The Doctor runs afoul of the Daleks and Special Security Agent Bret Vyon on the planet Kembel.The Doctor runs afoul of the Daleks and Special Security Agent Bret Vyon on the planet Kembel.The Doctor runs afoul of the Daleks and Special Security Agent Bret Vyon on the planet Kembel.
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Luanshya Greer
- Lizan
- (as Pamela Greer)
Peter Hawkins
- Daleks
- (voice)
David Graham
- Daleks
- (voice)
Ashley Bowring
- Technix
- (uncredited)
Hugh Cecil
- Technix
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Terry Nation
- Sydney Newman(uncredited)
- Donald Wilson(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaOnly three episodes from this story are still in the BBC Archive, they are episodes 2, 5 and 10.
- Quotes
Kert Gantry: [speaking into the jungle] All right, I'm ready for you now!
[whispers]
Kert Gantry: Where the devil are you?
[silence]
Kert Gantry: Come on!
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Daleks' Master Plan - Documentary (2020)
Featured review
The Daleks' Masterplan
In spite of its almost ludicrous length, relative lack of cohesion, insanely complicated storyline, (though not exactly a complex one, just lengthy and full of unexpected turns and trips to places as diverse and bizarre as the locations visited in "The Chase", we even get to go to Egypt during the fourth dynasty, although this is for the most part certainly not played for laughs), largely clichéd (outside of his ethnicity given when this was made) villain in Chen, and frequently meandering feel, not to mention a horrific Christmas episode, "The Daleks' Masterplan" is worth sitting through twelve episodes of.
The end result is almost surprisingly enjoyable and worthwhile for all "Doctor Who" fans and not just completists like myself, even in the form of reconstructions given how most of the episodes are missing. It certainly helps that the reconstructions for these episodes are especially good and watchable. Normally in my comments on "Doctor Who" stories I would go into the actual story in further detail, but this one has so many moods, so many settings, so many events, that it would almost be pointless (not that writing these comments isn't a tad bit pointless in itself...).
The writing, as I've said before, is incoherent and lacking in cohesion, partly because this story was scripted by two different writers in Terry Nation and Dennis Spooner, and probably worked on extensively by the script editor as well. Production-wise the story is excellent, particularly based on the surviving episodes in which the sets are very well-realized.
All in all this is occasionally a slog but completely worthwhile in the end, and absolutely excellent in places. It feels like a twelve-part story, even if it could have worked better as an eight-parter (six might have been too short, and it's not often you get to say that about a "Doctor Who" story).
Episode 1: 7/10, Episode 2: 6/10, Episode 3: 7/10, Episode 4: 8/10, Episode 5: 9, Episode 6: 8/10, Episode 7: 3/10, Episode 8: 7/10, Episode 9: 7/10, Episode 10: 9/10, Episode 11: 7/10, Episode 12: 8/10.
Average: 7.17/10
The end result is almost surprisingly enjoyable and worthwhile for all "Doctor Who" fans and not just completists like myself, even in the form of reconstructions given how most of the episodes are missing. It certainly helps that the reconstructions for these episodes are especially good and watchable. Normally in my comments on "Doctor Who" stories I would go into the actual story in further detail, but this one has so many moods, so many settings, so many events, that it would almost be pointless (not that writing these comments isn't a tad bit pointless in itself...).
The writing, as I've said before, is incoherent and lacking in cohesion, partly because this story was scripted by two different writers in Terry Nation and Dennis Spooner, and probably worked on extensively by the script editor as well. Production-wise the story is excellent, particularly based on the surviving episodes in which the sets are very well-realized.
All in all this is occasionally a slog but completely worthwhile in the end, and absolutely excellent in places. It feels like a twelve-part story, even if it could have worked better as an eight-parter (six might have been too short, and it's not often you get to say that about a "Doctor Who" story).
Episode 1: 7/10, Episode 2: 6/10, Episode 3: 7/10, Episode 4: 8/10, Episode 5: 9, Episode 6: 8/10, Episode 7: 3/10, Episode 8: 7/10, Episode 9: 7/10, Episode 10: 9/10, Episode 11: 7/10, Episode 12: 8/10.
Average: 7.17/10
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- ametaphysicalshark
- Oct 15, 2008
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