Number six, and a scene in which a lot of what we thought we knew about the Doctor is turned on its head.
Up to now, there has always been something unique about him, and we've been lead to believe that the TARDIS is a creation of his own invention. The idea that he comes from a race of people, who all have access to near identical machines like this, was unthinkable. Susan's insistence that she devised the name, and the Doctor's rather ambiguous statement that a particular component had been in the ship since he built it (but does he mean the ship, or just the component?) had made us think that he invented the TARDIS. Working against this, though, was his relative unfamiliarity with how the TARDIS functioned - which did hint that he had borrowed or stolen it.
The first two instalments of The Time Meddler had introduced the Meddling Monk and shown him to be a time-traveller. He was in the 11th Century, but enjoying gramophone records and electric hotplates.
The cliff-hanger to Part Three broke the news that not only was he a time-traveller, he was specifically a traveller from the same race as the Doctor, with his own TARDIS. The Doctor wasn't unique. There were other members of his race out there - ones who lacked his moral compass and who abused their power. The road to the Time Lords, and especially the rogue Time Lords, begins here.
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