Classic Who - Season 6, Story 50 - The War Games

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"We're back in history, Jamie. One of the most terrible times on the planet Earth." ~ The Second Doctor

"There's something very strangely wrong here." ~ The Second Doctor

Redcoat: Highlander! Keep away from me, you!
Jamie: Hey, easy now. I'm a prisoner too, you know! How'd you get here? Well, come on, how did you get here?
Redcoat: I don't know, I can't remember! I got lost, I think.
Jamie: What year do you think it is?
Redcoat: Year? Why, it's seventeen forty five.

"How dare you treat me like this, sir! Don't you address me like that, sir! This is disgraceful! I shall make a complaint directly to the Minister himself!" ~ The Second Doctor

"But that's a complete anachronism. It's something out of it's own time." ~ The Second Doctor

Zoe: That mist, Doctor, what was it?
The 2nd Doctor: I don't know, Zoe. Some sort of force field.

Buckingham: Doctor, who were those people who attacked us just now?
The 2nd Doctor: Oh, they were Romans.
Carstairs: Oh, but that's impossible!
The 2nd Doctor: Oh, lots of impossible things happen when you pass through time.

Lucke: For the last time, what is your name?
The 2nd Doctor: Why don't you just call me Doctor?

"What a way to fight, though, hiding in wee holes and blasting each other with big guns." ~ Jaime

"Doctor, look, it is like the Tardis. Bigger inside than out.  But who else would have space time machines like the Tardis?" ~ Zoe

Buckingham: Oh, wait for me.
Jamie: Ah, now, Lady Jennifer, I don't think you should come.
Buckingham: Because I'm a woman?
Jamie: No, er, well, in a way, yes.
Buckingham: That settles it then. I'm certainly coming. You can't go alone.

"But the War Chief. He's the only one who understands space time travel." ~ Scientist

"Are you suggesting he's bringing in his own people, the Time Lords?" ~ Scientist

"There is only one way they could have escaped. By use of a space time machine." ~ Security Chief

"Oh my goodness!" ~ The Second Doctor

"You must surrender, Doctor, or you will all be crushed to death. You have thirty seconds to decide." ~ The War Chief

"He's locked off the controls and taken the master circuit rods. What an ingenious fellow he is." ~ The War Chief

"Then I hope that time is on your side." ~ The War Lord

"Have you looked for this space time machine of theirs? They will no doubt try to return to it. That's where we should be looking for them. It's a simple enough conclusion. You might even have reached it yourself." ~ The War Chief

"A violent attack on the Chateau would almost certainly destroy the control units there. The time zone barriers would disappear. No, use the conventional forces. Could be quite amusing. A mass attack on the chateau. A pincer movement with our little band of heroes caught in it's jaws." ~ The War Lord

Security Chief: And the Doctor? Will he die with the rest?
War Chief: Why shouldn't he?
Security Chief: He seems to have a charmed life.
War Chief: Only when you have a hand in his fate. This Doctor will die.

"I've set up a time zone barrier all round the chateau. Your people can come and go just as you please. At last we've got a safe base from which to fight them! We can carry out the next step in complete safety." ~ The Second Doctor

"The interrogation of that resistance leader might prove difficult. He is obviously a man of substantial intellect. He will need special treatment." ~ The Second Doctor

The 2nd Doctor: I had every right to leave.
The War Chief: Stealing a Tardis? Oh, I'm not criticising you. We are two of a kind.
The 2nd Doctor: We most certainly are not!
The War Chief: We were both Time Lords and we both decided to leave our race.
The 2nd Doctor: I had reasons of my own.

"Man is the most vicious species of all. Consider their history. For a half a million years they have been systematically killing each other. Now we can turn this savagery to some purpose. We can bring peace to the galaxy, and you can help. You see, I'm not the cold-hearted villain you suppose me to be. My motives are purely peaceful." ~ The War Chief

The 2nd Doctor: Now I understand. It's my Tardis that you're after, isn't it?
War Chief: Exactly! When we are in control, the machines I have brought with me will have expired. If we hold the only space time travel machine, we can rule our galaxy without fear of opposition.

Zoe: What did he mean, Doctor? Who mustn't you call?
The 2nd Doctor: The only people who can put an end to this whole ghastly business and send everyone back to their own times. The Time Lords.

"Don't worry. When the Time Lords get him, he'll wish you had killed him. They're coming" ~ The War Lord

Jamie: Why did you run away from them in the first place?
The 2nd Doctor: What? Well, I was bored.
Zoe: What do you mean, you were bored?
The 2nd Doctor: Well, the Time Lords are an immensely civilised race. We can control our own environment, we can live forever, barring accidents, and we have the secret of space time travel.
Jamie: Well what's so wrong in all that?
The 2nd Doctor: Well we hardly ever use our great powers. We consent simply to observe and to gather knowledge.

"Aye, you can say that again. Whenever there's any trouble, he's in it right up to his neck." ~ Jaime

"You have returned to us, Doctor. Your travels are over." ~ Time Lord

"My War Chief was himself was a Time Lord, and the knowledge he brought me made the whole scheme possible. And another of your Time Lords gave me his support! You collaborated with my War Chief. If I am guilty, then you are guilty too!" ~ The War Lord

"True, I am guilty of interference, just as you are guilty of failing to use your great powers to help those in need!" ~ The Second Doctor

"Again? Now, Zoe, you and I know, time is relative, isn't it?" ~ The Second Doctor

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Patrick Troughton's son, David (who had previously been an extra in The Enemy of the World and would go on to portray King Peladon in The Curse of Peladon and Winfold Hobbes in Midnight), appears in the minor speaking role of Private Moor.

Clips were used in episode 10 from The Web of Fear (the TARDIS in space), Fury from the Deep (the sea landing) and The Wheel in Space (a Wheel exterior).

The story title, episode number and writers' credits for each episode are shown over a stock footage montage of explosions and gunfire.

The space/time machines that the War Chief provides for the games are only named SIDRAT once (in episode seven, when it's pronounced 'side rat'). The acronym is never explained on-screen, but Malcolm Hulke's novelisation of the story reveals it to stand for Space and Inter-time Directional Robot All-purpose Transporter.

Producer Derrick Sherwin's then wife Jane appears in the role of Lady Jennifer Buckingham.

The actor playing the Doctor is credited as "Dr. Who" in the closing credits for the last time. This technically incorrect credit would be amended to the slightly-less-incorrect "Doctor Who" beginning with Spearhead from Space.

The final episode of this serial was the last to feature scrolling end credits until Part Four of the Fifth Doctor serial Earthshock. (This would later be seen in the revived series.)

There is fan speculation that after The War Games, the Second Doctor was recruited by the CIA (Celestial Intervention Agency) and sent on missions, the series of events would be known as Season 6B, then after the Second Doctor had served his purpose, he was sent to Earth and the events of Spearhead from Space began with a new Doctor.

According to the DVD Production Notes commentary, The War Games was allotted 10 episodes when a planned storyline entitled Doctor Who and the Impersonators was cancelled.

Ironically, Episode 8, the least-watched Doctor Who episode of all time up until 1989, was also arguably the most important episode in the show's history, as it was the one in which the Doctor is first described as being a fugitive from his people, the Time Lords.

In Episode 1, the Doctor kisses Zoe. This marks the first time the Doctor kisses a companion (albeit in a purely platonic manner).

The Doctor's home planet appears for the first time — but it wouldn't be named until Barry Letts pre-empted its on-screen debut in The Time Warrior by revealing the name in the letters column of an issue of TV Comic.

A real First World War ambulance is used in the location scenes.

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Classic Who - Season 5, Story 40 - The Enemy of the World

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"We're by the seaside, that's where we are. That's all that matters." ~ The Second Doctor

"Come on, you two. No, wait a minute. See if there's any buckets and spades in the Tardis." ~ The Second Doctor

"Come on, run. Don't argue, run. Come on. Come on!" ~ The Second Doctor

"They're human beings, if that's what you mean, indulging their favourite past time. Trying to destroy each other." ~ The Second Doctor

"Depends on what you mean by been safe. They've shot a hole in the fuel tank. We might blow up any minute." ~ Astrid

Astrid: Oh, you're a Doctor?
The 2nd Doctor: Well, not of any medical significance.
Astrid: Doctor of law? Philosophy?
The 2nd Doctor: Which law? Whose philosophies, eh?

