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FREE DOCTOR WHO AT THE BBC: LOST TREASURES: VOLUME 8 PDF David Darlington,Louise Jameson | 1 pages | 03 Oct 2013 | BBC Audio, A Division Of Random House | 9781471305061 | English | London, United Kingdom Eye of Horus | Doctor Who | Merchandise - BBC AUDIOBOOKS - THE LOST TV EPISODES Collection 1 Dragonfire was the fourth and final serial of season 24 of Doctor Who. It marked the departure of companion Melanie Bushthe return and final appearance of Sabalom Glitzand featured the debut of Sophie Aldred as Ace. As trouble brews on the space trading colony of Iceworldthe Doctor and Mel encounter their sometimes-ally Sabalom Glitz - and a new friend who goes by " Ace ". Iceworld is a space-trading colony on the dark side of the planet Svartos, controlled by the callous and vindictive Kane. He buys supporters and employees and makes them wear his mark iced into their flesh. Kane's body is so cold that one touch from him can kill. In his lair is a vast cryogenic section. Mercenaries and others are frozen and stored, losing their memories to become an unquestioning army. Kane stays there when he needs to cool down. There is also an aged sculptor carving a statue from the ice. He owes Kane a serious amount of money, and if he doesn't return his debt soon he'll lose his ship. Glitz has come to look for a treasure guarded by a dragon in the icy caverns beyond Iceworld. Glitz has a map he won in a game of cards. Kane wanted him to have the map because he wishes to use Glitz in his own search for the treasure. The map has a tracking device in its seal. Kane has Glitz's ship, the Nosferatuwhich he orders destroyed. Not knowing he is being used, Glitz goes off with the Doctor in tow. Glitz won't allow women on the expedition, so Mel stays with a waitress they have met, called Ace. Ace becomes irritated at a customer's complaints and pours a milkshake on her head, prompting her to be fired. Mel and Ace return to Ace's lodgings. Mel is stunned to hear Ace is a human from late twentieth century Earth who only arrived on Iceworld when a chemistry experiment caused a time-storm in her bedroom. Ace takes security matters into her own hands and Doctor Who at the BBC: Lost Treasures: Volume 8 up an ice block previously causing an ice jam. Officer Belazs promptly arrives to deal with the matter and finding Ace and Mel present, arrests them. They are interrogated by Doctor Who at the BBC: Lost Treasures: Volume 8, and Ace is offered a place at Kane's side. Ace seems to consider the offer, before using nitro-9 to create an explosion as a distraction, allowing the pair to escape. As they run down the corridors, they encounter a frightening creature -the dragon. The Doctor, separated from Glitz, climbs over a parapet. He loses his grip, and hangs from the railing, holding onto his umbrella as he slowly slips down its length. The dragon shoots laser beams at Mel and Doctor Who at the BBC: Lost Treasures: Volume 8. Realising that the "dragon" is nothing of the sort, they flee. Glitz arrives and helps the Doctor to Doctor Who at the BBC: Lost Treasures: Volume 8 bottom of the chasm. Glitz wants to head for his ship and gives the map to the Doctor. Kane overhears them. Some of Kane's staff are not happy. She is keen to escape, and arranges for the Nosferatu not to be destroyed, hoping to use the craft to escape. When this fails, she tries to persuade Officer Kracauer to help her overthrow Kane. Their attempt to raise the temperature in his chambers and kill him fails. Kane kills them both, before killing the ice sculptor who has finished his statue of a woman called Xana, declaring that only he is to be allowed Doctor Who at the BBC: Lost Treasures: Volume 8 be at witness to her magnificence. In the ice caverns, the Doctor and Glitz find the treasureless dragon. It is a biped that fires lasers from its eyes. Mel and Ace have ventured into the caverns too. They meet their allies and are defended by the dragon, which guns down Kane's cryogenically altered soldiers sent to kill them. The dragon takes them to a room in the ice. It is some sort of control area. There is a pre-recorded hologram message. It explains Kane is half of the Kane-Xana criminal gang from the planet Proamon. When the security forces caught up with them, Xana killed herself to avoid arrest. Kane was captured and exiled to the cold, dark side of Svartos. It seems Iceworld is a huge spacecraft and the treasure is a crystal inside the head of the "dragon". It is the key Kane needs to activate the ship and end his exile. The dragon is both Kane's jailer and his chance of freedom. Kane hears all through the device on the map and declares his victory to be imminent. Kane sends his security forces to the ice caverns to bring him the dragon's head, offering vast rewards for bravery. He orders his army to cause chaos in the Iceworld shops, driving the customers towards the docked Nosferatu. When the Nosferatu takes off, Kane blows it up. The only survivors are a young girl, Stellar, and her mother, who have become separated. Shortly afterwards, two of Kane's troopers manage to kill the "dragon" and remove its head, Doctor Who at the BBC: Lost Treasures: Volume 8 are killed themselves by an energy discharge from the crystal. The Doctor has realised that Kane has been a prisoner on Svartos for millennia. He retrieves the crystal from the "dragon". Kane rises to the Doctor's taunts but still powers up Iceworld as a spacecraft. It rises from the surface of Svartos. However, when Kane tries to set course for Proamon to exact his revenge, he realises he has been a prisoner so long the planet no longer exists. In despair, he opens a screen in his ship and lets in light rays, which melt him. Glitz claims Iceworld as his own spacecraft, the Nosferatu II. Mel decides to stay with him to keep him out of trouble and tells the Doctor that Ace doesn't wish to return home. Stellar comes across Doctor Who at the BBC: Lost Treasures: Volume 8 TARDIS and approaches it, just before her mother finds her and gives her a telling-off for wandering away, telling Stellar to follow her. Fandom may earn an affiliate commission on sales made from links on this page. Sign In Don't have an account? Start a Wiki. You may be looking for the titular power source. 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. 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