Porphyrion Chief Clerk
Finales del siglo XIX. Margaret Schlegel y su hermana Helen son dos mujeres cultas y emancipadas para la época en que viven. Su relación con la convencional familia Wilcox acaba en enemistad. Sin embargo, pasado cierto tiempo, se establece una estrecha relación entre Margaret y la señora Ruth Wilcox, quien, para disgusto de su familia, decide nombrar heredera de su mansión a la mayor de las Schlegel.
Ice Soldier / First Judge / Guard
The TARDIS arrives on the planet Marinus on an island of glass surrounded by a sea of acid. The travellers are forced by the elderly Arbitan to retrieve four of the five operating keys to a machine called the Conscience of Marinus, of which he is the keeper. These have been hidden in different locations around the planet to prevent them falling into the hands of the evil Yartek and his Voord warriors, who plan to seize the machine and use its originally benevolent mind-influencing power for their own sinister purposes.