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Subject: "The Tenth Planet" plot synopsis EPISODE 1  !SPOILERS*!
Date: 7 Nov 92 13:30:10 -0600
Organization: University of Wisconsin - River Falls

And now, to celebrate the return of a classic story to the BBC Archives,
and to celebrate the 29th Anniversary of the first broadcast of the best
and longest running science fiction series in the world, I proudly present
a new plot synopsis...."The Tenth Planet," in four episodes.  This is 
episode one, and the other three will appear soon over the next few weeks,
hopefully episode four will be posted on November the 23rd.

One note about credits....
Some of the opening and closing credits on this story contained spelling
errors.  I have preserved those errors for this synopsis.
Another note about the credits....
On "The Tenth Planet," the usual way of displaying the credits was not used.
This time, each new set of words would appear in white captial type against
a black background, and then be absorbed and taken away by a scrambled code
of certain letters of the alphabet, which then stops and reveals the next
credit.




But now, on to the first appearance of the Cybermen, and the final story 
of the First Doctor.....

SPOILERS AHEAD!





FINAL WARNING!  SPOILERS!




DOCTOR WHO


A round-headed rocket rises slowly off its takeoff pad toward the bright
sky above and towards the outer space beyond....

...A technician's hand types instructions into a takeoff computer from a
ground base, and the computer begins tabulations and tracking of the newly
launched rocket and its space capsule passenger....


THE TENTH PLANET

BY KITT PEDLER

EPISODE 1


A small blip of light appears on a radar screen dominating the back of
a large tracking control room.  The room is on two main levels, the high
command deck, and the lower technician's deck, with a raised platform allowing
access to both by technicians entering from without.  
A slightly crackling voice with a French accent speaks over the waves and
is received in the tracking room, the voice asking this Polar Base to take
control of Zeus Four now.  
A tightly built, strong-looking American General responds into a control
desk, confirming that they now have control and he thanks Geneva.
A small, balding Englishman on the technical deck radios out to the space
capsule orbitting the Earth above and asks them to switch to their local
control channel, and the voice of the Captain responds and acknowledges
the request.  
The General taps in to the communications and says good morning to the
astronauts.  He calls them "lucky devils," and wishes them a nice trip.
A more junior-sounding voice calls back and asks why he doesn't come up
and join them, and the General says it's because the penguins might miss him.
Laughter breaks out both in space and in the tracking room for a few moments
as the General hands over control to a Doctor Barclay, a nervous-looking
bearded and bespectacled thin man.  However, he clealy knows his stuff as
he orders orbital tracking and contacts the Zeus Four capsule himself.
He says good morning, and the men in the capsule respond in kind and say
how they have a nice view of the base's weather.  The more junior voice
asks how things are on their end, and Barclay tells him there's a blizzard
and a gale force wind.  
Barclay orders a ground check of the capsule's velocity, and it is confirmed
at 18240 at 0132.  

On board the capsule, we get our first look at the two crew of the small,
cramped capsule.  A small, balding white American man in his forties
named Schultz, and a taller, younger black American named Williams 
who seems to be the one calling the shots as he tells the Polar Base that
their cosmic ray scans are complete and he asks if the Base is ready to
receive data.  Barclay's voice crackles over the ether and tells them they
are, and Williams tells Schultz to let them have it.  Schultz pulls a small
lever and the data is transmitted downto the Base on Earth, who confirm
that they have received.

Outside the base is a complete and total Antarctic snowscape, with a very
high wind indeed blowing over the glaciers, whipping up snow in all directions.

Five soldiers sit idly in a sort of combination barracks room and watch room.
An Italian-accented man flips lazily through a comic book whilst another
balding white American peers through the eyepiece of a sort of periscope
at the snowscape outside.  He tells anyone who is interested, which isn't
anyone at all, that the wind is really blowing out there and that all he
can see is snow, snow, and more snow.

