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Travel back to the early days of "Doctor Who" with these four adventures starring William Hartnell as the first Doctor plus a bonus program. Absent from the television archives, each of these stories survives only as a soundtrack recording. Now remastered, with additional linking narration, you can enjoy the adventures once more and learn what happened to the missing episodes with a special bonus disc. The Daleks Master Plan (thirteen episodes, first broadcast October 1965 January 1966) The Daleks have stolen the Time Destructor and are threatening to destroy the fabric of Time itself. In a bid to stop them, the Doctor steals the taranium core that powers the weapon. Pursued across Time and Space, the TARDIS crew is in grave danger. The Massacre (four episodes, first broadcast February 1966) The TARDIS materializes in Paris in 1572, a time of great danger and religious strife. When Steven witnesses the execution of a man who uncannily resembles the Doctor, he is horrified. Can the Doctor really have been killed in front of his eyes? The Celestial Toymaker (four episodes, first broadcast April 1966) The travelers arrive in the dangerous domain of the Toymaker, where their failure to win at a series of games could result in them becoming his playthings for eternity. The Savages (four episodes, first broadcast May June 1966) The TARDIS has arrived on a distant and seemingly idyllic world, but the Doctor, Steven, and Dodo discover that it hides a terrible secret. "Doctor Who "The Lost Episodes (first broadcast December 2009) What happened to the 108 missing episodes of "Doctor Who" from the 1960s? Shaun Ley investigates in this edition of Archive on 4, plus linking narration by Peter Purves and bonus interviews with Peter Purves.