171 The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode Two

EPISODE: The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode Two
OVERALL EPISODE NUMBER: 171
STORY NUMBER: 037
TRANSMITTED: Saturday 09 September 1967
WRITER: Kit Pedler & Gerry Davis
DIRECTOR: Morris Barry
SCRIPT EDITOR: Victor Pemberton
PRODUCER: Peter Bryant
RATINGS: 6.4 million viewers
FORMAT: DVD: Doctor Who Revisitations 3: The Tomb of the Cybermen, The Three Doctors & The Robots of Death

"You belong to us. You shall be like us."

The Doctor repeats what Jamie's done revealing that Haydon was shot in the back by a gun that emerged from the wall and that the "Cyberman" was just a robotic target for the weapon. The Doctor identifies the Silverfish creature as a Cybermat. Parry decides to abandon the expedition in the wake of the second death, but Captain Hopper arrives with bad news:

PARRY:Ah, Captain Hopper. Just the man. Can you be ready to blast off at eighteen forty two?
HOPPER: No.
PARRY: I beg your pardon? Did I hear you right? You are paid to take orders, Captain Hopper.
HOPPER: Not impossible ones, I'm not. It's the fuel pumps. Some character has balled up the lot.
DOCTOR: Or something.
HOPPER: Well, whatever it is, it's practically wrecked our chances of getting off this crummy planet.

Klieg, with more help from the Doctor, opens the main door to the underground chambers. They go bellow leaving Victoria & Kaftan behind. Kaftan drugs Victoria's coffee causing her to sleep and then reseals the main hatch. Klieg starts the sequence to free the Cybermen from their icy tombs. Viner reverses the process but is shot & killed by Klieg who starts the sequence again.

JAMIE: You know, Doctor, I have a feeling that man's planned it all. He knew that that control wouldn't open the hatch.
DOCTOR: So did I, Jamie.
JAMIE: You knew, Doctor?
DOCTOR: I wanted to know what he was up to.
KLIEG: And now you know, Doctor.
PARRY: We know nothing. This is the action of a lunatic.
KLIEG: Lunatic? Not at all, Professor. A necessary detail, that's all.
PARRY: But why?
KLIEG: Logic, my dear Professor, logic and power. On Earth the Brotherhood of Logicians is the greatest man intelligence ever assembled. But that's not enough by itself. We need power. Power to put our ability into action. The Cybermen have this power. I have come here to find it and use it.
PARRY: So that was your motive in financing my expedition.
KLIEG: Precisely. Your complete lack of administration made it ideal for our purpose.
DOCTOR: You think the Cybermen will help you?
KLIEG: Of course. I shall be their resurrector.

Victoria awakens, and with the aid of the reactivating Cybermat overpowers Kaftan and flees to find Captain Hopper. The reactivated Cybermen corner the visitors and free their leader from the Tombs.

JAMIE: What is it?
DOCTOR: I think it's their leader, their Controller, Jamie.

KLIEG: I am Klieg. Eric Klieg. I have brought you back to life. We of the Logicians have planned this. You are alive because of us. Now you will help us. We need your power. You need our mass intelligence. Are you listening? Do you understand me? Now that I have released you.

KLIEG: Aaah! Let me go! I set you free! It was our plan!

CONTROLLER: You belong to us. You shall be like us.

Back to the real menace of the Cybermen at the end, that we can be converted loosing everything that makes us who we are to become like them. Chilling.

For most of the episode we're still doing The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, exploring the Cybermen's deserted city, but let's throw in a bit of "Something frozen in the Ice" from The Thing from Another World to spice it up a bit as the Cybermen, our Mummys, awake from their frozen tomb.

The tombs themselves, built in Ealing with a smaller version of the lower levels replicated in the studio is an impressive structure, but the way it's presented in the story makes it look a bit of a singular structure. To see it repeated away to the edge of the screens would have made you feel there were many more Cybermen present.

The production team are so fond of the sequence of the ice melting that they do it twice plus an extra in reverse for good measure! The Cybermen bursting through the membranes adorned with the Cyberhead logo we've seen elsewhere is a wonderful sequence, replicated in several future stories, and thankfully preserved in colour thanks to some publicity photos. I can remember one turning up in the 1982 Doctor who summer special when I was younger!

