Meanwhile, the Doctor is researching psychic energy, enlisting the Brigadier to accompany him to a theatre show to see Professor Herbert Clegg, a clairvoyant.īarnes asks Lupton if they should carry on but he says it's too late. He sees a strange glow appear on the mandala they are all sitting around, and as he moves closer, he gets caught in a spider's web and unintentionally knocks a candle over but is able to run away before the group see him. He secretly peers in and sees five men - Barnes, Land, Keaver, Moss and their leader Lupton - conducting some kind of unusual meditation. In the English countryside, Mike Yates, discharged from UNIT and recuperating at a rural Buddhist meditation centre, is having a casual stroll when he hears a strange sound coming from the cellar. The Doctor must risk death to return to the cave of the Great One and save the universe. With help from an old mentor, the Doctor realises the only way to foil the plot is to make the ultimate sacrifice.
The blue crystal that the Doctor took from Metebelis III in a previous adventure is desperately sought by the Eight Legs, a race of mutated spiders, as the final element in their plan for universal domination. The story was the first to use the term regeneration to describe the biological process that caused Time Lords to change in physical appearance and introduced one of the Doctor's mentors, K'anpo Rimpoche, as a means to further explain the mechanic and cement it into the Doctor Who mythos.Ĭounting K'anpo's regeneration along with the Third Doctor's, this is one of two of the Doctor's regeneration stories (the other being Twice Upon a Time) to feature a case of double regenerations and the only televised story where more than one Time Lord regenerates.īarry Letts saw this story as a Buddhist parable - the Doctor must become a new man by destroying his ego. This was also Richard Franklin's final appearance as Mike Yates, outside of cameos and audio adventures. It was the final regular appearance of Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor and introduced Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor in the final moments of part six.
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Planet of the Spiders was the fifth and final serial of season 11 of Doctor Who. You may be looking for the serial as it exists within the DWU or or the in-universe novelisation.
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