The TARDIS arrives on a Minyan space craft, the R1C, commanded by a man named Jackson. Jackson and his crew are on a long quest to recover the Minyan race banks from a ship called the P7E which left their planet centuries ago. The Doctor helps to free the R1C after it becomes buried in a meteorite storm, but it then crashes into another newly-formed planet.

The Doctor is invited to visit the planet Tigella by its leader, Zastor, who has become concerned about disputes between his people's two opposing factions, the religious Deons and the scientist Savants. The TARDIS is intercepted by the megalomaniacal xerophyte Meglos, last survivor of the planet Zolfa-Thura, and trapped in a chronic hysteresis - a time loop - but the Doctor and Romana manage to free it.

The Doctor visits the cursed island of Fang Rock off the south coast of England, a mysterious place filled with tales of beasts from the sea. As soon as the Doctor arrives something strange comes from the sea to bring death to all it touches.

The TARDIS is hijacked with Dr. Who, Romana and Adric aboard. Tom Baker, Lalla Ward, Matthew Waterhouse. Biroc: David Weston. Packard: Kenneth Cope. Rorvik: Clifford Rose.

The Doctor gambles with death when he taxis Axos into a time loop.

A space colony---500 years in the future---faces starvation.

The Doctor faces death when the Time Lords place him on trial for interfering in galactic affairs. Peri: Nicola Bryant. Melanie: Bonnie Langford. The Valeyard: Michael Jayston. Katryca: Joan Sims.

The Doctor interrupts a jousting match and finds himself battling to protect the Magna Carta. Peter Davison. King John: Gerald Flood. Gilles: Anthony Ainley.