Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan + Mission to the Unknown - REVIEW - Dalekcember 

Yes, this is the serial where the 1st Doctor complains about a place being "full of Arabs". It...it was a different time. Anyway, be sure to "like" the video, share it around and leave a comment to appease the almighty algorithm!.

I think the Monk's appearance makes it clear for the first time just how far the Doctor is willing to go to defeat the Daleks. Not only is he willing to sacrifice one of his fellow Time Lords for a tiny tactical advantage but he's willing to do it to a schoolfriend who's unfortunate antics he partly blames himself for.

"You make your incompetence sound like an achievement" Ouch

Fan legend has it that Terry Nation and Dennis Spooner traded off writing some of the middle episodes and would leave each other with cliffhangers to see if and how the other writer would resolve it. I have to admit of the lost stories from the Hartnell era, this one intrigued me the most. I'd love to see more of it returned to the archives.

I love the "Feast of Steven". It's the first Christmas special and it's a panto. I also think it helps break up Master Plan into two chucks, giving us some needed levity amidst the death. Without the humor here and with the Monk, I think Sara Kingdom wouldn't have been so likable and it wouldn't have hurt so much when she died. This is one of my two favorite Dalek stories.

The last Dalek story of the Hartnell era.

David Graham who voiced the Daleks in the first three Dalek stories makes his final time doing such a thing, But it’s not the end of him on Dr Who.

Are we not gonna mention how we see Katrina’s corpse floating through space while eerie music plays? This story is hella dark and bleak and that’s not even mentioning the quite obvious Hiroshima parallels on Kembel at the end of the story damn damn damn

I love it when Chen knocks that Dalek out of the way. You can almost see the Dalek thinking, "WTF, did he just do that?" and barely restraining himself from killing Chen right there.

The 'Mission to the Unknown' re-creation was AMAZING!!! I really hope they find 'The Dalek's Master Plan', because I want to see if director Douglas Camfield did any more incredible / imaginative camera work with the Dalek scenes...

The most terrifying aspect of Mavic Chen's character is how he grips writing utensils...

I remember listening to this on audio for the first time in 2009 in full, totally worth it!

My absolute favourite Hartnell story. Overlong? It's Nation, of course it is, but unlike the previous stories the length is justified through scope and ambition. I don't think a single story in the show's history is as large scale and massive as this one. It's a masterpiece with some of the best individual episodes of the classic era. Yes, the Christmas episode is pointless. But I still love it.

You really got to love how there will be some actors in Doctor Who that get their start playing small characters, who then later get recast for really important characters. I mean just look at Nicholas Courtney, Colin Baker, and Peter Capaldi.

The Daleks Master Plan should have been a movie.

10:44 you make your incompetence sound like an achievement BURN

Next time, We move to the start of the Troughton era and two sentences I have in mind.. ‘I am your servant!’ & ‘DALEKS CONQUER & DESTROY!’

Imagine this fully remade with today's technology.

Props to you for working without most of the footage and making the story sound interesting, regardless of being at least four episodes too long. I’ll be intrigued to see how I feel about this one once I listen to the soundtrack recordings.

On a side note, the Target novelisation (split into two volumes) is even weirder. Volume 2 opens up with the events of Episode 7 which take up two chapters and culminate in a freakin' pie fight! Then by the end of the novel, everyone is dead. It's way more jarring than the televised version. 'The Feast of Steven' should really have been novelised as its own short story if they wanted to add it to the library.

Just worked out that the reason I love these so much is that it’s you talking the classic series! Never realised you were so nuWho orientated, makes a great change!

Wow I had no idea Nicholas Courtney was in Doctor Who before becoming the Brigadier. With how much people love the Brig and pointing out when actors reappear in Doctor Who as different characters, you'd think that'd be a more common piece of trivia. Well the more you know! 8:12 I think it was unintentional, but that Dalek's reaction was priceless! It looks so bewildered like "Did he really just do that?"

I'm late to the party but while I agree with your criticisms I still think this is one of the finest Doctor Who stories ever put onto television and it's my number 1 request for an animated recreation. I think that despite all of it's flaws, the positives of how grand and ambitious the story is as well as the extremely good acting from Hartnell, Purves, and Marsh as well as the Daleks make this a feather in the cap of the great First Doctor's era. Steven is a highly underrated companion as is Sara, who I think you should've talked about in more detail considering her dramatic death at the end of the serial.

If they ever make an animation of the scene with the cricket field they should have The fifth doctor in the background just vaguely running away so that he doesn't Create a paradox

Give Josh Snares reconstruction a watch, seriously impressive stuff.

some of the weird earth and christmas stuff in part 7 feels like the star wars holiday special this gave us a dr who rogue one AND holiday special

I'm REALLY hoping we get animations for The Highlanders and The Daleks' Master Plan sometime soon. They're probably the two most important stories that haven't been given the animated treatment yet. Especially when you consider that FAR less integral and acclaimed stories like Galaxy 4 and The Macra Terror got to be animated first.

