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FREE DOCTOR WHO AND THE INVASION OF TIME: A 4TH DOCTOR NOVELISATION PDF Terrance Dicks,John Leeson | 1 pages | 01 Dec 2016 | BBC Audio, A Division Of Random House | 9781785294662 | English | London, United Kingdom Doctor Who Library (Target) Series by Terrance Dicks The Invasion of Time was the sixth and final serial of season 15 of Doctor Who. It featured the final regular appearances of Louise Jameson as Leela as well as the final appearance of K9 Mark I — although it also immediately implied that the Doctor was merely replacing K9 with a new model. Its script was a last-minute replacement, written quickly by Read and Williams when the original season-ender by David Weir was abandoned. Contemporary viewers of the programme who participated in the Doctor Who Appreciation Society 's season 15 poll voted it the best story of the season. It laid the groundwork for future Sontaran stories, including their pursuit Doctor Who and the Invasion of Time: A 4th Doctor Novelisation time travel in The Two Doctors and their knowledge of Gallifrey 's demise in The Sontaran Stratagem. This story is also the ostensible link between Doctor Who and the Australian K9 series, since the K9 at the beginning of Regeneration appears to be the Mark I, who then "regenerates" into the model seen throughout that programme. The Doctor returns to Gallifreyclaims his rights and is crowned President. It soon turns out that he has led a group of aliens called Vardans to the planet to eradicate them completely. After they are destroyed, the Sontarans take their opportunity and follow them in their invasion until they are destroyed by the Doctor. The Fourth Doctor meets a group of aliens in space and returns to Gallifreybringing Leela and K9 with him. He is behaving very strangely, and when the Chancellery Guard under their CommanderAndredarrive at the Panopticon Chamber to interrogate him, the Doctor demands to be taken to Chancellor Borusawho is now in charge of the Time Lords. The Doctor claims the vacant Presidency of Gallifrey, having been a candidate. After the demise of Chancellor Gothhe is elected automatically. The aliens watch him keenly, stating that they have chosen well. The Doctor chooses a presidential chamber and asks it be decorated with lead lining throughout. Shortly afterward, a ceremony is held to swear him in as President of Gallifrey, and he is presented with the trappings of office. However, when the circlet connecting him to the Matrixrepository of all Time Lord knowledge, is placed on his head, the Doctor collapses in pain The Doctor is taken to the Chancellery to rest and recover. When he regains consciousness, he reminds the Time Lords that no aliens are allowed on Gallifrey and instructs that Leela be expelled from the Capitol Citadel, where she will have to fend in the wastelands. She tries to avoid banishment, but the Doctor insists as president. He is obviously very concerned about the situation in which he has found himself. Meanwhile, Leela meets Rodanand they find that a massive warship is moving towards Gallifrey. The Doctor is planning to aid an invasion of Gallifrey itself. To this end he sets about destroying the transduction barrier that shields the planet from external threat. K9 sets about this task while the Doctor returns to the Panopticon, the great hall of the Time Lords. He laughs cruelly as three alien beings start to materialise The invading beings are known as Vardans. They appear as shimmering manifestations who made an alliance with the Doctor some time ago. The Doctor advises the Time Lords, including the stubborn Borusa, to submit to their new and powerful masters. He asks Borusa to meet him in his office, where the Doctor explains he had the lead walls installed to prevent the Vardans entering the room on thought waves Doctor Who and the Invasion of Time: A 4th Doctor Novelisation reading his mind. He hadn't told the other Time Lords because their minds are too single-minded, and the Vardans would be able to hear them. He sent Leela away to protect her and can now work with Borusa to defeat the Vardan threat. A new problem has emerged, however, with the ascendancy of the obsequious and compliant Castellan Kelner. He is being far too co-operative with the Vardan occupation. The toadying yet ambitious Castellan soon has Borusa placed under house arrest and starts expelling trouble-making Time Lords from the safety of the Capitol. Leela has kept her faith in the Doctor. She decides that if he wishes her to leave the Capitol it is with good Doctor Who and the Invasion of Time: