Quotes
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The 1st Doctor: We're approaching a planet.
Ian Chesterton: Which one?
The 1st Doctor: We shall soon see.
Barbara Wright: [about the Doctor] Oh, I do wish he wouldn't talk in riddles!
Ian Chesterton: So do I.
"No, no. It's quite dead. Death has its own particular posture and appearance. Yes, yes." ~ The First Doctor
"These things haven't been made bigger. We've been made smaller." ~ Susan Foreman
The 1st Doctor: As I said my dear, it's fortunate for all of us that everything is dead.
Susan Foreman: [seeing the giant cat which is very much still alive] Grandfather!
"Barbara! He's standing at the sink. I can see him standing at the sink. He's turned the tap on!" ~ Ian Chesterton
"Wait a minute. I see we're beginning to materialize. Perhaps I should know now where we are." ~ The First Doctor
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Trivia
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The request to compress this serial into three parts came from Donald Wilson, BBC Head of Serials, who felt the story simply didn't work in four parts. Episode 3 was entitled, "Crisis" and episode 4 was to be called "The Urge to Live". In the end, the edited episode retained the original title of episode 3, "Crisis", but the end credits for "The Urge to Live", because that required the fewest edits at a time when editing was a very expensive proposition. Thus Douglas Camfield, who was in fact the director of "The Urge to Live", came to be the credited director of the transmitted version of "Crisis".
The story was filmed as part of the first bloc of stories but a decision was made to hold it over as the opener for the second series.
An emergency klaxon is heard in the TARDIS in episode one. This appears to be a forerunner of the Cloister bell (first heard in Logopolis and many stories since).
Ian ponders what kind of planet would produce large insects, and later finds out on Vortis, The Web Planet.
This is the first time the Doctor managed to get them back to contemporary Earth, since the first story, An Unearthly Child.
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Links (Watch on DailyMotion.com)
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Part 1: Planet of Giants
Part 2: Dangerous Journey
Part 3: Crisis
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