Season 19, Story 1/7, Serial 5Z: 4 x 25min episodes, 4th to 12th January 1982, Writer: Christopher H. Bidmead, Director: Fiona Cummings, Script Editor: Eric Saward, Producer: John Nathan Turner
"Previously on Doctor Who..."
MAW Holmes@MAW_H Ooh, how exciting... "pre-credits" just like grownups telly...!
No, Tom, this is the beginning!
Still a unique and very special regeneration.
50dw50@50dw50 its a shame there seems to be a standard regeneration effect now
This title sequence always suited Peter more than Tom.
Woop woop! It's the sound of... some middle aged private security types.
MAW Holmes@MAW_H "Ooh! My feet! What's happening to my boots...?" 
An ambulance is on its way already, but Adric, Nyssa & Tegan have some awkward questions to answer.
"This is an official uniform!" No, Tegan, it really isn't.
Tegan plays Grand Theft Auto Live with the ambulance but fails to run Adric over.
Tegan and Nyssa get the Doctor into the TARDIS but Adric's left behind.
The Master's landed to have a chuckle at everyone and tickle them to sleep with an odd sparky effect.
What's wrong with Adric? Scratch that, what's right with Adric?
Adric, acting strangely, goes off to help the Doctor look for the "Zero room" whatever that is. Never heard of it.
It's always odd to see a new Doctor in his predecessor's clothes.
James Cooray Smith@thejimsmith I like that. But that dissonance is only retrospective isn't it? At the time it's that the Doctor has a new face that's odd. 
True!
James Cooray Smith@thejimsmith Colin looks better in Peter's togs. He should've kept 'em. That would've conveyed the stated aim of not caring what he wore.At this stage he still seems to think he's Tom.
Tim@parks8472 I like the post-regeneration wonkiness, I'm glad it's something they've kept in the new shows 
Tegan and Nyssa try to get to grips with flying the TARDIS. Pretty sure rabbits have nothing to do with it, Tegan.
50dw50@50dw50 i was a massive TARDIS fan, so i loved all the interior stuff in Castrovalva 
If Tegan had an Index File, she could look it up in the Index File under Index File. Nyssa tells her that's an example of recursion, whereas it's really an example of Bidmead boring the audience.
That's not really a very good Pertwee impression.
His Troughton's a bit better.
MAW Holmes@MAW_H Should've tried nicking the Compass from off the console... or gone into a coma, the blithering idiot.
Jason McLaughlin@jangomac72 Pertwee is very difficult to pull off without starting to sound like good ol' Worzel
#cupofteaandasliceofcakeAuntSally
You might like to rephrase that... ;-P
Jason McLaughlin@jangomac72 Oh yeah lol
You might like to rephrase that... ;-P
Jason McLaughlin@jangomac72 Oh yeah lol
#youhaveadirtymind #IgotmyinnuendoheadonMrCrowmansir
"The regeneration is failing..." What would happen if a regeneration *really* "failed", I wonder...
Tim@parks8472 I'm thinking something like the Master in The Deadly Assassin and The Keeper of Traken
MAW Holmes@MAW_H A reset? A hand in a jar? Paul Daniels...?
That's the trouble with regeneration. You never quite know what you're going to get.
Tegan's discovered a database that's suspiciously never been there before.
The Doctor happens across a cricket bat and his new persona starts to come together...
Adric's doing a bit of heavy breathing as he wanders around. The Master's spying on him with his webcam.
The new outfit's OK, but the stripy trousers ruin it. Should have been (shorter) stripy jacket and plain trousers.
Should basically have been like Ford in the Hitch-Hiker's TV series.
Jason McLaughlin@jangomac72 I loved the 5th Doctors outfit but it is the start of the uniform look that crept in during S18. They could've mixed it up.
Darth Marenghi@DarthMarenghi Oh, I think the costume should have been full on Adam Ant for Davison!
The Doctor hears the Zero room door slam, and bumps into Tegan and Nyssa.
"Carmine Seepage? Never heard of her!"
MAW Holmes@MAW_H Used to dance at the Trocadero Ballroom... good friend of old Alistair...
Funny to think Davison had 2 stories in the can by now, so these bits in the zero room are more the finished article.
You don't need a bed in the zero room, wink wink.
