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$\"\"$ <\/a> $\"\"$ And that made me realize that my next post about Doctor Who is long overdue. Fortunately, as I blog my way through the classic series, it turns out that the next one for me to write about is Planet of the Daleks<\/a> $\"\"$ , the sequel to the last episode I blogged about, Frontier in Space<\/a>, both from the Jon Pertwee era.<\/p>\n

This episode picks up where the last one left off as a cliffhanger, in which the Doctor was injured and collapsed. He is now in a coma, with ice forming on him, and so once the TARDIS has landed, Jo Grant goes out looking for help.<\/p>\n

Futuristic technology as depicted in the past often looks dated when watched decades later. In this episode, there is an automatic oxygen supply in the TARDIS \u2013 which turns out to be a box with three cylinders in it.<\/p>\n

When the Doctor recovers and ventures out, he encounters some people who seem familiar to him. Eventually he realizes that they are Thals, and so he tells them that he is the Doctor and that he visited Skaro generations earlier with Ian, Barbara, and Susan.<\/p>\n

$\"\"$ The Daleks are on that planet, trying to discover the secret to invisibility which the natives have developed. A massive army of Daleks is there, ready to set forth once they have achieved what they came to. The Thals are determined to stop them.<\/p>\n

The Daleks are depicted as utilizing biological warfare.<\/p>\n

The episode explores serious subjects related to morality and leadership. Courage, the Doctor says, isn\u2019t not being frightened: it is being frightened and doing what you have to anyway. Command is said to be the perview of humans rather than machines \u2013 although the comparison is an awkward one since neither the Doctor nor the Thals are \u201chumans\u201d and the Daleks are cyborgs. The Doctor quips at one point, \u201cYou know, for a man who abhors violence, I must say I took great satisfaction in doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the end, the place where the Dalek army is in a state of suspended animation, a sort of cold storage, is flooded with freezing liquid. The supreme Dalek shouts that the Daleks have merely been delayed and not defeated \u2013 \u201cthe Daleks are never defeated!\u201d And so the allegedly supreme beings in the universe (in their own eyes), rather than being the objects<\/em> of blind faith, offer it vainly themselves.<\/p>\n

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