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The adventures in time and space of the Doctor, a Time Lord who changes appearance and personality by regenerating when near death, and is joined by companions in battles against aliens and other megalomaniacs.

While cataloging the library of Barchester Cathedral, a scholar finds a diary detailing the events surrounding the mysterious death of an Archdeacon some 50 years earlier. The first of the BBC's famed 'A Ghost Story for Christmas'.

When a mysterious object lands near the Nuton power complex, UNIT investigate and encounter the Axons, a group of aliens who offer the mineral axonite, which can duplicate matter, as a gift.

Kingdom leaves his house in the small hours, and his wife is disturbed to see that he is armed. But that is nothing compared to her alarm when an intruder later enters her bedroom.

Frank manages to mess up the library card system without actually getting a book out; he then returns to the farm supplies firm with one more chicken than he let escape. Frank finds out that the job he's going for with the farm supplies company comes with a company car. He lies he has a driving license and passes the interview with stand-in recruiter Henry. So they take the car for a picnic to the seaside.

Because Frank passed out in the only fatherhood class he attended, after one minute of the 'dirty film', Betty takes him along to a cousin's daughters, who only enjoy his inadvertent monkey-business, ultimately actually co-starring with a zoo chimp. Frank's loan credentials prove perfect- for refusal and expulsion. When he actually attends a class, that proves fatal for its entire course, and for peace among expecting families.

Frank was looking forward to playing Joseph in the annual Nativity play, but the parish wisely casts another. Meanwhile his 'RAF record' got Frank a job with Mr. Hudson's firm, working under his neighbor Jackson, who hates the noise Frank makes at anything. Jackson has secret activities in the firm's basement, too close to Frank whose bumbling is blamed on the foreman. Father O'Hara lets Frank take charge of the Nativity sets and effects: an ill-considered act of charity cast and church will suffer from.

Frank's impending Royal Air Force reunion causes him to relive his brief and disastrous time in training for the RAF.

The Doctor begins to suspect that penetrating the earth's crust will create more Primords but Stahlman sabotages the computer to stop him proving it.

The Doctor finds himself in a parallel universe where Britain is a dictatorship and the Inferno Project is a slave labour camp policed by his friends' counterparts.

The Doctor and Winser begin to analyse axonite while Chinn plots to secure its use exclusively for Britain.

The Doctor and Jo are being held prisoner by Axos while Chinn is forced to organise the worldwide distribution of axonite and the Master returns to the power complex to try and steal the TARDIS.

The Doctor and Jo escape from Axos but then the Doctor offers the Master a deal:if he helps him repair the TARDIS, they can flee Earth together.