Original air dates 4 February 1978 – 11 March 1978. Sounds time-travely.
Opens on a spaceship where The Doctor is talking to cones. Leela is left in the TARDIS and bored. She tries to activate the scanner scope and it dies. K9 stops responding, but is apparently only sulking.
Doctor is off signing a truce of some kind.
What appears to be Galifreyan security detects an incoming vessel and goes to amber alert. Doctor is annoyed.
Leela goes swimming in a TARDIS pool.
TARDIS arrives on Galifrey, surrounded by a guard. Guard arrests Doctor, who ignores them mostly. They take him/he leads them to the Chancellor’s office, where the Doctor claims the Presidency.
K9 decides the TARDIS is “a very stupid machine”.
The Doctor yells at the Chancellor. It may not be effective. He ruffles many feathers. He is to be introduced to the Matrix. Sounds like a big hairy deal. Many other council members are annoyed he’s rushing things.
Ceremony ends with Doctor in pain and credits roll.
More kerfuffle as Leela pulls the crown off the Doctor who faints. He’s taken to safety, and asked for Leela to be kicked out of the Citadel to the outer world.
Doctor escapes via a secret door. Leela follows him. Security monitors. Doctor goes to the TARDIS, does not let Leela in. Guards come in, Leela hides.
Doctor has plans for an invasion. Lots of planning of ways to break Galifreyan security. Doctor sneaks back to the room they put him in. They try and trap him into admitting he left, but he sends them off. Demands Leela be kicked out again.
K9 is set free of TARDIS and goes somewhere to break stuff and otherwise be an insecure little menace.
Nobody seems to have a cell phone.
Doctor calls a Council meeting and tells them, “I’m privileged to introduce you to your new masters.” and then laughs as credits roll.
Doctor has been planning this a while. They are not happy with him. The invaders want The Great Key, which he is looking for.
Leela argues, “Discussion is for the wise of the helpless, of which I am neither.”
Leela is captured, but flees the citadel. To another quarry. Is captured by outside savages. Oops. They’re not so bad.
Doctor has the Cardinal brought to his now lead-lined quarters and spills the plan to him, needing his help.
The invaders disband the Galifreyan government relatively easily. Doctor has K9 doing something. Doctor returns to TARDIS to talk to K9. Loyal guard breaks in to kill Doctor. Credits roll!
Doctor has K9 stun the guard. The Chancellor arranges for those guards to be arrested or killed. Guard wakes up resumes threatening the Doctor. Doctor tells him off.
Leela gets the Outsiders to attack while the Doctor disables the rest of Galifrey’s security, hopefully without blowing it up.
The Doctor does have a plan to capture the aliens and time loop their planet to stop them, but has to get them to matereilize first. They finally do, as human.
Doctor springs the trap, runs around, collects the accolades and then is annoucing he’s won when he’s got Sontarans behind him with guns pointed at him. Credits roll.
Doctor harangues the Sontaran, gets shot. The old Chancellor is up to something.
Sontarans chase the Doctor and crew around Galifrey for a while. Doctor gets the Great Key and has some plan. The plan involves giving Leela the key and sending her and the Chancellor off screen.
Turncoat Timelord disrupts TARDIS to get access to force field controls for Sontaran. Credits roll as Doctor and TARDIS are thrown into a black star.
Doctor uses emergency stabilizer to stop. Sontarans use key to get in. Break into locked door, chasing the others. They’ve walked through the same room three times now.
The TARDIS resembels a maze, and has everyone running around hallways looking for each other.
Doctor has had Tech Girl build a dematerializing gun, which requires the Great Key. He demats the Sontarans, and resets the time stream, forgetting everything.
Doctor leaves. Leela remains on Galifrey with her Guard beau. K9 stays with her.
Doctor unboxes a K9 Mark 2 in the TARDIS so he won’t be lonely. Credits roll.