42-503: The Time Monster is the fifth and final serial of the ninth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who , which was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 20 May to 24 June 1972. The serial is set in a village near Cambridge as well as the mythical city of Atlantis . In the serial, the alien time traveller the Master ( Roger Delgado ) seeks
84-460: A "credible future world and an effective documentary-style approach to much of the present-day action." However, he believed that the downside was that "the Daleks seem oddly static". DVD Talk 's John Sinnott gave Day of the Daleks four out of five stars, writing that it "has everything" and that the time travel plot was refreshingly traditional science fiction. Ian Berriman of SFX also rated
126-564: A Mudança da História ( Doctor Who and the Change in History ). This is the earliest story for which all the original PAL 2" videotapes exist. The story was first released on VHS and Betamax in an omnibus format in 1986 (with the story mistitled as The Day of the Daleks on the VHS box art) and re-released in episodic format in 1994. The previous VHS omnibus edition remained as the release for
168-463: A trident-shaped crystal in his possession, using it to attract a being he addresses as Kronos. The Third Doctor and Jo Grant visit the institute, following his hunch (via a dream he had about a crystal) that the Master is back on Earth with his TARDIS . The experiments disrupt the normal flow of time and in one instance, Hyde, a researcher, is caught in the field of the experiment, and ages to more than eighty years. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart has
210-482: A trident. Krasis uses the crystal to summon Kronos to Atlantis once more. The enraged chronovore begins to destroy Atlantis while the Master flees in his TARDIS, with Jo Grant in tow. The Doctor heads off in his own TARDIS in pursuit while Kronos destroys the city and people of Atlantis. In the vortex, the Doctor threatens the mutually assured destruction of both TARDISes by a "time ram" in which both vehicles would occupy
252-507: Is organising a peace conference to avert World War III . In his study at Auderly House he is held at gunpoint by a soldier wielding a futuristic looking pistol , who then mysteriously vanishes. The shaken Styles believes that he has been visited by a ghost . The Third Doctor , Jo and the Brigadier go to Auderly House to investigate the mystery. The Doctor discovers a crude time machine and an ultrasonic disintegrator gun. He and Jo spend
294-509: Is troubled by the disappearance of Krasis and the threat to the Kronos crystal, which is guarded by the Minotaur at the heart of a maze. The Master has travelled to Atlantis in search of the crystal and soon inveigles himself at court, wooing Queen Galleia. When the Doctor and Jo arrive, the unnaturally long-lived King confides that Atlantis turned from Kronos and sought to end the link by which
336-652: The PAL mastertapes had been wiped, NTSC copies were returned to the BBC from TVOntario in Canada in 1983. In 1987, a low band 625-line monochrome tape of Episode Six was discovered at the BBC. It was recoloured by combining the black-and-white picture with the 525-line colour signal of the episode, creating a superior copy to the NTSC one. George Cormack also played K'anpo in Planet of
378-484: The 20th-century peace conference, and the rebels believe that by assassinating Styles, they can alter future events and prevent the Dalek invasion from ever taking place. The Doctor surmises that the rebel attack itself will be the cause of the explosion, and that the rebels are caught up in a time paradox . The time machine contains a homing device which alerts the Daleks to the Doctor's location. They launch an attack, and
420-584: The Atlantean High Priest of Poseidon, Krasis, is transported through interstitial time by the Master and brought to an office at the institute. The Master seizes the Seal of Kronos from the priest and uses it to conjure Kronos, a white, bird-like figure, who devours the Institute's Director, Dr Percival. Kronos is briefly contained by the Master, but breaks free, Krasis surmising the Master only has
462-474: The Dalek voices for the series since the 2005 relaunch. The DVD features included an audio commentary, on-screen text notes, a documentary "Blasting the Past" in which the cast and crew, as well as fans of the series who are now writers, looked back over the making of the serial. In March 2023, the story was released again in an upgraded format for Blu-ray, being included with the four other stories from Season 9 in
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#1732780487582504-424: The Daleks into Auderly House. Shura detonates a dalekanium bomb, destroying the house and the invading Daleks, and correcting the course of the future. The Doctor tells Styles that he must make the conference a success, because they know what will happen in the future if they fail. Working titles for this story included The Ghost Hunters and Years of Doom . As originally written, the serial revolved around
546-518: The Doctor and Jo, he wrote that many poor decisions were made in production and "any drama just dribbles away". DVD Talk 's Stuart Galbraith gave The Time Monster two out of five stars, finding problems in the plot structure and Kronos. In 2010, SFX named the scene where the Doctor balances ordinary objects to counter TOMTIT as one of the silliest moments in Doctor Who 's history. A novelisation of this serial, written by Terrance Dicks ,
588-762: The Ogrons instead of the Daleks. It was planned to bring the Daleks back at the end of the season, in a serial called The Daleks in London by Robert Sloman. This plan was dropped when the production staff realised that the show would not have a hook to entice viewers (after the Third Doctor's introduction in Season 7 and that of the Master in Season 8), and Sloman's serial was allegedly shaping up to be too similar to The Dalek Invasion of Earth . Instead, writer Louis Marks
