History Recap / DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase

* TheOtherMarty: In a bizarre example of this trope, William Hartnell's regular body double was recruited to play the Daleks' android version of the Doctor later in the story. Unfortunately, the director didn't attempt to disguise the fact that the body double didn't look anything like Hartnell from the ''front''.

* YouLookFamiliar: Peter Purves plays both Morton Dill (the Southern tourist with the horrible no-good very bad Southern accent) and Steven Taylor, new companion introduced in episode 6.

* {{You Have To Believe Me}}: Alas poor tourist.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Barbara and Ian finally arrive home after two years. At the time of the show's run, it would be assumed that this is a long time to be time-hoping and that they should have arrived sooner.

* {{Camp}}: This...wasn't the show's finest moment. Even the most diehard Dalek fans tend to go "Yes, well, that didn't happen, now did it?" when asked about this episode.
** Probably one of the most awkward examples is in the first episode where six Daleks spend ''forty seconds walking out a door''. In almost complete silence.

* ClumsyCopyrightCensorship: The Region 1 DVD release has two minutes cut from episode one of "The Chase" in order to avoid paying for the rights to include a short scene with the Beatles. The scene is not crucial to the plot, but it's still an annoying edit. Thankfully, the episode exists uncut in Region 2.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Barbara and Ian finally arrive home after two years. At the time of the show's run, it would be assumed that this is a long time to be time-hoping and that they should have arrived sooner. But later episodes (and series) makes this HarsherInHindsight since Barbara and Ian are one of the few to actually get home before the KillEmAll scenarios have companions falling like flies.
** Sorry? It's still pretty rare for a companion to get killed. It happened in "The Dalek Master Plan", and then not until Adric's death.
* FridgeHorror: You know that Alabama tourist? After he saw the heroes ''and'' the Daleks, he apparently went [[GoMadFromTheRevelation insane]] ''and/or'' is going to be committed to a mad house. Weak chance of dodging both bullets. To a lesser extent (of "fridge"ing), the events on the ship, for those who don't know about the ''Mary Celeste''; also the profound silence at the end of that scene would seem to imply that everyone who was onboard is now dead.

* NewYorkCity: The Doctor and crew visit the city briefly, in a rare example of the Doctor landing somewhere on Earth other than England. The city and the Empire State Building would be revisited by the Tenth Doctor and Martha (and the Daleks!) in the appropriately named "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E4DaleksInManhattan Daleks In Manhattan]]".

* StockEpisodeTitles: An odd example, since none of the individual episodes is called "The Chase" - the serial name, however, has 31 uses.
* TheOtherMarty: In a bizarre example of this trope, William Hartnell's regular body double was recruited to play the Daleks' android version of the Doctor later in the story. Unfortunately, the director didn't attempt to disguise the fact that the body double didn't look anything like Hartnell from the ''front''.

* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Stephen. HeGotBetter by the next serial.

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Apparently, the country boy tourist.

It can be watched [[http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/xv07t_tardismedia_the-chase here.]]

* FridgeHorror: You know that Alabama tourist? After he saw the heroes ''and'' the Daleks, he apparently went [[GoMadFromTheRevelation insane]] ''and/or'' is going to be committed to a mad house. Weak chance of dodging both bullets. To a lesser extent (of "fridge"ing), the events on the ship, for those who don't know about the ''Mary Celeste''; also probably some of the sailors died as a result of jumping off.

* HistoricalInJoke: the ''Mary Celeste'', again, as she really existed and really was a GhostShip.

* NewYorkCity: The Doctor and crew visit the city briefly, in a rare example of the Doctor landing somewhere on Earth other than England. The city and the Empire State Building would be revisited by the Tenth Doctor and Martha (and the Daleks!) in the appropriately named "Daleks In Manhattan".

* TheOtherMarty: In a bizarre example of this trope, William Hartnell's regular body double was recruited to play the Daleks' android version of the Doctor later in the story. Unfortunately, the director didn't attempt to disguise the fact that the body double didn't look anything like Hartnell from the ''front''.

* NewYorkCity: The Doctor and crew visit the city briefly, in a rare example of the Doctor landing somewhere on Earth other than England. The city and the Empire State Building would be revisited by the Tenth Doctor and Martha (and the Daleks!) in the appropriately named DoctorWhoNSS3E4DaleksInManhattan.

* Haunted House: Subverted, since it's really a closed funfair exhibit.

We eventually end up on the jungle planet of Mechanus, where a group of robots called Mechonoids take the travellers prisoner. They were sent fifty years earlier to build a city ready for a human colony to arrive and take possession. The colonists never showed up, but the Mechonoids continue to defend the city in readiness.

The Mechonoids and Daleks battle, mutual destruction ensues, and the Doctor rescues Steven Taylor, a human astronaut who has been the Mechonoids' prisoner for some time. Ian and Barbara decide to use the rather more reliable Dalek time machine to get home to 1960s London, reluctantly helped by the Doctor, who takes Steven with him in the TARDIS. The Mechonoids reappear 40 years later, in the {{Big Finish|DoctorWho}} audio play ''The Juggernauts''.

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--> ''Don't just stand there and scream, you little fool, run!''

The Mechonoids and Daleks battle, mutual destruction ensues, and the Doctor rescues Steven Taylor, a human astronaut who has been the Mechonoids' prisoner for some time. Ian and Barbara decide to use the rather more reliable Dalek time machine to get home to 1960s London, reluctantly helped by the Doctor, who takes Steven with him in the TARDIS. The Mechonoids reappear 40 years later, in the BigFinish audio play ''The Juggernauts''.

* Main/GhostShip: ''Mary Celeste''
* Main/HistoricalInJoke: the ''Mary Celeste'', again, as she really existed and really was a GhostShip.

* {{Tearjerker}}: After Ian and Barbara go back and he Doctor and Vicki watch them through the screen, the doctor's face as he stoically states that he will miss them breaks [[{{Tropers.Fyrewyre}} this Troper's]] heart.
* TheOtherMarty: In a bizarre example of this trope, William Hartnell's regular body double was recruited to play the Daleks' android version of the Doctor later in the story. Unfortunately, the director didn't attempt to disguise the fact that the body double didn't look anything like Hartnell from the ''front'', which results in a number of scenes being reduced to {{Narm}} of the highest order, and even totally blows the suspense when Ian attacks the real Doctor instead of the android.

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