Day 17: The Wall Of Lies

In the middle of this episode, the Doctor is finally able to fix the problem that has been plaguing the TARDIS crew over the course of this serial, and he fixes the TARDIS. And so we expect that events will begin to wrap up as we finish this serial and move onto the next adventure, and indeed things do seem to be happening along that train of thought, primarily with the Tegana (this adventure's unambigiously evil chap who we'll examine in greater detail later on) plotline, as Ping-Cho provides what she believes to be damning evidence against Tegana, but isn't really all that great. But we believe her for a second. We believe that this story will wrap up. For when this story was broadcast, there was no official BBC press release stating how long each story would go on for, it would just finish one week, and a new one would start the next week, with no idea of what would be ahead for our intrepid travellers on either their side, or the audience's side (or if the scripts were running late, the production side). So we have no idea how long this story will go on for, and that keeps things going, because it means that at any moment things could go one way or another.