WHAT HAPPENED TO KAMELION?

Tegan enquires what Kamelion is up to in the TARDIS.

Whether regular TV viewers had noticed his non-appearance in the series since first joining the TARDIS crew with the previous season's The King's Demons is unknown, but the series fans certainly did. Prior to his eventual demise with the eventual Planet of Fire, a planned sequence filmed for Season Twenty-One's The Awakening was shot but sadly cut for time, though it thankfully made it onto eventual DVD release.

It's a shame that Kamelion's full potential couldn't have been realized at the time, and that he couldn't have taken human form (instead of his difficult to operate machine visage) for the season so as to adventure alongside his friends. Though such a scenario would surely have made it even more difficult to plot stories effectively, adding further headaches to script editor Eric Saward's already heavy workload.

Tegan sees Kamelion examining a roundel and asks what it's doing.

Kamelion, unnerving Tegan with the voice of the Doctor, replies that the Time Lord has given the robot full access to the TARDIS systems.

Kamelion also speaks as Turlough in the event that it may make Tegan feel less troubled. It doesn't work.

As a distortion wave enters the TARDIS, Kamelion recommends that, for safety, Tegan return to the console room.

The ill-fated Kamelion prop at the Acton Hilton rehearsal rooms for the story.