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The
Imps |
by:
William Emms
Episodes:
4
Submitted for:
Season 4
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The
People Who Couldn't Remember |
by: David
Ellis
Episodes:
4
Submitted for:
Season 4
Notes:
David Ellis submitted this satirical storyline in
June 1966. It was rejected by story editor Gerry Davis
on the grounds that it contained too much humour which
he sought to avoid after 'The Gunfighters'.
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The
Herdsmen of Venus |
by:
Donald Cotton
Episodes:
unknown
Submitted for:
Season 4
Story: It is revealed that the Loch Ness Monster a
form of alien cattle herded by Venusian farmers in
their flying saucers.
Notes: This storyline was submitted in June 1966,
however was rejected for being 'too silly'. Cotton
later described it as absurd.
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The
Dream Spinner |
by: Paul
Wheeler
Episodes:
Companions:
Jamie, Zoe
Submitted for:
Season 6
Story:
Revolved around an old traveller
who could make people believe that their dreams had
actually happened.
Notes: Derrick Sherwin rejected this
story on the grounds that it was too close to 'The
Mind Robber', which had just been made. It was replaced
by 'The Prison In
Space' and ultimately by The Krotons.
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The
Prison in Space |
by: Dick Sharples
Episodes:
4
Companions:
Jamie, Zoe
Submitted for: Season 6
Story:
Deciding that they need a holiday, the Doctor lands
TARDIS in what appears to be vast tranquil countryside.
The three pack a picnic hamper and head outside, however,
almost as soon as they unpack they hear a pained cry.
They quickly drag the picnic into a bush and hide
where they observe a ragged man covered in blood being
chased by a woman, Captain Mavis, dressed in what
looks to be a mixture of go-go girl fashion and a
military uniform. Obviously weak, the man is unable
to keep ahead of his pursuer and is dragged away by
two of her subordinates. Mavis notices a picnic cup
lying on the grass and studies it carefully.
Once they have gone the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe emerge
from the bushes and make their escape back to the
TARDIS. As the Doctor opens the doors Captain Mavis
emerges, gun in hand. They make a run for it but they
come to an abrupt halt when they are faced with a
six foot high wall bocking their path. Jamie and the
Doctor give Zoe a lift up so she can get over the
wall but to her amazement she finds that she isn't
in the countryside at all, but the roof-garden of
a huge skyscraper in the middle of a city. Captain
Mavis catches up with them and demands to know why
they are on the President's roof-garden, taking special
interest in Zoe's response.
The Doctor and Jamie are taken to the cells by two
go-go girl guards but Zoe is taken elsewhere. When
the Doctor asks what is to happen to her he is told
that although Zoe is a traitor she 'is still a woman'.
In the cell the Doctor finds the man they saw being
captured, Albert, and two others, Mervyn and Garth.
The guards inform the prisoners that they will soon
be tried in court for their crimes.
A little while later all five are called for trial,
where the imposing figure of Chairman Babs sits in
judgement. Zoe is also there, but she is made to stand
seperate from the rest of the group. One by one the
men are sentenced to death for their various crimes:
Albe
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rt for entering an unauthorized area, Mervyn for
publicly insulting the leader by calling her 'a big
fat ugly old bat' and Garth for daring to refuse a
woman who had selected him for marriage. The Doctor
takes the dock, and rails against such an unfair and
sexist system of justice. Aware that they are aliens,
Chairman Babs explains that woman became the dominant
sex 300 years ago, banned war and developed drugs
that could indefinitely prolong life. Since then men
have become largely irrelevant to their society and
have allowed themselves to be cowed. Furious, the
Doctor tells Babs that instead of treating men like
livestock they should be helping them regain their
place in society. Aghast at the Doctor's insolent
behaviour, she sentences them to life on the the planet's
prison satellite along with Mervyn Gareth and Albert.
Zoe is taken to be rehabilitated in the customs of
the planet. After a short time she befriends her instructors
and talks to them about what it is like to be a woman
on her planet. The women find this lifestyle somewhat
appealing, and excitedly ask Zoe to tell them more.
Unbeknownst to them Chairman Babs and Captain Mavis
are watching them through a secret monitor; concerned
that Zoe may cause contention among the women, Babs
decides to use a more effective method of rehabilitating
Zoe, a conditioning machine. The Guards are ordered
to take Zoe to the conditioning machine and she is
strapped in and the machine is turned on. The cubicle
fills with smoke and when it clears Zoe emerges, blank
faced and totally brainwashed.
