get back up to it or remain tiny forever. The Doctor can't recall if he saw it advertised in Intergalactic House Doctor or De Junk Your Tardis. It is for storage. Rose admits to the Doctor she won a medal once for gymnastics. They get up on the console. Rose slips on machine oil and falls off the console. The oil spilled earlier when the Doctor oiled the gravity gauge. He tosses Rose a wie. Inside the console, the Doctor gets caught in a cobweb. Rose avoids hot switches inside the console but gets outside and pushes the switch back and they grow to their normal size.

Time Placement: Rose is wearing her outfit from New Earth, and the Doctor uses the in-flight stereo in Tooth and Claw, suggesting he has had time to move switches around.

Indonesia in 1883, the Doctor and Rose are tied to stakes by peaceful people. Who don't like outsiders much. The Doctor wanted to show Rose some fireworks. A native asks if they come to steal their land or defile the mountain like the men of flame. The Doctor throws a smoke bomb to knock the natives away and he and Rose get free. The Doctor tells Rose he learned how to get out of knots from a bloke called Baden Powell about twenty years from now! They venture behind a waterfall to find the men of flame. Bright orange, horns, ridgey things on backs: Chalderans, silicone based with a high body temperature. The pair are captured and hung upside down inside the volcano. Miners, these aliens steal lava from volcanos and leave the planet totally dead. They are idiots and usually mess up. He winds the aliens up and they argue. Set on auto, the sonic screwdriver gets Rose and the Doctor free. A giant drilling machine drills while Rose and the Doctor are chased. Cold water, extreme heat and stupidity can kill these aliens. The ones chasing the pair are killed under the waterfall. It is nearly time for a loud bang! Everything starts to shake.

The Doctor gave coordinates to the Chalderans to go into the heart of Krakatoa, which erupts. He and Rose are in the TARDIS when it blows up. The Doctor now wants to go see the mating dance. The Doctor now wants to go see the mating dance of the fire dragons of Ket-El or maybe a supernova near Deneb Three. Rose suggests just breaking out a couple of sparklers.

Rose and the Doctor are on an empty space station this side of Jupiter, where it is supposed to be as busy as Copacabana Beach on Free Ice Cream Day. Only it's empty. Disinfectodroids are chasing them. The Doctor looks for his sonic screwdriver in his pockets and does a check of what else is in there: apple core, used bus tickets, breath freshners, Belgian Phrasebook, bits of jigsaw and a piece of sky...hairy lollipop, a glove, water pistol, cuddly toy. The robots disinfect all that he threw out. Rose calls him rubbish but he says, "No, I'm fantastic." It was his plan to distract them. They run a four minute mile around the station and Rose asks the Doctor if he wants a medal but he's already got one. Near as I can figure, the Doctor calls the TARDIS junk and hangs around it until the robots disinfect it and drag it through some machine. The robots do not kill people but all known germs as the mites and alien bacteria on the TARDIS. A space plague arrived made them quarantine the station. The Doctor thinks the robots may be corrupted by the virus. They vacum up the Doctor and Rose.

The pair end up in a junk yard on another planet. The rubbish is teleported. They find the people from the service station and giant four armed green aliens. The aliens are natives of a planet groaning under human garbage that has been sent here. From the base around Jupiter's Moons the robots plan to strike out and clean all, including Earth and the rest of the solar system. The Doctor uses the TARDIS to bring back the people and the spear chucking aliens (explosive spears are used by them) to stop the robots. He also suggested to the service staff that they reprogram any surviving robots to the Dumping Planet so the robots can send the trash back to where the robots were made: Acme Cleaning Industries, New Brentford, Earth. That oughta change their corporate policy. All bad guys battered, all rights wrong, the Doctor tells Rose to call him the original vacum cleaner.

The TARDIS vending machine is all out of chocolate so the Doctor takes Rose to Belgium to get some from a bloke called Willie. WW1 is going on and German privates Gunttner and Voss find them. Capt. Rotmund orders them shot but they refer to angels telling the Captain that these strangers might know about the angels. It is 1914 and the Doctor recounts superstition about angels taking the dead to heaven. The Doctor has a compass which doesn't work right because a disturbance in the atmospheric field caused by a giant alien camera! Half a billion light years away, an alien teacher shows his alien class the war field. Warfreek Emeritus and Student BZ are among those watching. It is a level 3A Post Mechanical Pre Nuclear Case Study. The Doctor tells Rose these warfreekz are connoisseurs of carnage and think of war as art and specialize in conflict management, engineering perfect slaughter. They are far out from their home turf. The captain orders the two men to shoot the device but it zaps the young one, Erich. Not far away, British forces detect the sounds of Rose and the scream of the young man and move toward them, with orders to fix bayonets. The aliens watching await a mindless slaughter.

As the Captain oders Voss to ready to shoot, The Doctor uses the sonic screwdriver to destroy the alien device and gives it to Rose, who uses it to illuminate herself to the British and act as an angel. Despite Rose's message of love and protection, the British men think she is the angel of death and run. The Doctor tells the aliens via their reprogrammed device that war is not safe for anyone and to prove it he uses a feedback pulse to make the aliens ears hurt. The Doctor tells Rotmund that Paul and the recovered Erich should get commendations and if they do not the angel of death will haunt him. Paul gives Rose a token of thanks...his chocolate ration. The Doctor says, "Sweet."

NOTE: This strip features Destrii from the DWM comic strips.

Rose and the Doctor are in scuba suits and air masks underwater. TARDIS sits underwater. They are inside an alien's body but an larger alien infection thing is attached to the heart and feeding off the chamber wall. The Doctor and Rose chop at the tubes it has and kick start the immune system, white corpusles come which attack them instead! The Doctor can only think of one way out of this and Rose tells him that's one more than she can. He asks her if she trusts him and she asks, "Are we talking about saving our lives or picking me out a decent pair of shoes?" The Doctor tells Rose he's seen her shoe collection and wouldn't have time to get through it even with the TARDIS. The Doctor's plan: let this thing eat them! They swim inside the creature's mouth. Once inside, the creature blows up!

In an alien lab, the foreign infection comes out and blue skinned alien female docctors and nurses tend to Queen Svelna. They also extract the TARDIS. The aliens discuss either the TARDIS or the infection saying, "It's almost Svelnoid and sentient." The Queen thanks Rose and the Doctor who seem to emerge from the TARDIS. Her surgeons thought this illness incurable. The Doctor knows this Queen is the only one smart enough to sign the intergalactic peace treaty and make it work and head of a couple of centuries of pointless war. The Queen remarks about his flattery. She asks for a royal consort, someone to rule by her side--him! Someone with an elegance of dress and demeanor. Rose mentions he is so in there. The Doctor tells her he is not the marrying kind and that he has to look after "this one", meaning Rose. She can't even pick out a decent pair of shoes without him. On their way back into the TARDIS, Rose asks if she is not his type. He thinks the size thing would be a bit of an issue but they could have worked that out. He says trouble is that although Svelnans are great diplomats and peaceful people, they are terrible cheats at Tiddly winks. He can't stand that.

Rose holds an alien Palanth while in the village of Galathos aliens with tattoos which are the warning of the gods' curse, tell a sad story of one of their daughter's dying, stricken by the gods' sickwind. The tattoos warn when the sickwind is coming. When the marks come they have seven suns to find and slay the Dramos to revel in its tears and dance in its healing blood. Rose promises to do what they can but the Doctor tells the aliens that he will investigate in the morning. The aliens give Rose the palanth. The Doctor prefers a nice big licky dog, a nice robot dog. Rose and the Doctor hack their way through an alien jungle, ride a wave, and find a cave. The Galathos gave them the impression it would be easy. The Doctor thinks the aliens are wrong about a lot of things. He also reminds Rose about the time on Praxos 9 when she wanted to take the escalator...and if they did that, they would not have had to fight off the luminous sucker crabs. Rose thinks the Palanth is sick. The Doctor thought that Rose might like the exercise so that is why they didn't use the TARDIS. The Doctor mentions the Dramos might be a she and Rose believes it might cure the Palanth. The giant blue monster Dramos seems to rush them, in what Rose first thought was an earthquake. It tries to tell them something is wrong. The Doctor tells Rose he is going to let go and to trust him.

Without the blood of the Dramos, the Galathos say they will die. The Doctor will not permit it--the Dramos has eggs ready to hatch and wonders why it is being killed. Every time the sickwind comes, one of the creatures ends up dead. Dramos cries and near the Palanth. The Palanth gets better, the mark of the sickwind vanishes from it. The mark on the aliens is not a mark of the gods' curse--it is an airborne virus, like the flu, only worse. The Doctor tells them this as he rides back on the Dramos with Rose and the Palanth. The Dramos is full of natural anti biotics but not in her blood, in her tears. The aliens have been killing her people for nothing. They just need to make her cry, which Rose thinks they will be good at. She also asks what is that all about dancing in her blood, not very hygienic. One of the aliens tells the Dramos a sad story and makes the Dramos cry. "I love a story with a happy ending," the Doctor says and asks where to now. Rose wants to go someplace a bit more cheerful. He asks, "How about the world of the jolly monkeys?" Rose thinks he is winding her up. He goes on, "Thing is-- the monkeys are two hundred metres high and radioactive. Very jolly though, you know, considering..."

The 10th Doctor and Rose arrive on Earth in present day, tracing a freaky alien energy source. Rose detects cips at Terry's Cafe. She figures the Doctor's skinny legs need filling up. He tells her she sounds like her mother. The Doctor thinks they should be right ontop of the alien energy pulse. A man is scarfing down food: what the waitress calls Terry's Special Breakfast: Full Fried Death. The man explodes. Under him is a Gastronaut, something Rose thought the Doctor had not seen before but he has. They have one body growing inside another like Russian dolls. They exist only to feed the next version of themselves. The alien likes the fats and complex carbohydrates. He's told friends who arrive in flying saucers. Once established, these aliens can pick a planet clean. A telepod arrival of more aliens almost knocks them over, the latest thing in teleport tech. Alien Gastronaut Rammzi, a TV chef arrives, he owns thousands of resturants, a female alien tells the Doctor. He has a temper and it is said that he once filleted a washer upper who left a slightly dirty pan. Rammzi gives Terry, the cook and owner glitter bird guano which honks and is rare as currency and would make him rich. Ram makes his Chopbots restrain Terry when Terry turns him down. Ram hopes to make a galaxy wide chain of Terry's even if he has to extract Terry's secrets from his living brain. Another Gastronaut claims that Pukka Olifa of Geeza 7 had a lower IQ than his own vegetable course once Ram's chopbots finished with him. Rose throws liquid at Ram and claims her mum Jackie Tyler can make a better fry up and doesn't burn sausages. Ram send his bots after Rose and soon he will go after her mother too!

The Doctor uses ketchup and a joke to blind the visual sensors of the Chopbots. Terry beans Ram's head with a pan. The Doctor tells another Gastronaut that Heston Bleston at the Fat Buck, Quadrant 92, first left after the Horse Head Nebula has great food. Word of mouth makes the aliens leave Terry's. The waitress runs away, telling Terry she wants to get a nice safe job and not work in a place full of monsters. Rammzi fiddles with his telepod, trying to get away. The Doctor does something with his sonic screwdriver--disables the telepod. Later in the TARDIS, the Doctor tells Rose he sent a message to Ram's people, they will get it in a couple of hundred years. In the meantime, Ram is the new help in Terry's! He is moping up the floors! Terry puts him on the job of cleaning the toilets next!

Rose comments that the Doctor should put a sign "Reserved Parking TARDIS only" in the spot at the Powell Estate. The Doctor comments she does like that spot. It is 3 months early for winter and yet everything is cold and no one can be found, not even Jackie. A date with Rose's mum is the scariest thing the Doctor says he's ever faced. The Doctor chases a man named Jason Harris who lives upstairs. The ice in the rooms including Jackie's flat is not ice, it's alien. Jason tells him the aliens must have heard the vibrations and that the Doctor doesn't know what they can do to him. The Doctor says, "They don't know what I can do to them." Everyone is on the top of the building. The aliens came four days ago. Ice like aliens come and touch Jason and seem to freeze him. They run but face a bigger creature.

They go back into the building and see the estate redecorated in the alien ice. The sonic screwdriver batteries are exhausted. Rose asks him if he's kidding her. It runs on batteries. The creature attacks and touches Rose and freezes her. The thing says they have always been here and need the cold to freeze themselves into existence. They would not survive another heat time. The Doctor calls it global warming. The Doctor frees Rose despite them threatening her life. They run and find a weather machine and the switch it off. The people are freed. The Doctor tells the aliens, "If you can't stand the heat, get off the planet!" The aliens seem to die. The Doctor says, "Le'ts go. Planets to visit, more mums to save." Rose wants to check on her mom, and says just a quick catch up, she promises. The Doctor sees it raining, "Is it supposed to be raining? Just good old English weather returning to normal. You know I'm really glad I chose this coat."

Rose runs out of the TARDIS toward a Safari Park named Wumba's World of Wild, thinking it a park on Earth. The Doctor's glad it doesn't have Meerkats. Rose asks what he has against them and he tells her he knows what they are planning. Seemingly human children and teens are wearing human masks: they are really aliens and this is really an alien planet. A mother alien keeps her darlings back, afraid they might catch something and another alien calls for keepers, thinking the humans have escaped. Green keepers with red eye pieces fire darts into the Doctor and Rose. A father alien tells his son that the humans don't feel pain like they do. The Doctor and Rose wake up in a display with other humans, who are dressed in loin cloths as cavepeople. These include Steve, team leader; Phoeboe, welfare secretary; Adam, arts and recreation. They are colonists from the third wave out from Earth. The Doctor estimates this is the 41st century. Steve tells them they had a colony townstead, coffee bars, water, mod cons, power..then the aliens came. The aliens put them on a reservation behind a mile high fence and in a fake prehistoric age and stonehenge, all plastic. The Doctor sees Rose's ankle tag is 50105 and wonders what happened to the other people--all fifty thousand. An alien tour group comes by and the tour guide tells the aliens inside that human sounds are meaningless to them but they must have a basic evolved language. Steve recommends to the others to show their bum...they might get treats thrown to them if they show their bums. A loud alarm sounds and the Doctor thinks it is feeding time...not for them...dinosaurs rampage at them...Rex's, long nosed dinos, and flying dinos and alien dinos. Rose mentions the bad breath on the Brontosaurus leading the Doctor to believe this Bronto is a meat eater and should not be. He thinks they have been genetically altered to eat anything that moves. The Doctor tells Rose to scarper and an orange dino is about to eat him, knocking him down. He calls it Gumbo. Rose yells, "Doctor!"

The Doctor reaches into the dino's nasal cavity and tickles it to make it sneeze. The Doctor grabs Rose's hand and jumps into the hover bus. The tour guide grabs a hiding kid and notices that the Doctor speaks their alien language...TARDIS. The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to remove the robotic steering and gets infront of the giant alien dinos and says, in reptile, "Follow me for pizza." "That's dinosaurs for you. Brains the size of a pea, mad for napoli sauce..." Proper food has been denied these creatures. The hover bus withstands the dino attack so the Doctor crashes the gates. The dinos get free and the aliens evacuate the compound. Steve thanks the Doctor for his offer of a ride off world but he and his humans decide to stay...we only see Steve and one other, the male called Adam. Even though the planet is crawling with Dinosaurs they want to make a go of it here. They think there is nowhere else like it, a beautiful planet. Hanging out of the TARDIS door, the Doctor hands them a card, "If ou change your minds, then use this card. It's for a firm of telepathic taxis...just think 0707 get me out of here...they'll find you in the end." Steve walks off with his hand on Adam's arm, "The future, Adam?" Adam says, "The future, Steve." They walk off into the sunset.

London, 1897: Inspector Lestrade thanks the Doctor and Rose for stopping the evil Prof. Janus, a man who seems to have two faces (?). If he had been married this morning, the case of the unsuitable suitor might never have been closed. He will tell Queen Victoria about their help but the Doctor wants him to cover it up. He suggests a false name and the Rose says Sherlock. The Doctor and Rose get into a horse drawn cab, he wants to go to Waterloo, catch the boat train to Paris, and maybe a night at the Moulin Rouge. She tells him he can be the Duke de Tardis and she will be Nicole Kidman. Giant vampire bats are attacking. Mad adventure ahead, Rose asks and the Doctor confirms. The Doctor instructs the cabbie to go to a building the bats are circling over, Rose tells him to keep the meter running, they'll be back...it might be 1952 but they will be back. Rose attacks what looks like a vampire attacking a girl but it is really a play. She references Fearless Vampire Killers. The Royal Lyceum Theatre, May 18th, quarter past ten will put on the first stage presentation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. This is a reading of it or something. Bram is there, asking them not to interrupt the reading of his latest novel Dracula. It wil be published next Monday. Bram manages the stage for his friend Mr. Irving. Rose tells Bram that she's seen things that would curl his beard. Bram's wife Florence comes running. Dracula has arrived and is in the theatre. It is Frederick Von Dracula, Count of Wallachia, Great great great great grandson of Vlad Tepes. He calls lawyers the real bloodsuckers. He points a crossbow at Bram. Florence turns into a monster and stops the bow as it is fired. She summons the bats to take Dracula back to Transylvania. 20 years ago a man she loved made her like this. She must vampirize everyone in the theatre. They use kittens to nourish her. The Doctor tells Rose vampirism is more common than she thinks and asks her if an old lady never went out that lived near her and kept too many cats. It is an alien disease in all its forms. If they destroy the vampire that did this to her then she will be cured. The man that did this to her is named Oscar Wilde. Oscar is in jail now. The Doctor vows to break into prison, cure Oscar, and save the kittens!

1897 in Reading Gaol by Reading Town is Prisoner C.3.3. The Doctor followed and carried by bats lands on the window of Oscar Wilde's cell! He explains that 20 years ago Oscar loved Florence, the vampire woman. The bats cannot carry Oscar's weight and the TARDIS cannot fit in the cell. If they can get back to it, the Doctor might be able to cure Oscar. Rose and Florence use the psychic paper to pose as inspectors of prisons bearing the seal of her majesty. As they tour the jail, they hear a kid who has concern for his unwell brother. The kids were caught snaring three rabbits: their crime. As Florence tries to distract the guards and the main warden, they turn on vampire faces! They are vampires! Oscar tells the Doctor, as they break out of the cell, that at Oxford at a séance party, a shining creature entered and killed his fellows but wounded only him with wounds of love. The Doctor thinks she was an alien probe sailing thought waves, an explorer drawn to the séance. It filled its tanks with his friends' blood and made him a beason. They see the prison doctor who did experiments on Oscar in the past. They go to hide in his surgery and find him -- a vampire about to turn Rose into one, too! Shee could use a distraction of her own. These extracted the vampire virus from Oscar to make themselves vampires. The Doctor tells Oscar to stop them by being butch. Oscar commands them to stop. Their plan was to take the virus and distribute it…which they seem to have already done. Batch 272. The Doctor thinks there could be vampire colonies all over Great Britain. The Doctor wishes he had a nano filtration system with pathogen splicing to make a smart anti virus but he does not so he drinks it! Every Time Lord was immunized…they have anti vampire serum along with the MMR. His body uses antigens to defuse the virus. He spews it out and makes everyone normal again by burping. Now he orders Oscar and Florence to burp to save the world, the virus will spread out and cure any vampire. The next day, Bram and Florence take on the two orphan boys for them to live with them. Oscar will exile to Paris. The Doctor quotes Oscar to Oscar, twice!

