The Star Beast (Part 1)
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A UFO has crash-landed somewhere in Blackcastle, despite what some officials would have you believe. Young Fudge and Sharon are determined to track down where the ship may have come down. Thanks to a trail of green slime, the pair find an alien creature injured and bleeding in a shed. Sharon believes they need to help the creature and keep it a secret. All the big-eyed alien can say is 'meep!'.
Meanwhile in space, a Wrarth Warrior spaceship is hunting for that very same injured alien. Once they have tracked it down, they plan to kill the creature they refer to as the Meep. As if on cue, the TARDIS materializes on the Wrarth ship and the Doctor and K-9 emerge. Unfortunately, they are both quickly subdued by the crab-like Wrarth. While the Doctor is unconscious, the Wrarth perform an operation to implant a bomb in the Doctor's stomach. They believe the Doctor will eventually lead them back to the Meep, and then they will detonate the bomb.
Back on Earth, Fudge and Sharon bring the Meep back to Fudge's place to keep him safe. They leave him there as they go back out to track down where the Meep's ship may have crashed. They hope to find something that may be of help to the Meep.
The Doctor awakens on the Wrarth ship with no recollection of what has just happened to him. He flees from the Wrarth soldiers who are now shooting at him and makes it into the TARDIS. On the TARDIS view screen, a report of a crashed object is being broadcast, and the Doctor decides he'd better check it out. What he doesn't realize is that a squad of Wrarth has stowed away on the TARDIS with him.
The Doctor arrives at the crash site just in time to rescue Sharon and Fudge from another bunch of Wrarth. The Doctor and his new friends elude their pursuers and return to Fudge's home. The Meep appears to have recovered nicely while they were gone. The Doctor, however, realizes that their escape was much too easy. It finally dawns on him that the pain in his gut is more than just a stomachache. He realizes now that he has been made into a living bomb and is a threat to everyone around him...
The Return of the Daleks
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On the planet Anhaut, poor Glax is lamenting that his holo film company is not having much success. It seems audiences are no longer interested in seeing futuristic science fiction movies. Thanks to a mother who is chastising her child with threats of the Daleks coming to get him, Glax is inspired to create a historical film about the Daleks.
Glax and his partner Rakh head over to the museum to investigate the story of the Daleks. They have to look through records over eight hundred years old before they find what they are looking for. At that time, Anhaut was visited by a group of twenty-three Daleks who quickly rampaged across the planet, slaughtering everything in their path. The destruction was only stopped when Great General Nor-Din confronted the Daleks in the Desert. No one knows what happened in the midst of a huge sandstorm, only that when it cleared, the Daleks, along with the General and his army, were gone.
Glax believes he has a potential hit story on his hands. He heads into full production on the story of the Daleks and begins publicizing his plans far and wide. What he doesn't realize is that the mysterious woman, Kuay, has been smuggling real Daleks onto the planet to enact revenge for their earlier defeat.
At first, they just appear to be part of the production, but as the Daleks begin blasting away, it is clear they are for real. Glax flees for his life and heads for the police station, but after losing many members of their force, it is clear this is a job for the military. Even the military, however, is having difficulty containing the Daleks. Glax has an idea that maybe investigating the desert where the Daleks were first defeated would give them some idea of how they were beaten.
Out in the desert, Glax and his lead actor, Hok Nepo, come across a whirlwind of sand. They get a little too close, and a force pulls them into the vortex. As they travel toward the center of the vortex, they find a pyramid with a glowing sphere at its peak. The pyramid door opens for the two as if it has been waiting for them. A video message begins playing on a nearby screen. A very old General Nor-Din begins relaying the secret of how he defeated the Daleks.
Before the secret can be revealed, however, the screen is destroyed by Kuay, who has followed the pair into the desert. The Daleks, who have been mentally controlling Kuay, are actually disappointed by this destruction. They also wanted to learn the secret so they could prepare against it. They punish Kuay by zapping her brain. Glax and Hok place her limp body on a nearby couch. A jolt suddenly passes through her body, and the hold the Daleks have on her is broken.
Unfortunately, the Daleks have arrived at the pyramid, and they plan on destroying everyone in the pyramid, including Kuay. Their only hope is to figure out what Nor-Din's secret was. It is Kuay who realizes that the crystal she made contact with on the couch is the device Nor-Din must have used. It freed her from the Dalek control, and it can also be used to attack the Daleks mentally. The only problem is that the device sucks all the youth out of the one who uses it. Kuay bravely sacrifices herself to make up for her betrayal while under the Daleks' control. The Daleks are destroyed as poor Kuay withers away...