Ratings and Review of Doctor Who

Rating		Votes
10	7%	6
9	8%	7
8	17%	14
7	23%	19
6	23%	19
5	13%	11
4	4%	3
3	4%	3
2	2%	2
1	0%	0
Average Rating 6.7
Votes 84

Synopsis

The travellers are forced to flee in the TARDIS when they learn from the Time/Space Visualiser taken from the Moroks' museum that a group of Daleks equipped with their own time machine are on their trail with orders to exterminate them.

The chase begins on the desert planet Aridius and takes in a number of stopping-off points including the observation gallery of New York's Empire State Building, the 19th Century sailing ship Mary Celeste (the Daleks' appearance causing all the crew and passengers to jump overboard) and a spooky haunted house which, although the Doctor and his friends do not realise it, is actually a futuristic fun-fair attraction.

Eventually both time machines arrive on the jungle planet Mechanus, where the Daleks try to infiltrate and kill the Doctor's party using a robot double of him. The travellers are taken prisoner by the Mechonoids - a group of robots sent some fifty years earlier to prepare landing sites for human colonists who, in the event, never arrived - and meet Steven Taylor, a stranded astronaut who has been the Mechonoids' captive for the past two years.

The Daleks and the Mechonoids engage in a fierce battle which ultimately results in their mutual destruction, and the Doctor's party seize this opportunity to escape. The Doctor reluctantly helps Ian and Barbara to use the Daleks' time machine to return home.

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4 out of 10 (40.0%) raters say this story requires a previous story.

Extended Ratings

Plot

6.5

(15)

Acting

7.1

(15)

Effects

7.1

(15)

Replay

6.3

(15)

Doctor(s)

1st Doctor

Companions

Barbara Wright

Ian Chesterton

Vicki

Cast

The Doctor - William Hartnell Barbara Wright - Jacqueline Hill Ian Chesterton - William Russell Steven Taylor - Peter Purves Vicki - Maureen O'Brien Abraham Lincoln - Robert Marsden Albert C Richardson - Dennis Chinnery Bosun - Patrick Carter Cabin Steward - Jack Pitt Capt Benjamin Briggs - David Blake Kelly Count Dracula - Malcolm Rogers Dalek - Robert Jewell Dalek - Kevin Manser Dalek - John Scott Martin Dalek - Gerald Taylor Dalek Voice - Peter Hawkins Dalek Voice - David Graham

Writer(s)

Terry Nation

Director(s)

Richard Martin

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Reviewed By: adamelijahReview Date: 9/16/15 6:23 pm

0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

This story finds the Daleks sending out an Execution squad to pursue the Doctor and his Companions through time and space.

Overall, this story has a lot to offer if you appreciate the lighter Doctor Who stories. In fact it's got a lot of humor and goofiness for a Terry Nation story. The story has a similar format to Nation's Season 1 story, "Keys of Marinus" with multiple mini-stories working into the serialized adventure. This leads to a variety of settings from aliens worlds to a haunted house, and the Mary Celeste.

You have a time television that can view anywhere in time and space, Peter Purves making his Doctor Who debate as a comedy Alabama comedy and the battle between Dracula and the Daleks we've all been waiting for. The cast has great chemistry and there are so many wonderful moments such as the Doctor and Barbara sun bathing, with the Doctor singing.

There's some stuff that doesn't quite work, but far more than that does. This story is the swan song for Ian and Barbara as Companions and it's a fitting finale that that reminded us viewers why we loved these characters.

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Reviewed By: QuartzLightReview Date: 7/28/12 3:51 am

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I'm suprised by how many negative reviews this story gets. I think it's got a mix of feelings in it, horror,adventure etc. A brilliant display of acting by all, and a classic Dalek chase is just what I need to brighten my day. I give it 8/10.

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Reviewed By: templetongateReview Date: 5/18/12 2:59 pm

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I want to like this more than I do. It's stuffed full with comedy (ish), horror (ish), high concepts (ish) and what - in context - must have been the best kind of episodic runarounds. But...ugh. I want more from Ian and Barbara's final days. Not sure what, exactly, (okay: all of it in modern earth, crazed schoolkids, forgiving headmaster...possibly a Hand of Omega) but more than contrivances that don't quite work or feel aimed at slow 7 year olds.

Horror fairground: B-
Hywel Bennett and pals: B
Purves 1: E
Doctor 2: pfff, really? I know TVs were smaller than my shoe in the '60s, but really??
Purves 2: A
Mechanoids: blurbleblurble

The final battles are glorious, the Marie Celeste has a touch of the Pompadores about it, but everyone feels on panto mode.

Anyway, goodbye to Chubberton and Babs. Don't grow old, eh?