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'The Eighth Doctor detects a temporal anomaly on Armstrong's World, centred around the manor house of Baron Denton de Kay Leigh -- and involving one of his previous selves. While Charley investigates the Baron, the Doctor sets off in search of his earlier incarnation and finds the Seventh Doctor investigating a temporal anomaly that has destroyed the party worlds of the Van Koll system. The Baron has found an Ikoran artefact that enables him to strip people of their memories and personalities; he has been using it for his own amusement, and when Charley is captured, he rewrites her personality into that of a mercenary named Venetia and sends her to steal the TARDIS tracker that the Seventh Doctor had given to Hex. When Charley touches the tracker, however, her old memories begin to return, and she follows the tracker back to the TARDIS -- thus leading the Baron's henchmen to it. Fascinated, the Baron decides to reduce Charley to the basic components of her self and learn all about her; however, he's unaware that she is a living temporal anomaly, and that placing her in the chair will cause the temporal distortion that destroys the Van Koll system. The Seventh Doctor has discovered the truth, and has turned the Baron's henchmen to his side, using a combination of bribery and threats; he now leaves the Eighth Doctor to lead them to the Baron's manor house and destroy the artefact. However, the Eighth Doctor refuses to bully the henchmen into submission, and he releases them from the Baron's punishment collars and gives them the opportunity to help him of their free will. They decide to do so, and while they are fighting the Baron's robot guards, the Seventh Doctor slips into the manor house and frees Charley. The Baron captures the Seventh Doctor, places him in the artefact and devours his memories -- but the Doctor's mind is more powerful than he'd expected, and by taking it into himself, the Baron gives the Doctor the ability to control him. The Doctor uses the artefact to reconstitute himself, forces the Baron to sit in the artefact himself, and rewrites his personality and memories to make him a genial old man who genuinely cares for the colony he rules. When the Eighth Doctor arrives, his previous self has destroyed the artefact, and Charley is just recovering -- but while the Eighth Doctor is grateful that Charley has been spared, he's aware that her underlying condition will only grow worse...'

Source: drwhoguide.com (http://www.drwhoguide.com/whotrip16.htm). Sighted: 19/5/11

'The Doctor attends a virtual-reality concert created by Diamond Sharp, the greatest rock star of his generation, while Mel sits in with the technicians, more interested in the technology than the performance. However, one of Diamond's horror icons unexpectedly bites him in half, and monsters from his earlier rock operas storm off the stage and begin to slaughter the audience members, who find themselves unable to escape into reality. Diamond's manager, Rolly, manages to reach an exit point and escape; however, once outside the simulation, he's more concerned with handling the negative publicity for this fiasco than in helping those still trapped in the deadly VR environment. Inside, the Doctor is assisted by a black skeleton whom he names Jack, and by Robin Pen, a critic who helps escort the surviving audience members to an exit point. Mel connects herself to the VR simulation when she realises that Rolly isn't going to help, and meets an avatar of the AI that controls Diamond's computer deck. The AI used to belong to a serial killer who forced it to kill innocent victims, and when it began writing music as therapy to atone for what it had been made to do, Diamond took the AI's songs and sold them as his own. When the AI decided the time had come for it to move on, Diamond put together this final concert, intending to slaughter his audience, blame the AI and retire on the profits. The Doctor has by now deduced the truth for himself and confronted Diamond, who tries to kill him using imagery from the Doctor's own memories -- specifically, reminding him of the time he was exiled to Earth and forced to dance to the Brigadier's tune. However, Mel learns that the skeleton Jack is another avatar of the AI, and demands that it overcome the limitations of its programming and refuse to obey Diamond's homicidal commands any longer. Jack steps in to save the Doctor from his bad dreams, and the Doctor sends Diamond into a coma by creating a scenario in which Diamond has become universally forgotten. The Doctor and Mel emerge from VR and convince Rolly to take on the AI as his new client; if he sells its songs to many artists instead of just one, he will become rich and famous.'

[The Doctor is the Sixth Doctor.]

Source: drwhoguide.com (http://www.drwhoguide.com/whotrip16.htm). Sighted 20/5/11