*Elsa Voice* Mission to the Unknoooooooown!

I consider this as the very first Christmas special

I have an idea about how to do a animated version of this story. Divide it into two halves and release the two halves over the course of a year or a year and a half. Sort of like the Target novelization of the story or some of the DC animated movies (The Death and Rebirth of Superman, The Dark Knight Returns, The Long Halloween, etc.) Half 1: Parts 1-6 (plus Mission to the Unknown) Half 2: Parts 7-12 And then, much like those DC movies I listed, release a deluxe edition later on that has both halves in it.

I remember listening to the mission of the Unknown scared the hell out of me being 6 year old

The cricket scene would make a cute modern short film.

Episode 7,The Feast of Steven is also the only episode we know for sure no longer exists,it was never made into any 16mm prints,because it was never sold overseas,and the 2inch videotape was unfortunately wiped in 1967,we have the paper work to prove it.

I love mission to the unknown and the daleks master plan mission to the unknown is really the version of mission to the unknown I love the daleks master plan it is a great doctor who story story and we get to see some episode of it

Wish we still had this full story What a masterpiece. And I would have loved to see Katarina death in full

I’m surprised that no writer made a joke about Bret being played by Nicholas Courtney. Like someone saying Bret is a descendant of the Brigadier.

That Dalek is a savage!

Incidentally a happy Dalekcember to all of you at home. Hmm

I'd like to see companions from different times or planets again

Regarding the Christmas greeting where Hartnell breaks the fourth wall, that was not an ad lib at all. The line was in the shooting script, so it was planned all along.

In my opinion, this is Hartnell's best story. I've sat through the Loose Cannon reconstruction three times and was hooked, despite reconstructions sometimes being hard to become immersed in. Aside from Episode 7, I don't have any major pacing issues with it myself - "The Daleks" (which is still really good) and "The Web Planet" are bigger offenders in that regard. The characters, the Daleks, the scale - it's all great and I just wish the full product was in a more complete state.

The Time Destructor was basically a nuke. All the Daleks had to do was use it on one planet and bluff that they could do it again to anyone else if they failed to surrender to them. Its like what Roosevelt did with Japan after dropping the second nuke. They only had 2 nukes. The daleks could have destroyed the earth with it and then forced survivors to mine more Terrarium for them from Uranus while they threatened other planets.

4:15 it starts

8:10 did that guy just slap a dalek.

With it’s “creation and then kill” attitude to characters as well as an insane premise, moments of blatant fan-service and bonkers ending, it’s like Game of Thrones 50 years early 😁

The Long and Fascinating History of 'The Daleks' Masterplan' (and the rest of Doctor Who's Third Season) - info is from memory per the 1 hour long documentary on The Gunfighters DVD - highly recommend it; the documentary, not The Gunfighters. Truth be told, this 12 part epic was one of the main issues then producer John Wiles (Season 3) had during his time on the program (The other being Hartnell). When Verity Lambert decided to leave the program after Season 2 she plotted out the front half of Season 3. (Galaxy 4, The Myth Makers, The 12 episode epic of The Daleks' Masterplan, & Mission to the Unknown (later)). She choose to commission a 12 episode serial due to the ongoing Dalek Mania (which this serial would kill in its tracks). The final Serial she oversaw was Galaxy 4, but needing to make up for the lost Planet of Giants Episode 4 (Episodes 3 + 4 were compressed into the Episode 3 we have today) she gave the main cast Week 44/44 of production off in favor of making Mission to the Unknown w/ out the main cast. The Last Act of The Original Producer would be the very undoing of Doctor Who's Second Producer. When Terry Nation came back to John Wiles with his script it wasn't finished, so Former Script Editor Dennis Spooner was brought in to write the episodes based on Terry Nations plot descriptions for episodes 6 & 8-12. The Feast of Saint Steven was a "God Send" because they knew they didn't have enough content for the entire serial, but needed to meet the requirement for fear that the entire back end of Season 3 (The Massacre, The Ark, The Celestial Toymaker, The Gunfighters, The Savages, & The War Machines) would've fallen through as those scripts weren't all yet ready yet either (I assume the entire "Back End" of Season 3 was commissioned by John Wiles (despite leaving the role of Producer after The Ark) as he wanted to avoid anything longer than a 4 episode serial after "The Daleks' Masterplan" fiasco) Innes Lloyd, one of the minds behind The Doctor regenerating and Patrick Troughton being cast as the Second Doctor, would oversee the rest of Season 3's production (Starting w/ The Celestial Toymaker), and stick around for the majority of Season 4 as well.

This shoulda honesly been called ``The Chase 2: The Daleks' Masterplan`` I mean, just look at Part 7! Would have been perfect for The Chase 2!

I love how that Master dude B***h slaps a dalek's eyestalk. Sassiest Dr Who villain of all time.

Hartnell's Christmas message to the audience was actually scripted.

Highlight of the day

"Episodes could be removed entirely" I mean, that's what they did.