Adric is the navigator? Better get a map, just to make sure.
Like a SatNav that tells people to drive into a river, turns out Adric's co-ordinates are a bit wrong... Event 1 and all that.
Tim@parks8472 So... Adric is an early ATMOS then?
Explains all that gas he keeps emitting.
Somehow Adric is able to use Block Transfer Computations to project himself into the TARDIS.
Adric gives it his best Admiral Akbar: It's a trap!
Presumably powered by the Master's web, otherwise he could just use BTC to get out of anything, couldn't he?
Something's not right - Tegan's lippy's melted, and not from her acid tongue...
The cloister bell - the TARDIS itself is in danger.
The Doctor is too weak outside the zero room...
...so Tegan follows his unravelled scarf back to the console room.
Nyssa's starting to get the picture.
The console room is now more of a sauna room.
50dw50@50dw50 but if the TARDIS interior is in another dimension how can it be hot inside?
The Doctor leaves the safety of the zero room but collapses.
MAW Holmes@MAW_H At last! The Pertwee impression...!Nyssa realizes they're heading for a big bang!
Tim@parks8472 Explains Nyssa's skimpier outfits down the road
The Master pops up on the monitor screen to wave goodbye! Cheerio!
50dw50@50dw50 wave something nice!
Humongous recap, and at this stage the gap between episodes would only have been a couple of days. Poor.
Jason McLaughlin@jangomac72 The very next day for Season 19, think they went out Monday & Tuesdays
Tegan is less than impressed that all Nyssa can do is change the channel.
The Doctor rifles through a handy medicine cabinet and self-diagnoses.
One can only assume that the energy coursing through the web is rather... stimulating.
Adric was Space Jesus. He came to teach us about Block Transfer Computation and slay the dinosaurs.
"The solution? Oh, my little friend, if only you were..."
He's found a new set of wheels.
Not exactly Bessie, is it?
They're still headed for disaster but all the commotion is helping the Doctor focus.
With all the fuss over, the Doctor's nodded off again.
Tim@parks8472 Well he's had a tough day bless him and he's not getting any younger ;)
The databank tells them that Castrovalva is a surefire bet for some R&R.
Looks like the Master's going to have to go to plan B.
"So, this air hostess person is flying it is she? Well, I wish her the best of luck."
Whoops! They burnt up the Zero Room, leaving only the doors.
Impressively the sonic screwdriver is used as a screwdriver, for about the 3rd time ever.
Impressively/suspiciously, Tegan has managed to get the TARDIS to Castrovalva.
When Tegan "lands" the TARDIS...
...the Zero Room doors fall over the Doctor, and even that's enough to have a healing effect.
Not keen on that zero coffin.
Fantastic location, this.
Phil Creighton@phil_creighton Parts of Logopolis/Castrovalva was filmed just up road from me in Reading.
50dw50@50dw50 look for any extras from Mind Robber that are still lost and lurking
MAW Holmes@MAW_H All it needs is a Karkus...
Excellent restoration as always, these film sequences are so detailed and colourful. Wonderful.
They stop to readjust, and the motorised wheelchair falls into the river...
Nyssa follows...
Nyssa's committed the worst sin of the bake off - she's got a soggy bottom.
Tegan and Nyssa carry the zero coffin to the town of Castrovalva. Not better off going there to bring help back?
It's only a model.
Who are these oval-faced weirdos?
Great location, this. Nice rocks.
The Doctor's gone! Oh well, series over, then. AGAIN.
There are traces of blood, so Tegan and Nyssa follow the trail... but are surrounded by multi-coloured hunters, and have to leg it.
Those hunters are rubbish; far too colourful to be camouflaged. It's like the New Paradigm Tribe of Gum.
The Doctor seems better, tracking his own way to the town, climbing the rocks...
Doctor? Everyone's looking for him.
...and we're back in the studio!
Tegan and Nyssa are hot on his heels...
...but the Doctor is taken into the town before they can catch up.
Turns out the New Paradigm Tribe of Gum are not as fierce as first feared.
I can think of a way to cook Ruther's memories... but it wouldn't be much of a feast.
50dw50@50dw50 its amazing the shift from quite dull to beautifully charming, love the citizens of Castrovalva
PUT THE CELERY DOWN.