"Well to save the world, aye, well it sounds grand, but. Oh, we couldn't turn our back on a chance like this, Doctor. Well at least I know you wouldn't." ~ Jaime McCrimmon

"Disused Yeti?" ~ The Second Doctor

"What a boy, huh? Fariah, see he gets some proper uniform instead of this skirt. And bring him and his girlfriend to see me." ~ Salamander

"Look, if Salamander wishes you to know that, I dare say he'll tell you himself. You'll get no confidences out of me." ~ Jaime McCrimmon

"Astrid and Giles Kent were quite right, Salamander is an evil man. I can somehow sense it from all the people here." ~ Victoria Waterfield

"What you're saying is that Salamander's found a way of harnessing the natural forces of the earth. It's a little difficult to accept. I'm not saying it's impossible, mind you." ~ The Second Doctor

"Maybe they'll shoot me. I won't have to worry anymore. No, they wouldn't do that, the firing squad'd miss me." ~ Griffin

"As I say, sometimes we do what we have to do, not what we want to do." ~ Fariah

"But up there, is terrible still. The war goes on and on, and you never know when the air is clean or when it's poison. We have to fight for a while longer, hmm? Creating natural disasters, monsoons, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, always in the places where the enemies of truth and freedom gather together." ~ Salamander

"I don't think it's right. Just work, sleep, eat, if there's enough to go round. Like worms under the earth, sightless worms wriggling about without hope, without purpose." ~ Colin

"Holiday Liner Sinks! You say there's a global war, radiation everywhere. How can there be holiday liners? Tell me how? You've lied to us, haven't you? Haven't you!" ~ Swann

"Well, it's true that the war is over, but have you any idea what happens to people who've been involved in a nuclear war? Have you? Those who are lucky enough to escape the annihilation have their bodies eaten away by radiation poisoning. They're deformed in mind and body. They have a kind of society, but it's evil, corrupt. You don't think I could expose you to that sort of thing? Think of Mary and the other women." ~ Salamander

Benik: Come now, you don't think I'm just going to sit here and ask questions, do you?
Jamie: You must have been a nasty little boy.
Benik: Oh, I was. But I had a very enjoyable childhood.

"What's he done? What's he done? He's kept us prisoners. Listen, there are others. There are more people down the shaft. Salamander's kept us down there, prisoners, years of it. Promise you'll bring them to the surface. Swear it. You've got to swear it." ~ Swann

"Rules? Really? You forget, I'm World Security Controller. I make rules and break them. And men, Captain. Come on, you two." ~ Donald Bruce

"You built an atomic shelter, took some people down for an endurance test. The next person they saw was Salamander. Who told them that an atomic war had started." ~ Astrid

"Any man who resorts to murder as eagerly and as rapidly as you must be suspect. You didn't just want to expose Salamander, you wanted to kill him and take his place." ~ The Second Doctor

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Patrick Troughton is credited as 'Dr. Who/Salamander' for Episodes 2 to 6. He also appears as Salamander in a 35mm film sequence in Episode 1, but is credited only as 'Dr. Who'. Radio Times credits 'Patrick Troughton as Dr. Who and Salamander' for Episodes 2 to 6, while the actual cast lists – which credit the characters in order of appearance – bill Patrick Troughton only as 'Dr. Who' for Episodes 1 and 6, and as both 'Dr. Who' and 'Salamander' (separate billings) for Episodes 2 to 5.

This marks the second time that a doppelganger of the Doctor has been featured (giving the lead actor a dual role), following William Hartnell's double performance as the First Doctor and the Abbot of Amboise in The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve.

Footage of Jamie and Victoria from episode three appears in the flashback sequence in Resurrection of the Daleks.

Patrick Troughton's son David appears as an extra in Episodes 5 and 6.

Neither Deborah Watling nor Frazer Hines appear in Episode 4, as they were on holiday the week it was recorded.

This is the final story overseen by producer Innes Lloyd.

Episode 3 marked the first use of 625-line videotape in Doctor Who, as opposed to the old 405-line standard.

For the week of transmission of Episode 5, Doctor Who featured — in full colour for the first time — on the front cover of Radio Times (cover dated: 20-26 January 1968): a head-and-shoulders shot of Patrick Troughton as the Doctor examining a control panel, which was taken from the previous story, The Ice Warriors. This was used to introduce a two-page colour behind-the-scenes article in the centre pages entitled The Monstrous World of Doctor Who, written by Gay Search, which opened with the following introductory paragraph: "Daleks, Cybermen, Yetis, Ice Warriors — familiar monster guaranteed to chill the blood of anyone over the age of ten. But where do they come from? Who dreams them up? How are they made? How do they work? We sent Gay Search to find out..." In addition to the origins of the aforementioned monsters, the article not only looked at the creation of the seaweed monster from the forthcoming story Fury from the Deep but also looked at the roles of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and the BBC's Visual Effects Department in bringing the Doctor's enemies to life — as well as featuring a brief interview with the Head of the BBC's Visual Effects Department, Jack Kine.

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Classic Who - Season 4, Story 36 - The Evil of the Daleks

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"Well, it's a train. There are carriages and they go on wheels, on rails, and they're drawn by a steam...Hey, come back!" ~ The Second Doctor

"You've never told me what it is exactly you've got against this Doctor and his friend. Some kind of vendetta or something?" ~ Kennedy

"Do you think this is some sort of a trap, Doctor?" ~ Jaime

"There is only one form of life that matters. Dalek life." ~ Dalek

"I say, if it's a police box, shouldn't we get the police?" ~ Perry

"Doctor. We are all of us the victims of a higher power. A power more evil and more terrible than the human brain can imagine." ~ Theodore Maxtible

"Patience? You don't seem to understand what's happened. A man has been murdered! You behave as though we're going on Sunday school outing." ~ The Second Doctor

"Inhuman monsters! Creations of the devil!" ~ Edward Waterfield

"Everything you say, Waterfield, is true. If we cannot find Jamie, the Daleks will take pleasure in killing everyone in sight, and their greatest pleasure will be in killing me." ~ The Second Doctor

"Do not be afraid. You are not to be exterminated." ~ Dalek

"Quick, before we see any more of those mechanical beasties." ~ Jaime

"No, Mister Terrall, I am not a student of human nature. I am a professor of a far wider academy, of which human nature is merely a part. All forms of life interest me." ~ The Second Doctor

"But you're making over the whole world to them. Don't you realise that? Our world, our future. They will enslave us for all time." ~ Edward Waterfield

"No, Doctor. Look, I'm telling you this. You and me, we're finished. You're just too callous for me. Anything goes by the board. Anything at all." ~ Jamie

"You will take the Dalek factor. You will spread it to the entire history of Earth!" ~ Dalek Emperor

"Daleks don't keep their promises." ~ The Second Doctor

"Five lives against a whole planet? Well, it's not a choice, is it?" ~ The Second Doctor

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Written by former Doctor Who script editor David Whitaker, The Evil of the Daleks was initially intended to be the last Dalek story on Doctor Who. Writer Terry Nation, the creator of the Daleks, was busily trying to sell the Daleks to American television at the time and it was intended to give them a big send off from the series. Of course, despite the Doctor's pronouncement, this was not to be his last encounter with these most famous of his adversaries. In addition, despite the intention to "kill off" the Daleks, Lloyd was told, at the last moment before filming the final scene, not to. He did this inserting a light globe inside the Emperor Dalek. This glowed as the Emperor was destroyed, suggesting that something within remained alive.

The Evil of the Daleks was wiped from the BBC's archives in the early 1970s. Only a telerecording of episode 2 remains, which was returned to the archive in May 1987 after being found at a car boot sale a few years earlier. A copy of the soundtrack was released in 1992. A second version with alternative narration was released in 2003. A home movie of the filming of the Dalek battle sequence exists and is included on the DVD of The Tomb of the Cybermen.

The Model shoot for the final battle scene is included in the Patrick Troughton Lost in Time DVD, as "The Last Dalek".  Some Louis Marx 'tricky action' toy Daleks are used in model work for the scenes of the destruction of the Dalek city.

The first individual visual effects designer credits ever given on the series appears, for Michealjohn Harris and Peter Day. Previously, visual effects had been handled by the series' scenic designers rather than by the BBC's Visual Effects Department, although the Department as a whole did receive a credit on the first story, An Unearthly Child.

In 1993 readers of DreamWatch Bulletin voted The Evil of the Daleks as the best ever Doctor Who story in a special poll for the series' thirtieth anniversary.

The Daleks also use mirrors as a method of time travel in the audio play, The Time of the Daleks, as does Donna Noble and UNIT in the revival episode, Turn Left.

