Well I hope you all enjoyed the first week of the GRCDWC! At the end of each week I'll post a link to the DVD of the previous week so you know what to buy should you want to. For this week I recommend the box set
"The Beginning" as it not only contains An Unearthly Child but the two following stories. Thats another 9 eps of B&W Who goodness! Plus some nice special features. So if you want to continue the journey into The Dead Planet and beyond thats what I'd go for. But for now, we are jumping forward........
Week 2-THE DALEK INVASION OF EARTHA year has passed in Britain and Doctor Who was a hit. Across the year the audience has seen our intrepid heroes travel with Marco Polo, land on an island of glass, been shrunk to the size of Pikmin, the Doctor get engaged, travel to the Sense-Sphere and dealt with......... a dodgy spring. The Doctor and Susan with Ian and Barbara have bonded over these events. Indeed its become
"a great spirit of adventure." But perhaps the most notable of all the adventures saw the TARDIS crew encounter The Daleks. Our chums from Skaro would be a huge success with children up and down the country pretending to be them at school. This led to the show hitting ratings of over 10 million for the first time. So it should be no surprise that the Daleks would quickly return to the screens. But how did they return? What would follow would be Doctor Who's most ambitious production yet with some now iconic location filming (in fact this is the first time any substantial location filming was done on the series). Could the Daleks prove to be as popular a second time round?
The TARDIS lands on Earth but has The Doctor finally managed to return Ian and Barbara home?
First broadcast- 21 November to 26 December 1964
Written by- Terry Nation
Please note this version of The Dalek Invasion of Earth contains some revamped special effect shots made for the DVD release and is 6 episodes long.