366 Death to the Daleks: Part One

EPISODE: Death to the Daleks: Part One
OVERALL EPISODE NUMBER: 366
STORY NUMBER: 072
TRANSMITTED: Saturday 23 February 1974
WRITER: Terry Nation
DIRECTOR: Michael Briant
SCRIPT EDITOR: Terrance Dicks
PRODUCER: Barry Letts
RATINGS: 8.1 million viewers
FORMAT: DVD: Doctor Who - Death To The Daleks
EPISODE FORMAT: 625 video

"It's as if the Tardis was dying!"

On the cold & dark planet a man is shot with an arrow and collapses into a pond. The Doctor & Sarah are heading to Florana when the Tardis finds it's power drained and materialises. Even an emergency torch quickly dies. The Doctor manually cranks the door handle allowing them to venture outside into a barren wasteland. While Sarah changes into warmer clothes the Doctor explores and is attacked. Sarah is stalked by the alien beings, then finds one waiting for her in the Tardis from which she flees. The Doctor escapes from his captors. Sarah finds herself near a starkly white city with a flashing beacon on top. As dawn breaks the Doctor encounters a group of humans who have crashed on the planet Exxilon. The survivors are Dan Galloway, Captain Richard Railton, Peter Hamilton & Jill Tarrant along with the injured Commander Stewart. Their colleague Jack has been missing since the last night. They are from the Marine Space Core and explain about the Exxilon's forbidden city that Sarah has found. They treat is as a shrine and sacrifice anyone who goes near it. Approaching the city Sarah is captured. The humans report their ship was drained of power as it neared Exxilon. They came here to mine Parrinium a mineral needed to cure a space plague threatening millions. A ship comes into land nearby that the humans think is their relief ship. They go to find it, leaving their injured commander alone & at the mercy of the Exxilons while in an underground chamber Sarah is prepared for sacrifice. The ship lands revealing not humans but Daleks who order the humans Extermination and begin to open fire.....

Another Terry Nation script, another Tardis immobilising. He also gets to use his new favourite device, a plague:

DOCTOR: Tell me, what's the purpose of your expedition?
JILL: Well, to collect parrinium.
DOCTOR: Parrinium?
JILL: It's a chemical. It can be found in minute quantities on Earth, but it's so rare there that it's virtually priceless. A chemical detecting satellite did a fly past on this planet and registered that it was as common here as salt.
DOCTOR: Well, forgive me, but what do you want it for?
GALLOWAY: Och, man. Where have you been hiding?
DOCTOR: Well, here and there, one place and another. Well, I am a little out of touch, I'll admit.
JILL: Well, the outer worlds are being ravaged by a disease. The colonists are dying in their thousands. Another ten million men, women and children will die unless we help them, and help them quickly. Every hour we're stuck here on this planet, the death toll's mounting.
DOCTOR: And parrinium will halt this disease?
RAILTON: Well, it can cure and give immunity, but they need it in quantity and they need it fast.
JILL: If it's not delivered within a month, it'll be too late.
DOCTOR: I see.
RAILTON: We managed to get a message off before we had total power failure, to Earth. We asked them for a relief ship.
DOCTOR: Do you happen to know if that message was received?
GALLOWAY: Oh, if it had been I think we'd have had help by now.

For other Nation plagues see see the virus in Planet of the Daleks, 1975's Survivors and the virus used in Blake's 7's Project Avalan.

A decent enough opening episode but I think even from what little you can see of the cliffhanger at the end you've seen enough to see that *something* is wrong with the Dalek guns because there's usually some sort of negative effect quite quickly. I'd have had the Dalek order Exterminate, a crash zoom on the first movement of the weapon out and straight into the titles instead of all the waggling of the guns in and out. Still it's good to see the Daleks back in Silver looking quite nifty in their spruced up colour scheme.

