Saturday 16 March 2024

369 Death to the Daleks Part Four

EPISODE: Death to the Daleks: Part Four
OVERALL EPISODE NUMBER: 369
STORY NUMBER: 072
TRANSMITTED: Saturday 16 March 1974
WRITER:
Terry Nation
DIRECTOR: Michael Briant
SCRIPT EDITOR: Terrance Dicks
PRODUCER: Barry Letts
RATINGS: 9.5 million viewers
FORMAT: DVD: Doctor Who - Death To The Daleks
EPISODE FORMAT: 625 video

"Fight it! It's an illusion! It's an illusion! You have no substance! No truth! You do not exist! You do not exist!"

The Doctor & Bellal penetrate deeper & deeper into the city passing more tests with the Daleks always one step behind them. As the Daleks destroy one of the traps they witness it restoring itself. The Doctor & Bellal's progress is being monitored when Bellal is taken under the hypnotic influence of the city and tried to attack the Doctor who breaks the hold. Galloway & Hamilton are ordered by the Daleks to climb the beacon to position explosives. Sarah & Jill substitute the stored Parrinium for sand. The Doctor believes they are being subjected to intelligence tests. The final test is a psychological assault which they survive permitting them to enter an inner control room where they find the body of an Exxilon sat at a control console. As they watch it crumbles away in the air current from the open door, the first to penetrate the room in centuries. The city creates anti-bodies to attack them. Hamilton & Galloway set their charges but Galloway retains one. A Dalek discovers Jill missing and self destructs. The Doctor attacks the city's electronic brain but is attacked by the anti-bodies who are quickly distracted by the arrival of the Daleks which allow the Doctor & Bellal to escape. Hamilton & Galloway are ordered to load the Parrinium onto the Dalek ship. The Doctor & Bellal are reunited with Jill & Sarah. The bomb explodes restoring the power supply to the Dalek ship. Galloway hides himself on the Dalek ship. The Daleks tell the Doctor they will fire a plague missile at the planet Exxilon once they are in orbit but Galloway uses the bomb to destroy the Dalek ship killing himself in the process. The Exxilon city crumbles away now it's cut off from power.

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The Doctor mourns the city's loss realising the universe is down to 799 wonders.

What is that Dalek on guard duty doing?

DALEK: Human female has escaped. I have failed! Female prisoner has escaped! I have failed! I have failed! Self destruct! I have failed! Destruct! I have failed! Destruct! Failed! Failed! Failed! I, I, I, I, I.
Why oh why does it self destruct when it finds that Jill has escaped?. Deary me. Oh. It's our first "brave the series of traps to reach the inner sanctum".

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We started the journey into the city in this last episode but The Doctor & Bellal's trials are mostly contained in this episode.

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Bar the Doctor's instinctive reaction to the floor trap at the end of the previous episode I don't have a problem with the idea of the brain teasing tests and traps here.

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What I have a problem with is it's repetition wholesale in years to come: It's there in the last episode of the Pyramids of Mars, albeit there with some decent reasoning, the last episode of the Hand of Fear, where we even get an ancient observer at a console crumbling away to dust when disturbed, and the Five Doctor which contains a modified version of the electrified floor seen here.

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I'm not sure who's idea it was. Terry Nation's, because he wrote the script? Maybe. But Script Editor Terrance Dicks is responsible for the lifting of the floor sequence in Five Doctors and by this point he's being shadowed by his successor Robert Holmes who wrote Pyramids of Mars and script edited it & Hand of Fear.

BELLAL: Doctor!
DOCTOR: What is it?
BELLAL: Doctor, come here!
DOCTOR: What is it?
BELLAL: Look!
DOCTOR: We haven't got much time.
BELLAL: What is it? What's happening?
DOCTOR: The city is creating antibodies. They're trying to neutralise us. Now keep a very close eye on them. Let me know the moment they're complete.
There's two antibodies seen onscreen. One is series stuntman Terry Walsh and you can see all his credits in part one where he briefly played the spaceman Jack.

