Шада- планета-тюрьма Повелителей Времени, в которой они заключали самых опасных преступников. Скагра, гений с планеты Дроноид хочет создать "Вселенский разум" который будет содержать знания этих преступников. Но знание о местонахождение планеты Шада уже давно утеряно. Единственный кто его знает, это повелитель времени профессор Хронотис. Шада начинает его преследовать, профессор обращается за помощью к своему старому другу- Доктору.
The story revolves around the lost planet Shada, on which the Time Lords built a prison for defeated would-be conquerors of the universe. Skagra, one such inmate, needs the help of one of the prison's inmates. He finds nobody knows where Shada is anymore except one aged Time Lord who has retired to Earth, where he is a professor at St. Cedd's College, Cambridge. Luckily for the universe, Skagra's attempt to force the information out of Professor Chronotis coincides with a visit by the professor's old friend, the Doctor. (Filming for this story was never finished, and in this version the story is completed via on-camera narration.)
When a black Civil War veteran becomes co-owner of the southern McMasters ranch, the incensed local Confederate veterans come gunning for him and his Indian wife.