328 The Time Monster Episode Five

EPISODE: The Time Monster: Episode Five
OVERALL EPISODE NUMBER: 328
STORY NUMBER: 064
TRANSMITTED: Saturday 17 June 1972
WRITER: Robert Sloman
DIRECTOR: Paul Bernard
SCRIPT EDITOR: Terrance Dicks
PRODUCER: Barry Letts
RATINGS: 6 million viewers
FORMAT: DVD: Doctor Who - Myths & Legends: The Time Monster, Underworld & The Horns of the Nimon
EPISODE FORMAT: 525 video RSC

"Help me, Doctor. Help me to find a way to stop these evil men. Help me to save Atlantis from destruction!"

The Doctor telepathically contacts Jo and guides her on using the Tardis to retrieve him from the Time Vortex. The Master arrives at Atlantis and attempts to insinuate himself into the royal court. King Dalios dismisses him but Queen Galleia is taken with him. The Doctor & Jo also arrive in Atlantis and find favour with King Dalios. Jo is taken to Queen Galleia but observes her conspiring with the Master. High priest Krasis has her thrown into the vault under the temple where the Minotaur dwells protecting the crystal.

I'm despairing. This story is doing nothing for me and barely holding my attention. Awful.

The best thing in it is the look on The Master's face as he finds out The Doctor has survived being cast into the Space Time Vortex!

And it's nice to see someone resistant to the Master's charms and hypnosis:

DALIOS: But if the high priest saw fit to break a scared trust, you think that good reason for the king to follow?
MASTER: Your high priest saw the crystal in my hands. He saw Kronos himself, saw him dominated by me. Krasis knows that I am the Master of Kronos.
DALIOS: Krasis is but a slave at heart.
MASTER: Maybe, but he has come to learn that it is well to obey me.
DALIOS: You seek to make me fear you?
MASTER: Oh, not at all. But if you will but see, like Krasis, that I am indeed the Master of Kronos, then naturally you will obey me.
MASTER: You will obey me. You will obey me!
DALIOS: A very elementary technique of fascination. I'm too old a fish, too old in years and in the hidden ways to be caught in such a net. You are no emissary from the gods.
MASTER: But you saw
DALIOS: Tell me, then. What of great Poseidon? What did he have for breakfast? Fish, I suppose? And what of Zeus and Hera? What is the latest gossip from Olympus? Do tell me.
MASTER: I underestimated you, Dalios.
DALIOS: I'm no child to play with such painted dolls. Kronos is no god, no titan. I know that and so do you.
MASTER: The king is old in wisdom.
DALIOS: Now you try to flatter me. You'll pull a string and want to see me dance. You shall not have the crystal.
MASTER: I shall go now. I have nothing more to say to you.
DALIOS: You have said nothing to me yet. When you find the true words to speak, I will listen.

We're treated to The Master turning on the charm and romancing the Atlantean Queen Galleia while Jo & the Queen's servant Lakis eavesdrop outside. First time we've seen The Master encounter a powerful woman that he's used this technique to get round! He is laying it on a bit thick though!

GALLEIA: You're a man who knows what he wants, Lord Master.
MASTER: And takes it.
GALLEIA: You want the crystal?
MASTER: I am going to possess it.
GALLEIA: Not without my consent.
MASTER: Of course not. But I am confident that you will give it.
GALLEIA: Why should I help you?
MASTER: For the sake of Atlantis, Lady. Would you not see her restored to her former glory? Rich, powerful, magnificent among the nations of the world? Who would not be ruler of such a country?
GALLEIA: Nothing must happen to Dalios.
MASTER: Why should it? He will rule for many years, the beloved sovereign of a beloved prosperous people.
GALLEIA: But surely you would want to
MASTER: Well, purely because of Lord Dalios' great age, it might be well if he were relieved of some of the more onerous duties of kingship. But the reins of power, Lady Queen, should be in stronger hands. Hands such as yours.
GALLEIA: And yours?
MASTER: It would be a pleasure to serve you. And then, when the end comes for Dalios, as it must come for all men, then perhaps?
GALLEIA: The crystal shall be yours.

The Doctor meanwhile seeks consul with King Dalios and Dalios finds him much more agreeable than his previous visitor!

DALIOS: Kronos. Kronos. Kronos. I am the last alive who has known, who has seen, who remembers with a terror of twisted guts. And these fools would have me bring him back.
DOCTOR: Well, why didn't you destroy the crystal?
DALIOS: We tried and merely split the smaller crystal from it. It cannot be destroyed.
DOCTOR: Yes, of course. It's just like the Tardis. It has its being outside time and its appearance is here.
DALIOS: You are a philosopher, friend.
DOCTOR: Well, if wisdom is to seek the truth, I am, yes.
DALIOS: Then help me, Doctor. Help me to find a way to stop these evil men. Help me to save Atlantis from destruction!

The Atlantean king Dalios is played George Cormack who'll be back as K'anpo Rimpoche in Planet of the Spiders.