The emergence from the tomb is accompanied by Martin Slavin's Space Adventure part 2, a theme for the Cybermen used in both the Tenth Planet and The Moonbase. This is it's last use with the Cybermen but it returns later when Douglas Camfield uses it during a Yeti battle in The Web of Fear. It feel odd to hear it used with another monster there! Also heard in this episode, quietly under various scenes in the control room, is Ultra Sonic Perception: Suspended Animation by Eric Siday

Kaftan and Klieg stand quite clearly revealed as the villains of the piece now. First we have this exchange between Kaftan and her servant Toberman:

KAFTAN: Well?
TOBERMAN: It is done.
KAFTAN: Good.

A little while later Captain Hopper shows up to tell them the ship is damaged and right the later part of this exchange Toberman can be stood behind the Doctor grinning sinisterly, making it clear he's responsible!

Then Kaftan drugs Victoria, allowing her to seal the hatch to the tombs, trapping the rest of the party inside! The revived Victoria only escapes thanks to the intervention of the Cybermat she put in her bag awakening. Although having overpower Kaftan she's right to go and seek help but should she really have put the captured gun down by her unconscious prisoner?

In the Tomb panic has set in for one member of the party allowing Klieg to put his plan into effect as he start the procedure to awaken the Cybermen.

VINER: It's closed. What have they done that for? What are they playing at up there?
DOCTOR: Perhaps it wasn't them. Where's Jamie?
VINER: He went up the ladder to try it. Professor. Professor, listen to me, for heaven's sake! The hatch is down again. We're trapped down here.
PARRY: Trapped? But there are some of my party up there. Are you sure?
VINER: Of course I'm sure. You know how heavy that thing is. It's down now. We must do something. I give us a couple of hours in here at the most.
DOCTOR: Mister Klieg doesn't seem to be very worried.
KLIEG: No, I'm not, Doctor.
JAMIE: It won't open and I can't make anybody hear.
VINER: There you are.
KLIEG: There is an easy way out of our situation.
VINER: You've found something?
KLIEG: Of course you're forgetting your logic. If it closes it can be opened, from here.
DOCTOR: Conveniently labelled in symbolic logic, I notice.
KLIEG: Right, are we ready? I shall now operate the sequence.
DOCTOR: If it is the opening device.
KLIEG: It's obviously an opening device of some kind, Doctor.
VINER: I don't know how you can be so blasted calm about it all!

Once again the Doctor seems to have suspicions about what Klieg's doing which are very quickly proved right!

The main guest star for this series is Cyprus born George Pastell who plays Erik Klieg. Pastell was a regular of Hammer Film Productions. In fact he appeared in the aforementioned Curse of the Mummy's Tomb! He'd also been in the James Bond film From Russia with Love as the Orient Express train conductor. On the small screen he was in the first broadcast Out of the Unknown episode No Place Like Earth as Major Khan which still exists and you can see in the Out of the Unknown DVD Set.

Cast as Kaftan is Shirley Cooklin who was then the wife of acting producer Peter Bryant. She won't be the last "spouse of the producer" to appear in Doctor Who either. Curiously one of the other roles in her CV is in the Z-Cars episode The Placer: Part 1 which is directed by Douglas Camfield who cast his wife in Doctor Who three times when he was directing!

The giant Toberman is played by Roy Stewart who'd already been in The Crusade: The Warlords as a Saracen warrior. He'll be back as circus strongman Tony in Terror of the Autons. He too was in the opening Out of the Unknown episode No Place Like Earth where he plays a Security guard. His most famous role is in the Bond film Live and Let Die where he plays Quarrel but you can also find him in Space: 1999 as the Tall alien in cave in The Metamorph and in the Rentaghost Christmas Special Rentasanta, the last episode featuring the original cast, where he plays Djinn. This Blog has some screencaps from this episode, sadly not showing Stewart, but featuring some recycled costumes from a later Doctor Who story! I have fond memories of this piece of madness and would love to see it again even though the introduction of Dobbin the Pantomime Donkey in it is seen by some as the point where the series goes wrong!

Playing expedition leader Professor Parry is Aubrey Richards. He's appeared twice in The Avengers as Dr. Palmer in The Gravediggers and Professor Witney in Game: as you can see he made a living for playing those in academia! He can also be found in Doomwatch: The Red Sky as Bernard Colley and I, Claudius: Queen of Heaven as Varro.