TARDIS escapes Speardriods who shot spears into it, nearly killing Rose. As the Doctor and Rose remove spears from the TARDIS riggings, Rose wonders why there is always trouble wherever and whenever they land. She wonders if the TARDIS is cursed. The Doctor reminds her of last Thursday when they landed in the Quiet Zone of the Planet Ssshhh. Rose adds shortly before it got invaded by space banshees. The Doctor counters the day after they were on the Meditation Centre on Karma Major; Rose counters it was when the Psychotrons possessed the Head Yogi. The Doctor shows her the randomizer and he plugs it into the console. At galactic coordinates 13:13:13:13:13:13 on the 13th Moon of the 13th planet of the 13th galaxy on the 13th day of the 13th year of the 13th Century: Rose reckons it is on a Friday. Amid rain, a lightning blast hits the TARDIS and it is gone. 11 robed aliens come to them and tell them they are the unluckiest beings in all creation. The one chatting to them is Father Tragedy of the Triskaidekaphobes. Fear of 13. Sisters Misery and Misfortune died in a gardening accident earlier that day. Brother Anguish brings cowls of gloom for Rose and the Doctor to replace the two sisters. The Father tells the Doctor they have been here on the moon for as long as they can remember, alone except for black cats that cross their paths. Cats attack Brother Melanholy. The Doctor recites unlucky 13: witches' coverns and Satan was the 13th angel; Judas the 13th round of the supper table; office blocks skip the 13th floor; Apollo 13 launched at 13:13. He asks her if she wants a banana. A lawn mower on the meadow of Moroseness has cut some of the grass. The Doctor find a four leafed clover. The Doctor notes the one rain cloud in the sky has been following them. He flips a coin and Rose picks heads and wins. Lightning hits near another brother. A lightning monster attacks Rose!

It is really a matter transporter and it whisks Rose and the Doctor to a spaceship at the heart of the cloud. Alien blue man Bob Kreesus tells them he is right. The Doctor's coin is a quantum powered one that changes its up surface to the least likely outcome. They are harvesting luck. Below are 13 unlucky clones kept in an optimally unfortunate environment. Converting their bad vibes into positive psychical energy by a computer on board. It makes those above -- Bob -- lucky on horses and galactic lottery to keep him in luxuury forever. If anything lucky happens to those below, Bob zaps them. Misery and Misfortune are on the ship with Bob, swimming. The Doctor tells Bob that's not what happens. Bob just has an alien computer with a quantum powered processor, that's why he keeps on winning. The Doctor uses the screwdriver to destroy it. The Doctor returns to the Moon with Bob, Misery and Misfortune and Rose, of course, using the TARDIS. The sun is shining. The world blooms. Lucky Bob will be member 14 of their clan. Bob pulls a ray gun on Rose but falls off a cliff, even though the Doctor warned him of a cliff behind him. Rose calls that unlucky.

Rose refers to dinosaurs, vampires, or mad monks obsessed with the number 13 but on this planet there are purple trees and orange skies. Sunshine and flowers and a great big ole in the ground that the Doctor falls down. He wants to grow wings but can't. He sees living missiles coming at him and they save him. A man from Earth -- or at least he says he's from Earth -- in pin stripes takes Rose down the hole using a flying anti gravity umbrella. His card is a butterfly like thing that says Arcadian Independent Traders. The Doctor introduces them to his missile friends: Fat Boy, Little Man, Whizz Bang, Sharkey. The man tells them that these short range weapons are the surviving pieces of a war thousands of years ago when the people of this planet wiped each other out. The base remained and the missiles evolved into a society. The man uses a triangular teleportal. He will give the missiles all the action figures and toys they want if they fly through it to planet Zlaow. The missiles are full of distronic explosive, banned throughout the galaxy, when it decays it becomes unstable and when it reacts to sunlight…it can explode. The missiles cannot go out because if they do their nose cones will explode. The man claims the sun of Zlaow was snuffed out years ago and he tells the missiles to ignore the Doctor, calling him a cheating trader. The Doctor figures this man is an arms dealer and he's been hired to blow up the planet on the other side of the portal. The missiles fly toward the portal.

Using the sonic screwdriver, the Doctor makes the umbrella go mental and take the man through the portal. On the other side are giant brown Bigfoot types and a giant living flower…the Doctor shuts the portal, making the miissiles angry. The Doctor tells them they have to grow up and he uses the umbrella he snatched from the man to fly himself and Rose outside and up. The missiles claim he is not their friend any longer and they get big brother after him. A giant missile is big brother. A long range nuclear missile that comes from the ground and blows up but Rose and the Doctor have already vanished in the TARDIS. The long range missile produced smoke and dust that block out the sun for generations…a nuclear winter. Thhe missiles get out and play in the dark on the planet.

NOTE: This villain, the man trader, seems to be Mephistopheles Arkadian, a villain from Big Finish's GALLIFREY series.

Rose hears a sound that sounds like Mickey's old car on a winter morning. Dodging the Erewon Armada, the Xion Crytsals were jolted out of line and the slippage caused the passavitor to go into flux and leak coolant into the aethiopathic chamber. The positioning system has overheated. The Doctor thinks a giant hand slapping the Tardis might realign the crystals. They are lost and have no idea what they will find when they open the doors. They see giant items of food and statues and what seems to be a museum of Earth type things: an old 1950s pink car, the Statue of Liberty and a Route 66 sign, among hamburgers and drinks. They seem to be on a giant pinball board. They meet Joyce Tick and Track R Ball, green blue skinned aliens. Track is sentenced to punishment for three rounds at the game for 1273 hours and 16 minutes at the game face. The Doctor figures these people have wasted so much time on computer games, they are being forced by society to repay their debt as gameslaves. The game is a giant real life pinball game. The public decide whether or not the ones in the game live by how well they played the game. It seems Track gets the thumbs down. A guard grabs Rose instead of Joyce for one game round. Joyce was sentenced for playing at gameface for 201 hours and 57 min. Rose is shot into the game…

The Doctor is already working on a plan. He plays pinball by taking over the game from the workings. He gets Rose out at the same time while slamming the TARDIS with a giant ball…a ball Rose was inside. He tells Rose she fixed the TARDIS. After they run into the TARDIS and vanish, he tells Rose he spent a lot of time playing pinball in the 1960s. Rose tells him, angry at first, that being in the ball was fantastic and really exciting. The Doctor says, "You might even say that you had a ball."

Rose and the Doctor wear shades on an alien planet of very strange colored gangster aliens. They are in kind of a sunset strip between galaxies so the law here is suspended. Rose barks on about replacements parts for the TARDIS, namely the Vending Machine. They go into an illegal tea room, most places across the universe, tea is illegal. He orders Potta Darjeeling and macaroons. The Doctor sees that there is a Tech Market on Thursdays. A toothy-tooth missing alien calls that on the corner of Bacall and Bogart (Casa Blanca) he saw a police box. That means the Doctor is in town. He also holds a wanted poster, Wanted: Dead or Alive but Dead'll Do The Doctor aka Dr Who do gooder, time meddler, persecutor of honest bad guys bounty one billion creds. Rose and the Doctor escape through a window but in the alley they see horse faced aliens holding up a human like blond lady and her cyber friend, a short being. He gets zapped by their large machine guns. Rose gets away with her but they get the Doctor prisoner. They were asking where the bird was. They, the Trigger Brothers, take the Doctor to the boss, Mr Lippizzaner. This boss gets word from his underling Nagg that Don Corpulone has arrived from spacedocks with his sons. Bonk and Gluey comes in with Don and show him cyber arms. Exoskeletal strongarms from Tashkent each with a different charge: hi velocity, incendiary, ricochet. The wearer is slaved to a remote control hub. Don tells him his little girl is missing. This is Doll, the blond woman with Rose. She took the Bird with her. They had a family argument. The Doctor talks about wearing safety pins, touch of green in his hair, bit of leather. Across town, at some motel, in Room 13, Rose and Doll talk. The cyber being, a droid is made tough. He comes to them, he was not blasted away. He's made of duralinium. The Doctor calls to make an exchange: him for the Bird or he gets zapped. At the spacedocks, everyone meets. Lipp has ten arms of metal, mostly on his thugs, and he wants the Bird and the Doctor. Don has the remote control however, and he uses it to stop Lipp. Rose, Doll and the Doctor run. The Don and his sons are just floating heads that remove themselves from the fake bodies. Doll, behind the Doctor and Rose, who watch the heads rise off, tells them, "Me and the family don't see eye to eye on much but the one thing we agree on is…anyone who finds out our secret, diess…sorry bout this…" she says as her head comes off and her body attacks them!

On a crime world known as the Sunset Strip, Rose and the Doctor have rescued Doll, who's on the run from her horrible dad the Don but there's more to Doll than meets the eye…The Doctor tells Dolll she has a killer body but as he uses the sonic screwdriver to zap it down, he tells her "But that sort of thing don't impress me much." The Cyber Detective fires a shot that makes Don's Horse goons who are remote controlled via the metal arms, fire at Don, his sons Bonk and Gluey and each other. Doll tells the Doctor her back-story: a crazy scientist grew a bunch of talking heads for company for the sad and the old. He made them too clever to want to sit around and make chat about the weather. The faces in the flashback look a lot like Bacall, Peter Lorre, Clark Gable, Moe from the 3 Stooges, and other old time movie stars. Inside the Detective's chest hatch is the bird: the egg of a glitter bird, a rare robot species, the droppings of which are studded with diamonds. It is an endangered species, near extinction. The Doctor yells at Doll that he will not let it line the gangsters' pockets. Doll tells him she was getting to like him, he has a certain heroic charm but in her world there are no room for heroes. She orders her robot to kill them both but the Doctor talks him out of it. His own kind is a robot inside him, an endangered robot species that needs the Detective's help. The Doctor guesses the Detective is an Acme Industries android built in New Brentford and his override code is 5678/2345 Alpha Delta Alpha. The Droid helps them, giving the egg to the Doctor. The Droid throws himself off the roof they are on with Bonk and Gluey. Doll and Don cry as they realize Doll is head of the family—what she wanted all along. Rose and the Doctor get away and tto a small spaceship, which the Doctor hotwires and uses the heat from the backburners to hatch the egg at 1000 degrees. The bird flies away into space. Don tells the Doctor, when he and Doll catch up to him, that he will die "fer" this. Droid authorities hold up Don and Doll, they even have Bonk and Gluey—headds in jars, missing a few teeth but alive. Doll calls them thick skulls. The Detective tells the Doctor to broadcast the override code to every detective droid on Sunset Strip. He wants to clean up crime. Rose tells him he's the droid to do it. The Doctor finishes with, "Gangbusters. Just be careful with all that power. Don't let it go to your head."

The Doctor takes Rose to Paris for window shopping, people watching, and sight seeing. This includes seeing the Mona Lisa. They dip croissants into hot chocolate and eat chips---with Rose using ketchup on her's. They sit in front of the Eiffel Tower. A mime gives a rose to Rose. The Doctor sees postcards which he claims are like messages from another time. Then, Rose wonders what year it is. No one answers her as if she is not there. Suddenly there are scary looking security men and people who vanish into nothing. They see a stall with a hologram welcoming them to Paris. The Doctor was surprised it was spring and not Christmas time. He puts it down to time slippage as he wanted to visit Paris in 2006. Robocops are unable to stop two beret wearing criminals who crash out of a building and start firing on them. The robots vanish when shot. A female crook is cubed by a guard and some other crooks are as well. These are containment weapons. Two who are not go through a vortex and pull Rose along with them.

Last time: the Doctor and Rose's perfect weekend in Paris was interrupted when Rose was kidnapped! The crooks give Rose a jacket to wear as she is cold and it is now snowing and December. A blonde man, named Jean Paul, one of the criminals, tells here what she was looking out were all enhanced by a computer programme called that the crooks call the Façade. The weather and blue sky controlled. The croissant and hot chocolate synthetic. The girl with orange hair, also a crook is named Esme. They want people to see the real Paris in order to start to make it better. Some of the robot guards are real, some unreal. The unreal ones can be closed down. The Doctor shuts down some of the program but has to run from a real robot guard. The rebels are entering a virus to close down the Façade. The Doctor runs to them. A battle follows and the rebels win. They find a control room and meet the man behind the Façade. He thanks them. He was just a kid when he built the thing but it kind of took him over. He's been set free. People can see the real Paris with all its imperfections and quirks. A man and boy are in sight. Esme and Jean Paul bid Rose and the Doctor goodbye. Kids are throwing snowballs at a man in a long coat, one is atop a car, drinking it appears. The Doctor and Rose stand in front of the TARDIS (which has graffiti written on it that says Merry Christmas). The Doctor and Rose think Paris is going to wake up and smell the real coffee. Rose says, "Never mind the coffee, it's time for Christmas Dinner. Let's go for some real chips!"

The Doctor is traveling alone and this means he's talking to himself while he is alone. Both and the TARDIS fall off a cliff as soon as he steps out of the TARDIS. He grabs a vine. The Doctor thinks it will take him days and muses, "Trust the TARDIS to take the quick way down." A woman named Kara McGravy warns him not to go down there and helps him up. She has been charting the flora and fauna for the Outworld University. Everything here is carnivorous including the plant life. She's been here two days. A blue plant bites the Doctor's posterior. Kara welcomes him to the planet Hondrian. Four armed purple aliens attack them. The Doctor recognizes them as aliens from Untralo IV who hunt humans. The Doctor takes Kara's hand and jumps off a hillside into mud, which he hopes will throw off the scent as the Untra hunt by scent. Kara realizes it is quicksand and the Doctor pulls them out, reaching up to a vine; Kara on his back. The Doctor says, "What a wonderful planet, brilliant!" Untra are genetically engineered to hunt humans. One smells pure fear. The Doctor tells Kara he's not human, so the aliens are after her, technically speaking. A giant frog like, planet like creature wraps green tentacles around the Doctor and lifts him into the air and almost into its mouth! Kara screams out, "Doctor!"

On the jungle planet Hondran, the Doctor and space explorer Kara McGravy are on the run from alien hunters…but their esscape isn't going according to plan! A meat eating Marorda plant has the Doctor. The plants talk but this one spits the Doctor out, not enough meat on him. The Doctor makes friends with it but the hunters shoot it and step on it. Kara makes a break for it and hides among purple mushrooms with a bad smell. One warns her she is squashing them. She throws some of them at the hunters and gets them in the hunters' mouths. The Doctor and she get away but end up having to climb down a huge vine along a cliff. The vines attack and have huge jaws of teeth. The Doctor knits one purls one and ties the vines up into a tangle. They run but the biggest Untra, the only one who got away, holds a gun at them. The vines ate the other Untra. The big plant that the Doctor made friends with saves them by putting the alien hunter into its mouth but not swallowing him. He spits him out after chewing him up alittle. The only surviving Untra flies off. The Doctor is glad the plant didn't swallow him, he would have given terrible indigestion. The Doctor thanks the plant, "And I'm free to continue my exploration, I've made some good friends on this planet."

Croxton Hall, home of Lord Percivale Tubb built in 1862, seen both world wars and seen the century turn twice. The TARDIS arrives on the front lawn despite the Doctor having set it to materialize inside the house. He came for a party. There is a sign that says keep off the grass and no lights are on inside. He uses the sonic screwdriver to let himself inside when no one answers. The Doctor yells inside that he is ready to do the La Vida Loca. He senses something wrong and it is why the TARDIS would not materialize inside, it also sensed something wrong. Daisy White creeps up on the Doctor but they introduce themselves to one another. She was hired help for the party. He tells her he is an old friend of Tubbs. It is the anniversary of his wedding to his wife and he was there and they’ve had fantastic parties ever since. He loves a good party. The Doctor also loves a haunted house even if he doesn’t believe in ghosts, even as a female one attacks him. Daisy tackles him out of the way; her brothers both played rugby. The thing is a partially phased spectrum shifted waveform. A male one attacks. Daisy tells the Doctor if these things touch you, you die and come back as one of them. She pulls him away from the male one. He grabs her and slides with her down the banister. They go into the clock room where the Doctor uses the screwdriver to lock the door. Tubbs is a horologist. The Doctor used to fancy collecting clocks but he could never find the time. He gave Tubbs a clock once?a wedding gift. He wonderss what happened to it. The Ghost of Tubbs comes at him?

Daisy dives to save the Doctor from being touched and she does. Unfortunately, she is touched and is turned into a ghost. The ghosts can’t hear him and he can’t hear what they are saying. “On your again, Doctor” The ghosts start to fade away. The Doctor believes the clock room has the key: broken pieces of a clock. Lord Tubbs’s ghost is pulling a crook. This man came in to steal the clock and the man was caught in the act by Tubbs. During the scuffle, the clock fell and broke: an ancient horologe, built by Master Chronosmiths from the Older Worlds to measure the passage of time across different dimensions. It is linked to time itself. The damage has extended into time itself, causing a fracture in the universe, splitting off one time from another. Those nearest to it have slipped into a different kind of time. People caught in the fracture are fading away. If the alternative time stream splits off permanently then Tubbs and his household will disappear forever. The Doctor works to fix the clock before this happens. As they reappear fully, Daisy White stops the crook. The next morning, Tubbs and Daisy bid goodbye to the Doctor outside as he moves toward the TARDIS. The horologe clock was the wedding gift the Doctor gave Tubbs years ago. The Doctor tells them it says it was time he was going.

According to the TARDIS, the Doctor should have landed in Baz's easy diner on the eastern side of Agrellian Thaxis in the middle of the day. Unfortunately, he's landed in a moon light simulation biodome where plants exposed to moonlight grow giant. When he uses his sonic screwdriver to light his way, the plants attack him. A robot with many pointed attachments gets him out and brings him to heavy set Professor Brask. The Doctor figures that being on a space station, he can't really bluff his way out by saying he's arrived by accident. The Doctor uses psychic paper to make him think he's here for an inspection. Brask gets red head Prof Flynn, who is female and wears long ear rings and do-rag on her head, to explain. A civilian research team, they have made plants that will help the lives of the colonists on the outer rim and allow them to push further with exploration teams: crops that grow at the slightest hint of light. The Doctor wonders about the side effects and how the colonists will feel if they have to fight their vegetables every time they want to eat. Brask wants to increase the effects and use the plants as a powerful weapon. He wants to make a fortune but he's not in charge. Brask uses the Doctor as a distraction to steal the genetically modified seed samples (which have a handwritten sticky note on their refrigerator door!). He kicks the robot out of his way, steals the seeds and actives the security doors. He uses an escape pod to get out of the station. Brask's old colleagues at Weapontek will find the seeds useful. A Weapontek battle cruiser is about to pick him up. He's disabled the controls to the radio and the station and other vital controls. The station warning goes into effect: it is no longer in geostationary orbit and lost all power to the motors. Auto pilot is disengaged and only life support continues. The station goes down slowly but the sun appears at the windows and the plants, exposed to direct sunlight, gor out of the biodome and attack the Doctor, Flynn and other technicians...

