Out of the Unknown was an original BBC2 science fiction anthology drama series created by Irene Shubik. It ran between 1965 and 1971 across four seasons.
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The final episode of Season 3 of Out of the Unknown, entitled Get Off My Cloud [+]Loading...["Get Off My Cloud (TV story)"], was a fully-fledged crossover with Doctor Who through a metafictional device: the main character became trapped in a dream world where he was menaced by Daleks drawn from his nightmares, nightmares developed from watching Doctor Who itself. He eventually summoned the Doctor's TARDIS ("played" by the actual TV prop used at the time in Patrick Troughton's TV stories) into existence inside the dream realm as part of his efforts to defend himself.
Get Off My Cloud is a missing episode and no full official reconstruction of it exists. However, a brief salvaged soundbite of it was featured in Episode 5 of the documentary series Terry Nation Army in 2019.
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Even going beyond the presence of the Daleks, the production designer for Get Off My Clouds was the Daleks' own visual creator, Raymond Cusick. In addition, the White Robots in The Mind Robber [+]Loading...["The Mind Robber (TV story)"] were actually repainted dark robots from an earlier episode of Out of the Unknown entitled The Prophet (which is also a missing episode).
Paddy Russell was a director for the series, as was Christopher Barry. Brian Hayles wrote two episodes for the series. Christine Rawlins was a costumer.
Numerous Doctor Who actors appeared on Out of the Unknown, including such major players of the contamporary Whoniverse as Patrick Troughton, Deborah Watling, Anthony Ainley, Bernard Kay and Bernard Horsfall. Guest actors shared between the two contemporary BBC sci-fi series included David Savile in his very first role, Alethea Charlton, Vernon Dobtcheff, Mark Eden, Philip Voss, Keith Pyott, Fulton Mackay, Keith Barron, Peter Fraser, Edwin Richfield, Barry Ashton, Steve Peters, Royston Tickner, John Rolfe, John Baskcomb, Fulton Mackay, Beatrix Lehmann, James Maxwell, John Carson, Alec Ross, George Lee, Michael Wolf, Wolfe Morris, Michael McStay, Arne Gordon, Jack May, Tony Handy, Geoffrey Frederick, Brian Cullingford, Laidlaw Dalling, Bill Lyons, Ian Frost, Peter Thornton, Nancie Jackson, John Hicks, Clifford Cox, Sylvester Morand and Christopher Tranchell.