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The TARDIS lurches and everyone falls over, and when they get back up again, everyone's acting a bit odd. Weird stuff starts happening and the Doctor suspects there's an alien presence on board and gets very paranoid. He accuses Ian and Barbara of sabotage, drugs their cocoa and is himself attacked by Susan.
Turns out it's the TARDIS itself that's the problem. The Doctor hit the "fast return" switch at the end of "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S1
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* The console's [[Billions of Buttons]] (as iconic to Doctor Who as the blue police box) cause the actors to start [[media:
** Incidently, on the DVDs it turns out that no one is sure who actually wrote it. Carol Ann Ford suggests it may have been her and Hartnell, during rehearsal, but she isn't sure.
* [[Bottle Episode]]: One of the few in the old series, along with the first episode of "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S6
* [[Break the Haughty]]: Given that the Doctor was well into Type IV on the [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes]] in the first two stories his behaviour here isn't very surprising. However, he reaches a new low upon threatening to throw Ian and Barbara out the TARDIS, something that could easily kill them. When the woman he threatens to kill not only gives him one hell of a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] but also figures out the problem and saves the day, the Doctor is understandably humbled. Not only does this lead to his attitude improving but sets his moral compass in a more unambigously good direction, something that will determine the show's outlook to this day.
* [[Easy Amnesia]]: At least, that what it appears to be...
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