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planet of the daleks

story 68 : season 10 : serial SSS : 6 episodes

Producer: Barry Letts
Director: David Maloney
Writer: Terry Nation
Script Editor: Terrance Dicks
Designer: John Hurst

cast information

Jon Pertwee (Doctor Who); Katy Manning (Jo Grant); Bernard Horsfall (Taron); Prentis Hancock (Vaber); Tim Preece (Codal); Jane How (Rebec); Roy Skelton (Wester); Michael Wisher (Dalek Voice); Roy Skelton (Dalek Voice); John Scott Martin (Dalek Operator); Murphy Grumbar (Dalek Operator); Cy Town (Dalek Operator); Hilary Minster (Marat); AlanTucker (Latep);

crew information

Sue Hedden (Assistant Floor Manager); Graeme Harper (Assistant Floor Manager); John Cook (Assistant Floor Manager); Hazel Pethig (Costumes); Elmer Cossey (Film Cameraman); Dave Thomas (Film Editor); Dudley Simpson (Incidental Music); Jean McMillan (Make-Up); George Gallaccio (Production Assistant); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Derek Slee (Studio Lighting); Tony Millier (Studio Sound); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Clifford Culley (Visual Effects); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Episode One 7 April 1973 at 18:10 24'51" 11.0mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
2 Episode Two 14 April 1973 at 17:50 24'08" 10.7mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
3 Episode Three 21 April 1973 at 17:50 22'34" 10.1mil 16mm b/w telerecording
4 Episode Four 28 April 1973 at 17:50 23'36" 8.3mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
5 Episode Five 5 May 1973 at 17:50 22'31" 9.7mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
6 Episode Six 12 May 1973 at 17:50 23'06" 8.5mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
  1. Episode One
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  2. Episode Two
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  3. Episode Three
    » Film print recovered from Ents c.1978
  4. Episode Four
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  5. Episode Five
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  6. Episode Six
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks
Written by: Terrance Dicks
Number 046 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1976 Published by Allan Wingate Ltd, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
21 October 1976 Published by Wyndham Publications, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 11252 0
1978 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 11252 0
1980 Published by Schneider-Buch, Germany in paperback
Translated into German by Ulla Neckenauer & Angela Djuren
With cover artwork by: David Hardy
ISBN: 3 505 07254 0
December 1989 Published by Goldmann Verlag, Germany in paperback
Translated into German by Bettina Zeller
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 3 442 23622 3
16 July 1992 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 11252 0

plot synopsis

Tracking the Daleks to the jungle world of Spiridon, the Doctor and Jo meet a party of Thals on a suicide mission to destroy the small number of Daleks there. With the help of Wester, one of the invisible Spiridons, Jo and the others discover the fact that there are tens of thousands of Daleks in hibernation beneath their base, waiting to be reactivated with their plan being to conquer space. The Doctor realises the answer might lie in activating an ice volcano...

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