Trois jeunes terroristes assemblent une bombe dans un appartement du centre de Londres. Avertis de l'arrivée imminente de la police, ils fuient les lieux pour se réfugier dans un restaurant et prennent en otage les clients. Très vite, ils sont soupçonnés d'être en possession de mercure rouge. Une arme surpuissante aux conséquences inimaginables.

A boy, a girl, and the worst football team in Britain. You can't choose who you're going to fall in love with.

Un professeur de psychologie est confronté à son esprit rationnel lorsqu'il reçoit une lettre semblant provenir de l'au-delà.

The story revolves around the lost planet Shada, on which the Time Lords built a prison for defeated would-be conquerors of the universe. Skagra, one such inmate, needs the help of one of the prison's inmates. He finds nobody knows where Shada is anymore except one aged Time Lord who has retired to Earth, where he is a professor at St. Cedd's College, Cambridge. Luckily for the universe, Skagra's attempt to force the information out of Professor Chronotis coincides with a visit by the professor's old friend, the Doctor. (Filming for this story was never finished, and in this version the story is completed via animation.)