Starring Jon Pertwee.
It is 1926, and the Doctor and Jo Grant arrive on board the SS Bernice, a small cargo ship crossing the Indian Ocean bound for Bombay.
Millions of miles away from Earth, on the planet Inter Minor, a travelling showman named Vorg and his assistant, Shirna, arrive to entertain the populous. With them is an amazing machine won in a bet - an intergallactic peepshow called the Scope. As Vorg reveals the show to the officials of Inter Minor, alien worlds and strange creatures are conjured up from the Scope -- Cybermen, Drashigs and Tellurians from Earth.
The Doctor is sure he has taken Jo to Metebelis Three, Jo maintains that they are still on Earth -- until an extinct Dinosaur appears. Then the guests and crew aboard the SS Bernice begin to replay the same scenario over and over again.
The story marks the end of the Third Doctor's exile on Earth and his return to intergalatic adventure. But after three years of earth-bound adventures the story deals not with space battles and world domination, but with politics and ethics.
The Doctor reveals that the Scope is a intergalactically banned machine, and that he persuaded the Time Lords to ban it. As Jo and the Doctor attempt to escape from their exhibit they accidently cause the Drashigs to break out of their own and cause havoc inside.
IMHO one of the best stories in the whole of the series.
It is 1926, and the Doctor and Jo Grant arrive on board the SS Bernice, a small cargo ship crossing the Indian Ocean bound for Bombay.
Millions of miles away from Earth, on the planet Inter Minor, a travelling showman named Vorg and his assistant, Shirna, arrive to entertain the populous. With them is an amazing machine won in a bet - an intergallactic peepshow called the Scope. As Vorg reveals the show to the officials of Inter Minor, alien worlds and strange creatures are conjured up from the Scope -- Cybermen, Drashigs and Tellurians from Earth.
The Doctor is sure he has taken Jo to Metebelis Three, Jo maintains that they are still on Earth -- until an extinct Dinosaur appears. Then the guests and crew aboard the SS Bernice begin to replay the same scenario over and over again.
The story marks the end of the Third Doctor's exile on Earth and his return to intergalatic adventure. But after three years of earth-bound adventures the story deals not with space battles and world domination, but with politics and ethics.
The Doctor reveals that the Scope is a intergalactically banned machine, and that he persuaded the Time Lords to ban it. As Jo and the Doctor attempt to escape from their exhibit they accidently cause the Drashigs to break out of their own and cause havoc inside.
IMHO one of the best stories in the whole of the series.