Outside on the surface, the periscope can be seen to be turning back and
forth as the man inside turns it from the snowscape to take a quick look
at an array of antennas poking out of the snow to the periscope's right.
The scope turns away again, and as it does so, a solid dark shape begins
to materialise silently out of thin air.
As it solidifies, a light on its top flashes on and off and we can now see
that this is the TARDIS...

Inside the TARDIS, the Doctor loks up at the out-of-our-view scanner on
the wall and tells Ben and Polly that there's quite an arctic storm
blowing out there.  He pulls a few controls on the console as Ben and Polly
help each other into heavy winter clothing.  Polly compliments the Doctor
on his most fantastic wardrobe, and as she helps him into his cloak he
tells her he's glad she approves.  She looks at his comparitively lighter
clothing and asks if he'll be warm enough in all that and he tells her
"like toast, my dear."  
The Doctor tells them they should now go out and investigate, and so he
opens the doors from the main console....

Ben, Polly, and the Doctor stumble a little awkwardly through the heavy
snow and keep their scarves close to their faces to guard against the
biting wind.  Polly at once notices the antenna aerials and steps over to
investigate them.  She then sees something moving and leads Ben and the
Doctor over to the periscope.  Ben warns her not to touch the thing, as
it could be dangerous, and so she doesn't touch the thing.  She then
asks them if there could be some sort of submarine beneath them.

The American lazily continues to survey the bleak wintery snowscape,
turning the scope to and fro, being bored to tears with nothing but snow,
and snow, and more snow, and Polly, and some more snow, and....
He stops suddenly and blinks, turns the scope back, and sees all three
of the time travellers outside.  
The American calls over to the Italian Tito for him to come over here
and look because there's people outside.  Tito doesn't take this at all
seriously..until his friend says one of them is a woman.
Tito suddenly gets a lot more excited,slams his comic book on the bunk he
was sitting on and rushes over to the periscope along with the other three
soldiers to get a look outside.
Tito certainly sees Polly as he calls out Italian "terms of endearment"
at her image focussed in the crosshairs of the scope.
The American pulls his rank of Sergeant and takes the scope back again
fromPrivate Tito and looks more to the right, spotting the TARDIS.
"Looks like some kind of a hut!" he exclaims, and then he orders Tito
to take these other three moron soldiers (his words, not mine) and bring
those people down.  

A door opens from out of the snow-covered ground, a door more like four
rising flaps than a conventional door.
The four soldiers now dressed in thick parkas step out into the snow,
each of them armed with pistols.  
Ben, Polly, and the Doctor turn to look at the menacing figures and Ben
reads their intent, telling Polly and the Doctor that he thinks they had
better go with them.

"Move it!  Will you move it!  Come on Pop!  Will you move it!!" shouts the
Sergeant as the soldiers herd the TARDIS crew down a spiral staircase from
the snows above.  
As the three travellers and the soldiers brush snow off themselves, the
American Sergeant demands, very loudly, and demands to know who they are
and what they are doing here.  Polly tells them they just landed outside
in a sort of spacecraft.  The Sergeant tells her to cut the jokes and
shouts for the truth, quick.  
The Doctor ignores the question with one of his own, asking the Sergeant
if he could tell them where they are.  The Sergeant tells them they're at
the South Pole Base of International Space Command, and starts to call
the Doctor "Pop" again until the Doctor testily corrects him with "Doctor,"
and then demands to hear their real story, and warns that it had better be
"awful good."
Polly asks if they are on Earth, and the Sergeant gives up, yelling at
Tito to get the CO.  
"Why don't you speak up?  I'm deaf," says the Doctor.  He turns to Ben and
asks what CO means, and Ben defines the term as "Commanding Officer" for
the Doctor's benefit.  
Tito calls out to another part of the base on a small black telephone near
the bunks and asks to speak to General Cutler and that this is an emergency.
The person on the other end tells him the General is not there, and just
after Tito asks where the General is then, the General himself steps into
the room and says, "Right here, Private."  
He surveys the scene and is clearly not amused.  He asks the sergeant what
is going on, and the sergeant explains that these three people just 
appeared outside.  He needs to explain it twice after the General doesn't
quite believe it the first time.  The sergeant also explains that they seem
to have come from some sort of a hut that had never been out there before.
The Doctor, Polly, and Ben are lined up rank-and-file style in front of
the General, and he looks them all over with the typical General's withering
looks.  He stops at Ben and asks who he is.  Ben replies "Able Seaman
Ben Jackson, Royal Navy."  The General quickly asks why he isn't with his
ship, and as Ben tries to explain that it's all difficult to explain,
the General steps back to the Doctor and complains that he'll bet his
sweet life that it is.  The Doctor looks into the General's eyes and does
his best to assure the General that they don't intend him any harm, but
the General isn't impressed and replies, "You can assure me all you like,
but whether I'll belive you or not is another question."  
He turns back to the Sergeant and tells him he doesn't have time to deal
with these people now, then turns back to the Doctor and warns that when
he does have time, they had better have a good explanation.  
"I don't like your tone, sir!" warns the Doctor....
..."And I don't like your face, nor your hair!" replies General Cutler.
The Doctor splutters to himself as the General orders the Sergeant to 
bring the travellers to the tracking area and to keep them under guard
in the observation room there, and that he'll deal with them when he has time.
The Sergeant replies, "Yes, sir!"