Meanwhile the Doctor, Jamie and their companions have
landed on the prison moon. Upon disembarking they
are greeted by two guards and taken to their cells.
The Doctor insists that there must be a way of getting
off the moon and back to the planet to collect Zoe
and the TARDIS, but Jamie thinks it's impossible since
the only way they would have even the slightest chance
to get off the planet would be if they were women
and could disguise themselves as guards. Smiling slyly,
the Doctor agrees. Jamie see what the Doctor is driving
at, and point blank refuses to dress up as a girl
but the Doctor points out that he would be the most
likely able to get away with it, and it would be their
only chance to escape. exasperated and a little embarrassed,
Jamie concedes.
Guards arrive and they are taken for their occupational
therapy class where they are encouraged to make little
works of art. The Doctor has an idea, he asks for
some copper wire so that he might make a sculpture,
an embarrassed Jamie asks for materials to make a
dress, garvin asks for some chemicals to do some experiments
and Mrvyn ask for some woodworking materials. At the
end of the class the inmates hide some of the materials
about their person and go back to their cells.
In the conditioning room a sleeping Zoe is being watched
by the two instructors. Looking down on the girl,
they regret what happened to her, and feel a life
where they could embrace their feminine qualities
was one that they perhaps would like to lead. Quick
as a flash Zoe bounces up from the table and the pair
realise that they have been overheard. Zoe's conditioning
has been a total success.
Back in the cells the prisoners are able to make a
slightly convincing guards uniform and a dummy gun
from the items that they brought back with them from
the class. Also, using the chemicals from the experiment,
Garvin has made a smoke bomb which he gives to Jamie.
The Doctor takes some of the wire he smuggled out
and uses it unlock the door to the cell which causes
it to open, and all the lights to go out.
Jamie dashes out into the corridor, but he doesn't
get very far before he hears the rumble of guards
behind him and quickly takes cover. As they pass him
he joins the back of the phalanx and they march to
the control room where Babs and Captain Mavis order
them search sector 42 for the culprit. As this is
happening Jamie notices that there is a plan of the
prison hanging on the wall of the room.
Babs dimisses the troops and Jamie decides to seize
his chance. He covers his face and throws the smoke
bomb to the floor. In the confusion Jamie grabs the
plan of the complex and runs back to the cell. Inside
the cell the Doctor tells him to close the cell door
by pressing the button on the outside. Jamie does
so, but instead of closing the door, Jamie is hit
by a beam of light and collapses. The Doctor drags
him inside and manages to close the cell door using
the copper wire.
Mervyn and Albert shake Jamie round and he quickly
gets back into his prison garb before the guards come
round to check the cell. When they move on, the Doctor
examines the plans for the prison and he realises
that the communication lines run right underneath
their cell. The guards that searched the Doctor's
cell report back to chairman babs that the Doctor's
cell was locked and nothing was found. Zoe however,
is still convinced that The Doctor was responsible
for the disruption.
Jamie is able to prise one of the floor slabs open
to reveal a mass of cables underneath. The Doctor
constructs a microphone from leftover bits they brought
back from the recreation area, connects the microphone
to one of the wires and and instructs the prisoners
via the prison intercom that now is the time to revolt
and that when he opens the prison doors they must
overthrow the guards. Albert uses one of the cables
to fuse the electrical systems and the doors fly open.
The prisoners quickly overthrow the guards and the
doctor demands that the prisoners be given amnesty.
Babs, safely locked in the control chamber, has no
choice but to agree. Strangely the prison guards all
cheer.
Babs informs the doctor that she will send up an ambassador
with the relevant papers. When the ambassador arrives
The Doctor is delighted to find that it is Zoe, now
apparently returned to her normal self. Zoe says that
she has a 'special message' for the guards from Chairman
Babs and produces a concealed gun and levels it at
The Doctor. She instructs the guards to seize Jamie,
Mervyn and Albert. Too stunned to retaliate the prisoners
have no choice but to return to their cells. The Doctor
Jamie Albert and Mervyn are taken to Babs who sentences
them to be shot out into space in a capsule and left
on a distant planet. Smiling, Zoe asks if she an be
the one to push the button and Babs agrees.
The prisoners are led to one of the space capsules
and fired off the planet. In what seems like only
a short time they are ejected from the capsule and
descend by parachute to the ground.
