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Part one
Reginald "Reggie" Bassett drives his fiance Florence Wickham to his aunt Lady Florence Bassett's mansion where they are introduced. However, Florence has been hoodwinked and is zapped by a machine that has Lady Florence Bassett transferred into her body. Elsewhere, Mr. Meadows orders Mabel Dobbs to prepare the lord and lady's kippers, and when she questions him about them he evades answering.

The Doctor explains to Romana that the TARDIS is gone. currently leading the Black Guardian on a wild chase through time and space, with K-9 inside helping. The two remain on earth in the meantime. Mabel interrupts them, saying she has prepared the Doctor's kippers, but the Doctor decides he's not hungry. Lady Florence Basset, after memory-wiping Reginald, tasks him with finding himself a wife in London. The Doctor meanwhile tells Romana to go keep herself busy while he works on repairing a mysterious machine and she decides to go out into the city to find some mathematical and scientific books to read. She comes across a bookstore asking for such literature where he meets Reginald, who also claims to be interested in the same subjects, and asks her to join him for lunch so they can discuss more. The Doctor gets his machine working and discovers there is alien technology operating on Earth in the roaring twenties. He decides to go investigate and takes Mabel with him. Grenville drops in while Romana goes off to tell the Doctor by phone that she's heading with Reginald back to his country estate (however she isn't able to reach him) and advises Reginald on the next steps. The Doctor and Mabel head towards the source of the alien signal, Bassett hall, when they are passed by Romana, Reginald and Grenville also in car, unbeknownst to each other that they are headed to the same destination. The Doctor and Mabel are found and threatened by Gamekeeper Diggery in the field who is alerted to help Grenville track down Romana, who had escaped after Reginald and Grenville revealed their plans to have Reginald marry Romana. The Doctor and Mabel discover a spaceship while investigating further but become trapped in it while Romana is brought before Reginald's aunt Florence who attempts to take her body using her machine...

Part two
The body-taking process is interrupted as the Doctor and Mabel managed to cut the power supply from the spaceship and Lady Florence begins to destabilize. She orders Diggery to track them down and kill them, which he almost does but the Doctor and Mabel manage to get away. Meanwhile, Grenville pursues Romana and Reginald. While on the run, Romana turns Reginald's marriage proposal down, explaining she is uninterested and that they're not compatible either. Reginald is distraught but before he can contemplate and regain his senses, Romana quickly explains her plan and they put it into action. The Doctor is cornered by Diggery but disables him using his sonic screwdriver by unscrewing the screws in his frame causing him to fall apart. Mabel, in the thick of the action, ends up in a rosebush but is found by Reginald. He explains his utter confusion at the situation but is slightly comforted by Mabel. The Doctor is cornered next by Grenville but escapes.

Lady Florence, close to death, contacts Grenville and instructs him to go after Romana rather than the Doctor so she can secure a body before she perishes. Romana is cornered by Grenville who takes her to see Lady Florence. Mabel and Reginald watch the stars when they are found by the Doctor and he explains to the Doctor about the strangeness of his aunt and everything going on. The Doctor tells Mabel to go back to the village and tells Reginald they have to find his aunt. Mabel kisses Reginald goodbye and runs off but instead ends up saving Romana while Reginald and the Doctor are off to Bassett hall to confront Reginald's aunt.

The Doctor and Reginald arrive in the hall and after Reginald explains his past succession of upbringing under different aunts the Doctor realises it's the same aunt in different bodies and realises the control lodged in Reginald's lobe that his "aunt" has been using to wipe his memory. Romana and Mabel find a deactivated android and attempt to reprogram it but are cornered by Grenville while inside the ship who threatens to kill Mabel and is instructed by Lady Florence to reactivate the power. Lady Florence is found by the Doctor and Reginald and is at their mercy. She explains how she came to be, how Reginald plays into the situation and with Grenville having successfully activatied the power, she rejuvenates and attempts to kill the Doctor. Romana, in the meantime, reveals she had reprogrammed one of the devices to effect Grenville rather than organic matter, destroying Grenville.

Reginald, watching his "aunt" attempt to destroy the Doctor cannot bear it. Romana, meanwhile, finds Grenville's neutron cell and sets it to explode so that it can destroy the ship and Ligeia's (Florence's) power supply. The Doctor warns her, having programmed the ship to detonate before-hand, but she ignores his advice. The ship explodes and the power supply is destroyed, causing Ligeia to crumble away, defeated. The Doctor bids Reginald goodbye and advises him to settle down with a girl then heads back into town to find Romana, unaware of her role in the events that had unfolded. Reginald finds Mabel and Romana, explaining what happened (but forgetting to mention the Doctor) and Romana bids them farewell. Reginald, before Mabel can set off with Romana, declares his love for her and the two walk away to plan their wedding as Reginald is the new lord of Bassett hall.