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His companion is regular extra Steve Ismay who had been a BBC3 TV Crewmember in The Dæmons, a Guerilla & Stills Cameraman in Day of the Daleks, Sea Devil in The Sea Devils, Varan's Bodyguard in The Mutants a Presidential Guard in Frontier in Space and a Security Guard in The Green Death. He's in every story this season playing a UNIT Soldier in The Time Warrior and an Army Soldier in Invasion of the Dinosaurs before this story followed by a Guard in The Monster of Peladon & a Metebelis 3 Guard in Planet of the Spiders! He then returns as a Guard in The Deadly Assassin, a Leviathan Guard in Ribos Operation, a Gracht Guard & one of Zadek's Guards in The Androids of Tara, would have been a "Space Monster" in Shada, possibly a Cyberman, then plays a Citizen in Full Circle, a Cyberman in Earthshock and a Security Guard in Time Flight. He had been Man in the Doomwatch episode The Islanders & Flood, and then appears in The Sweeney as a Policeman in Cover Story, a Driver in Golden Boy and a Villain in Stoppo Driver. In Porridge he played a Prison Warden in A Night In and a Gardener in Happy Release while in The Tomorrow People he was in a Vesh Rebel in Worlds Away and an SIS Sergeant in The Dirtiest Business. In Blake's 7 he plays a Scavenger in Deliverance, a Guard in Dawn of the Gods, a Convict in Moloch and a Hommik in Power.

There's a lovely touch as the power comes back on following the destruction of the beacon: as the lights come up in the Dalek ship the familiar Dalek control room noise starts. Fabulous.

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We've also got a rather nasty insinuation towards the end of the episode:

DOCTOR: Well, don't prolong the agony. It's obvious you mean to kill us. Why don't you get on with it?
DALEK: It is not necessary. You will perish with the rest of the creatures.
DOCTOR: Well, what had you in mind?
DALEK: We have all the parrinium we need. With it, we can force the space powers to accede to our demands. If they do not, millions of people on the outer planets will perish.
HAMILTON: Don't you think Earth will send another mission? Now that the power barrier has been broken, we could have another ship here in less than a month.
DOCTOR: I imagine the Daleks have already taken that into account, Peter.
DALEK: Correct. When our ship is in space, we will fire a plague missile on to the surface of this planet. The plague will destroy

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The Daleks intend to contaminate Exxilon by firing a plague missile at the planet. They have form for similar behaviour in Dalek Invasion of Earth, with a plague preceding the invasion:

CRADDOCK: Well, meteorites came first. The Earth was bombarded with them about ten years ago. A cosmic storm, the scientists called it. The meteorites stopped, everything settled down, and then people began to die of this new kind of plague.
DOCTOR: Yes, that explains your poster, dear boy. Germ bombs, hmm?
CRADDOCK: Yes. The Daleks were up in the sky just waiting for Earth to get weaker. Whole continents of people were wiped out. Asia, Africa, South America. They used to say the Earth had a smell of death about it.

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Then there's the very nasty virus they created in Planet of the Daleks.

DALEK: The bacteria are multiplying.
DALEK SCIENTIST: We have calculated that after the release of the culture into the atmosphere, it will totally contaminate the planet within the space of one Spiridon day.
DALEK: All plant life will wither and die.
DALEK SCIENTIST: All unimmunised animal life will die within one hour of inhaling the contaminated air.
LEADER: Approved. Continue with preparations.
DALEK: The most virulent form of the bacteria will be ready for release in half a Spiridon day.
So can we then assume that they're the ones responsible for the plague inflicting the galaxy?

It's not a bad Dalek story truth be told: They're devious and nasty plus they look the best the have done in colour so far. It's almost a shame they revert back to the grey in their next appearance from the silver they use here.

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This is also the last time until Remembrance of the Daleks that we see them operating without the command or influence of Davros hanging over them.

Novelised by Terrance Dicks in 1978 Death to the Daleks appeared after the novelisation of the subsequent Dalek story, Genesis of the Daleks. The cover to this book was used as a poster by Target in the mid 1980s. Death to the Daleks was the second Pertwee story issued on video tape in 1987, following Day of the Daleks, and was the first story to be issued at the budget price of £9.99, previous releases having cost in the region of £25. It was the last remaining complete Dalek story to be released on DVD.

