TEXT: 5:45pm - 6:10pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1: EXT. ARIDIUS (With a straining, groaning sound, a buried DALEK rises up out of the sand and looks about its surroundings.) DOCTOR: Keep your head down. They haven't seen us yet. BARBARA: (Pointing.) Doctor, look! There's more of them. (BARBARA points to her right.) [SCENE_BREAK] 2: EXT. ARIDIUS (A FIRST DALEK glides up to another that waits on a small ridge.) SECOND DALEK: The enemy time machine is in this area. FIRST DALEK: We can locate the position with our seismic detectors. SECOND DALEK: Find and destroy it. The remainder will search for the humans. FIRST DALEK: Are they to be taken alive? SECOND DALEK: No. They are to be exterminated. FIRST DALEK: Good! SECOND DALEK: Destroyed. FIRST DALEK: Exterminated! SECOND DALEK:... Let the search begin. [SCENE_BREAK] 3: EXT. ARIDIUS DOCTOR: Stay down. One of them's coming this way! (The DOCTOR and BARBARA duck down behind the ridge of sand that they are lying on. A DALEK glides past without seeing them. Once past, the DOCTOR and BARBARA sit up again.) DOCTOR: We must find the TARDIS before they do, hmm? Hmm? BARBARA: Yes, and we must warn Ian and Vicki. They don't even know the Daleks are here. DOCTOR: Yes, ye... (Realising what she has said.) Warn them? But how? We haven't seen them for hours. Anyway, it's no good hanging about here. Come on, let's get moving, come... (They struggle to their feet. But before they can move on, they are stopped in their tracks by the sight of two alien beings who stand before them. Basically human
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.