Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters - Special Edition

Freed from his exile on Earth, the Doctor takes Jo on a test flight in the TARDIS, landing aboard SS Bernice, a cargo ship crossing the Indian Ocean in 1926.
As events take a dangerous and unexpected twist, it seems that their fate lies in the hands of a traveling showman named Vorg and his assistant Shirna, who have just arrived on the distant planet of Inter Minor with an amazing intergalactic peepshow called the Miniscope.

The Doctor and Jo take the TARDIS on a test flight. They arrive on a cargo ship, the SS Bernice, that appears to be crossing the Indian Ocean in 1926 but is in fact trapped inside a Miniscope - a banned peepshow of miniaturised life-forms - on the planet Inter Minor. They enter another section of the scope but find themselves confronted by ferocious Drashigs.
The Doctor eventually breaks out of the scope and returns to full size. The device is owned by a pair of Lurman entertainers, Vorg and Shirna, who hope to make a quick profit from Inter Minor's hitherto reclusive natives. They have run into trouble, however, as the bureaucratic Minorians are dissatisfied with their credentials.
The Doctor's efforts to rescue Jo from the scope, which is on the point of breaking down, are hampered by the schemes of two Minorians, Kalik and Orum, who plan to dupe their superior, Pletrac, and overthrow the planet's president, Zarb, by allowing the Drashigs to escape.
Vorg destroys the Drashigs with an eradicator weapon and the Doctor, by linking the scope to the TARDIS, manages to return all the exhibits to their points of origin. Jo materialises beside the wrecked device, and she and the Doctor then depart in the TARDIS.

Directed by Barry Letts
Written by Robert Holmes
Produced by Barry Letts
Original Music by < Dudley Simpson br> Film Editing by Peter Evans
Costume Design by James Acheson

First Transmitted
1 - 27/01/1973 17:50
2 - 03/02/1973 17:50
3 - 10/02/1973 17:50
4 - 17/02/1973 17:50

A Cyberman makes a guest appearance as one of the specimens seen on the screen of Vorg's Miniscope.

Leslie Dwyer plays Vorg. Dwyer later appeared as the miserable child-hating Punch and Judy man Mr Partridge in the BBC comedy series Hi-de-Hi!.

Tenniel Evans plays Major Daly. Evans was one of Jon Pertwee's co-stars in The Navy Lark and, back in 1969, had prompted him to put his name forward to the Doctor Who office as a possible successor to Patrick Troughton; unknown to either of them, Pertwee's name had already been on the production team's short list.

Ian Marter plays John Andrews. Marter had earlier auditioned for the role of Captain Mike Yates and would later play the Doctor's companion Harry Sullivan.