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Terry Nation, Doctor Who - The chase

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TitleDoctor Who - The chase
Artist(s):Terry Nation
Category:BBC - BBCDVD (Click on this button to view other releases of BBC - BBCDVD DVD's.)
Label and catalogue number:Picture of images/labels/BBC3.jpg labelBBC3 - BBCDVD 2809B
Format:Disc DVD's
Country:UK UK flag
Released:1965
Genre:Dramas - Sci-fi View all other tracks listed as Dramas - Sci-fi.
Run-off codes:A0101511595-A912 18 IFPI L558 Sony DADC
A0101512364-A922 18 IFPI L558 Sony DADC
Item deleted?No
Distributed / printed byPicture of images/labels/2 entertain.jpg label2 entertain
Page views:1377 times since 20th May, 2017, global rank is 3427, rank in dvds is 221.
My rating:*****
Guest rating:*****

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Cover conditionNear mint
Record conditionNear mint
BBC records label code-
Number have1
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Tracks

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Side & track noTrack and ArtistLength
A1The executioners25.25
A2The death of time23.32
A3Flight through eternity25.23
A4Journey into terror23.49
A5The death of Doctor Who23.27
A6The planet of decision26.29
A7Cusick in Cardiff12.45
A8Radio Times billings [PDF]
A9Coming soon - Myths and legends1.34
B1The thrill of the chase10.26
B2Last stop White City13.15
B3Daleks conquer and destroy22.38
B4Daleks beyond the screen21.55
B5Shawcraft - The original monster makers17.00
B6Follow that Dalek12.00
B7Give-a-show slides12.15
B8Photo gallery5.09
Total length of media 4:37:02.

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Extra notes on cover, middle (gatefold sleeve) and any inserts


Starring


William Hartnell (First Doctor)
Jacqueline Hill (Barbara Wright)
William Russell (Ian Chesterton)
Maureen O'Brien (Vicki)
Peter Purves (Steven Taylor)
Robert Marsden - Abraham Lincoln
Roger Hammond - Francis Bacon
Vivienne Bennett - Queen Elizabeth I
Hugh Walters - William Shakespeare
Richard Coe - Television announcer
Peter Hawkins and David Graham - Dalek voices
Robert Jewell, Kevin Manser, John Scott Martin, Gerald Taylor - Daleks
Ian Thompson - Malsan
Hywel Bennett - Rynian
Al Raymond - Prondyn
Jack Pitt - Mire Beast Operator
Arne Gordon - Guide
Peter Purves - Morton Dill
David Blake Kelly - Capt Benjamin Briggs
Dennis Chinnery - Albert C Richardson
Patrick Carter - Bosun
Douglas Ditta - Willoughby
Jack Pitt - Cabin Steward
John Maxim - Frankenstein
Malcolm Rogers - Count Dracula
Edmund Warwick - Robot Dr Who
Roslyn DeWinter - Grey Lady
Murphy Grumbar, Jack Pitt, John Scott Martin - Mechonoids
David Graham - Mechonoid voice
Jack Pitt, John Scott Martin, Ken Tyllsen - (With)

Written by


Terry Nation

Produced by


Verity Lambert

Directed by


Richard Martin

Synopsis


When the Doctor and his companions discover that a group of time-travelling Daleks have orders to exterminate them, a dangerous chase across time and space follows.

To escape the Daleks, the TARDIS must travel from the desert planet Aridius to the top of the Empire State Building on Earth, and from a mysterious sailing ship to a haunted house. But there is an even greater danger waiting for the time travellers when they reach the planet Mechanus ...

Background


The Daleks were in demand in 1965. Fans could already read about them in comic strips and books, play with all sorts of Dalek toys, and even wear Dalek slippers or wash with Dalek soap! Terry Nation's creations had bewitched the nation, so their third appearance in Doctor Who was much anticipated.

The Chase is an eventful story and, interestingly, one of the only times that the Daleks are used in the series for laughs. Featuring Daleks with a slightly altered design, it is a frantic dash through time and space with a dramatic change to the regular cast at the end of the story.

Schoolteachers Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton had pushed their way into the TARDIS in the first Doctor Who story in 1963 - so their sudden departure is rather moving. In their place comes space pilot Steven Taylor, played by Peter Purves, who also makes a cameo appearance earlier in the story playing a completely different character.

Two months after The Chase was broadcast, Daleks could be seen in colour for the first time on the big screen in Dr Who and the Daleks, based on the first Dalek story. The BBC brought some of these film Daleks, and three of these props, minus their bases, can be spotted in The Chase. The second Dalek story, The Dalek Invasion of Earth was similarly made into a film in 1966, and although a third Dalek film based on The Chase was considered, a film adaptation was never made.

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