The Chase (Doctor Who)

016 – The Chase
Doctor Who serial
Having chased the Doctor through time and space, the Daleks are forced to battle the Mechonoids in their city on Mechanus.
Cast
Doctor William Hartnell (First Doctor)
Companions Jacqueline Hill (Barbara Wright) William Russell (Ian Chesterton) Maureen O'Brien (Vicki) Peter Purves (Steven Taylor)
Others Robert Marsden — Abraham Lincoln Roger Hammond — Francis Bacon Vivienne Bennett — Queen Elizabeth I Hugh Walters — William Shakespeare Richard Coe — Television announcer Peter Hawkins and David Graham — Dalek voices Robert Jewell, Kevin Manser, John Scott Martin, Gerald Taylor — Daleks Ian Thompson — Malsan Hywel Bennett — Rynian Al Raymond — Prondyn Jack Pitt — Mire Beast Operator Arne Gordon — Guide Peter Purves — Morton Dill David Blake Kelly — Capt Benjamin Briggs Dennis Chinnery — Albert C Richardson Patrick Carter — Bosun Douglas Ditta — Willoughby Jack Pitt — Cabin Steward John Maxim — Frankenstein Malcolm Rogers — Count Dracula Edmund Warwick — Robot Dr Who Roslyn DeWinter — Grey Lady Murphy Grumbar, Jack Pitt, John Scott Martin — Mechonoids David Graham — Mechonoid voice
Production
Directed by	Richard Martin Douglas Camfield (episode 6, uncredited)
Written by	Terry Nation
Script editor	Dennis Spooner
Produced by	Verity Lambert
Executive producer(s)	None
Incidental music composer	Dudley Simpson
Production code	R
Series	Season 2
Length	6 episodes, 25 minutes each
Date started	22 May 1965
Date ended	26 June 1965
Chronology
← Preceded by Followed by → The Space Museum The Time Meddler

The Chase

Author	John Peel
Cover artist	Alister Pearson
Series	Doctor Who book: Target novelisations
Release number	140
Publisher	Target Books
Publication date	20 July 1989
ISBN

The Chase is the eighth serial of the second season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from 22 May to 26 June 1965. The story is set on multiple locations including the Mary Celeste, the Empire State Building, and the planet Aridius. The serial marks the last appearance of William Russell and Jacqueline Hill as companions Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright and the introduction of Peter Purves as new companion Steven Taylor.

In the TARDIS, the four travellers are huddling around the Time-Space Visualiser, a television-like souvenir from their recent adventure at the Space Museum, which can pick up on any past event in the whole of time and space. The TARDIS then lands, and the Doctor confirms that the conditions are hospitable. Ian and Vicki leave to explore the desert wilderness. They find an ancient trap door in the sand. Inside, they are trapped — and become haunted by hostile tentacle creatures called Mire Beasts.

Meanwhile, the Doctor and Barbara are sunbathing. But they see on the 'Visualiser' a "broadcast" of the Daleks preparing to give a report. The Daleks' plan to follow "the enemy time machine" (the TARDIS) to the Sagarro Desert on the planet Aridius. The Daleks plan to take the TARDIS, find the Doctor and his companions, and exterminate them. The Doctor and Barbara watch the Incursion Squad embark and dematerialise. The Doctor immediately realises that these events happened in the past — the Daleks may already be here. They must find Ian and Vicki and leave immediately.