Saturday 9 March 2024

368 Death to the Daleks Part Three

EPISODE: Death to the Daleks: Part Three
OVERALL EPISODE NUMBER: 368
STORY NUMBER: 072
TRANSMITTED: Saturday 09 March 1974
WRITER:
Terry Nation
DIRECTOR: Michael Briant
SCRIPT EDITOR: Terrance Dicks
PRODUCER: Barry Letts
RATINGS: 10.5 million viewers
FORMAT: DVD: Doctor Who - Death To The Daleks
EPISODE FORMAT: 625 video

"Our people had created a monster. They tried to destroy it. Instead it destroyed them and drove out the survivors."

Sarah is helped by Bellal, an Exxilon that doesn't share the majority's religious beliefs who shelters her from the pursuing Daleks.

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The Doctor is saved from the metal snake creature by the two pursuing Daleks which the snake destroys. The Doctor deduces the snake is a root of the city. Bellal & his friend Gotal take the Doctor to safety. Bellal tells The Doctor of the origins of the city and how it destroyed it's creators. The Daleks make preparations to destroy the city's beacon after exploring the city to gain knowledge. One of the Daleks is destroyed by another city root at a pool in the quarry workings. The Doctor recognises Exxilon markings from an temple in Peru on Earth. The Doctor & Bellal go to the city to attempt to stop the power drain. Jill is sent by the Daleks to assist the Exxilon miners while Galloway & Hamilton are taken for another task. The Doctor sends Sarah to get the Earthmen to load the Parrinium into their ship while the Doctor & Bellal enter the city, gaining entry narrowly in front of two Daleks and brave the brain teasing test & traps within.

You can't beat Daleks in tunnels and they're great during the first part of the episode, thought I note that the first Dalek has orange dome lights when moving but white when attacked.

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Another detail that jumped out on me was the badge on the MSC uniforms. It's the Federation Badge from Blake's 7, as seen behind the original series logo.

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I doo like the city model, looks fabulous.

BELLAL: Exxilon had grown old before life had even begun on other planets. Our ancestors solved the mysteries of science, built craft that travelled through space. They were the supreme beings of the universe.
DOCTOR: What destroyed their power, war?
BELLAL: No. They created their own destruction. Using all their knowledge, they built a city that would last through all of time.
SARAH: And they succeeded. It looked as though it was built only yesterday.
BELLAL: They used their sciences to make the city into a living thing. It could protect itself, repair itself, maintain itself. They even gave it a brain.
DOCTOR: I see. So the city became an entity, though greater and more powerful than the many small parts that had created it.
BELLAL: Yes, it then had no need of those who had made it. Our people had created a monster. They tried to destroy it. Instead it destroyed them and drove out the survivors. Now we, and the other Exxilons you met, are all that remain.
SARAH: What separates you from the others?
BELLAL: They have made the city their god. They worship and fear it. They even make sacrifices to it.
SARAH: Yes, we almost qualified for that ourselves.
DOCTOR: Yet you don't fear the city, Bellal. Why?
BELLAL: Yes, we do fear it, but we don't worship it. Our aim is to destroy it. Unless we succeed, our race will vanish from this planet.
DOCTOR: Yes. Well, I think the time has come to do something about this city.
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DOCTOR: You say that markings like these are cut into the walls of the city?
BELLAL: Yes, these are as I remember them.
SARAH: I saw them too, Doctor. Do they mean anything to you?
DOCTOR: No, not fully. But I do have a rough idea of what they're intended to convey. You see, I've seen them before.
SARAH: Seen them before? Where?
DOCTOR: On the walls of a temple in Peru.
SARAH: Oh, that's impossible!
DOCTOR: Yeah, that's what they said about the Peruvian temple as well. Yes, it's one of Earth's great mysteries, that no primitive man could possibly have built such a structure. Well, now we've solved it.
SARAH: Solved how a temple was built in Peru?
DOCTOR: You say that your ancestors were travelling in space when other worlds were still primitive?
BELLAL: Why, that is true.
DOCTOR: Then they almost certainly visited Earth and taught the people there how to build.
BELLAL: Our city supports itself in two ways. Through roots in the ground and through the air.
SARAH: The air?
DOCTOR: Yes, they must drain their electrical energy from the atmosphere, probably via that beacon.
SARAH: So that's what put the mockers on the Tardis?
DOCTOR: Well, you seem to have a crude grasp of the general idea, yes.
The idea that Earth may have been visited in ancient times by alien astronauts isn't new: it was proposed in 1968 by Erich von Däniken in his book Chariots of the Gods? and later followed up in the BBC Horizon documentary The Case of the Ancient Astronauts in 1978.

