Lupton was an embittered man. He had once been a successful salesman, but had been overtaken by younger employees and forced out of his company. By way of sorting out his life he enrolled at a Tibetan meditation centre in rural Berkshire. A small group formed around him of like-minded people, who intended to abuse the teachings of the centre to benefit themselves, due to their shared greed for wealth and influence. Meeting secretly in the cellars, the group chanted over a mandala as they focussed their minds on what they desired. This provided a portal for a race of mutant spiders, native to the planet Metebelis III in the far future. Their ruler - the Great One - sought to collect all of the special blue crystals from the planet, but one was missing. It had been removed by the Doctor on an earlier visit to the planet. He had then given it away as a wedding gift to assistant Jo Grant. A spider transported itself through the portal and attached itself to Lupton - physically and psychically. Through him it would retrieve the Doctor's crystal, which had been returned to UNIT HQ by Jo after it had disturbed the porters on her Amazonian expedition.
Lupton obtained the crystal and made off in the Doctor's new high-tech vehicle, and a lengthy chase ensued. The spider helped Lupton teleport to safety.
At the centre, the crystal was stolen just as Lupton and his spider were recalled to Metebelis III. They decided to bluff things out. Lupton's spider had designs on taking over from the spider queen.
Over time, Lupton was able to affect the spider in the same way that it controlled him, and they began to work as equals. When his spider deferred to the Great One, Lupton was furious and rebelled, fearing he would lose the power she had promised him. The spider council combined their powers against him.
Played by: John Dearth. Appearances: Planet of the Spiders (1974).
- Dearth had previously voiced the Global Chemicals computer BOSS in The Green Death.
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