MAW Holmes@MAW_H Not many people can carry off a decorative vegetable...
The lines about reaching down the books from the shelves is very Troughton-esque.
Time for the Doctor to take his medicine.
The Portreeve is easily the Ainley Master's best disguise. In the performance of it, I mean.
"Tell me Portreeve, off the record, will I find the Doctor here?"
"Oh yes, Doctor, very soon."
Tegan and Nyssa have "scaled the walls".
Adric's creeping around the Doctor's bedroom at night.
The next morning, Nyssa's up first.
Some of the townspeople have nicked the zero coffin, but Nyssa catches them at it.
Nice effect with the mirror. You're too busy watching the "reflection" to spot Nyssa's CSO outline.
The Doctor feels much better after a good kip...
...but the Master's still spying on him.
The Portreeve and Shardovan show the Doctor the marvels of Castrovalva - the great books of the library...
...and an amazing tapestry that projects many different images; chronicling recent events.
Personally, I know absolutely eff all about telebiogenesis.
Davison finds Adric totally forgettable...
When the Doctor challenges his remaining companions Nyssa admits to seeing Adric behind their backs.
Isn't Bowie hanging around these Castrovalvan staircases somewhere?
Having realized Adric is missing, the Doctor decides to leave Castrovalva.
Easier said than done!
"That's democracy for you!" Erm... okay.
"As long as we keep going down..."
They're caught in a trap! They can't walk out!
The Doctor's not coping very well with the dimensional forces at play.
Someone's nicked his zero coffin again.
MAW Holmes@MAW_H Funny how, in those pre-home video days, that convolution image seemed so much more complex in my memory.
The Doctor keels over again...
...and tries to block the craziness out with a mirror...
Mmm. Love the small of books. You don't get that with a Kindle. Or a Kinda.
Is this a clue?
Tegan and Nyssa demand to get the Portreeve up - twice in one day!
"You should prepare yourself for disappointment!" says Ruther.
I spy, with my little eye...
Some of the townspeople have turned the zero coffin into a washing machine. All those roundels, see.
Here come the brainy specs again - fast becoming a trademark!
This new Doctor's down with the kids; drinking blue WKD out of a cocktail glass.
I love this idea that the one place is in four locations and that seems perfectly rational to Mergrave.
John Mark Frankland@JMFrankland It's one of my all time favourite Doctor Who moments. Davison and Sheard play it beautifully.
Nyssa and Tegan deliver the Doctor's zero laundry coffin.
The script never *quite* clarifies the point about the history books enough, I think.
MAW Holmes@MAW_H I do like the "The books are old, but..." revelation, though...
It's because I like it so much I'm disappointed it's not clear enough to attract the praise it deserves; it goes unnoticed, in my opinion.
Nyssa and Tegan engage in a bit of sleight of hand as they carry "the Doctor" away...
Davison giving Shardovan his best come hither...
"The fiction of Castrovalva..." I'd be willing to bet that Shardovan (and all the Castrovalvans) have the same handwriting as the Portreeve.
Nyssa and Tegan have brought "the Doctor" to the Portreeve...
...who's keen to wax lyrical about his tapestry again. He should just marry that thing.
The Portreeve is really the Master! The tapestry is really the web! The Doctor's really a vet! No, wait...
"Don't you understand anything about zero structures?" "Not really, you seem to be making it up as you go along..."
"SAY SOMETHING PLEASE! "Yes" would be best." Lovely little Davison-ism there.
The Master's too busy trying to open the Zero coffin to see what the tapestry is telling him...
...and too late he realizes he's just wasted his time on the TARDIS equivalent of a Kindle.
Now he means business: he unleashes Adric from the cloth!
The Doctor arrives to tear Adric a new one, freeing him from the Master's hardon power lines. Sorry, I mean, "hadron".
With his trap sprung, the Master decides to dispose of some of his Castrovalvan "bait."
"You made us man of evil, but we are free!" Love Shardovan.
MAW Holmes@MAW_H "To do what we want, any old time..."
"My Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeb!"
The Doctor's able to rescue Adric from the tapestry, but the Master escapes - the fireplace is his TARDIS!
With the web wrecked, Castrovalva starts to collapse.
