Doctor Who - The Visitation - Episode Examined

THERE ARE ECHOES OF THE DOCTOR'S PAST AND FUTURE IN THIS ACTION PACKED STORY...

THE VISITATION

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1. LIFE SENTENCE:

The Terileptils escaped the tinclavic mines of Raaga. The Malus, from 'The Awakening' (1984), also used tinclavic.

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2. SONIC SCREWDRIVER:

Versions of it had been seen since 'Fury from the Deep' (1968) but Part Three sees it destroyed. It would return in The TV Movie (1996) and in 'Rose'.

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3. FIRE HAZARD

The android is able to fire its energy beam inside the TARDIS. This is meant to be impossible as the ship is in 'a state of temporal grace'.

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4. MARA MATTERS:

This adventure follows on from 'Kinda', where Tegan had been possessed by the Mara. It would return to plague her and the Fifth Doctor in Snakedance (1983).

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5. LONDON'S BURNING:

In 'Pyramids of Mars' (1976) the Fourth Doctor suggested that he was involved with the Great Fire of London, but 'The Visitation' provides the truth!

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Doctor Who - The Visitation - Brain Drain

IS YOUR HEAD AS HOT AS THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON? FIND OUT NOW!
1. WHO IS LESS ACCURATE THAN A BROKEN CLOCK?
2. WHAT IS THE ALIEN ORNAMENT AROUND RICHARD MACE'S NECK?
3. HOW IS THE TERILEPTIL ESCAPE POD LIT?
4. WHERE DOES THE TERILEPTIL GET HIS SCARRING?
5. WHAT DOES NYSSA DO TO THE TERILEPTIL ANDROID?
*ANSWERS IN THE 'COMMENTS' SECTION BELOW*

How well did you do? Are you Doctor Who? or Doctor Poo?

Doctor Who - RICHARD MACE - The Visitation

ALLIES.

Richard Mace.

"There is nothing primitive about me, sir".

Episode watch - The Visitation.

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ALLY DATA

Species: Human

Doctor: Fifth

Origin: 17th-century Earth

Tech: Two primitive pistols

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This 17th-century highwayman helped uncover an alien plot to wipe out human life on Earth.

Gentleman of the road: The theatrical Mace was as charming as he was brave and made a great impression on the TARDIS crew.

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The Doctor turned this actor's life upside-down, but Mace bravely helped to defeat the Terileptils.

HEROES OF HISTORY: Mace and the Doctor averted a disaster even bigger than the Black Death!

FISHY FOE: The Terileptils resembled giant fish!

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After unwittingly starting the Great Fire of London, the Doctor said farewell to his new friend who realised the Time Lord's pace of life was just too fast and dangerous.*

*DVD FILES.