Foreshadowing.

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50yearsofwhovians:

040 The Enemy of the World by David Whitaker

Illustrated by shh-im-wondering

Season 5, Story 4:

The TARDIS lands on Earth but in the near future. Ramon Salamander, an enigmantic politician and scientist is being heralded as ‘The Shopkeeper of the World’ thanks to relieving global famine. However, strangely all his political opponents keep disappearing. Stranger still: he looks identical to the Doctor!

Can the uncanny resemblance help the Doctor bring about the tyrant’s downfall?

STORY FACTS ~

• All but one part of this story is MISSING.
• It features the Second Doctor and companions Jamie McCrimmon and Victoria Waterfield.
• Patrick Troughton portrayed both the Doctor and his enemy, Ramon Salamander in this story. 
• Seeing as William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton and Colin Baker have all portrayed the Doctor as well as another character, and that Romana also regenerated into a likeness of a character they had met before, it is possible to argue that Time Lords take on the appearance of other people in their time stream. 
• This is the only story in the season which isn’t a “Base Under Siege  story.
• The story takes place at a time when the world is ruled by the World Zones Organisation, and is divided into several sections.
• Patrick Troughton’s son David makes a cameo in this story. He would later start in the Tenth Doctor story Midnight.
• The final part of this story ended with a unique trailer for the next story The Web of Fear in which the Doctor broke the fourth wall and spoke to the audience about the Yeti’s return before running away from said creature. Unfortunately  as with the rest of the episode, this trailer has been lost.