I have a question about the ending of this episode: what possessed the Doctor to yell stop when he saw the pattern on the floor? He didn't know it was dangerous..... unless he's encountered something similar before that we haven't seen. And given the number of times he runs into similar traps in the next few years that wouldn't surprise me. Come back next week for some more raving on this subject.

Bellal is played by Arnold Yarrow who had appeared in three episodes of The Andromeda Breakthrough as The President of Azaran. He also worked as a script editor on a number of BBC series including the Z-Cars spin off Softly, Softly and it's spin offs Softly, Softly: Taskforce, Barlow, Barlow at Large and Second Verdict, many of which he also wrote for.

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Gotal, the Exxilon accompanying Bellal in the tunnels, is played by Roy Heymann who was previously an Alien Priest in Colony in Space, directed by (you've guessed it) Michael Briant. Heymann also plays Jebal, the Exxilon only seen on location observing the Daleks.

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The Exxilon Messenger who reports the Dalek's destruction on the surface is Tex Fuller who returns as a Bodyguard, Soldier, Brethren Member and Stuntman in Masque of Mandragora. He's also in Blake's 7 as a Menial in Ultraworld and The Professionals as Pat Weaver in You'll Be All Right.

All the exterior sequences in this story were filmed at ARC Sand Pits at Gallows Hill, Dorset close to similar sites that are used for The Underwater Menace, Destiny of the Daleks, Caves of Androzani, Greatest Show in the Galaxy and Survival. Throw in Curse on Fenric's Lulworth Cove and it seems that Dorset might be the place to go for a locations visiting holiday!

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We looked at the Exxilons used exclusively in the studio last episode: onto those on location and we'll start with those who worked on the studio sessions for episode 1 & 2 and the location sequences for episodes 2-3:

Bob Blaine had previously been a Gatekeeper in Ambassadors of Death, an Auton Daffodil Man in Terror of the Autons, a Prisoner & UNIT Soldier in The Mind of Evil, a Colonist & IMC Guard in Colony in Space, a Chateau Guard in The Sea Devils and a UNIT Trooper in The Time Monster. He returns as a Guard in The Monster of Peladon.

Leslie Bates cast the shadow that falls across the Tardis at the end of the first episode, An Unearthly Child, and then played a Tribesman in the second, The Cave of Skulls. He's a Man at Lop, Mongol Warrior and Mongol Bandit in Marco Polo, a Guard in The Massacre, a Villager at Inn / Pirate in The Smugglers, an English Soldier in The Highlanders, an IE Guard in The Invasion, an 1862 soldier, Confederate Soldier, foot soldier in The War Games, a Waxworks Visitor/Auton in Spearhead from Space, a BBC3 TV Crewmember in The Dæmons, a UNIT soldier in The Three Doctors, a Lunar Guard, Draconian & Williams Guard in Frontier in Space, a SecurityGuard & UNIT Soldier in The Green Death and an Army Corporal & UNIT soldier in Invasion of the Dinosaurs. He returns as a Guard in Planet of the Spiders, a Time Lord in Deadly Asssasin and a Bi-Al Member in Invisible Enemy. In the The Andromeda Breakthrough he was a British Soldier in Gale Warning, in Doomwatch he was a man in Hear No Evil, The Islanders & Flood and in Moonbase 3 he's a Technician in Castor and Pollux. He's also in our favourite Adam Adamant Lives! episode D for Destruction as a TA Soldier.

