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The Planet of the Daleks was a Third Doctor comic story published in TV Action.
Summary[]
A burglar, Finney, attempts to steal the TARDIS. Accidentally causing a fire, the Doctor use the Ship to escape with Finney. The TARDIS is drawn to the Dalek's home planet by their time vector machine where the Doctor is apparently transformed into a humanoid Dalek. However, the Doctor is in fact unharmed and attempts to destroy the Daleks by piloting the TARDIS into a star. When the attempt fails, the Doctor and Finney escape into the wilderness of the Dalek's home world but find themselves trapped between the creatures and a giant prehistoric beast.
Characters[]
Worldbuilding[]
- There are dinosaur-like creatures on the planet acting as the Daleks’ current base-of-operations.
- The Doctor believes that plunging the TARDIS into the heart of a sun will kill everyone onboard.
Notes[]
- The story never makes explicit which planet features as the Daleks' base-of-operations. The implication of previous stories is Skaro, but the living jungle vegetation and dinosaur-like creatures stands at odds with its depiction in TV: The Daleks and TV: The Evil of the Daleks. The planet's biome, if not for the presence of dinosaurs, resembles that of Mechanus, Kembel and Mira.
- Picking up right after the events of *Sub Zero, the final issue of which was released the previous week, The Planet of the Daleks is a very rare instance of one Dalek story immediately following another one. The TV series later did something similar with Frontier in Space and Planet of the Daleks in 1973.
- From Issue 59, the formerly two-page full colour strip is extended to three pages, albeit only one of which – the front cover – remains in full colour. (The second and third pages switch to black-and-white.) Consequently, the Doctor Who strip must share the front cover with the publication’s masthead and also editorial straplines highlighting other comic strips and features inside the various issues.
- Uniquely, readers never learn the true identity of this story’s one-off “companion”. While the Doctor continues to call the character “Finney” throughout the adventure, the first episode makes it clear that this was an identity the thief had assumed in order to gain access to the Doctor’s cottage and therefore the TARDIS.
Original print details[]
(Publication with page count and closing captions)
- TVA 55 (2 pages) More Next Week!
- TVA 56 (2 pages) More next week!
- TVA 57 (2 pages) More Next Week!
- TVA 58 (2 pages) Will Dr. Who join with the Daleks to destroy Earth? Find out in Next Week's Countdown!
- TVA 59 (3 pages) Will Dr. Who survive the searing heat of the Sun? Find out in next week's exciting adventure!
- TVA 60 (3 pages) Discover if Dr. Who has a chance for survival in next week's TV ACTION!
- TVA 61 (3 pages) Can Dr. Who stem the Dalek advance with a Dinosaur charge? See TV ACTION next week!
- TVA 62 (3 pages) Another new Dr. Who Story next week!
Continuity[]
- The Daleks seek revenge after the Doctor destroyed their Earth invasion force from Antarctica. (COMIC: *Sub Zero)
- The Daleks plot to turn the Doctor into a humanoid Dalek. The methods employed to transform the Doctor mimic those employed during their efforts to discover the Dalek factor (TV: The Evil of the Daleks) and their Antarctic-based invasion. (COMIC: *Sub Zero)
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