Season 17 episodes
No Code Title First Shown Eps Exists
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104 5J Destiny of the Daleks 1 Sep 79 4 all
105 5H City of Death 29 Sep 79 4 all
106 5G The Creature From the Pit 27 Oct 79 4 all
107 5K Nightmare of Eden 24 Nov 79 4 all
108 5L Horns of Nimon 22 Dec 79 4 all
109 5M Shada never incomplete
Notes:
Shada was never completed due to a strike.
Douglas Adams partially reused the plots of Shada and City of Death
in his book ``Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency".
Episode Details
Arriving on a desolate planet, the Doctor is amazed to discover the
signs of drilling being carried out.
The Doctor is rescued by the Movellans, a race of physically perfect
humanoids who have been locked in combat with the Daleks for centuries.
He begins to suspect that they are on the planet Skaro, where the Daleks
are now searching for their creator Davros in order to gain a
strategic advantage.
"One for casual, one for best."
- Romana, DESTINY OF THE DALEKS
The Doctor and Romana visit Paris for a holiday. When the Mona
Lisa is stolen, the Doctor comes upon evidence of sinister time
experiments being carried out by a wealthy Count, Scarlioni.
He soon exposes a plot by Scaroth, the last of the Jagaroth race,
to re-write the history of Earth by avoiding the destruction of his
space ship - but it was this explosion that led to the formation of
life on Earth!
"You remember the Mona Lisa? That dreadful woman with no eyebrows who wouldn't sit still?"
- The Doctor, CITY OF DEATH
Gallery Visitor 1: I think, one of the most curious things about this piece is its wonderful...afunctionality.
Gallery Visitor 2: Yes, I see what you mean. Divorced from its function, I think, purely as a piece of art, its structure of lines and color is curiously counterpointed by the redundant vestiges of its function.
GV 1: It has no call to be here; the art lies in the fact that it is here.
[Doctor, Romana and Duggan troop into the TARDIS, and it dematerializes.]
GV 2: Exquisite. Absolutely exquisite.
- CITY OF DEATH
The Doctor and Romana arrive on the lush world of Chloris,
a world with an overabundance of plant life but a lack of metal.
They are captured by the tyrannical Lady Adrasta, who controls the
planet's metal supply, and throws her opponents into an old mine
to be devoured by a fearsome creature.
The Doctor falls into the Pit while attempting to escape - how will he deal
with the creature and defeat the cruel Adrasta?
A passenger spaceliner and a small cargo ship collide while entering
Hyperspace.
The Doctor and Romana offer their help in separating the two craft, and soon
realise that Vraxoin, the most lethal and addictive drug in existence, is
being smuggled aboard the liner.
They attempt to track down the smugglers.
The Doctor is also concerned when he finds a naturalist called Tryst
using an unstable Continuous Event Transmuter, which stores entire ecosystems
on laser crystals!
This device starts releasing Mandrels, a dangerous lifeform from the
planet Eden.
The TARDIS falls into a massive gravitational field while undergoing repairs,
and the Doctor and Romana encounter and repair a damaged spaceship.
Romana is imprisoned after discovering that the ship is carrying a group
of young slaves on board.
The Doctor follows the ship to the planet Skonnos, where the youngsters are
to be sacrificed to the Nimon, a bull-headed alien that has promised
wealth and power to the Skonnons.
Romana is transported to a dying planet, Crinoth, where she
discovers that the Nimon on Skonnos is preparing for the migration
of the entire race of the Nimon from Crinoth to Skonnos, having exhausted
Crinoth's resources. Can she get back and warn the Doctor?
The Doctor and Romana visit an old friend, Professor Chronotis,
an old Time Lord living incognito in a Cambridge College.
The Professor asks the Doctor to return a book in his posession to Gallifrey
as it is one of the ancient relics of the Time Lord race with extra-ordinary
powers.
Unfortunately, the book has been borrowed by a student, Chris Parsons, who
has discovered some of its unusual properties.
The Doctor sets off to retrieve it, but he is not alone; the evil
Skagra is also aware of its power and has arrived on Earth to steal it.
Links: onwards to season 18,
back to season 16.
B.King@ee.surrey.ac.uk & D.White@ee.surrey.ac.uk
27th April 1994