Season 24 episodes
No Code Title First Shown Eps Exists
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Seventh Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
147 7D Time and the Rani 7 Sep 87 4 all
148 7E Paradise Towers 5 Oct 87 4 all
149 7F Delta and the Bannermen 2 Nov 87 3 all
150 7G Dragonfire 23 Nov 87 3 all
Notes
Quite when Melanie became a companion is not explained, she was a
companion in a vision of the Future during the Trial of a Time Lord
and suddenly appeared at the end of it in the present time.
Melanie leaves and Ace joins during Dragonfire.
Episode Details
Still unstable from his regeneration at the end of the trial, the
Doctor is deceived by the Rani into believing she is his companion, and
she tricks him into helping her build a powerful new weapon.
Meantime, Mel is on the run and befriends the meek enslaved population
of the planet on which the Rani is making the Doctor work for her.
The Doctor and Mel land in a giant tower block now in a degenerate state
of decay, with its inhabitants grouped into warring factions. The whole
is presided over by a megalomanic caretaker, who seeks the destruction of
all the inhabitants. Can the Doctor persuade the factions to unite against the
common enemy and his killing machines?
The Doctor and Mel encounter a space craft that looks like a 1950s bus,
which is taking tourists to visit Disneyland.
Unfortunately, the Chimeron Queen Delta is on board the bus, escaping from a
band of murderous mercenaries (the Bannermen) who were hired to destroy
the Chimeron race.
After a Bannerman attack on the space bus, it crash lands in a South Wales
holiday camp called Shangri-La.
After Delta escapes, the Bannermen attack again, killing all the tourists.
Can the Doctor save her with the aid of a young mechanic,
a local bee keeper and 2 US secret service agents?
The Doctor and Mel arrive on Ice World, a deep space trading post and are
reunited with Sabbalom Glitz who joins them in search of the mythical Dragon.
Mel befriends a waitress called Ace who is rather keen on explosives.
The Doctor finds the Dragon and collects the power crystal from it, but is
forced to give it to the crazed ruler of Ice World, Kane, in order to save
Ace's life.
Links: onwards to season 25,
back to season 23.
B.King@ee.surrey.ac.uk & D.White@ee.surrey.ac.uk
9th May 1994