The Celestial Toymaker is the twenty-fourth episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who , consisting of four episodes that aired from April 2 to 23, 1966. The last episode was preserved in the archives of the BBC , and the other three were lost and are available only in the form of reconstructions.
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| Screenwriter | Brian Hales Donald Tosh |
| Producer | Bill Sellars |
| Producer | Innes Lloyd |
| Season | 3 |
| Date of issue | April 2, 1966 - April 23-23 |
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Content
Synopsis
The Doctor is in the power of the Toyman, and only Dodo and Stephen can save him.
Story
Episode 1. Heavenly Toy Room
An alien mind invades the TARDIS and makes the Doctor invisible. He, Stephen and Dodo enter a strange world, the Doctor appears again and recognizes this place. They fell into the possession of the Heavenly Toyman, a creature of infinite power, arranging games and traps for the careless, and they become his toys. The TARDIS cleans up and hides among hundreds of fakes. The Doctor and the Toyman have collided before, the latter transfers his old enemy to another place and gives him the Trilogical Game, a tower of ten rings of Hanoi . The doctor must move it from one rod to another for the exact sequence of 1023 moves. The screen in the Doctor’s room broadcasts what is happening in the room of Stephen and Dodo, and vice versa. The game takes a different turn when the Toyman reports that teammates must complete their tasks before the Doctor. When he tries to warn his friends, the villain makes him invisible (except for one arm) and dumb. The first test of Stephen and Dodo is two clowns, Joey and Clara, with children's tricks and a dangerous version of the puzzles with riddles, which is not as simple as it seems at first glance. Clowns are forced to replay the game when it turns out that they are cheating, and the second time Joey stumbles over an obstacle. Both opponents turn into dolls twitching on the floor.
Episode 2. Puppet Hall
Stephen and Dodo will continue down the corridor to another room with three beautiful chairs and receive a call from the three animated playing cards, the King and the Queen of Hearts, together with Jack and Joker. There are four more chairs in the room and Stephen solves the riddle from the previous competition, realizing that six of the seven chairs are deadly. Seven mannequins are used to test chairs. The King and Queen play with them and some mannequins are destroyed, as the chairs are unsafe. Dodo sits in a freezing chair and begins to freeze, escaping at the last moment. The King and Queen die, sitting on chairs, and Jack of Cyril and the Joker stop playing.
Episode 3. Dance Floor
The next rivals of Stephen and Dodo are Sergeant Rugg and Mrs. Wiggs, containing the kitchen. They compete with heroes in the hunt for a thimble, which is also the key to the exit, which should be the TARDIS. Rugg and Wiggs soon start to fight, throw dishes and food, and in this chaos, Dodo finds the key inside the cake Mrs. Wiggs was cooking. She and Stephen leave and get into the room with the dance floor, where the heroes meet three mannequins, not destroyed on chairs, which turn into ballerinas and begin to dance. Far at the end of the dance floor is the TARDIS. Rugg and Wiggs appear, wanting to please the Toyman and keep Stephen and Dodo out of their ship. Stephen and Dodo come across two of the dolls and become their dance partners, and are released only by convincing the ballerinas of the need to change partners. They reach the TARDIS, but it turns out to be a fake.
Episode 4. The Last Test
The Doctor has excellent progress in the Trilogical game, and the Toyman chooses schoolboy Kirill to compete with their companions. Dodo and Stephen now play a game similar to the classics, but full of traps and tricks that are remote from winning. TARDIS is the final prize of the game, and to get to it, you need to throw dice and avoid the electrified space between the cells. Cyril falls into his own trap and falls from the square. Dodo and Stephen are at the TARDIS. The doctor is in the final stage of the Trilogical game. The visibility is returned to him, and he already holds the last piece of the puzzle in his hand. Three friends are reunited, Stephen and Dodo are hiding in the TARDIS for safety, and the Doctor realizes that if he wins, the reality of the Toyman disappears along with the TARDIS. He guesses to give the order from the TARDIS with the voice of the Toyman and quickly dematerializes the ship, and the world around it disappears. The doctor tries sweets, a gift from Cyril to the Dodo, but they drive him into agony.
Broadcasts and reviews
| Episode | Delivery Date | Duration | Viewers (in millions) | Archive |
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| " Heavenly toy room " | April 2, 1966 | 24:40 | 8.0 | Only stills and / or fragments exist |
| " Puppet Hall " | April 9, 1966 | 24:45 | 8.0 | Only stills and / or fragments exist |
| " Dance floor " | April 16, 1966 | 24:10 | 9.4 | Only stills and / or fragments exist |
| " The Last Test " | April 23, 1966 | 23:57 | 7.8 | 16mm t / r |
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Notes
- ↑ Shaun Lyon et al. The Celestial Toymaker . Outpost Gallifrey (March 31, 2007). Date of treatment August 30, 2008. Archived March 31, 2008.
- ↑ The Celestial Toymaker . Doctor Who Reference Guide. Date of treatment August 30, 2008.
- ↑ Sullivan, Shannon The Celestial Toymaker . A Brief History of Time Travel (April 28, 2005). Date of treatment August 30, 2008.