TEXT: 5:15pm - 5:40pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM DOCTOR: Well, I suggest before we go outside and explore, let us clean ourselves up. SUSAN: Oh, yes! (The DOCTOR takes up his coat and points at an instrument on the console.) DOCTOR: Now, what does the radiation read, Susan? (SUSAN looks at a dial on the console.) SUSAN: It's reading normal, Grandfather. (The travellers walk off into another section of the ship. Behind them, the needle on the dial suddenly moves...into the "Danger" zone - a warning light begins to flash....) [SCENE_BREAK] 2: EXT. FOREST (The forest outside the ship seems to radiate heat.) (The strangely shaped trees have heavy rings round the trunks and rise from a white, ashy soil.) (Other foliage hangs from the upper branches and shrubs with stark tendril leaves adorn the forest floor. The travellers emerge from the TARDIS in fresh clothes although the DOCTOR would simply seem to be in a cleaned up version of his usual apparel. They all look round at their strange surroundings.) BARBARA: There's been a forest fire. Everything's sort of white and ashen. IAN: Funny mist. DOCTOR: The heat must have been indescribable. (He picks up a chunk of soil.) DOCTOR: Look at this soil here. Look at it! It's all turned to sand and ashes. (He hands a piece of soil each to BARBARA and SUSAN.) DOCTOR: Extraordinary. How can shrubs and trees grow in soil like that, hmm? (They brush the soil off their hands.) IAN: Something else that's strange. There's quite a breeze blowing. SUSAN: Well? IAN: Well, look at the branches and things. (A look at the branches reveals what IAN'S talking about.) SUSAN: (Surprised.) But, they don't seem to be moving. BARB
SUMMARY:
The TARDIS has brought the travellers to the planet Skaro where they meet two indigenous races - the Daleks, malicious mutant creatures encased in armoured travel machines, and the Thals, beautiful humanoids with pacifist principles. They convince the Thals of the need to fight for their own survival. Joining forces with them and braving Skaro's many dangers, they launch a two-pronged attack on the Dalek city. The Daleks are all killed when, during the course of the fighting, their power supply is cut off.