The Keeper of Traken

(Series 18, Episodes 21-24)

Summary: The Doctor and Adric are back in N Space and have about much chemistry as a broken Bunsen Burner.  After the Doctor has a rather soporific conversation about the fate of Traken with its ailing Keeper, they land there only to be immediately framed by a wooden statue which turns out to be Crusty Master’s TARDIS.  The Master’s plan to become Keeper is foiled but he pops out of his clock TARDIS to take over the body of the anagramically named Tremas.

Watch it because: The Master reborn…as Anthony Ainley.

Original Air Date: 31 January – 21 February 1981.

Doctor: Tom Baker.

Companions: Adric (Matthew Waterhouse).

Writer: Johnny Byrne.

Director: John Black.

Producer: John Nathan-Turner.