David Rolfe is on Doctor Who debut here: He's back in the next story as a Guard in The Monster of Peladon then plays a Crew Member in Planet of Evil, a Courtier in The Masque of Mandragor, one of the Doctor's Body Parts & a Pangol/Doctor in The Leisure Hive.

Derek Chafer had been a Saxon in The Time Meddler, a Greek Soldier in The Myth Makers, a Guard in The Massacre, a Lynch Mob Member in The Gunfighters, a Cyberman in The Moonbase, a Guard in Fury from the Deep, a Cyberman in The Invasion, a Technician in Seeds of Death, an Issigri HQ Miner in The Space Pirates, a UNIT Soldier in Doctor Who and the Silurians episode, a Military Policeman & UNIT Soldier in Ambassadors of Death, a Prisoner in The Mind of Evil, a Primitive in Colony in Space, a Guard in The Curse of Peladon and a Warrior in The Mutants. He returns as a Guard in The Monster of Peladon, a Soldier/Armourer/Brethren Guest in The Masque of Mandragora, a Leviathan Guard in Ribos Operation, a Gracht Guard in Androids of Tara, a Skonnan Elder in Horns of the Nimon, Doctor Body Parts/Pangol Doctor in The Leisure Hive and a Gundan in Warriors' Gate. And on the way the production paperwork will; spell his names several different ways! He was in Doomwatch as a man in Project Sahara, Re-Entry Forbidden & The Red Sky and played a man in the missing third season Out of the Unknown episode 1+1=1.5.

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Then we have the Exxilons that only appear in the location sequences for episodes 2-3:

Dennis Plenty had previously been a Tavern Customer & a Guard in The Massacre, a Worker / Soldier in The War Machines, an English Soldier in the Highlanders, a Submarine Rating & Naval Base Sailor in the Sea Devils,a Solos Guard & Skybase Guard in The Mutants, Earth, Prison & Presidential Guards in Frontier in Space, a Security Guard in The Green Death and a UNIT Soldier in Invasion of the Dinosaurs. He returns as a Guard in Planet of the Spiders and a Soldier, Brethren member, Entertainer & Guard in The Masque of Mandragora. In UFO he was Lt. David Worth in Identified and one of the SHADO Mobile 1 Personnel in Computer Affair. In Doomwatch he is a Man in Flood and he's in out favourite Adam Adamant Lives! episode D for Destruction playing a RA Camp Guard and appears as a man in a 1901 photo in the later episode Black Echo. His Fawlty Towers episode is A Touch of Class where he plays a PC and he's a Technician in the Moonbase 3 episodes Achilles Heel, Castor and Pollux & View of a Dead Planet. Although he doesn't appear in the final film Plenty served as the model for the original Stormtrooper armour used in Star Wars.

Mike Reynel is on Doctor Who debut. He returns as an SRS Bouncer/SRS Officers/SRS Audience in Robot, a Kaled Scientist in Genesis of the Daleks, a Council Member in Face of Evil and a Guide in The Leisure Hive. In the The Sweeney episode Golden Boy he's a Customs Officer, while in the Sweeney! & Sweeney 2 films he plays a Detective, and in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin he's a Restaurant Patron in Elizabeth's New Admirer. In Blake's 7 he's a Prisoner in Space Fall while in The Empire Strikes Back he plays an Imperial Officer. In Octopussy he's an Auction Patron, in Morons from Outer Space he's the Policeman Collecting Matteson and in he's a Man in Street in A Fish Called Wanda.