The nervous John Viner is a first Doctor who role for Cyril Shaps who'll be back as Dr. Lennox in The Ambassadors of Death, the ill fated Prof. Herbert Clegg in the first episode of Planet of the Spiders and the Archimandrite in The Androids of Tara, his only role which survives the story he appears in! He has an Out of the Unknown to his name appearing as Dr. Duval in the missing second season episode Too Many Cooks. He plays the convict Jackdaw in the Porridge episode The Harder They Fall and Turner in The Sweeney episode May. He's briefly onscreen in the Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me as Dr. Bechmann, one of the two scientists killed in the helicopter explosion near the start. He was in the fondly remembered children's series Into the Labyrinth as Kadru in Cave of Diamonds and famed early 80s comedy The Young Ones as the Old Man Next Door in Demolition. I saw him in the cinema in Erik the Viking as Gisli the Chiseller. One of his later roles is in Dark Season, the future Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies Children's series, as Mr. Polzinski in the first three episodes.

George Roubicek, Captain Hopper, also has a prominent role in 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me as the Stromberg One Captain. In the same year he appears uncredited in Star Wars as Commander Praji, one of the Imperial Officers who board the Rebel Blockade Runner at the start of Star Wars

Here's how Tomb of the Cybermen's return to the BBC came about: In 1991 Asia TV in Hong Kong conducted an audit of their film library and discovered a number of films cans produced by the BBC. They contacted the BBC Film & Video library saying they had a number of episodes of Softly, Softly and 4 of Doctor Who: would they like them back. Yes please says the BBC F&VL. The films never arrived there. They were sent back to BBC Enterprises, the BBC's commercial arm responsible for overseas sales and domestic video releases, who had sold the films to Asia TV, then called Hong Kong Television, in the first place. Enterprise opened the package, discovered it was serial MM, looked it up on a list and found they were holding the missing Tomb of the Cybermen.

Enterprises now had a problem: They knew a repeat season of Doctor Who was being organised for 1992 (it launched with a special documentary, Resistance is Useless and the Hartnell serial The Time Meddler). If they returned the film prints to to the Film & Video library they would almost certainly be used for the Troughton story. But if they hung on to them they could release them quickly onto video and reap the profits of an exclusive video release for a missing story. They let the Film & Video library know they had them but, since they were Enterprise's property anyway, that the F&VL could have them when Enterprises were finished with them. Word had leaked out that there were some returned films knocking around so a cover story was put about that they were merely duplicate prints of An Unearthly Child. When the Mind Robber was confirmed as being the Troughton story in the BBC2 repeat season the recovery of Tomb of the Cybermen was confirmed to the world.

For more details see pages 223-226 of Wiped! Doctor Who's Missing Episodes by Richard Molesworth or pages 233-236 of the revised edition

170 The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode One

EPISODE: The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode One
OVERALL EPISODE NUMBER: 170
STORY NUMBER: 037
TRANSMITTED: Saturday 02 September 1967
WRITER: Kit Pedler & Gerry Davis
DIRECTOR: Morris Barry
SCRIPT EDITOR: Victor Pemberton
PRODUCER: Peter Bryant
RATINGS: 6 million viewers
FORMAT: DVD: Doctor Who Revisitations 3: The Tomb of the Cybermen, The Three Doctors & The Robots of Death

"The tombs of the Cybermen must be below ground, together with all their records. If we can't get down there, all our work here and the sacrifice of that unfortunate fellow's life will go in vain."

Welcome to Doctor Who season 5, the famous season of monsters, reckoned by some to be the greatest season of Doctor Who ever. And what away to start: A Troughton story that exists in it's entirety! Huzzah! We're on DVD too!

We kick off with another great "Start the series by explaining everything" scene where the Doctor claims to be 450 years old! On the planet Telos Professor Parry's expedition have blasted free rock revealing the doors to the city. Kaftan, partner of the expedition's financier Kleig offers a reward for the first man to open the doors. A crewman tries and is electrocuted. The Tardis lands and it's crew are swiftly found & apprehended. The expedition are explaining they are searching for the remains of the Cybermen. Jamie and Victoria are keen to leave.

