
The Doctor finds Romana and Adric and they leave the planet, hoping it will develop once again toward its former advanced state. With the Great One dispatched, the three vampire Lords crumble to dust. The Doctor rigs one of the spaceship's old scout ships to launch and fall back toward the ground, driving itself into the heart of the subterranean Great One. Deep within the tower, he finds the last Great Vampire, about to be revived.

In the TARDIS the Doctor discovers that the Great Vampires could only be defeated using specially designed ships which fired steel bolts that speared the monsters through the heart. He wants Adric as a Chosen One and Romana, a Time Lord, for sacrifice at the Arising, the first taste of revenge for their master, the "Great One." Zargo and Camilla attack them, but Aukon compels them to stop. The Doctor returns to the TARDIS, while Romana stays with Tarak to search for Adric. The three lords are members of the original crew, mutated into vampires, while the subjects beneath them are the descendants of the other colonists, made dull and primitive by generations of breeding and oppression.Ī rebel called Tarak infiltrates the Tower, freeing the Doctor and Romana. After being taken prisoner by the three lords, The Doctor and Romana discover that the great Tower in which the Lords dwell is a spaceship called Hydrax, originally from Earth. The Doctor and Romana discover evidence of advanced technology and wonder what happened to cause the planet to devolve to its current "state of decay".
#Doctor who state of decay 3 full
The lords intend to revive their giant leader vampire, the "Great One", that converted them from humans after their spaceship crashed on the planet.Īfter the events of Full Circle, the Fourth Doctor, Romana, K9, and TARDIS stowaway Adric arrive on a planet with a feudal society whose inhabitants live under the thrall of three lords-Zargo, Camilla, and Aukon-who dwell in a shadowy Tower. In the serial, three vampire lords rule over a village deliberately kept at a low development level for a thousand years. State of Decay is the second of three loosely connected serials set in another universe known as E-Space.


#Doctor who state of decay 3 serial
State of Decay is the fourth serial of the 18th season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 22 November to 13 December 1980.
