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Line 3: {{quote\|"''Still, I must be patient. A new body is like a new house: it takes a little time to settle in!''"\|'''The Doctor''', observing his new body for the first time.}} Picking up right from where [[Doctor Who/Recap/S11 E5/E05 Planet of the Spiders\|the previous serial left off]], the viewers are quickly given a lovely 5-second flashback to the [[The Nth Doctor\|regeneration]] of the Third Doctor into the Fourth. The Doctor slowly wakes up and babbles quite a bit, worrying Sarah Jane and [[The Brigadier]] before he's taken away by the new castmember: Doctor Harry Sullivan. However, a few scenes later, the Doctor has wrangled his way out the infirmary and ties up Harry in a jumping rope (in a rather funny moment) before leaping off into the TARDIS. Sarah Jane and the Brig return to the Doctor's lab just in time to see the TARDIS start to take off, but manage to stop the Doctor from fleeing into the cosmos. Eventually, the Doctor's memory lapses and random babbling subside long enough for him to remember what's exactly going on - and just long enough for the Brigadier to tell the Doctor our problem of the week: someone's stealing things from top-secret government and military bases. They pause just long enough for the Doctor to find his new outfit. Off at the scene of the most recent break-in, it takes the Doctor a few minutes (and a look at the list of other items stolen) to deduce that the stolen items could make... a disintegrator gun! Line 11: Not satisfied with letting us rest there, the story leaps back to Sarah Jane at the think tank. She's taken on a tour by the head of the organization: Hilda Winters, where she sees... nothing. Except for slipping on some oil in an abandoned lab, supposedly left behind by the former occupant: Doctor Kettlewell. Sarah drives over to visit Kettlewell, only to have him ramble on at her worse than the Doctor just did. Kettlewell manages to get something out about "robot research," so Sarah sneaks back into the abandoned area of the lab, to confront... a giant robot! It lurches towards her, demanding to know why she's there. This isn't Sarah Jane's first go-around at the Rodeo Of Weird; and anyway she's a level-headed woman who's [[Doctor Who/Recap/S11 E3/E03 Death to ~~The~~the Daleks\|taken on Daleks]], so of course she panics and flees - but Winters and her lackey are standing at the doorway. They proclaim this is all a massive joke and everyone's having fun looking at this robot, the Experimental Prototype Robot K1. And Winters proves this is all a great joke by ordering the robot to... kill Sarah Jane! Of course, that's hilarious! The Robot, knowing that companions rarely die, decides to enter the dreaded Blue Screen of Death mode - and Sarah Jane hurries herself out of there pronto. Then Winters' lackey, Jellicoe, voices concern over that 'joke,' as the robot's programming has been screwed with. So, rather than let the robot defragment its hard drive or reflash its firmware or whatever the hell ailing computers did in 1974, Winters and Jellicoe decide to reprogram K1 and... send it off to kill a Cabinet Minister! Meanwhile, the Doctor and UNIT decide to visit Kettlewell, as Sarah Jane's reports of a giant robot that could crush you without a second thought if its operating system doesn't crash obviously aren't proof enough for UNIT. Kettlewell mocks the idea of the K1 Robot still being around, as only he has the ability to make it work... but does eventually admit that if the robot was reprogrammed, [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot\|it could go utterly insane]]. But, really, what are the odds of THAT? So, everyone goes back off to the Think Tank under various guises. The Doctor as a simple visitor, Harry as a random medical inspector. The Doctor and Winters banter back and forth about the K1 Robot, but Winters claims it's been dismantled while the Doctor figures she has to be lying. Back at UNIT HQ, the Doctor receives a call from Kettlewell about the Robot being at the think tank, leaves a note on the TARDIS [[Chasing Your Tail\|and then runs back to the Think Tank]]. There, the Doctor finally runs into the K1 