Original air dates January 1969 through March 1969. Six parts and all present! I think there’s only one more lost episode and that’s next.
We start at world travelmat control, watching them work. They’re fixing little things and moving people and cargo all around the world smoothly. Something demands the Moon base do something. We can’t see who and don’t know what. The lead man sabotages the equipment rather than helping them. He is killed for it.
Meanwhile, the TARDIS lands in their second spce museum. They’re poking around when they’re stopped by a man with a gun.
The aliens are unhappy and will kill anyone who doesn’t help get t-mat working to Earth.
The man with the gun is distracted by the Doctor’s enthusiasm and shows them the museum. He’s a bit bitter about t-mat as it cancelled his rocket programs. The professor refuses to help t-mat. Rockets are hard, and the old Professor doesn’t think his is up to snuff, even with the Doctor’s offer to help.
The Moonbase gets a call out to get interrupted and killed by one of the Ice Warriors, who I’ve finally remembered what they’re called.
The Ice Warriors kill all but one of the men on the Moon base. They have a terrible sense of employee relations.
A nice smooth launching, except video and radio link are dead. Comms are problematic. The moon gets emergency t-mat working, and turns on recieve. Earth sends a crew to fix it since t-mat is working one way.
Moon base gets on the radio and interrupts the Doctor and crew’s landing beacon. They’re trying to get the man on the Moon base to send a signal for them to follow. They’re firing retro-rockets and landing when a tube burns out on the radio. THe tech changes the tube in a hurry and they lock in and land safely in the bowl.
The Doctor leaves Zoe and Jaimie to rescue Phipps. They refuel the rocket and check the rockets for damage.
The Doctor plans to destroy t-mat and take the rocket home, but Zoe has found the rocket is unusable so they have to go stop him.
Literal running around the corridors of the station in high vaudeville style. Roscoe Arbuckle would be proud.
The Doctor tries to figure out what is going on, while the others try to get to the heating to overheat the Ice Warriors. The others cook off another Ice Warrior in their booby trap.
The Ice Warrior in the command center has seeds sent to places all over the Earth.
The seeds explode and release toxic gas. The gas contains seeds which grow and pop with more gas, more death, more seeds.
The unconcious Doctor is to be sent via t-mat to space between the Moon and Earth. The technician objects, but eventually obeys.
An Ice Warrior t-mats to control, and attacks. The guards’guns are useless and they’re all killed. A report from their computer explains the exploding fungus and foam. The Ice Warrior is unbothered by it. Humanity tries fungicide, but nothing seems to happen. The Ice Warrior attacks them.
The professor, now at t-mat central, figures out the pods were sent cold places, and that this is an invasion.
The crew gets Zoe to turn up the heating, and it knocks the Ice Warriors down.
Zoe’s not a screamer, but a clinger. A hugger, too.
The Ice Warrior on Earth goes to a Weather Control Station, presumbably to make it cold.
No, to make it dry; water ruins the fungus.
Jaimie and Zoe head to the weather control bureau, where the warrior has already been and frozen the controls on “dry”. Jaimie and Zoe find the body and the damage. They hide from the warrior behind a glass-block wall. Stylish but not terribly effective cover.
The Doctor rushes there only to be locked out, and surrounded by exploding gas fungus. Jaimie distracts the Ice Warrior while Zoe goes for the door.
The Doctor, Jaimie, and Zoe hide in a solar energy room, with a heavy door, and equipment that they use to build a trap. Security comes, and is ineffective. Brave, but ineffective.
The Doctor attacks with sun lamps, which works.
To fix the controls, the Doctor takes the back panel off and a clot of wire falls out, which he starts to untangle, and hard-wires the settings to “rain”.
The Doctor t-mats back to the moon with a solar battery and his sun lamps to destroy the Ice Warriors there. He gets a warrior, but can’t open the homing device. Where’s your Sonic Screwdriver when you need it?
The lure the Ice Warror’s invasion fleet to the wrong place and they will be lost in the sun.
The Ice Warrior and the Doctor have a face-off, and Jaimie arrives to distract them and help kill the Ice Warriors.
The Doctor and crew sneak out and run back to the TARDIS, where they dematerialize for later adventures.
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