Carnival of Monsters
by Robert Holmes
The Doctor has promised Jo Grant a holiday on Metebelis III, but instead
of the famous blue planet, the TARDIS materialises on board the SS Bernice,
sailing to India in 1926. Before long the travellers are captured and locked
away as stowaways. However, just as thei eventual escape brings them face
to face with their captors again - who claim never to have seen them before
- the ship is attacked by a long-extinct underwater dinosaur!
On the planet Inter-Minor, the visiting Lurman entertainer Vorg and
his assistant Shirna are demonstrating a dilapidated miniscope to the cynical
xenopjobic governmental ministerswho would prefer Inter-Minow kept free
of aliens. Vorg explains that his scope contains actual miniaturised living
creatures, including Cybermen, Ogrons and a group of humans aboard a ship
apparently sailing to India! Kalik, one of the Minoran officials, sees
an opportunity to exploit the dangers inherent in the scope to frighten
the Government into implementing his exclusionist policies.
The Doctor and Jo discover they are inside the miniscope and leave the
SS Bernice via the machine's conduits to find themselves in a marsh populated
by ferocious omnivores - Drashigs. Meanwhile, outside the scope Kalik's
machinations have allowed the Drashigs to escape into the real world...
Originally transmitted 27 January 1973 -17 February 1973
Running time: 101 mins approx.
Produced by Barry Letts
Directed by Barry Letts
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