The travellers learn from the Time-Space Visualiser, that Daleks, equipped with their own time machine, are on their trail with orders to exterminate them. They flee in the TARDIS.
The chase begins on the desert planet Aridius and takes in a number of stopping-off points, including a spooky haunted house which is actually a futuristic fun-fair attraction.
Eventually, both time machines arrive on the jungle planet Mechanus, where the Daleks try to infiltrate and kill the Doctor's party with a robotic double of him. The travellers are taken prisoner by the Mechonoids - robots sent some fifty years earlier to prepare landing sites for human colonists who never arrived - and meet Steven Taylor, a stranded astronaut who has been the Mechonoids' captive for the past two years.
The Daleks and the Mechonoids engage in a fierce battle which ends in their mutual destruction. The Doctor's party seizes this opportunity to escape. The Doctor reluctantly helps Ian and Barbara to use the Daleks' time machine to return home.
Review of six parts -
Wow, I didn't know that this story was underrated due to Dennis Spooner (( story editor )) adding more much humor to this story. Yeah, yeah, I get that. People have said this story is "unashamedly childish and comic-strip in tone and pace." It was just the '60s, anyways.
I loved this story, had the Daleks, loved the final battle between the Daleks and the Mechonoids, get some of that good old action. At least, the Daleks sounded better than what they were in 'The Dalek Invasion of Earth', what a nightmare lol. Hartnell's performance was great, just getting into that positive behavior.
Ian and Barbara's departure... ;-; They were GREAT companions, it was terribly sad to see them go, their character development was bold strong, I still wonder to this day how they were gonna explain why they were absent, lol. But in a comic, it explains that Ian and Barbara has been absent, had been due to missionary work in Africa. (( If you count as canon, lol. )) Yeah, I have not much anything to say.
10/10!
The chase begins on the desert planet Aridius and takes in a number of stopping-off points, including a spooky haunted house which is actually a futuristic fun-fair attraction.
Eventually, both time machines arrive on the jungle planet Mechanus, where the Daleks try to infiltrate and kill the Doctor's party with a robotic double of him. The travellers are taken prisoner by the Mechonoids - robots sent some fifty years earlier to prepare landing sites for human colonists who never arrived - and meet Steven Taylor, a stranded astronaut who has been the Mechonoids' captive for the past two years.
The Daleks and the Mechonoids engage in a fierce battle which ends in their mutual destruction. The Doctor's party seizes this opportunity to escape. The Doctor reluctantly helps Ian and Barbara to use the Daleks' time machine to return home.
Review of six parts -
Wow, I didn't know that this story was underrated due to Dennis Spooner (( story editor )) adding more much humor to this story. Yeah, yeah, I get that. People have said this story is "unashamedly childish and comic-strip in tone and pace." It was just the '60s, anyways.
I loved this story, had the Daleks, loved the final battle between the Daleks and the Mechonoids, get some of that good old action. At least, the Daleks sounded better than what they were in 'The Dalek Invasion of Earth', what a nightmare lol. Hartnell's performance was great, just getting into that positive behavior.
Ian and Barbara's departure... ;-; They were GREAT companions, it was terribly sad to see them go, their character development was bold strong, I still wonder to this day how they were gonna explain why they were absent, lol. But in a comic, it explains that Ian and Barbara has been absent, had been due to missionary work in Africa. (( If you count as canon, lol. )) Yeah, I have not much anything to say.
10/10!