Doctor Who - Planet of the Daleks Reviews

Rating		Votes
10	1%	1
9	9%	7
8	10%	8
7	39%	30
6	21%	16
5	14%	11
4	5%	4
3	0%	0
2	0%	0
1	0%	0
Average Rating 6.7
Votes 77

Synopsis

From http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide

The TARDIS materialises in a hostile jungle on the planet Spiridon. Jo sets out alone to find help for the Doctor, who has fallen into a coma. She meets a party of Thals and is left in hiding aboard their crashed spaceship while they go to the Doctor's aid. The Time Lord, now recovered, learns of their mission to destroy a party of Daleks sent here to discover the native Spiridons' secret of invisibility.

Another Thal spaceship crash-lands in the jungle, and the survivors bring news that somewhere on Spiridon there is an army of ten thousand Daleks. Jo meanwhile meets a friendly Spiridon named Wester, who cures a deadly fungus disease that she has contracted.

It transpires that the Daleks' army is frozen in suspended animation in a cavern below their base. The Doctor, with the help of the Thals, explodes a bomb in the cavern wall and thereby causes one of the planet's natural ice volcanoes to erupt, entombing the army in a torrent of liquid ice.

The newly-arrived Dalek Supreme and his aides are left stranded on Spiridon as the Thals steal their ship and the Doctor and Jo depart in the TARDIS.

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10 out of 17 (58.8%) raters say this story requires a previous story.

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6.6

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7.5

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7.2

(24)

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6.8

(24)

3rd Doctor

Jo Grant

Thals

Dalek Supreme

Daleks

Sci-fi

Cast

The Doctor - Jon Pertwee

Jo Grant - Katy Manning

Codal - Tim Preece

Dalek Operator - John Scott Martin

Dalek Operator - Murphy Grumbar

Dalek Operator - Cy Town

Dalek Voice - Michael Wisher

Dalek Voice - Roy Skelton

Latep - Alan Tucker

Marat - Hilary Minster

Rebec - Jane How

Taron - Bernard Horsfall

Vaber - Prentis Hancock

Wester - Roy Skelton

Director:

David Maloney

Writer:

Terry Nation

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Reviewed By: dalekman1234Review Date: 2/14/18 3:11 am

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People don’t like this episode for a lot of reasons - chief among them being because of how weak the daleks are. And while I understand that criticism, I feel that stripping the power away from Doctor Who’s most powerful villains is an interesting take. Placing them as merely one element in the story as opposed to the main antagonist is both brilliant and refreshing. Plus, the ending is oddly powerful as both we and the Doctor marvel solemnly as the city crumbles to the ground.

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Reviewed By: adamelijahReview Date: 9/17/17 1:59 pm

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After the events of Frontier in Space, the Doctor and Jo land on Spiridon and discover a detachment of Thals having arrived to stop the latest insane Dalek plan which involves invisibility as part of their big galactic invasion.

In many ways, this is a pretty direct callback to the Doctor's first encounter with the Daleks in the first season as the plot follows many of the same notes with hapless Thals, and the various evil methods of the Daleks. This isn't an outstanding Dalek story, but it's an interesting enough action adventure story to make it an enjoyable, with just enough clever twists thrown in to make it interesting. There's also some foreshadowing of Jo's decision in the Green Death in this story.

Overall, not great, but enjoyable enough.

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Reviewed By: TheBigChurroReview Date: 11/30/16 1:28 am

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Loved this one on re watching a couple of years after first viewing, it isn't that original as it follows the plot of "The Daleks" pretty well but I had great fun with it, Pertwee running around the jungle with Thals is great and recommend it immensely.

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Reviewed By: AlfredReview Date: 10/2/15 9:00 am

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Overall, a good, rollicking dalek yarn. Nothing very original about it, it is stock standard Terry Nation. Some would point out similarities to The Daleks, such as the jungle planet setting and the enemy base infiltration and escape plot being detractions but I am not going to condemn it on that ground. It is certainly one to reach for when you want your basic, four-on-the-floor dalek adventure hit.