History Recap / DoctorWhoS22E4TheTwoDoctors

* GladIThoughtOfIt

* KillEmAll: Anita is the only secondary character to survive.

* AlienLunch: Shockeye eats ''anything'' including rat.

This time, they head off to a space station where a doctor named Dastari is making some incredible leaps forward in time travel science that the Time Lords are objecting to in some fashion. Dastari objects to the Time Lords being their {{Jerkass}} selves and gets into an argument with the Doctor, who isn't exactly thrilled to be there either. But since the Time Lords can always claim that they had nothing to do with him, they're using him as the perfect scapegoat while threatening Dastari. Meanwhile, Sontarans invade the space station — and the Doctor orders Jamie to run away as they point their guns at the Doctor...

Cut over to the Sixth Doctor, who is having a nice fishing holiday with Peri. The Doctor suggests heading off to the [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors Eye of Orion]]... and then collapses in pain and agony. We see a montage of Jamie back on the station seeing the Second Doctor dying miserably. The Sixth Doctor reawakens, having just seen a mental image of his second self being put to death. Realizing this can't be possible as he's still alive in the future, he decides to go figure out what the hell just happened anyway — deciding to consult Dastari on what is going on.

The Doctor and Peri bumble around the space station until they finally stumble onto an incoherent Jamie. He reveals that the Second Doctor was just killed. The Sixth Doctor figures this has to be a lie, as time hasn't wiped him out yet, and fiddles around the station until he figures out that it was all just an illusion. This means, Sixth figures, that his Second self is being held captive somewhere. He puts himself into a trance to try and find him mentally. Waking up some time later, the Doctor comes to the realization that Two is being held in Seville, Spain, by the combined forces of the Sontarans and Dastari.

However, Dastari is more of an unwilling companion, as most of the planning is being done by his lady-friend Chessene and an "Androgum" called Shockeye... a stereotypical alien-Scotsman who really likes to eat meat. (This makes more sense when you know that the author intended the story to be a pro-vegetarianism allegory.)

The Sixth Doctor lands the TARDIS outside Seville. They're approached by a vacationing couple: Oscar Botcherby and Anita. Oscar is managing a restaurant in the city, but is currently catching moths. As it turns out, Oscar also happened to see what he thought was a plane crash earlier on a mansion — but it just so happened to be the Sontarans' spaceship landing to meet up with Dastari. Seeing the TARDIS, he mistakes the heroes for British policemen. Sixth is then escorted to said mansion, which he scouts out for a little while, having told everyone else to wait just out of sight.

Dastari and the Second Doctor have a nice little talk, where Dastari reveals that his lady-friend Chessene is actually an evolved Androgum. This information pisses off the Doctor to no end, and it only makes him angrier to find out that Dastari now wants to give the Doctor's Time Lord DNA to Chessene as well to make her even more awesome... completely ignoring the fact that the base of Chessene's enhanced DNA, Shockeye, is a ginger backstabbing alien bastard with a lust for power and hunger for flesh.

The subplot with the mini-TARDIS and the Sontarans is eventually resolved. Chessene also decides to try and kill off the Sontarans before they can take the mini-TARDIS for themselves, intending to give it to her own Androgum people. Jamie, meanwhile, is being "tenderized" by Shockeye for the next meal, Peri having escaped only to be recaptured by the Sontarans and used as part of the mini-TARDIS subplot.

Dastari, for his part, has converted the Second Doctor into a half-Androgum with ginger eyebrows, to make him a consort for Chessene. Shockeye is miffed at this, as Dastari used his blood to do so, until the Second Doctor decides that he wants to go eat a lot of food and knows where to go. Shockeye, being an Androgum, goes happily along with the Doctor. The two of them indulge in their HorrorHunger in matching top hats and have a massive feast at the restaurant run by Oscar. When Oscar rather politely presents the bill, he's killed by Shockeye. The Sixth Doctor, Jamie and Peri (who somehow got freed from their individual subplots for a time and pursued the pair) arrive just in time to see Oscar die, Anita cry, and the Second Doctor revert to normal... because apparently an hour has passed and his body rejected the conversion or something.