DOCTOR: I'm afraid that that became impossible the moment that name was mentioned.
VICTORIA: What name?
DOCTOR: Cybermen.

The Doctor first checks that the electrical charge on the door has been diffused and then gets Toberman, Kaftan's servant, to open the doors to the city. The Doctor uses the logic controls to open the two inner doors leaving the central hatch closed.

Eric Klieg: Doctor, you seem to be very familiar with this place.
The Doctor: Oh no, not really, um, it's all based on symbolic logic, the same as you use in computers. The opening mechanism to this door, an or-gate you call it.
Eric Klieg: Yes yes, I can see that, but how did you know in the first place?
The Doctor: Oh, I used my own special technique.
Eric Klieg: Oh really Doctor, and may we know what that is?
The Doctor: Keeping my eyes open and my mouth shut.

Klieg is left to try to open the door. Victoria, Kaftan & Viner find a room containing equipment to revitalise Cybermen. Jamie & Haydon find a room with a dead metallic giant silverfish like creature in. Klieg is defeated by the equations necessary to open the central hatch but the Doctor points him towards a solution. Kaftan causes Victoria to be trapped in the Revitalising machine. Haydon ties some controls in their room causing a hypnotic pattern to appear. The Doctor tried to release Victoria. Jamie is hypnotised by the pattern but Haydon turns it off. They think it's a target range. They run the program again as the Doctor frees Victoria. The Doctor runs into the room Jamie's in as a Cyberman figure appears from nowhere and Haydon is shot, his smoking body falling to the floor.

It's "Doctor Who does Curse of the Mummy's Tomb". Obviously inspired by the Howard Carter "Tutankhamun" expedition and Mummy horror films this episode is exactly that: penetrate an ancient tomb, only on an alien planet rather than in Egypt, and work out how to get through the sealed doors and past the traps. Of course in the horror films once you find the Mummy it wakes up and rises from it's tomb so I think we can guess what's going to happen.

Troughton's superb in this, lots of great lines baiting Klieg who he takes an instant dislike to.

DOCTOR: We shall stay and help you with your search.
KLIEG: Perhaps we don't want your help.
DOCTOR: That's just it, you so obviously do

It's a Cyberman story so back come Kit Pedler & Gerry Davis to write and also returning is director Morris Barry who helmed their previous appearance in the Moonbase becoming the first person to direct The Cybermen twice. Behind the scenes it's musical chairs as Producer Innes Lloyd temporarily vacates his chair in favour of script editor Peter Bryant getting a trial story as producer. His role is then filled by his assistant Victor Pemberton who had appeared in The Cybermen's previous story The Moonbase as Scientist Jules Faure.

A significant amount of this episode was filmed on location with Gerrard's Cross Quarry providing the surface of Telos. These sequences were filmed 12th June 1967 enabling shirt sleeves to be worn and giving the impression of a warm clime, similar to the Egypt that Carter would have experienced. The same quarry serves as the surface of Dulkis in The Dominators, a later Second Doctor before appearing as Jaconda in the Sixth Doctor's first story The Twin Dilemma. It's final appearance is in the very next story, Attack of the Cybermen, where it's once again the surface of Telos.

But Telos isn't the only alien planet in this episode: the start of the episode is set on Skaro, the only time both planets appear in the same story, as an Epilogue to Evil of the Daleks where the Doctor and Jamie rescue the orphaned Victoria and bring her into the Tardis for the first time giving the series another opportunity to restate the basics of what it's about:

VICTORIA: I don't know. I can't believe it. It's so big. Where are we?
DOCTOR: Oh, it's the Tardis. It's my home. At least, it has been for a considerable number of years.
VICTORIA: What are all these knobs?
DOCTOR: What, these?
JAMIE: Instruments. These are for controlling our flight.
VICTORIA: Flight?
JAMIE: Well, yes. You see, we travel around in here through time and space.
DOCTOR: Oh no, no, no, no. Don't laugh. It's true. Your father and Maxtible were working on the same problem, but I have perfected a rather special model, which enables me to travel through the universe of time.
VICTORIA: How can you? I mean, if what you say is true then you must be, er, well, how old?
DOCTOR: Well, if we count in Earth terms, I suppose I must be about four hundred, yes, about four hundred and fifty years old. Yes, well, quite. Now, I think Victoria might find that dress a little impracticable if she's going to join us in our adventures. Jamie, show her where she can find some new ones, will you?
JAMIE: Aye, right. This way, Victoria. Try to give us a smooth take off, Doctor? We don't want to frighten her.
DOCTOR: A smooth take off? A smooth take off! What a nerve!

