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The Television Centre of the Universe (2013)

Part One

Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, and Mark Strickson hang out with Yvette Fielding at Television Centre where Doctor Who used to be filmed. They visit changing rooms, makeup rooms, and talk about their memories of working on Doctor Who in Television Centre. There are also bits of interviews with other people who used to work in Television Centre that are interspersed with the conversations among the four Doctor Who alums.

There is a second part of this documentary but it is included with the DVD for The Underwater Menace, which seems bizarre to me.

Doctor Who (1963) 19.04.X2

Grim Tales: Revisiting the Visitation (2013)

45 minutes

Mark Strickson takes Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, and Sarah Sutton around some of the locations where the Visitation was filmed. He asks them about their memories of working on this story and some of the people with whom they worked. Insterspersed with the friendly reminiscing are clips from interviews with a few other people who worked also on The Visitation.

The subjects they talked about included

• filming at Black Park and Tithecoat Manor
• who started the Great Fire?
• the Terileptil costume
• working with Michael Robbins and Peter Moffatt

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Directing Who - Peter Moffatt (2003)

26 minutes

Peter Moffatt talks about his memories of working on Doctor Who. He worked with Tom Baker (State of Decay), Peter Davison (The Visitation, Mawdryn Undead, The Five Doctors), and Colin Baker (The Twin Dilemma, The Two Doctors). He also got a chance to work with Jon Pertwee (The Five Doctors) and Patrick Troughton (The Five Doctors, The Two Doctors).

There are lots of clips from the six stories he directed but Moffatt is the only person interviewed about those stories for this feature.

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The Visitation - Part Four

The Doctor disarms Richard Mace and disconnects the power sources for the control bracelets that Mace and Tegan are wearing. Mace picks the lock and releases the Doctor from the handcuffs. They escape from the room and stroll around the house. The Miller locks them in a room but they manage to escape, overpower him, and remove the power source from his control bracelet. 

The Terileptil sends the android to find the TARDIS. It encounters Adric and the men who captured him. The men are frightened off. Adric follows the android back to the TARDIS. Nyssa uses the device she created to destroy the Android. Adric pilots the TARDIS to the house where the Doctor, Tegan, and Mace are located. They get there just about the time that the Doctor realizes that they are locked in.

The Doctor, Tegan, Nyssa, Adric, and Mace go to London in search of the Terileptil. They find it using one of the scanners on the TARDIS. They get into a fight with the Terileptil and his friends. The Doctor accidentally starts a fire. 

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The Visitation - Part Three

Adric escapes out the window but Tegan is captured by the android. She is later fitter with a control bracelet that turns her into a mindless automaton.

The Doctor and Richard Mace are spared execution when a couple men (sent by the alien) order the masked men to lock them up. The Doctor notices that the new arrivals are wearing control bracelets. He manages to remove the power sources from the control bracelets but the men are too groggy after their release from the alien's control to be of use.

Nyssa continues to work on the device the Doctor asked her to put together. Adric finds his way back to the TARDIS. He sticks around for a while but later leaves to look for the Doctor. He is quickly captured by some of the masked men.

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The Visitation - Part Two

The Doctor finds a hidden door and leads the others through it. They explore a section of the house that they had not seen before. They find some high tech equipment that looks far too advanced for 1666. The Doctor and his companions are interrupted by an android. The Doctor, Nyssa, and Richard Mace flee after Tegan and Adric are struck unconscious by the android.

The Doctor, Nyssa, and Mace find the escape pod that carried the android and the alien to Earth. The escape pod is large on the inside but most of the machinery has been removed. Humans who are being controlled by the alien approach the escape pod. The Doctor, Nyssa, and Mace find another way out of the pod.

Doctor Who (1963) 19.04.01

The Visitation - Part One

England, 1666. A comet lights up the night sky. A father and his adult children are attacked soon after that.

The Doctor, Adric, Nyssa, and Tegan arrive in England in 1666. It was not their intended destination. Tegan is angry at the Doctor because he promised he was going to take her back to Heathrow. They go outside and look around. They see smoke and head towards it.

The Doctor and his companions are attacked by men wearing face masks. They fight a few of them off and then take off running. They get some help from a stranger who scares off the men chasing them. His name is Richard Mace. He takes them to his temporary living quarters, a barn.