* This was the audio debut for [[David Bradley]] as the [[First Doctor]]. His first line in the audio was: "Stop complaining, Chessison. Come along."
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* This was the audio debut for [[David Bradley]] as the [[First Doctor]]. His first line in the audio was: [[File:DW1D0101 thedestinationwars alt 1417.jpg|thumb|184x184px|Alternate cover]]"Stop complaining, Chessison. Come along."
* This was also the debut performance for [[James Dreyfus]] as {{Dreyfus}}.
* This was also the debut performance for [[James Dreyfus]] as {{Dreyfus}}.
The TARDIS arrives in a gleaming utopia in the Space Year 2003. Has the Doctor truly brought Ian and Barbara home, to glimpse their future?
The world owes much to its legendary Inventor, and Susan finds herself face to face with the great benefactor. But soon, the time travellers are in a world at war and the Doctor must confront his past.
Space Years are based on how many years have passed since the humanoid ancestors of Destination's inhabitants left for space. Robac and Tanna's great-grandparents crashlanded on Destination.
The TARDIS arrives in Space Year 2003. The Master brings them to Space Year 2015, where war has broken out (Robac having died in the first year of the war, Space Year 2009), and the Doctor stays behind until Space Year 2017 to help mend the peace.
The Doctor believes Destination, on the farthest arm of its galaxy, is billions of light-years from the Milky Way.
The Master suggests that Ian and Barbara are suffering from Stockholm syndrome in relation to the Doctor's kidnapping of them. He realises that, being from 1963, Ian would be unaware of the term.
The Master claims it took Destination's ancestors almost two millennia to cross one star system. Robac mentions that they spent most of that time in cryo-sleep.
The Master influences the people of Destination to develop the technology to split the atom, as he requires nuclear fission, via a fission bomb or nuclear warhead, to restart his dimensional engines.
Ian and Barbara still have clothes in the TARDIS from Peking. (TV: Marco Polo)
The Master mentions that the Doctor isn't the only one to meet with Houdini, indicating the Doctor has already met him, or implying he knows the Doctor will meet him with Ben Jackson and Polly Wright. (AUDIO: Smoke and Mirrors)
According to one account, the Master had the appearance of Roger Delgado while on Gallifrey. According to another, he had Anthony Ainley's likeness. According to another one, the one with James Dreyfus's appearance was the incarnation who ran away from Gallifrey.
While fighting to extend his life at the end of his regeneration cycle, many bodies were possessed by the Beevers incarnation, but all kept somehow reverting to his real being until he finally regenerated into the MacQueen one. Hence, these sections cannot be strictly chronological