I'm pretty certain I've seen the hypnotic targeting effect in this episode used in an old 1960s episode of Top of the Pops!

The metallic creature Jamie finds on the floor will become significant later in the story, but it's worth noting this is the first appearance of a Cybermat, albeit a small one, in Doctor Who.

KLIEG: Well, the basis of this code is binary to digital conversion with a intervening step involving a sort of Whitehead logic.
Well, when this Burrier series is complete, there is no more to be done.
DOCTOR: Yes, but why do it at all?

The Whitehead Logic mentioned in this piece of dialogue is an in joke, a nod to Reg Whitehead who has appeared in both Cybermen stories so far. He'll be along shortly....

But some of the cast for this story aren't with us for all of it. Bernard Holley played the already deceased Peter Haydon and will return as an Axon in The Claws of Axos. He'd already been in the now missing Out of the Unknown episode 1+1=1.5 as a TV Announcer and would later appear in the second series of The Tripods as The Power Master. From my childhood I can recall him in the Children's educational series Eureka produced by former Doctor Who vision mixer Clive Doig and alongside future Doctor Who actor Sylvester McCoy. More recently you may have seen him as the Chief Constable in A Touch of Frost who has a liking for the rogue Inspector. You can hear him interviewed by Toby Hadoke in Who's Round 41.

I don't know anything about Alan Johns who plays Ted Rogers, bar that director Morris Barry also used him on a Z-Cars episode that same year, but I am required by law to do a 3-2-1 joke at this point.

Doctor Who got a new opening title sequence during The Macra Terror and new opening music during The Faceless Ones. Now the end credits catches up with the opening titles in having the updated version of the music.

There's some recognisable music in the episode too: Paul Bonneau's Sideral Univers is heard during the surface sequences: this track can be found on Doctor Who: The 50th Anniversary Collection 4CD set. Meanwhile Eric Siday's Galaxy from Ultra Sonic Perception is heard as they enter main room in the city. Various tracks from Ultra Sonic Perception have been heard before in the series but this is the first time this track has been used.

Tomb of the Cybermen is currently the earliest complete surviving Troughton story. But it wasn't always this way. We've just finished season 4, of which no complete story exists and there's only 10 episodes remaining. Season 5, the famous season of monsters, was once in much worse shape. At one point just two episodes remained from season 5: The Enemy of the World 3 and the final episode, Wheel in Space 6. Over the years many were returned till at the end of 1991 the BBC's holdings for season 5 consisted of the following:

Story	#Episodes	#Existing	Which Exist	When Found	What Were Missing
The Tomb of the Cybermen	4	0			1-4
The Abominable Snowmen	6	1	2	returned from collector 1982	1, 3-6
The Ice Warriors	6	4	1 & 4-6	all found in a cupboard at the BBC in August 1988	2 & 3
The Enemy of the World	6	1	3	always present	1, 2 & 4-6
The Web of Fear	6	1	1	returned 1978	2-6
Fury from the Deep	6	0			1-6
The Wheel in Space	6	2	3, 6	3 returned from collector in 1984 6 always present	1, 2, 4 & 5

That's nine episodes present, but still not a complete story (both the same as season 4) and nothing at all from either Tomb of the Cybermen or Fury from the Deep. Then in December 1991 the Film & Video library had a phone call from Asia TV in Hong Kong....

169 The Evil of the Daleks: Episode Seven

EPISODE: The Evil of the Daleks: Episode Seven
OVERALL EPISODE NUMBER: 169
STORY NUMBER: 036
TRANSMITTED: Saturday 01 July 1967
WRITER: David Whitaker
DIRECTOR: Derek Martinus and Timothy Combe
SCRIPT EDITOR: Peter Bryant
PRODUCER: Innes Lloyd
RATINGS: 6.1 million viewers
FORMAT: CD: Doctor Who: The Lost TV Episodes Volume Four(1967)
TELESNAPS: The Evil of the Daleks: Episode Seven

"The Daleks must not, cannot be destroyed. The race will survive! The Daleks will live and rule forever!"