Pulling themselves together, they are surprised to
find chairman Babs hiding in a set of bushes, Jamie
is confused. Babs makes a run for it just before guards
appear and roughly haul her away. The Doctor realises
that they are back on the planet. Laughing the guards
explain that after what Zoe had told them, they realised
that they had had enough with their way of life. When
babs shot the group into space they had mounted a
revolt, turned the Doctor's capsule around and deposed
Chairman babs.
The guards bring the group back to the city where
babs is strapped into the conditioning chair. Horrified
The Doctor protests but it is too late, one of the
guards flips the switch. When Babs comes to she looks
around her and her eyes come to rest on the Doctor,
and dewey eyed, proclaims him to be the man of her
dreams. The Doctor runs for the TARDIS and Jamie grabs
Zoe and quickly follows.
Once inside the TARDIS, Zoe, still conditioned, starts
screaming and banging the doors to get out. A plainly
annoyed Jamie says that if she is deciding to act
like a child, she might as well be treated like one.
He then promptly picks her up and spanks her bottom,
the shock of which breaks her conditioning.
Notes:
Commisioned by Peter Bryant to be a full on comedy,
this story got as far as preliminary casting before
it was eventually replaced by 'The Krotons'.
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The
Impersonators |
by:
Malcolm Hulke
Submitted for:
Season 6
Story:
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrive back on Earth where
they discover that Aliens have infiltrated and are controlling
the humans to their own ends through mind control.
Notes:
Malcolm Hulke (who had previously co-written The Faceless
Ones), submitted this story idea in June 1968. He was
commissioned for a detailed breakdown in July, and was
duly paid for it. Little work seems to have been done
on it until November, by which time Derrick Sherwin’s
season finale fell through. It was decided to expand
Hulke’s storyline to ten episodes, with story
editor Terrance Dicks co-writing it with him. With additional
input from director David Maloney and producer Derrick
Sherwin, The War Games was born. The Impersonators was
formally written off in December, and The War Games
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Operation
Werewolf |
by:
Robert
Kitts and Douglas Camfield
Submitted for:
Season 5
Episode 1: The Secret Army
Episode 2: Chateau Of Death
Episode 3: Lair Of The Werewolf
Episode 4: Friend Or Foe
Episode 5: Village Of The Swastika
Episode 6: Crossfire
The TARDIS lands in Normandy in 1944, six days before
D Day, and while investigating the Doctor is captured
by Germans, along with local resistance leader Jules
Perrier. Meanwhile, Jamie and Victoria meet up with
the resistance who believe they have been sent by the
English. The resistance tells them about the strange
experiments being conducted at a nearby chateau by Dr
Hans Gruber under the control of Ulrich Schneider, head
of Gestapo in France. After an argument, Francoise Perrier,
daughter of Jules, goes with Jamie to the German HQ,
while Victoria stays behind with Pierre Dubois.
Inside the HQ the Doctor and Jules are questioned
by Kurt Muller, the local German commandant, and both
deny that they are partisans. Leni Bruckner, aide-de-camp
to Schneider, arrives and takes the Doctor and Jules
to the chateau. Here the Doctor is shown a machine which
he is told is capable of transporting bodies through
the fourth dimension. He then learns that the machine
is to be used to send a small group of Germans to England
to immobilize the Allied armies that have gathered in
the South of England. They plan to do this by firing
small V1 rockets filled with paralyzing gas from sites
in England onto the Allied forces and then to use a
high ultrasonic radio wave to brainwash the Allied soldiers
into becoming Nazi conquerors of England.
Gruber decides to give a demonstration of the machine,
using Jules as the subject, but Jules attempts to escape
and is shot. Meanwhile Jamie and Francoise, who have
followed the Doctor and Jules to the chateau, are discovered,
and although Francoise manages to escape Jamie is captured.
Gruber then decides to use Jamie to demonstrate the
machine, but the Doctor has observed that the machine
is not asjusted correctly and to save Jamie’s
life manages, unobserved, to make the required adjustments.
Francoise, on her way back to the resistance HQ, meets
up with Dr Fergus McCrimmon, a British agent who has
been sent to investigate by MI5. He tells her that a
commando raid has been organized in conjunction with
the resistance attack on the chateau. They arrive at
the HQ and Fergus wirelesses London, speaking to his
supervisor Aubrey Fanshaw Smith and confirming the raid.
