Original air dates September 1976. Don’t know much about it besides that.
They’re wandering the halls of the TARDIS, looking at everything. They find an old control room, complete with old clothes and a recorder. They go somwhere, in the middle of a giant vortex. They wind up nowhere, and go looking for a minute. Helix energy chases them off, and they dart back into the TARDIS and head out.
Suddenly we’re in mideval times, where there’s a big fight happening and soldiers are destroying civilians. Cut to the deathbed of the ruler. His son is there, angsting. The killer uncle from ouside comes in, and gets poked hard by the unhappy son.
Turns out the oracle is working for the older Uncle, who wants the new Duke dead in two days’ time. Only after this tableau does the TARDIS grind its way onscreen. Sarah wanders off after some lovely fruit, and is abducted by men in black robes. The Doctor stops them, until they hit him on the head with a rock. The Helix energy leaves the TARDIS.
The Doctor comes to and sees the energy nuke some poor schlub. He ids it as Mandragula energy, and that he brought it here.
The Oracle comes to the new Duke to warn him of his impending death. He is not impressed.
The Doctor is looking for Sarah. He’s stopped by men who demand his documents. He steals a horse and tries to run, but they catch him.
Cut back to Sarah, who’s about to be sacrificed, her innocence making it doubly powerful. She objects.
The Doctor is brought before Uncle Murderer who ignores him and sends him to death as a spy.
Sarah is dressed up to be sacrificed.
Doctor is taken to be executed. Credits roll as the executioner swings his greatsword!
Doctor makes an excuse, dodges, runs like a bunny. There’s a merry chase. Doctor runs into the laybrinth used by Demnos’ people, and the soldiers won’t follow him. Bet he runs into this sacrifice soon and interrupts it. Yep.
The new Duke looks at a burned man with blue skin. We saw the Mandragora energy do this, but the Duke is clueless.
The enegy speaks to the priest. Promises supreme rule of Earth. Will destroy anyone else in the light.
Turns out the head priest is Oracle, who loves the idea of power on Earth.
Prince has the Doctor and Sarah brought to him instead of excuted, and they try and figure out why.
The Doctor wants to destroy the temple. The prince has nice legs.
Schemer Duke plans to kill the Prince and blame the Demnos people. Duke charges Prince, and Sarah runs away to be captured again, as credits roll. Eek!
Doctor and Prince are losing until the Demnos people show up and beat them up. Doctor and Prince escape, but lost Sarah.
Schemer wants Prince dead, Oracle wants everyone dead.
Oracle hypnotizes Sarah to kill Doctor.
Plots thicken. Ooo, Oracle is plotting Schemer’s death.
Doctor thinks he knows what the Energy is planning, to kill the arriving scientists and throw the world into a new dark age.
The prince is grabbed, and in the dungeon.
The Oracle is doing some ritual with blinky flashy magic. Doctor leads the Count there, who interrupts, and zaps the count as the credits roll.
The Bretheren are surrounding the palace during a masked ball to destroy the scientists and leaders.
Mandragna wants to keep Earth from expanding through the Galaxy. Zaps the Doctor, who’s wearing armor and has wired it to ground to drain off the Helix energy.
Sarah is asked to dance, which kills some screen time. She knows how particularly well. The Oracle appears to zap everyone, takes them to the temple, and discovers it’s the Doctor in the Oracle outfit.
World saved, celebrities met, credits roll.
I think I got distracted and really mangled that. I know there’s whole sub-plots missing.
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