Doctor Who/Planet of the Daleks

Planet of the Daleks
Season 10, Serial 4
Airdate	April 7, 1973
Production Number	SSS
Written by	Terry Nation
Directed by	David Maloney
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Planet of the Daleks is the fourth serial of the tenth season of Doctor Who, and the sixty-eighth serial overall.

Episode One: Jon Pertwee (Dr. Who), Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Bernard Horsfall (Taron), Prentis Hancock (Vaber), Tim Preece (Codal)

Episode Two: Jon Pertwee (Dr. Who), Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Bernard Horsfall (Taron), Jane How (Rebec), Prentis Hancock (Vaber), Tim Preece (Codal), Roy Skelton (Wester), Michael Wisher, Roy Skelton (Dalek Voices), John Scott Martin, Murphy Grumbar, Cy Town (Dalek Operators)

Episode Three: Jon Pertwee (Dr. Who), Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Bernard Horsfall (Taron), Jane How (Rebec), Prentis Hancock (Vaber), Tim Preece (Codal), Hilary Minster (Marat), Alan Tucker (Latep), Roy Skelton (Wester), Michael Wisher, Roy Skelton (Dalek Voices), John Scott Martin, Murphy Grumbar, Cy Town (Dalek Operators)

Episode Four: Jon Pertwee (Dr. Who), Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Bernard Horsfall (Taron), Jane How (Rebec), Tim Preece (Codal), Prentis Hancock (Vaber), Alan Tucker (Latep), Michael Wisher, Roy Skelton (Dalek Voices), John Scott Martin, Murphy Grumbar, Cy Town (Dalek Operators)

Episode Five: Jon Pertwee (Dr. Who), Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Bernard Horsfall (Taron), Jane How (Rebec), Tim Preece (Codal), Prentis Hancock (Vaber), Alan Tucker (Latep), Roy Skelton (Wester), Michael Wisher, Roy Skelton (Dalek Voices), John Scott Martin, Murphy Grumbar, Cy Town (Dalek Operators)

Episode Six: Jon Pertwee (Dr. Who), Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Bernard Horsfall (Taron), Jane How (Rebec), Tim Preece (Codal), Alan Tucker (Latep), Michael Wisher, Roy Skelton (Dalek Voices), John Scott Martin, Murphy Grumbar, Cy Town (Dalek Operators)

Trivia

The Show

• The serial has often been considered to be a reworking of the first Dalek serial The Daleks.

• While not recognised as a two-parter of sorts, this serial picks up from the storyline that had begun in Frontier in Space.

Behind the Scenes

• This was Terry Nation's writing contribution to the shows since 1965. As such, he was unaware that the series had dropped individual episode names. Thus he had given the episode's the titles "Destinus", "Mission Survival", "Pursued", "Escape or Die", "The Day Before Eternity" and "Victory".

• One Dalek props used was one of four Daleks privately owned by Nation and loaned and allowed to be modified for use as the Supreme Dalek. He was given four Dalek props after filming of the non-canon Doctor Who film Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., and the Supreme was recycled out of the Gold Dalek from the film.

• Nation named the character of Rebec after his own daughter Rebecca.

• Nation introduced the Supreme Dalek as a response to the Dalek Emperor, whom David Whitaker introduced in The Evil of the Daleks, which Nation disliked.