Classic Who - Season 3, Story 27 - The War Machines

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Dodo: London. Home. It's marvelous to be back. It seems ages since I left.
The 1st Doctor: Oh, when you've seen the ages that I've see, you won't use that term quite so freely.

"Scotland Yard whipped off into time and space." ~ Dodo Chaplet

"Well, Miss Chaplet, I'll explain. This is perhaps not the biggest computer in the world, but it's certainly the most advanced. In fact it can handle scientific problems well outside the range of any other computer in existence. We are about to link this up with computers all over the world as a central intelligence. A sort of problem solver." ~ Professor Brett

"No one operates WOTAN. WOTAN operates itself. The computer is merely a brain which thinks logically without any political or private ends. It is pure thought. It makes calculations, it supplies only the truth. It has no imaginative powers." ~ Sir Charles Summer

Brett: I'm not joking. WOTAN has decided that the world cannot progress further with mankind running it.
Krimpton: Oh really? And what does WOTAN propose to do about it, take over from us?
Brett: From now on, we are to serve.
Krimpton: And if we choose not to, I suppose mankind will be eliminated.
Brett: If it is necessary.

"Don't call me Duchess." ~ Polly

Kitty: Have one on the house, Doctor. It isn't every day we get the over twenties in this place. Oh, I dig your fab gear.
The 1st Doctor: Fab gear.

"Doctor Who is required. Bring him here." ~ Wotan

"Top priority is to enlist Doctor Who. He has advanced knowledge which WOTAN needs. Doctor Who must be enlisted into our services tonight." ~ Professor Brett

"Don't be alarmed, Doctor. This is the method of establishing contact. Time is very short. Construction has already begun. You are needed." ~ Dodo Chaplet

The 1st Doctor: I'm rather worried about Polly. She appears to be missing, that child.
Ben: Oh, probably gone all snooty on us.
The 1st Doctor: No, I think it's far more serious than that.

"Polly, do you know what you're doing? Go and get the Doctor before it's too late." ~ Ben

"You tried to warn human authority of our work in this building. You are an enemy of mechanised evolution. Nothing must be allowed to prevent the machines taking over. They are the next stage in the growth of life force of Earth. All obstacles will be swept aside, including you." ~ Major Green

"Faster! All human beings who break down will be eliminated. There is no time for rest. You must follow the example of the machines." ~ Major Green

"She's in a warehouse. A warehouse in Covent Garden. And there's a machine, a killer machine. And if we don't stop it, it'll kill half London!" ~ Ben

"No, I think we should strike at what I believe to be the centre of this menace. WOTAN." ~ The First Doctor

Ben: They must've built these things all round London. If they've got Polly, Doctor, they could've transferred her to help at any one of their premises.
The 1st Doctor: My dear boy, if we worry about one person we shall never solve anything, shall we?
Ben: Looks such a kind old bloke, too, don't he?
Sergeant: He's got other things to think about, mate.
Ben: Yeah, I know, but this bird saved my life, see.

"Well, it will be like the crossing of two electrical currents. My machine has to face up to Brett's computer, WOTAN." ~ The First Doctor

"Her love? Oh, there's gratitude for you. Take her all the way around the world, through space and time, and then..." ~ The First Doctor

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The original idea behind The War Machines was devised by Doctor Who's scientific advisor Kit Pedler.

Gerald Taylor is credited as 'Machine Operator' for Episodes 2 and 3, as both 'Machine Operator' and 'The Voice of WOTAN' (separate on-screen captions) for Episode 4 and only as 'Machine Operator' in Radio Times for Episode 4. He also provided 'The Voice of WOTAN' for Episodes 1 and 2, but was uncredited for this on-screen.

WOTAN is given its own billing, '...and WOTAN', on the closing credits of Episodes 1 to 3 and in Radio Times; although billed in Radio Times for Episode 4, it is not credited on-screen. This is the only time in the series' history that a fictional creation receives a cast credit.

Although Polly was never given an on-screen surname, "Wright" was used in an audition piece for the character at the time. It has since been adopted into various spin-off novels.

This story is also the first time we hear Ben call Polly by the nickname "Dutchess".

WOTAN is pronounced with a soft V as VOTAN by many of the characters.

This is the Doctor's first return to 20th century London since a brief interlude at the end of "Bell of Doom".

The Doctor is particularly ruthless in this story, sending a War Machine to destroy WOTAN when he knows that Brett and Krimpton (and most likely Polly too) are with WOTAN, and are very likely to get killed (as Krimpton does). He does this despite the fact that all three are not acting for themselves, but are under WOTAN's control, so they have no choice about being there, nor any impulse to escape.

This is the only time during the First or Second Doctor's era when the TARDIS crew is completely replaced, leaving no continuing character other than the Doctor.

This is the story in which the Doctor is infamously referred to as "Doctor Who" by WOTAN. This is the only time on television that the Doctor is directly called this. WOTAN perhaps refers to the Doctor in this way due to not knowing who he is.

BBC newsreader Kenneth Kendall plays himself in episode 4, announcing the destruction of the first War Machine.

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Classic Who - Season 3, Story 25 - The Gunfighters

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"Oh, good gracious. Absolutely absurd. Why you have to dress yourselves up like Tom Mix I can't imagine. You're asking for trouble. Why can't you wear inconspicuous clothes like I do?" ~ The First Doctor

The 1st Doctor: Oh, quite, quite so. Allow me, sir, to introduce Miss Dodo Dupont, wizard of the ivory keys, and er Steven Regret, tenor. And lastly sir, your humble servant Doctor Caligari.
Masterson: Doctor Who?
The 1st Doctor: Yes, quite right.

"Well, I had to find some sort of suitable cover. After all, you can't walk into the middle of a Western town and say that you've come from outer space. Good gracious me, we'd all be arrested on a vagrancy charge." ~ The First Doctor

"Well, I should hope not. I certainly disapprove of violence." ~ The First Doctor

"Oh, you flatter me, young man. Yes, reasonably accomplished I would say, but not great." ~ The First Doctor

"Under arrest? And don't you call me pop. You know very well who I am, sir!" ~ The First Doctor

"I have no intention of trying anything, only people keep giving me guns and do I wish they wouldn't. I wonder, would you mind looking after it for me?" ~ The First Doctor

"Yeah, well, I know how you feel friend, but if you don' quit hoppin' about like a jackrabbit I'm gonna have to lay you out so cold you'll freeze!" ~ Bat Masterson

"Oh certainly not, sir, certainly not. I mean, we're just going to er, well, er, reason with him." ~ The First Doctor

"Well. this is utterly absurd. Nothing will ever induce me to raise a gun in anger." ~ The First Doctor

"Oh, good heavens, what a relief. Here you are, Bat, there's your badge and there is your wretched weapon!" ~ The First Doctor

"Oh, my dear Dodo, my dear Dodo. You know you're fast becoming a prey to every cliché-ridden convention in the American West. And it's high time we left. Now, come along."  ~ The First Doctor

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Thunderbirds voice artists David 'Brains' Graham and Shane 'Scott Tracy' Rimmer appear as Charlie the barman and Seth Harper respectively. Graham had also provided Dalek voices for a number of earlier Doctor Who stories.

The caption at the end of the final episode reads "Next Episode: Dr. Who and the Savages". The Gunfighters was the last story to have individual episode titles.

Patrick Troughton was one of the actors considered for the role of Johnny Ringo.

The serial features an original song, "The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon", the last time that an original song would be commissioned for the series until the rap song featured in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (discounting "The King's Song" in The King's Demons). "Ballad" is performed off-screen by Lynda Baron, who years later would play Captain Wrack in Enlightenment and Val in Closing Time.

Along with Lynda Baron, the "Ballad" was also performed by "Steven" and "Dodo"

Episode 1 carries the title "A Holiday for the Doctor", the first and only episode of the original series to incorporate the "correct" name of the Doctor (as opposed to an episode of The Chase called "The Death of Doctor Who" and the 1970 serial Doctor Who and the Silurians, both of which used the technically incorrect "Doctor Who"). The next televised episode to include the name "The Doctor" in its title was the 2005 episode The Doctor Dances, a practice later followed by several others.