The Second Doctor, Peri and Jamie run back to the mansion to destroy the mini-TARDIS once and for all while the Sixth Doctor pursues Shockeye. Chessene decides to elaborately lick some blood from Six' new stab wound from her fingers. Stumbling across Oscar's moth-catching equipment, Sixth uses the cyanide-soaked cotton balls stored in a jar to kill Shockeye and then delivers a BondOneLiner: "Shockeye got his just... desserts". The Sixth Doctor then finally arrives back at the mansion just in time to be captured alongside his previous incarnation and their companions by Chessene and Dastari. Chessene begins to revert back to her Androgum heritage, which disgusts Dastari, who decides to free the Doctors and companions. Chessene shoots Dastari and flees in the mini-TARDIS, which then explodes and kills her before it really goes anywhere because of the sabotage that the Sixth Doctor did to it not long ago.

Written by Creator/RobertHolmes. This three-episode serial first aired from February 16 to March 2, 1985.

Written by Creator/RobertHolmes. This serial first aired February 16-March 2, 1985.

Our story starts off with the Second Doctor and Jamie being sent around time and space, on a mission from the Time Lords, with whom they never actively cooperated in any of the Second Doctor's previous serials, not to mention that Jamie actually ''knows'' about the Time Lords; they also look far older than they did in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E7TheWarGames The War Games]]". None of this is never explained or mentioned in any way (although the [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/season6b.shtml "Season 6B" theory]] is a popular way of explaining it, and made it into some later BBC-sanctioned content such as Creator/TerranceDicks' novels. Then again, other BBC-sanctioned content has also explained this whilst managing to keep continuity with the Second Doctor's original serials).

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: A particularly glaring example. When Chessene and company confront the blind Doña Arana, the Dona assumes that they are English. That's right, these aliens not only speak English, but do so with perfect British accents.

Our story starts off with the Second Doctor and Jamie being sent around time and space, on a mission from the Time Lords, with whom they never actively cooperated in any of the Second Doctor's previous serials, not to mention that Jamie actually ''knows'' about the Time Lords; they also look far older than they did in "The War Games". None of this is never explained or mentioned in any way (although the [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/season6b.shtml "Season 6B" theory]] is a popular way of explaining it, and made it into some later BBC-sanctioned content such as Creator/TerranceDicks' novels. Then again, other BBC-sanctioned content has also explained this whilst managing to keep continuity with the Second Doctor's original serials).

* CharacterAgedWithTheActor: {{Fanon}} also applies this to Creator/PatrickTroughton's aged appearance, postulating the existence of a much greater gap between the last appearance of the Second Doctor and the first appearance of the Third than suggested on screen.

* FoodPorn: More like Food {{Gorn}}, being as it is about a race of aliens that are slaves to the pleasure of eating to [[ImAHumanitarian pretty extreme levels]], and an allegory for how [[AuthorTract eating meat is wrong]]. The Second Doctor gives a long and graphic speech about eating meat which was clearly intended to {{Squick}} viewers out, but [[NightmareRetardant it's not uncommon for fans to find it makes them hungry]].

Apart from its largely nonsensical plot, the episode is remembered for its absolutely ''intense'' amounts of AccidentalInnuendo, as well as a rather more deliberate focus on Peri's...assets. Much MemeticMutation ensued.

The Doctor and Peri bumble around the space station until they finally stumble onto an incoherent Jamie. He reveals that the Second Doctor was just killed. The Sixth Doctor figures this has to be a lie, as time hasn't wiped him out yet, and fiddles around the station until he figures out that it was all just an illusion that took the episode about 20 minutes to work past. This means, Sixth figures, that his Second self is being held captive somewhere. He puts himself into a trance to try and find him mentally. Waking up some time later, the Doctor comes to the realization that Two is being held in Seville, Spain, by the combined forces of the Sontarans and Dastari.

However, Dastari is more of an unwilling companion, as most of the planning is being done by his lady-friend Chessene and an "Androgum" called Shockeye... a stereotypical alien-Scotsman who really likes to eat meat. (This makes just ''slightly'' more sense when you know that the author intended the story to be a pro-vegetarianism allegory.)

The Sixth Doctor, wearing slightly-more-tasteful vest instead of that horrible coat for the occasion, lands the TARDIS outside Seville. They're approached by a vacationing couple: Oscar Botcherby and Anita. Oscar is managing a restaurant in the city, but is currently catching moths. As it turns out, Oscar also happened to see what he thought was a plane crash earlier on a mansion — but it just so happened to be the Sontarans' spaceship landing to meet up with Dastari. Seeing the TARDIS, he mistakes the heroes for British policemen. Sixth is then escorted to said mansion, which he scouts out for a little while, having told everyone else to wait just out of sight.