Leg it!
Castrovalva is a mess now, even Mergrave can't understand it.
Adric knows the way, though.
It's the Master's own creations that trap him inside the collapsing Castrovalva.
Not the best trap in the world is it?
50dw50@50dw50 its quite a scary image, the people clawing at the master
MAW Holmes@MAW_H Strong image that, though... his being held back by them..
Is this a result? Castrovalva escaped, the Master defeated, but Adric's back.
NO! PUT THE CELERY AWAY!
What's that in the bushes? Oh, it's just Adric chucking up. Nice.
MAW Holmes@MAW_H Castrovomita!
Just when Tegan thinks the Doctor is about to criticize her parking, it turns out the Adric SatNav did the damage.
"I feel quite like my old self, or new self!"
Was "absolutely splendid!" supposed to be Davison's "fantastic"?
MAW Holmes@MAW_H More of a "whether you like it or not" for the Tom faithful at that point, I suspect...
TTFN! K.
Coming Soon... Death to the Daleks
"The regeneration is failing..." What would happen if a regeneration *really* "failed", I wonder...
Tim@parks8472 I'm thinking something like the Master in The Deadly Assassin and The Keeper of TrakenMAW Holmes@MAW_H A reset? A hand in a jar? Paul Daniels...? 
That's the trouble with regeneration. You never quite know what you're going to get.
Tegan's discovered a database that's suspiciously never been there before.
The Doctor happens across a cricket bat and his new persona starts to come together...
Adric's doing a bit of heavy breathing as he wanders around. The Master's spying on him with his webcam.
The new outfit's OK, but the stripy trousers ruin it. Should have been (shorter) stripy jacket and plain trousers.
Should basically have been like Ford in the Hitch-Hiker's TV series.
Jason McLaughlin@jangomac72 I loved the 5th Doctors outfit but it is the start of the uniform look that crept in during S18. They could've mixed it up. Darth Marenghi@DarthMarenghi Oh, I think the costume should have been full on Adam Ant for Davison! The Doctor hears the Zero room door slam, and bumps into Tegan and Nyssa.
MAW Holmes@MAW_H Used to dance at the Trocadero Ballroom... good friend of old Alistair... 
You don't need a bed in the zero room, wink wink.
Adric is the navigator? Better get a map, just to make sure.
Like a SatNav that tells people to drive into a river, turns out Adric's co-ordinates are a bit wrong... Event 1 and all that.
Tim@parks8472 So... Adric is an early ATMOS then?Explains all that gas he keeps emitting.
Somehow Adric is able to use Block Transfer Computations to project himself into the TARDIS.
Adric gives it his best Admiral Akbar: It's a trap!
Presumably powered by the Master's web, otherwise he could just use BTC to get out of anything, couldn't he?
Something's not right - Tegan's lippy's melted, and not from her acid tongue...
Something's brought the Doctor down with a bump.
The cloister bell - the TARDIS itself is in danger.
The Doctor is too weak outside the zero room...
...so Tegan follows his unravelled scarf back to the console room.
Nyssa's starting to get the picture.
The console room is now more of a sauna room.
50dw50@50dw50 but if the TARDIS interior is in another dimension how can it be hot inside? 
The Doctor leaves the safety of the zero room but collapses.
MAW Holmes@MAW_H At last! The Pertwee impression...!Nyssa realizes they're heading for a big bang!Tim@parks8472 Explains Nyssa's skimpier outfits down the roadThe Master pops up on the monitor screen to wave goodbye! Cheerio!
50dw50@50dw50 wave something nice! 
Humongous recap, and at this stage the gap between episodes would only have been a couple of days. Poor.
Jason McLaughlin@jangomac72 The very next day for Season 19, think they went out Monday & TuesdaysTegan is less than impressed that all Nyssa can do is change the channel.
The Doctor rifles through a handy medicine cabinet and self-diagnoses.
One can only assume that the energy coursing through the web is rather... stimulating.
Adric was Space Jesus. He came to teach us about Block Transfer Computation and slay the dinosaurs.
"The solution? Oh, my little friend, if only you were..."
He's found a new set of wheels.
Not exactly Bessie, is it?
They're still headed for disaster but all the commotion is helping the Doctor focus.