Onto the cast and in descending order of rank: Neil Seiler, playing Commander Stewart, was the Radio Operator in The Sea Devils (director: Michael Briant)

Captain Richard Railton is played by John Abineri who we've heard in Fury from the Deep as van Lutyens ( production assistant Michael Bryant) and seen in The Ambassadors of Death as General Carrington. He's got one more appearance to come in The Power of Kroll as Ranquin. He has an Out of the Unknown to his name playing Colonel Chalmers in Thirteen to Centaurus which you can see on the Out of the Unknown DVD Set. He's been in both of Terry Nation's BBC sci fi series playing the recurring role of Hubert Goss in 17 episodes of Survivors and Ushton in the Blake's 7 episode hostage. He was in Gangsters, by future Sixth Doctor story write Philip Martin and featuring Lytton actor Maurice Colbourne, as the Consortium MD in Incident Six and The Moon Stallion, by former Doctor Who writer Brian Hayles and starring future companion Sarah Sutton, as Sir George Mortenhurze. People of my age would recall him for playing Herne the Hunter in Robin of Sherwood and would have seen him as Rimmer's Dad in the Red Dwarf episode Better Than Life. But Abineri has probably been seen by most people as the Ambassador's Butler in the original Ferrero Rocher advert!

Duncan Lamont plays Lt Dan Galloway on his only Doctor Who appearance. He was in the original 1953 The Quatermass Experiment playing the infected astronaut Victor Carroon and later appeared in the Quatermass and the Pit film as Sladden. When he died in 1978 in he was working at the time on the Blake's 7 episode Hostage and had already filmed location material. He was replaced by, and the footage reshot using, his co-star here John Abineri.

Lt Peter Hamilton is played Julian Fox

The Marine Space Corps member killed at the start of the program, presumably the missing Jack that Jill enquires of, is series regular stuntman Terry Walsh, who also performs his usual role of doubling for Jon Pertwee here. He was a Militiaman in The Smugglers, a Soldier in The Web of Fear, a UNIT Soldier in The Invasion, The Ambassadors of Death & Inferno, in the last of which he also played a Technician and an RSF Soldier, an Auton Policeman & Unit Soldier in Terror of the Autons, a UNIT Motorcyclist in The Mind of Evil, a Primitive, Colonist & IMC Guard Rogers in Colony in Space, Castle Guard Barclay & a Sea Devil in The Sea Devils, an Overlord Guard in The Mutants, the Window Cleaner in The Time Monster, a Guard in The Green Death and a Warehouse Looter in Invasion of the Dinosaurs. He returns as The Guard Captain & a Guard in The Monster of Peladon, the Man with Boat in Planet of the Spiders, a Bouncer in Robot, Zake in The Sontaran Experiment, a Thal Soldier, Muto and Kaled Scientist in Genesis of the Daleks, a Vogan in Revenge of the Cybermen, a Crew Member in Planet of Evil, the Executioner in The Masque of Mandragora, a Horda Pit Guard in The Face of Evil, Mensch in The Power of Kroll and Doran in The Creature from the Pit.

Walsh stunt doubled for the Doctor in Inferno, Terror of the Autons, Day of the Daleks, Curse of Peladon, The Sea Devils, Carnival of Monsters, Frontier in Space, The Green Death, The Time Warrior, Death to the Daleks, Monster of Peladon, Planet of the Spiders, The Sontaran Experiment, Revenge of the Cybermen, Planet of Evil, The Android Invasion, The Seeds of Doom, The Deadly Assassin, The Face of Evil, The Androids of Tara, The Creature from the Pit. He was also the double for The Master in The Sea Devils, the Minotaur in the Time Monster, Mike Yates in The Green Death & Planet of the Spiders, Harry Sulivan in The Sontaran Experiment, Sorenson in Planet of Evil, Chancellor Goth in The Deadly Assassin, Count Grendel in The Androids of Tara and a Stuntman on Power of Kroll. He was Fight Arranger for The Sea Devils, The Mutants, The Green Death, Death to the Daleks, Monster of Peladon, Planet of the Spiders, The Sontaran Experiment, The Android Invasion, The Seeds of Doom, The Deadly Assassin, The Face of Evil, The Androids of Tara & The Creature from the Pit. He also doubled for The Doctor in the Children In Need Spoof The Dimensions in Time and played the Duelling Guard and a Mercenary in The Ultimate Adventure where he also staged the fights.