In the chateau Gruber sends Bruckner through the machine
to England where it is revealed that the Nazi base there
is headed by Fanshaw Smith who, in reality, is a Nazi
agent.
In France the resistance HQ is raided by the Germans
and Pierre and Victoria are captured and taken to the
chateau where they are brainwashed into being Nazis
and left to guard the Doctor and Jamie, who are in a
dungeon.
Meanwhile, with the machine operational, Gruber starts
sending soldiers to England. The following night Francoise
and Fergus – who had escaped the raid along with
other partisans – meet up with the commandos and
attack the chateau. They overpower Pierre and Victoria
and free the Doctor and Jamie but Gruber escapes through
the machine to England. The Doctor, Jamie and Fergus
follow, but find themselves surrounded by German soldiers.
In France the attack is beaten off with Francoie being
captured by Schneider. The commandos – who have
broken the brainwashing of Pierre and Victoria –
plan to attack again. In England the Doctor manages
to escape, but is recaptured by Bruckner and on his
return finds that Jamie and Fergus have also escaped
and managed to warn the British army. Fanshaw Smith
breaks down upon learning this and is shot by Bruckner
when he tries to sabotage the machine. In the confusion
Gruber escapes through the machine followed by the Doctor.
They arrive in the chateau just as Schneider is about
to torture Francoise. As Schneider and Gruber argue,
the Doctor frees her and they escape. As this occurs
the commandos attack the chateau and at the same time
– in England – the army, with Jamie and
Fergus, attack the English base.
Jamie and Fergus arrive in the operations room and
are held at gunpoint by Bruckner who is about to throw
the switch to launch the V1 rockets. Jamie jumps at
her, knocking the gun from her hand and causing her
to fall backward onto the machine. At the same time
in France, Schneider decides to escape through the machine
after Francoise has killed Gruber. He enters the machine
at the same time as Bruckner and they deflect each other
from their intended destinations and disappear.
In England, Fergus tries to drag Jamie away as the
house is about to be blown up, but Jamie is ordered
by the Doctor to return to France via the machine. Fergus
escapes, thinking that Jamie is killed when the house
explodes. In France everyone hurries out of the chateau,
which Francoise and Pierre had dynamited.
The Doctor and his companions return to the TARDIS
with the help of the partisans where they fight a pitched
battle with the Germans who panic when the TARDIS dematerializes.
At this point the victorious partisans cheer as they
see the arriving Allied invasion fleet. It is the morning
of June 6th – the D Day landings have begun…
Notes:
This story was conceived in 1965 by director Douglas
Camfield and fellow BBC worker Robert Kitts after Camfield’s
dismay at another sub-standard script,, and would probably
have been directed by Camfield himself. It went through
several rewrites until 1967 when it was finally abandoned
due to producer Innes Lloyd moving on and the writers
both having other commitments. It is interesting to
note that this story was given individual episode titles
even though this practice had stopped with 'The Savages'
in 1966. |
The
Laird of the Clan McCrimmon |
by:
Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln
Episodes:
4
Companions:
Jamie, Zoe
Submitted for:
Season 6
Story: A strange force compels Jamie to pilot
the TARDIS to Scotland in 1746 where the Doctor, Jamie
and Zoe find themselves isolated from their ship by
a forcefield. They arrive at the foreboding Castle McCrimmon,
Jamie's ancestral home near a misty loch. There they
are met by Duncan, Factor to the ailing Laird, Sir James
McCrimmon.
Jamie shows Zoe around and she
notices some strange cattle which then stand up - they
are Yeti. The Yeti isolate the castle and the villagers
fall under the influence of the Great Intelligence.
One villager, Fiona, is immune and Jamie falls in love
with her. The Intelligence
aims to gain control of Jamie's body and settle in the
castle as the Laird of McCrimmon when Sir James dies.
The Doctor has to determine
who the Intelligence is working through, with the Laird
and the village sorceress being the prime candidates.
It transpires that Duncan is protecting Fiona's mother,
Morag - a woman with second sight.
The Intelligence is defeated
and, after Sir James dies with no heirs, Jamie is the
last of the clan and is therefore the obvious choice
for the new Laird. Accepting his rightful inheritance
and responsibility, Jamie bids a reluctant farewell
to the Doctor and Zoe to remain with Fiona as the new
Laird.
Notes: This story was originally intended
to be Frazer Hines' last until it was abandoned. The
writers eventually withdrew this story due what what
they thought was unfair treatment of their previous
creations, the Quarks by the BBC.