Ta-da! First appearance of the brainy specs!
The Master's still watching: "Get on with it!"
Here's the problem - the TARDIS thermostat is set too high. Nyssa turns down the heat.
Ah, reverse the polarity of the neutron flow... interesting that he says that's what they *mustn't* do this time!
Adric's off on one of his trademark switches of allegiance, but even the Master's not that thick.
Yes, chucking TARDIS rooms into the boiler to build up a head of steam, we get it.
Mmmm, Russian Roulade...
ZAP!
Well, that was a short story; the Master's won and the Doctor is gone.
Oh well, that's it for this week... hang on!
Looks like the Master gloated too soon - the TARDIS has survived.
Here's the problem - the TARDIS thermostat is set too high. Nyssa turns down the heat.
Ah, reverse the polarity of the neutron flow... interesting that he says that's what they *mustn't* do this time!
Adric's off on one of his trademark switches of allegiance, but even the Master's not that thick.
Yes, chucking TARDIS rooms into the boiler to build up a head of steam, we get it.
Mmmm, Russian Roulade...
ZAP!
Well, that was a short story; the Master's won and the Doctor is gone.
Oh well, that's it for this week... hang on!
Looks like the Master gloated too soon - the TARDIS has survived.
With all the fuss over, the Doctor's nodded off again.
Tim@parks8472 Well he's had a tough day bless him and he's not getting any younger ;) 
The databank tells them that Castrovalva is a surefire bet for some R&R.
Looks like the Master's going to have to go to plan B.
"So, this air hostess person is flying it is she? Well, I wish her the best of luck."
Tegan "flies" the TARDIS
Impressively/suspiciously, Tegan has managed to get the TARDIS to Castrovalva.
When Tegan "lands" the TARDIS...
...the Zero Room doors fall over the Doctor, and even that's enough to have a healing effect.
Not keen on that zero coffin.
Fantastic location, this.
Phil Creighton@phil_creighton Parts of Logopolis/Castrovalva was filmed just up road from me in Reading. 50dw50@50dw50 look for any extras from Mind Robber that are still lost and lurkingMAW Holmes@MAW_H All it needs is a Karkus...Excellent restoration as always, these film sequences are so detailed and colourful. Wonderful.
They stop to readjust, and the motorised wheelchair falls into the river...
Nyssa follows...
Nyssa's committed the worst sin of the bake off - she's got a soggy bottom.
Tegan and Nyssa carry the zero coffin to the town of Castrovalva. Not better off going there to bring help back?
It's only a model.
Who are these oval-faced weirdos?
Great location, this. Nice rocks.
The Doctor's gone! Oh well, series over, then. AGAIN.
There are traces of blood, so Tegan and Nyssa follow the trail... but are surrounded by multi-coloured hunters, and have to leg it.
Those hunters are rubbish; far too colourful to be camouflaged. It's like the New Paradigm Tribe of Gum.
The Doctor seems better, tracking his own way to the town, climbing the rocks...
Doctor? Everyone's looking for him.
...and we're back in the studio!
Tegan and Nyssa are hot on his heels...
...but the Doctor is taken into the town before they can catch up.
Turns out the New Paradigm Tribe of Gum are not as fierce as first feared.
I can think of a way to cook Ruther's memories... but it wouldn't be much of a feast.
50dw50@50dw50 its amazing the shift from quite dull to beautifully charming, love the citizens of Castrovalva PUT THE CELERY DOWN.
MAW Holmes@MAW_H Not many people can carry off a decorative vegetable... The lines about reaching down the books from the shelves is very Troughton-esque.
Time for the Doctor to take his medicine.
The Portreeve is easily the Ainley Master's best disguise. In the performance of it, I mean.
"Oh yes, Doctor, very soon."
Tegan and Nyssa have "scaled the walls".
Shardovan is uneasy under the gaze of the Portreeve.
The next morning, Nyssa's up first.
Some of the townspeople have nicked the zero coffin, but Nyssa catches them at it.
Nice effect with the mirror. You're too busy watching the "reflection" to spot Nyssa's CSO outline.
The Doctor feels much better after a good kip...
...but the Master's still spying on him.
The Portreeve and Shardovan show the Doctor the marvels of Castrovalva - the great books of the library...
