When The Doctor answers a distress call from a shuttle crew who have been infected with an intelligent virus, he too becomes contaminated. The only solution is to create clones of The Doctor and his companion Leela (Louise Jameson) to enter his body and fight the virus.
Story Order
- Story 93 from Doctor Who
- Story 2 of 6 from Season 15
Episodes
Saturday
1st October 1977
6:15PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)
Deep space, 5000 AD. An Earth supply shuttle is infected by a strange sentient space-born virus.
Saturday
8th October 1977
6:05PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)
Leela and Lowe take the Doctor to the Bi-Al Foundation for help.
Saturday
15th October 1977
6:10PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)
Miniaturized clones of the Doctor and Leela are injected into his brain.
Saturday
22nd October 1977
6:10PM
BBC 1 (21 mins)
The Nucleus, now grown to human size, is determined to spawn and take over the Galaxy.
Credits
- Doctor WhoTom Baker
- LeelaLouise Jameson
- LoweMichael Sheard
- SafranBrian Grellis
- MeekerEdmund Pegge
- SilveyJay Neill
- CrewmanAnthony Rowlands
- Nucleus VoiceJohn Leeson
- Professor MariusFrederick Jaeger
- ParsonsRoy Herrick
- Marius' NurseElizabeth Norman
- Reception NurseNell Curran
- Voice of K-9John Leeson
- OpthalmologistJim McManus
- CruikshankRoderick Smith
- HedgesKenneth Waller
- MedicPat Gorman
- NucleusJohn Scott Martin