Doctor Who (1963) s17e26 Episode Script
Shada, Part Six -
Skagra ordered the sphere to drain Salayvin's mind but K-9 blasted it into pieces.
Each fragment reformed into another small sphere.
One of which settled on the old man.
Skagra was exhilarated "You shall see the beginning of the universal mind" he cries as the spheres came together, discharging vast amounts of energy.
And then, each of them attach themselves to one of the prisoners who turned towards me.
Chris and Clare entered the chamber and the young man rushed forward trying to help.
A sphere absorbed his mind in an instant.
The prisoners, including Chris, marched menacingly towards me K-9 was quick to the rescue.
He fired at one of the prisoners who collapsed.
One of the Krargs lumbered over to K-9, picked him up and hurled him through the door.
Seizing my chance I made a run for it with Romana and Clare in tow and with K-9 burst through the nearest door.
Quick, come in, come in.
Come on, K-9! Sit down! Got it! Well, what are we going to do? So far he beaten us on ever point.
He's even got Chris.
Yes Quiet! I'm thinking.
I've been thinking and it depresses me.
Skagra's little zombie gang have got the brain power of the greatest intellects of the Universe shared out among them, the Think Tank.
Who? Never mind about that.
Just believe me.
All the minds that Skagra's stolen are now in the melting pot along with his own, and they are all operating as one.
And with the Professor's I mean with Salyavin's mind in there too, they can control anyone They can control everyone.
They'll be invincible.
Doctor? Yes? May I just remind you of something? Yes.
All the minds that Skagra's stolen are in the melting pot.
Yes.
That means yours is in there too.
Yes.
Romana? Yes Doctor? Romana, I want you to do something for me.
Stand there.
Romana, I want you to where this.
Well, now I can think.
Skagra and his assemblage of prisoners returned to the TARDIS where he announced his intention to will return to the Carrier Ship.
From there each of them will be taken by small craft to various populations centres.
The great mind revolution was about to begin.
It'll be tricky.
And dangerous.
A touch.
Doctor, it'll be terribly terribly dangerous for you.
You'll stand as much chance as As what? Well, as of anything that stands as little chance as you will out there.
Really? Well, I have to I have to be very brave won't I.
Doctor, it isn't funny.
Listen, I can do your part if you can do mine.
I'll try.
You're a hero.
Remember? Clare? Yes, Doctor? Hold on very tight.
Skagra realised something was wrong.
Ready? Yes.
Clare? Ready Doctor? Hold tight.
Now! I was travelling through the Space/Time Vortex in the College Room TARDIS which was generating a force field.
Ha Ha.
Got them.
Well done Romana.
We haven't got to the hard bit yet.
You're right.
We haven't got long.
Clare! Yes, Doctor, still holding on.
Come over here and hold onto this.
Now don't let go whatever happens as we are in for a very rough ride.
And twenty-thirdly, our there in the Space/Time Vortex, time and distance have no meaning, but here in this little, little room Oh get on with it! Romana! Yes Doctor? I want you to turn off the vortex shields in this small area here.
Come on, you can do it, I showed you how to do it.
Just one little bit of timelessness and spacelessness.
Over there behind the tea trolley.
I said behind the tea trolley, not in the middle of it.
I'm sorry.
But it's very difficult.
Focus it! Just one steady line, just one.
Hold it.
Hold it! I'm trying! Doctor, I'm trying! Right, the next bit is a little trick I learnt from a space/time mystic in the Quantox.
He made it seem very, very easy He did it! HOLD THAT SWITCH DOWN! The College Room TARDIS was just holding the Police Box in the force field as I appeared in it.
Slowly I half-crawled / half swam up the tunnel - in great pain.
It won't hold much longer.
It's fading even faster than the Doctor said it would.
K-9! K-9, wake up and come here.
K-9, check out the sub neutron circuits.
Detect circuit malfunction, Mistress.
With increasing difficulty, I was able to reach the TARDIS in the time tunnel.
I just managed to get part of my arm through it.
Impossible to effect repairs in time available, Mistress.
Well, hold it K-9.
Stop it deteriorating.
Impossible to stop it, Mistress.
