Dumb Waiter (audio story)

 was the second story in The Second Doctor: Volume Two.

Publisher's summary
The Doctor and Victoria attend a civilised garden party. But their genial hostess, Mrs De Winter, is convinced that the garden conceals a secret; something about Carlos the head waiter who never speaks.

The hidden truth can be glimpsed by people less accustomed to the mask of politeness and cake. People like Jamie. And people like Leela, the mysterious “warrior of the Seventeen"...

Plot
Episode One

Early in their travels, the Fourth Doctor sends Leela back in time, to experience a past adventure of which he has inconsistent memories ...

Appearing aboard an earlier version of the Tardis, Leela accompanies the Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria as they attend a strange garden party held in a clearing of a tangled forest. Their host, Mrs De Winter, seems perturbed by the nature of the party's head waiter, Carlos, and at times the garden party itself. Leela, distrusting of the TARDIS crew, identifies the forest as Janus-like and extracts a thorn to use as defense.

Jamie and Leela can see the garden party is an illusion - people in fine dress milling around a putrid expanse of stones, rock and filth, eating from troughs, at the centre of which is a podium tower topped with an areal apparatus.

As the illusion begins to falter, the party guests transform into writhing monsters, consisting of barbed, slashing tentacles. Believing him to be an impostor and behind their predicament, Leela plunges the Janus thorn into the Doctor ...

Cast

 * Jamie McCrimmon / The Doctor - Frazer Hines
 * Leela / Mrs De Winter - Louise Jameson

Continuity

 * The Fourth Doctor remains behind in his TARDIS when he sends Leela into his past, allowing him to avoid encountering the Second Doctor and his companions. The Fourth Doctor would have a later adventure connected to the Second Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria, where he also avoided encountering his past incarnation and companions. (PROSE: Heart of TARDIS)