...and an amazing tapestry that projects many different images; chronicling recent events.
Personally, I know absolutely eff all about telebiogenesis.
Davison finds Adric totally forgettable...
...so Liz Shaw's niece helps him count to three.
Isn't Bowie hanging around these Castrovalvan staircases somewhere?
Easier said than done!
"That's democracy for you!" Erm... okay.
"As long as we keep going down..."
They're caught in a trap! They can't walk out!
The Doctor's not coping very well with the dimensional forces at play.
Someone's nicked his zero coffin again.
MAW Holmes@MAW_H Funny how, in those pre-home video days, that convolution image seemed so much more complex in my memory. 
The Doctor keels over again...
...and tries to block the craziness out with a mirror...
Mmm. Love the small of books. You don't get that with a Kindle. Or a Kinda.
Is this a clue?
Tegan and Nyssa demand to get the Portreeve up - twice in one day!
"You should prepare yourself for disappointment!" says Ruther.
I spy, with my little eye...
Some of the townspeople have turned the zero coffin into a washing machine. All those roundels, see.
Here come the brainy specs again - fast becoming a trademark!
This new Doctor's down with the kids; drinking blue WKD out of a cocktail glass.
I love this idea that the one place is in four locations and that seems perfectly rational to Mergrave.
John Mark Frankland@JMFrankland It's one of my all time favourite Doctor Who moments. Davison and Sheard play it beautifully. 
Nyssa and Tegan deliver the Doctor's zero laundry coffin.
The script never *quite* clarifies the point about the history books enough, I think.
MAW Holmes@MAW_H I do like the "The books are old, but..." revelation, though... 
It's because I like it so much I'm disappointed it's not clear enough to attract the praise it deserves; it goes unnoticed, in my opinion.
Nyssa and Tegan engage in a bit of sleight of hand as they carry "the Doctor" away...
Davison giving Shardovan his best come hither...
"The fiction of Castrovalva..." I'd be willing to bet that Shardovan (and all the Castrovalvans) have the same handwriting as the Portreeve.
Nyssa and Tegan have brought "the Doctor" to the Portreeve...
...who's keen to wax lyrical about his tapestry again. He should just marry that thing.
The Portreeve is really the Master! The tapestry is really the web! The Doctor's really a vet! No, wait...
"Don't you understand anything about zero structures?" "Not really, you seem to be making it up as you go along..."
"SAY SOMETHING PLEASE! "Yes" would be best." Lovely little Davison-ism there.
The Master's too busy trying to open the Zero coffin to see what the tapestry is telling him...
...and too late he realizes he's just wasted his time on the TARDIS equivalent of a Kindle.
Now he means business: he unleashes Adric from the cloth!
The Doctor arrives to tear Adric a new one, freeing him from the Master's hardon power lines. Sorry, I mean, "hadron".
With his trap sprung, the Master decides to dispose of some of his Castrovalvan "bait."
"You made us man of evil, but we are free!" Love Shardovan.
MAW Holmes@MAW_H "To do what we want, any old time...""My Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeb!"
The Doctor's able to rescue Adric from the tapestry, but the Master escapes - the fireplace is his TARDIS!
With the web wrecked, Castrovalva starts to collapse.
Leg it!
Castrovalva is a mess now, even Mergrave can't understand it.
Adric knows the way, though.
It's the Master's own creations that trap him inside the collapsing Castrovalva.
Not the best trap in the world is it?
50dw50@50dw50 its quite a scary image, the people clawing at the master 
MAW Holmes@MAW_H Strong image that, though... his being held back by them.. Is this a result? Castrovalva escaped, the Master defeated, but Adric's back.
NO! PUT THE CELERY AWAY!
What's that in the bushes? Oh, it's just Adric chucking up. Nice.
MAW Holmes@MAW_H Castrovomita!Just when Tegan thinks the Doctor is about to criticize her parking, it turns out the Adric SatNav did the damage.
"I feel quite like my old self, or new self!"
Was "absolutely splendid!" supposed to be Davison's "fantastic"?
MAW Holmes@MAW_H More of a "whether you like it or not" for the Tom faithful at that point, I suspect... 
TTFN! K.
Coming Soon... Death to the Daleks
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