Mawdryn Undead by @The_Knights87

“I, Mawdryn, have returned. It is time for the awakening.”

Season 20 was a season that John Nathan Turner wanted to have things from the past return to Doctor Who to help with the celebration.  In Mawdryn Undead we have two figures from The Doctors past returning.  First we have The Black Guardian.  The Doctor first encountered The Black Guardian while he was searching for the Key to Time.   While it was in The Armageddon Factor that he tricked The Black Guardian (Who was disguised at The White Guardian) from getting the Key to Time it was this act that The Black Guardian swore revenge on The Doctor and threaten to kill him.

This takes us to now.  The year is 1983 and The Black Guardian is using a student at Brendon School named Turlough.  He is actually an alien from the planet of Trion whose family has been exiled.  The Black Guardian promises to take him away from earth if he does one thing for him.  Kill The Doctor.

At Brendon school teaching math is the other returning character from The Doctor’s past. It is none other than Brigadier Lethbridge – Stewart who is a dear old friend of The Doctor’s and doesn’t seem to remember quite who he is.  Definitely a dilemma for The Doctor as he has also lost his TARDIS with Nyssa and Tegan back in 1977 with a younger Brigadier.  Plus there is the threat of Mawdryn pretending to be an injured Doctor and who wants the Doctors remaining lives to help his fellow comrades to die.

Mawdryn Undead is a pretty good story with some interesting things going on it.  You have the two Brigadiers on the star liner trying to not meet and cause damage to the time lines and you have Turlough attempting to kill The Doctor to no avail for The Black Guardian.  

Mawdryn Undead is a pretty good story with some interesting things going on it.  You have the two Brigadiers on the star liner trying to not meet and cause damage to the time lines and you have Turlough attempting to kill The Doctor to no avail for The Black Guardian.   This trilogy gets overlooked quite a bit but these three stories are some of the Fifth Doctors better adventures and it starts off with a nostalgic trip down memory lane for The Doctor as he is reunited with The Brigadier for the first time since Terror of the Zygons way back in series 13.  So I hope you join us for this Peter Davison adventure Mawdryn Undead this Wednesday July 25th.