Cutler leads the way into the tracking room, with the travellers and the
Sergeant following behind.  The entire room turns and cries in "admiration"
at the sight of Polly until the General tells them to quit acting like a
lot of frustrated penguins and to get on with their work.  
Polly remarks how the room looks like "that rocket place in America"
and Ben wonders why there are so few people running this one, and that
the whole room doesn't quite look like what you see on the telly.
The Sergeant tells Ben he doesn't know what Ben's been seeing on his TV
but that this is General Cutler's outfit, and goes on to explain how 
Cutler doesn't like a lot of personnel, how he cuts staff down to a bare
minimum and works them into the ground, but they have the relief of only
having to spend one or two months there.  
Polly wonders if they could somehow get a lift back to England from here,
but Ben doubts the General will give them a lift anywhere.
The Doctor turns to them after having taken a long look around the entire
room and says he doesn't think they are where Ben and Polly think they are.
He points them at a calendar on the wall, and Polly's hopes sink in the
sight that they are in December of 1986.  
"We're still at sea," moroses Ben, but then lights up a little again as he
realises now how they can get away with so few staff as now computers must
be doing all the work.  He wonders out loud if they've gotten to the Moon
yet, and the Sergeant buts in "sure, don't you listen to the news?"
He further explains how an expedition has just returned.  Polly asks what
they're doing now, and the Sergeant shrugs and says this is just a normal
atmosphere testing probe.
"I see, a rocket testing site," remarks the Doctor.
The Sergeant, however, has turned his head sharply behind him and is looking
out the window of the observation room they are all inside at the main
control room outside, as something seems to be going on.

"An error?  Where?" asks Barclay to the space capsule.
Williams' voice comes over the radio reporting that they are reading a 
height of 1100 miles.  Barclay asks Dyson to check where the capsule
should be, and Dyson says it should be at only 980 miles.  
Barclay doesn't want to believe Dyson, so he pushes in and checks the numbers
himself, and confirms Dyson's figures.  The capsule _is_ out of position
by over a hundred miles.
He then opens the radio channel again to Zeus Four and asks if they can
make some visual checks on Mars to establish their position.