This was the first full and only serial to take place completely within the United States. It would be thirty years until another US-set story was filmed, namely the 1996 TV movie, and the next regular episode to be set within the US would not air until Dalek in 2005.

The storyline of the serial makes several notable departures from the historical fact. In reality, Bat Masterson, Johnny Ringo, Warren Earp and Phineas Clanton were not present in Tombstone in October 1881. Consequently, neither Ringo nor Phineas Clanton participated in the Gunfight at the O. K. Corral and were therefore not casualties of it as portrayed here. Warren Earp did not die until July 1900, almost nineteen years after the events of this story take place. Phineas' brother Ike Clanton survived the gunfight whereas their father Pa Clanton had died the previous August. Conversely, no reference is made to four of the gunfight's actual participants: Warren, Wyatt and Virgil Earp's brother Morgan Earp and the Clanton brothers' fellow outlaw cowboys Billy Claiborne and Tom and Frank McLaury. Furthermore, Doc Holliday was only 30 years old in 1881 in real life whereas Anthony Jacobs was 48 in 1966.

Anthony Jacobs (Doc Holiday) was the father of Matthew Jacobs, who wrote Doctor Who (1996) 30 years later.

Laurence Payne (Johnny Ringo) would later play Morix in The Leisure Hive and Dastari in The Two Doctors, in which he also supplied the voice of the Space Station Chimera computer.

This would be the final televised Doctor Who story to feature an historical figure as an onscreen character until The Mark of the Rani in 1985, in which the Sixth Doctor met George Stephenson and Lord Ravensworth.

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Part 1: A Holiday for the Doctor
Part 2: Don't Shoot the Pianist
Part 3: Johnny Ringo
Part 4: The OK Corral

Classic Who - Season 3, Story 21 - The Daleks' Master Plan

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Bret: Katarina, are you sure you don't know how to work this?
Katarina: How could I know? It belongs to the Doctor.
Bret: The old man said this was no ordinary ship, and he was right.

"So, you'd use physical violence, would you? You don't know what you've let yourself in for. So you've left the key in the door! Well, well, that's the first big mistake, isn't it? Yes, very foolish. Very foolish indeed, young man. Well now, it's brain, or brawn rather, versus brain? I've got you beaten from the start, young man!" ~ The First Doctor

"Oh, it's a little invention of mine, I call it the magnetic chair. It has a forcefield strong enough to restrain a herd of elephants, so I wouldn't waste your energy trying to escape. You will stay there until I direct otherwise." ~ The First Doctor

"No power in this universe can stop the Daleks." ~ Dalek Supreme

Katarina: We had to leave the temple. The Tardis. The evil ones came.
Steven: Evil ones?
Katarina: He called them the Daleks?
Steven: Daleks!

"If the Daleks are doing something drastic, then we have to stop the Daleks. Now will you shut up, sir?" ~ The First Doctor

"Great One, don't leave us. Don't let the strange beings catch you." ~ Katarina

"Fifty years, to be precise, and Mavic Chen has given this to the Daleks to complete one of the most evil weapons ever devised. Their Time Destructor." ~ The First Doctor

"Oh my dear young man, you ask so many questions. Look at Katarina over there. She doesn't ask questions, she just looks and learns. Now, why don't you try the same thing? You know I find all this extremely fascinating. It's a little primitive of course, but it's still very fascinating." ~ The First Doctor

The 1st Doctor: It's the worse of these out-of-date and primitive spaceships. One little bump and they all fall to bits.
Bret: Doctor, what are you talking about? This is a Spar, the most technically perfect craft in the history of space travel.
The 1st Doctor: Oh yes, quite so. That's why we are stranded on this pimple of a planet, whilst you footle with that fuse box.

"Now just you remember, young man, I have no desire to kill anyone." ~ The First Doctor

"She didn't understand. She couldn't understand. She wanted to save our lives and perhaps the lives of all the other beings of the Solar System. I hope she's found her Perfection. Oh, how I shall always remember her as one of the Daughters of the Gods. Yes, as one of the Daughters of the Gods." ~ The First Doctor

"You brainless idiot! How many times have I told you about taking lives? We have other ways and means of dealing with evil doers." ~ The First Doctor

Froyn: You don't seem to understand. Anyone or anything that was in this room at the time of the experiment is now being transmitted through space.
Rhynmal: Yes, my friend. They're many light years from Earth by now, moving towards a strange planet in a strange galaxy, the nature of which we can only guess at.

"I'm afraid, my friends, the Daleks have won." ~ The First Doctor

"What happened is unimportant! We have the taranium! The invasion can go ahead. The Universe will be ours!" ~ Mavic Chen

Constable: Oh, perhaps someone sent it to the Inspector as a Christmas box.
Sergeant: And perhaps you'll both just stay out here and watch it.
Constable: Why? Do you think it's going to fly away?

Inspector: Was he the only bloke in the box?
Constable: Well how should I know?
Inspector: Well didn't you check? There might be a whole army of them in there, living like gypsies in one of Her Majesty's police telephone boxes.
Constable: And just how many people do you expect to come out of one box?

"Now, come along. We must go back to the Tardis. This is a madhouse. It's all full of Arabs. Come along." ~ The First Doctor

"I'll tell you something. That little Englishman has done everything. I think I'll give it up and take to singing. But who'd use a singer with a name like Bing Crosby?" ~ Clown

"Oh, no, no. Don't think I'm going to leave it at this. You haven't heard the last of me, Doctor. You haven't heard the last of me!" ~ The Meddling Monk

"Report to Skaro. Our time machine is now in pursuit. Nothing can match Dalek technology. The universe shall be ours. Conquest is assured." ~ Dalek Supreme

"Well, yes, the pyramids are the seventh wonder of this ancient world, I should say the word impressive is rather an understatement." ~ The First Doctor

Monk: Well, are you going to let me into the Tardis or not?
Steven: I couldn't even if I wanted to. The Doctor's the only one with a key.
Monk: Oh.
Steven: Come on, we'll find him.
Monk: That's what I'm worried about.

"You should know the answer to that as well as I do. None of you can be trusted." ~ The First Doctor

"If you try any more of your funny business, I'll exterminate you myself." ~ Steven

"The Doctor again. The Doctor. He's stolen my directional unit. Now I'll have to wander through time and space as lost as he is. I'll get you for this, Doctor! I'll get you one day!" ~ The Meddling Monk

"Oh, you're so cheerful, aren't you." ~ Steven

"If you'd only think! Is there no sense in the outer galaxies? It is clear that they have lost their leader, the one they call the Doctor. The girl has bought the young man here to look for him, but really she has come back out of loyalty to me. To ensure my safety as the Guardian as the Solar System." ~ Mavic Chen

"He's mad!" ~ Sara Kingdom

"What? But I have helped you time and time again with your absurd incompetence! I, Mavic Chen, will decide when the Alliance is at an end. You, Dalek Supreme, tell them they're to take their orders from me." ~ Mavic Chen

"Take him away and exterminate him, but do not fire in here. You will damage us and some of the controls." ~ Dalek Supreme

"Dust! It's all crumbling into dust." ~ Steven

"What a waste. What a terrible waste." ~ The First Doctor

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 Only "Day of Armageddon" (Episode 2), "Counter Plot" (Episode 5) and "Escape Switch" (Episode 10) survive on 16mm film telerecordings. "Day of Armageddon" was recovered in 2004 when a former Head of Engineering at Yorkshire Television returned it to the BBC. This is the only recovered episode to feature footage of Katarina.

As a special Christmas-themed episode, "The Feast of Steven" (Episode 7) was considered unsellable to other countries; the story was instead offered for sale as an eleven-part adventure. Because of this, videotape masters were wiped and no film telerecording of "The Feast of Steven" was made for international distribution; it became the first episode of Doctor Who to be seemingly lost forever. "The Feast of Steven" was also the first episode to let one of the main characters 'break the fourth wall' with the Doctor addressing the camera: "Oh and incidentally, a happy Christmas to all of you at home."

