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Doctor Who (Tom Baker) and his annoying young boy companion Adric
(Matthew Waterhouse) arrive on Traken, a planet of eternal harmony, where
evil creatures - called Melkars - are just left to petrify in the grove,
and even they are tended by volunteers - volunteers like Kassia (Sheila
Ruskin). The peace and tranquility of Traken is looked after by the
Keeper (Denis Carey), a sort of Chosen One, who has to sit in his
(high-tech) chair for thousands of years and look after the affairs of
state ... I think.
Now though, harmony of Traken is in danger since the old Keeper is
dieing, and Kassia just got married to the appointed Keeper Tremas
(Anthony Ainley), an important counsel on Traken, and she has no desire to
lose her husband to any old chair. So she turns to her Melkar (Geoffrey
Beevers), and he soon tells her how to make a mess out of all affairs of
state and have made Tremas a traitor, and how to blame it all on the
Doctor and Adric, and eventually - with Tremas, the Doctor and Adric all
under lock and key, the Melkar has Kassia become the new Keeper ... and
once she is the Keeper, the Melkar takes over her body and thus her place
in the affairs of Traken, which he plans to use as his new headquarters
for universal conquest.
Fortunately though, Tremas has a young daughter, Nyssa (Sarah Sutton),
who has a few tricks up her sleeve and has soon freed her father, the Doc
and Adric, and soon enough, too, the Doctor and Adric make up a plan to
sabotage the Keeper's high tech chair ... and while the Doctor faces the
new Keeper/Melkar on his own turf and finds out that a decaying Master
(also Geoffrey Beevers) is behind it all, young Adric puts teh plan into
action ... and the two of them almost blow up the planet, but instead save
it in the end ...
And the Master ?
In the very last scene he takes over Tremas' body (and will thus in
later episodes be played by Anthony Ainley).
One of the worst episodes of Tom Baker's tenure as Doctor Who:
The script is riddled with plotholes and is essentially as convoluted as
it is silly, the very stilted and theatrical dialogue is at times nothing
more than ridiculous, the mock period costumes and sets seem strangely out
of place (Similar costumes and sets have worked in earlier episodes of the
series), but what's worse: The whole episode takes itself terribly
serious. Forgettable !!!
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