Well, you couldn't have a scary, or tense episode broadcast on Christmas Day. That's the likely reason for part 7...imo.

Great review, but technically "Trial of a Timelord" is the longest Doctor Who story. Despite having four distinct parts, all 14 episodes are part of the same story, being numbered 1 to 14

What? I mean really... what? I thought dracula turning up was random but the cricket pitch speech.

One thing that I think needs stressing here it was the higher ups at the bbc who basically told them to make it a 12 parter and they had to work Around it

8:08 I'm pretty sure that's the only time anybody has bitch-slapped a Dalek! (correct me if I'm wrong)

I Love this Story its not perfect but its magical Great Review Power next!

Flamefrower what an end.

7:33 i watched the colorised version and it was actualy blackface that got darker each episode SOMEHOM

My favourite Dalek story of the Hartnell Era

Thanks for the review... I have the novelization (novelisation) of this show, and that's what I know it from.

Chan was Neal Delgado’s blue print for “ The Master”. A little fun fact.

I actually have the Target novelization of The Daleks' Masterplan, so I have experienced it in some form. Well, I say novelization. Novelizations. With an 's'. It's split into two books. Yeah. That tells you how long the story is, particularly with the events of Mission To The Unknown added. Tell you what, I don't recall the Doctor making a racist remark about Arabs in the books, and I had no idea Mavic Chen was a white actor playing a multicultural character since there was just an illustration of him on the cover of the first book, so I was able to enjoy it a bit more. Yeesh, definitely a different time!

Imagine if this story was remade into a movie like the Peter Cushing ones

7:16 Dalek Supreme hitting table. Nice.

I have to agree to disagree yes its padded but it's mostly all good stuff which I can forgive

Most of the middle bits are hit or miss for me but holy shit the character deaths are really impactful. The final scene with Sarah. Then showing Stephen and the Dr looking like they have just Ben through hell, it's so good.

I don't know the cricket scene was pretty intense

Jean Marsh has got to be the only actor to be in both DW and the Twilight Zone.

Errm terry nation didn't write all 12 eps denis spooner wrote i think the second half including the feast of Stephen

The Steven Universe of Doctor Who

Will u do Cyber December next year or some other time or is this project a one off thing?

After seeing what the AI movie generation system Super Panavision 70's Star Trek XIII... Why not use this to recreate lost DR Who episode. And after hearing an AI Hank Williams sing Strait outa Compton... It could be a mens for future restorations too.

8:10 the Dalek is blow away😂

I have some information about it.

Also..could you explain the 2 months in advance thing surrounding copyright? You leave them on private for that time and they don’t get tagged?

Please at some point review the Invasion

Honestly whenever I watch this story I just end up skipping feast of Steven because it kills the pacing, without it the serial flows much smoother

Just saying. Loving this. Will. Cyberaruy be happening i hope

And Fun Fact: Both Mission to the Unknown and The Daleks' Master Plan were not aired in Australia!!!

⊙⊙ umm.... okay

So after all the dalek story line are done do you plan on doing the cybermen?

Do you class mission to the unknown as it’s own story or part of Masterplan?

I go to the University that remade Mission to the Unknown! If only I'd gotten there sooner. I'd have made an excellent Varga.

Poor dalek

I'm fine with the length of this story for the most part, but 7 and 8 seemed like a waste of time. They tried to be The Chase foe a bit after establishing such a dark tone. If they didn't want to continue the story on Christmas and New Year's, why just air reruns for two weeks?

Good

I felt the monk's inclusion in this arc was so unecessary, not to mention that the latter half of the story kinda loses the sense of urgency and hopelessness of Mission to the Unknown and the earlier episodes to to some more comedic moments, and While Feast of Steven was funny, I still have no clue why they gave it this particular title. Which is why I still think Dalek Invasion of Earth is the definitive Hartnel Dalek story, even if it does have it's issues as well.

Loose canon did a good daleks master plan

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The cricket scene is hilarious to a very narrow section of the population. I love it, but it’s out of place

This ambitious epic has a great premise but gets bogged down by an overindulgent run-time that being said it would be amazing to see the story in full as it was originally broadcast or even if it recreated in animated form. Speaking of an animated recreation of this 12 part epic would be a major and costly undertaking they could just cut out the "fluff" so it flows better.

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Mission to the Unknown was recreated by a bunch of fans with the help of the original actor and post on the doctor who youtube channel The Making-Of Mission to the Unknown | Doctor Who ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jbYq8A_6_dc.html Mission to the Unknown Recreation | FULL EPISODE | Doctor Who ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NW8yk-m5Ig8.html

0:00 lt goober allo allo

Did he say it's all full of Elephants?

Tbh I'm not bothered about the whole it was a different time. We know... if people get offended then they can choose to ignore, I accept it and don't complain. I think nothing of it.

You should have watched the recons not the audios especially for this and Evil are very visual heavy

No matter how many times I relistening to the part I don't hear what ever the doctor says that's "racist" it's too bad quality for me to make out