In the already cramped capsule, the atmosphere has become even more tense.
Williams confirms to the Polar Base that they wil make the checks, and then
Schultz begins looking through a tele/periscope affair to check their
position relative to Mars.  Williams tells him the co-ordinates should be
about 420, but Schultz has to disagree with that, as the numbers he is 
reading are 432.  Williams can't believe it, so he tells Schultz to try
again, and tells him to hurry up since the capsule will be back on the
sunny side of Earth momentarily.  
As Schultz rechecks the numbers, Williams asks the Polar Base if they heard
their conversation, and Barclay says that they have, and that they too are
trying to get a Mars fix.  
Schultz then gets Williams' attention again, and warns Williams to "take it
easy" as he listens to what Schultz has to tell him.  It wasn't Mars Schultz
was looking at....
Williams laughs and says, "Well, that explains it then!" and tells Schultz
to try again.  Schultz tries again to explain what he means to Williams,
and says, "There's something else out there."
"What do you mean?" asks Williams.
"There's another planet out there," says Schultz.
"Another planet?" asks Schultz, and he then looks in an eyepiece for the
scope over his seat, and says "Hey, you're right!  As if it's in orbit
between Mars and Venus."
Schultz remarks that the planet seems kind of familiar somehow, but then
any further observations they may make are spoiled by the capsule's 
moving to the day side of the Earth.
"Came the dawn," says Schultz at the sight of the bright sunlight pouring
in through the small observation window.
Williams calls to Snowcap (the Polar Base) and tells them they are now over
San Francisco and asks if they can read this object from where they are.
Barclay's voice comes back asking Zeus Four to put up its power output.
Williams says it is up.  Barclay says they're only reading their messages
at strength three.  Williams speaks more loudly and asks if the Polar Base
can get this object on their retinascope.
Barclay replies that they'll try and breaks contact.
Williams sits back and tries to relax a bit until his gaze passes over the
capsule's instruments, and he worriedly tells Schultz that the fuel cells
are showing a power loss.....

The Doctor steps forward in the observation room and tries to force a piece
of paper into the American Sergeant's hand and practically orders the
Sergeant to take this paper to the General.  The Sergeant says, "Me?  Are
you crazy?"  
"Very well then, take me to the General!" demands the Doctor, "I believe
I can help him.  This is urgent.  I insist!"
The Sergeant finally cracks a little and leads the Doctor out of the observation
room down on to the tracking room's technical floor where Barclay and the
General are clustered around Dyson's control desk.  
The Sergeant calls to Cutler and says the old boy would like a word with him
and he's claiming its urgent.  The General seems to only half-hear the
Sergeant and tells the Sergeant, "Yeah, OK, bring him over."
The Doctor steps down to the General with the piece of paper in hand and
tells him he thinks he knows what they will see on the retinascope.
The General explodes, "How can you possibly know?" and then orders the
Sergeant to put him back in the observation room.  
The Sergeant grabs the Doctor and the Doctor tells him to take his hands
off him, and at the same time manages to give the paper to Barclay, telling
him he's written down what they will see.
The Sergeant pulls the Doctor back, whilst Barclay and the others get their
first look at the new planet on the retinascope. 
Dyson notices that this planet appears to be approaching quite fast, and
Barclay theorizes that this new planet is influencing Zeus Four, and
that they must get the capsule down as soon as possible.
"Emergency splashdown?" asks the General, and Barclay says yes as he goes
back to the control platform and attempts to make contact with the capsule
again.  
Williams' voice comes back, very faintly, and says that they are receiving
Snowcap loud and clear.  Barclay tells them they are only reading them at
strength two, so they had better speak up.  
Williams shouts to be heard and says their fuel cells are showing a power loss.
Barclay worriedly asks how much, and Williams says they're down about twenty
percent.

