The Tardis crew land in what appears to be the middle of a Turners routine with a clutch of men with well-toned muscles flying around. When our heroes admit to not being observers sent by the Ancients, one of the muscle-bound gentlemen takes them to these mysterious elders.
It turns out the planet has 3 suns and thusly perpetual daylight...except when there's an eclipse every few hundred years that plunges the planet into darkness and causes the inhabitants to turn into extras from The Purge.
The Doctor is given the knowledge of the Ancients in the hope that someday someone will teach the people that going apeshit during these eclipses is not the brightest idea. And so our heroes beat a retreat and helplessly look on "as a wonderful civilization died before their eyes". The Doctor, however, vows to return and teach them the ways of not being hysterical.
Short and with a depressing ending. It reminded me of a Genesis song.
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