by Terrance Dicks
- UK
- Paperback
- Target Books
- October 1976
- (Book Number: 46)
Other Editions
Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks
UK / Hardback / Allan Wingate Ltd / October 1976
Dr. Who: Der Planet der Daleks
Germany / Paperback / Schneider-Buch / 1980
Dr. Who: Der Planet der Daleks was the first of two Doctor Who translations to be released by Schneider-Buch in Germany in the early-1980s. A second German translation of Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks was released by Goldmann Verlag in 1989 as Doctor Who und der Planet der Daleks.
Doctor Who und der Planet der Daleks
Germany / Paperback / Goldmann Verlag / 1989
Doctor Who und der Planet der Daleks was one of eight translations of Doctor Who novelisations to be released in Germany in the late-1980s and early-1990s by Goldmann Verlag, with all but one being Dalek stories. Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks had previously been released in Germany in 1981 under the title Dr. Who: Der Planet der Daleks, although this was a completely new translation.
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
UK / Paperback / Target Books / July 1992 / No.46
Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks was also included as part of the
Doctor Who and the Daleks Omnibus from
Artus Publishing in 1976, and in the
Dalek Omnibus hardback from
WH Allen in June 1983.
Back Cover Blurb — Target Books (1976)
Jo peered through the panel and saw — nothing. Yet someone had entered the cabin. She could hear hoarse breathing and stealthy padding footsteps. A beaker rose in the air of its own accord, then dropped to the floor...THE INVISIBLE ENEMY
After pursuing the Daleks through Space, DOCTOR WHO lands on the Planet of Spiridon, in the midst of a tropical jungle...and finds more than Daleks. Vicious plants spitting deadly poison, invisible Spiridons attacking from all sides and, in hiding, a vast army waits...for the moment to mobilise and CONQUER.
Television Story
Planet of the Daleks
Script Writer: Terry Nation
6 × 25 Minutes / BBC1 / Colour
07/04/72 Episode One
14/04/73 Episode Two
21/04/73 Episode Three
28/04/73 Episode Four
05/05/73 Episode Five
12/05/73 Episode Six
DVD
Episode Three exists as a 16mm black and white telerecording, with the remaining five episodes all being held in their original format.
Planet of the Daleks was released on Region 2 DVD in the UK in October 2009 as part of the
Dalek War box set which also included
Frontier in Space. Interestingly, the black and white episode has been recoloured using a combination of two entirely different sources — an artificially coloured version produced in the United States, and a version which has undergone the newly-developed colour recovery process which can recover the original colour signal from a black and white telerecording. See the
Dalek War article on the
Doctor Who Restoration Team web site for further details.
Regular Characters
Third Doctor / Jo Grant
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
The Daleks
Notes
- Planet of the Daleks was the first story since The Daleks in 1963 which had actually featured the Thals — the other race of inhabitants from the Daleks' homeworld, Skaro.
- Unusually for the times in which Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks was released, it was published just a month after Malcolm Hulke's novelisation of Frontier in Space, the story which had preceded it on television — useful for regular readers as Planet of the Daleks led on directly from the events of Frontier in Space. Target Books' policy of releasing stories had been rather more muddled up to this point, with even the novelisations of Revenge of the Cybermen and Genesis of the Daleks earlier in 1976 being released back-to-back but in the wrong order.