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Story Notes: mentioned how Mission to the Unknown and The Daleks' Master Plan were offered for sale overseas but never purchased; DVD, Video and Other Releases: finetuned info re. CD release
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*The episode was made by the same team as ''[[Galaxy 4 (TV story)|Galaxy 4]]'', with both stories sharing pre-filming and, possibly, the same production code | *The episode was made by the same team as ''[[Galaxy 4 (TV story)|Galaxy 4]]'', with both stories sharing pre-filming and, possibly, the same production code | ||
*It is also one of the relatively few stories from the Hartnell era that does not lead directly into the next serial. It was followed by ''[[The Myth Makers]]'', an unrelated serial. A direct link to this story is made in the first episode of ''The Daleks' Master Plan'' when the Doctor recovers the tape recorder used by Cory to record his final message. | *It is also one of the relatively few stories from the Hartnell era that does not lead directly into the next serial. It was followed by ''[[The Myth Makers]]'', an unrelated serial. A direct link to this story is made in the first episode of ''The Daleks' Master Plan'' when the Doctor recovers the tape recorder used by Cory to record his final message. | ||
*Both ''Mission to the Unknown'' and ''The Daleks' Master Plan'' were the only 1960s ''Doctor Who'' stories that were offered for overseas sale but never purchased. | |||
===Story Title and Production Code=== | ===Story Title and Production Code=== | ||
Perhaps more than any other Doctor Who story, ''Mission to the Unknown'' generates confusion and debate over both the title used and the serial/production code allocated. | Perhaps more than any other ''Doctor Who'' story, ''Mission to the Unknown'' generates confusion and debate over both the title used and the serial/production code allocated. | ||
All ''Doctor Who'' stories from this period have no overall | All ''Doctor Who'' stories from this period have no overall on-screen title, with the story referred to either by a production code or an internal title by the production team. (For example the early 1965 story featuring Nero was "Serial M" or ''The Romans''.) The two were confusingly used interchangeably in many production and overseas sales documents. | ||
''Mission to the Unknown'' generates further confusion because some documents do not refer to it as a serial but rather as a "cutaway episode". As the story was produced alongside ''Galaxy 4'' the two appear to have been referred to together. Several of the production codes offered are either Serial T or Serial T +, an appendage. | ''Mission to the Unknown'' generates further confusion because some documents do not refer to it as a serial but rather as a "cutaway episode". As the story was produced alongside ''Galaxy 4'' the two appear to have been referred to together. Several of the production codes offered are either Serial T or Serial T +, an appendage. | ||
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===Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors=== | ===Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors=== | ||
*Why would the Daleks announce their secret plans on the loudspeaker? ''Only the people who were involved in the plan would have heard it so there was no need not to use a | *Why would the Daleks announce their secret plans on the loudspeaker? ''Only the people who were involved in the plan would have heard it so there was no need not to use a loudspeaker. '' | ||
*Dialogue appears to name the Daleks as natives of [[Mutter's Spiral]]. This seems to contradict other information which places [[Skaro]] outside Earth's galaxy. | *Dialogue appears to name the Daleks as natives of [[Mutter's Spiral]]. This seems to contradict other information which places [[Skaro]] outside Earth's galaxy. | ||
==Continuity== | ==Continuity== | ||
*This story is continued in [[DW]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan]]'' which concludes the Daleks' attempts to invade the Galaxy | *This story is continued in [[DW]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan]]'' which concludes the Daleks' attempts to invade the Galaxy. | ||
==Timeline== | ==Timeline== | ||
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==DVD, Video and Other Releases== | ==DVD, Video and Other Releases== | ||
*No footage of this story survives in the archives, although the full audio does still exist. | *No footage of this story survives in the archives, although the full audio does still exist. | ||
:* This was | :* This was was made available on CD as part of ''The Daleks' Master Plan'', first released by the BBC Radio Collection in October 2001. | ||
* A reconstruction of this story has been made using the available images and audio by [[Loose Cannon Productions]]. | * A reconstruction of this story has been made using the available images and audio by [[Loose Cannon Productions]]. | ||
