Plot
The TARDIS brings the new Doctor, Polly and Ben to the Earth colony planet Vulcan. The Doctor witnesses a murder and, investigating the body, discovers a pass badge allowing him unrestricted access to the colony.
The dead man was an Earth Examiner who had been secretly summoned by Deputy Governor Quinn to investigate the activities of a group of rebels – a problem regarded as insignificant by Governor Hensell.
A scientist, Lesterson, has meanwhile discovered a crashed space capsule containing inert Daleks, which he is now in the process of reactivating. The Doctor’s warnings are ignored when the Daleks claim to be the colonists’ servants.
As the rebels grow in strength, their operations covertly led by Head of Security Bragen, the Daleks take advantage of the colonists’ naive trust to establish a reproduction plant – on a conveyor belt system – with which to increase their numbers. The Doctor eventually destroys the Daleks by turning the colony’s power source against them.
The defeat of the Daleks, to whom Bragen and the rebels had allied themselves, gives Quinn an opportunity to re-establish control, Hensell having previously been killed. The Doctor and his friends slip back to the TARDIS.
Cast & Crew
Cast
The Doctor – Patrick Troughton
Ben Jackson – Michael Craze
Polly – Anneke Wills
Bragen – Bernard Archard
Dalek – Gerald Taylor
Dalek – Kevin Manser
Dalek – Robert Jewell
Dalek – John Scott Martin
Dalek Voices – Peter Hawkins
Guard – Peter Forbes-Robertson
Guard – Robert Russell
Guard – Robert Luckham
Hensell – Peter Bathurst
Janley – Pamela Ann Davy
Kebble – Steven Scott
Lesterson – Robert James
Quinn – Nicholas Hawtrey
Resno – Edward Kelsey
The Examiner – Martin King
Valmar – Richard Kane
Crew
Director – Christopher Barry
Assistant Floor Manager – Marjorie Yorke
Costumes – Sandra Reid
Daleks Created By – Terry Nation Terry Nation received this credit as joint owner with the BBC of the rights to the Daleks.
Designer – Derek Dodd
Film Cameraman – Peter Sargent
Film Editor – Jim Latham
Incidental Music – Tristram Cary (from stock)
Make-Up – Gillian James
Producer – Innes Lloyd
Production Assistant – Michael E Briant
Special Sounds – Brian Hodgson
Story Editor – Gerry Davis
Studio Lighting – Graham Sothcott
Studio Sound – Buster Cole
Title Music – Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, arranged by Delia Derbyshire
Writer – David Whitaker
First Transmitted
1 – 05/11/1966 17:50
2 – 12/11/1966 17:50
3 – 19/11/1966 17:50
4 – 26/11/1966 17:50
5 – 03/12/1966 17:50
6 – 10/12/1966 17:50
All six episodes are missing from the BBC Archives.
