It seems strange to say that the second Peter Davidson
episode that we watched was in fact his last but the fact is ‘The Caves of
Androzani’ is widely hailed as one of the Fifth Doctor’s best episodes and the
temptation was too much. Despite some slightly peculiar scenes in which Peri is
kidnapped with Chloroform by a man names Jek in a PVC gimp suit.
In this episode the Doctor and his companion Peri land on
the Androzani Minor and stumble across a ball of some kind of sticky substance,
their then taken prisoner by the forces of General Chellak. It is whilst
imprisoned that the Doctor and Peri learn that they have entered the early
stages of Spectrox toxemia due to their exposure to a Spectrox. Queue the
Doctors mission to the deepest part of the caves where there is no oxygen in
search of the milk from a queen bat so that he can cure himself and Peri before
the toxemia takes hold and they die.
