PART THREE OF THE MIN TERR TRILOGY
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the Brigadier's attention not been elsewhere at the time, he might
never had walked into the trap. Not that we can blame him, for it was
certainly a very clever trap. Not only that, but he was still a little
exhausted having just returned from a UNIT conference in Ottawa.
While sitting in
his office, sipping coffee and wearily going through the contents of
the 'in-tray', he received a call on the orange telephone. Internal
calls were orange and this one came from the laboratory; the Doctor's
voice was at the end of the line.
'Lethbridge-Stewart?
Come straight along to the lab, old chap. Got something to show you.
Splendid new device I've just done inventing - ought to give us a
warning each time the Master's TARDIS arrives on this little planet of
yours!'
Now, this was
just too good to be true. So, off he trotted to the lab whereupon he was
greeted by the Doctor who then declared that his new gizmo was inside
his TARDIS.
'Follow me, old chap,' said the Doctor, leading the way into the unique Police Box.
Unfortunately,
the Brigadier did not realise until it was too late that it was not in
fact the Doctor's TARDIS that he was walking into! Oh yes - it looked
like a Police Box all right, but a shiny new one with white
window-frames and a St. John's Ambulance symbol on the door; Dr. Who's
TARDIS hadn't looked like that for quite some time now.
Meanwhile, the
real TARDIS - belonging to the real Doctor - had just materialised in
the depths of a rather cindery world in the outer solar-system. Why do
we find Dr. Who here? Well, we must go back a few hours or so to the
late evening of the previous day - Sunday - where we find Sgt. Benton on
security duty: eating corned-beef sandwiches and watching TV in the
Brigadier's quarters...
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now no BBC3,' said the announcer as a spinning model of the planet
Earth filled the screen, 'we take our monthly gaze at the heavens as
Patrick Heath shows us "The Sky About Us" '.
Next door in the
lab, the Doctor was pushing up "z's" in the depths of the TARDIS, the
doors of which were wide open for it was a hot night and the TARDIS
air-conditioning was on the