I can only slow down circuit deterioration.
The Doctor needs every second we can give him.
This switch is growing very hot.
You must hold it down.
I can't.
It's getting hotter.
I seemed unable to get any further.
In fact I started to slide backwards.
It's burning me.
Hold it down with a pencil.
I haven't got one.
I can't reach it! Oh, I'll get it.
And I vanished as the room and the TARDIS spin wildly away from each other.
What about the Doctor? I don't know.
It was a very dangerous idea trying to make that crossing, and he didn't get as much time as he wanted.
What should we do? Well, we'll just go ahead as planned.
How's that? Oh, that's fine.
Thank you.
It wasn't a bad burn.
Do you think the Doctor will be alright? We'll just go ahead as planned.
Then I regained consciousness in a small equipment room in the TARDIS.
I rummaged through the equipment.
In the carrier ship, the TARDIS arrived.
Skagra planned an infinite concert of the mind - unaware of my presence on board.
Repairs completed Mistress.
Let me see.
Good boy, K-9.
Now we can go.
Although I dread to think what we're walking into if Let's just do it.
I managed to lash-up a helmet-like affair made with bits of electronic equipment and a chunk of a table-top.
The Professor's TARDIS, now back in its usual form as a door, materialised on the command deck.
An unpleasant welcome committee was prepared for me but it was K-9 that emerged from the door.
I was watching all this on my own TARDIS screen and emerged wearing the strange helmet All the prisoners turned to face me as Skagra threaten my life.
I pressed a button on my helmet and look hard at Skagra - as did all of the prisoners - in unison.
With intense mental effort Skagra tried to control the prisoners but I told him that he had forgotten something.
That a deranged billiard ball had been used once too often and that my brain was in there as well.
Skagra stained for control.
The prisoners nearest him turned to face me, the ones in the middle of the hall were confused and the one near were firmly fixed at Skagra.
A mighty battle of wills took place with me gaining the upper hand.
Momentary, distracted by a Krarg I lost control and the prisoners swung towards me.
"Fire K-9!" I called and the metallic computer held the Krarg in a beam near the door to the Generation Annex.
The prisoners split into two groups as I regain some lost ground.
The two groups wrestled with each other obeying mental orders from their two leaders.
I maneuvered Skagra to the dangerously overheated Krarg.
The evil genius ordered it to back off.
It did and fell backwards into its generation vat where it dissolved K-9 was firing relentlessly at the reinforcements of Krargs arrived.
Skagra thought victory was within his grasp as Romana emerged cautiously from the Door and into the generation annex where she tipped over the vats of heavy gas which poured into the main Command Deck.
She examined the wires of the main vat, pulled them out of their sockets and trailing the wire marched forward to Clare.
The girls made for opposite sides of the room which was now swimming in the green gas.
Skagra had turned the tables on me.
I was being forced toward burning Krargs.
Romana and Clare plunged their wires into the gas.
The Krargs started to dissolve.
As Skagra looked appalled, I took mind control and the prisoners, in a solid phalanx, turned on Skagra and he ran for his ship.
On board, he ordered it to take off instantly but a block of light engulfed him and he vanished and was deposited in the Ship's brig.
Ship! Let me out of here! I am your Lord Skagra! Let me out! I am very much afraid I can no longer accept your orders.
You are an enemy of my Lord the Doctor.
I AM YOUR LORD! I BUILT YOU! RELEASE ME I COMMAND YOU! And launch instantly! Do you know the Doctor well? He is a wonderful, wonderful man.
He has done the most extraordinary things to my circuitry.
RELEASE ME! Truly wonderful.
If you like, I will tell you all about him.
Let me out! Let me out Romana and Clare was attending to the prisoners, who were in shock, while I dissected the spheres to restore the genius's minds to them.
I intended to take them back to Shada as I refused to act as judge and jury.
I informed them that Shada was only forgotten about because Salyavin made the Time Lords to forget.
He didn't want his escape to be discovered.
Hence he stole the book when he left Gallifrey.
Stolen a room? That is the only way I can describe it.
Well you see sir, in my experience people don't usually steal rooms very much.
They may steal from rooms, but steal the rooms themselves, very rarely.
