Original air dates January 1976.
Bugman crawls along, breaking things. Attacked by pale stalker.
TARDIS arrives, and the Doctor hops out shaking his fist at the sky and yelling at the Time Lords to stop messing about with him. Sarah goes to explore anyway, while the doctor sulks.
Mad scientist doing something with heads of space travellers. Wants humanoids, much as Earth people are.
There are some women guarding the Elixir of Life for themselves and the Time Lords. Worried the Time lords will steal their last.
Doctor and Sara come in from the rain to the mad scientists’ home. The Doctor recognizes one of his busts. They share a meal with the mad scientist/artist.
The women who guard the Elixir are having a circle. It shows them the TARDIS. They transpose it to themselves. They recognize it as a TARDIS, and the travellers as a Time Lord. Time Lords are tougher than usual to handle. They circle up to find the Time Lord.
Mad Scientist drugs Doctor and Sarah. Wants the Doctor’s head. Will just plain kill Sarah. She comes to and follows. She isn’t very successful.
Must repair generators for light and power for the Operation. They go to do that, Doctor fades away. Sarah keeps poking about, find headless monster. Credits!
Taken by women who guard the Elixir, so surmises Mad Scientist. And that’s what it appars to be. They plan on killing him at dawn. They want a confession, but he has no idea what they’re talking about. Morbius is dead, they insist.
Mad Scientists figures out what is happening, interrupts. Sarah sneaks in during the kerfuffle, frees the Doctor, who runs away.
Servant revolts to get his arm back, at the price of not taking Mad Scientists head.
Doctor and Sarah turn up at Mad Scientist’s. Asks him to look at Sarah’s eyes. Retinas damaged, need the Elexir of Life to fix. Doctor goes to go get some.
Elixir Guardians have the TARDIS, the time lord will be back.
Sarah hears Morbius, goes to talk to him. He’s a lit brain in a bucket, and paranoid. Credits roll over him!
Doctor talks his way into seeing the Eternal Flame, fixes it. Might get to live.
Morbius goes madder when he hears The Doctor is a time lord. They’re after him! They’ll destroy him. Anything to escape!
The artificial brain case! It will have to do. Use it! Now!
And so, they go about it. Until Morbius’ brain falls on the floor. Mad Scientist goes madder, shoots assistant. Ropes Sarah in to helping work the pump to move the brain.
Isn’t long before Monster Morbius is up and about. There go the credits!
Fire, wreckage, rampage! Monster Morbius attacks Mad Scientist. Monster Morbius kills assistant. Doctor out cold, Sarah out cold. Mad Scientist has some stuff in a gun to stop Morbius.
Morbius attacks Sisters of Eternal Flame, kills at least one. Doctor finds. Doctor and Mad Scientist look for Morbius, try to corner him. Morbius attacks Doctor, gets stunned by Mad Scientist.
This one girl is really good at not blinking.
So, Doctor and Sarah are locked up, while Mad Scientist fixes Morbius. Doctor makes cyanogen and puts it in the vents to the lab. Gas kills mad scientist. Morbius ignores it.
Sisters on the march, armed with torches.
The two time lords brainwrestle for supremacy. Doctor thinks it will break Morbius’ squishy brain. Morbius’ squishy brain is on fire. Doctor is out cold. Sisters chase Morbius off cliff. Doctor gets Elixir of Life.
TARDIS leaves, and they’re off.
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