Using Travers's body, the Great Intelligence demands that the Doctor allows his mind to be drained. Victoria is taken hostage and the Doctor has just 20 minutes to decide her fate.
Drama
Year 1968
24 min
The Second Doctor: Patrick Troughton Known as the Cosmic Hobo, Patrick Troughton’s twinkle-eyed Doctor was echoed decades later in Matt Smith’s incarnation. He wears his wisdom lightly, an innocent in a wicked cosmos.
The Doctor meet Professor Parry and his archaeologists on the planet Telos. The expedition is there to unearth the remains of Cybermen who died out long ago. Or did they?
Professor Parry and his team begin to unlock the secrets of the Cybermen’s tomb. But there are some amongst the explorers who have a dark agenda of their own.
The tombs are revealed to be a trap. The Cybermen have risen from their centuries long hibernation and are intent on converting the humans into a new race of Cybermen.
The Cyber Controller has been revitalised after leaving the icy tomb, threatening to overpower his human foes. The Doctor is determined to return the Cybermen to their long sleep.
Arriving on an Australian beach in the future, the Doctor is mistaken for political leader Salamander, which Giles Kent plans to use to infiltrate a research centre.
Jamie and Victoria travel to Europe where they infiltrate Salamander’s staff. Salamander plots to take control of the Central European Zone by discrediting its leader, Denes.
The TARDIS lands in the London Underground which is deserted. Jamie and Victoria are captured by the military. The Doctor is amazed to discover that Yetis are in the tunnels.
The deadly web continues to advance in the tunnels of the Underground. Professor Travers realises that the Doctor is the only man who can help bring an end to the Yeti menace.
(sd) The Doctor meets Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart who takes control of the military operation against the Yeti. But the Doctor suspects that there is a traitor in their midst.
The Doctor acquires a sample of the web, but when he, Jamie and Victoria return to the HQ to examine it, they discover that Professor Travers has been abducted by the Yeti!
Using Travers's body, the Great Intelligence demands that the Doctor allows his mind to be drained. Victoria is taken hostage and the Doctor has just 20 minutes to decide her fate.
The HQ is destroyed by the web and everyone is captured by Yetis. The traitor is revealed and all seems lost as the Doctor submits himself to the Great Intelligence's mind drain.
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