TEXT: TIME AND THE RANI PART ONE Run time: 24:44 [SCENE_BREAK] PRE-TITLE SEQUENCE [SCENE_BREAK] 1. EXT. SPACE [SCENE_BREAK] (From the centre of a vast galaxy, the TARDIS appears, spinning on its way to another destination. A sudden beam of a intense energy hits the top of the TARDIS causing an explosion. The time machine starts to tumble and roll through space. The beams continue to bombard the TARDIS as it falls.) [SCENE_BREAK] 2. INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM [SCENE_BREAK] (The Doctor and Mel are lying prone on the floor of the console room. The TARDIS console room is moving about violently. The exercise bike has fallen over. Another lurch sends the TARDIS tool box over on to its side.) [SCENE_BREAK] 3. EXT. LAKERTYAN SURFACE [SCENE_BREAK] (Lakertya is a bleak-looking planet covered in rock. From a certain cluster of rocks appears the figure of a man. His name is Ikona and he is a native of Lakertya. He is tall and lean. He wears a long orange tunic with yellow sleeves. On his head he wears a strange turban-like covering from which protrudes a vast mane of yellow and black streaked hair. He climbs to the top of the rise as though he is looking for something. His attention is distracted by a cacophony of sound from the sky. A beam of light flashes through the sky, it contains many colours. In the beam is the shape of the TARDIS. The TARDIS appears on the planet surface with a thump.) [SCENE_BREAK] 4. INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM [SCENE_BREAK] (All is still within the TARDIS. The Doctor and Mel remain unconscious on the floor, oblivious to what is about to take place. The silence is interrupted by the sound of the exterior doors opening. Through the doors comes the
SUMMARY:
The Doctor wakes after regeneration with memory problems, he is helped by Mel who is telling him about his important project that he has been working on but does not remember. Meanwhile, another Mel is assisting one of the inhabitants of the planet after he mistakes her for one of the Rani's assistants.