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Doctor Who/Recap/S7 E4 Inferno

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Doctor Who's first dabbling in an Alternate Universe. Professor Stahlman has discovered "Stahlman's Gas" beneath the Earth's crust and UNIT are providing security for the drilling operation to exploit this useful resource. Unfortunately, Stahlman is driven to disregard safety precautions, and things start going wrong. The drilling strikes a green goo which regresses anyone who touches it into a beastlike "primord" which is drawn to heat. The production team had been looking for an excuse to get rid of the old console prop, and this seemed the perfect opportunity... Watch it here.

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Doctor Who's first dabbling in an Alternate Universe. Professor Stahlman has discovered "Stahlman's Gas" beneath the Earth's crust and UNIT are providing security for the drilling operation to exploit this useful resource. Unfortunately, Stahlman is driven to disregard safety precautions, and things start going wrong. The drilling strikes a green goo which regresses anyone who touches it into a beastlike "primord" which is drawn to heat. Meanwhile, the Doctor has moved the TARDIS console out into the lab and is attempting to repair it with the help of a skeptical Liz. He manages to accidentally zap himself into a parallel universe where Britain is a fascist dictatorship and The Brigadier is now Brigade-Leader Lethbridge-Stewart (with an eyepatch and no moustache), while Liz Shaw struts around in kinky dominatrix boots. Hindered by his parallel "friends", the Doctor is unable to stop the drilling, and the parallel world is destroyed as the Doctor escapes. Returning to the "real" world, the Doctor warns the others of the dangers, but is not believed - until Stahlman himself is transformed into a Primord. The Doctor kills him with icy blasts from a fire-extinguisher and manages to stop the drilling just in time. Finally, the Doctor announces that he's finished repairing the TARDIS console, that the Brigadier is a "pompous, self-opinionated idiot" and that he's leaving. He flips a switch and vanishes, only to reappear moments later through the door, explaining sheepishly that he materialised on the local rubbish tip. The production team had been looking for an excuse to get rid of the old console prop, and this seemed the perfect opportunity... They also disposed of Liz Shaw in the gap between series - the actress had become pregnant, though no-one knew that at the time and it was just felt that the character wasn't working out. However, this decision hadn't been made at the time of filming, so Liz didn't get a "goodbye scene"... The Doctor Who Expanded Universe uses it quite a bit by having the tyrannical overlord of Earth be an alternate Doctor. (There is no indication of this in the actual story, which on the contrary heavily implies that the Doctor was only able to travel to that universe because he didn't already exist in it, but this is Handwaved as it being a different incarnation, much like in the other multi-Doctor stories.) This theory comes from the fact that Jack Kine, whose face was used for posters of the dictator, was also one of the faces offered for the Second Doctor to regenerate into in The War Games. Watch it here.