DVD Review: Doctor Who - The Horns of Nimon

Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television series featuring The Doctor, a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey whose adventures see him travel through time and space. Over the years, different actors have starred in the role, and to compensate for the realities of the television business Time Lords were given the ingenious ability to regenerate their bodies when they die.

The Horns of Nimon is the 108th story of the Doctor first broadcast in four weekly parts from December 22, 1979 to January 12th, 1980 on BBC 1. "Part One" opens with the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) and his companions Romana (Lalla Ward who followed Mary Tamm in the role), a fellow Time Lord, and K-9, his robotic dog, coming upon a dilapidated ship of the Skonnan Empire transporting sacrifices from the planet Aneth and hymetusite crystals. Both items are intended for the Nimon, a creature who promises to restore the Skonnan Empire to prominence.

The Doctor and Romana restore power to the Skonnan ship, and while The Doctor is back on The TARDIS, which is also in need of repair, the ship's co-pilot leaves him and K-9 behind to resume his mission. When he arrives on Skonnos and reveals one of the crystals was used to fix the ship, the leader Soldeed orders everyone from the ship into a labyrinth where the Nimon resides and is revealed to look like the Minotaur from Greek mythology. Though slow moving, the Nimon is powerful and dangerous with the ability to shoot deadly rays out its horns.

When the Doctor arrives on Skonnos, he heads into the labyrinth to rescue Romana and the others. Before they can figure out how to defeat the creature, more Nimon arrive through a transport set up in a lab. While trying to figure out how the device works, the Doctor accidentally sends Ramona back to wherever the transport originated.

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