Episode: Dimensions in Time
Number of Viewers: 13.8m
First Transmitted: 26/11/93
Producer: John Nathan Turner
Story by: John Nathan Turner & David Rodan
Director: Stuart McDonald
Cast
Jon Pertwee (The Third Doctor),
Tom Baker (The Fourth Doctor),
Peter Davison (The Fifth Doctor),
Colin Baker (The Sixth Doctor),
Sylvester McCoy (The Seventh Doctor),
Carole Ann Ford (Susan),
Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield),
Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart),
Caroline John (Liz Shaw),
Richard Franklin (Captain Yates),
Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith),
Louise Jameson (Leela), John Leeson
(Voice of K-9), Lalla Ward (The Second Romana),
Sarah Sutton (Nyssa),
Nicola Bryant (Peri Brown),
Bonnie Langford (Mel Bush),
Sophie Aldred (Ace).
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Story Synopsis EPISODE ONE - * Shown as part of the 1993 Children in Need appeal
The Rani's TARDIS (Disguised as a spaceship), is suspended in space beside a vortex. In the console room, the Rani and her assistant have succeeded in capturing the Doctors first two incarnations. The 4th Doctor has sent a telepathic mayday message to his other incarnations to warn them that she intends to get them all trapped in a time loop around Londons East End.
The Rani has also managed to capture a Time Lord and a Cyberman in her TARDIS, all they need now is an Earthling to complete their plan. The Doctor's TARDIS arrives in the year 1973, beside Cutty Sark in Greenwich, London. The 7th Doctor & Ace emerge. A few seconds after he disappears and the 6th Doctor appears. Ace is staring at his clothes.
They arrive in Albert Square, Ace tries on a jacket at the market stall owned by Sanjay & Gita Kapoor, the Doctor finds out that the year is 1993. The 3rd Doctor and Mel arrive at the Market. They meet Pauline Fowler & Kathy Beale. The year is 2013. The 6th Doctor & Susan meanwhile are also in the Market. This is in 1973.
Sarah Jane Smith is with Sharon Watts, she immediately recognises the 3rd Doctor in the Market and runs to join him. This is the year 2013. They work out that they are caught in a twenty year time loop. The Rani, meanwhile, realises that the Doctor is getting too near the truth and decides to release the specimans.
The 5th Doctor, accompanied by Peri and Nyssa, almost get hit by a Cyberman blast. They bump into Pat Butcher. The Doctor realises that the locals cannot see the Monsters that are surrounding them. The Rani orders all of them to the doorway of the Queen Vic. She announces she is sending them on a very long journey.
EPISODE TWO - ** Shown on Noels House Party
The 5th Doctor trys to summon his other selves. He, Nyssa and Peri disappear and are immediately replaced by the 3rd Doctor & Liz Shaw. Liz runs into the Rani, but Mandy prevents her. They are rescued by Captain Yates in Bessie and drive off to the TARDIS. A helicopter arrives accompanied by the Brigadier, the 6th Doctor climbs aboard. Meanwhile the Rani plans to materialise her TARDIS in Greenwich.
Grant and Phil Mitchell find Romana in their garage and ask her to leave. As she leaves, the Rani grabs her and takes her into the Queen Vic (her TARDIS). A TARDIS demateralisation sound is heard and one of the locals passing by, Frank Butcher, is puzzled.
The 3rd Doctor and Victoria are walking along the Cutty Sark. They leave the ship and enter the TARDIS. When it materalises in Greenwich, the 7th Doctor emerges. The Rani's TARDIS also materalises and Leela steps out.
Leela tells the Doctor that she was cloned before she escaped. The Doctor finally realises the Rani wants her time tunnel in Greenwich and with the codes she has she will have evolution under her control. He asks her what form she was in before she was cloned, (Romana), and works out that she now has two time Lords in her system which will cause an overload.
He, K9 and Ace eventually succeed in trapping the Rani's TARDIS in the time tunnel and the Doctors earlier selves are freed.
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