Because "The Feast of Steven" was never sold abroad, it is possible – though this cannot be confirmed – that two versions of the closing scene of "Coronas of the Sun" were recorded; one bearing the closing caption "Next Episode: THE FEAST OF STEVEN" for UK transmission, and the other reading "Next Episode: VOLCANO" for overseas sale.

This story features the first appearance of Nicholas Courtney, a favourite of the story's director Douglas Camfield, here playing Bret Vyon. He would appear as Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart in another Camfield story, The Web of Fear.

Nicholas Courtney and Jean Marsh later appeared in the Seventh Doctor story Battlefield.

The Daleks' Master Plan and Mission to the Unknown were the only 1960s Doctor Who stories offered for overseas sale but never purchased.

Unless one counts The Trial of a Time Lord, which can be considered four different stories, this is the longest single story in the series' history.

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Part 1 - The Nightmare Begins
Part 2 - Day of Armegeddon *
Part 3 - Devil's Planet
Part 4 - The Traitors
Part 5 - Counter Plot *
Part 6.1 - 6.2 - Coronas of the Sun
Part 7.1 - 7.2 - The Feast of Steven
Part 8.1 - 8.2 - Volcano
Part 9.1 - 9.2 - Golden Death
Part 10 - Escape Switch *
Part 11.1 - 11.2 - The Abandoned Planet
Part 12.1 - 12.2 - The Destruction of Time



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Classic Who - Season 3, Story 23 - The Ark

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Steven: Well, you can't have been here before.
DoDo: Yes I have. It's just outside London. I came here once with the school. It's called Whipsnade.

"Earth? Earth? Well, it couldn't be anywhere else now, could it?" ~ Dodo Chaplet

DoDo: Flowers from America, birds from Africa, a snake from Brazil and now an elephant from India.
The 1st Doctor: Exactly, my dear.
Steven: It's a jungle incorporating things from all over the world.
The 1st Doctor: Yes, you're quite right, my boy. Yes, and top of everything else, it's a jungle without a sky.

"That reminds me, why are you dressed in these stupid clothes? Have you been footling about in my wardrobe? Is that what it is? What do you think you're playing at, crusades?" ~ The First Doctor

The 1st Doctor: Yes, yes. What do they look like, dear boy?
Steven: Terrifying. Is this is Earth, it's no longer inhabited by human beings.
The 1st Doctor: Shh. You'll frighten the child. Come on.

Steven: And where you are going?
Commander: To Refusis Two. The Earth also is dying. We have left it for the last time.
Steven: The last time?
Commander: Yes. In a short time it will burn and be swallowed in the pull of the Sun.
Steven: Then we must have journeyed forward millions of years.

Steven: What's all the fuss about? The man's caught Dodo's cold, that's all.
The 1st Doctor: All? All? These people, this generation, have never experienced the common cold for the simple reason it was wiped out many generations ago before they were born. They have no resistance to it.
Steven: What'll happen?
The 1st Doctor: I don't quite know, I don't know. But it might be fatal and we shall be to blame. Yes, it's all our fault and I should have foreseen it.

"I'm not snivelling. It's me nose running again! Anyway, I'm feeling better now but I don't suppose anyone cares." ~ Dodo Chaplet

Steven: Look, do you think this has happened before? That we've carried an infection from one age to another, or even one planet to another?
The 1st Doctor: Oh, I don't want to think it about it, dear boy. It's too horrifying. Though I must say that we're usually very healthy.
Steven: It'll spread through the whole ship, become an epidemic.
The 1st Doctor: Well, that depends on the strength of the virus infection.
DoDo: If it's half as bad as my cold was, it will.

Zentos: There is the crux of the matter. Do you expect us to believe that nonsense, that you manage in that ridiculous machine called the Tardis, have managed to travel through time? Guardians, Monoids, these beings, whatever they are, place a heavy strain on our credulity.
Steven: Well that's not very difficult! If your medical records are anything to go by, this segment of time, far from being one of the most advanced in knowledge, is one of the worst!
Zentos: We can cope with all things known to the fifty seventh segment of Earth life, but not with strange diseases brought by you as agents of the intelligences that inhabit Refusis!
Steven: Are you still on about that? I've told you before. We know nothing of that planet.

"That the nature of man, even in this day and age, hasn't altered at all. You still fear the unknown, like everyone else before you." ~ Steven Taylor

"Are you aware that you might be committing your entire community to a slow extinction? Trust me. Allow me, help me to find a new cure for this fever of yours." ~ The First Doctor

Commander: Zentos, this is your Commander speaking. I order you to release the travellers immediately. They will be given every facility for research. They may be our only hope. See to it.
Zentos: But the hearing decided differently, Commander. These people are dangerous.
Commander: Don't argue with me, Zentos. Those are my instructions. But in case you are right, I wish the Doctor to use his young friend as a guinea pig. If he succeeds in curing him, then I will set aside the verdict of the court. Now, proceed.

Dodo: Okay.
The 1st Doctor: What did you say?
Dodo: I said, okay.
The 1st Doctor: Yes, I thought you did. Now once this crisis is over, I'm going to teach you to speak English.

"Yes, I know I'm a bit of a quack, but the combination of these two membrane fluids, a little at a time, should do the trick." ~ The First Doctor

DoDo: Don't you have to squirt it into his arm?
The 1st Doctor: What, with a hypodermic needle? Good gracious, no. That went out a long time ago.

"Remember your journey is very important, young man, therefore you must travel with understanding as well as hope." ~ The First Doctor

The 1st Doctor: Well, er, yes. But when we were here some time ago we also were friends of your forebears. They were called Monoids. Things were very different then.
Yendom: These strangers, they
Monoid 2: You speak of the distant past. Following the recent revolution we are now the masters.
The 1st Doctor: I see, and the human beings?
Monoid 2: They work for us. Is that not true, Yendom?

Monoid 1: You controlled the immediate impact of the fever, but a mutation of it developed later on that sapped the will of the humans.
DoDo: You mean that it was our fault that you took over because of the fever?
Monoid 1: In part.

Monoid 2: You stay here.
Steven: Why? Where are you taking them?
Monoid 2: They will make the first landing on the planet Refusis. You will be held as a security for their conduct.

"So this is Refusis? Where's the red carpet, then?" ~ Dodo Chaplet

DoDo: Yes, I bet it'll take some time to get the whole of the population down here, so the sooner you get started, the better, I should think.
Monoid 2: Don't worry. It may not take as long as you think.
DoDo: What do you mean? Are you up to something?

The 1st Doctor: Nothing, my dear. We shall just have to wait until the next party lands.
Dodo: What if they don't come? What if they decide to find another planet?
The 1st Doctor: Well, in that case we shall just have to stay here.

Refusian [OC]: Here, we've always known peace. Never war or conflict.
DoDo: You're not the only ones like that. The Guardians, you know the humans who travel in the spaceship, they have used to have your ideas too.
The 1st Doctor: Yes, that's true my dear but, you mustn't think they were perfect. Oh, no. Sometimes they were extremely intolerant and selfish.
Refusian [OC]: Is that why they were conquered by the Monoids?
The 1st Doctor: Exactly.

Monoid 3: Who is it that travels in that launcher? We have seen no one since we have been here.
The 1st Doctor: Well, to tell the truth, neither have we.

"Some of us should go back to Refusis to help the Doctor and Dodo, whilst the rest stay here and try to deal with that bomb." ~ Steven Taylor

"A long time ago, your ancestors accepted responsibility for the welfare of these Monoids. They were treated like slaves. So no wonder when they got the chance, they repaid you in kind." ~ The First Doctor

"Oh Doctor, don't say you're catching a cold now." ~ Dodo Chaplet

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Although Lesley Scott, Paul Erickson's then-wife, was credited as a co-writer, she did no work on the scripts. Erickson would later give his reasons in the First Doctor Handbook for sharing credit with her: "It was a personal arrangement I had with her, which was my own personal business at the time. The circumstances went into history. I need say no more than that."

The Monoids were played by actors, each holding a ping-pong ball in his mouth to represent the alien's single eye. The upper portion of the actor's face was hidden by a 'Beatle' wig.

