History Recap / DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase

-->-- '''Ian Chesterton''' to Vicki, speaking for a nation.

'''Production code:''' R

Written by Creator/TerryNation. This six-episode serial first aired from May 22 to June 26, 1965.

Episodes: "The Executioners", "The Death of Time", "Flight Through Eternity", "Journey into Terror", "The Death of Doctor Who", "The Planet of Decision".

-->''I shall miss them. Yes, I shall miss them. Silly old fusspots. Come along, my dear, it's... time we were off..''

-->-- '''Ian''', to Vicki, speaking for a nation.

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This serial holds the record for most companions in a single regular story in Classic Who, an honour it shares with "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Master Plan]]" if you count Bret. It was eventually surpassed by the Tenth Doctor story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd Journey's End]]" in New Who in 2008. (The 20th anniversary special "[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]" technically features eleven returning cast members, though a few are just cameos and within the story some are just illusions.)

This serial holds the record for most companions in a single story in Classic Who, an honour it shares with "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Master Plan]]" if you count Bret. It was surpassed by the Tenth Doctor story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd Journey's End]]" in New Who. The 20th anniversary special "[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]" potentially has as many as ten companions featured, depending on who you count.

* AllThereInTheScript: The three main pillars of the Mechanus forest set were referred to in the script as the "Gubbage Canes".

* WhamEpisode: It may seem like a comical and lesser Dalek story, but has major implications. The Daleks have created a time machine, so for the first time the Doctor's enemies can time travel and returning to the TARDIS no longer means safety. It's also the start of the deranged pepper-pots being able to show up anywhere or anywhen, allowing the Last Great Time War to happen. (Indeed, some people have theorised that [[WildMassGuessing this serial is actually the earliest appearance of the Time War]] in the series, and these Daleks are trying to take the Doctor out of the war seven lives early, commando-style.) It also saw the departure of Creator/WilliamRussell and Creator/JacquelineHill, marking the point where the series definitively transitioned from its original ensemble cast to RevolvingDoorCasting where Creator/WilliamHartnell as the Doctor was the only constant. Only one final leap lay ahead - the idea that you could [[TheNthDoctor recast the Doctor too...]]

This serial holds the record for most companions in a single story in Classic Who, an honour it shares with "The Daleks' Master Plan" if you count Bret. It was surpassed by the Tenth Doctor story "Journey's End" in New Who. The 20th anniversary special "The Five Doctors" potentially has as many as ten companions featured, depending on who you count.

Steven Taylor stows away on the TARDIS, and is not discovered by the Doctor until the following serial.

The Mechanoids reappear 40 years later, in the AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho audio play [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho065TheJuggernauts "The Juggernauts"]].

-->''I shall miss them. Yes, I shall miss them. Silly old fusspots. Come along, my dear, it's... time we were off..''

* VisibleBoomMic: Not the boom mic, but Ian walks right into the camera's shadow when he and the Docter are exploring the 'haunted house'.

* WhamEpisode: It may seem like a comical and lesser Dalek story, but has major implications. The Daleks have created a time machine, so for the first time the Doctor's enemies can time travel and returning to the TARDIS no longer means safety. It's also the start of the deranged pepper-pots being able to show up anywhere or anywhen, allowing the Last Great Time War. (Indeed, some people have theorised that [[WildMassGuessing this is actually the earliest appearance of the Time War]] in the series, and these Daleks are trying to take the Doctor out of the war early, commando-style.) It also saw the departure of Creator/WilliamRussell and Creator/JacquelineHill, marking the point where the series definitively transitioned from its original ensemble cast to RevolvingDoorCasting where Creator/WilliamHartnell as the Doctor was the only constant. Only one final leap lay ahead - the idea that you could [[TheNthDoctor recast the Doctor too...]]