TEXT: THE TENTH PLANET BY KITT PEDLER first broadcast - 8th October 1966 [SCENE_BREAK] 1. ROCKET LAUNCHING BAY (A rocket blasts off into space.) [SCENE_BREAK] 2. TRACKING ROOM (The tracking room is large. At one end there is a radar screen on a wall and some monitors. In the middle of the room there is lots of equipment, including a radio with a microphone and a telephone. At the other end there is a small observations room which has a monitor in it and a communications device on a wall. A stairway leads into the middle of the tracking room from a landing. Various people are in the room. General Cutler is at the radio and Doctor Barclay is nearby. Dyson is at a console in front of the radar screen. A technician keys in information into some equipment. On the radar screen a blip appears at the bottom, representing the rocket that has just been launched. The rocket is called Zeus 4 and has two astronauts aboard, Dan "Bluey" Schultz, an Australian, and Glyn Williams, a Bermudan.) MAN: (Over radio.) Handing Zeus 4 to Polar base. Will you take control now, please? CUTLER: We have Zeus 4, thank you Geneva. (General Cutler is American, middle aged and not someone you would want to get on the wrong side of. Unfortunately most people do.) DYSON: Snowcap to Zeus 4. Over to local control channel J for Jimmy. GLYN: (Over radio.) Over to J for Jimmy now. CUTLER: (To Zeus 4.) Good morning gentlemen. You lucky devils! Have a nice trip. BLUEY: (Over radio.) Why not come up and join us? CUTLER: Ha ha! The penguins might miss me! (Glyn and Bluey laugh.) CUTLER: Take over, will you Barclay? (Cutler moves away and Barclay sits by the microphone.) BARCLAY: Dyson, give Texas tracking the next orbital pattern will you? DYSON: Right, will do. BARCLAY: (To Zeus 4.
SUMMARY:
In December 1986, a new planet appears in the Solar System which turns out to be a long-lost twin of Earth's named Mondas. Its inhabitants are the Cybermen.