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Doctor Who Pyramids of Mars by Terrance Dicks

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This collection of text, titled "Doctor Who and the Pyramids of Mars" by Terrance Dicks, is a novelization of a BBC television serial by Stephen Harris. It chronicles the Fourth Doctor and his companion Sarah Jane Smith arriving at a country estate in 1911 where an ancient evil, Sutekh the Destroyer, is attempting to break free from imprisonment in an Egyptian pyramid. A human, Professor Marcus Scarman, inadvertently aids Sutekh's escape, leading to attacks by animated mummies. The narrative follows the Doctor and Sarah as they confront Sutekh, prevent the destruction of Earth by traveling to Mars, and ultimately defeat the powerful alien entity by trapping him in time. The epilogue provides a newspaper report that explains the tragic events as a fire, concealing the truth from the human world.

This collection of text, titled "Doctor Who and the Pyramids of Mars" by Terrance Dicks, is a novelization of a BBC television serial by Stephen Harris. It chronicles the Fourth Doctor and his companion Sarah Jane Smith arriving at a country estate in 1911 where an ancient evil, Sutekh the Destroyer, is attempting to break free from imprisonment in an Egyptian pyramid. A human, Professor Marcus Scarman, inadvertently aids Sutekh's escape, leading to attacks by animated mummies. The narrative follows the Doctor and Sarah as they confront Sutekh, prevent the destruction of Earth by traveling to Mars, and ultimately defeat the powerful alien entity by trapping him in time. The epilogue provides a newspaper report that explains the tragic events as a fire, concealing the truth from the human world.

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