A 4th Doctor Novelisation, so she departs for the wastelands. She is accompanied by Rodan. Doctor Who and the Invasion of Time: A 4th Doctor Novelisation are welcomed warily by a tribe of Outsiders who have rejected Time Lord society and live in the wastelands. Their leader, Nesbinexplains some of the background to his tribe. Back in the Capitol, however, things are looking grim for the Doctor when Andred corners him and decides to execute him in the name of liberty The Doctor consults the Matrix. K9 helps the Doctor overpower Andred. The Doctor is hoping to persuade the Vardans to fully materialise so that he can find their planet and time loop it. Leela has also organised her own resistance movement in the wastelands, comprising Nesbin's people and the exiled Time Lords, all of whom are drilled into a fighting force which soon launches an assault on the Capitol. Meanwhile, the aliens and Kelner have decided the Doctor is behaving in an untrustworthy manner. The Doctor reaffirms his loyalty to them by agreeing to dismantle the final force field protecting Gallifrey from attack. He does not fully disable it, but rather places a large hole in it. The Vardans use the hole to properly invade Gallifrey and appear as humanoid warriors. In space, a ship approaches Gallifrey. Their manifestation enables K9 to track down their home planet and supply the Doctor with the correct co- ordinates. He uses this to beam the Vardans back to their home world and then traps it in a time loop. At about the same time Leela and her warriors reach the Panopticon, but celebrations are short-lived when three Sontaran soldiers appear in the chamber, and the leader raises its gun Gallifrey has Doctor Who and the Invasion of Time: A 4th Doctor Novelisation been invaded by the Sontarans, led by Commander Storwho reveal that they used the Vardans to open up the force field to let them in and have served their purpose. The Doctor and his party escape to the President's office, while Kelner pledges support to the invaders. Borusa has placed titanium alloy on the door to reinforce it. The Sontarans are delayed while the Doctor and his party escape through another exit. The Doctor uses his freedom to try to pressure Borusa into revealing to him the location of the Great Key of Rassilona missing item of the Presidential regalia. The Doctor looks for the Great Key in a large group of keys, and Borusa pulls it out of a drawer keyhole. Meanwhile, the Sontarans Doctor Who and the Invasion of Time: A 4th Doctor Novelisation been trying to get Kelner to widen the gap in the force field. However, Kelner imperils their resistance when he manipulates the stabiliser banks of the Doctor's TARDIS to try to destroy the resistance force within by hurling them to the heart of a black star The Doctor presents the de-mat gun. The Doctor overrides the threat, so their enemies change tactics. They pursue the Doctor and his friends through the labyrinth of corridors. Stor is after the Great Key too, knowing Doctor Who and the Invasion of Time: A 4th Doctor Novelisation Doctor has now persuaded Borusa to yield it to him. The Doctor uses distractions to buy time. On the Doctor's instruction, a hypnotised Rodan and K9 construct a special forbidden Time Lord weapon: the de-mat gun. Powered by the Great Key itself, the de-mat gun erases its victims from time itself. The Doctor takes the gun and confronts Stor in the Panopticon. Stor intends to destroy the galaxy, and the Time Lords and Sontarans with it, with a grenade, but the blast is cancelled out by the Doctor using the de-mat gun. It obliterates Stor, wipes the Doctor's mind of recent events, and also destroys itself. Kelner is arrested and Borusa begins the process of rebuilding Gallifrey. The Doctor is ready to leave, but Leela decides to stay on Gallifrey because she has fallen in love with Commander Andred. The DVD is the same as the one sold separately. It was released 8 July in Australia. Fandom may earn an affiliate Doctor Who and the Invasion of Time: A 4th Doctor Novelisation on sales made from links on this page. Sign In Don't have an account? Start a Wiki. Contents [ show ]. If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion. The Five Doctors. The Twin Dilemma. Doctor Who. Children in Need Special Born Again. The Christmas Invasion. The Runaway Bride. The Infinite Quest. Time Crash. Voyage of the Damned. Music of the Spheres. A Christmas Carol. Death Is the Only Answer. The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe. The Great Detective. The Snowmen. Last Christmas. The Doctor's Meditation. The Husbands of River Song.