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Aliens
in the Blood |
by: Robert Holmes
Episodes:
Submitted for:
Season 6
In the 22nd centrury a mutant human species has sprung
into being in an isolated, inbred community of scientists
and technologists. The community is OSCOC (Outer Space
Commission Of Control) and is a super-national development
of Cape Kennedy. From its remote island in the Indian
Ocean, OSCOC controls and guides the movement of every
ship on the interstellar spaceways. Most of the traffic
at this time consists of freighters. The pioneers and
settlers, the explorers and colonists, have gone out
among the stars and the treasures of the universe are
being ferried back to Earth for the benefit of the soft-living
terrestrials. The whole structure of civilization depends
on the constant flow of the new materials that space
exploration has released.
Not everyone, of course, has adapted to the new ways.
In various remote corners of the world there are still
pockets of primitives who cling to the old life. OSCOC
itself shares the island with natives, mainly fishermen
and farmers, a sullen and hostile bunch in the main.
But a few of them are employed in menial tasks around
the OSCOC campus (OSCOC is organized like an American
university with its various faculties. Its Dean is a
man named Thawne. Almost as important in the hierarchy
is a psychologist named Khotajhi.)
[The story opens as] The captain of a spaceship gets
his course and speed from OSCOC (Outer Space Commission
Of Control). He follows it, realizes that the ship is
on a disaster course, and tries to contact OSCOC. But
down in the OSCOC plot room his frantic SOS is switched
off (we don’t see by whom) and the doomed ship
plunges into an asteroid belt.
At about the time the TARDIS is materializing on the
north end of the island, Dean Thawne is visited by an
agent from the WIB (World Intelligence Bureau); too
many freighters are vanishing mysteriously; in the past
few years the hazards of space travel appear to have
increased beyond all belief to the point where the fabric
of Earth life, as it is now constituted, is seriously
endangered; the agent clearly suspects there may be
a saboteur operating inside OSCOC.
The native islanders think the TARDIS is something
to do with OSCOC and show every intention of forming
a lynching party for the Doctor and his friends. However,
they escape and reach the safety of the campus. The
welcome they receive here is far from warm, of course;
outsiders are never welcome in the rarefied OSCOC atmosphere
and when they turn up with the preposterous claim to
being time travellers… It’s a case of the
sanatorium and Dr Khotajhi.
Shortly after this the WIB agent is found dead. He
has been murdered and the principal suspect is one of
the native menials named Rafe. The Doctor has already
had some contact with Rafe and he is quite sure the
boy is innocent. Proving it to Thawne is a different
matter, but it is in his attempts to do this that he
first begins to worry about the mutants.
The mutants are Mark II Humans and, to the casual
eye, indistinguishable from the old-fashioned kind.
But they may, when the Doctor gets to know them better,
have some visible physical feature like an extra-long
thumb [that can be shown to the audience at the critical
moment – as for instance when Zoe is about to
confide all to the kindly, grey-haired grandmother who
has befriended her].
The mutants are all menial prodigies and possess powers
of ESP that in earlier times would have had them burnt
at the stake. Counterbalancing their gifts, however,
they have lost less ‘useful’ qualities.
They are incapable of compassion, love, pity, tenderness
– though they may counterfeit these emotions where
it seems politic to do so.
They regard Mark I Humans rather as we ourselves regard
the apes. Their aim is world domination. And because,
at the moment, they are few in number, it is necessary
for them to work secretly towards the destruction of
mankind while concealing their existence. The Doctor’s
task is made more difficult than usual because he can
never be sure of anybody – as any moment an apparent
friend can turn into a vicious and ruthless enemy. Hunted
by mutants and duped Mark I Humans, helped by Rafe and
the other islanders, the Doctor and his friends have
some bad times before eventually they win out. [The
climax is signposted as an early scene in the first
episode.]
While in the sanatorium under Khotajhi’s observation,
the Doctor becomes intrigued by the apparently high
incidence of patients from OSCOC showing schizophrenic
tendencies [This, as we learn later, is due to the fact
that the mutants first become aware of their ‘group
consciousness’ at about the time an ordinary lad’s
voice starts to break]. Until they learn to understand
and control their extra faculty, many of them tend to
talk and act irrationally; they are like radios picking
up too many signals at one time.
