Quotes
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The 4th Doctor: We've come out of the time vortex at the wrong point, that's all. A few years too late.
Sarah Jane: How many?
The 4th Doctor: Thirty thousand.
"Oh, with any luck, we're near enough to reach wherever it is, before whatever it was that made them transmit the call overwhelms them. That is, if we're not too late already." ~ The Fourth Doctor
"So the people who sent that signal must be humanoid. Well, if they've got hands?" ~ Sarah Jane Smith
"I met him once, you know. Shakespeare. Charming fellow. Dreadful actor." ~ The Fourth Doctor
Sarah Jane: Do you ever get tired of being pushed around?
The Fourth Doctor: Frequently.
"Half my service I spend flying one way, the other half I spend flying back again. They should pay me for staying in one place." ~ De Haan
"If we're not vapourised first. Antimatter in collision with matter causes radiation annihilation. A release of energy more powerful than nuclear fission." ~ The Fourth Doctor
"What makes you think something's gone wrong?" ~ The Fourth Doctor
"Perhaps my receivers are better than yours. My manners certainly are." ~ The Fourth Doctor
"Fortunately, time is on our side." ~ The Fourth Doctor
"Didn't you learn anything? You're tampering with the balance of nature on this planet in ways you don't understand. It may already be too late." ~ The Fourth Doctor
"You and I are scientists, Professor. We buy our privilege to experiment at the cost of total responsibility." ~ The Fourth Doctor
"Professor Sorenson, has it ever occurred to you that you might be mistaken? That there is no practical method of exploiting antiquark energy?" ~ The Fourth Doctor
Sorenson: What is your friend's field of science?
Sarah Jane: Oh, everything. He's brilliant.
"Come on, Sarah. We've an appointment in London and we're already thirty thousand years late." ~ The Fourth Doctor
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Trivia
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From a certain point of view, this is the first story of the Philip Hinchcliffe era. The stories of Hinchcliffe's first year — which from a production standpoint included every story from The Ark in Space to Terror of the Zygons — were commissioned by Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks.
Philip Hinchcliffe has remarked that he approached Roger Murray-Leach to find out what sort of landscape he could do best in a studio. Murray-Leach remarked that he could "always do a good jungle." Despite the jungle setting of this serial, Leach built an intricately detailed jungle set and the shoot was entirely studio-bound. The BBC was so impressed with it that they kept photographs of it — which were also included in an internal BBC training manual — for several years as an example of excellent set design.
This is one of the few stories in which the Fourth Doctor removes his scarf for any extended period of time. He does not wear it for most of the third and fourth episodes.
This was the first story to feature the Fourth Doctor behind the console of the TARDIS. The TARDIS console room had not been seen on-screen since the Third Doctor serial Death to the Daleks. A new TARDIS console makes its television debut in this story, although it was first used in Pyramids of Mars which was filmed before Planet of Evil. However, due to an oversight the TARDIS console room — as seen in this story and Pyramids of Mars — did not include a scanner screen.
Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith) considered this her favourite serial.
The story was inspired by the movie Forbidden Planet and Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Forbidden Planet was itself inspired by William Shakespeare's play The Tempest, and the Doctor quotes Shakespeare at one point in the story.
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Links (Watch on DailyMotion.com)
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Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
DVD available for purchase at Amazon.com
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