The cast interact with real animals on loan from a zoo for the jungle scenes, a rarity at the time.

This was the first story in which Michael Sheard, a frequent and favourite guest star on Doctor Who, appeared.

Future Dalek voice Roy Skelton did his first work on Doctor Who, voicing the Monoids in Episodes 3 & 4.

There are occasional lapses by Jackie Lane into the Cockney accent in which she rehearsed the story, before the production team were instructed by their superiors that it was unacceptable for a regular character in Doctor Who to speak in anything other than 'BBC English'. Companion Ben Jackson (introduced only four stories later in The War Machines) was allowed to keep his Cockney accent.

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Classic Who - Season 1, Story 8 - The Reign of Terror

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"I'm rather tired of your insinuations that I am not master of this craft.  Oh, I admit, it did develop a fault, a minor fault on one occasion, perhaps twice, but nothing I couldn't control." ~ The First Doctor

Ian Chesterton: Are you so certain you know where we are?
The 1st Doctor: Certain? Of course I'm certain! If you doubt me, take a look for yourself.

"But you have your important researches to complete. You may not find the time. There's a chance that we won't meet again. Don't you think it would be better if we parted under more friendly circumstances, say, over a drink?" ~ Ian Chesterton

Ian Chesterton: Now, wait a minute. The Doctor's put us down, right in the middle of the French Revolution.
Barbara Wright: Yes, the Reign Of Terror.

Susan Foreman: We might not get back to the ship if Grandfather hears we're in the Reign Of Terror.
Ian Chesterton: Why not?
Susan Foreman: It's his favorite period in the history of Earth.

Jailer: This batch for the guillotine. Take them away!
Ian Chesterton: Barbara! Susan!

"Well, if you were to expend your energy helping with the road, instead of boring and shouting at them every few seconds, you might be able to get somewhere." ~ The First Doctor

"Is there really such a need, Citizen Robespierre? Hmm? I mean, what can this Reign Of Terror possibly gain? For every opponent you put to the guillotine, two more will spring up!" ~ The First Doctor

"I flew here with three friends in a small box. When I left England it was 1963." ~ Ian Chesterton

"Yes, we were. But when we got to the prison, the Doctor was there. He's dressed up as if he was running the revolution! From what I could gather, half the people there take orders from him!"~ Barbara Wright

"Oh, spare your breath, please! I'm quite capable of explaining the situation myself." ~ The First Doctor

"The events will happen, just as they are written... I'm afraid so and we can't stem the tide. But at least we can stop being carried away with the flood!" ~ The First Doctor

"Well, unlike the old adage, my boy, our destiny is in the stars, so let's go and search for it." ~ The First Doctor

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This was the first Doctor Who story to feature location filming.

Prints of all four existing episodes were recovered from a Cypriot television station in 1985. These included a superior print of episode 2

This story was a replacement for a six-part story by David Whitaker which would have been set at the time of the Spanish Armada.

William Russell originally suggested the idea of a story set during the French Revolution.

Director Henric Hirsch suffered from exhaustion during the making of this serial and was unable to direct episode 3. It is believed John Gorrie (who had directed The Keys of Marinus) stepped in temporarily. However, Gorrie claimed to have no memory of working on the story so it is possible the director was someone else, who remains unidentified to this day. Some sources have credited Verity Lambert as director for this episode, as no director is credited on-screen (which at the time normally implied that the producer also directed the program), but she firmly denied this.

This was the first historical in which the Doctor was seen to wear period attire. The First Doctor continued to do so in most of his stories set in Earth's past. The tradition was initially continued by the Second Doctor in The Highlanders, but as pure historical stories faded from Doctor Who, the Doctor generally abandoned this notion.

The story is currently in the process of being animated, with the animation to fill in for the missing episodes. The project is being led by Big Finish Productions, along with Thetamation for PUP Limited and BBC Worldwide. In March 2011 it was provisionally slated for released in late 2012. Though by July of 2012 it had yet to be scheduled for release.

The Doctor is proud of himself for getting Ian and Barbara to within 100 miles [actually ~200 miles] of their home of London. The Fourth Doctor, attempting to return Sarah Jane Smith to her London neighbourhood of South Croydon, misses the mark by more than 400 miles, delivering her instead to Aberdeen. (The Hand of Fear; School Reunion)

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Part 1: A Land of Fear
Part 2: Guests of Madame Guillotine
Part 3: A Change of Identity
Part 4: The Tyrant of France
Part 5: A Bargain of Necessity
Part 6: Prisoners of Conciergerie

Classic Who - Season 2, Story 9 - Planet of the Giants

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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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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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Part 1: Planet of Giants
Part 2: Dangerous Journey
Part 3: Crisis

Classic Who - Season 2, Story 10 - The Dalek Invasion of Earth

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The 1st Doctor: Well, the people, they'll all be curious. They'll want to know why we're trying to break into a police box.
Ian: Yes. If they don't ask what a police box is doing under a bridge in the first place.

The 1st Doctor: But you know, young man, I have a feeling, or call it intuition if you like. I don't believe we're anywhere near your time, the 1960's.
Ian: I hope it is only an intuition, Doctor.
The 1st Doctor: Yes, well, ask yourself. Here we are, standing by the Thames and we've been here quite a while, how long? Quarter of an hour, twenty minute?
Ian: Easily, but what about it?
The 1st Doctor: Well, what have we heard? Nothing. Precisely nothing. No sound of birdsong, no voices, no sound of shipping, and not even the chimes of old Big Ben. It's uncanny. Uncanny.


The 1st Doctor: [To Susan] What you need is a jolly good smacked bottom!

"It's Battersea Power Station. I wonder what's happened to those two chimneys?" ~ Ian Chesterton

"Yes, but aren't you even a bit curious? After all, it's your city, you know. Don't you want to know what's happened to it?" ~ The First Doctor

Dortmun: Two more pairs of hands. Good, we need
David: She says she can cook.
Dortmun: Oh, can you?
David: And what do you do?
Susan: I eat.

The 1st Doctor: I think you'd better let us go.
Dalek: We do not release prisoners. We are the masters of the Earth.
The 1st Doctor: Not for long.

Dalek: I warn you, resistance is useless.

"Conquered the Earth? You poor, pathetic creatures. Don't you realise? Before you attempt to conquer the Earth, you will have to destroy all living matter." ~ The First Doctor

"Obey motorised dustbins?" ~ Dortmun

"My dear boy, what in Skaro was a million years ahead of us in the future. What we're seeing now is about the middle history of the Daleks." ~ The First Doctor

"Rebel against us and the Daleks will destroy London completely. You will all die, the males, the females and descendants. Rebels of London, come out of your hiding places. The Daleks offer you life." ~ Black Dalek

"My dear young man, the Daleks have only feelers, no hands, and they use their brains, not brute force." ~ The First Doctor

Ian: You know, Doctor, sometimes you astound me.
The 1st Doctor: Only sometimes, dear boy? What's happened to your memory? Don't you remember we know that the Daleks can use static electricity?
Ian: Of course.

Ian: You're a genius.
The 1st Doctor: Yes, there are very few of us left. Now, let's get out, and be crafty.

"Look, things aren't made better by running away. This is my planet! I just can't run off and see what it's like on Venus! " ~ David Campbell

"I never felt there was any time or place that I belonged to. I've never had any real identity." ~ Susan

The 1st Doctor: I don't care what that young man says. I make the decisions here, my dear, and I think we should make our way back to the Tardis.
Susan: What's the good of that, Grandfather? We need someone to help us blast all that rubble. Besides, London's crawling with Daleks. We must go north.
The 1st Doctor: Do you question my authority, child?
Susan: No, Grandfather, it's not that at all. It's just that David says
The 1st Doctor: You seem to place more reliance on that young man's word than mine, don't you.
Susan: Oh, Grandfather, it's not that. It's simply that he lives in this time. He understands the situation.

Barbara: Jenny, there's a whole bunch of them ahead of us.
Jenny: Shall we jump for it?
Barbara: No. I'm going through.
(She scatters them like skittles)
Jenny: We went straight through them! Straight through them!
Barbara: Yeah, it wasn't bad, was it. I rather enjoyed that. We won't be able to stay in this much longer though. They'll be after us with a vengeance now.

