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''Inferno'' is the fourth and final serial of the seventh season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in seven weekly parts from 9 May to 20 June 1970. The serial remains the last time a ''Doctor Who'' story was transmitted in seven episodes. This serial was also the last regular appearance of Caroline John in the role of Liz Shaw. ==Plot== "The Inferno" is the nickname given to a project to penetrate the Earth's crust to reach pockets of Stahlman's Gas, which is theorised to be able to provide boundless amounts of cheap energy. Professor Stahlman is ill-tempered and obsessive about any interference with his work. Sir Keith Gold, the project director, is concerned about this and tells Petra Williams, Stahlman's assistant, that he is calling Greg Sutton, an oil drilling expert, to consult on safety issues. UNIT is overseeing security at the project. The Third Doctor is also present, as he is using surplus power from the project's nuclear reactor in experiments on the TARDIS console, hoping to repair it and end the exile on Earth imposed on him by the Time Lords (''The War Games''). Harry Slocum, a worker, encounters a toxic green slime seeping out of a pipe that mutates him into a subhuman primordial creature who kills several technicians and a soldier. The substance also scorches Stahlman's hand. Meanwhile, whilst operating the TARDIS console, the Doctor vanishes before the Brigadier and Liz and arrives in a parallel universe. On this Earth, Great Britain is a Republic under a Fascist regime, the British Royal Family having been executed many years previously. The Inferno project is also ongoing, though several hours ahead in this reality. The project is run as a scientific labour camp, under the auspices of Director Stahlmann, Professor Stahlman's counterpart. The Doctor, captured and under interrogation by the British Republican Security Forces, encounters alternative versions of his friends - "Brigade Leader" Lethbridge-Stewart, "Section Leader" Elizabeth Shaw, and "Platoon Under Leader" Benton. In this universe, Sir Keith Gold has recently died in a car accident. The Doctor tries to convince his friends' counterparts that he is from another universe, but they believe he is a spy, trying to feign insanity. The Doctor escapes his cell and tries to stop the drilling but is discovered. As Stahlmann holds the Doctor at gunpoint with the Brigade Leader's pistol, an earth tremor rocks the installation, and most of the technicians and RSF troops flee the complex in terror. Stahlmann and most of the scientists become Primords. The Doctor believes that the parallel Earth is doomed and tries to convince the others that he can stop this from happening in his own universe if they will help him to return. Finally agreeing to help the Doctor, the group fights off the hordes of Primords, including an infected and mutated Benton, with fire extinguishers, as the creatures thrive on heat and are vulnerable to cold temperatures. The parallel Petra and Sutton feed power to the TARDIS console. The Brigade Leader threatens to shoot the Doctor if he doesn't save them but is shot dead by Section Leader Shaw. The Doctor returns to his own universe just as a wall of lava sweeps towards the hut. After waking from a coma, the Doctor learns that since Sir Keith Gold survived the car accident that killed his parallel self, "the pattern can be changed" and this Earth need not perish. The Doctor tries to stop the project by smashing the equipment, but he is restrained by UNIT troops. This world's Stahlman has also mutated into a Primord and attacks the control room before being killed by the Doctor and Sutton with fire extinguishers. Petra has the drilling stopped, and with the project abandoned, Sir Keith plans to have the shaft filled in. Shortly before the nuclear reactor is deactivated, the Doctor tries to repair the TARDIS console but lands several hundred yards away at a rubbish dump. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Inferno (Doctor Who)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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