TEXT: COLONY IN SPACE BY: MALCOLM HULKE 6:10pm - 6:35pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1: SPACE (A multitude of planets and stars hang in the blackness of space...) [SCENE_BREAK] 2: INT. TIME LORD PLANET. CHAMBER (Three TIME LORDS confer in a small chamber. The image of space appears on a screen that dominates one wall. The image focuses in on one grey planet.) FIRST TIME LORD: You are sure the Master knows? SECOND TIME LORD: The report on the Doomsday weapon is missing from our files. Only he could have taken it. FIRST TIME LORD: Then we can use the Doctor to deal with this problem. THIRD TIME LORD: The Doctor resents his exile bitterly. Do you think he'll co-operate with us? SECOND TIME LORD: I doubt it. We immobilized his TARDIS, took away his freedom to move in space and time. FIRST TIME LORD: Then we must restore his freedom... (An image of the DOCTOR now appears on the screen.) FIRST TIME LORD:...as long as it serves our purpose. (He walks off...) [SCENE_BREAK] 3: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (At a lab bench, the DOCTOR picks up the dematerialization circuit from the TARDIS and, wearing a jewelers eyeglass, starts to make adjustments to it. A bored JO watches.) JO: Doctor, why don't you give up? You've been working on that thing for simply ages. DOCTOR: You know I can't give up, Jo. It's far too important. (The door to the lab opens and the BRIGADIER walks in, carrying a clipboard.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Still at it, Doctor? (The DOCTOR looks up.) DOCTOR: Now don't you start! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: The latest field reports are in. Still no trace of the
SUMMARY:
The Time Lords takes control of the TARDIS and the Doctor and Jo arrive on a Earth Colony in the 25th Century, where a ruthless mining company are using a dinosaur-like creature to force the colonists to leave the planet. Where the Doctor and Jo learn that The Master is on the planet and is in search of a doomsday weapon that is hidden somewhere on the planet.