TEXT: (TOM BAKER enters the Museum Of The Moving Image and looks about him. He is in the Doctor Who section of the Museum which is filled with monsters and bits of all first seven Doctors era.) TOM: Hello? Hello? (He turns from the EXIT door he is entering the room and spots a dragon.) Hello? Anybody there? (He moves fully into the Museum and spots the exhibits.) Wey! It's a museum! I've always felt at home in museums! (He moves forwards and notices one exhibit in particular - The Giant Robot from his own first story "Robot" in 1974.) Giant Robot! Beat you, cock! (He starts to walk down past the exhibits. Next up is the Cybermen - from "Moonbase" to "Silver Nemesis" Cybermen in one form or other.) Cybermen! Beat you! (Next is a Dalek which is facing a mirror which gives visitors the ability to enter and pretend to be a Dalek.) Daleks! (TOM blows into it.) Beat you! (Next comes Davros - the 1980s version.) Davros! (TOM sighs) I beat him as well. (He turns and starts to walk back sighing to himself.) I was irresistible in those days, irresistible. (He reaches another set of monsters. The first up is the Yeti from Patrick's "The Abominable Snowmen" - 1967.) Yeti. (The next one is Gunden Robot with an axe from Tom's "Warrior's Gate" - 1980) Gunden Robot. (This model has a stand with some information and with a button. TOM presses the button twice as it doesn't work the first time, and makes the Gunden Robot moves with the axe.) No, no, no. (He moves on down the line looking at each of the monsters. The next one is the Vervoids - Colin's "Terror Of The Vervoids - Trial Of A Time Lord III" - 1986) Vervoid. (Sea Devil - Peter's
SUMMARY:
The Doctor and Romana visit Chronotis, a retired Time Lord living in Cambridge, who admits that he's lost a book dating back to the time of Rassilon and needs their help to find it. In fact, he's accidentally lent it out to graduate student Chris Parsons, who soon realizes that this is an extraordinary text indeed. The book is also sought by the evil scientist Skagra, who has developed a sphere capable of drawing its victims' minds out of their bodies. Skagra needs the book to reach the Time Lord prison Shada, which even the Time Lords have forgotten. Long ago they imprisoned the criminal Salyavin there, as punishment for using his powers to transfer his mind into other people's bodies. Chronotis is eventually forced to admit that he himself is Salyavin; he escaped long ago and used his powers to cause the Time Lords to forget about his prison. However, he's now repented of his crimes and wishes to live a quiet, peaceful life. Skagra drains Chronotis's mind and thus acquires the ability to transfer his own mind into other bodies; with the aid of the sphere and his crystalline servants, the Krargs, he will spread his own mind throughout the Universe and become immortal. However, when the Doctor pretends to be stupid, the sphere fails to drain his mind completely. He thus survives, and since there's a copy of his mind inside the sphere, he is able to use the resonance to turn Skagra's possessed slaves against him. Skagra is imprisoned by his own Ship, and Chronotis returns to Earth to resume his peaceful retirement.