Regenerating Doctor Who: Part Five

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Doctor Who: The Fifth Regeneration

Peri: Where is it??
The Fifth Doctor: Where’s what?
Peri: The bat’s milk!
The Fifth Doctor: Finished. Only enough left for one.
Peri: We have to get more!
The Fifth Doctor: Too late Peri. Going soon. Time to say goodbye.
Peri: Don’t give up! You can’t leave me now!
The Fifth Doctor: I might regenerate…I don’t know… [sinks to the ground] Feels different this time…

Story (from “The Caves Of Androzani” and “The Twin Dilemma”):

The TARDIS lands on Androzani Minor, where a dispute has escalated into a full-blown guerilla war between the drug lord Sharaz Jek and the wealthy industrialist Morgus over the drug Spectrox, which can halt the aging process. The Doctor and Peri are exposed to a white fungus in the caves, which is soon discovered to be the unrefined drug known as spectrox toxaemia. Direct exposure is fatal and can only be counter-acted by the milk of the Queen Bat that leaves deep in the caves.

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Regenerating Doctor Who: Part Four

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Doctor Who: The Fourth Regeneration

[The Watcher looks at the group from across a street]
Nyssa: That's the man who brought me from Traken.
Fourth Doctor: Yes.
Nyssa: He said he was a friend of yours.
Adric: But he's the man on the bridge.
Fourth Doctor: Yes.
Adric: You said to be prepared for the worst.
Fourth Doctor: Indeed I did, and I am prepared for the worst.
Adric: Why are you prepared for the worst, Doctor?
Fourth Doctor: Because he's here.

Story (from “Logopolis” and “Castrovalva”):

New companion Adric finds the Doctor pacing deep within a room in the TARDIS. He admits that based on the last few adventures, between leaving Romana in E-Space and seeing the Master come back to challenge him once more, he has become concerned with entropy: the nature state of decay of the universe. Even parts of the TARDIS are showing their age and breaking down. To feel like he’s doing something about it, the Doctor resolves to fix the Chameleon Circuit and restore the TARDIS’ ability to blend in with its surroundings.

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Regenerating Doctor Who: Part Three

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 Doctor Who: The Third Regeneration

K’anpo: “The Doctor is alive."
Sarah: “You're wrong - he's dead.”
K’anpo: “All the cells of his body have been devastated by the Metebelis crystals, but you forget - he is a Time Lord. I will give the process a little push and the cells will regenerate. He will become a new man.”
Brigadier: “Literally?”
K’anpo: “Of course, he will look quite different.”
Brigadier: “Not again!”
K’anpo: “And it will shake up the brain cells a little. You may find his behaviour somewhat...erratic?” 

Story (from “Planet Of The Spiders” and “Robot”):

While conducting experiments on ESP, the Doctor and the Brigadier receive a package from the Doctor’s old companion, Jo Grant, containing the blue Metebelis crystal. Even though it was given as a parting gift from their last adventure together on Metebelis 3, it seems to be causing trouble for Jo and her new husband, and she wasn’t sure what to do with it. The Doctor finds that unexpectedly, the crystal is able to amplify mental energy.

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Regenerating Doctor Who: Part Two

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Doctor Who: The Second Regeneration

Story (from “The War Games” and “Spearhead From Space”):

The Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe arrive in what they think is No Man’s Land during World War I, but quickly learn that they are on an alien world where human soldiers from different time periods have been gathered and brainwashed to fight each other.  The Aliens in charge hope to collect the best soldiers from these ‘games’ and use them to form a brutal army to conquer other worlds with.  Aiding them is a renegade from the Doctor’s past, who is only referred to as the War Chief.

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Regenerating Doctor Who: Part One

The Original Doctor Who Intro

- Burnaby, British Columbia - In 1963, viewers in the United Kingdom were introduced to a new series called Doctor Who. The creators of the show wanted an educational science fiction program where a grandfatherly figure would take a few people around to different times and places, and introduce them to both historical facts, and futuristic concepts. There were many rough patches along the way, and the series format would change occasionally, but through the first 26 years it ran, there were many intriguing roots in the show. The first was the TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space), and interestingly, British families were introduced to the idea of a tesseract without even realizing it. The second was the Daleks, a xenophobic race encased in battle tech armour originally intended to be a one-time “villain of the week,” but persisted even to this day. And perhaps one of the most interesting of all, regeneration; the process by which a dying Time Lord can revitalize his cells and change his body.

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