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The Doctor has promised Jo Grant a holiday on Metebelis III, but instead of the famous
blue planet, the TARDIS materializes on board the S.S. Bernice, sailing to India in 1926.
Before long the travelers are captured and locked away as stowaways. However, just as
their eventual escape brings them face to face with their captors again - who claim never
to have seen them before - the ship is attacked by a long extinct underwater dinosaur!
On the planet Inter-Minor, the visiting Lurman entertainer Vorg and his assistant Shrina
are demonstrating a dilapidated miniscope to the cynical and xenophobic governmental
ministers who would prefer Inter-Minor kept free of aliens. Vorg explains that his scope
contains actual miniaturized living creatures, including Cybermen, Ogrons and a group of
humans aboard a ship apparently sailing to India! Kalik, one of the Minoran officials,
sees an opportunity to exploit the dangers inherent in the scope to frighten the
Government into implementing his exclusionist policies.
The Doctor and Jo discover they are inside the miniscope and leave the SS Bernice via the
machine's conduits to find themselves in a marsh populated by ferocious omnivores -
Drashigs. Meanwhile, outside the scope Kalik's machinations have allowed the Drashigs to
escape into the real world . . .
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