The Three Doctors

"Unless the energy loss is stopped the whole fabric of space time will be destroyed . . . We are being consumed!"

Time itself is in peril! The three Doctors are united against an old arch enemy . . .

Vital cosmic energy is draining into a black hole and the Time Lords are under siege. The Doctor is their only hope, but trapped in the TARDIS, he's powerless. The only way out is to break the first law of Time to let the Doctor help himself . . . literally . . .

• "The Three Doctors" serves as the 10th anniversary celebration of Doctor Who.

• Originally written with a much larger role for the 1st Doctor, the story had to be reworked at the last moment when it became apparent that Hartnell wouldn't be able to handle the workload.  Even with the reduced workload, Hartnell was forced to read from cue cards for only a few scenes.

• Hartnell was quite ill during the filming and died two years after this story was completed.

• Troughton returned to the role of the Doctor only 4 years after his swansong story "The War Games."

• Troughton and Pertwee struck up a lifelong friendship during the filming of this story.

• At the end of this adventure, the Doctor is given his freedom back as a reward for defeating   (insert standard villain name here)  .  However, it would be several more years before Doctor Who left the U.N.I.T. storylines behind.

• Rex Robinson, who played the science geekling Dr. Tyler, would later return the following year as the rebel miner Gebek in "The Monster of Peladon."  He would make one more appearance in the Tom Baker adventure "The Hand of Fear" this time as the geologist Dr. Carter.

• This story will be released on DVD sometime in 2004.