On the capsule, Williams listens as Barclay tells them they are going to 
bring them down.  Williams asks for co-ordinates to correct orbit.
Whilst Barclay computes the new co-ordinates, Schultz turns to Williams
and asks "What the heck is going on?"  Williams says he doesn't know but
he can't wait to get back down to find out.  
Barclay's voice comes back at them, reading off a long series of new
co-ordinates, and Williams enters them in to the capsule's guidance system,
and confirms that the computers on-board are now correct.  
He asks Schultz is he's ready, and then says "Go," and Schultz floats his
arm down to the retro-rocket controls and fires them.
Schultz and Williams lean forward in their seats against their seat-belts
under the acceleration.  After the first burst dies off, Williams tells
Schultz to fire them again.  And Schultz fires them again.
After that burst wears off, he looks worriedly outside the window and 
exclaims, "We're tumbling!"
In the window, the Earth outside can be seen to be circling wildly as the
capsule spins out of control.
Williams shouts for Schultz to try to use the manual controls, and
Schultz is surprised and very alarmed to find he doesn't have the strength
to reach the controls.  Williams tries to help and finds that he too is
feeling very weak at this moment.  They both do manage to reach the 
controls and pull the main levers back.  
They manage to stabilize the capsule, and Williams says he feels absolutely
clapped out.  Schultz says he feels he's losing all the power out of his
body.  

In the Snowcap Polar Base, General Cutler is issuing new information on
the capsule's splashdown time to the naval recovery teams over the radio,
and orders all available helicopters to the anticipated landing zone.
While Barclay orders additional computers activated, Williams radios in
and tells the base their flight path is now correcting.  Schultz cuts in
and says how they are both having difficulty in moving.  
Barclay becomes visibly more nervous at this news and pushes his glasses
tighter to his face.  He tries to tell the men that they've been up there
a fair time and it's probably just space fatigue. 
Schultz comes back and says that this feels quite different from that, and
that they had to operate the manual controls together. 
Barclay stammers a nervous, "Well..." not really knowing what to tell them
to do about this, until Dyson hands him a new set of papers.
With something concrete to focus on again, Barclay steadies and he tells
the capsule crew that they now have their new computed descent path ready.

Williams is looking very strained and desperately almost pleads the ground
staff to bring them in _this_ time because they can't hand on any longer.
Barclay tells them they have to hang on because they can't bring them in
this orbit.  If they did, the capsule would overshoot.  
Williams resigns to this, and to keep up both Schultz's morale and his own
he tells Schultz to check the re-entry controls with him.  
They run down a checklist of equipment and controls, and everything here
seems OK.  Williams looks over some other instruments and worriedly (again!)
asks Schultz what he makes their position.
Schultz worriedly says, "Swinging away again!"
"Emergency!  Emergency!" cries Williams, "We've lost flight path again!
Give correction!"

"Will do," replies Barclay back at the Base.  He looks at the picture on
Dyson's monitor of the new planet and says it must be the planet doing this.
Its gravity is affecting the capsule.  Dyson asks what they can do about it.
Barclay looks down at him and asks him to get a new correction path ready,
and then he looks at the retinascope technician and asks him to get a better
fix on the planet.  Then Barclay turns round and enters the observation
room behind him.

As he steps inside, he looks at the Doctor and asks him what this new planet
it.  The Doctor says he's not quite sure and asks to have another look at
the planet on the monitor in the observation room.  Barclay goes to a wall
intercom and tells the tracking room to pipe the picture in to the observation
room, and the new planet appears on the screen.
General Cutler steps inside and tells Barclay they should just concentrate
on getting the capsule down, but the Doctor interrupts him as he points
out something on the planet, saying its just as he suspected.
He tells the General to look at the landmasses on the planet and if they
remind Cutler of anything.  At first Cutler can't see them and then he
does, but doesn't see anything familiar about them.
Polly thinks she does, and she certain that one of the masses looks like
Malasia.  Ben spots one that definitely looks like South America, and Barclay
agrees with him.  Cutler can now see it too, and Cutler protests that it
must be some reflection off Earth.  Barclay says it can't be as there's
nothing to reflect on.  The rather rapid spinning of the planet also gives
that conclusion away.  
"And now, Doctor Barclay, I suggest you look at that paper I gave you!"
shouts the Doctor in truimph.  Barclay at first doesn't know what he means,
then remembers and takes out the crumpled piece of paper out of a pocket,
and looks at it in disbelief.  
"You knew!" he says in confusion, and the Doctor replies, "Certainly."
Cutler asks what he knew and Barclay says the Doctor has correctly written
down what they've just seen and that he gave the paper to him before he
saw it.  Cutler dismisses it as a simple con trick, but Barclay protests
that he remembers when the Doctor gave him the paper.  
He looks at the Doctor with new respect and asks the Doctor to tell them
what he knows about this planet.  "Can you be more explicit?"
"I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can," replies the Doctor.
"Millions of years ago there was a twin planet Earth...."
"Oh, for heaven's sake!!!" shouts Cutler at what he obviously thinks is a
waste of time and space and he storms back into the control room.

