M045 - Project Lazarus

When I saw that this episode was a multi-Doctor story I was quite excited. I thought I was going to have to wait until Zagreus (M050) to hear a proper team-up story. Turns out I was half-right because although both Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy are in the story it isn't quite so straightforward as two Doctors meeting.

Right away it is revealed that this is actually a sequel to Project Twilight (M023), which was a 2 TARDIS vampire story that didn't make much impact. It turns out the Doctor has not forgotten he abandoned vampiress Cassie in Norway, and now he is heading back to find her to test a cure for her condition. He and Evelyn find Cassie on the run and are soon drawn back into the world of Nimrod (least threatening villain name ever) and The Forge, his secret vampire lab.

The story actually concludes by the end of the second episode so that halfway through we switch and are now with Sylvester McCoy's seventh Doctor when he is drawn back to Nimrod and The Forge again. But this is when things get interesting.

Colin Baker steps out from behind Nimrod and reveals he has been helping the crazy scientist with his plan. Hard to believe, and Doctor #7 stays skeptical, but the two Doctors team up to solve the issue of the Forge.

The story takes a few predictable twists, but the banter of two Doctors in the same room is there to be heard anyway. It's a fairly successful story that is really only limited by Nimrod and his plot being less interesting than some of the Doctor's opponents have been.