pThe planet Atrios, ruled by Princess Astra, is losing a nuclear war with their neighbouring planet Zeos. Astra, on a tour to rally the injured troops within their safety bunker, is beguiled into seeking shelter. Soon after, while searching for the Key to Time#39;s final segment, the Fourth Doctor and Romana arrive, encountering Astra before she is suddenly abducted. After some initial false accusations from the leading bull-headed military Marshal, the Doctor agrees to help his increasingly weak efforts against Zeos. The Doctor and Romana discover that there is another factor in the war, when Romana notices a control device attached to the Marshal#39;s neck, the Doctor deduces there is another planetary object between Atrios and Zeos, and a skull-shaped receiver is found behind a mirror that the Marshal seemingly uses to meditate with./ppbr/ppThe Doctor is abducted during an attempt to transmaterialise/transmat (teleport) to Zeos, and meets with the true opponent, the #34;Shadow#34;, ruling over a space station called the #34;Planet of Evil#34;. However, as part of the Shadow#39;s stratagem, he releases the Doctor, hoping he will misstep in his search for the Segment. The Doctor transmats to Zeos, genuinely this time, reuniting with Romana, an Atrion officer, and K9. They all find that Zeos is deserted, its inhabitants possibly already annihilated, save for the giant supercomputer Mentalis, which is controlling the outcome of the war. K9 is able to communicate with it, and Mentalis declares the war over./ppbr/ppHowever, the Marshal seeks victory through his opponent#39;s annihilation, and launches a single flagship offence to the planet. Mentalis detects the launch, and, unable to defend itself after surrendering, begins a self-destruct sequence set to destroy both Zeos and Atrios. The Doctor attempts to stop it, but it damages its central control after its perimeter defence is triggered. With a lack of options, the Doctor fashions an artificial stopgap Segment, and orders the Key to Time to shroud the Marshal#39;s ship and Mentalis#39; systems in an imperfect deteriorating time loop./ppbr/ppMeanwhile, K9 is abducted by the Shadow and fitted with another control device. The Doctor#39;s group reunites with Astra, seemingly escaped but actually made a pawn of the Shadow as well. With Astra#39;s help, the Doctor pilots the TARDIS back to the Planet of Evil. There, they are all separated. The Doctor encounters another Time Lord, Drax, whom he last met at the Gallifreyan Academy. Drax, who is under duress, was employed by The Shadow to build Mentalis, but he agrees to help the Doctor, and also frees K9. The Shadow reveals he is an agent of the Black Guardian, and demands the Key to Time, threatening to torture Romana. The Doctor leads a servant of the Shadow, known as a Mute, to his TARDIS and opens the door, but Drax misinterprets the Doctor#39;s plan, and shrinks the Doctor and himself, using a dimensional stabiliser from Drax#39;s own TARDIS./ppbr/ppThe Mute returns to the Shadow with the Key, and Romana realises why the Shadow needs it: Astra herself is the final segment, and from the Key#39;s power, she transforms in front of everyone. The Doctor and Drax smuggle themselves into the Shadow#39;s lair inside of K9, who pretends to be under the Shadow#39;s control. Drax again uses the stabiliser to normalise themselves. In the confusion, The Doctor snatches the partially-assembled Key and the final segment, and escapes with Romana, Drax, and K9 into the TARDIS. They return to Zeos, and, with the false Key segment and the time loop both expired, narrowly deactivate Mentalis#39; self-destruct, but the Doctor also realises that the Marshal is still en-route. He quickly erects a shield around Zeos with the TARDIS, to deflect the Marshal#39;s missiles towards the Planet of Evil, destroying it and killing the Shadow./ppbr/ppThe White Guardian appears on the TARDIS scanner screen to congratulate the Doctor on finding and assembling the Key to Time, and requests that it be sent to him. However, the Doctor, catching onto the Guardian#39;s blatant disregard for Astra#39;s sacrifice, realises that it is actually the Black Guardian in disguise, and orders the Key to re-disperse, restoring Astra to life. Enraged, the Black Guardian threatens to kill him. In an attempt to evade him, the Doctor fits a randomiser into the TARDIS guidance system, sending it to an unknown location in time and space, leaving the Doctor with no idea of where they are headed, and the Guardian being unable to follow/pbr/br/Support this podcast at — a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/ghostman-radio-station/exclusive-content'https://redcircle.com/ghostman-radio-station/exclusive-content/abr/br/Advertising Inquiries: a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'https://redcircle.com/brands/abr/br/Privacy Opt-Out: a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'https://redcircle.com/privacy/a