The Daleks try a similar plan to create human/Dalek hybrids in the revival series episodes, Daleks in Manhattan & Evolution of the Daleks.

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Classic Who - Season 22, Story 140 - The Two Doctors

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"Jamie, some of the most brilliant scientists in the Universe have assembled here to work together in pure research.  I don't want them to know that I'd arrived.  Think of the commotion.  They'd all be scrambling around wanting my autograph.  No, no, no."  ~ The Second Doctor

"Circular logic will only make you dizzy, Doctor." ~ Peri

"When I first saw this station of I thought of comet strike or some such natural disaster.  But it's been deliberately destroyed.  What kind of monster would want to stop the brilliant work that was being done here?  Pure research for it's own sake, it threatened no one!" ~ The Fifth Doctor

"Jamie!  It's Jamie!  How did he get here?  He should be with me! But if he's here...where am I?" ~ The Sixth Doctor

"It is me we're following."  ~ The Sixth Doctor

"When you travel around as much as I do, it's almost inevitable that you'll run into yourself at some point." ~ The Sixth Doctor

"There was an echo. An after-resonance. When you've been locked in as many dungeons as I have, you wouldn't fail to recognize it."  ~ The Sixth Doctor

"Do try and keep out of my way in future and in past, there's a good fellow. The time continuum should be big enough for both of us. Just." ~ The Sixth Doctor

Shockeye: Do you serve humans here?
Oscar: Most of the time, sir.
Shockeye: Oooah!
Oscar: Yes, I think I could venture to say that most of our customers are certainly human, hah.
Shockeye: I mean human meat, you fawning imbecile!
Oscar: No, sir. The nouveau cuisine has not yet penetrated this establishment.

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The story opens in black and white, with a scene featuring the Second Doctor and Jamie, which then gradually transitions to color.  This is Patrick Troughton's final performance as the Doctor.  Troughton died just over two years after the original broadcast of this episode, in March, of 1987.

The idea of the Second Doctor being operated on with the intent of removing a unique Time Lord genetic trait was part of Holmes' aborted script for The Six Doctors. In the script, the Cybermen planned to extract a unique organic mechanism from the Doctor and place it in themselves, becoming "Cyberlords".

Originally, this story was set in New Orleans and the Androgums, with their obsession with cooking and eating, were created with the city's culinary reputation in mind.

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Season Four
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The Power of the Daleks (Airdate: Nov 5, 1966)
The Highlanders (Airdate: Dec 17, 1966)
The Underwater Menace (Airdate: Jan 14, 1967)
The Moonbase (Airdate: Feb 11, 1967)
The Macra Terror (Airdate: Mar 11, 1967)
The Faceless Ones (Airdate: Apr 8, 1967)
The Evil of the Daleks (Airdate: May 20, 1967)

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Season Five
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Tomb of the Cybermen (Airdate: Sep 2, 1967)
The Abominable Snowmen (Airdate: Sep 30, 1967)
The Ice Warriors (Airdate: Nov 11, 1967)
The Enemy of the World (Airdate: Dec 23, 1967)
The Web of Fear (Airdate: Feb 3, 1968)
Fury from the Deep (Airdate: Mar 16, 1968)
The Wheel in Space (Airdate: Apr 27, 1968)

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Season Six
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The Dominators (Airdate: Aug 10, 1968)
The Mind Robber (Airdate: Sep 14, 1968)
The Invasion (Airdate: Nov 2, 1968)
The Krotons (Airdate: Dec 28, 1968)
The Seeds of Death (Airdate: Jan 25, 1969)
The Space Pirates (Airdate: Mar 8, 1969)
The War Games (Airdate: Apr 19, 1969)


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Classic Who - Season 6, Story 49 - The Space Pirates

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"Attention all personnel. This is General Hermack. Your V-ship is now fifty days and many billions of miles out from Earth. You're entering the fourth sector of our galaxy. In this sector for some time now, Earth Government has been aware that a highly organised gang of criminals have been roaming the space ways, and preying upon defenceless cargo ships. The main target of these criminals is argonite, the most valuable mineral known to man and so far only found on the planets of the Fourth Sector. A government space beacon marking the approaches to the planet New Sarum has ceased transmitting its navigation signal. These beacons, as you know, are constructed of argonite. It is my belief that the criminals are attacking the government navigation beacons and plundering the argonite. There can be no other explanation for its failure. This being the case, I have decided to abandon our present mission and to investigate the missing beacon in the New Sarum sector. I want all section commanders on the bridge at twenty hundred hours sector four solar time. Resume normal duties until then." ~ General Hermack

Hermack: Yes. They're very well organised. They cut the beacon into several manageable pieces by means of scissor charges, then shoot the bits off to some pre-arranged collection point. Very clever.
Warne: And quick. It cuts down the time they're at risk. And they just burn out the Argonite at their leisure.
Hermack: Ian, we shall have to rethink our tactics. We shall never catch them by normal patrol methods.

Hermack: They understand they have to shoot on sight?
Warne: Yes, sir, I told them. No, anybody poking their nose aboard Alpha Four will find plenty of trouble waiting for him.

Jamie: Yeah. Well I think we'd better get out of here before somebody catches us.
Zoe: Good idea. There's a door here.
Jamie: No, Zoe. I meant in the Tardis.
The 2nd Doctor: Jamie, stop worrying. There's obviously nobody here.

The 2nd Doctor: There's only one thing we can do.
Zoe: What?
The 2nd Doctor: Run!
Jamie: Well, maybe next time you'll listen to me.
Zoe: If there is a next time.

Hermack: Well, these old mining prospectors like Clancey were the first men to go out into deep space. For a time they had the place to themselves, roaming the spaceways, looking for planets, jumping each other's claims. They were a wild breed, Ian, and they learned to live without the law.
Ian: And then the Space Corps came along and started to enforce law and order, right?
Hermack: Yes, much to their resentment. Clancey must be the last of the type.

Jamie: Well, what's on the other side? Could you see?
The 2nd Doctor: Jamie, I'm afraid that there's nothing on the other side. Just space. It appears that this machine we're on has been blown into about eight separate pieces.
Zoe: Are you sure?
The 2nd Doctor: Well, of course I'm sure. Get up and look for yourself if you don't believe me.

The 2nd Doctor: A mile in space, Jamie, with no oxygen or means of propulsion.
Zoe: It might just as well be a thousand miles.
Jamie: Oh, that's just fine then.

Jamie: Oh, what's he doing now?
Zoe: I've no idea. Ask him.
Jamie: Oh, what's the use? He's got his mysterious face on.

The 2nd Doctor: Well, I've got a screwdriver.
Jamie: Oh.
The 2nd Doctor: And I've got a slight knowledge of electromagnetism.

Zoe: Well, if it's similar, your idea won't work, will it? We'll just shoot off in the opposite direction.
The 2nd Doctor: Zoe, don't be such a pessimist.

The 2nd Doctor: Ah! No! I'm stuck. The power's too great.
Jamie: Well, isn't it working?
Zoe: Oh yes, it's working all right, but the wrong way! We're being sucked further into space!

Milo: Now come on, now. If you don't answer my questions, I'm going to have to start getting tough with you!
The 2nd Doctor: Look, I think he's just stunned, Zoe. Now, look here, my man, I will not be threatened in this bullying manner! Do you understand?
Milo: Oh, no. A boy, a girl and a nut case. You can't be the pirates.

The 2nd Doctor: Not so much on it as...
Zoe: In it.
Milo: What, inside? Now how could you be doing that? Look, that is not possible.
Jamie: Anything's possible in the Tardis, especially when he's at the controls.

Zoe: Have you ever heard of argonite, Doctor?
The 2nd Doctor: Well, from what Mister Clancey was saying, I imagine it's a metal that's used in the construction of spacecraft. Am I right?
Milo: Argonite is used for, well, it's used for practically everything. It's ductile, it's tensile, it's heat-proof, it's practically indestructible.

Milo: Well, if that doesn't beat jumping grasshoppers. You mean to say you travel around in time as well as space?
The 2nd Doctor: Well, yes, yes. You've grasped the principle very well.
Milo: Hey, hey! That must be a mighty interesting thing to do.

Zoe: This was the position of our bit of beacon when Milo first saw us. I got the figures from the computer.
The 2nd Doctor: Oh yes.
Zoe: And this was our position eight minutes later when he docked along side.
The 2nd Doctor: Yes, circle fourteen. Yes, go on.
Zoe: Well, from this data it was simple enough to work out our original position and course. Do you see?
The 2nd Doctor: Yes, except that after my little experiment, we veered rather violently off that course.