Back in the control room, Cutler and Barclay resume their positions and
a technician acknowledges radio transmission from Geneva.

Polly notes that the Doctor is looking terribly worried.  The Doctor
says that he is, and Ben asks him why.
"You see, Ben, I know what this planet is," he says, "and what it means to
Earth."
"What does it mean to Earth?" asks Ben.
"Pretty soon, we shall be having _visitors_."
"Visitors here?" asks Ben, "And who will be bringing them, Father Christmas
on his sledge?"
"Quiet boy, quiet!" snaps the Doctor.

General Cutler picks up a telephone and speaks to someone in Geneva, asking
to speak to the General Secretary immediately.

The Doctor asks the American Sergeant who Cutler's talking to, and as the
Sergeant prepares to leave now that a relief guard has arrived, he tells
the Doctor again how he doesn't "know nothing about what's going on.  That's
the General Secretary of International Space Command, Mister Wigner."

Mr. Wigner sits in behind a large desk in an operations room somewhere in
Geneva, surrounded my secretaries, technicians, wall maps, and computers.
He is listening to Cutler's report from the Polar Base on the telephone.
After Cutler is finished, Wigner says this story is a little hard to believe
and asks Cutler if he is sure.  When Cutler says he is sure, he asks Cutler
to hold a moment while he issues orders to his staff.
He tells one person to get on to Mount Palomar observatory to get a picture
of this new planet as soon as possible.  He tells another to ask Jodrell Bank
to get an exact fix on this object, that they must quickly have more data.
He turns back to his telephone and orders Cutler to let him know the moment
he has any more information.

Cutler says he will do that, but there's more to tell now.  He says they have
three intruders.

"Intruders?  At the Pole?" asks the Frenchman, "Where did they come from?"

Cutler says he hasn't fully interrogated the intruders yet, but that one
of them seems to know a good deal about this new planet.

"How could he possibly know?" asks Wigner.  "I don't know," replies Cutler,
"But I'm gonna find out!"
Wigner again tells Cutler to relay any further information to him.

Cutler replies to Wigner, "Yes, sir, " sets the receiver back in its cradle
and then turns and walks into the observation room.

Cutler strides up to the Doctor and says "Now suppose you tell me how you
really got here."
"That's going to be rather difficult," answers the Doctor.  
"Just a minute," says Cutler, "You turn up out of nowhere, a routine space
shot goes wrong, a new planet appears and you tell us you know all about it.
That puts you slap-bang in the hot-seat, right?"
The Doctor finally hears a word he hasn't heard a million times before and
asks Cutler quizically, "Hot-seat?"
Polly protests that they've got nothing to do with it all, and Cutler
turns to her and says that they're going to have to prove that.
The Doctor suggests that if the General would only allow them to return
where they came from that they will be no further trouble, but the General
grumbles that they aren't going anywhere. 
This exchange reminds the General of something too, and he steps to the 
wall intercom and contacts the periscope room.  He asks the Sergeant if
they've broken into that hut yet, and the Sergeant begins to protest that
they haven't had any orders to do so, when the General cuts in and says
there aren't any excuses and that they should get outside and do it 
immediately.  The Sergeant says he'll get to it and the General shuts off
the intercom and steps back to stare down the Doctor again.
"Now perhaps we'll get to the bottom of this..."

"Come on Tito, we have to go break into a hut," grumbles the Sergeant.
Tito asks if he means that thing outside and the Sergeant says yes.
He then tells Tito to get dressed up and give him a hand.