In fact I think, uh, never is probably the word I'm looking for here sir, I mean, where's the advantage in it? Not much of a black market in rooms, is there? Wouldn't get much for it! I know it's very difficult to understand.
It's also very easy to be sarcastic.
Sarcastic sir? I don't know the word.
Now why don't you run over the salient points again? Well, when I got to the door of the room and I opened and beyond it there was nothing.
Absolutely nothing at all, sir? Absolutely nothing at all except for some sort of blue haze.
Ah, well, the blue haze may be the vital clue we're searching for.
And I was not drinking.
Romana wondered wherever Professor Chronotis or Salyavin was still alive on Shada, considering the reason the Professor had called me to Earth in the first place was because he thought he was nearing the end of his life.
So this is the famous door, is it sir? Yes.
Behind which you saw your blue haze? Yes.
Come in! Well, whoever took it sir seems to have brought it back.
''her little homely dress, her favourite,' cried the old man, pressing it to his breast and patting it with a shrivelled hand.
'She'll miss it when she wakes.
'' Hello? Can I help you? Routine inquiry, sir.
Report that this room had been stolen.
Stolen!! I don't think so! Cup of tea and some aspirin.
Thank you, Professor.
Aspirin, sir? Yes, headache.
Bad night last night, sir? Yes, you could say that.
A lot of celebrating going on in college, was there sir? Last night? Nothing out of the ordinary.
Big normal hijinks that would be then sir, would it? Students roaming the streets stealing policeman's helmets, ballads, and Might I ask where you got that, sir? Yes, it's mine.
Oh really sir? Yes, really.
Come on Romana.
Bye Wilken, Bristol, Keightley, goodbye Professor, we'll keep your secret.
Bye everybody.
Secret sir? And what secret would that be? Cup of tea? Where did that police box just go? What police box that would be, Officer? Right.
Right.
Coats on everyone.
You're all taking a little walk with me down to the Bridewell.
Romana explained that she found it hard that the Professor was the great Salyavin.
He seem to be a nice old man.
And I speculated that in a hundred years someone will meet me and say, 'Is that really the Doctor? How strange.
He seems such a nice old man.
'
Each fragment reformed into another small sphere.
One of which settled on the old man.
Skagra was exhilarated "You shall see the beginning of the universal mind" he cries as the spheres came together, discharging vast amounts of energy.
And then, each of them attach themselves to one of the prisoners who turned towards me.
Chris and Clare entered the chamber and the young man rushed forward trying to help.
A sphere absorbed his mind in an instant.
The prisoners, including Chris, marched menacingly towards me K-9 was quick to the rescue.
He fired at one of the prisoners who collapsed.
One of the Krargs lumbered over to K-9, picked him up and hurled him through the door.
Seizing my chance I made a run for it with Romana and Clare in tow and with K-9 burst through the nearest door.
Quick, come in, come in.
Come on, K-9! Sit down! Got it! Well, what are we going to do? So far he beaten us on ever point.
He's even got Chris.
Yes Quiet! I'm thinking.
I've been thinking and it depresses me.
Skagra's little zombie gang have got the brain power of the greatest intellects of the Universe shared out among them, the Think Tank.
Who? Never mind about that.
Just believe me.
All the minds that Skagra's stolen are now in the melting pot along with his own, and they are all operating as one.
And with the Professor's I mean with Salyavin's mind in there too, they can control anyone They can control everyone.
They'll be invincible.
Doctor? Yes? May I just remind you of something? Yes.
All the minds that Skagra's stolen are in the melting pot.
Yes.
That means yours is in there too.
Yes.
Romana? Yes Doctor? Romana, I want you to do something for me.
Stand there.
Romana, I want you to where this.
Well, now I can think.
Skagra and his assemblage of prisoners returned to the TARDIS where he announced his intention to will return to the Carrier Ship.
From there each of them will be taken by small craft to various populations centres.
The great mind revolution was about to begin.
It'll be tricky.
And dangerous.
A touch.
Doctor, it'll be terribly terribly dangerous for you.
You'll stand as much chance as As what? Well, as of anything that stands as little chance as you will out there.