The 2nd Doctor: All right. All right, but if the Tardis has landed here we'll have to find it anyway. Come on, you two, but for heaven's sake don't make a noise on the ladder.
(Jamie falls over something.)
Zoe: Jamie!
Jamie: We're not on the ladder yet, are we.

The 2nd Doctor: There's a hidden door. The problem of course, is going to be finding it.
Sorba: There's no door, believe me. You're only wasting your time.
The 2nd Doctor: No, no, no, no. There's obviously a less painful way of getting in here so there must be a way of getting out.

Jamie: Oh now, wait a minute, what's an audio lock?
The 2nd Doctor: Well, they were used on safes, Jamie. Combination locks became a little too easy to open when burglars took to taking miniature computers with them on their expeditions. Now I have my tuning forks here somewhere.
Zoe: What are you going to do with a tuning fork?
The 2nd Doctor: I usually carry them with. Ah, yes. Here we are, now then, get these sorted out. Right.
Jamie: Which end did he land on when you fell down that shaft?

Milo: If that don't beat jumping grasshoppers. You listen to me, you three sourpusses. You're only in this pickle now because you did the very thing I told you not to do. You went wandering off into these mine workings. I've had a whale of a time trying to find you, and if you want to get out of here alive, Milo Clancey is the only person who can show you the way. Now, you either come with me, or am I going to leave you here to rot?
The 2nd Doctor: Well, well, well, yes, yes, if you put it that way.

Milo: Well, I thought Madeleine blamed me for her father's death. Poor old Dom. He just disappeared. Years ago now. I wasn't even here at the time. And then all this piracy started and Madeleine started to find argonite in workings that Dom and I had abandoned years ago. Well, it all seemed to fit together somehow.
Zoe: Yes, well, it fits together a bit too well, if you ask me. Aren't we jumping out of the frying pan into the fire?
Milo: No! No! When I followed you down that shaft I recognised the leader of these pirates. He's a murderous criminal called Maurice Caven.

Milo: It's an old power distributor box, I think. We got one on every level.
The 2nd Doctor: Really? Oh. Well, I wonder if it's connected up? Oh!
Zoe: Yes, it's connected.

Jamie: Candles?
Milo: Yeah.
Jamie: In this day and age?
Milo: Or an oil lamp or something. Hey boy, look in that cupboard, you might find something. Yeah, yeah. He was an old-fashioned romantic old critter, was old Dom. He brought all this furniture, he brought all them books and everything from Earth, you know.

Caven: Don't worry. The Space Corp won't get a word out of Clancey, or those friends of his.
Madeline: No! I will not be party to murder. When all this started it was going to be a salvage operation. Space flotsam, you said. But then piracy and now murder?

Madeline: Where are those prisoners?
Guard: Safe and sound.
Madeline: In there? What are they doing in there? That is my father's study! I gave orders for that door to be kept locked!

Madeline: Oh, but my father's dead!
Caven: He's alive. As you can perhaps see from this photograph taken only a few weeks ago. I thought I might need a lever to help you to co-operate.
Madeline: Where is he?
Caven: In his study, where else? When you ordered that room to be kept locked, I thought it'd be the safest place to put him.
Madeline: You? Let me through! What have you done with my father? Let me see him! Let me see him. Please let me...
Caven: Before we get that far, let's talk about how you're going to help me, shall we? Because that's much more important.

Jamie: It's not an audio lock, is it?
The 2nd Doctor: No, Jamie, it isn't.
Jamie: Ah, that's a relief.
The 2nd Doctor: Jamie, I think you don't appreciate all I do for you.

Jamie: What's that?
Zoe: The rocket! The Doctor's going without us!
Jamie: He wouldn't do!

Zoe: Oh, now steady, Doctor.
The 2nd Doctor: It's all right, Zoe. I'll be all right if you don't fuss me. Come along.

Jamie: Then who's going to get us out of here?
The 2nd Doctor: There's only one man who can, Jamie. Milo.
Zoe: But the Liz is still jammed on remote control.
The 2nd Doctor: I know, I know, but we shall free it.
Jamie: You hope.

Zoe: Oh, Doctor, hurry!
Milo: Land sakes alive, girl, he's got to find the right one. He'll blow us all to bits if he moves the wrong wire.

Jamie: Oh no, not the Liz again. Frankly, I'd rather walk.
Milo: You what?
The 2nd Doctor: You never know. You might have to.

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The Space Pirates is notable for being the first serial that John Nathan-Turn was employed by the Doctor Who production office for.  He worked in a minor and uncredited role as a floor assistant (as John Turner).

Episode one was also the last Doctor Who episode to be filmed at Lime Grove Studios.  Doctor Who moved to BBC Television Centre for Episode 2, which became more or less its permanent home.

Script writer Robert Holmes originally envisioned "The Space Pirates" as a four-part story. This was Holmes second script for Doctor Who, his first was "The Krotons"

Holmes' script was an attempt at creating a "science fiction western". Clear allusions were evident to western character types as were being seen at the time in Britain on American imports like Gunsmoke. Holmes provided archetypes like "the lawman", "the deputy", "the pioneer", "the miner" and "the female businesswoman", amongst others. Indeed, the character of Milo Clancey wasn't even an allusion to a western stereotype; he was a wildcat prospector who dressed as if he'd just walked off the set of Bonanza.

The visual effects were somewhat unique for Doctor Who. They realistically depicted space as starless at short range, perhaps informed by the then-daily glimpses of starless space in press coverage of the Apollo 11 launch.

Episode two was thought lost until 1998, when it was discovered in the collection of an amateur video enthusiast. The episode is the earliest known existing off-air domestic videotape recording of an episode of Doctor Who.

The BBC deemed Episode two "historically significant" as it was a studio show that was unusually recorded on 35mm film at TC4, one of the premiere studios at Television Centre.

The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe only appear in pre-filmed inserts in Part 6, as Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury were filming The War Games. A common criticism of this serial is how little the regulars affect the main plot.

This is the most recent story from which episodes are still missing in their entirety. A number of later Pertwee episodes are missing in that their original 2" quad tapes were wiped, but copies exist. Episode 6 of Pirates is the last episode of Doctor Who to be completely missing. Episode 2 is available on the Lost Years DVD.  Loose Cannon Productions did the reconstruction on the remaining episodes.

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Classic Who - Season 6, Story 48 - The Seeds of Death

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Osgood: Who's there?
Fewsham: No one.
Osgood: Then how come the airlocks are in use?

"We're in a museum!  A space museum!" ~ The Second Doctor

"Aye, well, we have our own system, thank you, only it isn't foolproof." ~ Jamie

"You're wrong. There is just one man, one man alone who can help us now." ~ Radnor

"What on Earth's that? It's a twentieth century Police Box, isn't it? How did a thing like that get in my museum? " ~ Eldred

"Rather more than a hobby, preparing an ion rocket for an unauthorised journey into space." ~ Radnor

Jamie: Could we not help them? We could use the Tardis.
Zoe: What, for a trip to the moon? We'd probably overshoot by a few million years.
Doctor: Yes, or by a few million miles. I'm afraid the Tardis is not suited to short-range travel.

"I think I could get your rocket to the moon. I have considerable experience in space travel, and so have my two companions." ~ The Second Doctor

"If that rocket is going to reach the moon safely, you'll need more than help. You'll need a miracle." ~ Eldred

The 2nd Doctor: Now don't worry, Miss Kelly. We're going to be perfectly all right.
Kelly: But how can you be sure? You don't even know what the trouble is up there.

"We do not need an army. Earth will be ours for the taking, very soon." ~ Slaar

"I never thought I'd see that again. A rocket rising in flight." ~ Radnor

"Oh, no. This is worse than the Tardis." ~ Jamie

"At our present rate of drift and allowing for the usual gravitational influences, we'll be drawn into the heart of the sun in approximately five months and ten days." ~ Zoe

The 2nd Doctor:  What is your emergency? What's happening on Moonbase?
Phipps [OC]: We've been invaded. Aliens have taken over.

"Yes, yes. Jamie and I have met them before. They come from the planet Mars. Mars is a dying planet. I imagine they're trying to find a new home." ~ The Second Doctor

"If you're going to invade the Earth, you'll be fighting the armed forces of the entire world. You'll never succeed. There'll be too much resistance." ~ Gia Kelly

Jamie: That was the Doctor. He's found Phipps and he wants us to prepare the rocket for take off while they put T-Mat out of action.
Zoe: But he can't! I've just checked the main power drive and the rocket's motors are completely useless. The only way back to Earth is by T-Mat.

