Planet of the Daleks
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| Story Code: SSS / Season 10 | UK Airdate: 7 Apr to 12 May 1973 | Doctor: Jon Pertwee |
| First airings by location | UK Repeats / Foreign Cable and Satellite | Previous Story / Next Story |
This story aired in the following known countries. They are listed in chronological order according to known airdate. If no month is noted, the actual airdate is not confirmed, and is a close approximate. (Refer also to Selling Doctor Who for expanded airdates.)
| Australia | Dec 73 | b/w |
| Singapore | May 74 | b/w |
| Hong Kong | Jul 74 | b/w |
| United Arab Emirates | 75 | PAL |
| Gibraltar | Jan 77 | b/w |
| Saudi Arabia | Feb 78 | b/w |
- The story may have been dubbed into Arabic.
- The BBC wiped the colour PAL tape of part three certainly before the colour Pertwees were offered to New Zealand in late 1974 but presumably after the episodes had been supplied to the United Arab Emirates, where the complete serial is believed to have aired all in colour. (Airdates for the UAE are not known, but the clearances for the sale of the other season 10 serials to "Dubai" were paid in May 1975; but the offer and sale of the serial could have been done years earlier.)
- The serial was not sold to New Zealand in 1974/75 because it no longer existed in full colour.
- The UAE returned their tapes of parts four, five and six in 1991.
Reissue
- The serial was released again in early 1985, as part of a package of all 24 Jon Pertwee stories, and sold to Australia (in Aug 86, for the first time in colour), and also to:
| United States | from Mar 85 | NTSC |
| New Zealand | May 86 | PAL & b/w |
| Canada | 1990s? | NTSC & b/w? |
6-part version of the serial on Lehigh Valley channel 39, 28 December 1987; Philadelphia Inquirer
- In New Zealand and Australia, part three was supplied and aired in black and white.
- When the story was sold into US syndication in 1984, it was supplied in several versions. The plan had been for Lionheart to distribute just the colour episodes, to be renumbered 1 to 5. However due to an error, the BBC supplied Lionheart with the first five episodes, including the b/w part 3, but not part 6. A few stations aired it like this, but it was eventually pulled from circulation once the error was noticed. After it had received part 6, Lionheart made two versions for their syndication package: an episodic 5-parter, that omitted the b/w third episode, and renumbered the others parts 1 to 5, as had been the original plan. Scenes from part 4 that related to the 'missing' third episode were removed, and other scenes were re-sequenced to smooth over the joins. The third version was an omnibus "movie", which was simply a re-edit of the new 5-part version, with the credits and cliffhanger recaps removed.
- A full-colour 6-part version was also made by Lionheart; a replacement third episode was created by editing together the last 10 minutes of part two and the first 15 minutes of part four. Some accounts report that this was made only for use in Canada, however this is unlikely given that the serial wasn't shown there until the early 1990s (on YTV), and there is evidence of 6-part versions screening in the US much earlier than that - such as on Lehigh Valley channel 39 in Pennsylvania, KUED channel 12 in Montana, and stations in North Carolina, all of which definitely showed a 6-part version in 1986 and 1987.
- The proper 6-part version, complete with the b/w episode 3, was eventually made available for US syndication in 1993, but by then with so few stations still buying the series it wouldn't have had a very wide distribution.
- A full account (albeit slightly out of date now) of the edits made for the US edition of Planet of the Daleks can be found HERE
- When the serial was broadcast on Australia's Sci-Fi channel in late 2012, the DVD restored colour version aired on television for the first time.
US TV Guide descriptions
More Information
Title: Planet of the Daleks
- Episode 1: The Tardis lands on a strange planet and the Doctor is taken gravely ill.
- Episode 2: Doctor Who and the Thals search for Jo, who has fallen victim to a deadly disease
- Episode 3: (not originally syndicated)
- Episode 4: Doctor Who and the Thals are trapped in the Dalek headquarters.
- Episode 5: Doctor Who, Jo and the Thals escape into the jungle where they are pursued by Dalek patrols.
- Episode 6: Doctor Who and the Thals are discovered when they try to infiltrate Dalek headquarters.
- Compilation: The Doctor battles the Daleks after learning they were behind The Master's attempts to bring about interplanetary war.