In the Dalek city, Daleks start to question the orders they have been given. Maxtible is lured out of his cell with the promise of the transmutation machine he craves but passes through an arch that puts the Dalek Factor into him. The Doctor is hypnotised and likewise seemingly converted but the process fails because he isn't human. The Doctor converts the machine to inject the Human factor and then gets the Emperor to order the Daleks through it because the Daleks the human factor has spread from the other three Daleks. The two Dalek factions quickly end up battling each other. Waterfield is killed saving the Doctor's life, while Maxtible kills Kemel. The fighting spreads to the Emperors chamber causing him and the city to be destroyed. Jamie rescues Victoria as the Doctor escapes from the city.

JAMIE: Doctor.
DOCTOR: Jamie, Jamie!
JAMIE: A Dalek nearly caught us, but I tossed it over the edge. But, poor Kemel.
DOCTOR: Kemel?
JAMIE: Aye. You see, he was trying.
VICTORIA: Where is my father? Is he dead?
DOCTOR: Yes. Yes, I'm afraid he is. But he didn't die in vain. I think we've seen the end of the Daleks forever. Jamie, we must get along to the Tardis. It's over there.
JAMIE: We can't leave her alone, Doctor.
DOCTOR: We're not going to leave her. She's coming with us. The end. The final end.

Another final episode where it all goes bang bang bang and everything happens at once leaving everyone dead bar the Doctor and his old & new companions. It's another episode where you suspect we're not getting the full benefit of the episode with just the soundtrack but fortunately model and effect sequences from this episode survive as part of the Last Dalek 8mm film and can be found on several Doctor Who DVDs including Doctor Who - Lost In Time.

These give us a really good look at the Emperor prop and in the process show us the final appearance of Dalek Dome 2 with it's repaired broken neck ring. Thrown out by the BBC following this story it was salvaged by Bernard Wilkie, one of the heads of the special effects department and repaired. It is now in the possession of film director Peter Jackson, a big Doctor Who fan.

We're joined by a fifth Dalek operator for this episode as Ken Tyllssen, previously a Sensorite in The Sensorites and a Mechanoid fighting the Daleks in the Chase, makes his one and only appearance inside a Dalek casing.

The full size props are supplemented by Louis Marx Daleks in several model sequences in the battle.

It wouldn't be the last time these Daleks appeared in Doctor Who either, they return forming the bulk of the frozen Dalek army in Planet of the Daleks.

The function of Evil as as a story is to provide a final end for the Daleks removing them from the series so Terry Nation could launch them in their own series. Unfortunately that plan goes awry and the Daleks do return but not for a few years in the program's life, their longest break from the show. While we see the city Daleks killed we now know there's the possibility of others surviving elsewhere in space. The only thing is the last of, in Dalek terms, is the use of Peter Hawkins for their voice. He'd been with the show since it's second serial but when the Daleks returned they had new voice artists before returning to his co-worker here, Roy Skelton, in Planet of the Daleks. Hawkins has two more Doctor who voices yet to come, as The Cybermen in Tomb of the Cybermen and Wheel in Space before making an encore appearance as a Dalek Voice in the missing third season Out of the Unknown episode Get Off Of My Cloud. And in amongst all the chaos here we get a little tiny hint to the Doctor's own origins as he speaks to Victoria:

VICTORIA: What are you thinking?
DOCTOR: I'm trying to puzzle out a problem, Victoria. The Daleks say I'm going to do something for them. Something I would rather die than do.
VICTORIA: Perhaps they think you're like him.
DOCTOR: Oh, no. The Daleks know me well enough by this time.
VICTORIA: They intend to persuade you then.
DOCTOR: Oh no, no, it isn't that either. You see, there isn't a persuasion strong enough. Not even the offer of all the lives in this room.
VICTORIA: I see.
DOCTOR: Five lives against a whole planet? Well, it's not a choice, is it?
VICTORIA: No.
DOCTOR: Even if I could trust the Daleks, even if they set us free, we still couldn't go back to Earth. I suppose I might try and take you all to another universe. I might even try and take you to my own planet.
VICTORIA: Your own?
DOCTOR: Yes, yes, I live a long, long way away from Earth.