Last time: on a secret laboratory in space, plants that turn lethal in sunlight have just been set loose by a traitor! The Doctor mixes up a potion to throw at the plants to free Flynt because he needs her help. Brask communicates and then is taken aboard his buyers ship…the leader is named Jerrix. The Doctor gets to the robot power relays and control protocols. Brask left the secondary systems alone. Using his sonic screwdriver to rig up the robot control protocols, the Doctor tells the gardening robots that the plants are a virulent strain of Centurian Strangle Weed. The robots attack and destroy the plants. The Doctor communicates with Brask and tells him that he is a man who likes to tinker. The Doctor has tinkered again using the sonic screwdriver and has control of the tractor beam. He uses the Jerrix ship to eclipse the sun and kill the plants. Soon, police robots arrive for Jerrix and Brask. The Doctor tells Flynt she still has the seeds and that she should try the reverse spectrum therapy…it has no nasty side effects. Flynt asks him to stay on and help start again. He tells her he’s long overdue at Baz’s Easy Diner. He states that after today he thinks he’ll steer clear of vegetable soup.

It is the year 3769 and space station Alpha is under construction, orbiting planet Earth. It will take over five years to build. A space construction worker Jimmy and his robot Bert, a technomatic welding robot X-5 work on the lower blocks looking for snags. Jimmy wants to earn enough to get his arm fixed, to replaced a bionic rivet gun (his arm has seized up). Bert hits a thruster duct and falls to a level where the Doctor (in a purple greenish space suit) and the TARDIS are. The Doctor’s foot gets tangled in Bert’s lower hose and Bert shoots off but the Doctor grabs onto a pole and stops Bert. The Doctor tells a returning Jimmy that something is interfering with Bert’s operating system…a rogue communications signal. Jimmy asks for authorisation from the Doctor who tells him he finds that a very over rated concept. The Doctor uses the sonic screwdriver to take Bert’s signal receptors off line, returning Bert to a sane state. The signal interfered with Bert’s comm channel broadcast over a secret channel. Bert wants to report it first but the Doctor tells them to investigate first, then report, otherwise they won’t know what they are reporting. Using the sonic screwdriver he allows them access to the Waste Containment Block 17 and inside they find huge green heavily armed androids with three eyes. The androids wake up and attack them, threatening to terminate humanoids. Hanging on to Bert with one hand and Jimmy with the other, the Doctor and the pair find themselves falling into the septic tank via the waste outlet pipe. The Doctor wants to remove bolts to escape…the bolts are force bonded polytritanium rivets. Jimmy tells the Doctor his arm’s recoil circuit is jammed. It used to punch rivets through reinforced tritanium. He and Bert were the best sanitary engineers in the solar system. The Doctor tells a sarcastic Bert not to give up on his dreams, one never knows when they will come in useful. The Doctor shines a light as they find the bottom of the tank… a huge fanged face with tentacles from it and with red nose and eyes introduces itself as Klytode, the owner of the guard androids. He is ready…to destroy the Earth!

Previously…the Doctor, still traveling alone, had made friends with Jimmy and his robot pal Bert X-5, construction workers on a huge space station orbiting planet Earth. Together they have discovered the Klytode, an alien being guarded by armed androids, hidden in the depths of the station. The Klytode had a cobalt bomb which will blast the space station out of orbit, send it crashing to Earth. Bert grabs Jimmy and the bomb, the Doctor holding onto a wire from Bert. The androids try to recover the bomb so the trio make their way up the scaffolding but too deep inside the station, Jimmy cannot get a signal to warn the authorities. The trio make for the upper levels. The Doctor tells Bert that cobalt 725 is detonated by low frequency delta waves and this range, the Klytode cannot detonate; the Doctor claiming there’s nothing wrong with a bit of blond optimism as well as a fact. The trio reach Atmosphere Lock 9 and the hull is self sealing. Jimmy apologies to Bert for the mess they are in but Bert tells him to forget it. Having taken a short cut, the androids reach them and one picks up the Doctor. The Klytode grabs Bert and the bomb. The Doctor knows the Klytode is willing to blow himself up with the Earth undergoing climatic changes that will make it change suitable for the Klytodes to live in…they all share the same mind; it’s a gestalt being: one mind with many bodies, each sharing the thoughts of the Master Creature. The change will allow the other Klytode, the brethren, to come. The Klytode’s own world was a dark husk on the edge of the Aktren galaxy. That is the fate of any planet the Klytode inhabit. Unzipping and abandoning his spacesuit, The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver, hidden in his spacesuit (which was made to measure), to free Bert and allow Bert to send a jamming signal on the androids’ unauthorized wavelength. He also uses the screwdriver to fix Jimmy’s cannon arm to shoot the detonator into space while Klytode is occupied with the androids. Later, the Klytode is arrested on a one way trip back to the Aktren Galaxy. It is one alien invasion gone right down the pan. The Doctor doesn’t think Klytode will bother Earth again. Bert and Jimmy are back to being executive waste engineers. The Doctor, in his spacesuit, goes into and leaves in the TARDIS.

The huge space luxury astroliner Tritanic cruises the outer reaches of the outer rim with the richest holidaymakers in the 59st century. Martha looks out a window on it to see the Kolox Nebula. They have lost the TARDIS. The Doctor has never counted himself very rich unless he’s counting friends or enemies. The Nebula is ravaged by time winds and a time machine would be its element. A green girl screams as a huge green but red eyed monster rams the ship and burns through the hull. Insect like Skrawn come in. The Doctor says these aliens are this galaxy’s nastier creatures: angry. The wasp like creatures are armed with lethal stings. One scratch means anaphylactic shock; a full sting means a long, painful death. Kolox, their home planet was destroyed in a war. All that’s left of it is a huge cloud of randomly charged discrete chronon articles…the Kolox nebula. The Skrawn attack the bridge but before they can sting the captain, the Doctor introduces himself and Martha. The Doctor rants about them making a terrible mistake, making an act of piracy, and that the Skrawn do get upset. He also calls the Nebula one of the wonders of the universe. A Skrawn knocks the Doctor down but the Doctor tells Martha he just saved the Captain’s life. The Skrawn begin to dismantle the Time nav system, which is supposed to help the ship navigate the time winds in the Nebula. It is purely experimental and the Doctor hoped to use it to find the TARDIS. The Skrawn rants that they will be reborn, reclaim their inheritance, and take their revenge! Can the Doctor stop the Skawn?

The Skrawn Hiveship pulls away from the Tritanic and people are sucked out into space. Since the aliens fused the computer controls when they disconnected the time nav, they can’t operate the emergency seals. The Doctor bypasses the control circuits and shuts the doors, seemingly saving all but three passengers. A teleport converts the Doctor and Martha into a data stream and sent them after the Skrawn via galactic hypernet. They are on the Skrawn ship. The walls are lined with control circuitry grown from a cellular electron amoeba. The Doctor finds the TARDIS, “You big blue lump.” He programmed the hypernet teleport to home in on it. The aliens used the time nav to find it. The Skrawn want revenge and will use the time nav and the TARDIS to get it. Their world was destroyed and made into the Kolox nebula during the time war, which the Doctor claims everyone got involved at some point. A Skrawn attacks them, rips the Doctor’s sleeve and then asks for him not to be harmed yet. Skrawn want the regeneration of their homeworld to begin. They will use the time navigator and TARDIS to make their homeworld be reborn from the ashes of the Nebula. The Doctor calls it a rubbish plan, they would need chronon particles and a colossal amount…as can be found in the Kolox Nebula. The Doctor calls it a good plan in fact. Martha recovers the sonic screwdriver and puts it into some controls and hopes for the best. The Doctor gets free and steals the time nav back. With the ship out of control, the pair high tail it back to the TARDIS and get in. The Skrawn swear to have revenge. The Doctor returns the time nav (which is useless now anyway) and tells the captain and other human there that the hive ship is flying blind and lost in the Kolox Nebula. The Skrawn may never find their way out, “Victims of the Time War twice over.” The Doctor does not feel much like a holiday now.

The Doctor tells Martha sometimes he’s glad the TARDIS does not blend into its environment. Imagine trying to grab a door handle shaped like a cactus spike. They have landed in a desert with an orange sky with some blue. They are on Maught, a world rich in natural resources but where water is rare and like gold is on Earth. The Doctor thought he was looking a bit pale and needed a top up his tan. He gives water to a poor old robot begging on the street with a sign. The town looks like the Old West with aliens and humanoids. A three eyed green alien sleeping on a wall, hears the Doctor tell Martha there is supposed to be an underground stream near the place they are at. He thinks it might just be a myth or legend. Lizard like insect being Angelo is shooting three guns about to get alien Blontt to talk. To get him to stop the Doctor juggles some diamonds. One ricochets the laser back toward Angelo, who gets away on a flying steed. Martha wants to get Blontt to a hospital but he tells her to remember the number 42. Then he dies. Angelo returns with some friends but the Doctor threatens to shoot him with water. Angelo says, “Go ahead, punk, make my day,” and the two friends open their mouths to collect water. A cow man (who was dressed like a maiden) named Tu helps Martha and the Doctor sneak off to her inn. As Martha prepares to sleep, she notices Angelo at the Inn. Martha goes to warn the Doctor, “Doctor, I think we’re in trouble!” She opens his door and finds Tu attacking the Doctor, having him hooked up to some machine, “Now my friend, we’ll find out what you really know!”

Martha attacks Tu and the electrode tickles Tu. Angelo bursts in and demands to know the North South coordinates. Blontt did something to the Doctor before he died. Tu has one part of the North South coordinates that lead to an underground stream. Angelo has the East West Coordinates. Blontt knew the depth. Angelo shot as Blontt because he heard Blontt was interested in private enterprise. They were supposed to be a team. The Doctor feels he’s gone six rounds with a Judoon bare knuckle boxer. Angelo tells Tu to pull the other one, it’s got teats on. He knows Tu has an army of workers ready to move out. He tells Tu they will settle this at high noon, centre of town. Their guns are set to stun and if Angelo wins he will use Tu’s machine to get the coordinates off HER. The gunfight drags on. Martha yells, “Oh, for heaven’s sake, get on with it!” Angelo turns at her and is grazed by a laser shot set to kill by either Tu or one of Tu’s men. In the resulting fight, Tus’ machine blows up…and the Doctor and Martha are also stunned. When they wake up, they are at the drill, the Doctor tied to it. Tu and Angelo have decided to team up after all. Tu’s numbers are 4.97 degrees South. Angelo’s are 2.14 East. The two threaten to kill Martha if the Doctor doesn’t tell them his numbers. He sonic screwdrivers himself from his bonds. He tells them 55.4 is his number. They drill and a huge amount of water comes out, they’ve drilled too deep. The Doctor wonders, “Or was it 42.2?” As Tu points a gun at the Doctor, water hits her and she goes flying. The Seismic tremor should alert the authorities. Martha says, “We’d better get back to the TARDIS.” She fancies a nice glass of cold water.

Egypt 2375 BC: Martha and the Doctor are on camel back arriving at the Great Pyramid of Cheops, or as the Doctor knew him, Pharaoh Khufu. The Doctor relates info about the tomb, the Egyptians, and other facts. The camels get spooked and the pyramid vanishes. The Doctor scans for temporal shock waves and then they ride back to the TARDIS. They follow the time track to the Temple of Diana at Ephesus but they are too late, the temple also vanishes. The temple is supposed to last until the Third Century AD and then fall into ruin. The Doctor scans for the right temporal vector and follows it to Greece 280 BC. Outside is a statue of Helios, the Colossus of Rhodes. It vanishes also. Someone is stealing the 7 Wonder of the Ancient World. Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, and the Pharos Lighthouse at Alexandria also vanish. The TARDIS appears at the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Water was pumped up from the river Euphrates. King Nebuchadnezzar built this around 600 BC. He thinks they used Archimedean screws to get the water all the way up here. The Doctor tells Martha, as they sit down, that human love the number seven, “Seven seas, Seven Deadly Sins, Seven Dwarfs, Blake’s Seven, Magnificent Seven, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, 7-Up…” A Talithan Swindler whispers to them to give them the whole set of 7 Wonders with a good offer. The Doctor pulls the alien out of the bushes. It is red with a purple robe and hood on. His name is Pholonius Ginn, dealer in antiquities and relics, registered with the galactic council. He shows them his card but the Doctor picks up that it is psychic paper. Buyers on the galactic hyper net are looking for Earth relics. He will sell to the highest bidder on G Bay. A giant robot like thing appears via transmit, warning them to stand aside as extra transmit energy can be hazardous to organic life forms. It says it is Sylven, representing the FatKat Corporation, here to purchase the planet Earth including the entire human population.

Together with Pholonius Ginn, the Doctor and Martha are transported to the place of origin for the buyer of planet Earth: the FatKat Corporation on a deep space station. Sylven tells them they can bid on Earth at the auction in an auction room. Bidding begins at 5 zillion galactons, an alien doing the auction. It is sold and includes every man, woman and child born during the humanian era. As the robot Sylven fires at them, the Doctor and Martha flee for the office of the managing director of FatKat, one Trongus Squum. The Doctor uses the sonic screwdriver. The pair use the service duct. A figure in a chair tells someone on a cell phone to start selling all 17 Zern worlds off too. He is expecting confirmation of the sale of Earth at any moment. The Doctor tells the figure, Pholonius Ginn, that he knew it was him, spoiling Ginn’s big surprise moment. Squum went bankrupt and homeless so Ginn took over FatKat, managing it and trying to abuse the fiscal policies of a hundred different systems. Ginn needed money for gambling debts, the Doctor figures so he attracted attention to Earth and pretended to be bought out by the Fat Kat Corp. Everyone on Earth will be sold into slavery. Martha worries about her parents, Leo and Tish. The Doctor uses his glasses and reads the small print: the contract states that every human born in the humanian era but one is missing: Martha Jones. The robot claims the contract invalid and arrests Ginn. The FatKats are with him, two huge cat men. Squum is one of them and he tells the Doctor he’s been trying to bankrupt Ginn for months. As reward, the Doctor wants the contract torn up, the seven wonders sent back to history, and he and Martha returned to where they should be. The Doctor tells Martha is more than a technicality, to him, she’s officially the 8th wonder of the world.

The Doctor tells Martha he does not know where they are, the planet does not have a name, and books about places off the beaten path do not even list this planet. He suggests they call it Martha. The planet area they are at is a colorful park littered with trees, benches, paths, and bushes. The Doctor does not think he’s visited anywhere as devoid of life as this…and he says he’s been to Basingstoke on a Sunday. They find a purple humanoid shaped creature that is made of living metal and seems to be either dead or sleeping, like a machine that’s been switched off, dormant. Something red eyed watches them from a dark corner. The creature was born, not constructed, he tells Martha. It is not carbon based life though. Two more arrive and hold large cannon sized guns on them. The Doctor tells the pair that holding his hands up and waving one hand is considered a provocative gesture on Tuzeema, the people there have guns in the palm of their hands. The two seemingly female beings are soldiers Elphon and Halber. They say they are the last of their kind. Over decades their kind have fought in the Great War with rules, weapons can only stun not kill. A strange, giant mud like creature with giant cannons on its hands and holes on its bodies rolls at them on tractor like treads, firing. It hits one of the soldiers and puts her out, saying it has terminated one target. The next hit zaps the Doctor…

Halber is down so Elphon, the last of her kind, shoots the tank creature. The Doctor finds it, too, is in suspended animation. But this one is made up mostly of bone. Another tank creature cannot move as fast as it used to and feels age catches up with us all. The Doctor concurs. Elphon appears and is sick of the fighting. She will no longer fight by the rules and sets her weapon to kill the last of the tank creatures. The tank thing is a general and has seen enough conflict. He tells her to shoot him if she must. The Doctor tells them there is more to this war than meets the eye. He talks Elphon out of shooting. The war is over and the Doctor asks them to shake hands as a sign of peace. The contact transforms them. It was a battle of the sexes. On this world, the last male and the last female who survive the war are able to pass on their genetic material to the next generation. Everyone seems to wake up, all are unharmed. The war lasted so long they almost forgot the rules. Soon they will give birth. The Doctor says, “We’ll pop back in 9 months, I’m sure Martha would love to be the midwife.” Martha hopes they will not start fighting again. She gets enough of that in hospital on a Saturday night.

In Liverpool 1963, the Doctor has taken Martha to watch the Beatles who are just starting out, even though he tells her he’s more of a stones fan, the Living Stones of Thurakzima 7, silicon life forms. The Doctor hates spoilers, thinks that life would be no fun if you knew the future all the time. Something is bombing the area with positively charged ions. Using the sonic screwdriver, the Doctor deduces someone is using a biometric matter transfusion field, used for instellar teleportation. The field contracts and makes Martha vanish. The Doctor dashes to the TARDIS hoping to track her via the disruptions in space-time since it is a long range beam. He intercepts the beam and gets Martha back into the TARDIS. The beam came from Gelezen, a planet from which no one ever returns. Thousands of years ago the Gelezen adopted an isolationist police and the planet is surrounded by a time field. What is known about them is a very few facts and rumor. The race there seem to be a clone race, some people say they used human DNA as a template for their entire species. They forcibly extract the deoxyribonucleic acids from humans and transfused them into their own clones. They are DNA vampires. The TARDIS shields are overridden, the beam breaks through and Martha vanishes again!

Clone surgeons of Gelezen have used a long range teleport beam to snatch Martha from the TARDIS. Martha wonders if where she is is Halloween in Holby City. Dr Skelpa introduces himself. He tells her his race is dying after centuries of living in isolation, cut off by a time field. Dr Skelpa claims to know the Doctor. Martha fights off the aliens. The Doctor has tried temporal feedback, space time side step, emergency stop…but the TARDIS cannot get through the time field. Martha grabs a chair and smashes it into the ancient time field machine. The TARDIS appears and the Doctor exits, joking about how he has always told Martha about going on ahead of him and how the aliens look like a sorry bunch with the genetic blues. The Doctor tells Skelpa that the title of Doctor has to be earned, as a good friend of his once told him. He warns that if they have harmed Martha in any way there will be reprisals. A well pitched sonic pulse could shatter every instrument. Skelpa tells him their genetic template is in a state of decay. Martha’s DNA will allow them to live forever…because she is a time traveler. Martha tells Skelpa the Doctor does not do revenge, he will help them. The Doctor will help. Every time the aliens use the teleport beam in time, it causes havoc in the time vortex (and Martha’s stomach). Human DNA is not made to withstand constant re cloning inside a time field. The Doctor uses his own DNA: it is intelligent and adaptable. It can replicate the human gene matrix as a self regenerating DNA in the aliens’ machine. The Doctor experiences some pain and hopes he will get a cup of tea for this. The Doctor tells them if they didn’t live in self imposed isolation, they could have had this a long time ago. The aliens will no longer need to have constant gene replenishment. In the TARDIS, the Doctor tells Martha that sometimes it is the monsters that need saving.

