Join us as we discuss the adventures of Dr. Who, Tom Campbell, Susan, and Louisa as they travel to the far-flung future Earth and meet some old friends. Simon and Eugene discuss.
This episode, originally released to our Patrons in 2020, is being released in honor of the late Bernard Cribbins, who recently passed.
Synopsis
Tom Campbell, constable, bumbles into a smash and grab jewelry store robbery and is koshed on the head. Running into nearby police box to summon backup, Tom passes out as he sees the inside of TARDIS, a time and space machine created by eccentric English inventor, Dr. Who.
When he awakens, the robbery is long over – very long over – for Dr. Who was just taking off on another trip in time and space and it is now the year 2150 CE and London is a ruin. Tom is cursorily introduced to Dr. Who, his granddaughter Susan and his niece Louisa. Without so much as a question, Tom quickly falls in as one of the team.
When TARDIS is trapped under collapsing debris, Tom and Dr. Who search for a crowbar in a nearby building. While investigating, Louisa and Susan are captured/rescued by Wyler and taken to a hidden resistance base. When Dr. Who and Tom return to TARDIS, they are surrounded by Robomen – zombie-like humans – and captured by the Daleks, who have invaded the Earth.
Dortmun, leader of the rebels, launches an infiltration attack on the Dalek flying saucer. Inside, Dr. Who and Tom are about to be robotized, luckily the attack disrupts the Daleks’ plans and Dr. Who and Tom escape, but are separated. Tom is trapped on the ship, while Dr. Who escapes with David, another of the rebels.
Louisa, who was part of the attack is also stuck on the ship and meets up with Tom as the ships takes off and heads for Befordshire, where the Daleks have a mineworks.
Susan and Dortmun, because he is in a wheelchair, had remained behind at the rebel base. Only Wyler returns from the disastrous raid and they decide to head to Watford. Susan leaves a note hoping Dr. Who will see it and follow her. Dortmun is soon killed by The Daleks as they escape London.
David and Dr. Who do return to the base, but fail to see the gigantic chalk note scrawled on the wall. Dr. Who decides to go to Bedfordshire to see the Dalek mineworks, knowing that it must be the key to the invasion.
Watford, which is on the way to Bedfordshire, is swarming with Daleks, causing Dr. Who and David to circumnavigate the town – possibly passing through Luton on their way to the mine.
Luckily, Wyler and Susan also find Watford too hot to handle, and Susan deduces that her grandfather will want to see the mineworks, so they press on to Bedfordshire. But first, they find some kindly ladies who are Dalek collaborators, who turn them over to the Daleks.
Dr. Who, David, Tom and Louisa all meet up and glean information on the mine. The Daleks have used forced human labor to manually dig a mine 2,890 kms deep. Having done this without releasing pockets of Stahlman’s gas or even Primord goo, the Daleks are now prepared to drop a bomb into the Earth’s core, blast the inner core (which is located another 2,260 kms deeper than the mine) out the backside of the planet like an olive pit, replace the pit with a pimento and fly the olive back to Skaro where they can occupy the planet. Although it’s not entirely clear if they’re trying to occupy Skaro from the Earth, or occupying the Earth as if it were an intergalactic bus as it passes the Skaro stop.
Luckily some well-placed wood planks are able to divert the bomb, cause it to detonate in the wrong place, releasing a huge surge of magnetic energy which draws all the metallic Daleks (but nothing else metallic) into the Earth’s core.
The Earth is saved and the Daleks will never invade again because magnetism will always be there for humans to use as a weapon against them.
Dr. Who returns TARDIS to the exact location it was before, but a few minutes earlier, allowing Tom the opportunity to capture the criminals is one easy swoop, masterfully accomplishing this without TARDIS exploding because it is occupying the same space and time it was before, nor Tom encountering his earlier self and running afoul of the Blinovitch Limitation effect.
The End. Stay tuned next time for the third movie in the series, The Daleks Chase Dr. Who, featuring Dr. Who, his granddaughter Susan, his second cousin, twice removed, Jennifer and a madcap London Bus Driver, Fred Scuttle.
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