"But I can be useful to you, like Fewsham. Your leader will be angry if you kill me. I'm a genius." ~ The Second Doctor

Elred: Some plants reproduce that way. Their pods explode and spread their seeds.
Radnor: All this thing spread was some kind of smoke.
Elred: Which has now been dispelled into the air of London.

"Obviously what killed him was that smoke-like substance which was emitted when the pods exploded, which was expelled into the outside atmosphere. Let's hope that diluted with air it loses it's toxic quality, otherwise..." ~ Eldred

"You dispatched the seeds. In so doing you destroyed your entire species. What is the death of one man compared to that?" ~  Slaar

"Well, can't you see it's all part of the same plan. First the seed pods and now this creature. I tell you it came here for some purpose, and heaven help anyone who gets in its way." ~ Eldred

"Oh yes, I'm fine. I've seen most of my friends killed. I'm being hunted by monsters." ~ Phipps

"A molecule of five atoms absorbs oxygen. You know, a complete blanket of this would reduce the oxygen content of the Earth's atmosphere quite drastically.  It would make the atmosphere of the Earth uninhabitable to the human race, but exactly like the atmosphere of Mars." ~ The Second Doctor

"Well, get in touch with Commander Radnor and ask him to get hold of the Weather Control Bureau people and to make rain. As much rain as possible over the entire country." ~ The Second Doctor

"Oh, my word. Oh, that was a dangerous situation!" ~ The Second Doctor

Eldred: Just one thing, Miss Kelly. Now that you've perfected this thing, how do you propose getting it to the launching pad without T-Mat?
Kelly: It just so happens I found a petrol car in a motor museum.
Eldred: Really? What make?
Kelly: I've no idea, but it's got four wheels and it goes.

"There isn't going to be a right one. There's only going to be ours, the wrong one, and that's going to lead the entire Martian fleet into an orbit around the sun." ~ The Second Doctor

"There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip." ~ The Second Doctor

"Look, either the Doctor's all right, in which case we've no need to worry, or he's in danger and he needs my help." ~ Jamie

Slaar: You have destroyed our entire fleet!
The 2nd Doctor: You tried to destroy an entire world.

"Oh, it's no good asking him. He's no more idea than the man in the moon." ~ Jaime

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The opening titles are backdropped with a scene of the Earth and Moon. The camera pans across the foreground object then zooms into the background object - Earth or Moon - on which the episode begins. The exception is in Episode 3 where the panning stops between the Earth and the Moon, as this episode begins in cislunar space.

This is the only story to feature the Ice Warriors in a location setting.

To keep the return of the Ice Warriors a surprise, Steve Peters was credited as 'Alien' in Radio Times for Episode 1.

At the time it was written, Frazer Hines was considering leaving the show. He finally signed on for the season, apparently at Patrick Troughton's request. This meant Brian Hayles had trouble writing the script, a problem made worse when he was asked to leave the Doctor out of part four. He failed to complete the script and Terrance Dicks rewrote much of the story. He brought in the Martian fleet and removed a sub-plot in which Gia Kelly was hypnotized.

By the 23rd century, humanity believed that the last of the Ice Warriors were killed when their invasion fleet spiraled into the Sun. A documentary on the incident was produced and broadcast on the History Channel.

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Classic Who - Season 6, Story 47 - The Krotons

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"Abu-Gond and Vana-Gond, alone of your generation you have been chosen to receive the highest honour that can befall a Gond. You are now the companions of the Krotons! Our warmest, our most sincere congratulations to you both. You will now step forward for the investiture of your robes of honour. Eelek." ~ Selris

Zoe: No, wait a minute. Where are we?
Jamie: You don't expect him to know, do you?

The 2nd Doctor: We are friends! It's all right. Now don't be afraid.
Jamie: We have trouble.

Zoe: We're from another planet, another world.
The 2nd Doctor: That girl. Now where has she gone?
Selris: How can they be from another planet?

"They're contaminated. You're contaminated. No one goes into the wasteland. Because it's poisoned, and you will die." ~ Eelek

"The vandals. Look at that.  My favourite umbrella." ~ The Second Doctor

"I'm not a Doctor of medicine you know, Zoe." ~ The Second Doctor

Selris: According to our legends, silver men came out of the sky and built a house among us. The Gonds attacked them but the silver men caused a poisonous rain to fall, killing hundreds of our people and turning the earth black.
Jamie: The wasteland.
Selris: Yes. Because it was said that ever afterwards anyone who set foot there would die in terrible pain.

"An atomic-laser? Is that better than an axe?" ~ Thara

Zoe: Pattern recognition.
The 2nd Doctor: Yes, and the pattern is my face.
Selris: Doctor, do you mean that thing was sent out to attack you and only you?
The 2nd Doctor: Yes, so it seems. It's rather flattering, isn't it.

The 2nd Doctor: Yes, the Gonds are quite advanced in some ways. Their medicine's very good, but they haven't got much general chemistry. I wish they had an ETC machine though.
Zoe: Yes. There are tremendous gaps in their knowledge. Well, they only seem to know what the machines teach them.
The 2nd Doctor: Yes. And the machines are programmed by the Krotons, so the gaps in their knowledge may be significant.

"Oh don't worry, Jamie. I'll make sure he doesn't do anything rash." ~ Zoe

"I was just trying the machine. Oh, but Doctor, it was all so easy! The Krotons were very pleased with me." ~ Zoe

"Yes, well, Zoe is something of a genius. Of course it can be very irritating at times." ~ The Second Doctor

The 2nd Doctor: Well, she doesn't have to go, does she? Well, does she or doesn't she?
Selris: I'm afraid she must. Complete obedience is the Krotons first command, and if we fail to obey...
The 2nd Doctor: They'll destroy you, I see.

"The Doctor's almost as clever as I am." ~ Zoe

Selris: Class three one nine eight. Selected male, Doctor-Gond.
The 2nd Doctor: Doctor-Gond. Idiots!

Jamie: Och, the Krotons! They just rap out an order and everyone jumps, don't they? Aye, well, I'm not just standing here to see my...
Selris: Where are you going?
Jamie: To find a way into this box of tricks!

Kroton: They are leaving. Shall I fire?
Jamie: They're not leaving. They wouldn't.

"We've been slaves for a thousand years. Do you think you can free us in one day?" ~ Beta

"You have no value. You will be dispersed." ~ Kroton

Kroton: The Dynatrope needs high brains for transfer power. The Gonds have no high brains.
Jamie: Aye, and that makes it all right to kill them, does it?
Kroton: That is procedure.

The 2nd Doctor: Hydrogen telluride.
Zoe: What? Oh, of course. The worst smell in the world.
The 2nd Doctor: The worst smell in any world.

"Oh, it'll come in useful. It's very useful stuff, sulphur, you know. Very useful stuff indeed." ~ The Second Doctor

"Oh, my giddy aunt." ~ The Second Doctor

"Yes, what a stupid place to land. You can tell that the Captain is not at the helm, can't you?"  ~ The Second Doctor

"Well it only does that, you see, if I remember to set the HADS.  The Hostile Action Displacement System. If the Tardis is attacked, it automatically dematerialises."  ~ The Second Doctor

Vana: Selris said you'd gone into the machine.
The 2nd Doctor: Oh yes, well, we did, but, er, well, what goes in must come out, mustn't it?

"Stop it! Stop it! What do you think you're doing, you idiots? Unhook the thing! You're meddling with things you don't understand!"  ~ The Second Doctor

"Vana, how is Beta getting on with the acid I asked him to make?"  ~ The Second Doctor

"Shall we put a bit more in? Let's see what happens. We can only blow ourselves up." ~ Beta

"Really! We will not be bullied. Don't push!"  ~ The Second Doctor

"No, no, Zoe. If this machine does run down, there will be the most colossal release of energy. Enough to destroy us, the Krotons and most of the planet."  ~ The Second Doctor

"I was merely trying to explain that if anyone was to contaminate what was in that tank, you'd know what it was like to breathe poisoned air."  ~ The Second Doctor

The 2nd Doctor: Oh! Butterfingers!
Zoe: Oh Doctor, you are clumsy.

Zoe: But how did you know the machine would dissolve?
The 2nd Doctor: Hmm? Well, the machine was eighty percent tellurium, Zoe, and tellurium is soluble in sulphuric acid.
Zoe: But the machine wasn't pure tellurium.
The 2nd Doctor: No, well, the acid wasn't pure sulphuric acid, but it worked didn't it?

