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==DVD, Video and Other Releases==
==DVD, Video and Other Releases==
''to be added''
VHS: Released in November 1999 as part of the second Dalek Tin set, alongside Revelation of the Daleks.


==Target Novelisations==
==Target Novelisations==

Revision as of 18:52, 18 May 2008


Synopsis

The Doctor and Jo team up with a guerilla group of Thals, seeking to knock out an army of 10,000 Daleks in hibernation on planet Spiridon.

Plot

The TARDIS materialises in a hostile jungle on the planet Spiridon. Jo sets out alone to find help for the Doctor, who has fallen into a coma. She meets a party of Thals and is left in hiding aboard their crashed spaceship while they go to the Doctor's aid. The Time Lord, now recovered, learns of their mission to destroy a party of Daleks sent here to discover the native Spiridons' secret of invisibility.

Another Thal spaceship crash-lands in the jungle, and the survivors bring news that somewhere on Spiridon there is an army of ten thousand Daleks. Jo meanwhile meets a friendly Spiridon named Wester, who cures a deadly fungus disease that she has contracted.

It transpires that the Daleks' army is frozen in suspended animation in a cavern below their base. The Doctor, with the help of the Thals, explodes a bomb in the cavern wall and thereby causes one of the planet's natural ice volcanoes to erupt, entombing the army in a torrent of liquid ice.

The newly-arrived Dalek Supreme and his aides are left stranded on Spiridon as the Thals steal their ship and the Doctor and Jo depart in the TARDIS.

Cast

Crew

References

  • The Dalek Supreme makes an appearance.
  • The Doctor mentions Ian, Barbara and Susan in confirming he was the Doctor to visit Skaro and to be known to the Thals.
  • The Daleks have stored their greatest ever invasion force, about 10,000 strong, on Spiridon.

Story Notes

  • This story had a working title of: Destination Daleks.

Ratings

  • Episode 1 - 11.0 million viewers
  • Episode 2 - 10.7 million viewers
  • Episode 3 - 10.1 million viewers
  • Episode 4 - 8.3 million viewers
  • Episode 5 - 9.7 million viewers
  • Episode 6 - 8.5 million viewers

Myths

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Filming Locations

  • Beachfields Quarry, Redhill, Surrey

Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

  • The Doctor seems to have forgotten that he was following the Daleks to their base of operations in episode one.
  • The Daleks seem to have forgotten their plot to try and start a war between the empires of Earth and Draconia. (DW: Frontier in Space).
  • If the lake that the Daleks are pushed into is so cold, then why does it not affect the thals standing in it?
  • If Daleks can elevate (fly), when they become stranded on the planet, why can't they just fly into the vacuum of space (as seen in DW: The Parting of the Ways)? (It's probable that these Daleks couldn't fly; in the Classic Series, only Imperial Daleks could be seen to truly fly)

Continuity

DVD, Video and Other Releases

VHS: Released in November 1999 as part of the second Dalek Tin set, alongside Revelation of the Daleks.

Target Novelisations

See also

to be added

External Links

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