The Doctor makes use of this finally by constructing
a very advanced and powerful machine similar to those
used in electric shock therapy. With a captured mutant
acting as control, the Doctor is able to broadcast shock
treatment on the right mental wavelength and burn out
the ESP centre in the brains of all the mutants. This
point is reached – naturally at the very last
moment when it seems nothing can stop the mutants’
final masterstroke.
Notes:
The storyline was submitted by Robert Holmes in October
1968, following a telephone conversation with story
editor Terrance Dicks. It was never formally commissioned
and was rejected shortly after delivery. In 1977, the
story (without its Doctor Who elements) was reworked
as a radio serial, starring Peter Cushing and Vincent
Price, although Holmes had no further input into it
as he was busy as script editor on Doctor Who.
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Untitled
(Underwater) |
by: Trevor
Ray
Episodes:
Submitted for:
Season 6
Story:
Notes: During his time as assistant
script editor on Doctor Who, Trevor Ray came up
with the idea of doing a story set underwater. He spent
three days with the
Marines at Poole and aboard the diving ship HMS Reclaim,
but it was never
made because of technical difficulties. Interestingly,
three years later,
the production team made The Sea Devils, including filming
on HMS Reclaim!
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The
Destroyers |
by:
Terry Nation
Submitted for:
Pilot for an American series
Carson and Wayne are members of a space exploration
team. They are guarding their base dome, surrounded
by a force field. Despite this, the Daleks penetrate
the field, killing Carson, His death alerts Wayne, Morgan
and Sara Kingdom. Sara sounds the alarm, and the base
erupts into violence as the Daleks attack. There are
apparently no survivors.
The SSS (Special Space Security) sends in three agents
to investigate. They are Captain Jason Corey, David
Kingdom (Sara’s brother) and Mark Seven. Mark
is in fact an android, stronger and more logical than
any human being, with pedantic speech patterns. They
discover Whitman still alive. He cannot identify their
attackers, but tells them that they took a few prisoners;
he then expires. Sara is in fact alive also, but wounded
and dodging the Daleks in the jungle. The Daleks have
Philip Leigh as a prisoner for interrogation. Their
instrumentation detects movement at the dome, and they
send a patrol out to annihilate whatever is alive there.
The agents have discovered the Dalek tracks and are
following them when the Daleks approach the dome. Jason,
Mark and David hide in the bushes, where they are attacked
by man-eating plants.
Mark makes a noise, and the Daleks blast away at the
bushes before proceeding on their way to the dome. Jason
and David now free themselves with their knives and
go to Mark’s aid. Being a robot, he is mostly
undamaged from the attack, and needs only minor repairs
before he is functional again. Sara has taken refuge
by accident in the cave that houses the entrance to
the Daleks’ underground base. They activate their
defence mechanisms, shadowy spectres that attack her,
enveloping her in webbing. When she is helpless, the
Daleks take her captive.
Jason, David and Mark find the cave, just ahead of the
Dalek patrol returning from the dome. Their way forward
is blocked by a chasm, but knowing there must be some
way for the Daleks to cross it they hide, and see two
Daleks activate a tubular bridge. As one crosses they
jump the other, and Mark tosses it into the chasm. The
first Dalek tries to return but David deactivates the
bridge, sending the creature plunging into the abyss.
In Dalek central control, Leigh is eliminated now that
they have a better prisoner in Sara. The Black Dalek
orders the ship prepared for departure. The agents arrive
at the perimeter in time to see this, but not in time
to stop it. The Dalek ship launches, taking Sara with
it.
The invasion of earth is beginning.
Notes:
By 13th November 1966, Terry Nation’s Lynstead
Film Productions seemed to have been given the go-ahead
to start production on the pilot episode of a half-hour
Dalek film series on Monday 12th December. Impressed
by Jean Marsh’s performance in The Daleks’
Master Plan, Nation intended for her to reprise the
role in the new series. On 25th November, however, the
BBC pulled out of the project. Throughout 1967, Nation
attempted to sell the series to America’s NBC,
but to no success, partly due to the poor reception
to the two Aaru Dalek films and the fact that the BBC
series had yet to air in the United States.
In 2004, Loose Cannon Reconstructions included a five
minute ‘reconstruction’ of the pilot, along
with a brief featurette on the background to it, on
their ‘The Dalek Master Plan’ tape. It ‘cast’
Edward de Souza [Marc Cory in Mission To The Unknown]
as Captain Jason Corey, Nicholas Courtney as David Kingdom
and William Gaunt as Mark Seven.
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