Barbara's divine powers are challenged and she humiliates Tlotoxl, the Hight Priest of Sacrifice, who determines to prove her mortality. Meanwhile, the Doctor becomes romantically involved.
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29. The Aztecs: The Bride Of Sacrifice - Barbara's divine powers are challenged and she humiliates Tlotoxl, the Hight Priest of Sacrifice, who determines to prove her mortality. Meanwhile, the Doctor becomes romantically involved.
More infoAfter discussing a strange pupil, Susan Foreman, teachers Ian and Barbara follow her to a junk yard at 76 Totters Lane, London. There they meet her Grandfather, The Doctor and force their way inside his police box with frightening results.
Ian and Barbara are aboard the TARDIS uninvited! The Doctor ignores Susan's pleas to let them go. The TARDIS takes off and travels back to Stone Age times, where the crew make the mistake of venturing outside.
The Doctor and crew leave the TARDIS to explore their new surroundings, but soon captured and thrown in a cave and threatened with death by the Stone Age men. They only have the secret of fire to bargain with.
The Doctor and his companions must use guile and cunning to escape death at the hands of their Stone Age captors. The Doctor decides that the only way to escape is to show the cave dwellers how to make fire.
The TARDIS lands on Skaro where the travellers meet the peaceful, non-agressive Thals and the heartless, destructive and emotionless Daleks. The Daleks want Skaro for themselves. The Doctor has other ideas.
Looking for Barbara, the travellers discover that they are exposed to radiation poisoning.
Susan delivers a message of peace to the Daleks from their old enemies the Thals. The Daleks appear to accept the offer but they are secretly plotting revenge. Having recovered from radiation sickness, the Doctor sets about planning an escape.
Pretending to be a Dalek, Ian finds that that he is trapped inside the casing.
It is time for the Thals to strike back against the Daleks with the help of the Doctor.
The Doctor's attack group soon attracts the attention of the Daleks.
Can the Thals overcome their pacifist beliefs in order to destroy the Daleks?
Following a mysterious explosion on the TARDIS, the Doctor and his companions all begin to act strangely. Tempers fray and accusations fly as paranoia sets in. Could the explosion have been caused deliberately?
The Doctor and his companions are in grave danger as the TARDIS continues to hurtles towards the creation of the Solar System itself. But has the TARDIS has been trying to warn the time travellers all along?
The TARDIS lands on a remote island, surrounded by a sea of acid. They meet Arbitan, keeper of the Conscience of Marinus who forces the travellers to go in search of five keys.
In the city of Morphoton, the Doctor, Barbara, Ian and Susan are welcomed as honoured guests and given anything they want. But Barbara soon discovers that paradise is an illusion.
Ian and Barbara find a temple in the middle of a hostile jungle. Inside is the ailing Darrius, keeper of one of the keys. As Darrius dies he gives Ian a clue to find the key.
In a snowy wasteland, Vasor, an unscrupulous trapper, imprisons the travellers in a frozen cavern inside a mountain. There they find one of the keys frozen in a block of ice.
Arriving in the city of Millennius, Ian is put on trial for murder. The Doctor takes on the role of defence counsel and must prove Ian’s innocence or he will be executed.
The Doctor solves the murder mystery and finds the final missing key. With Ian now free, the travellers return to the island only to discover that Arbitan has been murdered.
The crew venture out of the TARDIS into 15th Century Mexico and to the tomb of the Aztec High Priest Yetaxa. When Barbara stumbles upon the Aztecs they mistake her for a reincarnation of the High Priest himself.
Barbara's interference in the Aztec practice of human sacrifice casts doubt over her supposed divinity and puts the whole crew in jeopardy. Meanwhile, Ian faces a challenge.
Barbara's divine powers are challenged and she humiliates Tlotoxl, the Hight Priest of Sacrifice, who determines to prove her mortality. Meanwhile, the Doctor becomes romantically involved.
It is the day of the solar eclipse when Susan is to be punished for her refusal to marry. Can the Doctor and his companions escape before they are sacrificed to the Sun God?
The TARDIS arrives on board a spaceship orbiting a planet called the Sense-Sphere. The crew appear dead, but on closer inspection it transpires that they have been placed in a state of permanent paralysis.
The Doctor and his companions are contacted by the Sensorites who have trapped them, communicating through Susan with telepathy. She reluctantly agrees to go down to their planet.
The Doctor and his companions travel down to the Sense-Sphere, where they learn that the humans had not been exploring the planet, but had come to exploit the rich natural resources of molybdenum.
Convinced that Ian and the Sensorites have actually been poisoned, the Doctor decides to investigate.
Carol, a member of the Earth crew on board the trapped spaceship, puts herself in danger when she attempts to find the Doctor at the aqueduct.
Carol is discovered imprisoned and the true identity of the strange creatures that poisoned the water is revealed.