Hell (Doctor Who)

Project “Hell”: this is the name of the project for drilling the earth’s crust to reach the Stahlmann gas fields, with the help of which, in theory, it will be possible to get cheap energy in unlimited quantities, under the guidance of the irritating and unbearable interference in the work of Professor Stahlmann. Sir Kit Gold, the project director, is concerned about this and informs Petra Williams, Stahlmann’s assistant, that he invited Greg Sutton, an oil drilling expert, to ensure safety. The UNIT detachment is also overseeing the project with the Doctor, who uses the energy of the project’s nuclear reactor to experiment with the TARDIS console, hoping to fix it and break out of the link.

Worker Harry Slocum, under the influence of green mucus oozing from a pipe, turns into a humanoid primitive creature and kills several technicians and a soldier. The substance also burns the hand of Stahlmann. Meanwhile, working with the console, the Doctor disappears before the eyes of the Foreman and Liz and enters a parallel universe. A fascist dictatorship reigns on this earth in Great Britain, and the royal family was executed many years ago. The Hell project is also in full swing, but its progress is several hours ahead of our reality. The project is carried out in a labor camp under the direction of the director of Stahlmann, a double of Professor Stahlmann. The doctor, caught and interrogated by the British Security Forces, meets alternative versions of his friends: Brigadier Commander Lethbridge Stewart , security chief Elizabeth Shaw and platoon commander Benton. In this universe, Sir Keith Gold recently died in a car accident. The doctor is trying to convince the doubles of his friends that he is from another universe, but they consider him a spy pretending to be madness. The doctor escapes from the cage and tries to stop the drilling, but they open it.

Stahlmann keeps the Doctor on the sight, but an earthquake occurs, and most of the BSB personnel and units run away in horror from the complex, and the director and most of the scientists become Primors. The doctor knows that this parallel Earth is doomed and is trying to convince others to help him save the Earth in his universe. By agreeing to help him, the group fights with the hordes of Primors (including Benton) with the help of fire extinguishers, as creatures love heat and are vulnerable to low temperatures. Petra and Sutton supply current to the TARDIS console, and at this time the Brigadier commander threatens to shoot the Doctor if he does not take them all with him, but Liz kills him. The doctor returns to his native universe just before a lava flow covers the hut.

Coming out of a coma, the Doctor learns that Keith Gold survived in an accident in which he died, the “alignment has changed” and the Earth is now not threatened with destruction. The doctor is trying to stop the project by smashing equipment, but he is being held back by UNIT soldiers. Stahlmann mutates into Primord and attacks the control center, but is killed by Doctor and Sutton with the help of fire extinguishers. Petra stops drilling, and Keith Gold promises to fall asleep. Before the nuclear reactor is turned off, the Doctor tries to fix the TARDIS console, but during the test he gets into the trash a few hundred meters away.

• In this series, the original TARDIS console, which has been used in the series since the series “ Unearthly Child ”, is used for the last time. Also here, the last time Elizabeth Shaw appears as a satellite. The next episode mentions that she returned to Cambridge.