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All episodes of this serial exist in 35mm telerecording negative.

This is the first collaboration between writer Robert Holmes and script editor Terrance Dicks. It was only Dicks' second story in that capacity. In a neat bit of symmetry, Horror of Fang Rock was one of script editor Robert Holmes' last stories, written by Terrance Dicks.

West of England Quarry and the Tank Quarry in Malvern, Worcestershire were used for the planetary shots.

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Classic Who - Season 6, Story 46 - The Invasion

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The 2nd Doctor: Zoe, that's a missile!
Jamie: A what?
Zoe: It's a missile? Somebody's fired a missile at us, Jamie! Oh Doctor, come on, let's get out of here.

The 2nd Doctor: This company, what do they do?
Lorry Driver: International Electromatics. Now surely you've heard of them?
The 2nd Doctor: Well, no, we've been a little out of touch.
Lorry Driver: You must have been. They're the worlds biggest electronics manufacturers. You can hardly buy a piece of equipment that isn't theirs.

The 2nd Doctor: Oh. Then Professor Travers doesn't live here?
Isobel: Well, he did. He left about a month ago. Gone to America for a year with his daughter.

"But this is an automatic answering device! Ah, shut up, you stupid machine!" ~ The Second Doctor

Jamie: Do you not write anything down on paper at all?
Isobel: Well, I'd only lose it if I did. Writing on a wall's much safer. You can't lose a wall, can you?
Jamie: No.

"More stupid computers. Automatic receptionists. Right." ~ The Second Doctor

"Oh shut up, you stupid machine! Diabolical inventions." ~ The Second Doctor

"Oh I'm not joking, Jamie. Underneath all that charm there was something odd. Sinister. Almost inhuman." ~ The Second Doctor

"Oh, you wouldn't say that if you knew them. If there's trouble to be found, the Doctor and Jamie can't miss it." ~ Zoe

"I've told you over and over again, Jamie. Time is relative." ~ The Second Doctor

Brigadier: Are you still making a nonsense of it. Doctor, in your, what was it called? Tardis?
The 2nd Doctor: Yes, we're still travelling. Yes.
Brigadier: Yes, Mister Travers told me all about it. It's er, well it's, to say the least, an unbelievable machine.
The 2nd Doctor: Any more unbelievable than the Yetis?
Brigadier: No, true. I'm not quite so much of a sceptic as I was since that little escapade.

The 2nd Doctor: But what's so odd about people going into the building?
Brigadier: Oh, nothing odd about them going in. The trouble is, some of them haven't come out.

"I will not be beaten by this brainless tin box." ~ Zoe

Zoe: It'll take more than a soldering iron to put that right.
Isobel: Hey, don't you think we better get out of here before somebody gets annoyed?
Zoe: Oh yes. I think perhaps you're right.

The 2nd Doctor: What a splendid little toy this is, Jamie.
Jamie: Aye, but doesn't play tunes like mine.

Jamie: It's exactly the same as your office in London.
Vaughn: In all basic essentials, yes, it is. That's the secret of my success, you see. Uniformity, duplication. My whole empire is based on that principle. The very essence of business efficiency.

Vaughn: I should, of course, be angry with you. You've thwarted my elaborate security precautions twice. I'd like to know why.
The 2nd Doctor: Oh, that's quite simple. I hate computers and refuse to be bullied by them.

Packer: If you're been ordered to destroy him...
Vaughn: I don't take orders, Packer, I give them! Now, I think the time has come to stop playing games with this Doctor!

Vaughn: Yes, Packer. Our clever Doctor has outwitted you. Oh, then that wouldn't be too difficult, would it?
Packer: Well, it won't do him much good, will it? After all, he can't get anywhere, can he?
Vaughn: No, but then why do it?

"You know something? You're a clever wee chappie." ~ Jamie

Jamie: Hey, Doctor, I've just been thinking. What happens if they get the lift going before we get to the top?
The 2nd Doctor: Oh, that's simple.
Jamie: What?
The 2nd Doctor: We get squashed.
Jamie: What! Well, come on!

"You're a stupid incompetent! I want that Doctor! Put the whole compound on alert! Have every available guard on the job! Find him, Packer! Find him!" ~ Vaughn

"Do you wish to be totally converted? Would you prefer to be one of them? Completely inhuman?" ~ Vaughn

"Doctor. If you can hear me, listen. You have ten minutes, Doctor. Ten minutes to relinquish your freedom. At the end of that time, your young friend Zoe will pay the consequences of your foolish and totally pointless opposition. Ten minutes, Doctor, ten minutes." ~ Vaughn

Turner [OC]: Hello, sir. No, mission accomplished. On our way back now.
Brigadier: Splendid. No casualties?
Turner [OC]: No, sir. All well. Fortunately Vaughn's jackboots couldn't shoot a flying elephant.

"Spaceships? On the other side of the Moon?" ~ Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart

Jamie: But Doctor, you can't go back the same way again. They'll be waiting for us this time.
The 2nd Doctor: Oh my word. How very fortunate.

Isobel: What on Earth are Cybermen?
The 2nd Doctor: They're from another world. Inhuman killers.
Turner: You mean they're from space, or something.

Isobel: I'm sorry, but, well, it's a pretty fantastic story to swallow.
Brigadier: Yes, but so was the attack from the Yeti, but nevertheless it happened.
Turner: With all due respect sir, she's right. No one believed in the Yetis until they saw them. If you go to Central Command with this story, they'll think you're mad.

"And how do I prove that in the sewers of London there are creatures from outer space waiting to attack us. Go and get one?" ~ Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart

Brigadier: Well, you're a young woman. This is a job for my men.
Isobel: Well, of all the bigoted, anti-feminist, cretinous remarks
Brigadier: This is no job for a girl like you. Now that's final.

"This is rather like looking for the proverbial needle in the proverbial...Just a minute." ~ The Second Doctor

Brigadier: Any success?
The 2nd Doctor: No, not yet. There's an alien logic in these circuits but I haven't been able to work it out yet.

"Vaughn, obviously I can't choose but to work for you. If I refuse, you'll torture me or kill me. I know I can't stand up to torture, and I don't want to die. You're an evil man, Vaughn. You're sadistic. You're a megalomaniac. You're insane. I pity you, but if I get half a chance, I'll kill you." ~ Watkins

"Emotion is alien to the Cybermen's nervous system. It'll destroy it. The micro-monolithic circuits. They're emotional circuits! No wonder they weren't logical. Now why didn't I think of this before. Now, let's see." ~ The Second Doctor

"Honestly, Jamie. Cybermen underneath London and all you can think about is your sleep." ~ Zoe

Turner: Well, sounds like total success for Vaughn and the Cybermen.
The 2nd Doctor: Yes. We appear to be sitting right in the middle of the hornet's nest.

Zoe: Oh, he'll be all right, Isobel's with him. Anything I can do, Doctor?
The 2nd Doctor: Well I suggest that you go with the Brigadier. Much as I detest computers, I think that remarkable brain of yours will come in very handy.

Cyber-Planner: The first transporter fleet is being attacked and destroyed. You have betrayed us.
Vaughn: No!
Cyber-Planner: The failure of this mission is due to you. We will now take over the invasion.

"Is this what you wanted? To be the ruler of a dead world?" ~ The Second Doctor

Zoe: Well, it's all quite logical really. Hardly any calculation needed at all. Except for simple stuff like speed, angle of descent and relative positions of the spaceships.
Peters: Can't we keep her on, sir? She's much prettier than a computer.

"Now you're beginning to understand the Cybermen, Vaughn, you can't make bargains with them!" ~ The Second Doctor

"You think I'm mad, that all I want is power for its own sake. No, I have to have power. The world is weak, vulnerable, a mess of uncoordinated and impossible ideals. It needs a strong man, a single mind. A leader! I'll help you to destroy them because I hate them. They destroyed my dream." ~ Vaughn

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This story marked the start of Terrance Dicks record-setting tenure as script editor for the show.  It as also the final major appearance of the Cybermen until 1975's Revenge of the Cybermen.

This story had a working title of Return of the Cybermen. It was originally conceived as a four part story and got expanded to eight when the next story, The Dreamspinner, fell through.

Zoe makes no appearance in Episode Three of the story as Wendy Padbury was on holiday during the week when it was recorded. Similarly, Jamie appears only in a pre-filmed insert in Episode Eight as Frazer Hines was due for a break.

In the DVD's animated version of Episode 1, "Bad Wolf" (the story arc of the 2005 series) is written on Isobel's wall as an in-joke.