630-409: The Ogrons, Pertwee, and the cliffhangers. While he acknowledged the production shortcomings of the final battle, he summed the story up as "pacey, thought-provoking entertainment [that] has stood the test of time better than some of its contemporaries". In Doctor Who: The Complete Guide , Mark Campbell awarded it nine out of ten, describing it as an "intelligently scripted Terminator prototype" with
672-810: The Spiders (1974). Ingrid Pitt later played Solow in Warriors of the Deep (1984). Ian Collier returned to play Omega in Arc of Infinity (1983) and appeared in the audio play Excelis Decays . Susan Penhaligon played Shayla in the audio play Primeval and Neville Barber played Howard Baker in K9 and Company . David Prowse would later achieve worldwide fame as Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy beginning in 1977. Paul Cornell , Martin Day and Keith Topping gave
714-554: The United States and Canada. This story was released on LaserDisc twice, first in an omnibus format in the United States in 1992, and later in episodic format in the UK in 1996. A DVD was released on 12 September 2011. The 2-disc DVD contains both the original broadcast version and, on the second disc, a special edition version with new CGI effects, newly shot footage and new Dalek voices performed by Nicholas Briggs , who has provided
756-551: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.237 via cp1104 cp1104, Varnish XID 191198948 Upstream caches: cp1104 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:54:47 GMT Day of the Daleks Day of the Daleks is the first serial of the ninth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who , which
798-517: The chronovore could be controlled, by destroying the crystal, but they could only splinter it. The Doctor then faces the Minotaur to rescue Jo, duped into the maze by Krasis, and the creature is destroyed. The crystal is now produced from the maze – but the Master’s schemes have borne fruit and he has usurped the throne. Jo and the Doctor are soon detained and witness Dalios' death after being smitten with
840-415: The end of all four episodes of this story as having originated them. The production team only had three Dalek props available for use during the production of this serial, so only three Daleks appear on screen at any one time. One of the Daleks is painted gold, so only two regular casings are seen in shot. Film editing is used to attempt the illusion of more than three Daleks. The final battle at Auderly House
882-411: The ensuing battle shifts back and forth between the 20th and 22nd Centuries. The Doctor and Jo discover a future world of an enslaved society, overseen by a military force of primitive humanoid Ogrons , supervised by a powerful Controller, all under the command of Daleks. After escaping capture, they return to the 20th century, where the Doctor orders UNIT troops to evacuate the peace conference and lure
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#1732780487582924-458: The entrance to the lab and then vanish. Originally the serial was to end with a scene where the Doctor and Jo went back to the lab, and saw their earlier selves working on the TARDIS console as before, after which they would vanish. However, director Paul Bernard refused to film it, saying "Once it's over, it's over". Script editor Terrance Dicks would later restore the scene in his novelisation of
966-525: The full gamut from one-man wine and cheese society to man of action, to stern authority in his scenes in the 22nd century". The novelisation of this serial, by Dicks, was published by Target Books in April 1974. There have been Dutch , Turkish , Japanese , Polish and Portuguese language editions. A Brazilian edition, separate from the Portuguese version, was published with the title Doutor Who e
1008-458: The idea had been abandoned (the Dalek story for the season instead was the premiere with Day of the Daleks ) and Sloman's contract was amended to write "The Time Monster". This story sees a redesign of the TARDIS interior. Producer Barry Letts was unhappy with the redesign. The set was damaged shortly after recording on this particular serial wrapped and, as a result, was discarded. Although
1050-457: The institute, where normality is returning, through a final use of the Master's machine, which now overloads, and the time experiments end. According to the comprehensive production documentation released in 2023 as part of the 'Season 9 Blu Ray Collection', when Sloman was commissioned to write the final six part story for the season in May 1971, it was titled "The Daleks in London". By December 1971,
1092-510: The night at Auderly House to monitor any activity. The machine turns out to be from the 22nd Century. As the Doctor tries to reactivate the time machine, three rebel fighters – Anat, Boaz, and Shura – appear from the time vortex on a mission to assassinate Styles. It transpires that the rebels come from an alternate future in which a war-ravaged Earth has been enslaved by the Daleks . The outbreak of world war has been attributed to an explosion at
1134-410: The power of Kronos (Marc Boyle and Ingrid Bower), a being that exists outside of time and space, so that he can control the universe. The Master , posing as a professor, gains access to a physical science research unit in the village of Wootton, near Cambridge. He conducts time experiments focused around transmitting matter by breaking it down into light waves. He is particularly interested in examining
1176-422: The project evacuated and begins a hunt for the Master. The Doctor explains that Kronos is a "chronovore", a creature from outside time that feeds on it, attracted from the vortex to ancient Atlantis using a crystal trident larger than one seen to have been used by the Master. The Doctor suspects capturing the chronovore is the Master’s purpose, and that this represents a danger to the entire universe . Meanwhile,