Famed Hammer Films star Ingrid Pitt plays Queen Galleia, in a costume that's barely keeping her cleavage under control. She'll be back some years later in Warriors of the Deep as Doctor Solow.

Her servant, Lakis, is played by Susan Penhaligon who is someone I know more as a name rather than her acting career.

Aidan Murphy plays young Atlantean Hippias. He'd been in UFO as the Room 22 Guard in The Psychobombs.

His friend Miseus, is played by Michael Walker who was a Radar Operator in The Claws of Axos

Derek Murcott, who plays Crito, was in The Tomorrow People as Major Longford in The Doomsday Men. He appears to have moved to the US in the mid/late 70s and I can see many familiar US series on his CV.

The credited guard is Melville Jones who'll return as a Cyberman in Revenge of the Cybermen. Three years into Pertwee and no Cybermen!

But there are lots of others and foremost among them is Nick Hobbs,. He'd previously been a Technician in The Ambassadors of Death, an RSF Sentry in Inferno, an Auton Daffodil Man in Terror of the Autons, an American Aide in The Mind of Evil, the Nuton Driver in The Claws of Axos, a U.N.I.T. Soldier in Day of the Daleks and Aggedor in The Curse of Peladon & The Monster of Peladon He returns as and a Wirrn Operator in The Ark in Space. In Space: 1999 he's a Security Guard in Space Warp while in Blake's 7 he plays a Hooded Figure in Cygnus Alpha before returning in New Doctor Who as Mr Nainby in Amy's Choice.

Laurie Goode was a Mutt in The Mutants, and returns as a Time Lord in The Invasion of Time, a Bandit in The Creature from the Pit, a Tigellan in Meglos, a Peasant in State of Decay, a Tharil in Warriors' Gate, a Sailor on the Shadow in Enlightenment, a Colonist in Frontios, a worker in Trial of a Timelord: Mysterious Planet and a British Unit Trooper in Battlefield. He's in Blake's 7 as a Hi-tech Patient in Powerplay, Survivors as a Looter in The Chosen and Star Cops as a Dealer in Little Green Men and Other Martians. He was also the Jogger in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a Pirate Rat in the The Box of Delights episode In Darkest Cellars Underneath and appears twice in The Sweeney as Laurie in Queen's Pawn and the Supermarket Manager in Trojan Bus.

Christopher Holmes had been a U.N.I.T. Soldier (uncredited in Day of the Daleks. He returns as a Miner in The Monster of Peladon, Muto in Genesis of the Daleks, Peasant villager/Brother in The Masque of Mandragora, Time Lord in Invasion of Time, Citizen in Full Circle, Plasmaton in Time Flight, Ambril’s Attendant in Snakedance, an Orderly in Frontios, a Person in street in Attack of the Cybermen, a native in Trial of a Time Lord 1-4: Mysterious Planet and a Genius. in Time and the Rani. In Blake's 7 he was a Federation Trooper in The Way Back, a Prisoner in Space Fall & Cygnus Alpha, a Mutoid in Duel & Project Avalon, a Star One Technician in Star One and a Hi-tech Patient in Powerplay

Andy Dempsey returns as Lugo's Warrior in The Face of Evil. In Blake's 7 he's a Hooded Figure in Cygnus Alpha and a Federation Trooper in Bounty. He appears in Space: 1999 as a Main Mission Operative in Force of Life, Collision Course, War Games, Death's Other Dominion, Voyager's Return, Alpha Child, Dragon's Domain, Mission of the Darians, Black Sun, Guardian of Piri, End of Eternity, Matter of Life and Death, Earthbound, The Full Circle, Another Time, Another Place, The Last Sunset, The Infernal Machine, Ring Around the Moon, Missing Link, Space Brain, The Troubled Spirit, The Testament of Arkadia and The Last Enemy.

Jamie Griffin returns as an Earth Guard in Frontier in Space and plays a Technician in the Moonbase 3 episode Behemoth. Richard Eden was in Day of the Daleks as a UNIT soldier and returns as an Astronaut in Planet of Evil. Geoffrey Morgan returns as a Wholewhealer/Guard in Green Death.

In amongst the Sedan Carriers we have Francis Williams who played the Master's Chauffeur Mind of Evil and was an African delegate in footage cut from the final program while Peter Johnson was a Saracen Warrior in Crusade and an Egyptian Soldier in Dalek Masterplan.

The Councillors feature Reg Lloyd, who was a Waxworks Visitors/Auton Replicas Spearhead from Space, Edmund Bailey, an Attendant at the waxworks museum in Spearhead from Space, Colin Cunningham, a a Passerby in Spearhead from Space and a Plague Victim in Doctor Who and the Silurians. Another Councillor, Bill Whitehead , returns as a Noble in Androids of Tara, a Logopolitan in Logopolis and a Villager in The Visitation.

Finally serving girl Alison Daumler was another plague victim in Doctor Who and the Silurians and on of the Daleks' Female Technicians in Day of the Daleks.

Two day after this episode was broadcast Say Knife, Fat Man, the third episode of Doomwatch Season Three, was shown on BBC1.