Colin Baker
Season Twenty Three
The Trial of a Time Lord
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Colin Baker
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652. Part Thirteen 29.11.86 5.20pm - 5.45pm 4.4M/98th/69% 653. Part Fourteen 06.12.86 5.45pm - 6.15pm 5.6M/80th/69%
The Doctor has also maintained throughout the trial that the matrix evidence has been tampered with, to which the Iquisitor summons the Keeper, who states that it is impossible for anyone to get into the Matrix, let alone change the events.
At that moment the Master appears inside the Matrix, and he confirms that some of the events have been altered. On the subject of witnesses, the Master has taken the liberty of obtaining some on the Doctor's behalf - Mel and Glitz.
The Doctor cross-examnines Glitz, and finds a conspiracy by the Time Lords: The three sleepers of Earth had found a way of breaking into the Matrix, and stealing facts, equations - secrets. The Time Lords, in an attempt to stop this, moved Earth two lights years away, whereby it became known as Ravalox.
The Doctor also learned that the trial was organised by the Time Lords. The deal was that if the Doctor was found guilty then his remainig lives would be forfeit to the Valeyard.
The Valeyard disappears into the Matrix, and the Doctor and Glitz, and later Mel, follow. The Doctor finds a trap has been laid by Valeyard, and he gets Mel to rush back to the trial room to warn those present. When the Valeyard's TARDIS explodes, the Doctor returns to the trial room, where the Inquisitor has learnt that the evidence of Peri's death was false, and that she was living as a warrior Queen alonside King Ycarnos.
Episode ?: One of the many times that the Doctor interrupts the Matrix's replay of events, you could hear what sounds like studio direction just before the replay begins again. Most of it is unintelligible, but "take 6" can be distinctly heard as the action fades in on the monitor screen.
Episode ?: The whole Trial season had quite a few sound problems. At several points in the story, the sound from earlier in the story is mixed in with the current sound. One example is where you suddenly hear, from out of nowhere, the Doctor saying "Very good!" That was clearly from the beginning of The Mysterious Planet when Peri said something about there not being any birds or flowers or something. The Doctor then said "Very good!" to her. But, much later on in the story it shouldn't magically come back.