Really? Well, I have to I have to be very brave won't I.
Doctor, it isn't funny.
Listen, I can do your part if you can do mine.
I'll try.
You're a hero.
Remember? Clare? Yes, Doctor? Hold on very tight.
Skagra realised something was wrong.
Ready? Yes.
Clare? Ready Doctor? Hold tight.
Now! I was travelling through the Space/Time Vortex in the College Room TARDIS which was generating a force field.
Ha Ha.
Got them.
Well done Romana.
We haven't got to the hard bit yet.
You're right.
We haven't got long.
Clare! Yes, Doctor, still holding on.
Come over here and hold onto this.
Now don't let go whatever happens as we are in for a very rough ride.
And twenty-thirdly, our there in the Space/Time Vortex, time and distance have no meaning, but here in this little, little room Oh get on with it! Romana! Yes Doctor? I want you to turn off the vortex shields in this small area here.
Come on, you can do it, I showed you how to do it.
Just one little bit of timelessness and spacelessness.
Over there behind the tea trolley.
I said behind the tea trolley, not in the middle of it.
I'm sorry.
But it's very difficult.
Focus it! Just one steady line, just one.
Hold it.
Hold it! I'm trying! Doctor, I'm trying! Right, the next bit is a little trick I learnt from a space/time mystic in the Quantox.
He made it seem very, very easy He did it! HOLD THAT SWITCH DOWN! The College Room TARDIS was just holding the Police Box in the force field as I appeared in it.
Slowly I half-crawled / half swam up the tunnel - in great pain.
It won't hold much longer.
It's fading even faster than the Doctor said it would.
K-9! K-9, wake up and come here.
K-9, check out the sub neutron circuits.
Detect circuit malfunction, Mistress.
With increasing difficulty, I was able to reach the TARDIS in the time tunnel.
I just managed to get part of my arm through it.
Impossible to effect repairs in time available, Mistress.
Well, hold it K-9.
Stop it deteriorating.
Impossible to stop it, Mistress.
I can only slow down circuit deterioration.
The Doctor needs every second we can give him.
This switch is growing very hot.
You must hold it down.
I can't.
It's getting hotter.
I seemed unable to get any further.
In fact I started to slide backwards.
It's burning me.
Hold it down with a pencil.
I haven't got one.
I can't reach it! Oh, I'll get it.
And I vanished as the room and the TARDIS spin wildly away from each other.
What about the Doctor? I don't know.
It was a very dangerous idea trying to make that crossing, and he didn't get as much time as he wanted.
What should we do? Well, we'll just go ahead as planned.
How's that? Oh, that's fine.
Thank you.
It wasn't a bad burn.
Do you think the Doctor will be alright? We'll just go ahead as planned.
Then I regained consciousness in a small equipment room in the TARDIS.
I rummaged through the equipment.
In the carrier ship, the TARDIS arrived.
Skagra planned an infinite concert of the mind - unaware of my presence on board.
Repairs completed Mistress.
Let me see.
Good boy, K-9.
Now we can go.
Although I dread to think what we're walking into if Let's just do it.
I managed to lash-up a helmet-like affair made with bits of electronic equipment and a chunk of a table-top.
The Professor's TARDIS, now back in its usual form as a door, materialised on the command deck.
An unpleasant welcome committee was prepared for me but it was K-9 that emerged from the door.
I was watching all this on my own TARDIS screen and emerged wearing the strange helmet All the prisoners turned to face me as Skagra threaten my life.
I pressed a button on my helmet and look hard at Skagra - as did all of the prisoners - in unison.
With intense mental effort Skagra tried to control the prisoners but I told him that he had forgotten something.
That a deranged billiard ball had been used once too often and that my brain was in there as well.
Skagra stained for control.
The prisoners nearest him turned to face me, the ones in the middle of the hall were confused and the one near were firmly fixed at Skagra.
A mighty battle of wills took place with me gaining the upper hand.
Momentary, distracted by a Krarg I lost control and the prisoners swung towards me.
"Fire K-9!" I called and the metallic computer held the Krarg in a beam near the door to the Generation Annex.
The prisoners split into two groups as I regain some lost ground.