More will follow in the next story, The Tomb of the Cybermen.

Evil of the Daleks has the distinction of being the first full Doctor Who story to be repeated when it was shown on the 8th June - 3rd August 1968, plugging the gaps between seasons 5 & 6. It was introduced at the end of heel in Space by a small amount of footage from the close of episode 1 of Evil of the Daleks, while the start of episode 1 of Evil included some dialogue from the Doctor and his then companion Zoe setting the scene. The first story of season 6, The Dominators, then makes reference to the Doctor being tired from having mentally projected this earlier tale for his new companion!

Conversely Evil of the Daleks was the last original series story novelised. It appeared in 1993 and was written by John Peel who tackled many of the outstanding sixties Dalek stories. This left five stories un-novelised for Target books: The Pirate Planet, City of Death, Shada, Resurrection of the Daleks and Revelation of the Daleks. Three are Douglas Adams stories, two are Eric Saward Dalek stories.

Most modern fans first exposure to this story was the tape version of the soundtrack was released in 1992 with narration by Fourth Doctor Tom Baker, which topped the spoken word charts for sometime. A CD version was issued in 2004 with narration by Fraser Hines, who plays Jamie.

Only episode two of this story exists to watch and it was released on video in 1992 as part of The Daleks: The Early Years with Dalek Masterplan 5 & 10, Counterplot and Escape Switch, then the only surviving episodes of that tale. All 3 episodes were released on DVD in 2014 as part of Doctor Who - Lost In Time.

This also brings us to the end of the fourth season if Doctor Who, the only one without a complete story. It used to share this distinction with season five, but it doesn't any more! So when we return on 2nd September 1967 we'll be starting season five by watching the first episode of the first complete story since the War Machines!

168 The Evil of the Daleks: Episode Six

EPISODE: The Evil of the Daleks: Episode Six
OVERALL EPISODE NUMBER: 168
STORY NUMBER: 036
TRANSMITTED: Saturday 24 June 1967
WRITER: David Whitaker
DIRECTOR: Derek Martinus and Timothy Combe
SCRIPT EDITOR: Peter Bryant
PRODUCER: Innes Lloyd
RATINGS: 6.8 million viewers
FORMAT: CD: Doctor Who: The Lost TV Episodes Volume Four(1967)
TELESNAPS: The Evil of the Daleks: Episode Six

"You will take the Dalek factor. You will spread it to the entire history of Earth!"

The three new Daleks continue to play with the Doctor engaging him in a game of trains pushing him round the room. The Doctor explains that he and Jamie are their friends and gives them name & a marking: Alpha, Beta & Omega. All the Daleks are recalled to Skaro. Maxtible tells Waterfield Victoria has been released and Waterfield searches for her while Maxtible packs a bag. He discovers a device on the floor: a Dalek Time bomb. He is dismayed that the Daleks intend to destroy his lab. Waterfield returns and attacks Maxtible but Maxtible knocks him out and leaves with the last Dalek. The Doctor & Jamie find Waterfield and jury rig the time machine to follow the Daleks, disappearing as the bomb detonates. Victoria & Kemel are held in a cell on Skaro: Maxtible visits them before leaving with a Dalek. The Doctor, Jamie & Waterfield have arrived outside the city. The Doctor finds a tunnel to the interior. Maxtible encounters a black domed Dalek, angry at his failure to bring The Doctor to Skaro. An alarm sounds: intruders are detected. Dalek Omega is found by another black domed Dalek and taken away. Victoria is taken away by the Daleks and screams, attracting the attention of the Doctor's party who then meet Dalek Omega in the corridor. Dalek Omega is a fake, which the Doctor detects pushing it off a ledge to it's doom. The Doctor's party reach the Dalek control room where they encounter the giant Emperor Dalek.

