The clowns are made to replay the game when it is clear they are cheating, and the second time round Joey loses his footing on an obstacle course and the challengers are transformed into twisted dolls on the floor. The first are two clowns, Joey and Clara, full of childish tricks and a dangerous game of Blind Man's Bluff. Steven and Dodo face different challenges. The Doctor appears in the Toymaker's study, where he is given the Trilogic game, a ten-piece puzzle (similar to the Tower of Hanoi) whose pieces must all be moved and remounted in a 1023-move sequence. The Doctor and the Toymaker have faced each other before, and the Toymaker abducts his old adversary to another place. They have come to the realm of the Celestial Toymaker, an eternal being of infinite power who sets games and traps for the unwary so that they become his playthings. They step outside into a strange realm where the Doctor reappears. "The Final Test" has been released on VHS and DVD, and the story has been novelised.Īn alien intelligence has invaded the TARDIS and rendered the First Doctor invisible, leaving Dodo and Steven incredulous. Only the last episode of this story, "The Final Test", is held in the BBC archives the other three remain missing. The Toymaker separates the Doctor from his companions to play the Trilogic Game, while Steven and Dodo are forced to win a series of seemingly childish but deadly games before they can be reunited with the Doctor and return to the TARDIS. In this serial, the alien time traveller the First Doctor ( William Hartnell) and his travelling companions Steven ( Peter Purves) and Dodo Chaplet ( Jackie Lane) are pitted against a powerful adversary called the Celestial Toymaker ( Michael Gough). The Celestial Toymaker is the mostly missing seventh serial of the third season in the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 2 to 23 April 1966. Beryl Braham, Ann Harrison, Delia Lindon – Dancers. Carmen Silvera – Clara / Queen of Hearts / Mrs Wiggs.Campbell Singer – Joey / King of Hearts / Sergeant Rugg.
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