Tyler: I wasn't shooting at a man. These sewers are full of alligators.
Susan: Alligators? In the sewers of London?
Tyler: A lot of animals escaped from zoos during the plague. Most were killed but reptiles thrive down here.

The 1st Doctor: You do realise, of course, we shall have to let them both come down before we decide to defend ourselves.
Tyler: Well, we can take them one at a time.
The 1st Doctor: Oh yes, just one. The other’s bound to return and bring back reinforcements.
Tyler: If we stick together long enough, I’ll learn to do what you say the first time.

"No, Tyler, no. I never take life. Only when my own is immediately threatened. Now then, let us make our way to this mine and then we shall know how to deal with these Daleks. Leave this creature to his own devices and salvation." ~ The First Doctor

David: Your grandfather stood up to the journey fantastically well.
Susan: He’s a pretty fantastic sort of man.

"You see, man, to them, is just a work machine. An insignificant specimen that is not worth invading. Absolutely useless. It doesn’t matter to them whether you live or die." ~ The First Doctor

David: Is that what it is? They dare to tamper with the forces of creation?
The 1st Doctor: Yes, they dare. And we have got to dare to stop them.

Barbera: I have some important information. Rebels are planning a revolution against the Daleks.
Dalek: There will be no revolution. The Daleks are masters of Earth.

"Once the core is removed, we can replace it with a power system that will enable us to pilot the planet anywhere in the universe." ~ Black Dalek

Barbara: Right. This revolt is timed to start almost immediately. As in the case of the Indian mutiny, which I am sure
Black Dalek: Indian mutiny? We are the masters of India!
Barbara: I was talking about Red Indians in disguise! The plan will run parallel with the Boston Tea Party. Naturally, you already have information about this.
Black Dalek: Wait! Why have I not been informed of this?
Dalek 2: There has been no information.
Barbara: Good! That means the first part of the plan is a success. Now, I warn you, General Lee and the four, the fifth cavalry are already forming up to attack from the north side of the crater. The second wave, Hannibal’s forces, will of course come in from the Southern Alps. The third wave
Black Dalek: Attention! Attention! Mobilise defence forces!

"Thank you, but don’t call me Doc, I prefer Doctor. Do you mind?" ~ The First Doctor

Barbara: (as a Dalek) Robomen, this is your last order. Obey it and no other.
The 1st Doctor: Turn on the Daleks, turn on the Daleks, kill the Daleks, do you hear?

"But you told me! You said that you’d never known the security of living in one place and one time. Look, you said it was something that you always longed for. Well, I’m giving you that, Susan. I’m giving you a place, a time, an identity." ~ David Campbell

"One day, I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs, and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine." ~ The First Doctor

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This story saw the first departure of an original cast member. The next regular cast departure came with Ian and Barbara leaving in The Chase, the following Dalek story. Another departure occurred in the next Dalek story after that, The Daleks' Master Plan, in which the character of Katarina was killed.

This was Carole Ann Ford's last regular appearance as Susan. She actually cried while filming the final scenes as Susan. Ford reprised her role as Susan in The Five Doctors (which starred Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor) alongside Richard Hurndall as the First Doctor, and briefly in Dimensions in Time alongside Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor.

William Hartnell does not appear in "The End of Tomorrow" due to an injury, although his stand-in Edmund Warwick does.

The story was adapted for the movie 1966 Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. starring Peter Cushing. It was the second and, to date, final film to be based upon episodes of the televised series. Numerous changes were made to characters and story for the film, and a key plot element - Susan leaving the Doctor - is eliminated entirely.

The setting was moved forward by a century, and so references to the original Dalek attack occurring in 1980 were deleted.

Terry Nation originally submitted a script called 'The Red Fort', a historical tale set during The Indian Mutiny. The original script included a teenaged rebel named Saida, an English girl of Indian descent who was revealed as Dortmun's daughter after his death. Saida stowed away aboard the TARDIS at the story's conclusion, becoming the new companion. Subsequently, this character evolved into the Caucasian Jenny. Due to the popularity of the Daleks and demand for more appearances from them, it was abandoned.

The Robomen were conceived as wearing only a small disc on their temple, with wires snaking into the hair.

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Part 1 - World's End
Part 2 - The Daleks
Part 3 - Day of Reckoning
Part 4 - The End of Tomorrow
Part 5 - The Waking Ally
Part 6 - Flashpoint


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Classic Who - Season 1, Story 7 - The Sensorites

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The 1st Doctor: Yes, and that extraordinary quarrel I had with that English king, Henry the Eighth. You know, he threw a parson's nose at me.
Barbara: What did you do?
The 1st Doctor: Threw it back, of course. Take them to the Tower, he said. That's why I did it.
Barbara: Why?
Susan: The Tardis was inside the Tower.

"I never make uninformed guesses, my friend, but certainly that's one answer. Oh, dear, dear, dear, what a tragedy you know. She's only a few years older than Susan." ~ The First Doctor

"It's a heart resuscitator. When you found us, we were in a very long sleep, but we weren't dead. My name is Maitland. This is Carol Richmond, my co-astronaut." ~ Captain Maitland

"No! No Barbara!  I learned not to meddle in other people's affairs years ago.  Now, now, now don't be absurd.  There isn't an ounce of curiosity in me, my dear boy. Now tell me, why are you in danger? " ~ The First Doctor

Susan: It's not so much the lock, it's the opening mechanism. The door's permanently locked!
Ian: Permanently? But there must be some way of getting in? What can we do, Doctor? Break down the door?
The 1st Doctor: And disturb the field dimensions inside the Tardis? We dare not. We've been most effectively shut out.

"My dear Chesterton. It's our minds that they take over, so we must presume that the brain is all important. Now let our own intelligence be our own defense, and attack."

"Somebody's talking to him. Inside his mind.  Somebody's ordering him to do something, I know they are. Something to harm us." ~ Susan

"I had hundreds of voices in my mind, Grandfather." ~ Susan

"I don't make threats. But I do keep promises. And I promise you I shall cause you more trouble than you bargained for if you don't return my property!" ~ The First Doctor

"Do you think I don't understand? Trust is a two-sided affair." ~ The First Doctor

"Dictated to by petty thieves and my own grandchild!" ~ The First Doctor

"Yes, and it's a good thing you can't read the anger in mine. In all the years my granddaughter and I have been travelling, we have never had an argument. And now you have caused one." ~ The First Doctor

"Grandfather and I don't come from Earth. Oh, it's ages since we've seen our planet. It's quite like Earth, but at night the sky is a burned orange, and the leaves on the trees are bright silver." ~ Susan

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This serial is the first depiction of the TARDIS materializing aboard a space ship or a vessel of any kind.

Designer Raymond Cusick used almost all curves — eliminating right and straight angles — in his designs for the sets of the Sensorites' City, feeling that this would give a more alien look. Cusick drew inspiration from the Spanish artist Antoni Gaudi (b. 25 June 1852, d. 10 June 1926), who rarely used right angles in his work.

Russell T Davies has acknowledged the Sensorites as an influence on the basic concept of the Ood in The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit. Computer readouts (and a mention by Davies in an episode commentary) revealed that the Ood sphere and Sense Sphere are part of the same star system.

For decades, Doctor Who fandom was unable to discover much about the story's writer, Peter R. Newman. It was not until production of supplementary features for the 2012 DVD release that facts such as his exact dates of birth and death and his general biography became known.

