Original air date 9 October 1965. Single episode serial. Videotape never sent abroad and episode is fairly lost. Telesnaps exist and have been used to reconstruct it.
Slide show away!
Mmm, fixing a spaceship with hammers and a pipe wrench. Lucky they’re so handy, these astronauts!
I’ve lost track of who is who here, and all the names. They know what a Varga thorn does, which means they’ve seen them before, and know they’re a death sentence. Pity the dead guy isn’t quite as dead as they hoped. Oh, wait, they’re a plant now.
The cockpit of their ship has rather what looks like a filing cabinet in it.
Oh look, the Daleks have been busy while they’ve been away, “millions of light years” away from their galaxy. They’ve been seen locally now, though. And they apparently brought these lovely Varga plants with them, because they’re thoughtful that way.
Daleks are on the way to destroy the ship, while they try and fix the emergency beacon rocket. Pity nothing’s working right.
Another Varga bites one of the two spacemen! They’re in worse trouble now.
The Daleks are getting help – unlike them – to form a group of seven, to make a large force to conquer the Solar System. Mars! Venus! Jupiter! The Moon Colonies! Earth!
The turning into a plant is quite the makeup job, considering what we’ve seen before.
They’re using “galaxy” and “solar system” interchangably, which is sloppy.
Yep, all three spacemen are dead, message not sent. Dr. Who has always had a body count.
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