Present day on the Seamancer, a fishing trawler out of Portsmouth is in the worst storm. Martha is getting seasick as Captain Ketley uses sarcasm and also thinks the Doctor insane for enjoying the ride outside the cabin. Ketley also seems to know the Doctor and Martha are travelers in time and space. Below deck is the TARDIS, which Martha wants the Doctor to get a move on and fix. The Doctor claims he’s a time lord and can take a clock out, just like the TARDIS Martha adds. The dematerlialisation field is fluctuating badly and need recalibrating and if not fixed soon, it might cut in without warning. The TARDIS is very old, he tells Martha as they go into the TARDIS. As the storm gets worse, shaking both ship and TARDIS, the Doctor exits to see if he can help but it is too late. The ship loses the rudder and hits rocks. Everyone abandons ship and it sinks. The Doctor thinks they should looks for survivors as they cling to rocks but eventually find an island. Ketley tells them according to charts, there were no islands within a 100 miles of the Seamancer. The boson tells them everyone made it to the island and is accounted for. The muscled cook is nervous about surviving on this godforsaken island. The Doctor looks at the boson’s compass: the needle is trying to point straight down and is stuck: which means they are on top of a magnetic pole. The Cook knocks the compass down and blames having a woman on board for their bad luck. As Martha yells at him, the Doctor tells them to be quiet and listen. The Doctor reveals volcanic rock, which should not be near the Atlantic or the North Pole, which they shouldn’t be near anyway. The sky is clear and the storm is gone, and the sky shows stars including Rigel Four, the Gogol Nebula and where Metulla Orionsis used to be (where Traken used to be). Somehow they have been transported to another planet. The Doctor figures when the squall hit, the TARDIS materialization field must have cut in and it transported them over 420,000 light years across the galaxy. Creatures with big teeth in larger mouths and big octopus like heads arrive. They have dangling tentacles, some holding what look like spears. The lead one says, “This is the oceanworld of Surobos.” It calls them alien intruders and that by the ancient lore of the Suroban shoal they are condemned to death…

The Doctor and Martha along with the crew of the Seamancer have been transported 420000 light years from Earth to the planet Surobos. Martha comes to the Doctor’s defense when he’s downed, pinned under alien spears without being killed…yet. Martha explains she has the gift of the TARDIS to speak their language. Captain Ketley introduces himself, his navigator Mr. Rourke and the ship’s cook. The King-Queen of the alien Suroban is Alalal, King Queen of the Long Dark Shoal of the Suroban. It is a title. When Alalal, who refuses the Doctor’s request to call him/her Al, is told by the Doctor why they are here, he/she tells the Doctor he talks too much. Martha tries to explain and is deemed to be too much of a talker also. Alalal thinks it is a curse of their species. Since Alalal sees some intelligence, he/she grants a stay of execution until the three moons go down. If they are still on the planet by that time they will be killed. The Doctor says, “Great, fine, whatever. Can I please get up now?” The Captain makes the Doctor the leader of the expedition. Jalkis, another alien, asks Alalal if they can help the humans and is refused. Martha tries to calm the cook down. Cook blames the Doctor for all of this. The Doctor tells Martha to ignore him, Cook is afraid and can only express himself the way he knows: through aggression. The Doctor locates the position of the shipwrecked Seamancer…and is about to swim to it to recover the TARDIS when Jalkis comes to help him. The Suroban are at home under the waves as above. The water are infested with carnivorous Skilus eels. He tells them not to let Alalal know he is helping them. Jalkis distracts the eels while the Doctor swims to the ship and into the TARDIS with Jalkis, but Jalkis is wounded by an eel. Cook has gone to Alalal and blabbed about what Jalkis has done. Alalal confronts Martha and the others and is about to execute them then and there when the TARDIS appears. The Doctor talks Alalal into letting them help Jalkis. Martha stitches the wounds. The Doctor counts Jalkis as one of them. Alalal tells Martha that no Suroban would have done the same for her. The Doctor thinks Jalkis would have. He also says to Alalal to make sure he treats Jalkis as a hero, not a traitor. Alalal promises to do that if the human leave Surobus forever. Using the TARDIS, the Doctor fires a gravity beam to lift the Seamancer from the ocean bottom. It was a few fathoms down. He then reverses the materialisation field to send the Seamancer home. He also arranged for a localised time reversal to repair the hull. He likes to leave things as he found them, if not better. Jalkis recovers.

The TARDIS appears on an icy planet. The Doctor thought after Surobus they needed to chill out a bit. Outside the ship, Martha slips on melting ice and falls right off a cliff. A flying green Pterodactyl like creature flies past her and a blue/purple hulking alien with long green hair named Paltoq saves her. He thinks her skin is burned. He lands Martha to the Doctor and from a cliff side they view his home, a castle called Isqaron. He tells them his home is dying, melting. The Sky God of Asharoth decreed they are all sinners and should fall beneath the waves. Empress Thamli says they have angered the Sky God, a huge flaming object in the sky. The trio fly toward her domain and see spearmen. Inside, when all hail Thamli, the Doctor jokes about sleet. Paltoq tells the Empress he thought they were either slaves or messengers of the Sky God. The Empress does not care for the Doctor’s manner. She orders Paltoq to return them to the Sky God, that they must be escaped slaves. Being forced by big blue hulking guards, the Doctor, Paltoq and Martha are lead toward the now red flaming object, which the Doctor thinks is some sort of energy field like a dimensional gateway. As they near the hole, it smells bad. As the guard throws the Doctor into it, he calls him little, not the first alien here to do that. The Doctor thinks he could get quite a complex if they continue calling him little. He, Martha and Paltoq are to be thrown into the gateway. Martha watches as the Doctor is thrown in first..suddenly the Doctor is somewhere else. He sees a man with gray hair and glasses in a white lab coat standing over machinery. A woman is also there and she is in a white lab coat. There is some kind of strange machine reaching up like a giant gate. The Doctor asks what they are doing. The man says, “We’re saving the Earth.” The Doctor says, “But that’s my job!”

The Doctor thinks the scientists are using Isqar to make a giant air conditioner for Earth. Paltoq throws himself at the rider that has Martha, knocks him off and lands on an ice wave. Martha’s lost the TARDIS key. Locked up in a cell between two trees, the Doctor protests but Professor Kate Curran introduces herself from outside. Mallingane told the others the planet was uninhabited and said he had done a survey. He’s being paid to come up with a solution to global warming. For 12 hours a day, the gateway pumps hot air…polluted air the Doctor adds…to the ice world. For another 12, it sucks cold air back to Earth. The Doctor asks Kate to get him out of there. Martha grabs Paltoq’s sword and chops off a tentacle that rises from the cold sea. Her bum is going numb with cold. More tentacles surround the ice floe they are on. Kate lets the Doctor out and distracts Prof. Mallingane with a story about the homeostasis controls having problems. The Doctor uses his tie, tied to the levers, to make the device blow hot and suck cold at the same time. This seems to destroy the device. The Doctor tells the Prof that they have to find their own solutions, not dump their problems on the Isqarites. Large guards in green suits grab the Doctor. Martha was looking forward to a slow death…another 70 years slow. From a light in the sky, the Doctor drops in, hanging from a ladder attached to a helicopter that Kate is flying. He rescues Martha and Paltoq just as more tentacles attack the ice they were on. They fly off on the ladder and Kate drops them off by the blue box (TARDIS) and leaves, with only seconds before the gateway closes. The Doctor wiped Isqar’s coordinates from Mallingane’s device. The Doctor figures Paltoq will be a hero to his people and the world here will renew itself in a few months. Martha tells the Doctor that was cool.

The TARDIS lands on the top of a rubbish tip on a rubbish planet, the planet Zetheda in the year 3,474,691 slash Kanga Bartholomew, the whole world is buried in rubbish from nearby planets. The TARDIS detected an inexplicable power source nearby and the Doctor’s curious. The Doctor tells Martha in the old days this planet was beautiful. A giant purple worm like monster rises up from the garbage, knocking them off it. Martha falls through a hole and faces the Ratlings. The king greets her as Elizar, their king. He tells her she is welcome on it and that the hole is there to trap the Worgoth. She worries about the Doctor but his guards caught him in the Holy Chamber of Refuse, the punishment for that is recycling. Martha worries but the Doctor tells her it is a mandatory jumble sale. He’s given away his coat to get this far. The Great Orb of Refuse is an interstellar distress beacon, all that remains of a crashed spaceship, here for close to ten thousand years and functional. The Doctor commends Earth technology on that matter. The Ratlings, the Doctor guesses, have evolved from humans, living in the trash. The Doctor thinks the distress beacon has been activated and that someone has picked up the signal and responded, and is now sending a homing beacon. When Martha asks if this was the source the TARDIS detected, the Doctor believes not. It is not powerful enough. A giant saucer shaped spaceship with a fin hovers over the skies and is seen by the Ratlings. Martha is impressed, “Now that’s what I call a spaceship!” The Doctor recognizes gravity repulse landing beams. The Optimi land. Vlar is one of them in the landing party and she/he wears a crown. They were looking for the paradise planet Zetheda, what they think will be an Eden. The Ratlings welcome them. The Doctor wonders if they found the correct planet Zetheda. Vlar yells, “The Optimi claim this world, colonization will begin in due course. But first, the waste will have to be cleared..and the vermin eradicated. Destroy the Ratlings! Destroy them immediately!” The Optimi bodies start to glow as they power up!

The Doctor tries to explain to Vlar about the Ratlings. A Worgoth attacks. The subsidence caused by the Worgoth causes Martha, Vlar, the Doctor, and Elizar to fall down a hole in the ground. The planet's surface must be a honeycomb of caves and tunnels. They discover an annex to the distress beacon, what looks like a computer station. When the Doctor tries to find out how the station is working, Elizar uses his cane to push him away. It is a sacred chamber even though as Martha points out, they only just discovered it a minute ago. Vlar recognizes the equipement his ancestors probably left here when terraforming. The Doctor figures the Optimi are the future of the human race, or at least part of it. They evolved after thousands of years of space travel into something a bit different. The Ratlings evolved from humans on this planet. The two races share the same ancestors. The terraforming device was used by humans in the old days to change planets to be more like Earth sometimes completely altering an entire world's environment. Using a DNA recognition code that will only respond to a human hand print---such as Martha's---Martha opens a door. The group enter a huge paradise world within, a green land with waterfalls, blue skies, and mountains. The terraforming device must have been activated inside the planet and it even has its own sun. That is the strange power source the TARDIS detected. An artificially generated solar dot. Somehow, the colonists were locked out. Vlar lives below, leading his people there first. The Ratlings will live on the surface. Elizar gives Martha an old coat as a souvenir of her visit to Zetheda. Vlar thanks the Doctor, who warns them all to watch out for those Worgoths.  

On Earth in the year 3738 London still exists as Martha and the Doctor shop. Martha loves Christmas. The Doctor is talking about how the human race re-engineered the Earth’s climate twice since the 21st century and he complains they still can’t get it to snow on Christmas. Martha points out shop window dummies in Santa outfits but they make the Doctor nervous. Martha finds a vase for her mum, it recycles water. He tells her to forget a computer game for her brother Leo because it has more computing power than NASA, the Pentagon and ILM together. She asks about a necklace for Tish. He’d rather face a Cyberman invasion than do more shopping. Bert bumps into him and Jimmy is there also. The Doctor introduces them to Martha; Bert has had a French language download but the creepy twit sub routine was an optional extra Jimmy tells her, jokingly. Bert secretly tells the Doctor he thinks Jimmy is cracking up. The four go to Jimmy and Bert’s apartment. The pair have their own business now: giving sanitation to government facilities. When they won the contract to install sanitary facilities at the Ecopower Station franchise, Jimmy started to wander around, have blackouts, dizzy spells, and this is not like him. Jimmy was always the cautious one. Last week, he found his way to the reactor control room. Jimmy prepares tea for them but only has digestive biscuits. Bert mistook the Hobnobs for burnt out data wafers and threw them in the incinerator. The Doctor whispers to Martha while Jimmy and Bert have a light hearted argument. He thinks Jimmy is under telekinetic mind control. The next morning, Martha and the Doctor follow Jimmy with Bert coming along. The Doctor fixes the security rating on Bert’s robo scan card using his sonic screwdriver. This allows them to all areas. They follow Jimmy up stairs past signs that warn visitors they will be prosecuted. Jimmy goes to the bio reactor room. Inside, they see the Klytode, a gestalt creature that wants to turn the Earth into a toxic wasteland. The Doc sent it packing years ago, all the way back to the Aktren galaxy. Robot guards helped release it from its prison. It controlled Jimmy. It also brought reinforcements. Outside, the Prime Klytode, a huge mouth, plant like monster flying about. It is the gestalt brain that controls the Brethren, waiting in hyper space to materialize over the power station. It is the size of a city and spews out clouds of toxic gas and has many orange eyes. From this spot, the Klytode can control every power station on Earth and using Jimmy, it can also connect every bio reactor around the planet to relay Prime Klytode’s poisonous breath all over the world. The Doctor doesn’t know how to stop it. The Klytode tells them it is too late and the Prime is already putting out its fumes. “SO look out, Earth, here comes the scum!”

Christmas in the 38th century: the Doctor tries to reason with the Klytode as the Prime Klytode begins changing the Earth with toxins. The Doctor tells it that there are other planets---worlds where the sea is made of acid and the air is thick with deadly toxins. He will take them to a type of world like that. The Klytode wants Earth. While the Klytode is busy with the reactor, the Doctor has a plan: with a few spare minutes, he can reverse the hyper spatial link and send the Prime Klytode back to where it came from. The Doctor can use the bio reactor’s bio core to do this. Bert tells him to use his omnitronic brain to act as a computer interface…when the Doctor comes up short for a wire computer interface. The feedback from the reactor could fry every last circuit in Bert’s brain. Martha has saved Jimmy, who tells her he’s made mistakes and fallen out with Bert and in the end, Jimmy claims to have just given up. As the two return to help, the robot guardians grab them up. Martha pressed a button on a emergency reactor screen manual release. The safety screen is a transparanium curtain designed to separate the reactor room from the rest of the station in case of meltdown. Here, it bisects the robots. On the other side of the screen, as the Doctor works, Bert and the Doctor explain what they are doing. Jimmy cries as Bert explains. He has to make the sacrifice to save Earth and Jimmy. Martha draws the Doctor’s attention to the fallen half of one of the robot guardian computer brains. The Doctor calls that brilliant and perfect, shoves Bert out of the way, and with seconds left, reverses the power linkages…the hyper space tunnel in reverse pulls the Prime Klytode back to nowhere. The Klytode tries to use Jimmy again, telepathically ordered him to destroy the reactor into meltdown. Jimmy resists, knowing what is important to him: his world, his friends, and Bert. On emergency teleport, the Klytode vanishes but first warns the Doctor, “You may think you’ve won again, Doc-tor---but I’ll be back one day. Keep looking over your shoulder—you’ll never know when or where I’ll come for you!” Later, the Doctor stays for Christmas Dinner. Bert doesn’t appreciate a good roast potato but he does appreciate good friends. Martha toasts, “So Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone!” The Doctor adds, “…and peace on Earth!”

Earth, England, tonight…33 Venture Drive, home of the Hopely family…John and Melissa with daughter Violet. She will be ten next week. Her mum asks her to fetch the magazine with Johnny Depp on the cover. Violet asks how to spell utopia. Violet is afraid to go upstairs because of the monster. As her parents chide her about watching too much telly, she goes up the steps. The Doctor knocks on the door and barges in as it’s opened. He runs upstairs, he’s been tracking the energy signature of a rogue Extron parasite. At the top of the steps, the Doctor meets Violet and the creature…which claims it needs a clear transference field…meaning it is trying to lock onto the girl’s human energy pattern. It wants to achieve full gene transmutation. The parents come upstairs and meet it. The mother apologizes to Violet. The thing is an alien parasite that transmutates to survive, combining with intelligent living mammals…in this case Violet. It usually tries an infant. It has been trying to break through for some time in this place. This one is an escaped prisoner on the run from the galactic penal institute of Inkarsera. Originally, it is from another galaxy. The thing asks the Doctor where his biometric tag is, claiming the Doctor does not have the right to take it back. John pushes the Doctor out of the way of the thing but it grabs up Violet, vanishes, teleporting away…and the Doctor has no idea where it and Violet have gone too…

In a ruined city on the far side of the galaxy beneath a radioactive sky, Violet Hopely, who has been taken by an alien Extron, argues with the alien criminal. No one has been here for decades. The planet is called Onla-toch, in the 957 Dogron star system. The Extron cannot take her home because it needs to regain strength. This planet was once the cradle of civilisation in this area, once an intellectual and artistic paradise until the Extron came to it. He was caught by the Judoon who cannot have executed him. He was sentenced to eternal imprisonment. Violet flees and looks for a place to hide. The Doctor starts talking to himself, the parents think he’s mad. He runs back to the TARDIS, telling them to put the kettle on. He figures the Extron was once on Inkarsera, an automated space prison. He is backtracking to find out where the Extron, a natural teleporter could have taken Violet. Using his sonic screwdriver, the Doctor finds out via the internment records. A robot clamps bio metric handcuffs on the Doctor, believing him to be an escaped prisoner. He is taken to detention stasis, the Doctor believing this is worse than school. The Doctor immediately uses his sonic screwdriver to release the cuffs, kicks the robot, which tells him he has a further ten years added to his sentence. The Doctor tells it he does not have time for a twenty stretch but thanks for the cuffs. More of the four armed robots come at him but he has to dash he tells them. On the planet, the Extron has attuned Violet’s biomass and he must transmute. He looks for her. She hides in a huge, green building and kicks rubbish out onto it. It does not even hurt it. It will use her form to feed his transmutation and then he will devour her. Her atom structure will painfully be unraveled and woven into a new form. The sound of VWORP VWORP happens as the TARDIS appears. As the Doctor rushes out, apologizing to Violet for taking so long, the Extron asks, “What in the black star of Stungaar…” The Doctor and it fight. The Doctor drops the biometric cuffs but Violet manages to get the biometric cuffs onto the beast and the cuffs take him back to prison. The Extron gets a full existence sentence by the robot wards. Violet is reunited with her parents. Violet says, “I’ll never be scared to go upstairs again, now that I Know the Doctor is out there. He’s looking after us all.” Her dad says, “Overactive imagination…that’s what I say.” The Doctor heads back to the TARDIS.

