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SEASON EIGHT (2 January 1971 to 19 June 1971)
Regular Cast: Jon Pertwee (Doctor Who) Roger Delgado (The Master) Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart) Katy Manning (Jo Grant) Richard Franklin (Captain Mike Yates) John Levene (Sergeant Benton)
story EEE "Terror
of the Autons"
by Robert Holmes
(4 episodes) -A renegade Time Lord of the Doctor's "acquaintance" known
as the Master is assisting the Nestenes in a second invasion attempt by
again using the Autons and a more subtle weapon of his own design. Directed
by Barry Letts recently restored to full colour
story FFF "The
Mind of Evil"
by Don Houghton (6
episodes) -The seemingly unlinked events of a World Peace Conference and
a new device that drains the evil from criminal's minds are indeed linked
by the machinations of the Master and his plans to steal and fire a nerve
gas missile from a UNIT convoy. Directed by Timothy Combe all six episodes
missing in colour, black and white prints are held
story GGG "The
Claws of Axos"
by Bob Baker and
Dave Martin (4 episodes) -The Master brings to Earth an organic spaceship/organism
called Axos that claims friendship but seeks instead to absorb the Earth
for nourishment and to plunder the Doctor's knowledge of time travel. Directed
by Michael Ferguson
-Yates and Benton do not appear in this story
story HHH "Colony
in Space"
by Malcolm Hulke
(6 episodes) -The Time Lords send the Doctor and Jo to Uxarius, a planet
in the year 2472 disputed over by resident colonists and a mining conglomerate
and by the Master who has come to seize control of an ancient civilization's
Doomsday Weapon. Directed by Michael Briant
story JJJ "The
Daemons"
by Guy Leopold (5
episodes) -The Master uses a black magic cult and the gullibility of the
local villagers to awaken the last of the Daemons, a nearly omnipotent
race that has been helping Earth through human history on their own terms
as a scientific experiment, and what worries the Doctor is the choice between
letting the Master inherit the power or letting the Daemon destroy the
world... Directed by Christopher Barry Guy Leopold is a pen name for Barry
Letts and Robert Sloman recently restored to full colour
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