TEXT: 5:40pm - 6:05pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM IAN: Surely we've got our twelve minute lead still? DOCTOR: (Somberly.) I'm afraid not. It's down to eight. It will be reduced even further after our next landing. We must face the facts; the Daleks are closing in on us. [SCENE_BREAK] 2: VORTEX (The TARDIS journeys through vortex. Closer behind is the DALEK time machine.) [SCENE_BREAK] 3: INT. HOUSE. DOWNSTAIRS HALL (An eerie house. The fire in the main hall has two large closed eyes and a nose built into the stone above the mouth of the fireplace itself. The effect created is of an open mouthed hideous Gargoyle like creature. The sound of thunder crashes through the room. Next to the fireplace, near to a cobweb-covered candelabra, the TARDIS materialises. BARBARA steps out followed by IAN, VICKI and the DOCTOR. The main staircase of the house faces them. The ornate banisters begin and end with statues of figures holding up bowls on their heads from which emanates a strange mist.) BARBARA: I'm not wild about this place. IAN: I don't know...ideal place to fight Daleks, you know...good stout walls... (He walks over to the foot of the staircase.) an upper storey, stairs...Daleks don't like stairs. (IAN steps on the first stair that creaks underneath his foot. Suddenly the lights flicker and a bat flies out of the darkness and swoops towards the travellers as the thunder crashes again. BARBARA screams. The DOCTOR'S words of reassurance are drowned out by the thunder.) VICKI: (Covering her head.) Probably vampires, if you ask me. IAN: Oh, charming! DOCTOR: Oh, rubbish my child. Vampire bats are only to be
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.