History Recap / DoctorWhoS18E7Logopolis

-->'''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E6TheArmageddonFactor Black Guardian:]]''' '''DOCTOR, YOU SHALL''' '''''DIE FOR THIS!'''''

''It's the end... but the moment has been prepared for.''

The next thing he knows, he's surrounded by the trio of current companions who are quite worried about him, snapping him out of the daze. The Fourth Doctor simply gives them a serene glance and tells the group with an assuring smile, "It's the end... but the moment has been prepared for."

'''Production code:''' 5V

Written by Creator/ChristopherHBidmead. This four-episode serial first aired from February 28 to March 21, 1981.

The Doctor and Adric make a pit stop in 1981 Britain, so that the Doctor can materialize right on top of a real police box and make hyper-precise multi-dimensional measurements of it, which he needs to take to the mathematics nerds of Logopolis so they can fix the chameleon circuit. ([[{{ItMakesSenseInContext}} Just nod along, OK?]]) The Master, anticipating this, materializes his spare TARDIS (which [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin he nicked from Goth that one time]]) around that exact same police box moments before. Which means that the Doctor's TARDIS now contains the Master's TARDIS containing a real police box. (Still following us?) Time and space get a bit wonky, so the Doctor and Adric investigate the string of [=TARDISes=] in the console room -- all identical except for being [[EvilIsNotWellLit progressively less well-lit]].

-->'''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E6TheArmageddonFactor Black Guardian:]]''' '''DOCTOR! YOU SHALL''' '''''DIE FOR THIS!'''''

Dying, the Doctor has several soothing flashes back to his previous companions in that incarnation. The next thing he knows, he's surrounded by the trio of current companions who are quite worried about him, snapping him out of the daze. The Fourth Doctor simply gives them a serene glance and tells the group with an assuring smile, "It's the end... but the moment has been prepared for."

After a chat with the Watcher inside the deepest parts of the TARDIS, Adric is able to follow the Doctor, and the ducklings cause enough of a distraction to allow the Doctor to muck up the Master's plans. Fortunately, this leaves the larger part of the universe intact. Unfortunately, the Master and the Doctor break out into a fight on top of the Pharos Tower. Clashing on the gantry, the two Time Lords wrestle to the floor. The Master gets up first and bolts to the controls of the telescope. He tilts the radar dish until the gantry completely flips over. Grabbing a cable and desperately trying to hang on to it, the Doctor sees several visions of his various enemies taunting him. Gradually, his strength begins to fail him, and finally his grasp slips. The cowardly Master runs away sniggering in his TARDIS after this cheap act of murder.

* SafeBehindTheCorner: The Doctor and the Master hide behind a shed, out of sight from the some guards.

* FloatingAdviceReminder: Happens twice in Episode 4. The first time, while hanging on the Pharos Project's power cable, the Doctor is taunted by visions of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin the (decayed) Master]], a [[Characters/DoctorWhoDaleks Dalek]], the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E2ThePiratePlanet Pirate Captain]], the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E5RevengeOfTheCybermen Cyberleader]], [[Characters/DoctorWhoDavros Davros]], a [[Characters/DoctorWhoSontarans Sontaran]], a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons Zygon]], and the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E6TheArmageddonFactor Black Guardian]]. Then after falling, the Doctor sees visions of his past companions from Sarah-Jane to [[Characters/DoctorWhoRomana Romana II]].

The universe nearly ends and Creator/TomBaker leaves ''Doctor Who'' after an amazing-- and still unmatched-- seven years and forty-one ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E6Shada or forty-two]]) serials (clocking in at either 172 or 178 half-hour episodes overall). We're not sure which is more important at this stage.

** According to the expanded verse story (The Invasion of E-Space), CVE is (in that verse) the rarest of space-time events and almost undetectable, entities containing layers of highly charged quantum particles suspended in pockets of super-vacuums. They occupied the space between realities (possibly the void) and were so violent in their physics that when they formed they punched a hole between universes, pushing space aside to insinuate themselves into reality, releasing massive waves of energy in the process. (And since heat death means no more energy, the way they do so brings forth new energies to both universes.)

->''"It's the end... But the moment has been prepared for."''

The one with the cardboard cutout Master. And Four [[DeathByFallingOver having a big fall.]]