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Picture quality: 85% Overall the quality of the print is very good, you just have to bear in mind that this is one of those Jon Pertwee stories where the colour print was retrieved from overseas and is not the original British TV print. There is nothing to distract from the viewing pleasure - unless you want THX standard digital clarity.
Sound quality: 100%
Sir Keith Gold, concerned about Professor Stahlman's stubborn zeal on Project Inferno has asked UNIT to assist in overseeing the project. Their advisory role does not permit them to interfere in Stahlman's work which suits the Doctor quite well. The Doctor's main interest is in trying to free himself from the exile imposed by the Time Lords. Siphoning power from the nuclear reactor which powers the drill, the Doctor manages to boost the TARDIS console through time...except that he encounters a strange effect. Liz is concerned that the Doctor might be ignoring the danger in his zeal to break free from Earth. Of greater concern are the other problems arising around Project Inferno.
Stahlman is the driving force behind Project Inferno: his theory is that there are vast quantities of gas under the Earth's crust which will provide humanity with a new, cheaper and more efficient fuel source. Such is his determination to get to these pockets of gas, christened Stahlman's gas, the man is constantly accelerating the drilling program against the advice of the project computers and the various advisors drafted in by Sir Keith Gold. To Stahlman, the Doctor is just another advisor under his feet. When the Doctor's own project draws power from the drillhead, Stahlman shuts it down. At the same time, the Doctor is using the TARDIS console once again and it would appear that he has finally succeeded in escaping his exile. For Liz, the Brigadier and other members of UNIT, the Doctor's disappearance could not have come at a worse time. Not only is Stahlman pushing Project Inferno to its limits, people are dying - some from injuries inflicted by base personnel undergoing some bizarre mutation.
The Doctor recovers consciousness to find himself back in the garage where he was testing the TARDIS console. Apart from the console, Bessie (the Doctor's Edwardian roadster) and the Doctor himself, nothing about the garage is as it was before. Emerging from the garage, the Doctor finds a complex changed in various ways from the one he had been at before. It is not long before he is dodging bullets and encountering familiar, yet different faces. Trapped on a parallel Earth, the Doctor watches as the consequences of Project Inferno unfolds. Somehow he must escape to the other Earth and put a stop to Project Inferno there...
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(d) D.S.Carlin