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| Episode | Air Date | Runtime |
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| The Sea of Death | 04/11/64 | 24 min. 56 sec. |
| The Velvet Web | 04/18/64 | 24 min. 56 sec. |
| The Screaming Jungle | 04/25/64 | 24 min. 56 sec. |
| The Snows of Terror | 05/02/64 | 24 min. 56 sec. |
| Sentence of Death | 05/09/64 | 24 min. 56 sec. |
| The Keys of Marinus | 05/16/64 | 24 min. 56 sec. |
| Country | Language | Color |
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| United Kingdom | English | Black and White |
The many continents of the planet Marinus are the
settings for this six part adventure as the Doctor's party find
themselves on a quest to locate the missing keys to the Conscience
of Marinus.
The TARDIS lands on the shores of an island surrounded by a
sea of acid. At the island's summit is the magnificent pyramid
which houses the Conscience Machine - a massive artifact built
centuries ago to bring peace to this once-troubled world. The
machine works by erasing emotions from the minds of the peoples
of Marinus, substituting tranquillity and calm for aggression and
greed. Recently, however, its power has been waning.
The black masked Voord, led by the power-hungry Yartek,
have taken advantage of the machine's weakening energies to
develop an Immuniser. Now they are intent upon capturing the
Conscience to use its influence for their own ends.
All this the Doctor and his group learn from the aged Keeper of
the Conscience, Arbitan. He further explains that before the
machine can be operated five micro-circuit keys must be in place.
He has one of them, the remaining four having been scattered over the planet for security. Arbitan persuades the time-travellers to go
in search of the keys. With them he can reprogram the Conscience
to overcome the Voord's immunisation, and re-establish peace on
Marinus.
Arbitan gives each of them a 'Travel Dial', a wrist-watch
shaped device that permits instantaneous teleportation to the zones
where the keys are hidden. They must recover the keys before the
Voord seize the island.
Their first journey is to the stone city of Morphoton - an idyllic civilisation whose inhabitants apparently delight in serving others.
However, Barbara is first to discover it is all a facade. A race of
brain creatures rules the city, sapping the wills and minds of
newcomers until they become witless slaves of the creatures.
Narrowly escaping enslavement Ian, Barbara and Susan, plus
Arbitan's daughter Sabetha and her lover Altos, move on to a
jungle where the vegetation is hostile. There they recover two keys
from the aged scientist Darrius - one a false key, the other real.
A snowy wasteland yields the third key, but only after a
desperate struggle with its guardians, the Ice Soldiers.
The fourth key proves the most difficult to locate. Reunited
with the Doctor in the capital city of Millenius, Ian finds himself
facing a charge of murder amidst a civilisation believing a
defendant guilty until proven innocent. Only after a web of
intrigue has been broken are the true culprits revealed.
On their return to the Conscience Island the travellers find the
Voord in control, and Arbitan dead. Yartek himself is now the
Keeper and by various threats and deceptions he prises the keys
from them. Too late Yartek discovers one key to be the fake one.
The Conscience is destroyed. From now on the people of Marinus
must find their own answers.
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