The episode was intended to prove that Earth-based stories could be produced cheaply and effectively. Ironically, it was the most expensive Doctor Who episode ever produced when made, and remained so for several years.

The characters of Professor Travers and his daughter Anne from The Abominable Snowmen and The Web of Fear (the latter only) were supposed to reappear this story. Due to disputes with those stories' writers Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln, they were replaced with Professor Watkins and his daughter Anne.

It was during production of this story that Frazer Hines announced his intention to leave the series.

John Levene was originally cast as a Cyberman, as he had done in The Moonbase. He got the role of Corporal Benton when the performer originally cast was dismissed for chronic tardiness.

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Classic Who - Season 6, Story 45 - The Mind Robber

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"Well, because, well, we're nowhere. It's as simple as that." ~ The Second Doctor

"Jamie, Zoe, concentrate only on my words. Think of me. Think of the Tardis. They are the only real things here. Everything else is unreality. It is only in your minds." ~ The Second Doctor

"Don't you understand? This world that we've tumbled into is a world of fiction. Unicorns, minotaur, Gulliver's travels, they're all alive here." ~ The Second Doctor

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Hamish Wilson played Jamie in Episode 2 and 3 when Frazer Hines contracted chicken pox.

The White Robots that close in on Jamie and Zoe in the void outside the TARDIS were previously used in an episode of the science-fiction television series Out of the Unknown, "The Prophet", originally transmitted 1 January 1967.

Episode 1 is the only episode in the series' history to have no writer's credit, either on-screen or in Radio Times.

This story was planned as a four-part serial, but was increased to five after The Dominators was reduced from six to five episodes. As a result, the first four episodes were only between nineteen and twenty-two minutes in length and Episode 5 was the shortest Doctor Who episode ever at just over eighteen minutes. For this to happen, the first episode was cobbled together by the production team, making Peter Ling very unhappy.

The character Gulliver speaks only lines written for him by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels.

The Master of the Land should not be confused with the renegade Time Lord known as the Master, who first appeared in TV: Terror of the Autons, more than two years after this story was first aired.

There are elements in this story that some fans have interpreted as meaning the events in The Mind Robber are all a dream. For example, the changing of Jamie's face may be a manifestation of the Doctor's regeneration trauma. Zoe also recognizes candles, despite not knowing what they are in The Space Pirates. Significantly, despite the Master of the Land being with the TARDIS crew at the end of this story, his absence is not remarked upon at the start of the following story, The Invasion. In fact, none of the events of this story are mentioned or referenced at the start of the following story – indicating that the TARDIS crew may not even remember them properly (thus explaining Zoe's lack of knowledge about candles later).


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Classic Who - Season 6, Story 44 - The Dominators

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"It's suitable for our purpose. The planetary crust is thin here, and there is a intelligent form of life suitable for a work force." ~ Rago

"Well, here we are everyone, the Island of Death! Uninhabited for one hundred and seventy years. Nothing can live on this poisonous plot of soil." ~ Cully

"Now look, running aground on an atomic island isn't my idea of fun." ~ Cully

"Yes, that's what we all need. A nice, peaceful holiday." ~ The Second Doctor

"Well, it's a sort of laser gun. You know what that'll do. It'll burn a hole through anything. Metal, concrete, wood, anything! It may look old, but, well, you never know. It just might go off. Now please, just leave things as they were. Where was it?" ~ The Second Doctor

"Not from this world? Really, that's very interesting. I must note that in my daily report." ~ Balan

"We are taught to accept facts, being foolish to contemplate fantasy in the face of reality. You are here. This is fact. That you come from another planet I accept because I have no other means of proving it." ~ Kando

"I reproved you at the time of your precipitate act of self-gratification in destroying those three creatures. It will now be necessary to find other specimens. They will have to be investigated." ~ Rago

Cully: Idiots. Blind idiots they are. Still, at least your Doctor friend showed some interest.
Zoe: Yes, he has an enquiring mind.

"Next task? Shall we destroy? Shall we destroy?" ~ Quark

"We don't all have your childish curiosity, Cully." ~ Balan

"Oh, everyone wants me to shut up. All right, I will." ~ Jaime

The 2nd Doctor: I don't know. I thought I heard them mention the word intelligence.
Jamie: Oh, you mean they're going to find out how clever we are?
The 2nd Doctor: Yes. Or how stupid. I wonder which is the more important to them?

"But it's not. I told you when we spoke on the vision link. Three people have been killed, a spacecraft has landed, radioactivity has disappeared, and there are robots on that island. Now I may have a pretty inventive mind, but I wouldn't have dreamt up that lot, now would I?" ~ Cully

"An unintelligent enemy is far less dangerous than an intelligent one, Jamie." ~ The Second Doctor

The 2nd Doctor: Just act stupid. Do you think you can manage that?
Jamie: Oh aye, it's easy.

"Are you such a fool? You have intelligent eyes. I will continue the test personally. Bring!" ~ Rago

"Well it has happened, therefore it is a fact. We now know that the effects of an atomic explosion lasts for a hundred and seventy two years.  Oh, I dare say our atomic experts could provide a reason, but it seems pointless to spend time searching for reasons to prove facts. A fact is a truth." ~ Balan

"We have nothing to fear from such creatures. It would be a waste of energy to destroy them. Leave them! Stay away from us and the Quarks." ~ Rago

"You wanted to destroy. Unnecessary destruction is wasteful." ~ Rago

"Oh you're mad, the lot of you." ~ Jamie

Balan: Young lady, I cannot allow you to incite my pupils. Resistance will only lead to violence.
Zoe: And submission leads to slavery. We must fight.

"No. Balan is right. Violence is always met with violence." ~ Kando

Jamie: Hey, can you land the thing?
Doctor: Of course I can. I'll get us down in no time at all.
Jamie: Aye, but in one piece?

"And where would he have gone? We are on an island, Toba. These creatures cannot escape. Now listen to me carefully, and this time you will obey my instructions. Send these creatures back to the central bore position. I want it cleared ready for drilling." ~ Rago

"Protect? These creatures are harmless primitives. You acted out of your desire to gratify a need for pointless destruction." ~ Rago

"There wasn't a laser gun where I come from, yet us McCrimmons still dealt with the Redcoats right enough." ~ Jamie

"Take this, you wee tin kettle!" ~ Jamie

"I warn you, a Dominator must be obeyed. Your leader is nothing to me. I respect only one thing. Superior force. You will obey my command." ~ Rago

"Time? You have jeopardised this most vital part of the Dominator's war mission. You will remain on this planet and die with it." ~ Rago

"Toba. The primitives will not go unpunished. Fleet leader has just confirmed the Dulcians are unsuitable for slave labour. They will die with their planet." ~ Rago

Zoe: But that will create a volcano. And if they explode the atomic seed device in the middle of that...
The 2nd Doctor: Yes, that's right, Zoe. The whole planet will become one vast molten mass of radioactive material. The fuel store for their fleet.

"But Jamie, it's a brilliant idea! It's so simple only you could have thought of it." ~ The Second Doctor

"It's a little more than a screwdriver. Just watch this." ~ The Second Doctor

The 2nd Doctor: Oh, it's quite all right, Jamie. The planet is quite safe. There's just going to be a localised volcanic eruption. It'll only affect the island.
Jamie: Maybe so, but we happen to be on the island.
The 2nd Doctor: Oh, my word!

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Chris Jeffries doubles for Patrick Troughton in all location-shot scenes featuring the Doctor.

Patrick Troughton requested a showing of The Dominators at his birthday party shortly before his death in March 1987.

Arthur Cox (Cully) would later play Mr Henderson in The Eleventh Hour. As of 2012, he holds the record for the longest gap between appearances (42 years) in the history of Doctor Who. 

The Quark costumes were so small, the BBC had to hire school boys to operate them.

Gerrards Cross Quarry in Buckinghamshire and Olley Sand Pit in Kent provided the Dulkis landscape.

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Classic Who - Season 5, Story 43 - The Wheel in Space

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The 2nd Doctor: The air's all right, the temperature's perfectly normal. There seems to be rather a lot of metal all around us...
Jamie: What? Oh, you know I can't hear you when you talk to yourself.

"The Tardis is trying to warn us to get away from here to somewhere more pleasant. I must have pushed the wrong switch." ~ The Second Doctor

The 2nd Doctor: I disengaged the time vector generator.
Jamie: The what?
The 2nd Doctor: Well once removed, it alters the size of the Tardis. The inside becomes an ordinary telephone box again.

