The Planet of the Daleks (comic story)
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The Planet of the Daleks was a Third Doctor comic story published in TV Action.
Summary
After the Third Doctor's latest victory over them, the Daleks are out for revenge! They've set a trap for the Doctor and plan to make him into what he despises most: one of them!
Characters
Worldbuilding
- The Daleks have dinosaur-like creatures on the planet of their base-of-operations.
- The Doctor believes that plunging the TARDIS into the heart of a sun will kill everyone onboard.
Notes
- The story never makes explicit which planet features as the Daleks' base-of-operations. The implication of previous stories is Skaro, but the living jungle vegetation stands at odds with its depiction in TV: The Daleks and TV: The Evil of the Daleks. The planet's biome, if not for the presence of dinosaurs, resembles that of Mechanus, Kembel and Mira.
- Picking up right after the events of *Sub Zero, the final issue of which was released the previous week, The Planet of the Daleks creates a very rare instance of one Dalek story immediately following another one. The TV series later did something similar with Frontier in Space and Planet of the Daleks in 1973.
Continuity
- The Daleks seek revenge after the Doctor destroyed their Earth invasion force from Antarctica. (COMIC: *Sub Zero)
- The Daleks plot to turn the Doctor into a humanoid Dalek. The methods employed to transform the Doctor mimic those employed during their efforts to discover the Dalek factor (TV: The Evil of the Daleks) and their Antarctic-based invasion. (COMIC: *Sub Zero)
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