He was also in the Adam Adamant Lives! episode - D for Destruction as Watts, which we like because it has Patrick Troughton and a load of control panels in it! In Space: 1999 he was Clan Guard in Journey to Where, the Rescue Eagle Pilot in The Mark of Archanon, a Technician in Space Warp and a Security Guard in The Seance Spectre. He was in Superman II as a KFC Man / French Officer and An American Werewolf in London as the Taxi Driver Who Crashes His Cab. He did stuntwork on The Italian Job, the Roger Moore James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, Superman, Superman III & Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Douglas Camfield & Robert Holmes' The Nightmare Man, the aforementioned An American Werewolf in London, Krull and Robin of Sherwood.

Civilian Geologist Jill Tarrant is played by Joy Harrison. She also appears in Space: 1999 she was a Main Mission Operative in Earthbound & Missing Link. Toby Hadoke tracked her down and interviewed her for Who's Round 123.

Mostyn Evans , the High Priest, was Dai Evans in The Green Death (director: Michael Briant)

On the Colony in Space DVD director Michael Briant cops to using the same people regularly for the very good reason that he knows them and knows he can work with them!

Two stuntmen appear as Exxilons in just this episode: Max Faulkner had previously appeared as a UNIT soldier in The Ambassadors of Death & Inferno. He returns as a miner in The Monster of Peladon, a Guard Captain in Planet of the Spiders, a Thal Guard in Genesis of the Daleks, an Astronaut in Planet of Evil, Corporal Adams in The Android Invasion, Doctor Carter's stuntman in The Hand of Fear, which he also was the Fight Arranger on, a Horda Pit Guard in Face of Evil, a Coolie & Policeman in Talons of Weng-Chiang, an Other in The Sun Makers, Nesbin in The Invasion of Time and a guard in Creature from the Pit. In The Prisoner he's the First Horseman in Living in Harmony and the Scots Napoleon in The Girl Who Was Death. He then appears in Space: 1999 as Ted Clifford in Ring Around the Moon, Survivors as Phil in Mad Dog, Blake's 7 as a Death Squad Trooper in Powerplay, God's Wonderful Railway as the Scarecrow in The Permanent Way, The Day of the Triffids episode 2 as Jo's Attacker and twice in Robin of Sherwood as Gisbourne's Helper in The Children of Israel and Oliver in The Power of Albion. In the Pierce Brosnan James Bond film GoldenEye he's a Guard at the Helicopter Show.

The other stuntman is Marc Boyle He'd been a UNIT Motorcyclist & a Policeman in The Ambassadors of Death, a Stuntmen playing UNIT Soldiers/Auton Daffodil Men/Technicians in Terror of the Autons, a Prisoner/Motor Cyclist/UNIT Soldier in Mind of Evil, a Castle Guard/Sailor/Sea Devil in The Sea Devils, Kronos in The Time Monster and one of Irongron’s Men in The Time Warrior, which he also helped Fight Arrange. He appears in Superman II as a C.R.S. Man, The Professionals as Donatti in Kickback and The Living Daylights as a Blayden Grounds MI6 Man. He did stuntwork on Space: 1999 Space Brain, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back & Return of the Jedi, The Italian Job, the James Bond films You Only Live Twice, The Spy Who Loved Me, Octopussy, Never Say Never Again & Licence to Kill, Superman & Superman III, An American Werewolf in London and Alien³

