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SEASON TWENTY-THREE (6 September 1986 to 6 December 1986)
All episodes bore the title "The Trial of a Time Lord," as one 14-part story The story is sub-divided into four seperate stories and their names are given below. Episodes resume 25-minute duration.
Regular cast: Colin Baker (The Doctor) Nicola Bryant (Peri Brown) Michael Jayston (The Valeyard) Lynda Bellingham (The Inquisitor) Guest star: Tony Selby (Glitz)
story 7A "The
Mysterious Planet"
by Robert Holmes
(4 episodes) -The Doctor is drawn to a space station and placed on trial
by the Time Lords on charges of interference in the affairs of other planets,
and the first evidence presented by the prosecuting Valeyard is the Doctor
and Peri's visit to Ravolox, a world with a society divided between underground
servants of an immortal robot and a free tribe on the surface, a balance
upset by a fault in the robot's power system and by the arrival of a con
man named Glitz who has come for certain "secrets" left behind in the tunnels.
Directed by Nicholas Mallett
Guest star: Nabil Shaban (Sil)
story 7B "Mindwarp"
by Philip Martin
(4 episodes) -The second segment of evidence shows the Doctor to appear
to turn evil as we see him actually aid Sil and the Mentors efforts to
find new head for the brain of their ruler, including Peri's... Directed
by Ron Jones
No Script Editor Regular Cast: Colin Baker (The Doctor) Bonnie Langford (Melanie Bush) Michael Jayston (The Valeyard) Lynda Bellingham (The Inquisitor)
story 7C "Terror
of the Vervoids"
by Pip and Jane Baker
(4 episodes) -The Doctor presents evidence in his own defense, telling
the tale of his future involvement in murders aboard a spaceliner bound
for Earth that conceal or attempt to conceal an immoral science development.
Directed by Chris Clough
Guest stars: Anthony Ainley (The Master) Tony Selby (Glitz)
story 7C "The
Ultimate Foe"
by Robert Holmes
(1) and Pip and Jane Baker (2) (2 episodes) -The Master disrupts the Trial
with the news that the whole thing is a set-up to disguise crimes of the
High Council, and that the Valeyard is really a near-last regenerative
form of the Doctor himself, who takes refuge in the Matrix, drawing the
Doctor and the Master into his deadly fantasy virtual reality inside...
Directed by Chris Clough
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