Doctor's Lone Standoffs
The Fifth Doctor occasionally faces conflicts alone, including intellectual debates with Commander, fighting temporal disturbances, and violent confrontations with indigenous lifeforms.
Involved Characters
Arc Timeline
Season 21
6 eventsThe Doctor and Tegan are marched onto the bridge at gunpoint as the Silurian leader Ichtar completes final preparations to launch a missile that will ignite global war between humans …
Vorshak’s defiance reaches its peak as he refuses to be complicit in the missile launch aimed at humanity, even when forced to place his hand on the scanner. Ichtar orders …
With the bridge filling with hexachromite gas and the final countdown reaching its climax, the Doctor overrides the missile launch by synchronizing his mind with the computer core, sacrificing his …
In the claustrophobic confines of a hidden passageway, the Doctor urgently presses Jane for answers about the escalating psychic phenomena. He reveals that the Malus is a parasitic entity feeding …
The Doctor hurries to calibrate the TARDIS signal conversion unit to the Malus’s psychic pulse, seeking either to harness or neutralize the ancient evil rising beneath Little Hodcombe. As equipment …
The Doctor and companions reflect on the Malus’s defeat before the TARDIS dematerializes away from the ruined church where the ancient evil was destroyed. Tegan and Turlough seize the moment …