Doctor Who Rewind - The Power Of The Daleks
Doctor Who Rewind
The Power Of The Daleks
The Doctor has a new face and some kind of musical ability, which is highly debatable. While Ben, believes this new man is an imposter. And we are soon to find out, as the new boy Pat Troughton gets thrown into the deep sticky stuff with his old friends The Daleks. Yes, were on planet Vulcan, but this sure ain't Star Trek!
As with all regenerations, the Doctor is suitably messed up a bit at the start of this six part (totally missing from the BBC archives) serial.
He soon gets in way above his head when the TARDIS touches down on Vulcan and he gets mistaken for someone called the Examiner, who had come to the planet to inspect the human colony, only to be murdered. The Doctor is mistaken for the examiner as he wears a badge the dead guy had.
As this examiner, the Doctor is granted access to anywhere in the colony, and he, with Polly and Ben go exploring in a space capsule that the scientist Lesterson has discovered recently. In it they find seemingly dead lifeless Daleks.
Lesterson has been experimenting with the machines in order to make them useful for his planet. He wants to turn them into slaves. Bad idea.
The Doctor must try to stop the efforts of Lesterson to revive the Daleks, before they end up wiping out the entire universe. No pressure there then.
This serial does take a while to get going, and it isn't really until the 4th or 5th episode that the Daleks start behaving badly. Occasionally we get a flurry of collective shouting from them, such as, "We have Power!!!", as they are plugged in by Lesterson and get very excited indeed, until he pulls the plug.
Yes they are easily pleased, and manage to fool poor Lesterson into reviving them with full power. They even manage to persuade him to build a power track for them to glide around the Vulcan colony.
Lesterson worships the creatures like gods, marvelling at their design and ability to understand and follow orders. But one night he ventures further into the capsule only to discover a huge succession of Daleks being endlessly rolled off a production line Ford would be proud of.
The Doctor, who spends most of this story playing his recorder and trying to adjust to his new body, which he says has been renewed, somehow manages to overthrow the Daleks by overloading their power grid.
Given the fact that I'm now faced with watching reconstructions of several stories which are completely lost in time, I think I managed to pull through this one ok.
In my mind this is by no means the best Dalek story. It's far to convoluted and grows tiresome while your waiting for something interesting to happen.
But there are flashes of brilliance and thrills when things start to get moving.
Next time on Doctor Who Rewind, we go all Och aye the noo as we the the high road to The Highlanders.
The Power Of The Daleks
The Doctor has a new face and some kind of musical ability, which is highly debatable. While Ben, believes this new man is an imposter. And we are soon to find out, as the new boy Pat Troughton gets thrown into the deep sticky stuff with his old friends The Daleks. Yes, were on planet Vulcan, but this sure ain't Star Trek!
As with all regenerations, the Doctor is suitably messed up a bit at the start of this six part (totally missing from the BBC archives) serial.
He soon gets in way above his head when the TARDIS touches down on Vulcan and he gets mistaken for someone called the Examiner, who had come to the planet to inspect the human colony, only to be murdered. The Doctor is mistaken for the examiner as he wears a badge the dead guy had.
As this examiner, the Doctor is granted access to anywhere in the colony, and he, with Polly and Ben go exploring in a space capsule that the scientist Lesterson has discovered recently. In it they find seemingly dead lifeless Daleks.
Lesterson has been experimenting with the machines in order to make them useful for his planet. He wants to turn them into slaves. Bad idea.
The Doctor must try to stop the efforts of Lesterson to revive the Daleks, before they end up wiping out the entire universe. No pressure there then.
This serial does take a while to get going, and it isn't really until the 4th or 5th episode that the Daleks start behaving badly. Occasionally we get a flurry of collective shouting from them, such as, "We have Power!!!", as they are plugged in by Lesterson and get very excited indeed, until he pulls the plug.
Yes they are easily pleased, and manage to fool poor Lesterson into reviving them with full power. They even manage to persuade him to build a power track for them to glide around the Vulcan colony.
Lesterson worships the creatures like gods, marvelling at their design and ability to understand and follow orders. But one night he ventures further into the capsule only to discover a huge succession of Daleks being endlessly rolled off a production line Ford would be proud of.
The Doctor, who spends most of this story playing his recorder and trying to adjust to his new body, which he says has been renewed, somehow manages to overthrow the Daleks by overloading their power grid.
Given the fact that I'm now faced with watching reconstructions of several stories which are completely lost in time, I think I managed to pull through this one ok.
In my mind this is by no means the best Dalek story. It's far to convoluted and grows tiresome while your waiting for something interesting to happen.
But there are flashes of brilliance and thrills when things start to get moving.
Next time on Doctor Who Rewind, we go all Och aye the noo as we the the high road to The Highlanders.
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