Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks

Overview:

An energy drain traps the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith on the planet Exxilon with its hostile natives, causing the travellers to make an uneasy alliance with a Marine Space Corps expedition and a squadron of Daleks. The key to escape for all of them lies at the heart of a powerful and mysterious lost city, but only after a series of deadly traps.

Director:

Michael E. Briant

Status:

Released

Language:

English

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Revenue:

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Key words:

time travel

Cast

Jon Pertwee

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The Doctor

Elisabeth Sladen

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Sarah Jane Smith

Duncan Lamont

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Dan Galloway

John Abineri

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Richard Railton

Joy Harrison

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Jill Tarrant

Julian Fox

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Peter Hamilton

Neil Seiler

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Commander Stewart

Arnold Yarrow

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Bellal

Roy Heymann

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Gotal

Mostyn Evans

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High Priest

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 1 year(s) ago
6
I reckon the TARDIS must be related to the shopping trolley - it never goes where it's supposed to! This time the "Doctor" (Jon Pertwee) and his new pal "Sarah Jane" (Elisabeth Sladen) are planning some leisure time in the sun when they find themselves directed to a planet where technology doesn't work! That doesn't put folks off coming there though as it's the main source of the rare mineral "Parrinium" which has remarkable medical properties. When a ship full of "Daleks" arrives too - unable to exterminate anyone, an uneasy truce breaks out as they must ally themselves against the warrior-like indigenous population. It's one of those people, "Bellal" (Arnold Yarrow) who tries to help the doctor explore the legendary city of "Exxilon" so they can disable it's power-draining beacon and maybe get out alive. It takes four episodes to tell the tale and even the presence of the "Daleks" doesn't really set the thing alight. It lacks that usual sense of mischief and depth of characters that the "UNIT" scenarios deliver and the logical puzzles at the end aren't designed to include the viewer at all. Someone had some fun setting fire to a load of polystyrene at the end, and it's quite fun watching a "Dalek" go for an unwanted dip, but otherwise this isn't really very good.