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CAST

Regular Cast

Patrick Troughton (Dr Who), Micheal Craze (Ben), Anneke Wills (Polly)

Guest Cast

Martin King (The Examiner) [1], Nicholas Hawtrey (Quinn), Bernard Archard (Bragen), Robert James (Lesterson), Pamela Ann Davy (Janley), Peter Bathurst (Hensell) [1-5], Edward Kelsey (Resno) [2], Richard Kane (Valmar) [3-6], Gerald Taylor [3-6]&Dagger,, Kevin Manser [3-5], Robert Jewell [3-6], John Scott Martin [4-6] (Daleks), Peter Hawkins (Daleks’ Voice) [3-6]&Dagger,, Peter Forbes-Robertson [4-6], Robert Russell [5-6], Robert Luckham [5] (Guards), Steven Scott (Kebble) [4-6].

CREW

sypnosis

Still suspicious of the younger man claiming to be The Doctor, Ben and Polly discover that the TARDIS has landed on the Earth colony Vulcan. There, a scientist named Lesterson has unearthed a crashed capsule containing the inert forms of three Daleks.

The Doctor is horrified to learn that Lesterson has reactivated them, intending for them to serve the colony’s populace. But the time travellers soon discover that the Daleks have a far more malevolent agenda.

quotes

Ben : [Picking up the old Doctor’s ring.] “The Doctor always wore this. If you are him it should fit.” [He tries the ring on The Doctor’s finger, but it is too big.] “That settles it.”

The Doctor :”I’d like to see a butterfly fit into a chrysalis case after it spreads its wings.”

Polly :”Then you did change.”

The Doctor :”Life depends on change, and renewal.”

Ben :”Oh, that’s it, you’ve been renewed, have you?”

The Doctor :”Renewed? Have I? That’s it, I’ve been renewed. It’s part of the TARDIS. Without it I couldn’t survive.”

The Doctor : [Speaking of the reactivated Dalek] “It knew who I am, Ben.”

Ben :”Well, if a Dalek takes you for the proper Doctor, then I suppose I can.”

Lesterson : [To the other colonists present.] “This creation is called, I understand, a Dalek. Look at it. I have simply given it electrical power, and do you know what? It is capable of storing it! Furthermore, it responds to orders.” [To the Dalek] “Turn around. Move that chair. Stop.” [The Dalek obeys each command.] “You see! Imagine what it is going to do to our mining programme, to our processing, our packaging. Dozens of labour jobs, Governor. It may even be the answer to this colony’s problems.”

The Doctor :”Yes, it will end the colony’s problems – because it will end the colony!”

The Doctor : [On the Daleks] “It can do many things, Lesterson. But the thing it does most efficiently is exterminate human beings.”

episode endings

The Doctor, Ben and Polly have found two seemingly dormant Daleks inside the crashed capsule. Examining the floor, The Doctor realises that there was once a third. He fails to notice as a tentacled creature begins to emerge from a hole at the base of the wall behind him…

To the astonishment of The Doctor and the colonists, the reactivated Dalek grates ‘I am your servant!’ The Doctor tries to warn that the Daleks destroy human beings without mercy or conscience, but his voice is almost drowned out by the Dalek loudly repeating its phrase.

The three reactivated Daleks chant ‘We will get our power!’ as Lesterson looks on with growing concern…

As a horrified Lesterson looks on, a line of newly created Daleks roll off the conveyor belt on their ship…

The Daleks stream out of their capsule chanting ‘Daleks conquer and destroy! Daleks conquer and destroy!’

The TARDIS dematerialises from Vulcan. The lingering notes of a tune on The Doctor’s recorder are heard as the eye-stalk of one of the apparently destroyed Daleks slowly rises up as if to watch the ship depart.s

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