The Doctor returns to his and Romana's mansion when Romana arrives. They both explain to each other about their strange day of having stopped an alien menace, only to realise that they had both fought the same menace, unaware of the other's involvement and get into an argument over who really saved the day and stopped the alien menace. A bemused Romana offers to get the Butler to make them some tea, claiming they both have "a spot of explaining to do".

Continuity

 * Romana makes mention of several scientific theories such as quantum theory, (TV: The Ark in Space, AUDIO: Ghostwalk et al.)
 * 11:00 -> quantum theory stuff

Part one
Laura Corbett enters a bookshop to sell her deceased father's books and returns home to her husband Simon Corbett who cooks her dinner. The two are newly-wed with a child named Edward and attempting to fix up an old house that they've just moved into. Later that evening a murder occurs in the bookstore and the shop owner, Rance, is found dead with paper stuffed down his throat. The Doctor and Leela investigate the crime scene at the book shop the very next day along with the dispatched police constable Ellis Andrews. The two decide to go around the neighbourhood and interview potential suspects about the murder while Ellis stays behind and runs into Laura, who had returned to the shop thinking she'd accidentally left a manuscript in the box of books she sold the previous day. The Doctor and Leela first try and interview Lesley King who throws them out of her house. They then try and interview head of neighbourhood watch Celia Turner but she attempts to murder them using cyanide in their tea and the Doctor, catching the smell of almonds, bests her and he and Leela discover that she is a character from the Land of Fiction and watch as she is "killed" by the Crooked Man who tears the spine of her book and makes a getaway. The Doctor and Leela follow in pursuit.

Their chasing leads them back to Laura and Simon's house where as they arrive, Simon, Laura and Ellis (the latter two having just arrived as Ellis offered to safely walk her home) discover more books amassing around the house despite Laura selling off all her father's old collected books yesterday. They are then contacted through the baby monitor by the Crooked Man who speaks to the Doctor and warns him that the Land of Fiction is coming...

Part two
The Crooked Man kidnaps baby Edward and escapes into his world, dubbed "The Crooked World" by the Doctor and the Doctor, Leela, Laura, Simon and Ellis chase after him. They venture further into the Crooked Man's world and encounter several strange creatures that seem to be made of paper-mache. Simon manages to defeat their adversaries with ease, displaying an almost inhuman bout of strength, piquing the Doctor's interest but they press on further. They eventually manage to find the Crooked Man who reveals that he managed to break into reality through a portal he found and has lured them into a trap. The Doctor, who had questioned Laura earlier, asks her to explain how she knew so much about the Crooked Man and she finally reveals that her father used to be a writer and wrote unconventionally scary stories that he would sometimes frighten her with (she explained they did not get along well), one of them being the Crooked Man's story, a story about a demon that ate people's imaginations and loved to kill and the Doctor surmises this creature had the power to step through dimensions due to having such incredible powers. They find the Crooked Man who reveals it was a trap, which the Doctor suspected, but as he controls his world he uses his powers to start draining their minds, however, Simon breaks free and confronts the Crooked Man, freeing the others from his control. Ellis then finds the manuscript for the story and they manage to defeat the Crooked Man by destroying it. They then hear the other inhabitants of the Crooked World from the Land of Fiction trying to escape back to reality but the Doctor says they cannot be allowed out as they kill humans in order to survive.

While the others think that with the Crooked Man's death the breach between the Land of Fiction and reality will close, the Doctor realises this isn't the case and goads Laura into revealing her real secret. The truth is that her husband Simon, an ideal husband, further demonstrated by even taking her last name, is actually the construct of her imagination. It turns out that PC Ellis was actually the one who got Laura pregnant and then left her for another woman and in her distress, Laura had imagined a husband that she would describe to others so vividly that he was born in the Land of Fiction as Simon, and she had imagined him as the kind of husband who would stop at nothing to be there for his son, "not even the walls of reality". Simon, the cause of the breach, realises he must stay behind to properly close the breach, much to Laura's anger and resentment. They all manage to escape just in time with Edward safely in his room again.

Leela is perplexed that Laura would, despite knowing the truth that her husband wasn't real, would live in denial for so long, with the Doctor reassuring her that everything will work out and that they should go try out crazy golf.

Laura finishes the story for Edward and says that although it was how his first father passed on, he has a new father who, although not perfect, loves him very much. She then wishes him a goodnight.

Continuity

 * The Doctor reads the first line from "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens. He would later meet Charles Dickens in his ninth incarnation in Cardiff in 1856. (TV: The Unquiet Dead)
 * When the Doctor accidentally interprets Ellis' question of being alright as directed at him, he states that "a few bruises and scratches but otherwise nothing that requires regeneration". The Doctor as a Timelord is able to regenerate. (TV: The Tenth Planet, The War Games, et al.)