"They hate the person that they think you are - passionately and completely."

No sooner have the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria landed on a sun-kissed Australian beach than they are being shot at by murderous fanatics!  A dramatic helicopter rescue places them in the hands of Astrid Ferrier and Giles Kent, two people intent on bringing about the downfall of the world's most dangerous man - who happens to look exactly like the Doctor.

This is Earth in the near future, and Salamnader's Sun-Catcher technology has been hailed as the answer to all the world's food problems.  Yet is there more to his prediction of natural disasters than meets the eye?  Could it be that the death and destruction which he appears to foretell is in fact of his own creation?  Jamie and Victoria infiltrate Salamnder's Hungarian palace to gain proof of his misdeeds, whilst the Doctor must impersonate the dictator in order to say alive.  In doing so he witnesses the might of his brutish regime, and discovers the terrible secret which lurks beneath the Kanowa research center.

One of the time travelers' most dangerous adventures ever takes place against a backdrop of volcanoes and earthquakes, deadly high-speed chases, assassination attempts and spectacular explosions.  ultimately it will lead them to a climatic confrontation between the Doctor and his murderous double...

• Patrick Troughton gets an acting workout as both the Doctor and as the villain Salamander in this story.

• Episode 3 does exist on video and was released on the "Troughton Years" tape.
   
• A much improved and restored version of episode 3 is available on DVD in the boxset Lost in Time.

• You might recognize actor George Pravda.  He would later appear as the scientist Jaeger in the Pertwee story "The Mutants." and most famously as Castellan Spandrell in the Tom Baker classic "The Deadly Assassin."

• This story leads directly into the next story "The Web of Fear."

• This is yet another story written by veteran Who author/script editor - David Whitaker.

• Milton Johns also puts in an appearance as Benik.  He appears later in two Tom Baker stories "The Android Invasion" and "The Invasion of Time."
   
• The audio recording of this story was done separately by Graham Strong, David Holman and David Butler using their own home audio equipment. 

• Mark Ayres, of the Doctor Who Restoration Team, did extensive work on this audio release by digitally remastering these recordings as well as repairing a missing gap in the audio recordings.