Death to the Daleks 1 was the chronologically latest episode of Doctor Who broadcast to be missing from the BBC archives when Ian Levene visited in 1978. In 1981 a 524 line NTSC conversion of episode 1 was found in Canada and returned to the BBC completing this story. In 1985 ABC TV in Australia was found to be holding an edited copy of episode 1, missing a scene where a crewmember is killed by a spear courtesy of our friends the Australian sensors. Due to this omission BBC Video used the 525 line copy of the episode to produce the first compilation release of Death to the Daleks in 1987. In 1991 a set of videotapes was returned to BBC Enterprises by Dubai Radio & Colour Television and left unattended and outside exposed to the elements. BBC Employee & Doctor Who fan David Stead rescued the Death to the Daleks episode 1 video and passed it to Paul Vanezis, who discovered it kept sticking on playback, similar to Curse of Peladon 3, and had the tape salvaged by playing it back in segments which were recorded onto D3 tape, the then default transmission format. The original videotape of Death to the Daleks 1 now serves as a doorstop in the study of Richard Molesworth, the author of Wiped! Doctor Who's Missing Episodes which has been an invaluable aid during the first year of writing this block. If you have any interest in the first eleven years of Doctor Who and why it's not all there then this is well worth a read. But now we must say goodbye to it because after this episode, one minor edit aside, every broadcast episode of Doctor Who exists in it's original format.

365 Invasion of the Dinosaurs Part Six

EPISODE: Invasion of the Dinosaurs: Part Six
OVERALL EPISODE NUMBER: 365
STORY NUMBER: 071
TRANSMITTED: Saturday 16 February 1974
WRITER: Malcolm Hulke
DIRECTOR: Paddy Russell
SCRIPT EDITOR: Terrance Dicks
PRODUCER: Barry Letts
RATINGS: 7.5 million viewers
FORMAT: DVD: Doctor Who - U.N.I.T Files: Invasion of the Dinosaurs and the Android Invasion
EPISODE FORMAT: 625 video

"Well, I never thought I'd find myself blowing up a tube station. If you're wrong, Doctor, I'm going to have a job explaining this to London Transport!"
"Well, don't worry, Brigadier, I'm never wrong. If we don't get down there, there won't be a London Transport to explain to."

The Doctor escapes, and runs into an army patrol where Finch tries to recapture him but he is rescued by Benton & the Brigadier. Sarah is locked up in a store cupboard but escapes through an air vent. Finding Finch has ordered his men to evacuate the Brigadier realises he's been duped and calls Geneva but is held at gunpoint by Mike Yates. He explains the plan to the Doctor who tries to talk him out of it. Distracted by a soldier bringing tea, Yates is overpowered by Benton. Sarah returns to the ship and explains to Mark they are under London. Benton arms the Doctor & Brigadier with ropes & explosives so they can raid the base under the tube station. The Elders don't believe Sarah's story and summon Sir Charles from one of the other ships. Journeying to Moorgate the Doctor & Brigadier encounter several dinosaurs. Grover admitting his story is overheard by Adam. The Doctor & Brigadier are menaced by a Triceratops on the station platform as they set their explosives. Adam releases Mark & Sarah as the Doctor blows his way into the lift shaft descending by rope while the Brigadier calls Benton on the radio and summons reinforcements. Benton is being held at gunpoint by Finch but manages to overpowers him. Sarah steps out the airlock demonstrating it's a fake. The Doctor knocks Butler out. The Elders move out the ship to stop Grover & Whitaker when the Doctor arrives with the Brigadier. Whitaker activates the machine, but the Doctor resists the time field and shuts it down. As he resets the machine Whitaker attempts to reactivate it, not realising that the Doctor has reversed the polarity sending him & Grover back to the past. The Brigadier tells them that Finch will be court martialled while the Yates will be given an opportunity to resign quietly. Benton tells the Doctor he's proud to be one of the few sergeants who have punched a general on the nose. The Doctor tries to tempt Sarah back into the Tardis with a trip to Florana......

Liz was watching the opening of this episode with and commented "Here I am a placid vegetarian dinosaur and I will run into your mouth" as it "attacks" the Tyrannosaur.

But after that point the episode is go go go all the way to the end that I can't fault at all and is a cracking resolution to the story. Yes half the guest cast turn out to be in on the plan to wind back time: even the Brigadier comments "Is anyone not a traitor?" It's an interesting counterpoint to The Green Death where the environmentalists were the good guys: here they're trying to turn back time and commit mass genocide. The Doctor sympathises with their ideals, if not their methods, and that might have caused a few raised eyebrows at the time. Now that environmental concerns are much more mainstream I wonder how this story would go down and it's a bit of a shame it's not had a modern repeat. For my money it's one of the better Pertwee stories too and I thought that even before I realised how much of it was filmed in my home town!