Terry Sartain was an Alien Technician / Union Recruit in The War Games, a Warrior in The Mutants, a UNIT Soldier in The Three Doctors, and an Earth Prison Guard / Draconian Guard at Embassy in Frontier in Space. He later plays the SRS Bouncer in Robot, a UNIT Soldier Android in Android Invasion, a Brother in The Masque of Mandragora, a Time Lord in Deadly Assassin, a Customer at Art Gallery in City of Death, a Gundan in Warriors' Gate ad a Cave Crowd Member in Snakedance. In Blake's 7 he was a Crewman in Space Fall and a Hooded Figure in Cygnus Alpha. In Doomwatch he is the Minister's P.P.S. / Man in Club / Man at Palazzo in The Killer Dolphins.

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The only identifiable Exxilon on location is the one in the water who the root sets on fire and that's series regular stuntman Terry Walsh, whose credits we listed in episode one.

Saturday 2 March 2024

367 Death to the Daleks Part Two

EPISODE: Death to the Daleks: Part Two
OVERALL EPISODE NUMBER: 367
STORY NUMBER: 072
TRANSMITTED: Saturday 02 March 1974
WRITER:
Terry Nation
DIRECTOR: Michael Briant
SCRIPT EDITOR: Terrance Dicks
PRODUCER: Barry Letts
RATINGS: 9.5 million viewers
FORMAT: DVD: Doctor Who - Death To The Daleks
EPISODE FORMAT: 625 video

"Well, well, well. Daleks without the power to kill!"

The Daleks guns malfunction failing to produce any energy: they too are affected by the power drain and reluctantly join forces with the humans. In temple cavern the Exxilons have set a fire. The Daleks claim to have come to Exxilon because they need the Parrinium to treat sickness of their worlds but they actually have another motive and conceal that there are more Daleks in the ship than the four that emerged. While returning to the human dome the party is attacked, Railton is killed by an Exxilon arrow and one of the four Daleks is battered with Exxilon weapons to the point where it is destroyed. The captive Commander Stewart orders them to give up. Doctor, Humans & the two captured Daleks are taken to the caves where Sarah is being sacrificed. The Doctor attempts to rescue her and is beaten to unconsciousness. He wakes in a cage imprisoned in a cage. The Daleks try to bargain with the Exxilons. The third surviving Dalek from patrol has returned to it's ship and informed it's comrades of what has happened. The Daleks there have been equipped with new machine gun weaponry. Commander Stewart dies, promoting Hamilton over Galloway but Galloway refuses to pass his dying commanders wishes on. The Exxilons agree to co-operate with the Daleks after the sacrifice, now consisting of the Doctor and Sarah, but the ceremony is interrupted by the arrival of the armed Daleks who exterminate many of the Exxilons and allow the Doctor & Sarah to escape. The Daleks put the remaining Exxilons to work mining the Parrinium. The Doctor & Sarah hide in a cave tunnel, in which odd noises echo, and are pursued by the Daleks. The Doctor leaves Sarah at a junction while he explores but he encounters an odd robotic snake creature.

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The concept of Daleks unable to kill is a superb one and sadly done away with far too quickly here as the Machine Gun Daleks (another fab idea) show up.

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I love the testing target for the machine guns in the Dalek ship: a small Tardis model :-)

Sarah quickly cottons on that there's something odd if the machine like Daleks are still moving which the Doctor explaining that they

DOCTOR: The Daleks don't seem to be following us.
SARAH: Oh, those robot things, are they locals?
DOCTOR: Hardly. They're probably the most technically advanced and ruthless life form in the galaxy.
SARAH: But if they're robots, how is it their power's not affected? They can't half move.
DOCTOR: Because they're only half robot, Sarah. Inside each of those shells is a living, bubbling lump of hate.
SARAH: You mean they've got legs?
DOCTOR: No, they move by psychokinetic power.
SARAH: I see.
DOCTOR: Do you?
SARAH: No.
We'll have to assume that several of the other Dalek systems are also powered by the mutant inside, superbly described here as a "living bubbling lump of hate", as the eye lights seem to work as do the arms.... In which case is anything else other than the guns powered by another power source? Well possibly something structural or defensive judging by the way that Dalek went up when battered by the Exxilons' hand weapons.

