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Solon decides that the head of the Doctor will prove a fitting home for Morbius' brain, but before he can act, the Doctor is kidnapped by the Sisterhood, who fear that he has been sent by the Time Lords to steal the last of the Elixir of Life from the dying flame. The Doctor is to be burned at the stake, but he is rescued by Sarah, who goes temporarily blind in the process.
Solon convinces the Doctor that Sarah's condition is permanent, and the Doctor goes to the Sisterhood for help - convincing them of his good offices by using a firework to clear a blocked chimney and restore the flame. Returning to Solon, the Doctor and Sarah are trapped in the cellar. The Doctor releases cyanide gas and kills Solon, but Morbius' new body is working, with a plastic bowl as a temporary head! Morbius accepts the Doctor's challenge of a battle of minds, and both are severely weakened by the ordeal. The sisterhood push the disoriented Morbius over a cliff and heal the Doctor with the Elixir.
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* [[Alan Smithee]]: The script was altered so much that the original writer asked to have his name taken off it; the story is credited instead to "Robin Bland".
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* [[Brain In a Jar]]
* [[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?]]: Calling Morbius "Chop suey, the Galactic Emperor". He is not pleased.
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* [[Exposition of Immortality]]: This episode contains a sequence in which the three previous incarnations of the Doctor are shown, and [[Canon Discontinuity|eight additional faces beyond that]]. Morbius asks ''"How far back Doctor, how long have you lived?"'' - even by Time Lord standards, it seems The Doctor has been around for a while.
* [[Frankenstein's Monster]]: this episode is an obvious homage.
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''Solon'': ...I'm sorry, the pun was irresistible. }}
* [[Large Ham]]: Solon, oh so very much.
* [[Mix-and-Match Man]]: Morbius's monster body, cobbled together from bits of various alien creatures, notoriously including Condo's hand and what looks to be a [[Doctor Who/Recap/S4
* [[R-Rated Opening]]: The story opens with Condo decapitating an insect-stage Solonian. Although the actual severing happens offscreen we get a lot of lingering close ups of the head later on.
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: Condo's [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to save Sarah from Morbius.
* [[Refusal of the Call]]: When the Doctor first lands, he is not pleased by the fact that the Time Lords have dragged him into a situation they won't deal with themselves. Sarah guilts him out of this by marvelling at her surroundings and [[Obfuscating Stupidity|going off on her own anyway.]]
{{quote|'''The Doctor:''' "There's something going on here, some dirty work that they won't touch with their lily-white hands. Well, I won't do it, '''DO YOU HEAR?!''"}}
* [[Squib]]: Contains pretty much the only use of this in ''[[Doctor Who]]''. The general level of violence in the story contributed to the end of Hinchliffe's tenure when the [[Moral Guardians]] got involved.
* [[Strapped to An Operating Table]]
* [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]]: The Sisterhood of Karn.
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* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]
* [[The X of Y]]
* [[You're Insane!]]: as Mehendri Solon is about to begin his gruesome experiment:
{{quote|'''Sarah Jane:''' "You're Insane, Solon, you're mad!" }}
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