The only real downside is The Dinosaurs of the title: they aren't great. Let me rephrase that: The Tyrannosaurus Rex is really very very poor, or as my friend Karl pointed out "He is a little bit Chewits Monster isn't he?"

The other Dinosaurs aren't bad especially those seen in this last episode - The "Brontosaur" ain't bad and the Triceratops, hidden in shadow, is really good.

It's just unfortunate that it's the rather poor Tyrannosaur that we see most often.

I'm pretty sure Sir Charles' spacesuit is a recycled one from Moonbase 3!

Robinson, one of the newly awakened members of the ship's crew, is played by Timothy Craven who was a cell guard in Frontier in Space, and will be Short in Robot and the Tesh in Protective Suit Face of Evil.

Among the rest of Operation Golden Age Men crewmembers we have Barry Summerford on his Doctor Who debut. He'll return in The Ark in Space as a Body in Pallet, Genesis of the Daleks as an Elite Guard, Revenge of the Cybermen as a Vogan, Terror of the Zygons as Private Thurston, The Seeds of Doom as a UNIT Soldier, The Hand of Fear as a Security Guard, The Sun Makers as a Megro Guard, The Ribos Operation as a Shrieve, The Armageddon Factor as a Guard, The Creature from the Pit as a Guard and The Keeper of Traken as a Foster. He also should have been in Shada as Nero ! He was in the Doomwatchepisode Tomorrow, the Rat as a Man, Moonbase 3 as a Technician in Castor and Pollux & View of a Dead Planet and in Blake's 7 he plays a Federation Trooper in The Way Back, a Rebel in Pressure Point, a Rebel in Voice from the Past, a Customer / Gambler in Gambit, a Federation Commando in Volcano, a Monster in Dawn of the Gods and Tando in Blake, making him one of four actors to appear in the first and last episode of the series. He can also be seen in the Douglas Camfield adaption of Beau Geste as a Legionnaire.

According to the DWAS Production File Geoff Brighty is the actor should have been in Spearhead from Space as the car park attendant but was fired and replaced by producer Derrick Sherwin! He later appeared in Ambassadors of Death as a UNIT soldier and The Time Monster as a Roundhead returning as an Audience Member/Meditator in Planet of the Spiders. an SRS audience member in Robot and a body in pallet in Ark in Space. IMDB thinks he was in Moonbase 3 as a Technician in Outsiders.

Another crewmember is Ken Tracey, briefly seen in episode 1 as a dispatch rider, and Rory O’Connor, who later plays a Guest/Cricketer in Black Orchid.

The Operation Golden Age Women include Lyn Howard, who was a Woman Elder in The Savages and Judy Rodger, who returns as a Nurse in Armageddon Factor, a Passenger in Nightmare of Eden and a Middle-aged Lady Mawdryn Undead. Annet Peters later plays a Citizen in Pirate Planet, a Passenger in Nightmare of Eden, a Guide in The Leisure Hive and a Lazar in Terminus. In Fawlty Towers she's Mrs. Wareing in A Touch of Class and in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin she's a Woman in Restaurant in Hippopotamus. she later has a recurring role in Tenko as a Female Prisoner of War.

Driving General Finch's Land Rover is Robin Dixon, who I assume is from the vehicle hire company like the other drivers. The soldier in the Land Rover is Kevin Moran, who had been a UNIT Troop in The Time Monster, a Draconian in Frontier in Space and a Spiridon in Planet of the Daleks. He returns as an Exxilon in Death to the Daleks, an Ice Warrior in The Monster of Peladon and a Soldier/Brethren Guest in The Masque of Mandragora. In Doomwatch he plays a man in Flood.

