![]() Electric Torture: Used by the Shadow on both the Doctor and Romana.Continuity Nod: The Doctor recalls Troy while miniaturised and hiding in K9, as they head to the hideout of the Shadow.Shadow: Once the Key is ours we shall set not two small planets, but the two halves of the entire cosmos at war, and their mutual destruction will be music in our ears! Unlike others, it is not power we seek, but destruction that we glory in. Unfortunately, this quickly turns into an Oh, Crap! moment when the Shadow appears. Badass Boast: The Doctor gives one of these to the Shadow early in the fifth episode, revealing that he and Romana are Time Lords, in the service of the White Guardian himself.The Marshall appears to be the one who's really in charge. Authority in Name Only: Astra doesn't seem have any real control over anything in Atrios.As You Know: A particularly bizarre example occurs in the final episode, where two incidental characters recap the Doctor's current predicament for the audience's benefit - although the Doctor is across the star system and out of contact, and has been for some time, so there's no way they could know the events they relate.Barring the six-part format of this serial (which was standard for season finales at the time), Astra is the sixth princess of the sixth dynasty of the sixth royal house of Atrios. Why? It was a trap! The Doctor figures out that putting the Key together was a mistake, and decides to gallivant away from the Black Guardian. Anti-Climax: The "Key to Time" story arc, which spans six stories and an entire season, ends without a proper resolution.Aliens of London: The Time Lord Drax has a Cockney accent so thick that even the Doctor comments on it. ![]() The Black Guardian won't get the chance to make good on his threat until much later. The Black Guardian threatens to kill the Doctor, who sets a randomiser on the TARDIS so that his travels will be unpredictable. ![]() The White Guardian is angry, and reveals that he is in fact the Black Guardian, who's been waiting around near the final segment for the Doctor to show up with the others. After all, a God of order would care about the fact that a human being like Astra would end up turned into a piece of a cosmic toy. The Doctor refuses, reasoning that its power is such that no-one should possess it, and that this guy isn't the White Guardian to begin with. While the Doctor demonstrates to Romana how it would look if he were to go mad with the power, the White Guardian appears on his viewscreen, congratulates him and asks for the Key. The Doctor manages to get hold of the final segment - Princess Astra - and complete the Key, while ending the war along the way. They re-wire K-9 and sneak into the villain's base inside K-9's body. He calls the Doctor "Theta Sigma", sending the entire fandom into a frenzy until the Seventh Doctor would finally confirm that it was just a college nickname.Īstra and K-9 both get themselves hypnotized by the Shadow, and Drax decides that the best course of action is to shrink himself and the Doctor down to mouse size. While the loop slowly starts to deteriorate, he also runs into Drax - an old academy buddy who ran away from Gallifrey, picked up a bit of Cockney (innit) and has spent a few years doing odd jobs in this war. It works, a bit, and the Doctor goes into full-on A God Am I mode when he uses the thing to create a time loop around an impending nuclear strike. The Doctor and Romana do a bit of MacGyvering with the nearly-completely Key to Time, and manage to create a replica of what the final segment probably looks like. This bad-guy, an unbelievably Large Ham named "The Shadow", is controlling people from a distance and gets his hands on just about anyone who's important to the plot. It turns out that all is not as it seems on Zeos (which is in fact completely deserted and run by a mad computer), and that a third party has been keeping the war going for his own purposes. The Princess of Atrios, Astra, tries to stop the war together with her boyfriend. ![]() The war has been going for years and is taking a serious toll, and there's a growing movement wanting to arrange a peace, but the Marshal of Atrios is determined to keep fighting until the Zeons are wiped out. The search for the last segment of the Key to Time takes the Doctor and Romana to the planet Atrios, which is embroiled in a war with its sister planet Zeos. Following the cancellation of the next season's planned finale, "Shada", and the complete removal of stories over four parts the season afterwards, this also became the last six-parter to be completed and aired during the 1963-1989 run of the show. This six-episode serial first aired from January 20 to February 24, 1979. "Men out there - young men - are dying for it!"Īlternatively- the one where the Doctor swore the tin off K-9. ![]()
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