Outside, in the snowscape, something else arrives.....
A large, solid bullet-shaped metal thing descends slowly out of the sky 
accompanied by a low thrum of electronic power.  The thing hovers a moment
over the snow, and then settles itself to a landing in the soft snows
beneath.....

The doors leading out of the base open and the American Sergeant and Tito
trudge their way outside.  The storm seems even worse now as they struggle
to reach the TARDIS.  After a moment or two of trying to force the door
open, the Sergeant turns to Tito and tells him they'll need a welding torch
to get inside this thing, and orders Tito to go back inside to get one and
to bring one of the other soldiers along too to help.  
"Hurry up, will ya!" he yells as Tito heads back inside, "Before I freeze to
death!"
The Sergeant turns back to the TARDIS and pushes uselessly against the doors
again.
And approaching the man from the back stride three tall figures.
They are dressed, or at least seem to be dressed, completely in white, and
so it makes it difficult to tell what they look like against both the
snowy landscape and the near white-out conditions themselves.
All that is clear, is that they are very _big_ men, stepping slowly and
methodically through the snow towards the man as though the cold and the
wind do not bother them at all....
The Sergeant turns from the lock and sees them.
"What the heck?" he says in surprise, "Tito?  Is that you Tito?"
The three tall things make no response, and continue to approach the Sergeant,
seeming to move more rapidly now that they are closer....
"What's going on?!" shouts the man, "Who is that?"
He is able to get a closer look now at the three men as are we, and it is
now clear that these are definitely not ordinary men.....
"Who the heck are you?!!" shouts the Sergeant.
He panics, draws his pistol and fires two shots at the leading man, hitting
him directly.....
...the man notices nothing....and with giant strides steps right up to
the Sergeant's side....raises a dangerously largely built arm....and
chops the Sergeant to the ground with a single blow to the base of the neck...

Tito and another soldier now have the aceteline torch gear ready and set
off up the stairs to go back outside....

The two men open the doors and rejoin the blizzard outside.  
They see a man dressed in a parka turned away from them looking at the TARDIS,
but the man is noticeably larger than their Sergeant.
Tito and the second soldier reach him, and Tito taps the Sergeant on the
shoulder to ask what is going on.
The "Sergeant" turns, and pulls back his hood...to reveal a decidedly non-human
face....
The man steps forward to Tito and one of his fellows steps from behind the
TARDIS and grabs the second soldier.
As one, the two giants smash their arms into the necks of the two soldiers,
and both broken men crumple to the glacier-covered ground.
The giant not in a parka silently regards the corpse at his feet, and 
bends down to pull the man over on to his back.
As the giant straightens up, we see his face in terrible detail for the
first time...
...his face is blank...with no nose...a dark hole for a mouth.......
...a lantern-like lamp permanantly attached to the crown of its head....
...two hoses leading to the lamp from where ears should be......
...and completely blank eyes that aren't eyes at all...just dark holes...

...and he stares blankly into our eyes.....


END EPISODE 1


DR.WHO
WILLIAM HARTNELL 

GENERAL CUTLER
ROBERT BEATTY

DYSON
DUDLEY JONES

BARCLAY 
DAVID DODIMEAD

SCHULTZ
ALAN WHITE

WILLIAMS
EARL CAMERON

TITO 
SHANE SHELTON

AMERICAN SERGEANT
JOHN BRANDON

POLLY 
ANNEKE WILLS

BEN 
MICHAEL CRAZE

WIGNER
STEVE PLYTAS

RADAR TECHNICIAN 
CHRISTOPHER MATTHEWS


TITLE MUSIC BY
RON GRAINER AND THE
BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP

STORY EDITOR
GERRY DAVIS

DESIGNER
PETER KINDRED

PRODUCER
INNES LLOYD

DIRECTED BY 
DEREK MARTINUS
BBCtv


(first transmitted 8th October 1966, no copyright date or notice on screen)


this synopsis by Steven.K.Manfred@uwrf.edu