Blink and you'll miss them, but there's two UNIT Soldiers with Brigadier & Benton at when they burst into Whitaker's control room. One is John Cash, who returns just once as a Guard in Planet of Spiders. The other is James Muir who had previously been a UNIT Soldier in The Time Monster. He returns as a Muto in Genesis of the Daleks, a UNIT Soldier in Terror of the Zygons, a Brother in The Masque of Mandragora, a Death Attendant in The Sun Makers, a Technician in The Pirate Planet, a Druid in The Stones of Blood, a Louvre Detective in City of Death, a Mandrel in Nightmare of Eden, then would have been the Man Fishing and a Krarg in Shada, after which he was seen as a Foamasi in The Leisure Hive, a Gaztak in Meglos, a Tharil in Warriors' Gate, a Police Driver in Black Orchid, a Policeman in Time Flight, an RAF Driver in Remembrance of the Daleks, . He'd been in Blake's 7 as a Federation Trooper in Seek-Locate-Destroy, a Phibian in Orac, a Rebel in Pressure Point, a Monster in Dawn of the Gods, a Link in Rescue, a Helot in Traitor, a Pirate Guard in Assassin & a Federation Trooper in Blake. He was the Vl'Hurg Leader in episode 4 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and was a technician in Moonbase 3: Castor and Pollux.

This episode features several locations seen earlier in the story: we start on Lindsey Street getting a good look at the main entrance to Spitalfields Markey.

We're then back at Elderberry Road Electricity Substation, seen in episodes 2 & 3 for the confrontation with General Finch.

The Brigadier and Doctor end up at Moorfields, used in episodes 1 & 4, just outside Moorgate station.

The Brigadier's comment here is rather amusing:

BRIGADIER: Well, I never thought I'd find myself blowing up a tube station. If you're wrong, Doctor, I'm going to have a job explaining this to London Transport.
DOCTOR: Well, don't worry, Brigadier, I'm never wrong. If we don't get down there, there won't be a London Transport to explain to.

Remember where The Brigadier first met The Doctor? Down in the Underground, while it was invaded by the Yeti in Web of Fear: there was a fair bit of trying to blow up tunnels and stations there!

The only new location in this episode is, like many in early episodes, found in Kingston Upon Thames, or rather on it's border with Richmond: The Doctor & Brigadier drive under the "brontosaur" at Riverside Drive in Ham.

The shots of the Land Rover approaching the dinosaur have the Richmond end of the road in the background, and the shots of the Dinosaur from their point of view have the Kingston end of the road in the background, yet the Dinosaur is facing to the right in both shots!

The residences to one side of the road are Ham itself while the ground to the other separates Ham from the River Thames on which is Teddington Lock, where Monty Python's Fish Slapping Song was filmed, and Teddington Studios, the home of Thames Television. It is also the closest location to Greycourt Court School where I had my secondary education.

This is Malcolm Hulke's last story for the show and is easily my favourite of the tales he wrote. He would novelise his tales, plus one of the Barry Letts/Robert Sloman stories The Green Death, for Target Books until his death on 6th July 1979. His adaptation of the War Games was published posthumously. A lifelong atheist with communist sympathies, Hulke left instructions that his funeral should have no religious songs or reading. Terrance Dicks recalls turning up and finding himself sitting there with a bunch of his friends unsure of what to do. After a few minutes his friend and fellow writer Eric Paice got up, slapped the coffin, said "Cheerio Mac" and wandered out with the other guests following!

The Invasion of the Dinosaurs was novelised by Malcolm Hulke as The Dinosaur Invasion and published on 19th February 1976. It had one of the shortest availabilities of any Doctor Who book with this cover and was rejacketed in 1978, the second book to get a new cover. My local library, near to several of the filming locations, had a copy and following it's withdrawal from lending it now sits on my bookshelves.

Invasion of the Dinosaurs was the final complete story to be released by BBC Worldwide on VHS, in 2003. It was released on DVD in January 2012 where it was paired with another favourite of mine, The Android Invasion, in the UNIT Box. Attempts were made to recolour episode one for release but, because the results weren't deemed as up to broadcast standard, both the best recolourisation and a black & white copy were included.

