TEXT: 5:40pm - 6:05pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1: INT. CONTROL ROOM (A DALEK glides up to a control panel and observes the readings. It turns to a communicator.) FIRST DALEK: Our greatest enemies have left the planet Xeros. They are once again in time and space. SECOND DALEK: (OOV: over tannoy.) They cannot escape! Our time machine will soon follow them. They will be exterminated! Exterminated! Exterminated! [SCENE_BREAK] 2: VORTEX (The TARDIS flies through the space and time vortex...) [SCENE_BREAK] 3: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (The DOCTOR fiddles with a huge machine on one side of the console room. Upright and circular in shape, it has a screen in its centre that is surrounded by a multitude of dials and switches. VICKI stands nearby, whistling horribly out of tune.) DOCTOR: Don't whistle, dear, please? Hmm? VICKI: Well, have you nearly finished Doctor? (The DOCTOR gesticulates and answers with a component from the machine clenched between his teeth, making the reply completely undecipherable. VICKI smiles. She holds another component - a vaguely rectangular metal plate. After a second she starts tunelessly whistling again.) DOCTOR: (Angrily, again with his mouth full.) Stop whistling! Hmm! VICKI: (Slamming the plate down.) Well, can I do anything to help?! DOCTOR: (Still with his mouth full.)... buzz off now, hmm! (VICKI storms out of the room, but stops to slam the metal plate down, again distracting the DOCTOR.) [SCENE_BREAK] 4: INT. TARDIS. LIVING AREA (IAN is reading a book called " Monsters from outer space." VICKI stands behind him.) VICKI: What are you reading? IAN: Hmm
SUMMARY:
The travellers learn from the Time-Space Visualiser taken from theMoroks' museum that Daleks equipped with their own time machine are on their trail with orders to exterminate them. They flee in the TARDIS. The chase begins on the desert planet Aridius and takes in a number of stopping-off points, including a spooky haunted house which is actually a futuristic fun-fair attraction. Eventually both time machines arrive on the jungle planet Mechanus, where the Daleks try to infiltrate and kill the Doctor's party with a robotic double of him. The travellers are taken prisoner by the Mechonoids - robots sent some fifty years earlier to prepare landing sites for human colonists who never arrived - and meet Steven Taylor, a stranded astronaut who has been the Mechonoids' captive for the past two years. The Daleks and the Mechonoids engage in a fierce battle which ends in their mutual destruction. The Doctor's party seizes this opportunity to escape. The Doctor reluctantly helps Ian and Barbara to use the Daleks' time machine to return home.