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The Time Monster

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The Time Monster
Series: Doctor Who -
TV Stories
Season Number: Season 9
Story Number: 64
Doctor: Third Doctor
Companions: Jo Grant
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Captain Mike Yates
Sergeant Benton
Enemy: The Master
Setting:
Writer: Robert Sloman
Director: Paul Bernard
Producer: Barry Letts
Broadcast: 20th May - 24th June 1972
Format: 6 25-minute episodes
Prod. Code: OOO
Previous Story: The Mutants
Following Story: The Three Doctors

The Time Monster was the fifth and final story of Season 9. It marked the return of the Master after an absence of a year.

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[edit] Synopsis

The Master, in the guise of Professor Thascalos, has constructed at the Newton Institute in Wootton a device known as TOMTIT - Transmission Of Matter Through Interstitial Time - with which to gain control over Kronos, a creature from outside time. The creature is summoned but the effect proves uncontrollable.

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[edit] References

  • The TOMTIT machine works with assistance from the Master.
  • The Doctor has built a time sensor which detects disturbances in the time field.
  • The Master uses his TARDIS to Time Ram the Doctor's.
  • A Chronovore spares the Master.
  • The Doctor gets ejected into the time vortex and speaks to Jo through the TARDIS telepathic circuits.
  • This is one of the stories referencing the destruction of Atlantis.
  • The Seventh Enabling Act allows the Brigadier to take over from government forces.
  • The Doctor makes a Time flow analogue from a Moroccan burgundy bottle, spoons, forks, corks, keyrings, tea leaves and a mug.
  • The Doctor talks to Jo (while they're tied up) about his home; "When I was a little boy, we used to live in a house that was perched halfway up the top of a mountain. Behind our house, there sat under a tree an old man. A hermit, a monk. He'd lived under this tree for half his lifetime, so they said, and had learned the secret of life. So, when my black day came, I went and asked him to help me.'" The hermit appears on screen in DW: Planet of the Spiders.
  • Kronos knows of the Doctor.

[edit] Story Notes

  • This is the only appearance of the "washing up bowl" interior for the TARDIS (designed by Tim Gleeson).
  • Dave Prowse, later to play (but not voice) the masked Darth Vader in the Star Wars films, features in an equally incognito role as the Minotaur.

[edit] Ratings

  • Episode 1 - 7.6 million viewers
  • Episode 2 - 7.4 million viewers
  • Episode 3 - 8.1 million viewers
  • Episode 4 - 7.6 million viewers
  • Episode 5 - 6.0 million viewers
  • Episode 6 - 7.6 million viewers

[edit] Myths

  • Well-known actress Susan Penhaligon, making an early television appearance as Galleia's handmaiden Lakis, was originally to have been credited as Virginia Mull. (Virginia Mull was a different actress who had a small uncredited walk-on role as a serving girl in the Atlantis scenes of this story. Susan Penhaligon, who was a late replacement for actress Ann Michelle, was always to have been credited under her own name.)
  • The Master's alias is 'Thascales'. (The majority of printed and online episode guides say this. Unfortunately, (a) 'Thascales' isn't the Greek for 'Master', and (b) no-one in the story says 'Thascales'. They all say 'Thascalos', which is the Greek for 'Master'. The error first appears in the second edition of Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke's The Making of Doctor Who, and presumably has been taken from there by all subsequent episode guides, without checking against the broadcast episodes. Terrance Dicks, however, has the correct spelling in the novelization.)

[edit] Filming Locations

  • Swallowfield Park, Swallowfield, Berkshire
  • Stratfield Saye Park, Stratfield Saye, Hampshire
  • Old Church Farm (road), Hartley Wintney, Hampshire
  • Park Lane, Fair Cross, Berkshire
  • School Lane, Heckfield Heath/Riseley, Hampshire
  • Ealing Television Film Studios, Ealing Green, Ealing
  • BBC Television Centre (Studio 3 & 4), Shepherd's Bush, London

[edit] Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

  • In episode one, the interior of the police box prop is visible.
  • The V1 is on black and white film.
  • Since the V1 is moved forward through time while in mid-air, so that it explodes in the programme's present, how can it be that the local remembers it having fallen in the past?
  • The Doctor's supposedly backwards dialogue when played backwards is still gibberish.

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[edit] Novelisation

Main article: The Time Monster (novelisation)

[edit] External Links

Season 9
Day of the Daleks  • The Curse of Peladon  • The Sea Devils  • The Mutants  • The Time Monster
The Master - TV Stories
Terror of the Autons  • The Mind of Evil  • The Claws of Axos  • Colony in Space  • The Dæmons  • The Sea Devils  • The Time Monster  • Frontier in Space  • The Deadly Assassin  • The Keeper of Traken  • Logopolis  • Castrovalva  • Time-Flight  • The King's Demons  • The Five Doctors  • Planet of Fire  • The Mark of the Rani  • The Ultimate Foe  • Survival  • Doctor Who: The TV Movie  •
Utopia/ The Sound of Drums/ Last of the Time Lords

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