Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks (1973)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 7 April 1973 - 12 May 1973
Number of Episodes: 6
Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Barry Lets

SCRIPT
Script: Terry Nation
Story Editor: Terrance Dicks

DIRECTION
Director: David Maloney

PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Derek Slee
Film Camera: Elmer Cossey

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Dave THomas

MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranged By: Delia Derbyshire
Incidental Music: Dudley Simpson

SOUND
Studio Sound: Tony Millier
Special Sounds: Dick Mills

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Jean McMillan
Costumes: Hazel Pethig

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Clifford Culley

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: John Hurst

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: George Gallaccio
Assistant Floor Managers: Sue Hedden, Graeme Harper, John Cook

CAST
Jon Pertwee (The Doctor)
Katy Manning (Jo Grant)
Bernard Horsfall (Taron)
Tim Preece (Codal)
Prentis Hancock (Vaber)
Jane Howe (Rebec)
Roy Skelton (Wester)
John Scott Martin, Murphy Grumbar, Cy Town (Daleks)
Roy Skelton, Michael Wisher (Dalek voices)
Alan Tucker (Latep)
Hilary Minster (Marat)
Tony Starr (Dalek Supreme)
Alan Casley Dead Thal pilot - uncredited)
David Billa, Gary Dean, Terence Denville, Ronald Gough, Kevin Moran, Kelly Varney, Geoff
Witherick (Spiridons - uncredited)

PLOT SUMMARY

On the jungle planet of Spiridon, The Doctor, aided by a group of crash-landed Thals, attempts to thwart the Daleks' attempt to learn the secret of invisibility, native to the Spiradons.

Terry Nation's return to writing his most famous creation is an OK adventure. The comment that there is an army of 10,000 Daleks awaiting will arouse a wry smile in those who know they are only ever going to see three at a time on screen.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video

1973
April
7: UK - Episode One first television broadcast (on BBC1)
14: UK - Episode One first television broadcast (on BBC1)
21: UK - Episode One first television broadcast (on BBC1)
28: UK - Episode One first television broadcast (on BBC1)

May
5: UK - Episode One first television broadcast (on BBC1)
12: UK - Episode One first television broadcast (on BBC1)

Destination Daleks - working title

BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.244-246
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker)

Encyclopedia of TV Science Fiction p.125
credits, synopsis

MAGAZINES

Doctor Who Monthly no.115 p.23
credits

Doctor Who Monthly Autumn Special 1987 p.41
credits

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

aliens, time travel

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009