Dastari and the Second Doctor have a nice little talk, where Dastari reveals that his lady-friend Chessene is actually an evolved Androgum. This information pisses off the Doctor to no end, and it only makes him angrier to find out that Dastari now wants to give the Doctor's Time Lord DNA to Chessene as well to make her even more awesome... completely ignoring the fact that the base of Chessene's enhanced DNA, Shockeye, is a ginger backstabbing alien bastard with a lust for power and hunger for flesh. Seriously.

Jamie and Sixth go down to the basement of the building and find a mini-TARDIS under construction. The Doctor talks technobabble to Jamie about how they won't be able to complete it, and Jamie just looks at the Doctor like he's got a Sontaran behind him. Which he does. Whoops. Meanwhile, Peri decides to wander into the mansion on her own, posing as a lost American student... which doesn't work either, as Shockeye decides she'll make a lovely lunch.

The subplot with the mini-TARDIS and the Sontarans is eventually resolved in a {{plan}} that doesn't entirely make sense to anyone ''but'' the Sixth Doctor, who just grins the way he does. Chessene also decides to try and kill off the Sontarans before they can take the mini-TARDIS for themselves, intending to give it to her own Androgum people. Jamie, meanwhile, is being "tenderized" by Shockeye for the next meal, Peri having escaped only to be recaptured by the Sontarans and used as part of the mini-TARDIS subplot.

The Second Doctor, Peri and Jamie run back to the mansion to destroy the mini-TARDIS once and for all while the Sixth Doctor pursues Shockeye. Chessene decides to elaborately lick some blood from Six' new stab wound from her fingers. Stumbling across Oscar's moth-catching equipment, Sixth uses the cyanide-soaked cotton balls stored in a jar to kill Shockeye and then delivers a BondOneLiner: Shockeye got his just... desserts. The Sixth Doctor then finally arrives back at the mansion just in time to be captured alongside his previous incarnation and their companions by Chessene and Dastari. Chessene begins to revert back to her Androgum heritage, which disgusts Dastari, who decides to free the Doctors and companions. Chessene shoots Dastari and flees in the mini-TARDIS, which then explodes and kills her before it really goes anywhere because of the sabotage that the Sixth Doctor did to it not long ago.

The entire plot resolved in a really round-about way, the Sixth Doctor and Second Doctor exchange banter before Second summons up his own TARDIS using a Stattenheim remote control. Six expresses a little jealousy over the remote as Two and Jamie leave off on more adventures we'll never see, presumably losing the remote again along the way. Six and Peri leave the mansion, and both decide to vow to become vegetarians thanks to their horrid experiences with the Androgums.

As an interesting note, the Doctor will remain a vegetarian until the Ninth Doctor orders a steak in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E11BoomTown "Boom Town"]] (he also almost eats a roast in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild "The Empty Child"]]). Creator/RussellTDavies deliberately wrote his Ninth Doctor as a meat-eater again, to signify CharacterDevelopment and the Doctor's change in attitude compared to the Creator/JohnNathanTurner days.

* WrittenInAbsence: Victoria's absence is given a quick handwave. In the real world there just wasn't the budget to have an additional companion for the Second Doctor, plus Victoria's actress, Deborah Watling, had since retired from the industry anyway. The Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse later established that this takes place in Season 6B, long after Victoria had left the Doctor, and that the Doctor just quickly made up an explanation so that Jamie wouldn't wonder where she was. Although, some sources also placed Victoria as returning to the TARDIS at this point for some travels.

It is arguable that the vegetarian asop is a cover for a more sinister one. The Doctor rejects assurances from a trusted friend that Chessene could be a good person... because her race is irredeemable. "You can't change nature." he assures Dastari.

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Here we are, the final [[TheNthDoctor multi-Doctor]] adventure of the old TV series. (Well... [[Recap/DoctorWho30thASDimensionsInTime sort of]].) There wasn't really a reason for this one to happen, but Patrick Troughton had had so much fun on "[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]" that he was eager to return to the series. It provided producer Creator/JohnNathanTurner a fantastic excuse to work outside Great Britain for the third time in his reign (and the fourth time in the franchise's history). It was originally slated to be in New Orleans, but even the most optimistic people realized that this was completely insane, so it was quickly changed to Seville, Spain.

Apart from its largely nonsensical plot, the episode is remembered for its absolutely ''intense'' amounts of AccidentalInnuendo, as well as a rather more deliberate focus on Peri's... assets. Much MemeticMutation ensued.