364 Invasion of the Dinosaurs Part Five

EPISODE: Invasion of the Dinosaurs: Part Five
OVERALL EPISODE NUMBER: 364
STORY NUMBER: 071
TRANSMITTED: Saturday 09 February 1974
WRITER: Malcolm Hulke
DIRECTOR: Paddy Russell
SCRIPT EDITOR: Terrance Dicks
PRODUCER: Barry Letts
RATINGS: 9 million viewers
FORMAT: DVD: Doctor Who - U.N.I.T Files: Invasion of the Dinosaurs and the Android Invasion
EPISODE FORMAT: 625 video

"There aren't any other ships. All this is a fake! We're not on a spaceship at all!"

Mark tells Sarah that the elders are thinking of killing her so she feigns co-operation to escape. Finch has the Doctor locked up but refuses to interrogate him. Captain Yates refuses to listen to him, ordering Benton to lock him up. The Doctor deduces Mike Yates is the traitor and Benton allows himself to be overpowered so the Doctor can escape. Whitaker demonstrates his ability to reverse time to Grover. Sarah attempts to escape through the spaceship's airlock. Finch threatens to court martial Benton. Finch orders the Doctor hunted down and killed. The Brigadier orders Benton to raise some UNIT troops. Sarah realises from her bruise that she's only been on ship a matter of hours and demonstrates to Mark the place is a fake. As the Doctor is pursued by troops Sarah escapes into the base but the lift she uses to escape takes her straight to Sir Charles Grover's office where she escapes. Returning to UNIT's temporary HQ she leaves a message for the Brigadier and takes General Finch back to the government offices where he pulls a gun on her and returns her to the underground base. Whitaker is ordered to produce a new wave of Monsters to clear London while Finch removes the troops. Grover explains he will use Whitaker's machines to roll back time taking the people on the "ships" back to an earlier age. The Doctor finds himself trapped between two battling Dinosaurs.......

It does look bleak for The Doctor at the start of the episode:

FINCH: All right. Captain Yates, take this man and lock him up.
BRIGADIER: Sir, aren't we going to question him first?
FINCH: There's no time for that now. I must report his capture to the Minister.
DOCTOR: Yes, and no doubt he'll be very pleased to hear it, since he arranged the whole thing.
FINCH: You are in an extremely dangerous position, Doctor. I advise you to keep silent.
DOCTOR: Oh, that's just what you want, isn't it, my silence?
BRIGADIER: We really should interrogate this man now, sir. Trying to discover his base, the names of his associates.
FINCH: All that can come later.
DOCTOR: Yes, well now that you've caught me, General, you can end the evacuation and return your eight million Londoners, can't you.
FINCH: That decision doesn't rest with me. It rests with the Prime Minister. Captain Yates?
YATES: Sir?
FINCH: Until further orders, you'll keep that man under close arrest. Come with me, Brigadier.
BRIGADIER: Sir?
FINCH: I want you with me when I make my report. Brigadier?
DOCTOR: Now listen to me, Mike. We haven't got much time. I want you to raise all the men you can muster and some kind of high explosive. Now I've got a pretty good idea where their base is.
YATES: Sergeant Benton?
BENTON: Sir?
YATES: Take the Doctor to a cell and lock him up.
BENTON: Sir?
YATES: Keep him under constant guard. He's to talk to no one.
DOCTOR: So it was you, Mike.
YATES: I'm sorry, Doctor. I'll be in the Brigadier's office.
BENTON: Right, that empty storeroom. Fix it up as a temporary cell. Check the lock on the door and do something about barring the windows. Oh, and put in a camp bed. Now move.

Fortunately Sergeant Benton still believes in him and quickly facilitates the Doctor's escape:

BENTON: All right, Doctor, what's going on?
DOCTOR: Captain Yates is the man inside who's working against us.
BENTON: Come on, Doctor.
DOCTOR: I'm afraid it's true.
BENTON: Well, what about the Brigadier?
DOCTOR: What indeed?
BENTON: Right then, Doctor, you'd better get busy.
DOCTOR: What?
BENTON: You'd better start overpowering me, hadn't you. You know, a bit of your Venusian oojah?
DOCTOR: Thank you, Sergeant Benton.
DOCTOR: Are you ready?
BENTON: Yeah!

