MEGLOS

Written by John Flanagan & Andrew McCulloch.

Directed by Terence Dudley.

Transmitted originally: 27 September 1980 to 18 October 1980.

"Some fifty years ago I knew a man who solved the insoluble by the strangest means. He sees the threads that bind the universe together and mends them when they break." - Zastor [Speaking of the Doctor]

THE STORY

The Doctor is invited to visit the planet Tigella by its leader, Zastor, who has become concerned about disputes between the two opposing factions among his people, the religious Deons and the scientist Savants. The TARDIS is intercepted by the power-mad xerophyte Meglos, last survivor of the planet Zolfa-Thura, and the Doctor, Romana, and K-9 are trapped in a chronic hysteresis - a time loop - but the Time Lords eventually manage to free themselves. Meglos, using the body of a kdnapped Earthling, transforms himself into a duplicate of the Doctor and steals the Tigellans' power source - a mysterious dodecahedron. He plans to use it to power an apocalyptic device with which he intends to destroy Tigella. The Doctor, although hindered by the activites of a group of Gaztak mercenaries hired by Meglos, ultimately destroys Meglos and Zolfa-Thura by overloading the dodecahedron's controlling computers.

CAST:

The Doctor (Tom Baker), Romana (Lalla Ward), Voice of K-9 (John Leeson), General Grugger (Bill Fraser), Lieutenant Brotadac (Frederick Treves), Zastor (Edward Underdown), Lexa (Jacqueline Hill), Caris (Colette Gleeson), Deedrix (Crawford Logan), Earthling (Christopher Owen), Tigellan Guard (Simon Shaw).

FACTS:

Jacueline Hill plays the leading Deon, Lexa. Hill played the first Doctor's companion Barbara Wright in seasons one and two.

Both Zolfa-Thura and Tigella are loacted in the Prion System

This is the only story, apart from Season One's 'Inside the Spaceship' and 'The Five Doctors' where all the credited cast members appear in all the episodes.

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