Doctor Who: The Best of The Fifth Doctor

The first appearance of Peter Davison as the Doctor.
The universe has been saved, but at the cost of the fourth Doctor's life. The newly-regenerated fifth Doctor must rely on his friends to survive as the regeneration threatens to fail. Adric has been captured by the Master, who is taking advantage of the Doctor's weakened state to ensnare him in an elaborate trap which threatens to destroy his mind.

The Master reveals to the trapped Adric that he has a further trap set for the Doctor. Tegan searches the TARDIS computer systems and finds a place named the Dwellings of Simplicity on Castrovalva which will be a suitable place for the Doctor to recover from his regeneration, but when they arrive the Doctor vanishes!

Nyssa and Tegan follow the trail of blood away from the Cabinet, trying to find the Doctor while avoiding the feathered warriors in the forest. They eventually spot the Doctor some distance away, but although they call out to him he doesn't recognize his own name. The warriors take the Doctor into Castrovalva with them, but Nyssa and Tegan arrive seconds too late.

Realising the true nature of Castrovalva's reality, The Master, seeing all is lost, flees to his TARDIS. The Doctor and his companions flee from the city, but who will survive as the city collapses in on itself...

In a 17th Century English village a comet explodes in the night sky and the villagers are attacked. When the Doctor tries to return Tegan to Heathrow they arrive three centuries too early and they find themselves caught up in the villagers problems, including the plague.

Having discovered an energy barrier in a cellar wall, the group are attacked by a figure dressed as the grim reaper. Tegan and Adric are captured but Nyssa, Mace and the Doctor escape and find a terrileptil escape pod, the source of the mysterious comet.

Adric manages to escape while Tegan is brought under the complete control of the Terileptil. The Doctor and Mace are taken prisoner and learn of the Terileptils' plans, while Nyssa creates a machine to protect the TARDIS.

The Terileptil heads to the city of London to enact his deadly plan, leaving the now mesmerised Tegan to do his bidding. Can the Doctor release Tegan from the Terileptils evil spell, and prevent the terrible plague about to be unleashed?

Silent but deadly androids are protecting a bomb buried beneath the Earth from all investigation. However, the Doctor manages to disable it, alerting its owners – the Cybermen…

With her crew slowly vanishing mysteriously, Captain Briggs assumes the Doctor to be the guilty party, but the traitor is closer to home… as are the Cybermen.

The Cybermen are released from their silos and on the march, wiping out Briggs's crew and ensuring that the freighter remains on course for Earth. But why...

The Doctor realises the freighter is now a huge bomb and manages to send it back through time, where it can explode millions of years ago...but with one passenger still aboard...

The planet Androzani Minor, the distant future. In the planets' caves war rages between government troops and the android warriors of the mysterious Sharaz Jek. But what makes spectrox, the substance they battle to control, so valuable? And how far will the Doctor go to protect his companion?

Military captive Salateen tells Peri and the Doctor they are dying from spectrox tomaemia and the only cure is the milk of the queen bat, who sleeps deep below the caverns.

As Morgus continues to plot his political future on Androzani Major, Sharez Jek insanely believes Peri will fall in love with him. The situation on Androzani Minor is building toward a violent confrontation. And the Doctor and Peri are slowly succumbing to spectrox toxemia.

Events on Androzani reach a bloody climax. Morgus is ruined, exposed as the one funding Jek’s gunrunners, and Jek himself goes on a murderous rampage. Will the Doctor and Peri survive the carnage? And at what cost?