The Doctor thinks it is important to brush up on his alien languages even though the TARDIS has a universal translator. He reads a book called You Want To Speak Clang’n. Others sit beside him: Kavese, the Easy Way and Conversational Clangon. The collision avoidance compensators fail again and the TARDIS hits an interstellar body with a planetary mass, atmosphere in the middle of a major galactic bypass. The floor is squishy and it seems made of paper mache. It is comprised of vegetable fibers bonded with hydrogen and wood pulp. He finds a ship that had a crew that managed to eject in time. He finds a warning beacon and a paper that is handed out at spaceports: the Daily Eon…all the discarded copies end up here. A green bunny man asks for help from a digital ink on one of the pages of the sports section. The Doctor tells the bunny that his hobby is printing and that he gave the Chinese a few pointers on moveable blocks, way back during the Tang Dynasty. The bunny is Ray Royce, Hoopball Superstar and head sports writer at the Eon. He’s trapped in the New Factory. Hundreds of writers didn’t read the small print on their contracts and now they are being held and forced to work on staff. The Doctor has a few issues with the Daily Eon himself. The Doctor will find the address on the Letters to the Editor page. Soon the TARDIS arrives, Ray telling the Doctor to unfold him so he can see his way around. The Doctor finds crystalline memory that can store the neural matrices of a million sentient life forms, people, civilizations, or disgruntled journalists. The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to try to stop the machine but a metal claw comes out of a wall and knocks him off a ledge toward giant rollers of a Robo Copier. They detect the Doctor and figure he has over 900 years of stories to tell. If scanned, the Doctor will end up trapped, too. The Doctor ask the flying attacking machines to take him to their Editor. They scan him and digitise…

The Doctor has disrupted the Robcopier’s filing system to send him to the sports page and he meets Ray in person. Ray’s a very tall green rabbit-man in a football jersey that is short cut. Each journalist has their own private virtual universe, generated from their memories. Ray is forced to replay his most famous victories and defeats over and over, then the Matrix converts that data directly into the column inches for newspaper. The Doctor tells Ray if they used the Doctor’s stories, they would have to publish a whole colour supplement every single week with a free gift. SubEds exist to root out bad spelling mistakes, bad grammar, and erroneous copies. The Doctor calls himself the biggest grammatical error they’re ever going to see. Ray uses his team (a blue female with tentacles out her head; a purple-pink man with three pink fingers; and a blue elephant like being) to distract and block for the Doctor and he to get away from the Sub Eds. The Doctor tries to locate a crystal node to resonate and open a portal to another page. Ray has tickets, guest passes to the opening of the Envelope, hottest new nightclub in the galaxy. High fiving each other, the pair go to this nightclub area. Green wife of Ray’s—named Boudica---wants to maintain her WAG status and has to have pictures taken with Ray. She doesn’t want bad pictures though and this makes Ray think eternal enslavement might not be so bad. She likes the Doctor. The SubEds catch up to them, they drag Boudica with them; a blast from the SubEds knocks Ray through the air. The Doctor cannot open the next portal by finding the frequency because it is a deadlock seal. Ray jumps at the opening and then jumps out of the way, causing the SubEds to go through it. Inside, a big green slug is the Proprietor. Ray resigns. The SubEds crashing in, disrupted the fabric of the Crystalline Matrix and caused a massive neural feedback loop. The slug tells the Doctor people need gossip but the Doctor tells him the people just look at the pictures between hyperspace jumps to kill time. The Doctor suggests the slug get into recycling: there are an awful lot of discarded copies of Eon out there. He also suggests to Ray’s wife that the vidcast chat shows are running short on showbiz couples in the Ell-Ay Galaxy and perhaps she and Ray can go there.

The TARDIS appears in an enclosed cave with super heated water underground. Flying alien creatures with red eyes and fangs come at him. The sonic screwdriver doesn’t help. The Doctor switches it off and the things lose interest in him. A hooded being named Kaze calls him to safety. He is blue haired and purple faced. He tells the Doctor the monsters are called Shrikes, they love energy sources and advanced technology. Kaze was playing in the fields and saw them go into the caves. The aliens here rely on wind energy and thermal power including wind mills. At an enclosed fort wall, Kaze shows the Doctor his people. They used to have a more advanced technology. A chubby alien is in a pool with friends. The leader Genji (who is on stilts at first and had a gray withered face) lives with elite warriors in the Halls of Sacrifice. Inside the colorful hall, the leader tells the Doctor tonight they celebrate the Ceremony of Choosing. Once a year the best, fittest are chosen to be warriors to stay in the halls for months, even years until their training is complete and then they will defend the people against the Shrikes. When the Shrikes become very hungry for energy they feed on animals and children. A couple of years ago, Kaze found his grandfather in the hills…he had been sucked dry. The Doctor tells him he is sorry and puts a hand on his shoulder. Kaze wants to be chosen to be a warrior. Genji tells the Doctor they are peaceful people and that the sacrifice is a quiet life with their family is given up to train with him. Kaze cries as he is not chosen to be a warrior. The Doctor follows Kaze and a group of youngers who have not been chosen to be warriors...and who are not returning to their village. Kaze warns him away. In the caverns beyond the castle/fortress, warrior men push five who have not been chosen toward a hot lake far below. The Doctor and Kaze are thrown off next…

The Doctor and Kaze (who has three fingers on each hand) fall through an anti gravity chute and are welcomed a starship, a world builder class as the Doctor recognizes. It has thermal shielding and force field tech to keep a sun at bay. Decades ago, the aliens came to this planet in peace and found only the Shrikes. Damaged by the Shrikes the ship crashed in the boiling water. Genji explains this to them. There is not enough room for all his people on the ship so Genji trains warriors to look after his people in the village. The Shrikes are not mindless, thus the deception by Genji. The sacrificed ones become his scientists. The heat keeps the Shrikes away from the ship. The force fields have taken up the energy so that the ship cannot take off. The Doctor reckons he can fix that up, “Me and machines, we’re like this,” he says as he crosses his fingers. He will need the TARDIS and he doesn’t know where it is, plus it is covered by Shrikes. The Doctor uses the sonic screwdriver to wake up some Shrikes which want the energy flowing through the TARDIS. The Doctor sees it but needs a diversion so he tosses the sonic screwdriver to Kaze, giving the young boy a chance to be a warrior. Genji tells him, “You must learn when to….run!” The pair runs as a horde of Shrikes, coming off the TARDIS, attack. The Doctor makes it through a group of Shrike, enters the TARDIS, and appears on the starship with a large thick wire. Kaze has turned off the sonic screwdriver but the Shrikes are still racing after him and Genji. The starship blasts off. Just as the Shrike are just about on Genji and Kaze, the TARDIS appears, the door opens, and the Doctor grabs them both inside it. The Doctor will take all the people from the village to the starship. Genji worries about how the Shrikes will survive. The Doctor tells him he’s thought of that, too. He will get the TARDIS to eject a couple of rooms full of junk, old hardware and technology that even he’s forgotten about. That will give the Shrikes enough energy.

The Doctor has burned toast and opens the TARDIS doors, pouring smoke out into an exotic alien purple jungle. A purple ape creature attacks him. Mason Burns, an explorer, scoundrel and archeologist shoots into the air, tells the Doctor that the apes are normally timid. Burns is searching for the final resting place of the Old Kings of Skarab, rulers of a whole planet. He and the Doctor find the tombs in five minutes and the Doctor uses the sonic screwdriver to get in. Beetles with red eyes attack and the weight of them is too much for the floor causing the pair to fall through…where a giant four legged beetle scorpion thing attacks. Next, the Doctor pulls Burns away from a flooding corridor. Burns’s foot hits a switch on the floor and he’s trapped in a cell. The Doctor doesn’t think this is a tomb but a prison…and they’ve just released one of the prisoners…a giant purple thing which raaaaaars at Burns…while the Doctor watches from the other side of the cell…

The purple thing calls to its brothers to rise. A green one comes up out of a tomb. The traps are switched off but the creatures start firing red bolts at the pair. The Doctor and Mason rush out to the trees, passing the scorpion thing. The Doctor thinks the gorillas used to be human and were ruled by the Kings a long time ago. The kings start to try to explain to the apes that they will rule them and bring order to society. The gorillas attack the Kings after seeing them blast a bolt at the Doctor, who tried to explain to the kings. The Doctor thinks he and Mason are witnessing the second Skarab revolution. Despite bolts fired at them, the apes overcome the kings. The Doctor wishes there is something he can do but the restraint shown by the ancestors of the creatures is long gone. Mason Burns tells the Doctor that he doesn’t think he will tell anyone he found the tombs. After all the violence the planet has seen, he thinks it deserves to be left in peace now.

Ancient China: an old man tells two grandchildren a story that happened when he was a boy of a monkey king and a metal dragon and a man in a box. The man tells them the story. Young Li (the old man) runs into the TARDIS as it appears. He was collecting firewood. The Doctor comes out the doors asking if this is Tang Dynasty and if Li knows a Chan Chiu. Li tells the Doctor that Chan Chiu is his uncle. Chan tells the Doctor that he hasn’t changed a bit in all the years since they last met. There is a curfew because demons have come—a year ago is when the strangers arrived. They attacked, raised taxes and stole crops. He and the boy’s father resisted but people started to disappear. Chan lost the will to fight. Li tells the Doctor he can show him the way to the Temple in Qingyang, he owes it to his father to help rid Gansu province of these beasts. Li gives the Doctor a hat and will say he is the Doctor’s grandson. The Doctor notices the soldiers have transceivers on their heads, their thoughts are being controlled using telepathic control terminals. If he can get one, he might short circuit the central controller and shut the whole network down. Li rips one off a soldier and the pair run as soldiers fire blasts from their hands. The Doctor wonders where Li has gone to but Li calls him to a kind of priest hole. Secret routes were needed in darker times for escape. They arrive at the Chamber of Prayer, which the Doctor opens with the sonic screwdriver. The Doctor tells Li there are no such things as demons but mentions the wingy faced towel things on Prkarrious IX. In the chamber they find riches and gold stuffed in the room, while the people starve. A leader arrives with more guards and tells them to raise their hands. A large, tall reptile being and a bear-pig like alien man are behind a monkey man who orders, “Crush the intruders!”

Elderly Chan Li continues his story to his grandchildren: The Doctor pre programmed a feedback loop, the soldiers now freed from mind control. The Doctor jokes at the stone monkey, wondering if he can call him Bingo and his friends Pinky and Perky. The pig being is recognized by the Doctor as a Hoglaphon. To save the Chinese leader—the governor, the Doctor offers the monkey alien a challenge, claiming he never loses. The Governor tells them the first to bring him a rare lily that grows on the mountain of the North will win. It is known for bringing good fortune. The governor choose Pinky to race the Doctor, who tells the monkey alien his name and the monkey alien knows of the Doctor. The pig creature vanishes using a device—a short range personal teleport. The Doctor thinks a local farmer must have brought one of these to a local shrine as an offering to the spirit world for a good harvest. He borrows one from a stall. Pinky has a shriveled flower. The next challenge is to go to a cave where a dragon lives and tame it. Li tells the Doctor that no one has ever returned from the cave. The Doctor goes in but flames come out. Li yells, “Doctor! NO!” Li resists the aliens and has backup from the entire town. Including an old lady who threatens to slap their bottoms so hard! The aliens run for the cave…the dragon is really their spaceship. Inside, the Doctor has rebooted the defence system and their own restraint ray catches the aliens. Li comes and asks the Doctor how. The Doctor has faced a few real dragons in his time. He reprograms the autopilot and will send the three aliens to authorities that will arrest them. The Doctor tells Li he thinks he has a bright future ahead of him and to go home to his mother, who will be worried. Many years later, after concluding his story, Li tells his grand children that he met the Doctor once or twice more but that’s another story. He bids them goodnight as they are supposed to fall asleep. And on the same evening….the Doctor shows up and finds out Li made Governor. Li has tea and tells him he hasn’t aged a day.

Tom Blakeney loves playing with dog Sammy, a little cairn terrier. In the park, Tom finds an old stone with an alien face staring back at him from it. The Doctor hits hit out of Tom’s hand and introduces himself. A silicoid space folder from the planet Omikros is what it is. From where it came from stone is used like metal and plastic is on Earth. It is one half of a key which can fold space like a piece of paper, acting as a bridge between two different parts of the galaxy. Sammy finds something else and is zapped into a being: Ramadra from the Omikron Invasion Force. Tom threatens the giant wolf/dog humanoid rock creature but the Doctor tells him this is the part where they run for their lives. The thing attacks the Doctor, knocks him down and gets both rings and puts them both together. The space folds opens and thousands of warriors start coming through to invade destroy and conquer… Earth.

The Doctor uses sonic setting 317-7, a solicoid ring scrambler frequency to close the door. The lead creature asks, “What in the name of Korok?” It orders the warriors that did get through to kill the boy and the Doctor. The Doctor tells Tom, as they run through the picnic grounds, that his reversal of the fold in space won’t last for long. They have to get the rings and pull them apart for good. The Omikron are not used to Earth’s lighter gravity. One tries to grab Tom but the Doctor pull the boy away quicker. An old lady tells one of the monsters that Halloween has been and gone. The Doctor and Tom lose the warriors in the side streets. The Doctor grabs the rings but the leader Ramadra is going to step on the Doctor. Tom, caught and in the grip of one warrior, pleads to his dog Sammy not to do it. The Doctor throws a stick and says, “Fetch!” The Doctor destroys the link to Omikros, pulling those that came through before the rings were paralyzed back to it 150 million light years. The Doctor destroys the circuitry in the rings and Sammy is back to normal…a normal dog again. He and Tom reunite.

Death’s Door: a small remote planet on the edge of the Bromid System has a toxic atmosphere. An future man’s space suit is punctured but from it he manages to send out a call for help, even though he thinks it is too late for him. The Doctor picks up a weeping mayday call from planetoid KX77, Death’s Door. The planet has acid fog, severe storms. The Doctor goes outside after landing the TARDIS. He is wearing a purple space suit with green trim and a bubble helmet. He finds the man who sent the call…a skeleton inside a spacesuit. Corrosive air found a way inside the suit. He reads the suit: Dr Kaleb Loss, a research scientist from the Institute for Exocontamination Treatment, they find cures for alien diseases. InFect, as they are called, is based light years away from this planet. The Doctor wonders what is in that canister and he will take the body back home to the Mustron system. On Mustron V, the TARDIS arrives. There is a forcefield around the InFECT base, preventing the TARDIS from getting inside. The Doctor takes the body back through the alien landscape, another less than charming spot without breathable air and with fungal growths that found a way to survive without air. The low gravity allowed them to grow into brilliant shapes. The Doctor says, “You know, I really miss having someone to talk to. All this excitement and wonder and no one to share it with…” He doesn’t think Kaleb counts as he’s dead. The Doctor opens airlock 2. Inside, there should be four scientists but he finds none of them. The Doctor picks up life readings. …and then life itself…as a giant purple beast with many tentacle eyes and a large maw of razor sharp teeth lungs at him, roaring…

The time is in the 32nd century: the Doctor drops a astrograph to block the monster which gives him time to find a human named Rachel Barlow, a woman with short red hair who was hiding in the cupboard. His sonic screwdriver picked up her life form. She tells the Doctor he can call her Red. The creature is a Vox, a kind of guard dog but the Vox are as afraid at they are. A faceless spaceman is around and Red believes he already killed the other Vox. The Doctor finds the one he blocked just stunned, not dead. The team here was researching a cure for Space Plague which is spreading through the Outer Worlds. They are nearly at a cure. They find Jennifer Arden, senior research scientist; Asif Khan, from the Associated Universities of Ortakela and Sto, and older man Mick Hogan. Jen’s brother was a victim of the space plague. The Doctor tells them what happened to Kaleb. He tells them it must have been very quick. When they go to Medical Ward Unit 2, they find the body missing. They split up and search the base. Kaleb was looking for an extract from the mineral stryntium, the only place it is found is on Death’s Door. The Doctor left the sample in airlock 2. Red and The Doctor go to get it but the door shuts. They think it was Hogan who shut them in but on the screen, they see a faceless space man in a space suit…who activates the outer door…thrusting the Doctor and Red outside…where there is on air!

Red holds her breath while the Doctor gets them back inside. Inside, they find that Jen is in the spacesuit. The Doctor quotes Scooby Do, “She’d have got away with it, too, if it weren’t for us meddling kids.” Jen threatens them with a Meson Blaster, illegal in this day and age. The Doctor thought so anyway and goes on and on about it, “The misuse of Meson Technology Act was passed in 3275, that’s another 100 years in the future. You’re right, sorry, it’s perfectly legal. Fire away.” He then tells her not to shoot. Mick was knocked out but arrives to stop her but in the scuffle, Asif’s shoulder is hit by a meson ray and is fused (like given stitches? And healed?) Jen takes the sample and runs for it. She sets the Vox on Mick. The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver on a blue light and it runs away. “It’s just a big softie, really.” Mick and the others find Jen and Mick fires her. She wants to make the cure herself. She accidentally releases the sample of plague she was testing her cure on. Her face turns purple and sprouts pox. The Doctor uses the cure on her and saves her. Mick figures Jen used a refraction visor on the space helmet suit to fake the faceless spaceman attacks. She thought Hogan would take too long to make the cure. Red tells the Doctor they will transmit details of the cure all around the galaxy and call it the Kaleb Loss vaccine. Red asks the Doctor if he wants to stay and help but he says “I was going to ask you the same thing…but I think you’ll have plenty to do here. I’d just get in the way now—it’s time I was gone.”

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The Doctor and Donna are taking a holiday on a 19th Century American steam train when robot alien treasure hunters attack the locomotive. They are after the last Febree Orb in the universe, one of seven energy cells which contained the power of a sun in a single glass ball. The Doctor and Donna split up with Donna heading back to the TARDIS and the Doctor running across the roof. The Doctor runs into one of the treasure hunters when a spaceship passes overhead. The robot reveals it belongs to the black hole gang and the two team up to follow the craft. The ship blows up the bridge ahead of them sending them plunging into a flaming ravine. The gang open up a vortex which sends the train into a cavern filled with alien life forms.

Donna is followed to the TARDIS by one of the robots who she captures. They reveal that they are not treasure hunters but deputy sheriff Butch and Sundance, who wanted to get the orb before the black hole gang could use it to power a super-weapon. The boss of the gang, Krawz Kra, captures Butch and The Doctor and gets the fake orb from the Doctor. However, the gang pick up on Donna’s orb and capture her and Sundance as they attempt to rescue the Doctor. Krawz installs the orb into The Rig, a device to harvest the molten core of a planet, and tests it on Earth. However the orbs go flat almost as soon as they are used and leach from the nearest power source. This causes the gang’s base to be destroyed whilst Butch, Sundance, The Doctor and Donna return on the train to 19th Century America.

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The Doctor and Donna accidently turn up in 1951 and see a news headline “Lavender Hill Blob Horror”. When spotted by a policeman the Doctor claims to be an inspector from Scotland Yard. Although the description of the blob given by the policeman is treated with cynicism by Donna they go to the site of the last sighting. From the quantity of Ozone around the Doctor concludes that the creature must liquid based, possibly a shape-shifter. PC March is mysteriously missing and the blob appears. They follow it to a back alley in lavender hill. They lose track of it but find an old woman, Mrs Edna Wilberforce, who says she collapsed after seeing the blob. The Doctor goes looking for PC Marsh and seeing his footprints disappear concludes he was the blob. Back at Edna’s she transforms into the blob.

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The Doctor and Donna arrive on the International Space Station in the late 2050s. In the Russian section they encounter Truman Truss who, assuming they are aliens, takes them to one of the American modules. Not long after Donna corrects him the space station suffers a hull breach. Thinking it must not be a meteorite as the stations scanners did not pick anything up the Doctor goes to investigate. Moments later they discover the problem. Some sort of space insects chewed through the hull. Without warning some of the insects move and with a whoosh the Doctor is sucked into space.

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In order to ‘recharge their batteries’ the Doctor and Donna travel to the Planet Feu, the quiet and relaxing place in the universe. It is also the headquarters of the ‘Ancient Order of Bonemenders’, an order dedicated to psychic healing. However, Donna is disturbed by them as they wear the bones of their predecessors.

A ceremonial bell sounds and they are granted an audience with Cosmae, the spiritual leader of the Bonemenders, who amazes Donna by knowing their names. However, the Doctor feels something strange inside his mind and goes to lie down. Later, Donna goes for a walk worried that the Doctor might be losing his mind. Whilst out she sees what looks like someone wearing the same dress she was wearing to her wedding with Lance. As she tries to gain the attention of the wearer, the dress falls away to reveal a horrific tentacled green head with many eyes which looks at her and hisses. However, it soon runs away unexpectedly and the dress becomes a blackened shroud.

Later, the Doctor, who is resting in bed, hears Donna’s story and decides they need to investigate, although he begins to call people by the wrong names. He attempts to talk to Cosmae but finds him with a painted face and talking nonsense. The Doctor concludes that his brain has been interfered by something. Donna then sees the alien head, although The Doctor sees it only as a balloon. She gives chase but loses track of it. When she returns the Doctor’s face is painted just like Cosmae’s.

