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- THE CHASE. Written by Terry Nation. 6 episodes.
- 22nd May - 26th June 1965.
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- The Executioners, The Death of Time, Flight Through Eternity,
- Journey Into Terror, The Death of Dr Who, The Planet of Decision.
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- COMPANIONS:- Ian, Barbara, Vicki and introducing Steven Taylor.
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- The Doctor is using his Time/Space Visualiser, a device which allows
- him to see any event in history. He sees that the Daleks are about to
- begin persuing him in their own time machine.
- The persuit takes us to the planet Aridius, the Empire State Building,
- the Marie Celeste, a theme park containing androids of Dracula and the
- Frankenstein monster and finally the planet Mechanus.
- It is here that the travellers meet the Mechanoids and are taken
- prisoner after the Doctor defeats a robot double of himself. They meet
- Steven Taylor who is also a prisoner of the Mechanoids. The Daleks arrive
- and battle with the Mechanoids whilst the travellers escape. The two
- fighting factions destroy each other but the Dalek timeship survives. Ian
- and Barbara beg the Doctor to show them how to operate it as it works
- perfectly, unlike the TARDIS, but he refuses angrily at first. Eventually
- he relents and choked with emotion he says goodbye.
- The Mechanoids were to be the next big thing after the Daleks but they
- never took off and didn't appear in Dr Who again.
- THE CHASE is available in a BBC Video 30th Anniversary presentation tin
- with a Sylvester McCoy story, REMEMBRANCE OF THE DALEKS. It is due to be
- released seperately in 1995.
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