The Doctor’s Companion Ep. 74 – Defending Your Life

The Doctor is presenting his defense while Scott and Matt are unable to exonerate the Colin Baker serial “Terror of the Vervoids”, the third part of The Trial of a Time Lord. The Doctor has chosen a story from his future to help defend himself against the Valeyard’s charges, in which he and his companion Mel investigate a murder on the spaceship Hyperion III, thwart a mutiny, and stop a hostile race of alien plants called the Vervoids. What do all of these things have to do with each other? Who is Mel and how did she begin traveling with the Doctor? How can the Doctor use an adventure from his future in his defense without breaking the first rule of time? Find out in the newest episode of The Doctor’s Companion! And remember, BEWARE OF SPOILERS!! Next: Colin Baker and “The Ultimate Foe”!!