The Doctor begins to jump around and speak gobbledygook. He manages to calm down and Donna is able to deduce that he wants to return to the TARDIS. The strange head returns but Cosmae distracts it for them to make their escape. Back in the TARDIS the Doctor is protected from most forms of mind control. He reveals to Donna that the creature is a Kra Durr, or Brain Worm, a parasite that has probably been feeding for years on the minds of the Bonemenders. As Donna had been walking near the TARDIS when she first saw it, it found it harder to influence her. The Doctor then attacks the Kra Durr by messing with its mind, with the help of the Bonemenders, making it flee. The Bonemenders are now free and their headquarters can return to a place of hope and healing.

Inside the TARDIS a problem has occurred. A power spike creates an explosion in one of the low importance circuits sending the Doctor and Donna flying. The Doctor attempts an emergency landing but Donna notices she is growing taller. As the TARDIS lands the Doctor realises that the Dimensional Interface Override, also known as the 'Alice in Wonderland Circuit', which should regulate the interplay between the dimensions within the TARDIS and the real world, is broken. With both of them growing The Doctor suggests Donna leaves whilst she still can. Outside she finds that both she and the TARDIS have grown and they have landed on a mountain near the shack of an angry bearded man. The Doctor correctly guesses this is Minos, the only man in creation who deals in spare parts. However, he has become a hermit turning his back on technology and is angered that their arrival caused him to break seven years of silence. Donna offers to repair his roof in exchange for a new 'Alice in Wonderland Circuit', which only takes her minutes due to her size. Later they are all returned to normal size, thanking Minos for his help.

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The Doctor and Donna are hanging from a cliff above the river when a rope loops round them and they are pulled up. Their rescuer is Jeb, a fisherman from Zentos 3 who lost his pod at the same time as the TARDIS. Jeb has seen some steps in the rock which lead down to the river which they will attempt the next day. The Doctor deduces that the tidal waves are caused by balancing pools, a freak rock formation in the shape of a crucible balanced upon a pivoting piece that overspills when it fills with water. The next day they attempt the steps. They are slippery and at one point Jeb slips and is only caught by Doctor. They make it down to the river but are caught by another tidal wave. They are however rescued by bears, who show them where all the flotsam is washed up, allowing Jeb to travel home and the Doctor and Donna to return to the TARDIS.

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The TARDIS arrives over the moon and the Doctor shows Donna the face of a man on the moon, who is unimpressed. The Doctor suggests they go down on to the moon dressed as aliens and wave at NASA exploration vechiles, however they are interrupted by a spaceship that tells them they are illegally orbiting. The Doctor, unwilling to pay the parking ticket, makes an emergency landing on the moon. Outside they find a destroyed traffic warden robot, a flying saucer and then its owner, a bipedal elephant in a spacesuit. Eventually the alien remembers its name is Chevron and us stuck on the moon over a billion and a half year parking fine. Then the traffic warden robots attack, they are temporarily beaten off but Donna’s suit is pierced. Soon more robots arrive and clamp the TARDIS.

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The TARDIS is having a bumpy ride through the Time Vortex. Although the Doctor tries to reassure Donna, he is unsure what is happening and decides to attempt an emergency materialisation. They land in a science convention, in the middle of next year according to Donna, destroying a Portaloo in the process. The Doctor accuses Professor Eustace Krosson of causing a temporal bulge in the vortex. However, the Doctor becomes fascinated when he sees the professor has invented a wave time-vector detector 200 years too early, although Eustace claims it is really a hairdryer using localised temporal acceleration instead of hot air. Meanwhile, Donna goes to get a free demo of new cosmetics. Suddenly people begin to fade away. With the detector they see the cause of the disappearances, gigantic purple and green insects.

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Whilst the Doctor and the professor are held by the Imago their queen feeds on Donna’s lifestream causing her to disappear. The Doctor threatens the queen but she is not scared and claims she will keep feasting until her eggs are born. However, she turns green and sickly, as do all the Imago. This causes her to sick up Donna. The Doctor explains this due to her being a time traveller makes her act like a temporal emetic. The Imago continues to be sick, regurgitating all those they have consumed. The energy cost from this causes them to retreat back to their own dimension. With everything returned to normal the Doctor dismantles the hairdryer because it is too dangerous before he and Donna continue on their journey.

The time travellers arrive in the ruins of the long lost civilization of Kolvax in the Zimenees system, who disappeared millions of years ago. The Doctor sees an image of an armoured giant holding a big glowing ball whilst ten small stick figures surround him with lines between them. They are interrupted by a withered hooded figure who accuses them of trespassing, however once he discovers they are star-travellers, he tells them he is Lorkel, the last ‘Guardian of Kolvax’, who wants them to help him return to earth where his master died. The Doctor agrees to this but Donna is mistrustful wanting to search his sack as he enters. Suddenly the Doctor and Donna’s discussion is interrupted humanoid creatures of pure energy emerge from the stones. Lorkel tells the creatures he will soon be free of them forever and sends out a pulse of psychic energy from his ring which appears to hurt the creatures. Inside the TARDIS Lorkel gives the Doctor the coordinates and they arrive at some standing stones in England. They find Lorkel attaching polarising stasis generators to the stones, where he reveals he is trying to resurrect his greatest ever experiment, Lord Tarkurthi, and blasts the Doctor with his ring. The ground shakes and a gigantic hand emerges from under the stones, knocking Lorkel unconscious. Out comes Lord Takurthi, an armoured giant as shown on the ruins.

Whilst the giant is still disorientated from oversleeping for one thousand years the Doctor investigates the stones that Lorkel was fiddling with. They find trapped one of the energy creatures from earlier and the Doctor attempts to free it. Just then Lord Tarkurthi snatches up the Doctor. Realising he is a man of intelligence and power the giant tells the Doctor how he was once the greatest star warrior of Kovlax and the supreme conqueror but his own people, fearing he would take over Kovlax, trapped him and use human slaves to bury him alive. The Doctor realises that the stone Circle was originally built as a prison but with the stones being stolen over the years it is no longer effective. At that moment Lorkel begins to come round, muttering about his greatest scientific achievement before dying. The Doctor realises Lorkel created Lord Tarkurthi by experimenting with Kolvaxian biology and growth hormones. Offering to be the giant’s new servant the Doctor takes Lorkel’s ring and blast him with psychic energy. He then gets Donna to use the sonic screwdriver on the rocks. This releases energy creatures designed to act as jailers. Unfortunately there are only five left because some stones are missing. The Doctor therefore converts one of the stasis generators into a molecular destabiliser, shrinking Lord Tarkurthi. With the warrior defeated the Doctor gets the jailers to return the stones and he leaves with Donna.

The Doctor and Donna arrive in a Victorian Christmas scene, The Doctor is excited but Donna is annoyed as she wanted to do a shopping trip. The Doctor reveals they have only gone to next Christmas and they were in a scene inside a garden centre. Whilst the Doctor goes to visit Santa’s grotto, Donna goes shopping and in the process gets met by what appears to a real life Snowman. It reveals it is an alien who is in flight but during his explanation is wounded. Meanwhile, the Doctor is reasonably impressed with the Grotto’s realism, although the reindeer should be greener and have more legs, when everyone begins fleeing. Inside the grotto the Doctor detects the energy signature of a teleport vortex when, suddenly, little green humanoids capture him and teleport him back to their vessel believing him to be the Snowdemon. The Doctor, after convincing the Pixees he is not the Snowdemon, he agrees to help them capture it. He meets with Donna and the Snowdemon and the Pixees ambush it. The snowdemon runs taking Donna with him, however they go into the hothouse where the Doctor turns the power up to full causing it to melt. The Doctor tells the Snowdemon it will be taken back for trial. Later, Donna, The Doctor and the Pixees eat together at the garden centre’s buffet.

Heather McCrimmon is a bubbly 19 year old history student at Edinburgh University in 2009. Rob and Suze follow Heather into the catacombs experience. Some sounds happen so Heather’s friends run outside but Heather feels someone is in trouble so she ventures inside deeper and sees a lady apparition being chased by a glowing monster. Heather knocks her head and is unconscious. She awakened by the Doctor who tells her the apparitions were echoes of the past. They should have passed right through her but didn’t. Heather recounts that the lady was wearing a dress from 1815 in a Regency day dress. The monster was a Mozhtratta, a molecular parasite but he can handle it. Using the sonic screwdriv er, he finds that there are traces of the thing’s DNA on her and that she has some mild fuzzy Vortex radiation on her. He thinks he’s met one of her ancestors and then learns her name…the same last name as Jamie McCrimmon. He doesn’t tell her that he once traveled with a McCrimmon. He tells her that the Mozhtratta has been trapped by residual vortex radiation in her family’s chromosomes ever since it attacked the woman in the past and now it is fighting to get free through Heather. The woman is her great great great great great grandmother. In the TARDIS, he Doctor works to extrapolate the data he scanned from the DNA and worked out precise time and location coordinates. Heather, excited, goes back in time with him to 1815 at High Street but they need to get to Cowgate. They are too late: the thing attacks the woman. Heather starts to feel strange as the thing gains strength and soon it will feed on Heather’s molecules. The Doctor gets to the woman and starts her to focus and fight back. It makes the thing leave for good. He calls McCrimmon stock good stuff. If the vortex energy wasn’t in the woman, the thing would have killed her. The energy weakened over the centuries so Heather would have been a goner. Heather asks the Doctor to let her come with him…he agrees if it will help with her history exams and if she’s prepared to muck in…

The Doctor and Heather land underwater on the way back to earth and go swimming. They are surprised when they find a car and then the Houses of Parliament. When they swim inside to investigate they are captured by Spaerons. At the Spaeron base the Empress Aeskelia claims they are the inheritors of Earth after aquaforming the planet but the Doctor is unable to understand why they have left their home planet, Oceanus Pacifika. The Doctor and Heather flee and are rescued by Captain Harris and the Sub-Aqua division. He explains the Daleks destroyed their home planet and they were originally allowed to live in the Earth’s oceans, but Askelia melted the icecaps and flooded the planet. The Doctor is able to make a deal with Askelia to move the Spaerons to Kerun Za when they restore the ice-caps back to their natural state.

The TARDIS’ calibrators need to recalibrate and they land in the sealed habitation pod of Olbec’s. They find the place in disrepair and the inhabitants glum. The TARDIS falls through the floor of the pod and the Doctor decides to restore service by going to the central hub. In the hub, Doctor and Heather encounter Trundle-V robot who tells them that all other servobots are on a recharge cycle, as the mayorbot allowed all robots to delegate their duties whilst they do so. They decided to visit the city hall but are set upon by servobots wanting orders. Heather orders them to leave them alone and they are able to enter City Hall. Inside they find the former model Maya De La Gratzka who disappeared 20 years ago. She purchased Podworld herself not knowing that any residents remained. All the servobots are restored and the law of delegation is removed.

After collecting some clothes at her house Heather meets the Doctor outside who is inspecting a storm through binoculars. He claims the rain is fake and is actually the result of The Cran Movement, whose world dried up so they steal other planet’s clouds. The Doctor and Heather materialise on board the Cran ship and The Doctor tells them that what they are doing is against galactic law and they have one chance to leave. The Cran do not believe the Doctor so he shuts down their shields and they are hit by lightning. Powerless and stranded the Doctor tows the Cran to the Shadow Proclamation. He then says he’ll take Heather somewhere sunny, a sun.

The Doctor announces they have arrived on Delquis, telling heather it is a place of radiant beauty. However, outside they find the place under attack from birds of fire. Talking the Delquisian Shell Judge they find the attack is from the Parrian, their peaceful neighbours, who have made no communications. The Doctor and Heather travel to the Parrian palace and speak to the prince. They discover he did not order the birds to attack but to perform a traditional proposal ceremony, as he has fallen in love with the Shell judge. He therefore instead orders the birds to rebuild the city, following advice from Heather. The proposal is accepted and they plan to attend the wedding whilst accusing each other of being “slushy”.

In Peru in 1911,explorer Hiram Bingham is in search of the lost city of Machu Picchu. When he arrives he is surprised to find The Doctor and Heather. They are attempting to cure temporal hiccups through the use of time holes. Hiram is angry to find them there but gets sucked through a time hole which closes behind him. The whole world then changes, as Heather and the Doctor find themselves inside a city of 8ft tall lizard men. Heather and the Doctor are chased by the Lizard men and, when hiding, encounter an old bearded man who believes the Doctor can save them from the Incasaurs. He takes them to the hitching point where they see, through a time hole, Hiram in Machu Piccu during the Incan time. The Incasaurs find them and reveal they opened a portal from another dimension as their sun was dying. The Doctor and Heather are ordered to be executed but Hiram shakes hands with the old bearded man, an aged Hiram, created a massive discharge of temporal energy stopping the time holes from ever existing. The Doctor and Heather leave, allowing Hiram to discover Machu Picchu without any memory of them.

The Doctor brings Heather to the Waltox Worldstore, the largest supermarket in the galaxy as it is the only place that stocks zongaberry jam. On entering the place they find it empty, dirty and in disrepair. They are found by the manager, Lenid Strimmer, and chased by the cleaning robots. Later, in Strimmer’s office, he reveals that the store was made completely computerised which went wrong when a customer took eight items to the seven items or less queue. The store could not solve the contradiction between the customer always being right and this customer being wrong made it go mad chasing away the customers believing they made it uncompetitive. The supermarket now believes it must crush all competition and thinks the planet Earth is a competitor. The cleaning robots then attacked the Doctor and Strimmer but Heather saves them, ordering the robots to a nonexistent aisle. In the computer room the computer electrocutes the Doctor but he realises the solution. The Americas look like the Waltoxain for supermarket. He moves the store round the Earth’s orbit so it becomes nonsense. The Doctor and Heather then leave with a large supply of zongaberry jam as a thank you.

On the 14th September 1944 a German U-boat under the command of Otto Lehmann is struck by an allied depth charge and is suffering from terminal engine failure and a hull breach. The TARDIS lands on board with the Doctor excited at seeing an IXD2 but Heather is worried by the fact that the submarine is German and that it appears to be sinking. Suddenly, they are caught by Krigge as spies but Lehmann is willing to let the Doctor help save them. He uses his sonic screwdriver to seal the breach but Heather tries to stop him as they are on the wrong side and her Great-Grandpa died from a U-boat in 1944. However, the Doctor points out these are real people and the German’s suffered an extremely high casualty rate themselves. Heather is convinced and soon the U-boat is on the way to the surface. The Doctor and Heather leave in the TARDIS and the U-boat crew survive when they are captured by the HMS Worthy.

In New York 2018 the Doctor and Heather have just left a musical production of Bleak House, when Heather notices an argument between the NYPD and three strange men in black. When the police refuse to help the men they institute a direct psychic transfer, taking possession of them. The Doctor and Heather follow the men to the New York Stock Exchange. On the main trading floor they find an army of possessed people obeying a Gavulav, a race of interstellar computer hackers who make galactic fortunes from fleecing other world’s economies. Whilst Heather distracts the Gavulav as a health and safety officer the Doctor inserts a Gallifreyan counter virus, freeing all those possessed. The Gavulav captures Heather and says he will kill her unless the Doctor reactivates his Liquidation Worm, which was creating the possession. However, he is stopped by all the freed humans and decides to leave. The Doctor and Heather take a quick trip forward to look at the theatre reviews but the Doctor says that no one reads them anyway.

The Doctor, attempting to make repairs to the ship lands the TARDIS in an empty nebula but they hit something and they are thrown around the ship. The Doctor is knocked unconscious and Heather decides to answer a thumping at the door. Upon opening she is greeted by an angry open mouthed creature with nine eyes, tentacles and huge set of teeth. She is picked up by the alien who reveals that they intend to conquer the human Empire of Whap and they believe her to be a spy. She cries out for help to the Doctor who wakes up and dematerialises the TARDIS. As the Alien holding Heather attempts to eat her, a huge Doctor appears outside the hidden alien space fleet and holds the vessel they had crashed aboard. The aliens, sacred at the size of the doctor, release Heather. She is surprised to find the Doctor to be both inside the TARDIS inside the spaceship and outside holding the ship. He reveals this occurred due to the attempting to materialise around Heather whilst the dimensional control was disconnected. The Doctor then disentangles them and drops the space fleet outside the nebula where they are captured by the Whap Border Patrol.

In The Fluxos Desert on Flexella, The Doctor and Heather are travelling on the Silver Bullet, a transcontinental train from West City to see Professor Vexor in East City. ZX29 comes to the travellers to tell them dinner is being served in the restaurant carriage. Enroute a Flexellan Octopod barges past Heather saying that someone is after it. The Octopod runs past them again whilst they are eating dinner and Heather decides to go to bed, not liking the local food. Later, Heather is woken by one of the Octopod’s tentacles tapping on the window of her sleeping compartment, she screams and she goes with the Doctor to the guard’s carriage. In the carriage, they find the guards pulling the Octopod through the window asking for what they need, after searching its person the Octopod produces its ticket. The Doctor explains Flexellan Octopods are nervous folk. The next morning they arrive in East City where Heather claims to have learnt a lot from her journey.

On the planet Mohaga, outermost world of the Kesh Kali system, the Doctor and Heather are racing back to the TARDIS, being chased by the Mohagan Horde. Inside the TARDIS, Heather turns invisible. The Doctor takes her to the Institute For Exo-Contamination Treatment, or InFECT, which specialised in intergalactic medicine. On board the InFECT space station, Professor Aldrin Strykt concludes she has picked up a retro-photonic virus, this means her atomic structure is altered so light bends around her. In order to cure her he needs to get an organic protein extract from Mohaga. After being chased by the Mohagan horde, he gets the organic protein he needs from the Bleurgh Bush thorn. When the Doctor returns to the space station he finds the virus has infected everyone on board but he is able to synthesise the antidote and cure everyone.

The Doctor and Heather are on board an old people’s home in space. The Doctor is enjoying the zero-gravity but he is informed that this is not intentional but is because they are under attack. At that moment a group of meerkat space pirates crash in. Although the Doctor is able to stop one, an army invades. Heather asks what they want with an old people’s home and they tell that they were dumped there by another group of pirates who stole their ship. The Doctor agrees to help return the meerkat’s spaceship with the help of the home’s residents. On board the spaceship a group of pirate crabs are attacked with lemons. The crabs agree to surrender but one of them attempts to shoot heather. One of the residents saves her by jumping into the line of fire, disintegrating their Zimmer frame. The crabs and meerkats decide that being a pirate is too much like hard work so they decide to retire to the old people’s home, whilst the residents turn to a life of piracy.

On an alien world the Doctor and Heather are exploring when the ground under the Doctor’s feet gives way. A few hours later, the Doctor is resting in the home of Krolo, one of the planet’s residents, whilst being bandaged by Heather. Krolo informs them they were on the mountain of death where volunteers from the community enter, some return with riches and others do not return at all. The Doctor and Heather enter the mountain going past flames, pits of spikes and robot guards. Inside they find a huge pile of gold and jewels and a computer covered in cobwebs. The Doctor says this is an ancient Abomination Game, where contestants undertake tests to win prizes and the inhabitants of the world are the descendants of the original contestants. The Doctor switches off the computer allowing all the inhabitants to be winners.

