The TARDIS materialises in a human colony which is run like a giant holiday camp, where everybody is happy all round and fun and games are the order of the day. But a madman named Medok claims that the camp is stalked at night by hideous monsters, and as the Doctor learns more about the camp he realises that the people here risk their lives daily to mine a dangerously toxic natural gas - and yet nobody knows what it's for. His investigation attempt hits a snag when Ben is brainwashed by the colony's subliminal conditioning, and turns in his friends for acting against colony interests. In fact, the colony is under the control of the Macra, giant crab-like insects who are using the brainwashed humans to mine the gas they need to survive. It's up to the Doctor and his friends to prove the truth and free the colonists from a slavery they don't even know they're suffering.

Doctor Who (1963) Season 4 Episodes...

• s04e01 - The Smugglers (1)
• s04e02 - The Smugglers (2)
• s04e03 - The Smugglers (3)
• s04e04 - The Smugglers (4)
• s04e05 - The Tenth Planet (1)
• s04e06 - The Tenth Planet (2)
• s04e07 - The Tenth Planet (3)
• s04e08 - The Tenth Planet (4)
• s04e09 - The Power of the Daleks (1)
• s04e10 - The Power of the Daleks (2)
• s04e11 - The Power of the Daleks (3)
• s04e12 - The Power of the Daleks (4)
• s04e13 - The Power of the Daleks (5)
• s04e14 - The Power of the Daleks (6)
• s04e15 - The Highlanders (1)
• s04e16 - The Highlanders (2)
• s04e17 - The Highlanders (3)
• s04e18 - The Highlanders (4)
• s04e19 - The Underwater Menace (1)
• s04e20 - The Underwater Menace (2)
• s04e21 - The Underwater Menace (3)
• s04e22 - The Underwater Menace (4)
• s04e23 - The Moonbase (1)
• s04e24 - The Moonbase (2)
• s04e25 - The Moonbase (3)
• s04e26 - The Moonbase (4)
• s04e27 - The Macra Terror (1)
• s04e28 - The Macra Terror (2)
• s04e29 - The Macra Terror (3)
• s04e30 - The Macra Terror (4)
• s04e31 - The Faceless Ones (1)
• s04e32 - The Faceless Ones (2)
• s04e33 - The Faceless Ones (3)
• s04e34 - The Faceless Ones (4)
• s04e35 - The Faceless Ones (5)
• s04e36 - The Faceless Ones (6)
• s04e37 - The Evil of the Daleks (1)
• s04e38 - The Evil of the Daleks (2)
• s04e39 - The Evil of the Daleks (3)
• s04e40 - The Evil of the Daleks (4)
• s04e41 - The Evil of the Daleks (5)
• s04e42 - The Evil of the Daleks (6)
• s04e43 - The Evil of the Daleks (7)

Doctor Who (1963) Show Summary

Doctor Who is the longest-running science fiction TV series in history, airing initially from 1963 to 1989. Doctor Who is about ideas. It pioneered sophisticated mixed-level storytelling. Its format was the key to its longevity: the Doctor, a mysterious traveller in space and time, travels in his ship, the TARDIS. The TARDIS can take him and his companions anywhere in time and space. Inevitably he finds evil at work wherever he goes...