Our story starts off with the Second Doctor and Jamie being sent around time and space, on a mission from the Time Lords, with whom they never actively cooperated in any of the Second Doctor's previous serials, not to mention that Jamie actually ''knows'' about the Time Lords; they also look far older than they did in "The War Games". None of this is never explained or mentioned in any way (although the [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/season6b.shtml "Season 6B" theory]] is a popular way of explaining it, and made it into some later BBC-sanctioned content such as Terrance Dicks' novels. Then again, other BBC-sanctioned content has also explained this whilst managing to keep continuity with the Second Doctor's original serials).

* ContinuitySnarl: The Second Doctor mentions the Time Lords to Jamie, despite the fact that ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E7TheWarGames The War Games]]'', the Second Doctor's finale, was the first time they showed up in the series. This, along with the Doctor having known of Jamie's and Zoe's LaserGuidedAmnesia in "The Five Doctors" despite it being logically impossible for him to have known about it, was largely responsible for helping getting the "Season 6B" fan theory underway.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: There are differing opinions on this, but Peri's mouthed response to the line "small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when used properly" looks an awful lot like "you asshole." Many, ''many'' other parts of the episode qualify. Peri's rather extreme cleavage tops a long list.

* PutOffTheirFood: The events of the story make the Doctor and Peri turn vegetarian. This holds until Creator/ChristopherEccleston's tenure. [[note]] Various novels respectively discontinue and maintain it, while the [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie TV Movie]] has the Seventh Doctor eating Jelly Babies, which contain gelatin]]. [[/note]]

** The story's violence is commonly interpreted as Holmes' vicious parody of the current version of the show, which had replaced a sense of adventure or horror with [[ContinuityPorn backwards-looking storytelling]] and [[BloodierAndGorier violence]]. He even subverts the AliensAreBastards trope by making the "headline monsters", the Sontarans, a footnote and making the HumanAlien|s the [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters real monsters]] - after all, how is killing Shockeye with cyanide ''really'' any different [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman to blowing up Daleks]]? And is the Doctor's prejudice against Androgums really any different to how he treats other villainous aliens?

** The story's violence is commonly interpreted as Holmes' vicious parody of the current version of the show, which had replaced a sense of adventure or horror with [[ContinuityPorn backwards-looking storytelling]] and [[BloodierAndGorier violence]]. He even subverts the AliensAreBastards trope by making the "headline monsters", the Sontarans, a footnote and making the HumanAlien|s the [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters real monsters]] - after all, how is killing Shockeye with cyanide ''really'' any different [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman to blowing up Daleks]]?

* WriterOnBoard: Creator/RobertHolmes, a vegetarian, compares meat-eating to cannibalism and has the Doctor explicitly convert to vegetarianism at one point.

The one in Spain.

Also, the one where the Doctor '''[[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence MURDERS]]''' someone.

* ContinuitySnarl: The Second Doctor mentions the Time Lords to Jamie, despite the fact that ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E7TheWarGames The War Games]]'', the Second Doctor's finale, was the first time they showed up in the series. This was largely responsible for helping getting the "Season 6B" fan theory underway.

Our story starts off with the Second Doctor and Jamie being sent around time and space, on a mission from the Time Lords, with whom they never actively cooperated in any of the Second Doctor's previous serials, not to mention that Jamie actually ''knows'' about the Time Lords; they also look far older than they did in "The War Games". None of this is never explained or mentioned in any way (although the "Season 6B" theory has since made its way into [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/season6b.shtml official BBC policy]] and Terrance Dicks' novels).

* PutOffTheirFood: The events of the story make the Doctor and Peri turn vegetarian. This holds until Creator/ChristopherEccleston's tenure.

* [[MarsNeedsWomen Mars Needs Time Lords]]

* InterpolSpecialAgent: That Oscar ''thinks'' the Doctor--that's the garishly clad ''Sixth'' Doctor, accompanied by Jamie in fill piper's kit and Peri exposing most of her cleavage--is this trope in (thanks to him emerging from a Police Box, despite the scene taking place in Spain) is intended to be a sign of his romantic but gullible temperament.

* InterpolSpecialAgent: That Oscar ''thinks'' the Doctor--that's the garishly clad ''Sixth'' Doctor, accompanied by Jamie in fill piper's kit and Peri exposing most of her cleavage--is this trope in (thanks to him emerging from a Police Box) is intended to be a sign of his romantic but gullible temperament.