This is from the Tom Baker (1975) era as The Doctor with Sarah Jane
(Elizabeth Sladen) as his companion. It is available through instant
Netflix. I remember this show from when I use to stay up late and watch
it on PBS in Utah--television style. You had to stay up late sometimes
to catch all the episodes in a series. This has four episodes. The
Doctor lands on Earth in the past because of a temporal shift. This
shift is caused by an ancient monster/god of some power named Sutekh who
was imprisoned by the other gods of the time on Mars. There is somehow
a connection between Sutekh and and Egyptian pyramid. He inhabits an
archaeologist, at least mentally, when he discovers the ancient tomb in
Egypt. This puts in motion a series of events in which Sutekh plans to
fee himself by firing from Earth a rock at Mars to destroy the mechanism
which is keeping him captive. The doctor has to thwart this plan as
Sutekh hopes to enslave everyone and take over the universe. He
apparently has power to do so if he were free. The Doctor is able to
destroy the rocket, but only by confronted Sutekh directly, who takes
him prisoner and discovers he has a TARDIS which will easily help him in
escape. However the Doctor thwarts him with the control mechanism to
the TARDIS which he attaches to the temporal shift machine Sutekh is
using to travel to Earth to take control of the TARDIS. An intriguing
story. Sutekh has some mean robot mummies, and the original
archaeologist makes a good monster, looking like Boris Karloff.
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