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Part 1: Strangers in Space
Part 2: The Unwilling Warriors
Part 3: Hidden Danger
Part 4: A Race Against Death
Part 5: Kidnap
Part 6: A Desperate Venture
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Classic Who - Season 1, Story 5 - The Keys of Marinus

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"Then everything out there is acid. A sea of acid." ~ Barbara Wright

"Yes, but with one difference, which is puzzling but releaving. They died, but we're only prisoners." ~ The First Doctor

"It's Barbara's travel dial. Look! There's blood on it!" Ian Chesterton

"Truffles, I do believe they're truffles!" ~ The First Doctor

"Charming, young man. Yes, charming." ~ The First Doctor

"Stop it! Stop it! Go away! Go away!" ~ Susan Foreman

"Barbara's disappeared! That idol thing was on some sort of a pivot." ~ Ian Chesterton

"This whole place is one big booby trap!" ~ Barbara Wright

"Get up Barbara. We must keep moving. If we don't find shelter, we don't stand a chance." ~ Ian Chesterton

"I don't believe that man was made to be controlled by machines.Machines can make laws but they cannot preserve justice.Only human beings can do that." ~ The First Doctor

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Terry Nation wrote this story as a replacement to The Red Fort, a story that was to be set during the Indian Mutiny.

William Hartnell does not appear in "The Screaming Jungle" or "The Snows of Terror". The actor was on holiday during the filming of these episodes. Hartnell had been working non-stop from October to April on Doctor Who episodes and needed a well-deserved break. When he returns in "Sentence Of Death" he is more energetic and refreshed. This was the first time the lead actor had been absent in this way; nonetheless, Hartnell receives an on-screen credit for these episodes. His co-stars will also take time off for holiday during production of upcoming stories.

This story contains a controversial scene in which it appears that Vasor attempts to rape Barbara — a sequence which, surprisingly, did not prevent the BBC Video release in 1999 from being granted a "U" certificate.

Initially it was hoped that the Voords would catch on with young viewers in the same way the Daleks had inspired Dalekmania, with toys, books and other merchandise. This did not come to pass.

Although the Voords are the main villains of the story, they appear only in the first and last episodes, "The Sea of Death" and "The Keys of Marinus". To this day, the Voords remain one of the most mysterious of the Doctor's adversaries, as little is revealed about them on-screen and they never returned for a rematch — remaining among the ranks of the series' one-off monsters.

This is the first story to feature a model TARDIS materialization.

The basic format of the story — six separate storylines connected by a quest to retrieve a series of items — was later reused for the season-long Key to Time story arc of Season 16.

In episode 5, the Doctor is heard to stumble over the phrase, "I can't prove at this very moment", saying initially, "I can't improve at this very moment." Although William Hartnell was notorious for stumbling over dialogue (which, due to time and budget restrictions preventing retakes, was often left in the broadcasts), this isn't one of those occasions. According to the DVD trivia track, for some reason, Terry Nation wrote this stumble into the script, which Hartnell delivered accurately.

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Part 1: The Sea of Death
Part 2: The Velvet Web
Part 3: The Screaming Jungle
Part 4: The Snows of Terror
Part 5: Sentence of Death
Part 6: The Keys of Marinus
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Classic Who - Season 1, Story 4 - Marco Polo

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Ping-Cho: Where are you from?
Susan Foreman: That's a very difficult question to answer, Ping-Cho.
Ping-Cho: You do not know where your home is?
Susan Foreman: Well, I've had many homes... in many places.

"A caravan that flies!... Do you imagine what this will mean to the Khan? It will make him the most powerful ruler the world has ever known; stronger than Hannibal... mightier than Alexander the Great!" ~ Marco Polo

Susan Foreman: One day, we'll know all the mysteries of the skies... and we'll stop our wandering.
Barbara Wright: Then you and I will say goodbye.
Susan Foreman: Mmm? Oh, not yet! Not for a long time.

Acomat: The, ah, the old magician.How can you kill him?
Tegana: With a stake through the heart.

"I wonder there they are now. The past, or the future?" ~ Marco Polo

Khan: What do we owe?
The Doctor: Oh, thirty-five elephants with ceremonial bridles, trappings, brocades and pavillions, four thousand white stallions and twenty-five tigers.
Khan: That's not too bad so far.
The Doctor: And the sacred tooth of Buddha which Polo brought over from India.
Khan: Oh... that? What else, what more?
The Doctor: I... I'm very much afraid all the commerce from Burma for one year, sire.

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The master videotape was wiped by the BBC in 1967. No footage is known to survive. However, director Waris Hussein passed a complete set of telesnaps to the BBC archives in 2004. Many colour and black and white photographs of this story remain. Along with the soundtrack, these were used by Loose Cannon Productions to make a reconstruction of this story.

Telesnaps and extracts from the original soundtrack, are included as part of a 30-minute abridged reconstruction of the story "Marco Polo". This is included as part of "Doctor Who: The Beginning" DVD collection released in January 2006.

This was the first Doctor Who story to feature live animals (the Mongol horses).

This was the first and only television story to feature a narrative and a map tracking the journey of the main characters (although character voice-over narratives have been featured in parts of other stories, such as The Deadly Assassin, Army of Ghosts/Doomsday, The Family of Blood, Forest of the Dead and The End of Time).

This is one of three 1960s Doctor Who stories for which no moving images of the actual production or even the characters in costume survive. Though most missing serials have at least one surviving clip from a 16mm telerecording or a few frames from a 8mm home movie, nothing remains of this, Mission to the Unknown, or The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve.

Somewhat ironically, this serial was sold to more countries than any other serial of the 1960s. At least nineteen different countries purchased it. For it to be completely missing, more copies of this story were likely destroyed than of any other serial.

Marco Polo appears to be obsessed with the notion of a "magical, flying box". When the Eleventh Doctor is erased from history in The Big Bang, Polo instead discovers the Pandorica and brings it to the Vatican.

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Part 1.1 - Part 1.2 - Part 1.3 The Roof of the World
Part 2.1 - Part 2.2 - Part 2.3The Singing Sands
Part 3.1 - Part 3.2 - Part 3.3 Five Hunderd Eyes
Part 4.1 - Part 4.2 - Part 4.3 The Wall of Lies
Part 5.1 - Part 5.2 - Part 5.3 Rider from Shang-Tu
Part 6.1 - Part 6.2 - Part 6.3 Mighty Kublai Khan
Part 7.1 - Part 7.2 - Part 7.3 Assassin at Peking
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Classic Who - Season 1, Story 3 - The Edge of Destruction

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Ian Chesterton: Are you all right?
The 1st Doctor: Oh, yes, these numbers keep blurring before my eyes. That's all.

"I'm afraid we have no time for codes and manners. And I certainly don't underestimate the dangers, if they exist. But I must have time to think. I must think. Rash action is worse than no action at all, hmm?" ~ The First Doctor

Ian Chesterton: Frankly, Doctor, I find it hard to keep pace with you.
The 1st Doctor: You mean, to keep one jump ahead. That you will never be. You need my knowledge and ability to apply it, and then you need my experience to gain the fullest results.
Ian Chesterton: Results? For good or for evil?
The 1st Doctor: One man's law is another man's crime. Sleep on it, Chesterton. Sleep on it.

Ian Chesterton: Have you any idea where we are, Doctor.
The 1st Doctor: Where is not as important as why, young man.

"You're the cause of this disaster, and you both knocked, you knocked both Susan and I unconscious." ~ The First Doctor

"That's very curious. That can't be what's outside the ship. This is a photograph." ~ The First Doctor

"How dare you! Do you realise, you stupid old man, that you'd have died in the Cave of Skulls if Ian hadn't made fire for you. And what about what we went through against the Daleks? Not just for us, but for you and Susan, too, and all because you tricked us into going down to the city. Accuse us? You ought to go down on your hands and knees and thank us. But gratitude's the last thing you'll ever have, or any sort of common sense either." ~ Barbara Wright

"I've been very patient with you, Miss Wright, and really, there's no more time for these absurd theories." ~ The First Doctor

"Oh, I recognize that. That's where we nearly lost the TARDIS, four or five journeys back." ~ Susan

"I know. I know. I said it would take the force of a total solar system to attract the power away from my ship. We're at the very beginning, the new start of a solar system. Outside, the atoms are rushing towards each other. Fusing, coagulating. Until minute, little collections of matter are created. And so the process goes on, and on until dust is formed. Dust then becomes solid entity. A new birth,... of a sun and its planets!" ~ The First Doctor

"You know, my dear child, I think your old grandfather is going a tiny little bit round the bend." ~ The First Doctor

"Because I accused you unjustly, you were determined to prove me wrong. So, you put your mind to the problem, and, luckily, you solved it." ~ The First Doctor

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This is the only complete serial in Doctor Who to only feature the regular cast, with no guest actors appearing.

