Doctor Who (1963)
The Master, in the guise of Professor Thascales, has constructed at the Newton Institute in Wootton a device known as TOMTIT - Transmission Of Matter Through Interstitial Time - with which to gain control over Kronos, a creature from outside time. The creature is summoned but the effect proves uncontrollable, so the Master flees.
The Doctor shuts TOMTIT down but the Master later reactivates it, using it first to ensnare Krasis, High Priest of the lost city of Atlantis, and then to attack UNIT forces by way of a series of timeslips. The Master takes Krasis back to Atlantis in his TARDIS in the hope of stealing the sacred Crystal of Kronos, with which he aims finally to dominate the creature. The Doctor follows with Jo but is unable to prevent his enemy from seducing Queen Galleia and staging a coup. Galleia turns against the Master when she learns that he has caused the death of her husband, King Dalios.
The Master then unleashes Kronos, destroying Atlantis. The two Time Lords escape in their respective TARDISes and confront each other in the time vortex. The Doctor threatens to trigger a 'time ram' - a devastating collision - but cannot bring himself to do it.
Jo, held hostage by the Master, has no such qualms, and operates the controls herself. The two TARDISes reappear in a strange void presided over by Kronos - who now appears as a beautiful female face.
The time ram has released Kronos, who agrees to return the Doctor and Jo to Earth. The creature plans to subject the Master to eternal torment, but the Doctor pleads on his behalf and he too goes free.
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 |
UNIT are invited to observe a demonstration of the new TOMTIT machine, unaware its creator, Professor Thascales, is actually the Master.
The Doctor realises the Master is trying to harness the power of Kronos, last of the Chronovores, but is unaware Percival is harbouring him at the institute.
The Master enlists the help of Krasis to control Kronos while Yates tries to bring the TARDIS to the institute only to come under attack from dangers from the past.
The Master prepares to travel back to Atlantis but the Doctor links his TARDIS to the Master's to try and stop him.
Both TARDISes reach Atlantis, where the Doctor befriends King Dalios while the Master enlists the help of Queen Galleia to try and obtain the crystal of Kronos.
The Doctor enters the labyrinth to try and protect Jo from the minotaur but the Master has seized control of Atlantis and prepares to summon Kronos again.