Robot, which proclaims him the enemy of Humanity. The Doctor gives it a game struggle (involving marbles, creative use of his scarf, and his own hat) before being knocked down, and the Robot begins to bend down and... well, not actually ''do anything'' to the Doctor, as Sarah Jane runs into the room and... shouts that the Think Tank is deceiving the poor robot. Rather than continue, the K1 robot flails around helplessly. And then it runs away, showing an ability to [[Immune to Bullets\|tank UNIT bullets like nobody's business]]. Our TARDIS crew finds Kettlewell tied up in a corner and takes him off to UNIT, where he explains that the robot is made out of living ~~metal--and~~metal—and, in a remarkable coincidence, that he's just developed an anti-formula that can turn that living metal into scrap. Why the hell does the think tank even fund stuff like this? It's clearly never going to come into play. Anyway, as it turns out, Kettlewell is a member of this new group: the Scientific Reform Society. Sarah Jane investigated them earlier in the previous episode and declared them to be general nutters, but since Kettlewell is a member, it's time to go investigate them in more depth. Sarah Jane runs off with Kettlewell to attend tonight's meeting as the Brigadier and the Doctor realize that the recently-killed Cabinet Member held secret nuclear launch codes for all the nations of the world.<ref>Because, you know, Great Britain was totally a neutral country in the [[Cold War]].</ref> The Doctor puts all of these individual pieces together and somehow realizes... that the SRS is evil. Line 31: So the Doctor decides to end this all quickly: he must be more than a little miffed that the Robot has messed up his day-saving '''and''' kidnapped Sarah Jane in one fell swoop. In minutes, the Doctor whips up some of Kettlewell's magical anti-metal formula and splashes it all over the robot; the Robot dissolves horribly and Sarah Jane is saved. To celebrate, the Doctor and Sarah Jane drag Harry into the TARDIS and fly off into the night. Watch it [https://web.archive.org/web/20100613065924/http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/xxyd1_tardismedia_robot here] === Tropes === * [[Actually, That's My Assistant]]: Sarah Jane makes this mistake while visiting the Think Tank. * [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot]] - Well, the poor robot was under a lot of stress. You'd probably be a bit upset too, in his situation. * [[Because You Were Nice to Me]] * [[The Brigadier]] * [[Continuity Nod]]: After the Doctor incapacitates Harry, he goes to the TARDIS and after wondering to himself where he left his key, then pulls it out of his shoe, which is where he found it [[Doctor Who/Recap/S7 E1/E01 Spearhead From Space\|last time he regenerated]]. * [[Costume Test Montage]] * [[Don't Make Me Destroy You]]: When he first comes out of the bunker, K1 would clearly prefer that UNIT's forces go away and not make him destroy them. Line 52: * [[Off-the-Shelf FX]]: The tank UNIT sends to destroy K1. * [[One Word Title]] * [[Putting Onon the Reich]]: SRS. * [[Rank Up]]: Sergeant Benton is promoted to Regimental Sergeant Major. (That's the second time he's had a promotion just when the Doctor regenerated.) * [[~~Reluctant~~Engineer ~~Mad~~Exploited ~~Scientist~~For Evil]]: Kettlewell * [[Robot Buddy]]: Ol' K1 himself. One wonders if future robot buddy K9 is his descendant... * [[Shout-Out]]: The story contains several resemblances to [[I, Robot (~~Literature~~literature)\|I, Robot]] and [[King Kong]]. * [[Stock Episode Titles]]: 10 uses * [[This Is No Time for Knitting]]: The Brigadier, Harry Sullivan and the Doctor are investigating the scene of a robbery, only to have the Doctor play a seemingly inordinate amount of attention to a squashed flower on the lawn. However, the Doctor explains that he is investigating an important clue, considering that flower was near pulverized by being stepped on by something that apparently weighed a quarter ton, a piece of information that the officers definitely find interesting. Line 67: {{reflist}} [[Category:Doctor Who (TV)/Recap]]▼ [[Category:Recap]] [[Category:Doctor Who]] ▲[[Category:Doctor Who ~~(TV)~~/Recap]]