History Recap / DoctorWhoS22E5Timelash

It seems someone has -- whoops! -- accidentally fallen into the Timelash (and holding a {{MacGuffin}}, what's more), and the baddies want the Doctor to go and get her back. And to make sure he helps, they very originally kidnap Peri. At least, they say they do, but she in the meantime has made contact with a group of rebels in Morlock-infested tunnels, where she does a passable job winning them over with her encyclopaedic knowledge of previous ''Series/DoctorWho'' companions (because, as it turns out, the Doctor has apparently visited this world before, in an unseen adventure back when he had [[Creator/JonPertwee an impressive bouffant]] and was travelling with Jo Grant). And then a flaming android appears out of nowhere.

Back on the CrapsackWorld, the baddies have rounded up the rebels and have started throwing everyone they can into the Timelash, including, of course, the Doctor, once they've got their {{MacGuffin}} back. Oh, and Peri is chained up in the caves being menaced by a Morlock (a giant snake monster thing), for reasons that will become clear later. The Doctor and others manage to stage a moderately successful coup, even sending a flaming android back in time for good measure. While the new leader of the planet begs the invading sock puppets not to nuke them all, the Doctor wanders off, Herbert in tow, to deal with the Borad.

The Borad turns out to be a weird mutant experimental mixture of two races (who bear more than a passing resemblance to the Morlocks and Eloi of Wells' ''Literature/TheTimeMachine''), and now he wants to kill everyone so that he can re-populate the world with more of his own cross-eyed hybrid kind. And he also has picked Peri for his queen. The Doctor defeats him handily with a PowerCrystal he picked up from ''inside'' the Timelash, frees Peri, and returns just in time to discover that the Aliens have already fired their missile.

As a button, the Doctor makes preparations to return Herbert back to 1885 Scotland. Peri is afraid bringing blabbermouth Herbert back with knowledge of an alien planet might alter Earth's history, but the Doctor seems strangely unconcerned... until by way of explanation he mentions Herbert dropped a business card in the TARDIS with his full name on it. You've probably guessed already - Herbert's full name is [[Creator/HGWells Herbert George Wells.]]

Also the one where [[Series/BlakesSeven Kerr Avon]] [[ActorAllusion has a rematch with]] [[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E6CityAtTheEdgeOfTheWorld Bayban the Butcher]].