Producer Verity Lambert had to write a letter of apology after another department felt it was an unwise decision to show Susan acting out violently with a pair of scissors.

This story was written to make up the number of episodes and meet the show's commitment to the BBC. The show was initially commissioned for 13 episodes. An Unearthly Child had four and The Daleks had seven, so an additional two episodes were required in case the show should be cancelled at this point.

The first episode, "The Edge of Destruction", takes place entirely in the TARDIS. The "mini-episodes" of Children in Need Special, Time Crash, Good as Gold, and Space/Time would also be set entirely in the TARDIS, as would technically the full-length story Amy's Choice. The Meanwhile in the TARDIS mini-episodes of the Complete Fifth Series Box Set and the Night and the Doctor mini-episodes from the Complete Sixth Series Box Set were also set entirely in the TARDIS (with the exception of the Night and the Doctor episodes First Night and Up All Night)

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Classic Who - Season 1, Story 2 - The Daleks

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"The ship's no good without him. We better keep an eye on him. He seems to have a knack of getting himself into trouble." ~ Ian Chesterton

Barbara: We're not on earth, then?
The 1st Doctor: No. Certainly not.

Barbara: Susan. Don't you have anything in the ship that records the journeys?
Susan: Oh, yes. There's a meter fixed to a great big bank of computers. If you feed it with the right sort of information, it can take over the controls of the ship and deliver you to any place you want to go.
Barbara: Then why don't we know where we are?
Susan: Well, it's a question of the right information, you see. I don't say that Grandfather doesn't know how to work the ship, but he's so forgetful, and then he will go off and. Well, he likes to work on his own.
Barbara: So I've noticed.

Ian: I was wondering if perhaps you..
The 1st Doctor: My dear boy, these eternal questions of yours. Do I know where we are, I suppose?
Ian: Now listen, Doctor, I don't want to argue with you. We're fellow travellers whether we like it or not. But for heaven's sake try and see it from our point of view. You've uprooted us violently from our own lives. You
The 1st Doctor: You pushed your way into the ship, young man.
Ian: All right, all right, I admit it. A small part of the blame is ours.
The 1st Doctor: Oh, small?
Ian: But naturally we're anxious. What are we going to do? Can we live here? What do we eat? There are millions of questions.
The 1st Doctor: A very good idea. I'm hungry.

Ian: Mm. Not bad. What do you think, Barbara?
Barbara: I think it's delicious.
Ian: My bacon's a bit salty.
The 1st Doctor: It shouldn't be. It's English.

Susan: Here it is. The thing that's ticking. It's over here. It's a Geiger counter.
Ian: But look at the needle! It's past the danger point.
The 1st Doctor: Yes, yes, that explains a lot of things, doesn't it. A jungle turned to stone, the barren soil and the fact that we're not feeling well.
Ian: Radiation sickness?
The 1st Doctor: Yes, I'm afraid so.

Ian: But how do you explain the buildings? They're intact.
The 1st Doctor: A neutron bomb. Yes. It destroys all human tissue, but leaves the buildings and machinery intact. Yes.

"Abuse me as much as you like, Chesterton. The point is... we need an immediate return to the ship, and I suggest we leave at once." ~ The First Doctor

Barbara Wright: Ian, do you think they really are just machines?
Ian Chesterton: What do you mean?
Barbara Wright: Well, I was going to say... Do you think there's someone inside them?
Ian Chesterton: That's a point! We haven't any idea what's inside them.

The 1st Doctor: No, no. Thals? What are you talking about? We're not Thals, or whatever you may call them. Can't you see we're very ill.
Dalek 1: You and your companions need a drug to stay alive.
The 1st Doctor: We have no drugs. (softly) A drug? A drug. The drugs left outside the Tardis.
Dalek 2: Tardis? He is becoming delirious. I do not understand his words.

The 1st Doctor: Tell me something about the people, the Thals.
Dalek 1: Over five hundred years ago there were two races on this planet. We, the Daleks, and the Thals. After the neutronic war, our Dalek forefathers retired into the city, protected my our machines.
The 1st Doctor: And the Thals?
Dalek 1: Most of them perished in the war, but we know that there are survivors. They must be disgustingly mutated, but the fact that they have survived tells us they must have a drug that preserves the life force.
The 1st Doctor: And knowing that these mutated creatures exist outside the city, you're willing to send one of us in amongst them?
Dalek 1: As you say yourself, all your lives depend on it.

Susan: You can't get into the ship.
Ian: All right then, give me the key.
Susan: It's not just a question of turning the key. The whole lock comes away from the door.
Ian: Susan, supposing these Daleks insist that only one of us goes. Then I'll have to take the key and I'll have to go on trying until the door opens.
Susan: No, you'd jam the lock. Look, it's a defence mechanism. There are twenty one different holes inside the lock. There's one right place and twenty wrong ones. If you make a mistake, you'll. Well, the whole inside of the lock will melt.

"Don't stop for anything. Straight there, straight back. An hour might make all the difference." ~ Ian Chesterton

Susan: Well, don't you know about the Daleks?
Alydon: So the Dalek people have survived. But do they live in that dead city?
Susan: Well, underneath it, anyway.

Alydon: We are the survivors of a final war. But the radiation still persists and that is why your friends are ill. I wonder if the Daleks have seen us.
Susan: Seen you?
Alydon: I mean, if they call us mutations, what must they be like?

The 1st Doctor: I can't understand. Why have they taken Susan?
Ian: How do they know we want to help the Thals?

Ganatus: They are Daleks.
Temmosus: Yes, but we've changed over the centuries. Why shouldn't they? The once famous warrior race of Thals are now farmers.
Dyoni: But the Daleks were teachers, weren't they, Temmosus?
Temmosus: Yes, they were. And philosophers.
Ganatus: Perhaps they are the warriors now.

Dalek 1: What is the last word here?
Susan: The last word?
Dalek 1: Su.San. [Susan giggles] Stop that noise.
Susan: It's what I'm called. It's my name. Susan.

The 1st Doctor: The floors are metal. All the floors are metal.
Barbara: Well, so are the streets of the city outside.
The 1st Doctor: Why?
Barbara: I don't know.
The 1st Doctor: No, I know you don't know. I mean, why do they use metal? Is it because it lasts longer? Or because
Ian: Because it's essential to them. That's an idea.

The 1st Doctor: No, no, no, now listen. Let's concentrate on the Daleks. Have you noticed, for example, that when they move about there's a sort of acrid smell?
Susan: Yes, yes, I've noticed that.
Barbara: I know. A fairground.
Ian: That's it. Dodgems.
The 1st Doctor: It's electricity. I think they're powered that way.

"Keep away! Keep away from me! Keep away from me! Keep away!" ~ Dalek

Barbara: Surely they'll know that we're pushing you.
The 1st Doctor: No, no, no, it won't be suspicious at all.

Barbara: There's someone down there. Look, by that sort of gateway thing beyond the low building. I saw someone cross that space.
The 1st Doctor: A Dalek?
Barbara: No, it was a man. A human being.
Susan: The Thals! They've come for food supplies.
The 1st Doctor: They're walking into an ambush.

"Make no attempt to capture them. They are to be exterminated. You understand? Exterminated!" ~ Dalek

Temmosus: No, Alydon. And you must thrown off these suspicions. They're based on fear, and fear breeds hatred and war. I shall speak to them peacefully. They'll see that I'm unarmed. There's no better argument against war than that.
Alydon: Yes, if they really want to listen.

Alydon: Yes. Yes, I know. If only I knew why the Daleks hated us. If I knew that, I, I could alter our approach to them, perhaps.
Ian: Your leader, Temmosus.
Alydon: Yes?
Ian: Well, he appealed very sensibly to them. Any reasonable human beings would have responded to him. The Daleks didn't. They obviously think and act and feel in an entirely different way. They just aren't human.
Ganatus: Yes, but why destroy without any apparent thought or reason? That's what I don't understand.
Ian: Oh, there's a reason. Explanation might be better. It's stupid and ridiculous, but it's the only one that fits.
Alydon: What?
Ian: A dislike for the unlike.

