Season 8 episodes
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No Code Title First Shown Eps Exists
55 EEE Terror of the Autons 2 Jan 71 4 all-colourised
56 FFF The Mind of Evil 30 Jan 71 6 all-b&w only
57 GGG The Claws of Axos 13 Mar 71 4 all
58 HHH Colony in Space 10 Apr 71 6 all
59 JJJ The Daemons 22 May 71 5 all-colourised
Notes
Many of the colour recordings of these stories in the PAL colour system
used in the UK were lost. Some colour recordings remain in the American
NTSC colour system and these were used to colourise remaining Black and
White film print of the Daemons.
The BBC were sufficiently impressed with this process that it has now been
used to colourise Terror of the Autons, and some season 7 stories.
Jo Grant and the Master both appear first in Terror of the Autons.
Episode Details
The Master arrives on Earth in his TARDIS, camouflaging it as a horse box
in a Circus.
He immediately contacts the Nestenes and assists them in mounting a second
invasion of Earth.
The Doctor and his new assistant, Jo Grant, have to tackle the Autons,
the Master and a large number of deadly daffodils!
Video Release: PAL VHS BBC Video BBCV4957, Cert PG
The Doctor goes to Stangmoor Prison, to investigate a new
process for treating dangerous criminals (the Keller Machine).
At the demonstration, a prisoner is killed.
Professor Keller (in reality the Master) organises a prison takeover,
capturing Jo and the Doctor, and hijacks a nerve gas missile
being transported by UNIT.
The Doctor soon discovers the real secret of the Keller Machine - a
voracious alien parasite that amplifies and feeds off fear!
An alien spaceship descends to Earth, time jumping a few seconds into
the future to avoid a missile fired at it.
The craft contains the Axons, a race of beautiful golden humanoids
who offer a remarkable energy source called Axonite.
The Doctor and Jo become suspicious, however, and discover that
Axonite, the Axons and their ship are all a single organism,
brought to Earth by the Master, which will feed on all life.
The Doctor begins to behave strangely, and Jo wonders if he can outwit Axos
and the Master - or does he intend to repair the TARDIS and abandon the
Earth to its fate?
Video Release: PAL VHS BBC Video BBCV4742, Cert U
A newly formed colony finds mysterious damage to property and crops, and
then murder when a mining company move in. An arbiter arrives to mediate
between the two parties, but the Doctor recognises him as the Master.
What is he doing here and what is the secret of the strange ruined city
nearby?
Will the excavation of a barrow at Devil's End have the disastrous
results that the local white witch promises? What is the connection
with the sinister new vicar?
All too soon the Doctor and UNIT are struggling against demonic forces
summoned from the past by devil worshippers.
Links: onwards to season 9,
back to season 7.
B.King@ee.surrey.ac.uk & D.White@ee.surrey.ac.uk
30th August 1994