Original air dates October – November 1975. Four part serial.
Archaelologists open an Egyptian tomb. They find an Eye of Horus, which glows and scares all the locals off. It’s a hidden door. Professor goes in and screams.
The Doctor muses about middle age, and the TARDIS hiccups, with a spark and a shudder. They keep traveling, but land shortly. In the right place to be UNIT HQ in the future, but before then when it’s still an old country house. It’s full of Egyptian artifacts.
An Egyptian man – olive skin, dark hair and beard, fez – is keeping everyone away. A concerned local intrudes to ask about the missing Professor, and the servant shoos the Doctor and Sarah off. The mummy wakes up and kills the servant, which sets off the Egyptian into a paroxysm of joy about the return of the true gods. Egyptian guy shoots local interloper, who runs off bleeding.
Doctor helps interloper to the lodge, where Sarah has found help.
Egyptian and Mummy go back to the main house and the Egyptian starts praying to a sarcophagus. There are now three mummies, and Egyptian is playing the pipe organ at them.
The sarcophagus becomes a tunnel or door through which a costumed villian enters. Egyptian prays to him as if he is Sutec, and he denies this, killing Egyptian. “I bring you Sutec’s gift of death.” Doctor is worried about worst powers ever etc., and hiding behind the door with Sarah and man from Lodge to watch.
Servant of Sutec fades to an Englishman, who Lodge Guy identifies as Marcus. He begins directing the mummies with weird ritual stuff.
Doctor opens time/space tunnel in sarcophagus and is nearly sucked in. He throws something inside to escape.
A local poacher captures a mummy in one of his game traps. Is smart enough to run away.
Sarah and Lodge Guy hide the Doctor in a priest hole hidden in the room.
Poacher finds force wall. Runs away again.
Marcus shows up at the Lodge and local interloper tries to talk to him. Is destroyed by a mummy. Poacher hears, runs off. Come back, shoots at Marcus. Marcus sends mummies to seek and kill.
Doctor et al escape. Doctor realizes mummies are robots, and Sutec is still under the pyramid and can’t move. Lodge Guy hides in the TARDIS with them. They go to 1980 to drop Sarah off, but it’s a wasteland, so they go back to 1911 and stop Sutec.
Mummies chase poacher. Hits force wall, can’t escape.
Mummies enter Lodge to stop the Doctor from stopping them. They grab Sarah who screams well, and then credits roll for part three.
Doctor goes to get explosives from poacher’s hut. Has to open a hole in the defense screen first. Sutec notices this and dislikes it. Marcus goes to investigate, finds parts are missing. Goes back to Lodge. Finds disassembled robot, Lodge Guy.
Doctor and Sarah find Lodge Guy dead. Doctor hides as one of the mummy/robots. Bomb placed on missile, Sarah shoots it. Sutec inhibits explosion.
Doctor opens tunnel to go have a word directly with Sutec. That distracts him and the bomb goes off. Doctor is pinned to wall with mental force, as credits roll.
Sutec and the Doctor talk. Doctor is tortured by Sutec. Sutec gets the TARDIS key. Very sneaky. Sends a mind-controlled Doctor to pilot the TARDIS. Going to the Pyramid of Mars to disable power beams and free Sutec.
For once, the TARDIS goes where the Doctor told it. Sutec orders Doctor killed. Doctor fakes it. Sutec is leading his minion to the control center. Doctor and Sarah follow. Traps and puzzles block the way.
Doctor and Sarah are too slow. The power source is destroyed. The Doctor races to the TARDIS to beat the time change. Doctor runs to end of the time tunnel, and sends Sutec far into the future, so that he couldn’t escape.
Building is burning, so they hoof it to the TARDIS and escape.
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