Planet of the Daleks

068 – Planet of the Daleks
Doctor Who serial
The Doctor and three of the Thal crew, Vaber, Codal and Taron, discover an inactive Dalek on the planet Spiridon.
Cast
Doctor Jon Pertwee (Third Doctor)
Companion Katy Manning (Jo Grant)
Others Prentis Hancock — Vaber Bernard Horsfall — Taron Tim Preece — Codal Jane How — Rebec Hilary Minster — Marat Alan Tucker — Latep Roy Skelton — Wester Michael Wisher, Roy Skelton — Dalek Voices John Scott Martin, Murphy Grumbar, Cy Town — Daleks
Production
Directed by	David Maloney
Written by	Terry Nation
Script editor	Terrance Dicks
Produced by	Barry Letts
Executive producer(s)	None
Incidental music composer	Dudley Simpson
Production code	SSS
Series	Season 10
Length	6 episodes, 25 minutes each
Originally broadcast	7 April–12 May 1973
Chronology
← Preceded by Followed by → Frontier in Space The Green Death
List of Doctor Who serials

Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks

Author	Terrance Dicks
Cover artist	Chris Achilleos
Series	Doctor Who book: Target novelisations
Release number	46
Publisher	Target Books
Publication date	21 October 1976
ISBN

Planet of the Daleks is the fourth serial of the tenth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from 7 April to 12 May 1973.

The Doctor has been wounded after being shot by the Master. Jo Grant manages to help the Doctor into the TARDIS, where he uses the telepathic circuits to send a message to the Time Lords before he collapses. Delirious, he falls into a coma, both his hearts beating once every ten seconds. Jo dictates into the TARDIS log, a portable recording device, that she has seen this healing state before (The Dæmons), and that the TARDIS is moving, being controlled remotely by the Time Lords. When the TARDIS comes to a stop, Jo activates the external scanners to see some plants outside block the viewer by spraying a thick sap-like liquid at it. With the Doctor still catatonic, Jo leaves the ship to explore the surrounding jungle. The plants spray sap on her as she walks by, and a bit of it gets on her hand.

As Jo explores, the TARDIS is rapidly being covered by plant sap, which is hardening into a shell around it. When the Doctor awakens, he finds himself sealed in and the oxygen in the TARDIS cabin rapidly being used up. Activating the emergency oxygen supply, he discovers the tanks almost empty, and starts to suffocate from lack of air. Jo, in the meantime, discovers a spacecraft in the jungle with a dead pilot.

Taron and his men find the TARDIS and chip the hardened sap from its doors, managing to drag a nearly asphyxiated Doctor out into the open air. The Doctor thanks them and notes that he finds them familiar. When the men explain that they are from the planet Skaro, the Doctor recognises that they are Thals and tells them he was on Skaro many years ago with his three companions, Susan, Ian and Barbara (The Daleks).