Episode 2: The Death of Time
Episode 3: Flight through Eternity
Episode 4: Journey into Terror
Episode 5: The Death of Doctor Who
Episode 6: The Planet of Decision
THE STORY
The travellers are forced to flee in the TARDIS when they learn from the Time/Space Visualiser taken from the Moroks' museum that a group of Daleks equipped with their own time machine are on their trail with orders to exterminate them. The chase begins on the desert planet Aridius and takes in a number of stopping-off points including the observation gallery of New York's Empire State Building, the 19th Century sailing ship Mary Celeste (the Daleks' appearance causing all the crew and passengers to jump overboard) and a spooky haunted house which, although the Doctor and his friends do not realise it, is actually a futuristic fun-fair attraction.
Eventually, both time machines arrive on the jungle planet of Mechanus, where the Daleks try to infiltrate and kill the Doctor's party using a robot double of him. The travellers are taken prisoner by the Mechanoids - a group of robots sent some fifty years before to prepare landing sites for human colonists who never arrived - and meet Steven Taylor, a stranded astronaut who has been the Mechanoids' captive for the past two years. The Daleks and the Mechanoids engage in a fierce battle which ultimately results in their mutual destruction, and the Doctor's party seize the opportunity to escape. The Doctor reluctantly helps Ian and Barbara to use the Daleks' time machine to return home, while Steven stows away aboard the TARDIS.
CAST:
The Doctor (William Hartnell), Ian Chesterton (William Russell), Barbara Wright (Jacqueline Hill), Vicki (Maureen O'Brien), Steven Taylor (Peter Purves), Abraham Lincoln (Robert Marsden), Francis Bacon (Roger Hammond), Queen Elizabeth I (Vivienne Bennett), William Shakespeare (Hugh Walters), Televison Announcer (Richard Coe), Dalek Voices (Peter Hawkins, David Graham), Daleks (Robert Jewell, Kevin Manser, John Scott Martin, Gerald Taylor), Mire Beast (Jack Pitt), Malsan (Ian Thompson), Rynian (Hywel Bennett), Prondyn (Al Raymond), Guide (Arne Gordon), Morton Dill (Peter Purves), Albert C Richardson (Dennis Chinnery), Captain Benjamin Briggs (David Blake Kelly), Bosun (Patrick Carter), Willoughby (Douglas Ditta), Cabin Steward (Jack Pitt), Frankenstein (John Maxim), Count Dracula (Malcolm Rogers), Grey Lady (Roslyn de Winter), Robot Dr. Who (Edmund Warwick), Mechanoid Voice/Mechonoid Voice (David Graham), Mechanoid/Mechonoids (Murphy Grumbar, Jack Pitt, John Scott Martin), with Jack Pitt, John Scott Martin, Ken Tyllson.
FACTS:
Stock film from Top of the Pops of the Beatles singing 'Ticket to Ride' on the Time/Space Visualiser scene was used in the first episode, instead of a planned live appearance by the fab four made up as old men, which was vetoed by their manager Brian Epstein.
The Dalek force on Mechanus includes some adapted Daleks from the cinema film.
OTHER FORMATS:
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