The two groups wrestled with each other obeying mental orders from their two leaders.
I maneuvered Skagra to the dangerously overheated Krarg.
The evil genius ordered it to back off.
It did and fell backwards into its generation vat where it dissolved K-9 was firing relentlessly at the reinforcements of Krargs arrived.
Skagra thought victory was within his grasp as Romana emerged cautiously from the Door and into the generation annex where she tipped over the vats of heavy gas which poured into the main Command Deck.
She examined the wires of the main vat, pulled them out of their sockets and trailing the wire marched forward to Clare.
The girls made for opposite sides of the room which was now swimming in the green gas.
Skagra had turned the tables on me.
I was being forced toward burning Krargs.
Romana and Clare plunged their wires into the gas.
The Krargs started to dissolve.
As Skagra looked appalled, I took mind control and the prisoners, in a solid phalanx, turned on Skagra and he ran for his ship.
On board, he ordered it to take off instantly but a block of light engulfed him and he vanished and was deposited in the Ship's brig.
Ship! Let me out of here! I am your Lord Skagra! Let me out! I am very much afraid I can no longer accept your orders.
You are an enemy of my Lord the Doctor.
I AM YOUR LORD! I BUILT YOU! RELEASE ME I COMMAND YOU! And launch instantly! Do you know the Doctor well? He is a wonderful, wonderful man.
He has done the most extraordinary things to my circuitry.
RELEASE ME! Truly wonderful.
If you like, I will tell you all about him.
Let me out! Let me out Romana and Clare was attending to the prisoners, who were in shock, while I dissected the spheres to restore the genius's minds to them.
I intended to take them back to Shada as I refused to act as judge and jury.
I informed them that Shada was only forgotten about because Salyavin made the Time Lords to forget.
He didn't want his escape to be discovered.
Hence he stole the book when he left Gallifrey.
Stolen a room? That is the only way I can describe it.
Well you see sir, in my experience people don't usually steal rooms very much.
They may steal from rooms, but steal the rooms themselves, very rarely.
In fact I think, uh, never is probably the word I'm looking for here sir, I mean, where's the advantage in it? Not much of a black market in rooms, is there? Wouldn't get much for it! I know it's very difficult to understand.
It's also very easy to be sarcastic.
Sarcastic sir? I don't know the word.
Now why don't you run over the salient points again? Well, when I got to the door of the room and I opened and beyond it there was nothing.
Absolutely nothing at all, sir? Absolutely nothing at all except for some sort of blue haze.
Ah, well, the blue haze may be the vital clue we're searching for.
And I was not drinking.
Romana wondered wherever Professor Chronotis or Salyavin was still alive on Shada, considering the reason the Professor had called me to Earth in the first place was because he thought he was nearing the end of his life.
So this is the famous door, is it sir? Yes.
Behind which you saw your blue haze? Yes.
Come in! Well, whoever took it sir seems to have brought it back.
''her little homely dress, her favourite,' cried the old man, pressing it to his breast and patting it with a shrivelled hand.
'She'll miss it when she wakes.
'' Hello? Can I help you? Routine inquiry, sir.
Report that this room had been stolen.
Stolen!! I don't think so! Cup of tea and some aspirin.
Thank you, Professor.
Aspirin, sir? Yes, headache.
Bad night last night, sir? Yes, you could say that.
A lot of celebrating going on in college, was there sir? Last night? Nothing out of the ordinary.
Big normal hijinks that would be then sir, would it? Students roaming the streets stealing policeman's helmets, ballads, and Might I ask where you got that, sir? Yes, it's mine.
Oh really sir? Yes, really.
Come on Romana.
Bye Wilken, Bristol, Keightley, goodbye Professor, we'll keep your secret.
Bye everybody.
Secret sir? And what secret would that be? Cup of tea? Where did that police box just go? What police box that would be, Officer? Right.
Right.
Coats on everyone.
You're all taking a little walk with me down to the Bridewell.
Romana explained that she found it hard that the Professor was the great Salyavin.
He seem to be a nice old man.
And I speculated that in a hundred years someone will meet me and say, 'Is that really the Doctor? How strange.
He seems such a nice old man.
'