Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders

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He was talking angrily to a younger, weak-faced man called Barnes, who had been sitting nearest the door. ‘You’re sure you didn’t see anything?’ Barnes shook his head. ‘It was the wind, it must have been. Blew open the cellar door, knocked the bottle over...’ His voice tailed off, unconvincing even to himself. ‘Listen,’ said Lupton suddenly. ‘What’s that?’ They heard the harsh roar of an engine going away into the distance. ‘A sports car,’ said Lupton menacingly. ‘There’s only one sports car here – it belongs to our new friend, Mr. Yates.’
1 The Menace at the Monastery Brigadier Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart, head of the British section of UNIT, the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, huddled deeper in his seat and hoped no one would recognise him. Not that he was engaged in some secret espionage mission; he was very much off-duty. On the other hand, you couldn’t exactly say he was enjoying himself either. Why on earth he’d let the Doctor drag him to this tatty little music hall... The Brigadier shot a sideways glance at his companion. Elegant as always, in ruffled shirt with velvet smoking jacket, the Doctor was leaning forward with evident enjoyment. On stage, a little man in a baggy check suit and a red nose was clutching a hand mike, leaning forward and talking very fast, as if afraid that the audience would make off before he could deliver his jokes. No one could blame them if they did, thought the Brigadier bitterly. ‘’Ere’s a good one, ’eard this, ’eard this?’ said the little man rapidly. ‘Archimedes, you’ve ’eard of Archimedes, ’course you ’ave, well, when he jumped out of the bath and ran down the street with nothing on, he didn’t shout “Eureka!” he shouted, “I’m a streaker!”’ The Brigadier groaned inwardly and threw the chuckling Doctor a glance of bitter reproach. Things didn’t improve much in the next hour. Act followed act, all of them pretty dreadful. The Brigadier perked up a little at the appearance of ‘Fatima, exotic dancer of the Orient’. She wasn’t very oriental, but she was certainly exotic, young, pretty and extremely agile. The Doctor glanced at the Brigadier to see if this was any more to his taste. The Brigadier was leaning forward, chin in
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Page 6 and 7: Prologue The Mystery of the Crystal
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In the cellar, Lupton’s chanting
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During a hot, bumpy and very uncomf
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time. Everyone crowded to the windo
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After a hair-raisingly fast drive f
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pointing gesture. The Doctor dodged
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Sarah said worriedly. ‘He seems t
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listen to these traitors, until she
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soon had her held fast. Lupton came
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web held her fast. She could barely
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Arak said patiently, ‘Our ancesto
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longer. ‘My father and your frien
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Captain saw. Arak’s big hands rea
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took the machine from its leather b
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‘In the same way that we first tr
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The Captain looked coldly at him.
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‘Why should you want to help me?
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Suddenly the tunnel came to an end.
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headbands, both carried bloody swor
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10 Return to Earth When all the exc
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them all move off, making an elabor
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‘Oh, for Pete’s sake,’ said Y
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‘Indeed we shall tell the Abbot -
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11 The Battle with the Spiders The
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‘As yet they have not managed it,
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‘Yes, of course. I should have kn
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‘Sorry, Mr. Barnes,’ said Tommy
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‘I think you do know, my son,’
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12 The Last Enemy The Doctor steppe
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‘The Great One is all seeing.’
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Sarah felt herself starting to cry.
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The immense concentration of the bl
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might be a mirage, he gathered the
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sure if he’d ever been there in t
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