Jamie: Well all right, stick your rod dimen...
The 2nd Doctor: Time vector generator.
Jamie: Aye, stick it back in, and we'll float off somewhere else.

[The Doctor gets two meal squares from the dispensing machine.]
Jamie: Am I supposed to eat this?
The 2nd Doctor: Yes, of course. It'll be delicious.
Jamie: I've heard of a square meal, but this is ridiculous.

"Now? Time is relative, Jamie. If I knew when 'now' was, I might be able to hazard a guess." ~ The Second Doctor

"Oh. We're all right for the time being. But listen, you. No more gallivanting about till I say so, all right? Doctor? Doctor?" ~ Jaime

Lernov: It isn't funny, Leo. The Controller's like a kid with a new toy.
Ryan: Oh, don't tell me you're going to be a old stick in the mud, too?
Lernov: If you are referring to Doctor Corwyn, she is known. She is no stick in the mud. She's perfectly right to be cautious.

Corwyn: You'll do. If it's any comfort to you, you are in fine physical shape. Can you give me your full name please?
Jamie: James Robert McCrimmon. Jamie.
Corwyn: Thank you. And your friend?
Jamie: Er, the Doctor.
Corwyn: I can't put that down.
Jamie: Er. John Smith.
Corwyn: Really?
Jamie: Aye.

Jamie: What are you laughing at?
Zoe: Your clothes. You're wearing female garments.
Jamie: Female? Look, I'll have you know this is a kilt. Have you not seen it before?
Zoe: Kilt? Kilt. A barbaric form of garment as worn by a kiltie! Are you of Scandinavian origin? Danish?
Jamie: No, I am not. I am a true bred Scot and I'll just thank you to...
Zoe: Oh, a Scot. Scotland, of course. Pre-century history isn't my field, you see.

Zoe: This Doctor friend of yours. Is he a scientist?
Jamie: He is in a way, I suppose, yes.
Zoe: What's his specialty?
Jamie: He's what?
Zoe: Well, is he a physicist, biochemist, astronomer, biometrician...
Jamie: Yes, he is.

"Well that's marvellous, isn't it? The Doctor told me to protect it. You don't give a reason, just leave me to get you out of trouble." ~ The Second Doctor

Ryan: No, it's all a problem in solid geometry to you, isn't it. Don't you care what happens here?
Zoe: Well, of course. I'm only telling you what's going to happen.
Ryan: Just like a robot. Fact, calculations.
Lernov: Leo!
Ryan: Proper little brainchild. All brain and no heart!

"Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority." ~ The Second Doctor

Flannigan: You can't come out.
Jamie: What was that scream?
Flannigan: I don't know. It sounded as if all the devils in hell was hounding someone, but you still can't come out.

"Simple common sense works wonders sometimes, Zoe." ~ The Second Doctor

Zoe: What's that?
The 2nd Doctor: It's a Cybermat!
Jamie: Aye.
The 2nd Doctor: The lights, Jamie, the lights. Cybermats.
Jamie: That means the Cybermen must be here too.

The 2nd Doctor: They were once men, human beings like yourself, from the planet Mondas, but now they're more robot then man.
Bennett: You mean half and half?
The 2nd Doctor: Oh no, more than that. Their entire bodies are mechanical and their brains have been treated neuro-surgically to remove all human emotions, all sense of pain. They're ruthless, inhuman killers!

"Are there any ordinary circumstances in space?" ~ The Second Doctor

The 2nd Doctor: Gemma! Gemma, did you know about this Bernalium from the rocket?
Corwyn: Yes, Tanya told me.
The 2nd Doctor: Don't you see what it means? The Cybermen are here. They came over in that crate.

"Now, now listen, listen everyone. The Cybermen are here, in this Wheel. They took over this poor fellow to stop you sending for help or signalling to Earth. Now just a minute. Gemma, you must alert the whole Wheel and you'll need something stronger than drugs to stop your people from being taken over. It doesn't matter how crude it is. A metal plate and a transistor will do. Tape them to the back of the neck. It will absorb the Cyber control signals." ~ The Second Doctor

The 2nd Doctor: We're going hunting, Jamie.
Jamie: Are you sure you know who's going to be hunted.

The 2nd Doctor: What's the thing which we need to survive which the Cybermen don't?
Jamie: Food.
The 2nd Doctor: Always thinking of your stomach, aren't you. No. Air, Jamie, air.

The 2nd Doctor: So you see this isn't just an attack by an alien race on a space station. The Cybermen have another purpose.
Corwyn: What?
The 2nd Doctor: They have an over-riding ambition to invade the Earth, plunder its mineral wealth, and somehow they see a way of doing it through this Wheel.

Jamie: Zoe, look!
Zoe: The meteorites, they're heading straight for us!

The 2nd Doctor: Because there's something on board that rocket that we've got to have if we're going to beat the Cybermen.
RYAN: And that justified risking two lives?
The 2nd Doctor: Yes, to save many. But anyway, we're all going to get killed shortly unless you switch over to sectional air supply.
RYAN: What are you talking about?
The 2nd Doctor: The Cybermen are going to poison the air.

Cyber-Planner [OC]: Positive. The Doctor is known and recorded. An enemy. He must be lured outside the force field and destroyed.
Jamie: They're going to try and trap the Doctor. Come on, let's get back and warn him.

Cyberman: You know our ways. You must be destroyed.
The 2nd Doctor: Yes, well, I was afraid you'd get back to that.

Jamie: Oh, it looks like the Doctor's already made one of them pay.
The 2nd Doctor: Yes, but they're sending in reinforcements, probably through the Loading Bay. Have you got the rod? Thank you. I'm going to try and fix this into the laser gun circuit. With any luck, I should be able to boost the power enough to destroy the Cyberman spaceship. But you'll have to hold them off at the loading bay. I need time.

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"The Wheel in Space" is most notable for the introduction of the character Zoe Heriot, a young scientist from the late 21st century.  She would join The Doctor and Jaime, replacing Victoria Waterfield on the TARDIS crew.

Wendy Padbury applied for the role, and after several rounds of auditions and a screen test at Lime Grove, she was given the job.  Since leaving Doctor Who, she has appeared in "Doctor Who and the Daleks in Seven Keys to Doomsday", a 1974 stage play at the Adelphi Theatre London based on the television series, and made a cameo appearance in The Five Doctors.

"Wheel" is also notable for being the first use of the Doctor's "John Smith" alias.  Jaime concocts the name after seeing it as a brand name on a medical container.

The spacesuits worn by Jamie and Zoe, which were previously seen in The Tenth Planet, later turned up as costumes in "Star Wars: A New Hope" and "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back", most notably as the suite worn by Bossk the Bounty Hunter.

The story that was originally planned for this spot in the production schedule was to have portrayed a Dalek/Cybermen confrontation. Although this was disallowed by Terry Nation, he did give an important concession in return. He allowed for future Dalek stories — something that was not seen as certain at the time. His precondition for this permission would remain in effect the rest of his life: he had to be given the first right of refusal to write the script on any proposed Dalek storyline.  It is notable that after his death in 1997, permission to use the Daleks had to be obtained from his estate before they could included into the revival series in 2005.

Meanwhile, Kit Pedler, whose involvement with the original idea for a Cyber/Dalek war is uncertain, brought an entirely different Cybermen story to the table in the form of The Space Wheel. He was teamed with David Whitaker to bring this idea to script form. The idea of a Cyber/Dalek war festered in the minds of both Doctor Who fans and production staff alike. It would not be realised on-screen until the 2006 episode Doomsday.

"The Wheel in Space" is the first to have an incidental music score as well as sound effects provided by the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop. Incidental music in previous stories was taken from the BBC library, not created specifically for the story.

Patrick Troughton makes no appearance in Episode 2 of "The Wheel in Space" as he was on holiday during the week when it was recorded. The Doctor is seen only as an unconscious figure, with Chris Jeffries doubling for Troughton. Similarly, Anne Ridler was not hired for episode 6 so the dead Gemma Corwyn is represented by a double and photographs of Ridler are used for close-ups of Corwyn's body.

Only Episodes 3 and 6 exist in the BBC Archives. Episode 6 was transmitted from a 35 mm film print and retained in the BBC Film Library (although Episode 5 was not). A private collector obtained a copy of Episode 3 and returned it in 1983.

Episodes 1, 2, 4, and 5 are recreations by Graham Strong & Richard Develyn which lack subtitles, again making the actions sequences difficult to follow. These episodes are best watched while referencing the transcript where stage directions can clarify the non-speaking sequences.

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