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Doctor Who: The Three Doctors

Doctor Who

Doctor Who: The Three Doctors

BBC Home Video (Dec 30, 1972)
TV Series | Action | Adventure | Science Fiction
USA | English | Color | 01:38
Digital
1 disc
Region 1

A gel-like plasma creature arrives on Earth and hunts down the Doctor, who calls on the Time Lords for help. The Time Lords themselves are in crisis as their energy is being drawn off into a black hole. They send the Doctor's earlier selves to join him.

The first Doctor, caught in a time eddy and able only to advise, deduces that the creature is a time bridge. The third Doctor and Jo then give themselves up to it and are transported to a world of antimatter beyond the black hole.

On Earth, the second Doctor is forced to take refuge in the TARDIS along with the Brigadier and Sergeant Benton. On the advice of the first Doctor he switches off the ship's force field, and the whole UNIT building is transported through the black hole.

Behind these events is Omega, a figure from Time Lord history whose solar engineering provided the power for time travel. He has been trapped in the black hole ever since and now wants the Doctor to swap places with him, but it transpires that the corrosive properties of his domain have already destroyed his physical form, leaving only his will.

He threatens to destroy the universe but is tricked into touching the second Doctor's recorder - the only thing not converted to antimatter when the TARDIS passed through the black hole - and is consumed in the resulting supernova. Everyone else is returned home.


Cast View all

Tom Baker Doctor Who
William Hartnell Dr. Who
Jon Pertwee Doctor Who
Patrick Troughton Dr. Who
Frazer Hines Jamie
Nicholas Courtney Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart
Pat Gorman Guard
Elisabeth Sladen Sarah Jane Smith
Jacqueline Hill Barbara Wright
William Russell Ian Chesterton
Katy Manning Jo Grant
John Scott Martin Dalek
John Levene Sergeant Benton
Peter Davison The Doctor
Janet Fielding Tegan
John Leeson K9
Terry Walsh Primitive
Gerald Taylor Dalek
Robert Jewell Dalek
Carole Ann Ford Susan Foreman
Peter Hawkins Dalek Voices
Cy Town Dalek Operator
Roy Skelton Daleks
Wendy Padbury Zoe
Sarah Sutton Nyssa

Episodes View details

1 The Three Doctors (1) 25 min | Dec 30, 1972

England, the near future. A strange anti-matter creature arrives on Earth and attacks UNIT HQ. It seems to be specifically seeking the Doctor out - but why? With the Time Lords themselves unable to help, it seems the only person who can help the Doctor is himself - or selves...

Director: Lennie Mayne
Writer: Bob Baker, Dave Martin
Guest stars: Patricia Prior, Clyde Pollitt, Denys Palmer, Laurie Webb
2 The Three Doctors (2) 25 min | Jan 06, 1973

England, the near future. A strange anti-matter creature arrives on Earth and attacks UNIT HQ. It seems to be specifically seeking the Doctor out - but why? With the Time Lords themselves unable to help, it seems the only person who can help the Doctor is himself - or selves...

Director: Lennie Mayne
Writer: Bob Baker, Dave Martin
Guest stars: Clyde Pollitt, Denys Palmer, Laurie Webb
3 The Three Doctors (3) 25 min | Jan 13, 1973

England, the near future. A strange anti-matter creature arrives on Earth and attacks UNIT HQ. It seems to be specifically seeking the Doctor out - but why? With the Time Lords themselves unable to help, it seems the only person who can help the Doctor is himself - or selves...

Director: Lennie Mayne
Writer: Bob Baker, Dave Martin
Guest stars: Laurie Webb
4 The Three Doctors (4) 25 min | Jan 20, 1973

England, the near future. A strange anti-matter creature arrives on Earth and attacks UNIT HQ. It seems to be specifically seeking the Doctor out - but why? With the Time Lords themselves unable to help, it seems the only person who can help the Doctor is himself - or selves...

Director: Lennie Mayne
Writer: Bob Baker, Dave Martin
Guest stars: Patricia Prior, Laurie Webb