Infotext: As we’ve already discussed, this serial’s original ending was a discussion back in the laboratory. This fell victim to a timing cut. Imagine a three-shot of the Doctor, Jo, and the Brigadier around the Tardis Console. “I must get the Tardis working again, Jo,” says the Doctor. “I think I’m going to need it.”

Infotext: Afterwards, Jon Pertwee was most vocal about the scene’s shortcomings, in Dalek strategy as well as Dalek numbers: the Daleks attack the house from the rear, so the diplomats make their escape through the front door.

Infotext: The production’s limitations in the Dalek department start to become apparent here.

Infotext: In February, a Dalek visited a Beckenham primary school and exterminated one of the children. It was there to tell Class iM that they had won the Radio Times story-writing competition. A BBC film camera crew was in attendance, and the atrocity was broadcast to the nation on 22 February (in Nationwide).

Infotext: Now shake in your shoes as you listen to Dudley Simpson’s ‘Dread Theme’.