24. The Celestial Toymaker

The Celestial Toymaker really takes Doctor Who outside his box. For the first time, we meet an alien more powerful than the TARDIS. The Doctor is essentially at the Toymakers mercy and has to play his games. Up to this point, the Doctor has gone up against rather human adversaries in history and credible alien threats. But we now are introduced to a being verging on the god like.

William Hartnell is invisible for most of the story as he was probably in vacation for most of the filming. We're left with Steven and Dodo in some very mod clothing from the TARDIS wardrobe. The Toymaker pits them against some of his outrageous game pawns.

Only the 4th episode of this story still exists and show the final showdown between the Doctor and crew against the Toymaker. It's a great taste of this story but it reminds us of what a shame it is that the whole story doesn't exist. The story ends with the Doctor biting a piece of candy and getting a toothache leading to our next adventure....

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Celestial_Toymaker

Next adventure: The Gunfighters!!