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The Doctor and Sarah are great together in the tunnel:

SARAH: Doctor! We were just playing the main part in a sacrificial ceremony, weren't we?
DOCTOR: Well, that seemed to be the general idea, yes.
SARAH: Well how are they going to sacrifice us just by dumping us down here?
DOCTOR: Yes, I knew that thought would occur to you sooner or later.
SARAH: You've got an idea, haven't you?
DOCTOR: Yes. And it's not one of my favourites. In fact I don't care for it at all.
SARAH: Well, you might as well share it.
DOCTOR: Oh, very well. I think they expect that sacrifice to be completed by something else. Something that lives down this tunnel.
SARAH: Next time you get an idea, keep it to yourself, will you.
Sarah is then unnerved by a noise....
SARAH: That sounded awfully close.
DOCTOR: Yes. Some sort of subterranean wind effect, I should think.
SARAH: Who are you kidding?
DOCTOR: Myself, chiefly.
SARAH: I just heard your wind effect gnashing its teeth.
The Daleks seen in this story are a selection of the usual suspects Michael Wisher made his Dalek Voice debut at the end of the Frontier in Space and continued that role into Planet of the Daleks. We first heard him providing voices in The Seeds of Death, directed by Michael Ferguson who then used in The Ambassadors of Death as John Wakefield. It would have been there that Barry Letts first saw him and he uses him in Terror of the Autons as Rex Farrel and Carnival of Monsters as Kalik . We'll hear his voice again as a Dalek, un-credited, in Genesis of the Daleks where ascends to Doctor Who superstardom as Davros, the Daleks creator. He's then back in the very next story as Magrik in Revenge of the Cybermen then two stories later in the Planet of Evil as Morelli and the voice of Ranjit. Producer & Director Barry Letts had previously used him on his Z-Cars story The Saint of Concrete Canyon and he later appears in Moonbase 3 as Harry Sanders in Departure and Arrival.

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Regular Dalek Operator John Scott Martin has been in every Dalek Story since the Chase and, with one exception, will be till the end of the original Doctor Who series. He made his Doctor Who début in The Web Planet as a Zarbi graduating to Dalek Operator in The Chase three stories later a role he'd repeated in Mission to the Unknown, The Dalek Masterplan,Power of the Daleks, Evil of the Daleks, Day of the Daleks, Frontier in Space & Planet of the Daleks. He'll return as a Dalek in Genesis of the Daleks, The Five Doctors, Resurrection of the Daleks, Revelation of the Daleks and Remembrance of the Daleks. He has also played a Mechanoid in The Chase, the Robot in Colony in Space, Charlie & a Coven Member in the Dæmons, a Mutant in the Mutants, a gell guard in The Three Doctors and a Mutant in Frontier in Space. After this story his non Dalek rolls include Hughes in The Green Death, a Ministry of Defence Guard in Robot, Kriz in Brain of Morbius, the Virus Nucleus in Invisible Enemy. His distinctive hair makes him a familiar figure amongst bit part actors in many television roles: he was in Quatermass and the Pit as a T.V. Technician in The Wild Hunt and A for Andromeda as a Lab Assistant / Man in Pub in The Message. He appears in the missing Out of the Unknown episode The Naked Sun as a robot but misses out when The Daleks turn up in Get Off My Cloud. In Doomwatch he's a Man in The Islanders and e appears in the first episode of The Tripods as the Schoolmaster. Away from science fiction he was in I, Claudius as Julia's Lover in Waiting in the Wings and a Slave in Some Justice and appears on the big screen in Pink Floyd - The Wall as a Dancing Teacher.

Alongside him is his frequent colleague Murphy Grumbar making his final appearance as a Dalek in this story. He was first a Dalek, credited as Peter Murphy, in The Daleks & The Dalek Invasion of Earth, then as Murphy Grumber he's Dalek in The Space Museum, Mechanoid in The Chase, a Dalek in The Evil of the Daleks, a Dalek in Day of the Daleks, Arcturus in The Curse of Peladon, a Gell Guard in The Three Doctors, a functionary in Carnival of Monsters and a Dalek in Frontier in Space and Planet of the Daleks. Throughout his final role in the series he is mis-credited as Murphy Grunbar!

