We are now skipping forward in time to season 4. In no small part due to most of season 3 being missing. Whilst a few stories of the first years of the show are hit with missing episodes nothing is as bad as this point or the coming season. So much gone.
Some stories gone completely, wiped from the BBC archives, whilst some only survive in parts. This includes the epic story........ The Daleks Masterplan. A 12 parter which would see not only the Daleks attempt to conquer the solar system in the year 4000 but
the Meddling Monk return and companions come and go. The show has now well surpassed the expectations of many but ratings were beginning to fall. The one thing the production team had kept trying to do but not quite manage was to make another monster as popular as the Daleks proved to be. But had the audience grown bored of Daleks? Or just anything that wasn't the Doctor up against the dreaded dustbins? We know the show lived on but just how did it survive?
Story 4-The Tenth PlanetThe TARDIS has landed at Snowcap base in the South Pole in the far far future of 1986. The Doctor is now joined by Ben, a Royal Navy seaman (steady Hexx) from 1966 along with his friend Polly, as they arrive at the base a mysterious new planet appears in space and its heading towards Earth......
Originally Broadcast- 8 to 29 October 1966
Written by- Kit Pedler & Gerry Davis