Planet of the Daleks

"Doctor Who and the Daleks", "Studio of the Daleks", "Welcome to the House of Fungus"

"The One with the Man Qualified in Space Medicine" (USA), "Carry On Up the Air Duct" (smutty people)

Doctor Who and Josephine stop the Daleks from doing a bad thing. The bad thing seems to change from week to week

*** - It's a lot of fun but contains a rather nasty trouser suit.

"WHERE-IS-THE-FE-MALE-DA-LEK-CHAN-GING-ROOM" (the first words spoken by an invisible Dalek, cut from episode 1)

"Somewhere in these pants there are ten thousand Daleks"

The catwalks of Skaro were emptied during the making of this serial as it featured all the model Daleks they could find.

Tim Preece allowed Katy Manning to touch his marrow during production. He had just won second prize in a vegetable show while his marrow came first.

Anna “Conda” Ford played the Supreme Dalek in episode six. The voice was provided by Ringo Starr.

Production was delayed by two hours when a mole nibbled through a vital cable. The mole, who was electrocuted, was from Jon Pertwee’s private zoo and Mr Pertwee received an ex gratia payment of six pounds for the loss of his mole but had to pay fifty thousand pounds to the BBC for the camera that was ruined.

Terry Nation was a pen name for Harold Pinter and John Motson.

Jon Pertwee’s well known dislike of the Daleks came from an incident during the making of this story when Barry “Terminator” Letts refused to let Jon play inside a Dalek casing. Mr Pertwee’s addiction for all things with wheels is famous and this snub left him feeling bruised and hollow.

The North Cleethorpes Bugle said this story was “dolly” but added a note of caution that “watching it twice might cause dizziness”.

...is that a pacifist race which shares a home planet with the most ruthless killers in the universe probably shouldn't use their first space ship to go annoy more of them

Si Hunt

I Nothing Like I Better To Do

"Story SSS marks one of the very few occasions on which I have agreed with Jon Pertwee. Actually, it marks one of the very few occasions on which I have agreed with anyone. But everyone else holding incorrect opinions is hardly my fault and to suggest otherwise is beneath contempt. He said, during Story SSS, that hot air ballooning was most exhilarating. I am in complete agreement with him here. I recall my one and only trip up in a balloon with almost total fondness. I had been collecting sponsorship all week and had amassed twenty five pence from my acquaintances and prepared to board the balloon. Ian Devine, who only secured twenty pence because he isn't on such intimate terms with Nigel Gusset as I am, was refused entry on the ground that he would "stop the balloon from ballooning". I laughed so much that I became giddy and almost toppled out of the basket. Mr Lapping and Mr Rub were piloting the craft and we quickly climbed to a considerable height. The wind was whistling around us (Dr Flapjack says it was caused by my a-n-u-s not being used to the altitude) and I had a marvellous view of Bendaton. I could see the meat processing plant, the prison, the sewerage works, the potentially fatal Great Gripme Mire and even as far as the prosthetic limb factory. Suddenly, and here is where "exhilarating" turned into "annoying", Mr Lapping and Mr Rub grabbed me firmly and tried to toss me out of the basket. "Don't be pathetically stupid" I gasped wittily, "I've been sponsored to make this journey." They continued their struggle and explained that they had been sponsored to throw me out of the balloon. Their sponsorship total was a little larger than mine - eight thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine pounds and seventy five pence larger to be exact - and they seemed pretty keen to complete their mission. It was only Wicks and Grantham's quick thinking in catching me in a pair of Ian Devine's under p-a-n-t-s which stopped yours truly from splattering on the ground. The only unfortunate aspect of the whole business was the Bendaton Sketch mistaking it for an attempt at suicide on my part. They saw me let loose a manly cheer of relief when I realised I hadn't died and lead with the headline "Dennis Brent finds the will to live in Ian Devine's Pants". I suppose it was lucky I didn't have "Daleks" chasing me <g>."

Ian Dijon, writing in "Drax Facts", described the end of episode one as "the last truly surprising Doctor Who cliff-hanger" as he'd been expecting a planet to appear. Meanwhile, Lloyd Nutter of "The Keith to Time" interviewed Ray Cusick in 1993 during the repeat run and reported the exclusive revelation that both the invisible Dalek and the Spiradons were based on his designs and that he hadn't seen a penny for them. He also exclusively revealed that the P in Raymond P Cusick stands for "Prettyboy" as his father was an avid budgie collector.