Mission to the Unknown
| 019 – "Mission to the Unknown" | |||||
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The Daleks collude with the masters of the Fifth Galaxy on a diabolical scheme
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| Directed by | Derek Martinus | ||||
| Written by | Terry Nation | ||||
| Script editor | Donald Tosh | ||||
| Produced by | Verity Lambert | ||||
| Executive producer(s) | None | ||||
| Incidental music composer | by Trevor Duncan | ||||
| Production code | T/A, T Episode 5, or DC | ||||
| Series | Season 3 | ||||
| Length | 1 episode, 25 minutes | ||||
| Episode(s) missing | 1 episode, 25 minutes | ||||
| Originally broadcast | 9 October 1965 | ||||
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| Author | John Peel |
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| Cover artist | Alister Pearson |
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Doctor Who book: Target novelisations |
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Release number
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141 |
| Publisher | Target Books |
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Publication date
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21 September 1989 |
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"Mission to the Unknown", sometimes known as "Dalek Cutaway" and also "Dalek Cutaway-Mission to the Unknown", is a missing episode of the third season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, first broadcast on 9 October 1965. The sole standalone episode of the show's original run (besides the 1983 feature-length anniversary special The Five Doctors, which was later shown in a multi-episode form) it serves as an introduction to the 12 part story The Daleks' Master Plan. It is also notable for the complete absence of the regular cast, including the Doctor (although William Hartnell is still credited on-screen). The story focuses on Space Security Agent Marc Cory (Edward de Souza) and his attempts to warn Earth of the Daleks' latest plan. Although audio recordings of the episode exist, no footage is known to have survived.
On the planet Kembel, Marc Cory and Gordon Lowery are trying to repair their spaceship, while another crewmember, Jeff Garvey, is lying on the ground, out of their sight. He awakes, in pain and in a violent state of mind. He keeps behind the ship to make sure that neither of the men sees him. He raises his gun to fire at Lowery, but Cory sees Garvey and shoots him. Cory pulls a long thorn out of Garvey from behind the ear. He warns Lowery that if he stung himself on it he would have to kill him too.
The two men go into the spaceship, leaving Garvey's body. Garvey’s hand begins to twitch and hair and thorns start to grow all over his body. He is becoming a Varga plant. Cory has a licence to kill from the Space Security Service and enlists Lowery to help him. Cory explains that the Daleks have been gaining control of many planets and that a Dalek spaceship has been spotted in this solar system.
Cory tries to contact their rendezvous ship, but cannot get through, and their own ship is beyond repair. Cory believes the Daleks have a base on Kembel and that is why he and Lowery are there. He explains that the Varga plant is native to the Daleks' home planet Skaro and that you become a Varga plant if you prick yourself on it. This is further evidence that the Daleks could be on Kembel.
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