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- THE WHEEL IN SPACE. Written by David Whittaker. 4 episodes.
- 27th April - 1st June 1968.
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- COMPANIONS:- Jamie and introducing Zoe Heriot.
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- The TARDIS materialises aboard a rocket which is orbiting a huge Wheel in
- Space. The Doctor and Jamie are taken aboard the Wheel and find that
- Cybermats are at work. The Cybermen are using them to try to gain control
- of the Wheel, in preparation for a new attempt at invading Earth.
- With the help of a young astrophysicist called Zoe, the Doctor first
- manages to save the Wheel from a meteor storm engineered by the Cybermen
- and then destroys the Cyber ship with the Wheel's laser.
- At the end of the story, Zoe steals aboard the TARDIS but is discovered.
- After pleading to be allowed to join the Doctor and Jamie on their travels,
- Zoe is shown the perils she will face when the Doctor projects a past
- adventure onto the TARDIS scanner. This led to a repeat the following week
- of THE EVIL OF THE DALEKS.
- THE WHEEL IN SPACE was scripted from a story by Kit Pedler and it was the
- last story of season five, one which became known as The Monster Season.
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