Aug 2, 2022
The Sixth Doctor returns, and he's thrown straight in at the deep end! Travelling the galaxy with Melanie Bush and their brand-new companion, marine biologist Hebe Harrison, there are wonders to see, dangers to face and plenty of peril beneath the waves.
1.1 The Rotting Deep by Jacqueline
Rayner (2 parts)
A mysterious SOS summons the Doctor and Mel to an oil rig in the
North Sea where a dwindling group of survivors awaits rescue from a
lethal menace. One of their number is Hebe Harrison, a
wheelchair-using marine biologist who is definitely more than she
seems. Can our heroes escape the rig? And just what is killing off
the rig's beleaguered crew?
1.2 The Tides of the Moon by Joshua
Pruett (2 parts)
For Hebe's first trip in the TARDIS, the Doctor and Mel take her to
the nearest available 'water world' – the Moon, two billion years
in the past! Its advanced humanoid inhabitants, the Gilleans, are
terrorised each night by their monstrous enemies, the Sheega. Even
more worrying is that in a matter of hours, this ocean world will
be laid waste by the gravitational interference of the blue-green
planet next door...
1.3 Maelstrom by Jonathan Morris (2
parts)
The Doctor, Mel and Hebe visit the archipelago world of Veludia,
only to discover a planet beset by electromagnetic storms where
three survivors traverse the seas in a ramshackle township. These
survivors are 'corps' - bodies used as hosts for minds stored
in the vessel’s ‘mind-drive’ - and the Doctor, Mel and Hebe are
seen as welcome replacements. But there's something lurking in the
waters below, something of rage and power that wishes to destroy
them all: the Maelstrom!