The Doctor takes Heather to Tranquillity, a place of peace and serenity, but discovers it in ruins and the Bereft, the inhabitants, refugees in rags. A robed Bereft, who appears to be in authority, tells the Doctor and Heather that yesterday the whole world was shaken and they are trying to reach an area of tectonic stability beyond Eternity Canyon. The Doctor and Heather join the inhabitants on their journey although the Doctor does not believe the disaster to be natural. When they reach the canyon the Bereft are shocked to find that no bridge exists but the Doctor activates a light bridge. As they attempt to cross a gigantic robot emerges from the depths of the canyon setting a fire across their path. It is revealed to be a Tactical Response and Offensive Leveller, or T.R.O.L., a device of the Bereft’s warlike ancestors. The Doctor swings onto the top of the T.R.O.L. and switches its control to manual allowing the Bereft to cross. The Doctor and Heather use the robot to travel to the below the Earth’s crust where the auto-pilot guides them to a military bunker, once again belonging to the Bereft’s warlike ancestors. In the computer database the Doctor discovers an ancient bomb has now exploded causing the destruction. He resets the defence shields and the Bereft are able to escape on the rescue ships before the planet explodes. On board the TARDIS the Doctor reveals to Heather that the defence shields were so powerful they have created a gravity well, so that in a billion years time Tranquillity will be reborn.

The Doctor and Heather arrive on board the USS Cyclops in 1918, which was when it went into the Bermuda triangle and disappeared, supposedly by a giant squid. As the Doctor wonders why it may have sunk he is captured by Captain Worley, who believes him to be a stowaway, and locks him in the brig. Heather enters once Worley has left and uses the sonic screwdriver to free the Doctor. As they run outside they discuss the possible reasons why the ship may sink. The Doctor believes it may be the Captain’s poor navigation skills, while Heather thinks it may be a German spy or mutiny. Back on the deck the Doctor, Heather and the crew are surprised to see what appears to be a giant Octopus attacking the ship. The Doctor reveals it is actually an Octopod, a Rutan weapon which must have arrived in a crash landed ship. They stop it by throwing the cargo of manganese ore at it, disrupting its magnetic field and making it splash back into the see. The Doctor and Heather use the distraction to escape. Inside the TARDIS the Doctor says he cannot save the ship, its disappearance is a part of history and will remain a mystery as a great wave forms above the Cyclops.

The Doctor and Heather intend to arrive on 10th June 1854 outside the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park ready for the grand reopening. However, the place is strangely deserted, which makes the Doctor wonders if he has got the date wrong. They hear a strange sound like chanting and soon they find what appears to be a group of men from the mid-1930s around an Atomic Event Extender. On the machine is a strangely dressed figure talking of spiritual energies. The Doctor enters attempting to stop them using the weapon by the strange figure activates the machine, turning a tree into Victumas, Queen of the Dominion Sisterhood bent on galactic domination previously imprisoned by the Doctor in the antimatter realm. The Doctor orders everyone to leave and cuts some of the wires of the machine to limit some of Victumas’ power. The strange figure bows to worship the Queen but is instead crushed. General Stoker is impressed by the power of the weapon but he is shouted at by the Doctor. The Doctor and Heather then rout the Atomic Event Extender’s output through the iron frame of the structure making it a giant magnet, which reacts with the antimatter exploding Victumas and engulfing the palace in flames. The Doctor and Heather leave before people ask awkward questions.

The Doctor and Heather are visiting the prison of the dead remains of Ashgar. He was once the most feared Star Demons of Kroul controlling an empire across 50 systems and the possessor of incredible mental powers. Eventually he was defeated by a band of brave souls known as the Legion of The Honest and locked in a giant vault deep beneath the surface of Kroul. His prison has now become a tourist attraction, bringing prosperity to the nearby planets, but the Doctor’s interest has come from a message on the psychic paper which simply reads Ashgar. Going to a restricted area they go towards the actual tomb of Ashgar but are attacked on enroute by robotic gargoyle guards, though the Doctor manages to defeat them by accelerating the decay on the bridge causing the guards to fall under the collapsing stonework. At the tomb they encounter the disembodied spirit of Ashgar. He reveals that after his defeat at Hoganrar it realised that his powers had been squandered on death and destruction and has used them afterwards to encourage the people of the universe in peace. A little later, Heather and the Doctor leave talking about how the prosperity enjoyed by the nearby planets are Ashgar’s way of trying to atone for his past bad deeds.

Live, on Space Station Apple Theta, Zed Mantelli is presenting the Monster Idol auditions, the competition to be crowned the most terrifying life-form in the galaxy and to be hired by the King and Queen of Meritoria as their personal bodyguard. At the last-minute the King and Queen are joined by the Doctor as the third judge. Nearby Heather goes behind the scenes to investigate, not trusting the way the King and Queen are acting. The contest begins and the Doctor is dismissive of Xxharxaxx claiming his catchphrase is terrible and his name is unpronounceable. Outside Xxharxaxx tells Zed his gutted but is glad to have taken part. Meanwhile, Heather distracts a guard telling them that the bandersnatches and hippogriffs are fighting. Looking inside a room Heather is surprised by what she sees. Back at the auditions the Doctor is still criticising many of the contestants, one for pustules being ‘so last year’ and for having no nose, another for being likely to rust and unable to climb stairs, and the final one for being a woman with a jumper pulled over her head and holding a sink plunger. This final contestant is revealed to be Heather who warns the Doctor that the real king and queen are unconscious in their room and the Doctor finds that the camera is a bomb. The Doctor diffuses the bomb and Heather tackles the fleeing imposters. As the imposters are taken away by security they reveal they were planning to kill all their rivals in one stroke, and the Doctor and Heather are interviewed by Zed.

The Doctor and Heather arrive on Earth in 1969 tracking an unusual signal. The Doctor discovers it is from a Slakken Cat collar, made to be worn because these cats are such dangerous predators. They are then approached by the Hunter, a member of the Slakkenkind who has been using his sonic shooter to trace the cat. All three of them follow the signal to a small wooden house where they find the cat asleep. The hunter wants to kill it whilst it is still on its sleep cycle but at that moment two hippies enter carrying some logs of wood. They reveal it ran out in front of their van and it has been sleeping since. The cat begins to stir and the hunter prepares to kill it, but the hippies refuse to let him as they believe animals to be equals. The hunter reveals that the Slakkenkind have hunted the collared cats for generations. The Doctor interjects that the cat is now uncollared but does not appear to be hostile and the hunter reveals the collars make them savage and dangerous so they are more fun to hunt. As the two argue the cat jumps on the hunters face but licks him rather than attacking him. Now the Hunter is disarmed the Doctor and Heather go to take the Hunter and the Slakken Cat back to Slakken with the intention of freeing all the cats.

The TARDIS materialises in response to an automated emergency transmission on Deep Space Research Station G-Delta17 orbiting Dwarf Star designated ‘Darkplace’. On board the station they find a series of stasis booths. Suddenly, they are found by an angry scientist with a fire extinguisher who wants to know why they are here. It is revealed that the signal was meant to be a quarantine alert but it was reprogrammed by bytemites, two types of nanobots fighting a microscopic civil war, who came aboard from an abandoned space freighter. Now the engines have collapsed on the station they are heading towards a dwarf star. In order to flush out the bytemites the Doctor decides to connect Glomp, the station’s robot, to the main computer with a data bank in between to trap them. However, the data bank breaks and the bytemites infect Glomp. The Doctor, Heather and the scientist run to the maintenance bay where the Doctor locks the other two in. The Doctor then opens the airlock, gripping onto a lever and Glomp grabs on to him. Glomp is then able to eject the Bytemites from his boot drive, located in his boot, into the Dwarf Star. With the airlock resealed the crew are revived.

At 1:45 am, a party is in full swing at Flat 14B, Jubilee Court which is annoying Mrs Agnes Hardcastle who decides to use the sonic screwdriver to get rid of the noise. Meanwhile, on board the TARDIS the Doctor realises he must have lost his Sonic Screwdriver when he encountered the Slitheen on top of the London Gherkin. When the Doctor and Heather go searching for it they find that there is no sound. Going back to the TARDIS the Doctor explains the sonic must be on a cancellation wave setting broadcasting a bubble of silence. Therefore the screwdriver must be at the centre of the bubble. Whilst Heather saves a boy from an approaching lorry the Doctor finds Agnes asleep but being approached by a purple tentacle creature. The Doctor pushes the creature to the ground causing him pain. Agnes awakes and is terrified. In order to break the silence the Doctor gives her instructions on the psychic paper. As the bubble of silence is broken by the Sonic Screwdriver the creature fades away and Heather enters. The Doctor reveals the creature cannot survive in our dimension because of the sounds of our world, which are deadly to it, just as its method of communication is to us, which was what it was trying to do to Agnes. The Doctor and Heather leave retrieving the Sonic Screwdriver. At 2:15 am the next day, Agnes can’t sleep because she is afraid of the silence, so she puts on a Sydney Devine record, which annoys the people in flat 14B.

Heather awakes with a headache to find her and the Doctor in a strange pink arched room with some chicks. The Doctor reveals the TARDIS has got time sickness, from an anomaly encountered in the vortex, and this is causing the inside to change. Suddenly, the Cloister Bell rings out, although sounding strange, and the chicks transform, becoming gigantic and aggressive with huge teeth and red eyes. As they run away the Doctor explains they are physical manifestations of the infection conjured up by either the TARDIS or himself because of the telepathic link. In the next room they find a department store and the Doctor jumps onto a mobility scooter which he and Heather flee on. They find their way back to the console room, which has transformed into a high tech room with a Jacuzzi and a 42-metre plasma screen TV, and they are found by the chicks again. However, the Doctor has become too infected and is unable to help. Heather realises that the TARDIS was guiding them back here for a reason. Because the Sonic Screwdriver is also part of the TARDIS but has not been affected it may contain enough of the real TARDIS to fight the infection. After inserting it into the console and turning it on, Heather and the Doctor find themselves in the normal console room and the Doctor finds the infection is completely gone. Later, Heather says she wishes they could have kept the big TV whilst trying to watch the football on the Doctor’s small screen.

The Doctor has agreed to escort Heather to the summer ball at Edinburgh University, but he is nervous because of the bad things that happen when he wears a tux. As they enter the Doctor complains about the screeching voice of the singer of the band. Suddenly, a gang of Kulgaris enter, eyeless creatures that operate on sound and vibration. The Doctor explains they were on a prison ship that crashed and they got lost in space, although he is unsure what they are doing here. Jumping onto the stage the Doctor confronts the singer, realising she is a Gumpii, using her voice as a vocal positioning guide for the Kulgaris in order to conquer the planet. The Doctor is able to stop them by using his sonic screwdriver near the microphone making the Kulgaris explode into purple sludge and use the Kulgaris’ chains on the Gumpii. Heather then emerges covered in purple sludge, saying she agrees with the Doctor that formal wear attracts disaster, but the Doctor does not believe it was all bad.

The Doctor and Heather are on the planet Uriel. She thinks it is beautiful but the Doctor seems worried as the planet had been destroyed the previous year by the Supress and they were dragged back there across space. They are met by a tall, thin, yellow, spiny creature who says that its family were also pulled back. The Doctor concludes it must be drawing back old visitors but cannot work out how. Suddenly, Heather glows with catalytic-atomic residue but the Doctor says he thinks it is harmless. The Doctor concludes that there may soon be in trouble as the visitors seem to be returning in the order they last visited and that therefore the Supress may be returning soon. Heather realises that when she moves a different way the glow increases and they decide to follow it. Soon they reach a metal box that the Doctor reveals is a memory collective, a galactic sub-atomic standard terraforming computer which rebuilds destroyed planet atom by atom. It must now have gone into overdrive bringing back the former visitors. As the Doctor says this, the Supress ship appears in the sky. The only solution is to turn the device off but no one that has previously been to the planet can penetrate the memory collective’s shields. However, Heather has never been to Uriel before and is able to reverse the device, sending the trapped visitors back into space. The Doctor asks Heather if she has been put off visiting new places but she says she can’t wait to see the whole universe with the Doctor.

In 1938, Los Angeles, in the office of private detective Jake Crumb, Heather is trying to convince him unsuccessfully. At that moment the Doctor enters, having been held up by traffic cops, and presents Krumb with the picture of the woman he needs to find on the psychic paper. Krumb is surprised as it is his estranged mother, Esmeralda. As the three rush to catch a cab the Doctor explains a blue star bomb, condensed star matter held at critical mass with a computer brain, is in Los Angeles, concealed inside Esmeralda. As they approach her apartment block they here her screaming. They burst in on a tall blue and white alien holding Esmeralda with a laser pistol. The creature explains it is here to retrieve the bomb for his paymasters, who will scramble his brains if he does not. At that point Heather steals the creature’s laser pistol and the Doctor extracts the bomb and decommissions it. The creature is able to return the bomb along with a warning from the Doctor not to ever lose one on Earth again. Later, Jake and Esmeralda watch the alien spaceship take off and Jake marvels at the Doctor, as he and Heather leave.

Wolfgang “Wolfie” Ryter, a bright 16-year old exchange student, is given a tearful goodbye by the family he has been staying with before checking in at the airport in order to return to Salzburg. After check in he finds an internet cafe and updates his blog on UFO sightings. He does not notice Heather and the Doctor tracing sounds until Heather trips over Wolfie’s bag and his attention is raised by the Doctor mentioning Giurgeax. Having not heard of it Wolfie decides to follow them as they board the plane at gate 13. Whilst Wolfie is amazed at a real life alien conspiracy the Doctor and Heather enter the cockpit to find a Giurgeax who reveals it is planning to eat the passengers and takes hold of The Doctor and Heather. Wolfie attempts to save them but the Giurgeax slams the door on him. The Doctor shouts to Wolfie that the hole plane is the Giurgeax and he is in its stomach. In order to starve the alien Wolfie detaches the alien from the passengers causing the plane to revert to piles of pink goo and the Giurgeax to a creature small enough to fit in the Doctor’s hand. Later, Wolfie, along with Heather and the Doctor, go to the depature lounge and find he has missed his flight. As a thank you, Heather suggests giving Wolfie a lift, but Wolfie, once in the TARDIS, asks if they could take a detour on the way.

For Wolfgang’s first trip the Doctor takes them to see the biggest star in the universe. Wolfie thinks he is referring to an astronomical phenomena but the Doctor has taken them to see Stario Glowvitt from the intergalactic soap Moon Road. They then regaled with trivia by a waiting fan who then rushes off when Stario arrives. As the star stands on a hovering red carpet surrounded by fans he suddenly starts buzzing with energy, which Wolfie believes is being caused by the fan they met earlier controlling Stario with a handheld device. At that moment Stario dives at the Doctor and Heather who narrowly move out of the way before Stario reers over them. The Doctor then uses his sonic screwdriver revealing Stario to be a robot. Cornering Stario’s agent the Doctor gets him to reveal that the robot was being controlled by a remote cuff from his wrist, which malfunctioned due to a grankie juice spill, as the real Stario disappeared on Alpha-Cass-Cee 20 years ago. The Doctor then reveals the fan from earlier was Stario who had been hiding from the pressures of stardom. Stario is convinced to return to show business and the TARDIS crew leave, promising Wolfie they will stick to seeing real stars next time.

Arriving back at Edinburgh university, Heather goes off to catch up with her old friends, although due to the TARDIS they have only been away for a few days. As she goes the Doctor and Wolfgang notice that everyone seems to be playing with purple consoles. Later, in a computer shop, the Doctor gains a purple console which he and Wolfgang are told is a Tesseract, a four-dimensional brain training exercise. They are told it is almost impossible to solve but the Doctor does so quickly. In a labratory, nearby, two lab coated figures inform a large figure that they are getting a signal that someone has solved the Tesseract and the large figure tells them to bring the person in.

Meanwhile, Heather attempts to talk to her friends, but they, like everyone else, are too busy brain-training. She also sees yet another poster about missing students, making her wonder what is happening. Not too far away, The Doctor is walking down the street examining the Tesseract. Suddenly, he throws the device to Wolfgang, then the two men in lab coats grab Wolfie and take him into a van.

Soon, in a darkened warehouse, Wolfgang is brought before the large figure who informs the men that this is the wrong human, as Wolfie is not smart enough to solve the puzzle. The alien is the Bacothormeon, a bipedal blue, green and brown lionesque creature with three mouths that evolves by stealing other intellects. Wolfgang realises the creatures plan is to identify the smartest people and kidnap them. Seeing that he is more intelligent than most humans, the Bacothormeon decides to steal Wolfgang’s intelligence.

Meanwhile, Heather and The Doctor use the TARDIS to follow the signal of the Tesseract and so, moments later find the Bacothormeon. The Doctor convinces it to take his brain causing it to overload. This causes all the stolen intelligences to be returned and the Bacothormeon to become dumb and peaceful. Soon UNIT come and take the Bacothormeon’s henchmen away, and the Doctor intends to take the Bacothormeon back home.

On a beach the Doctor and Wolfgang are lounging on a beach whilst Heather has gone to get ice cream. Suddenly a scream is heard and the Octorn, a species of Brown and Purple octpoid creatures, come out of the sea, determined to make humans pay for polluting the oceans. They rotate their arms like helicopter blades, making a mighty sandstorm in seconds. Whilst the Doctor tries to convince people to lie on the floor and cover their faces, Heather gets people to shelter in the ice cream van. The Octron rotate faster, causing most of the people on the beach to fall unconscious from oxygen deprivation. The Octron then begin feeding the humans oxygen and taking them into the sea as hostages, to make sure mankind leaves the oceans pure. Heather finds the Doctor and takes him into the van, where he then orders them to drive to the sea. Once there he uses his sonic screwdriver to convert the ice cream maker into a ‘freeze ray’, freezing the ocean with the Octrons in it. With the creatures trapped the Doctor offers them a deal, if they free the hostages he will take them to an uninhabited ocean planet, to which they agree.

The Doctor, Heather and Wolfgang arrive on the tropical rainforest planet of Lurbos 3. The Doctor explains little is known about the planet because all the explorers have vanished. At that moment Heather finds a clearing full of rows of sleeping aliens. The Doctor explains they have been bitten and put into a forced sleep. Suddenly, Heather is bitten by a Dream Sucker, leading to her falling asleep. The Doctor explains that is what the creature does, send people to sleep then feed off people's dreams by sourcing the brain's dormant waves and turning them into a viral protein. Whilst Wolfie guards Heather, the Doctor finds the Dream Sucker and gets bitten. The Doctor then brings up his darkest memories, which are more than the Dream Sucker can handle, making it give back everyone's dreams and allowing them to wake up. With everyone awake, and the Dream Sucker now asleep, the Doctor decides they should go to the Pacia Complex, just outside is a little cafe that does Waffle's bigger than their faces.

The Doctor, Heather and Wolfgang are exploring the great fungoid forests of Yellan, however the Doctor does not know what has happened to them. Opening the TARDIS he finds it is a fake. He once again thinks he's found it but it is another fake, in fact the forest is full of police boxes. Then Wolfgang runs up to the Doctor having also been mystified by the multiple TARDISes. Suddenly a gigantic tentacle appears and sucks up one of the police boxes. The Doctor and follows it back and grab on to it as it retreats into a deep cave. At the bottom, the Doctor and Heather find a gigantic grey creature of many tentacles each exiting out of different caves. As it eats one of the Doctor's shoes, Heather falls out of another. However, on closer inspection the Doctor finds it is only a copy. Like the TARDIS the exterior is copied but the TARDIS interior and the human brain are too complex. The Doctor bounces inside the creature and a minute later materialises in the TARDIS with Heather, having retrieved them from its belly. The Doctor explains the creature does not eat things, it copies them, acting as a gardener. The Doctor, Heather and Wolfgang then all leave in the TARDIS.