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Like Michael Wisher the final Dalek Operator Cy Town made his Dalek debut in Frontier in Space, returning in Planet of the Daleks. He plays a Dalek again in Genesis of the Daleks, Destiny of the Daleks, Resurrection of the Daleks, Revelation of the Daleks and Remembrance of the Daleks. He was also previously an Auton in Spearhead from Space returning as a Technician in Doctor Who and the Silurians, a technician in Inferno, a Prisoner, Audience Member & Medical Orderly in The Mind of Evil, a Gel Guard in Three Doctors and a Soldier in Invasion of the Dinosaurs. Later he plays a Vogan in Revenge of the Cybermen part one, an Android Villager in Android Invasion, a Brother in The Masque of Mandragora, an Bi-Al member in The Invisible Enemy, a Guard in The Sun Makers, a Castrovalvan Warrior in Castrovalva, a Guest Gambler in Enlightenment, a Passerby in Attack of the Cybermen, Execution Victim Harold L/drone in The Happiness Patrol and a Haemovore in The Curse of Fenric. Outside of Doctor Who appears in the Monty Python's Flying Circus episodes Spam as a Surfer and - The Money Programme as a Trumpeter plus the film Monty Python's The Meaning of Life as a Restaurant Diner. In Doomwatch he's a Man in Flood, he's a Technician in all six episodes of Moonbase 3, a Security Guard in The Sweeney Golden Boy, in Quadrophenia he's a hairdresser, in Blake's 7 he's a Rebel Technician / Federation Trooper in Blake, he's a Coach Passenger in Miss Marple: Nemesis and in Jeeves and Wooster he's the Vicar in Wooster with a Wife (or, Jeeves the Matchmaker). And if you want to know what he looks like outside of his Dalek shell then there's some screencaps of him on his Aveleyman page.

Three of the Exxilons don't return for the next episode: Roy Pearce was a Guard in The Massacre, a Soldier in Snow Camouflage / Engineer in The Tenth Planet, a Chameleon & Airport Policeman in The Faceless Ones, a Technician/Guard in Fury from the Deep, a UNIT Soldier in The Invasion, the Cyberman in The War Games episode ten, a Passenger/Plague Victims/Passersby/Ambulance Men/Policemen in Doctor Who and the Silurians, a Villager in The Dæmons, a Submarine Rating/Naval Base sailor in The Sea Devils, a Solos Guard in The Mutants and an Army Soldier in Invasion of the Dinosaurs. He returns as a Guard in Planet of Spiders, an Android in The Android Invasion, a Pikeman/Brother in The Masque of Mandragora and a Security Guard in Image of the Fendahl. In Blake's 7 he was an Armed Crewman in Space Fall, a Federation Trooper in Time Squad and a Scientist in Project Avalon while in Doomwatch he ws a man in Invasion & Flood.

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Terrance Denville had previously been a double for Captain Blade in The Faceless Ones, a Cyberman in The Invasion, Foot Soldier & Alien Technician in The War Games, a Waxwork visitor/replica in Spearhead from Space, a Technician & UNIT Soldier in The Silurians, a UNIT trooper in The Three Doctors, a Cyberman again, briefly, in The Carnival of Monsters, a Guard in Frontier in Space and a Spiridon in Planet of the Daleks He returns as an Ice Warrior in The Monster of Peladon. He plays a Technician in Moonbase 3 Departure and Arrival, Behemoth and Outsider, appears as a Russian Security Council Member in the Pierce Brosnan James Bond film GoldenEye and appears in the Miranda episode Before I Die as an Old Man.

Nigel Wynder was a Roundhead in Time Monster and a A pair of Army Soldiers accompanying General Finch at the end of Invasion of the Dinosaurs episode 4.

These three actors only appear in the studio scenes featuring the Exxilons: Bob Blaine, Leslie Bates, David Rolfe and Derek Chafer also appear in the studio scenes but also appear on location: we'll look at them next episode. One of these seven Exxilons has some brief dialogue in this episode but it's not know which actor performed these.