We first meet the royal court of a recently-deceased God-king, who, because he died, has proven himself to be a false God. Now the whole religion must be thrown out, statues toppled, and heretics executed unless they sign the dark blue recantation form (remembering to keep the light blue copy in case a replacement receipt is required).
Into this satirical madness lands the Doctor and Frobisher, a shape-changer who has taken the form of a giant penguin. Their arrival gives the crowning of a new God-king a proper miracle and cements his place on the immortal throne. The bureaucratic traditions of this castle are soon upset when the new God's half-brother tries (as is tradition) to steal the throne. But with the Doctor and Frobisher in the mix, the pattern is broken and a dark secret is revealed.
This imaginative story keeps improving with every twist, and the introduction of a super-powered, genocidal 5-year-old results in the creepiest voice I have heard yet. Colin Baker's Doctor is a nice fit for the tale and he, and his Technicolor coat, are the only version of the Doctor that I could imagine partnered with a giant talking penguin.
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