In Carnaby Street London 1967, Heather is looking around the shops for an original miniskirt. Suddenly, a haze begins to turn everything grey and makes everyone miserable, except for the Doctor. He gets his friends back inside the TARDIS where they perk up again. The Doctor finds the haze has shrouded the upper atmosphere, and is coming from a ship which is in orbit at the same altitude.

Once on board the spacecraft they find that it is also very drab. Suddenly, they are captured by the Vapids; large, brown, wrinkly, bipeds who where carpet slippers in varying shades of brown. The Doctor, Heather and Wolfgang are brought before the Vapid Committee. The committee reveal they are recreating the atmosphere on their planet, which robbed them of their warmer emotions for a thousand generations. In doing so, the Vapids hope to rediscover the secret of happiness. At that moment the Doctor deactivates the cloud and offers to take the committee down to Earth. There he shows them there is no great secret to happiness, 'All you need is love'. The committee rediscover these emotions, crying and changing colour to blue and red. As the TARDIS crew head off Heather tells the Doctor she never knew he was so soppy.

Heather, The Doctor and Wolfgang enter Fat Eddie's place in the 1920s, a gangster joint. At that moment the place is attacked by the Sidewinder Syndicate; snake headed bipeds dressed in suits, wielding ray guns which look like Tommy guns. After the reptiles have left, the Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to regenerate burnt skin on Fat Eddie, who reveals that the syndicate have been muscling in for turf for weeks and soon the Doctor and his companions are investigating a drug store the reptiles may be using as a cover; J. Python Snake Oil Sales.

Heather and Wolfgang enter the store, dressed in suits, dark glasses, hats and long coats, and demand to see the sidewinder syndicate. However, the snake-headed creatures recognise them from Fat Eddie's joint and are captured.

Meanwhile, the Doctor has entered by the back door and is fiddling with some of their advanced equipment. Despite Wolfgang and Heather's best efforts, the syndicate find the Doctor. It is then the Doctor reveals he knows they are exiles from the planet serpentine, with a ship without steering, only landing on Earth by accident. The Doctor shows them he has repaired their navi-pod, allowing them to go somewhere else. The syndicate reveal they do not wish to leave but the Doctor shows them a picture book of animals, convincing the reptiles that they are photos of other gangsters and soon they are off into space.

The TARDIS crew are in the hold of a spaceship. The Doctor does not like the sound of the engines and on the bridge finds the freighter's owner, Mr McKendrick. He reveals that he is trying to escape the atmosphere of Adamas, a planet the Doctor says it is supposed to off limits. Back in the hold, Heather is surprised by the variety of goods, when Wolfgang hears something. Following the sound they find a diamond monster tapped in a stasis-field. The creature escapes and chases them.

Moments later they find the Doctor and McKendrick, with the living diamond close behind. McKendrick's laser beams bounce off of it but the Doctor allows them to escape by shining a torch in the creature's eyes. As the four of them run the Doctor explains that the creature, an Admasian, is a part of Adamas and that when McKendrick tried to smuggle the diamond off world, it would not allow him to leave.

Soon the Doctor lures the creature to the airlock. Heather opens the airlock into space whilst the Doctor holds on with a magnetic clamp. However, McKendrick stops Heather from closing the outer doors, to ensure that he isn't reported. Wolfgang then attacks McKendrick and gets his laser, but it is too late and the Doctor is shot out into space. However, after being threatened with the destruction of his cargo, McKendrick activates the tractor beam and brings the Doctor back in. McKendrick reveals it will cost all his credits to repair his ship but Heather says he deserves it, whilst the Admasian did nothing. However, the Doctor says the creature will be tough enough to survive this fall, and he is jealous of the creature as it gets the only thing it ever wanted, to go home.

Attempting to land in Salzburg the TARDIS crew find themselves in a misty forest. Suddenly, Heather hears a rustling from the bushes and out of it emerges a woman, dressed in traditional German attire, running and crying for help. She is followed by a large creature, half reptilian, half mechanical. As the creature picks up the Doctor, he aims his Sonic Screwdriver at its head, switching it off. The Doctor explains the creature is a cyborg slave and the girl reveals it came from Castle Wrath, where villagers have been going missing. The Doctor therefore decides to visit this castle along with the now freed cyborg.

With the girl sent back to her village The Doctor, Heather, Wolfgang and the cyborg soon reach the castle and the monster takes Heather inside, allowing them entry. Inside a small goblin like creature in peasants clothing leads the cyborg into an alien laboratory at the depths of the castle. In the laboratory, the goblin creature offers Heather as food to Vadula, queen of the leviathan leeches. However, the cyborg then turns on her former master and the villagers invade the castle. The aliens are forced to leave and the cyborg finds herself a new home among the villagers.

In London 1880, the Doctor is taking his companions to visit the Brunswicks, who helped him repel a Gotan invasion during the previous year. Out of the front door emerges George Brunswick angry at the disturbance but once the Doctor reminds him who he is and they are welcomed inside. George's wife, Mary, chides him for forgetting the Doctor, although Wolfgang thinks it is odd that a man whose life the Doctor saved would forget it. At that moment, Anne offers Heather and Wolfgang a tour of the house. As they leave the Doctor sees a family photo of the Brunswicks, however, they all appear to be in open-mouthed shock in it. Just as the Doctor wanders where Heather and Wolfgang have got to, they return, but the Doctor is more interested in what Anne is holding. Taking it from her the Doctor finds a photo of his companions in open mouthed shock. He races upstairs and is chased by the rest of the house. He discovers what appears to be a camera, however changing the device into reverse the people standing in front of him are sucked through the lens and those in the photographs return to normality.

Later, the Doctor explains that the 'camera' actually allowed creatures from the Scree Dimension to replace people as their photo was taken, probably in order to escape the dullness of their home dimension. He promises that he will drop them somewhere they can do no harm or even some good.

Having spent all night tracking down the Gruutis, the Doctor, Heather and Wolfgang have to catch a train back to the TARDIS. Heather asks if they can pop in to see her Aunty Jen before going back and the Doctor agrees. However, once on board the train, the announcers says this is the fast service to London Victoria, despite it having said it was all stops outside. What interests the Doctor more is that no one is bothered by this but they are all doing the same puzzle, including Wolfgang. When the Doctor investigates he finds them all in a trance like concentration and their neuronic impulses being sucked towards an air vent. Inside the vent he finds a Neuronic Receptor, which collects the mental energy and funnels it elsewhere. At that moment they are shouted at by two heavily armoured men asking for tickets. Leaving Wolfie, the Doctor and Heather run through the crowd and into the guard's carriage shutting it just in time.

Inside, the carriage contains a large quantity of electronic equipment connected to a poly-lithium neuron transformer. A woman inside explains that this is an engine that will use the energy from these brainwaves to break the light barrier as they pass through the Sydenham Hill tunnel. However, the Doctor explains that this will result in the train ending up in deep space. The woman is distraught but the Doctor stops the machine by reversing the neutron flow. Soon the train arrives at its destination and Heather leads them to make there connection to visit Aunty Jen, although Wolfie gets the feeling he missed something.

Having had the soles of his shoes melt whilst escaping from a volcano planet, the Doctor takes Heather and Wolfgang to a shoe shop. He puts on a pair of Red Converses, which Heather chides him for being identical to his old pair. As the Doctor attempts to walk them in he finds he can't stop. He gets Wolfgang to use the Sonic Screwdriver on the shoes, stopping them. Inspecting the footwear the Doctor finds they are robotic. At that moment Wolfgang sees outside that everybody's shoes are being controlled. Following them, they find that the people are being marched towards a circular pink alien spaceship. The alien ship announces that they are from the Planet Rhastis, who are taking humans to use on treadmill generators in order to solve their energy needs.

A couple of minutes later the Doctor is with his two companions in the shopping centre's security room. He tells Heather he was originally planning to block the signal but that this would have caused the shoes to self-destruct so instead he sends a signal convincing the right shoes that they are left shoes, causing people to walk in circles. He then patches into the Rhastin communication frequency and offers to solve their energy problem, which they accept. With the people freed, Wolfgang uses the Sonic Screwdriver to remove people's footwear.

In Cambodia, 1135, The Doctor has taken Wolfie and Heather to see the construction of Angkor Wat. They are about to nip forward in time but as the friends head back to the TARDIS, Wolfie hears a voice. He is drawn hypnotically towards an urn as he opens it the voice declares that Lychaos is reborn! Meanwhile, Heather and the Doctor have reached the TARDIS, but they stop when they find Wolfgang gone and race back to the market when they hear a cry. The place has become a complete mess. The Doctor explains that Wolfgang open an Aztlan bio-casket. These preserve the brain engrams of Aztlan warriors to be transferred into the mind of a new host. The new host is Wolfgang, whose youth and intelligence make him perfect until the hatred and anger destroy his body too.

Wolfie has transformed into Lychaos the unforgiving, a bipedal lupine creature, twice the height of a man with glowing red eyes. The Doctor and Heather catch up with him as he is attacking the builders of Angkor Wat. The Doctor order Lychaos to leave Wolfgang's body but he is batted away. Heather is grabbed into the creatures paw as she appeals to remember her and how his friends love him. The positive emotion of love overpowers Lychaos destroying the warrior and restoring Wolfgang, now naked. However, the Doctor decides its time Wolfie took a break. Soon they arrive outside his parent's house in Salzburg, two hours before he was expected to arrive back. Wolfgang then realizes how much he missed his family and wants to stay. Wolfie thanks the Doctor for everything who in turn tells him he was brilliant. Wolfie also wishes Heather goodbye, who walks away with a tear in her eye.

On Luminous the Doctor and Heather arrive, where she is surprised by the brightness and the cheesiness of the name. The Doctor explains this is just what the humans call it, whilst in reality it is a dead planet in the Higlag system, whose citizens dedicate their lives to knowledge. Suddenly an alarm sounds and the citizens of Luminous begin running around. Outside purple winged creatures attack the structure of Luminous and break in, whilst inside, the citizens fire upon the beings. The Doctor attempts to get them to stop shooting but to no avail. However, the creatures do not fight back but head to the bright centre of luminous. The Doctor explains these creatures feed on solar energy and devises a plan to get rid of them without killing them. He increases the lighting levels inside the TARDIS to maximum, making all the creatures rush inside. After they are all in he closes the Door and promises to take them to a nice bright quiet star.

In Edinburgh, in the present day, Heather is planning to go and see her friends, Rob and Suze, whilst the Doctor is planning to explore the local woods. Heather thinks that will be a bit dull, but the Doctor explains even an ant is amazing. Just then the Doctor and Heather find themselves in a strange alien environment. Returning to the TARDIS, the Doctor informs Heather that they are on Earth but someone is projecting a 3D hologram over the entire planet. Following a signal, they land on the Murcher Moon, where a huge tower is being built by small humanoids in construction outfits, the Murchers. They inform the Doctor they were attempting to hide their own planet, Murcher Emporium, from the Seebees, who would want the Skongolian glitter vines. Just then the Seebees arrive and begin their attack. The Doctor then gets Heather to use his sonic screwdriver on his hand, which projects a gigantic image of the ant he is holding into the atmosphere, scaring the Seebees away. They are so impressed they say the ant is the guardian of Murcher, but the Doctor and Heather leave with the insect.

The Doctor and Heather arrive at a very exclusive party. Inspecting the order of ceremonies, the Doctor discovers it is the grand opening of the Galaxy's tallest building, the Hirnaltaan Tower, which stretches from the planet's surface to the Moon of Yvue. The Doctor is informing Heather that the tower never actually opened when he notices the smell of toast. It is coming from the chef bots who are going crazy and out of them emerge Arcylamide Assassins, beings made of energy. The Arcylamide head for the VIP area and the Doctor and Heather follow them. Inside they find the Arcylamide have captured two of the guests, Blubb and Mr Vawn. Claiming a cricket ball is a bomb, the Doctor demands answers. Eventually Blubb admits the building work was shoddy and he hired Arcylamide to wreck the place in order to disguise the fact. The Arcalymide, their contract completed, transmat out as a Judoon cruiser comes to arrest Blubb. As the Doctor and Heather are leaving, Mr Vawn says he is worried about his future, but the Doctor tells him the Tribifold Priminstral of Klump will want him to design a new palace for her.

On the Nurburr Asteroid, inside an abandoned robot factory, the Doctor and Heather are investigating a distress signal they picked up. Within they find Watnul, who has been alone there for years but has recently been hearing strange noises. Just as the Doctor and Heather wonder if there could be a simple explanation they hear a loud banging. Using his sonic screwdriver, the Doctor picks up a moving solid form on the bottom level. They follow it to the waste inferno, when suddenly the doors fly open and a large robot comes out and growls. Whilst Heather and Watnul run for cover the Doctor talks to the robot, realising it must be faulty part that built itself out of scrap. The Doctor realises the two are both lonely and suggests they keep each other company. The travellers return to the TARDIS with the Doctor concluding space is left scary when you have a friend.

The Doctor and Heather are on Sky City, the showpiece of 453rd Century Earth, the Doctor explains that it is floating above the New Eurozone, destroyed in the Genetic Soil Wars, when a man in tattered clothes races past and is chased by COPs. Heather finds she has been passed a metallic egg shaped device, which the Doctor takes to inspect. Heather is then arrested by a COP for being an Anti-Antigravity Activist. As Heather is dragged off by the security forces the Doctor says he will prove her innocence.

Later, deep in Sky City's notorious club district, the Doctor finds the man who handed Heather the device. The man explains the device will improve the efficiency of the antigravity engines by a power of 10 but the rulers won't like that as it will be cheaper. Then the COPs turn up and give chase. Finding himself trapped on a balcony, the Doctor activates the computer making him fly up to see Heather. Some time later a robed man and a cheering crowd see the Doctor and Heather off, thanking him, saying they believed the AAA wanted to sabotage the city and the Doctor says the device will improve everyone's lives in the city.

The Doctor and Heather, stranded in a forest, see if they can catch a lift on a passing horse and carriage but the driver is instructed by his passenger, Lady Harrington-Fletcher, to keep going, in case they are highwaymen. Soon, however, they are stopped by a red eyed highwayman, demanding ammonium carbide. Moments later, the Doctor and Heather catch up and Lady Harrington-Fletcher reveals that the robber stole her smelling salts. Using the sonic screwdriver, the find the highwaymen, who threatens them. However, the Doctor discovers it is a robot and reprogrammes it to do what they say. Following the robot they find a Cyrronak space pod, which uses the salts as fuel. The robot explains it needs to fly the ship back to revive the injured pilot. On the view-screen Lady Harrington-Fletcher sees the local constables have brought a mob which is now outside. Lady Harrington-Fletcher goes out, with the Doctor and Heather, and keeps them distracted whilst the pod flies off. In the take-off the engines emit a powerful sleeping gas which knocks everyone unconscious, except the time travellers and Lady Harrington-Fletcher as they have been using nose filters. The Doctor explains that when the mob wakes up they will have no memory of what happened.

Thousands of years in the future, the TARDIS approaches a world the Doctor has never been to before. The planet is low gravity and the surface seems to be made of a strange silk-like substance. Suddenly, creatures rise up in the time traveller's shapes and give chase. As they close in on the Doctor and Heather, the ground gives way and they find themselves beneath the surface of the planet. Soon they discover the long dead corpse of a spider and its victims. At that moment, the creatures find them and grab Heather. The Doctor covers himself in slime and does the same to Heather, stopping the silk creatures. He explains that they worship the slime, as it killed the spider and gave life to them. As the time travellers head back to the TARDIS the Doctor also explains the creatures have no natural form, they merely copy whatever lands there, which is why they took on the Doctor and Heather's shape.

The TARDIS lands, with a crash, in a rundown part of a city on an alien planet in the 208th Century. As they leave they are spotted by Ronnu Thanjess, a trenchcoated green biped, who notices Heather forgot to close the TARDIS door. As the Doctor and Heather head for a museum on the other side of town, Ronnu calls Briak for a lift truck.

Several hours later, the time travellers find the TARDIS gone. An elder female alien tells them from a window the Ronnu stole it and took it to his yard. A few minutes later they arrive at the yard and find Ronnu's brother, Briak, lying on the floor. He tells them that they sold the TARDIS to Ludo Faltrati, but Ludo was angry the ship didn't work so he took Ronnu to fix it.

Across town, Ronnu cannot work out how to fix it when a knock comes at the warehouse door. Heather and the Doctor enter disguised as mechanics and pretend to repair it, claiming they have made a short hop across the warehouse. As Ronnu and Ludo exit the ship they find themselves inside the police station and are promptly arrested. Although imprisoned, Ronnu is glad that Ludo did not kill him. As the Doctor and Heather enter the TARDIS, he promises her a trip to Hyde Park.

As the Doctor runs out of the TARDIS, determined to take a swim in the serpentine, Heather points out they are in car park, apparently Hyde Park has been paved over. Central London is also strangely quiet until a massive explosion comes from the Royal Albert Hall. Going to investigate they find people fleeing for there lives from walking greenhouses that are determined to "monoxise" humans. As the greenhouses catch up with the TARDIS crew, the ground underneath the Doctor unexpectedly gives way, leaving Heather alone and surrounded. Meanwhile, underground, the Doctor finds himself in the hideout of a group of humans. A man in military uniform explains the greenhouses are Gardenizens, eco drones designed to offset the carbon footprint, but one day they started taking people to prison camps. The Doctor decides to head for the nearest camp, at Kew Gardens, to rescue Heather and is followed by several of the humans from the hide out.

Eventually, they reach Kew Gardens and the Doctor decides to walk straight up to greenhouse, demanding to speak to the Head Gardener. Inside the Doctor finds the Gardenizens have all linked up to form one huge super-brain. This brain tells the Doctor that humans have made the planet unable to sustain life and, therefore, plant kind is no longer willing to sustain human life. The Doctor, however, convinces it that they can now negotiate with humans to work with them. The Gardenizens shut down and act like normal plants whilst the humans from the hideout free the prisoners. As the time travellers leave, Heather wonders if the human race will really change its ways.

In order to get a Christmas tree for Heather's granny, they arrive in Norway 1965. Approaching a blonde man, they enquire about buying a tree, but he informs them that the trees keep disappearing. At that moment, Heather sees one of the pines shrinking, so she goes with the Doctor to investigate. They discover the cause to be a Capranom, a similar species to the goat. They consume massive amounts of food by shrinking it down and storing the energy. This therefore means they are commonly used as electricity generators. As the creature leaves they spot a whole forest full of them. The Doctor notices the Capranom was very focused on its meal and comes up with a plan.

Later, the Capranom are trying to shrink a tree but cannot as it is a plastic one planted by the Doctor. Whilst the creatures are distracted the Doctor and Heather try to fence them in with a rope but are stopped by a moustached man with a very large gun. He believes they are rustlers trying to steal his Capranom,. Heather is able convince them they are not and that he should wait until after Christmas as then the Capranom can eat all the trees they want. As a reward the blonde man says the Doctor and Heather can have any tree they like. The Doctor and Heather leave with a tree heading for Granny McCrimmon's house.