1218-450: The publicity which followed the announcement of their return to the series by Barry Letts "was perhaps worth my biting my lip". On the other hand, he enjoyed working with the story's guest cast. He also liked the Ogrons, as unlike the Daleks, their design allowed the actors' mouths and lips to be seen and thus he felt allowed the actors playing them to "come to grips" with their characters and "with an entire range of expressions available" make
1260-459: The same space/time co-ordinates, The Master calls his bluff, on behalf of Jo is unable to until she carries the threat out. In a resulting temporal void, a thankful Kronos is set free, saving the Doctor and Jo and returning them to their TARDIS. On the Doctor’s insistence, the Master is spared from torment by Kronos, but he flees in his own TARDIS before he can be apprehended. The Doctor and Jo return to
1302-474: The serial an unfavourable review in The Discontinuity Guide (1995), describing watching it as being like "watching paint dry while being whipped with barbed wire". In 2010, Mark Braxton of Radio Times felt that the serial teetered between "delightful" absurdity and "outright, galloping stupidity, and sadly it tips too often into the latter." While he praised the realisation of Atlantis and
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1344-449: The serial four out of five stars, describing it as "a fascinating concept, played out as rollicking action-adventure". He wrote that its weaknesses were "mainly on a technical level", concerning the Daleks and the final battle. In 2018, The Daily Telegraph ranked Day of the Daleks at number 53 in "the 56 greatest stories and episodes", arguing that "the Daleks' apelike henchmen, the Ogrons, are well-designed and Jon Pertwee's Doctor runs
1386-529: The serial in The Discontinuity Guide (1995), "A clever (if unoriginal) idea which is spoiled by the pointless inclusion of the Daleks themselves. The series' first proper look at some of the complexities of time travel is handled well even if some of the international politics is moronic." In 2009, Patrick Mulkern of Radio Times awarded it four stars out of five. He noted that the Daleks were not at their best production-wise, but he praised
1428-428: The smaller fragment of the original crystal. The Doctor and his allies, alerted by the Master's actions, build a time flow analogue to interrupt the experiments. The Time Lords then duel using time as a weapon, leading to a series of bizarre temporal effects. When they pit their TARDISes against one another, the Doctor is ejected into the vortex, but survives thanks to Jo and his TARDIS. In ancient Atlantis, King Dalios
1470-542: The story. This story features the TARDIS console once more outside of the TARDIS itself, as in The Ambassadors of Death and Inferno . This serial is unusual because episodes two and three begin with the cliffhanger music that ended the previous episode being played again. Dropmore House was instead used as the location for the peace conference. Brentford Towers in Green Dragon Lane, Brentford
1512-425: The viewers believe in their performance. Pertwee also recalled he persuaded Barry Letts to include the trikes seen in the story, reflecting his love of vehicles. However he considered the chase sequence involving them to be "one of the more dangerous stunts that I had insisted on doing" during his time on the series. Terry Nation , who penned the first story The Daleks in 1963, was given an on-screen credit at
1554-442: Was asked to alter his serial to include the Daleks. Osterley Park was originally proposed as the setting and location for Day of the Daleks . The name was changed to Auderly House in the finished programme and renamed Austerly House in the novelisation. Jon Pertwee, who would later say, "I have never liked the Daleks", felt that the monsters were very limited and could not understand their popularity. However, he would concede that
1596-429: Was disliked by viewers, as it was quite obvious that only three Daleks were attacking. On the 2011 DVD release, CGI and newly shot footage was used to revamp the scene, making it appear that more Daleks were attacking the house. Early in the first episode, there is a scene where the Doctor and Jo are working on the TARDIS console in the Doctor's lab. A mistake by the Doctor causes another Doctor and Jo to briefly appear at
1638-445: Was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 1 to 22 January 1972. It was the first of four Third Doctor serials to feature the Daleks , which returned to the series for the first time since The Evil of the Daleks (1967). In the serial, the Doctor and UNIT investigate the attempted assassination of British diplomat Sir Reginald Styles, whose attacker apparently disappeared into thin air. A British diplomat, Sir Reginald Styles,
1680-606: Was published in hardback by Target Books in September 1985, and in paperback in February 1986. It was reprinted again as part of Target's Doctor Who Classics range back-to-back to Barry Letts' novelisation of The Dæmons and bound in a metallic cover. This story was released with Colony in Space in a VHS tin box set, The Master , in 2001. As of 5 August 2008, this serial has been offered for sale on iTunes . The Time Monster
1722-517: Was released on 29 March 2010 in a Region 2 DVD box set named "Myths and Legends" along with Underworld and The Horns of Nimon . It was released as a stand-alone disc in Region 1 on 6 July 2010. In March 2023, the story was released again in an upgraded format for Blu-ray, being included with the four other stories from Season 9 in the Doctor Who - The Collection Box Set. Doctor Who (season 9) Too Many Requests If you report this error to
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1764-603: Was used to portray the Controller's futuristic base. Scott Fredericks later played Max Stael in Image of the Fendahl (1977). Jimmy Winston had previously been the keyboard player in the rock band Small Faces . The story was edited and condensed into a single omnibus edition for broadcast on BBC1 at 7 pm on 3 September 1973, with viewing figures of 7.4 million. Paul Cornell , Martin Day , and Keith Topping wrote of
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