Ian: The fluid link.
Susan: You've lost it?
Barbara: Ian, you can't have.
Ian: No. The Daleks took it from me when they searched me. It's down there somewhere. In the city.

Susan: Well, have you made another fluid link yet?
The 1st Doctor: No, I can't, my child. And I've looked through all my spares and I've really discovered we do need some mercury.
Susan: Oh, no.
The 1st Doctor: It's put us in a bit of a jam. I must get that fluid link back again. I'm afraid my little trick has rather rebounded on me. What you might call tempting providence, Chesserman.
Ian: Well, don't worry about it now, Doctor. It's happened.
The 1st Doctor: Yes, well, at least you're not vindictive.

Alydon: We will not fight. There will be no more wars. Look at our planet. This was once a great world, full of ideas and art and invention. In one day it was destroyed. And you will never find one good reason why we should ever begin destroying everything again. I'm sorry.
Ian: You're not sorry. You stand here, mumbling a lot of words out of your history. But it means nothing, nothing at all. You carry this around with you. Your history records. Well, it must be valuable to you. Supposing I take it down to the city and try and trade with the Daleks? Perhaps they'd think it valuable enough to exchange for our fluid link.
Alydon: I don't believe you'd do it.

Dalek 1: But what are we to do? Is this the end of the Daleks?
Dalek 2: We need radiation to survive. So we must increase our supply of radiation.
Dalek 1: But there is only one way to do that.
Dalek 2: Exactly. We may have to explode another neutron bomb.

"There is no indignity in being afraid to die. But there is a terrible shame in being afraid to live." ~ Alydon

Ganatus: Yes. Barbara, look! There's a passageway here.
Barbara: Well, that won't be easy.
Ganatus: It's a good job we haven't been over-eating recently. It's going to be a long crawl. Well, we won't use one of the customs of your planet.
Barbara: And what's that?
Ganatus: Ladies first.

Ian: So far, so good. It seems to be broadening out a bit.
Ganatus: Who knows, it may stop being impossible.
Barbara: Just become unbearable.

"Dear, dear, dear. That young man gets so agitated." ~ The First Doctor

Susan: Look, Grandfather, this is marvellous, but they must have a fault locator somewhere. We must get away from here.
The 1st Doctor: But, my dear child, don't you realise what I've done? A few simple tools...
Susan: Yes, but we mustn't waste time.
The 1st Doctor: A superior brain.
Susan: We must go now!
The 1st Doctor: But, child, look..
[He turns to see a phalanx of Daleks trapping them]

"The only interest we have in the Thals is their total extermination!" ~ Dalek

"Tomorrow, we will be the Masters of the planet, Skaro!" ~ Daleks (in unison)

Dalek: What we need for life means death for the Thals.
The 1st Doctor: You could live in the city and the others could...But why do you have to destroy? Can't you use your brains for right?
Dalek: Only one race can survive.

Dalek 1: Alert Daleks in Section one. The Thals are entering the city.
Susan: Grandfather, they're coming.
The 1st Doctor: Can they get here in time?

Ian: Now where are we?
Barbara: I have no idea. I have some experience in these corridors. They all look alike.

Dalek 1: Listen to me.
The 1st Doctor: Yes.
Dalek 1: (very slowly) Stop our power from wasting or it will be the end of the Daleks.
The 1st Doctor: Even if I wanted to, I don't know how.

"No, no, thank you. We're much too far away from home, my granddaughter and I. Thank you all the same. It's a nice gesture on your part. You know, this soil is not quite so barren as you think. I've been making tests, and even you might live to see and hear the birds amongst the trees. You wanted advice you said. I never give it. Never. But I might just say this to you. Always search for truth. My truth is in the stars and yours is here." ~ The First Doctor

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Trivia
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This serial introduces the Daleks, the series' most iconic and popular monsters, for the first time and established Doctor Who as a resounding popular hit, with ratings rising to 10.4 million by the end of the serial. As a result of its success, the production team quickly arranged a return for the Daleks to be broadcast in the next season, which became Doctor Who: World's End.

The first installment of the story had to be remounted due to talk-back - direction from the on-set director to the cast - that had made it onto the original version's soundtrack.

It is never mentioned in the story whether the travelers are in the past, the present or the future. In The Dalek Invasion of Earth, the Doctor states this first encounter with the Daleks occurred "...a million years in the future", and implies it was towards the end of Dalek history, though he gives no indication how he knows this. However, it should be noted that the Daleks themselves in this serial state that the neutronic war only took place five hundred years ago, not millions of years. Planet of the Daleks suggests this first encounter occurred in the past, generations before the 26th century. This is now generally the accepted placement of the story, though the exact year is still a matter of debate and theorizing among fans.

No Doctor Who story in any medium has ever explained why the Daleks in this story are all confined to their city and are all killed at the end when all other stories depict them as galactic conquerors. In The Official Doctor Who & the Daleks Book by Terry Nation and John Peel, it is explained that the Daleks encountered in this story were not the main Dalek race, but the descendants of a group of mutated Kaled survivors from the Thousand Year War who crawled into a city of abandoned prototype Dalek casings built by Davros. The book argues that as Davros' technology for his Daleks progressed and gave them greater mobility, they left the metal city behind, and this is consistent with the explanation given by the Daleks themselves in this story: that they were mutated survivors of the war, which is a different background to the Daleks from Genesis of the Daleks

Bands of sticky tape were affixed around the shoulder section of the Daleks after William Hartnell cut himself on one of the metal bands.

This story was originally scheduled to be designed by Ridley Scott who later went on to direct films such as Alien and Blade Runner.

Per the First Doctor Handbook, "The Rescue" is the first episode of Doctor Who in which the (de)-materialization of the TARDIS is achieved through the in-camera technique of "roll back and mix". This effect was extraordinarily difficult in the 1960s, which is why it was only done a few times in the monochromatic era of the program. As camera technology improved over the years, it became fairly straightforward, even easy, to do.

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Links (Watch on DailyMotion.com)
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Part 1: The Dead Planet
Part 2: The Survivors
Part 3: The Escape
Part 4: The Ambush
Part 5: The Expedition
Part 6: The Ordeal
Part 6: The Rescue

The First Doctor

William Hartnell

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Season One
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An Unearthly Child (Airdate: Nov 23, 1963)
The Daleks (Airdate: Dec 21, 1963)
The Edge Of Destruction (Airdate: Feb 8, 1964)
Marco Polo (Airdate: Feb 22, 1964)
The Keys of Marinus (Airdate: Apr 11, 1964)
The Aztecs (Airdate: May 23, 1964)
The Sensorites (Airdate: Jun 20, 1964)
The Reign of Terror (Airdate: Sep 12, 1964)

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Season Two
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Planet of Giants (Airdate: Oct 31, 1964)
The Dalek Invasion of Earth (Airdate: Nov 21. 1964)
The Rescue (Airdate: Jan 2, 1965)
The Romans (Airdate: Jan 16, 1965)
The Web Planet (Airdate: Feb 13, 1965)
The Crusade (Airdate: Mar 28, 1965)
The Space Museum (Airdate: Apr 24, 1965)
The Chase (Airdate: May 22, 1965)
The Time Meddler (Airdate: Jul 3, 1965)

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Season Three
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Galaxy Four (Airdate: Sep 11, 1965)
Mission to the Unknown (Airdate: Oct 9, 1965)
The Myth Makers (Airdate: Oct 16. 1965)
The Dalek's Master Plan (Airdate: Nov 13, 1965)
The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve (Airdate: Feb 5, 1966)
The Ark (Airdate: Mar 5, 1966)
The Celestial Toymaker (Airdate: Apr 2, 1966)
The Gunfighters (Airdate: Apr 30, 1966)
The Savages (Airdate: 28 May, 1966)
The War Machines (Airdate: 25 Jun, 1966)

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Season Four
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The Smugglers (Airdate: 10 Sep, 1966)
The Tenth Planet (Airdate: Oct 8, 1966)

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The First Doctor BBCA Special
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