Unfortunately this doesn't win him any favours with General Finch:

BENTON: There was nothing I could do, sir. He attacked me.
FINCH: Were there no guards?
BENTON: I'd sent them off to fix up a cell, sir.
FINCH: What do you mean, he attacked you? There isn't a mark on you.
BRIGADIER: The Doctor uses a rather unique form of unarmed combat, sir.
FINCH: You'll be court martialled, Sergeant. Brigadier?
BRIGADIER: Sir?
FINCH: I'm instituting a full scale search for the Doctor at once. I shall want the full cooperation of you and your men. They are to shoot on sight. Meanwhile, put this man under arrest. Captain Yates.

However with the General now out the way The Brigadier shows his true colours:

BRIGADIER: Well, don't just stand there, Benton. Go and put yourself under arrest.
BENTON: Sir?
BRIGADIER: Where's the Doctor gone?
BENTON: To that underground place, I think, sir.
BRIGADIER: Then we've got to find him before General Finch does. Get the men ready.
BENTON: Right, sir.

Things go down hill a bit after that as Sarah does the escape/recapture routine while the Doctor spends the entire episode running around and evading the the troops on Wimbledon Common!

This location is close to where the Doctor picked up Dodo in the closing moments of the Massacre. In fact Dodo's first full story, The Ark, also features the human race in deep sleep being shipped off to a new planet like the people in the ships believe is happening to them here. It's a theme the show will return again to shortly in the Ark in Space.

The Army Soldiers hunting the Doctor on Wimbledon Common is mainly made up of the same soldiers who captured him with Corporal Norton in Kingston during episode 1, recorded later the same day. Heading the patrol is a Corporal played by Mike Stevens who I've not located on IMDB. He had previously been UNIT Soldier in Ambassadors of Death, an Auton Daffodil Man Terror of the Autons, a Prisoner, Motor Cyclist & UNIT Soldier in Mind of Evil, an IMC Guard & Primitive in Colony in Space, a Guard in Curse of Peladon, a Castle Guard, Sailor, Stunt Diver & Sea Devil in The Sea Sea Devils and a stuntman Unit Trooper in The Time Monster.

Their driver once again is Colin Hamilton, from the vehicle rental firm, with regular extra and Dalek Cy Town riding in the back of the jeep and sneaking a cigarette while on patrol.

Kelly Varney is the final member of the patrol, unseen in the land rover.

The helicopter seeking The Doctor was not recorded for the program but is on location is stock footage of unknown origin.

The Doctor's escape starts on White Street & The Straight in Southall, both seen in earlier episodes.

The ruined warehouse he hides in is on the nearby Southall Gas Works site and features in many 70s TV programs. The Army Soldiers in the jeep searching for the Doctor are Pat Milner & Steve Ismay, who we saw fighting a dinosaur during episode two, and Corporal Leslie Bates with Driver Ted Heath: all four were patrolling the Gas Works in a Land Rover during episode 1.

Finally at the end of the episode we're back on Lindsey Street, seen in episode four.

Three soldiers are seen in the studio: The UNIT Soldier on the left of the captive Doctor is regular Leslie Bates, corporal in the jeep pursuing the Doctor at the Gas Works, while on the right is Brian Nolan. Both were in previous episodes of this story - see episode 1 for their prior credits - and this is probably our best look at both actors!

Colin Bell plays Private Bryson, the soldier who talks to Sarah-Jane on her return to the near deserted UNIT HQ. He was C.P.O. Summers in The Sea Devils. The DWAS Production File says Bryson should have been George Bryson, who played Private Ogden the radio operator in episodes 1 & 2. Should Bryson have actually been Ogden, played by the same actor, then when the actor was unavailable the character was renamed after the original actor?

Doctor Who likes Invasion stories. The word has been used several times over the years in story titles:

The Dalek Invasion of Earth
The Web Planet 5: Invasion
The Invasion
Invasion of the Dinosaurs
The Android Invasion (These last two are paired in January 2012's UNIT box)
The Invasion of Time

The day before this episode was transmitted it was revealed to the press that Jon Pertwee would be leaving Doctor Who at the end of the Eleventh season. A week later his successor was unveiled: a little known actor called Tom Baker who we will hear more about shortly.....