EMPEROR: Doctor!
JAMIE: Look at the size of that thing.
EMPEROR: So, you are the Doctor.
DOCTOR: We meet at last. I wondered if we ever would.
EMPEROR: The experiment is over.
DOCTOR: Yes, I have implanted the human factor in the three Daleks that you gave me. When I say run, run!
EMPEROR: Speak louder.
DOCTOR: Promise me, Jamie. I was merely telling my friend that the day of the Daleks is coming to an end.
EMPEROR: Explain.
DOCTOR: It's very simple. Somewhere in the Dalek race there are three Daleks with the human factor. Gradually, they will come to question. They will persuade other Daleks to question. You will have a rebellion on your planet!
EMPEROR: No.
DOCTOR: I say yes. I've beaten you and I don't care what you do to me now.
EMPEROR: Silence. The human factor showed us what the Dalek factor was.
DOCTOR: What?
JAMIE: What does that mean?
EMPEROR: Without knowing, you have shown the Daleks what their own strength is.
WATERFIELD: While you were doing one thing, they were really making you do another.
EMPEROR: The human factor is useless.
DOCTOR: You still have those three Daleks to contend with.
EMPEROR: They will be impregnated with the Dalek factor. Your discovery, but your work is not over.
DOCTOR: I won't work for you.
EMPEROR: You will obey!
JAMIE: What is the Dalek factor?
DOCTOR: You want me to guess? It means to obey, to fight, to destroy, to exterminate. I won't do it.
EMPEROR: Watch!

JAMIE: The Tardis, Doctor!
EMPEROR: You will take the Dalek factor. You will spread it to the entire history of Earth!

Thus does the Dalek plan stand revealed. It's a bit like a typical Cyberman plan: over complicated and a bit rubbish. Can't they can easily travel in time themselves distributing the Dalek factor? So what do they need the Doctor for?

The child Daleks are great, a contrast to the usual Dalek behaviour and unlike the servant Daleks in Power absolutely genuine. But no sooner are they introduced then they disappear, recalled to Skaro, Not Skaros, take note Mr Maxtible! In fact this whole episode is VERY fast moving and lots packed in with the Child Daleks, Bomb, arriving on Skaro, and meeting the Emperor. You feel some of this material could have been given a little bit more space and longer on screen compared to some of the things that dragged in earlier episodes.

And finally, after six episodes hunting for it, The Doctor & Jamie find the Tardis! Still a bit of work to do before they can get it back though!

We get to see the Dalek Emperor on screen for the first time here. There's been a Dalek Emperor in the comics for ages, a gold Dalek with a sphere shaped dome replacing the existing dome and neck. Many people later speculated that the Emperor might be Davros, TV creator of the Daleks, and in a self fulfilling prophecy the white domed but armless Emperor of Remembrance of the Daleks is revealed to be Davros.

A Dalek Emperor is seen in the new series too in Bad Wolf & Parting of the Ways but that one's obviously a Dalek. You can't be sure when this story is set in Dalek chronology but my guess is this Emperor isn't Davros. If I had to point a figure at someone I'd be looking at the Dalek leader in Genesis of the Daleks.

When I first blogged these episodes I had been listening to many of these audio only episode while out and about on buses and trains: Evil 6 was heard while travelling from Kingston to Richmond to get some lunch (very nice Dim Sum, thank you. Why can't you get Dim Sum in Swindon?) On the way back a chap sitting opposite me on the bus was wearing a Salvador Dalek T-Shirt, parodying the famous Dali painting of the melting clock! An odd coincidence!

So for the first time since The Daleks we're definitely back on Skaro. There's a chance it might have appeared in The Space Museum & The Chase but the Dalek's base planet is unnamed there and could easily be Kembel or something else. We get to see, both inside and out, a new version of the Daleks' city and because we get to see inside it it's a return for the familiar heartbeat sound of the Dalek control room noise.

Skaro means yet more Daleks so we're joined by a fourth Dalek operator: Murphy Grumbar. Under his original acting name of Peter Murphy he appeared in the Daleks and the Dalek Invasion of Earth before appearing as a Mechanoid in the Chase under his revised name. He'll be back in Day of the Daleks, Frontier in Space, Planet of the Daleks and Death to the Daleks as well as playing Arcturus in Curse of Peladon.

There's a new type of Dalek here too: Silver ones with a Black dome. Their actual function isn't stated in the story but they're frequently described as Emperor Dalek Guards. When the Emperor returned in the new series he too had normal Daleks with Black domes as his guards! There's every indication these Black domes are a last minute decision. In fact the Last Dalek, an 8mm film of special effects sequences for this story that you can find on the Doctor Who - Lost In Time DVD, shows a normal coloured Dalek having it's dome painted black on set!