Saturday 24 February 1973

Frontier in Space

Premise: The TARDIS lands inside an Earth spaceship in the far future where the dominant space powers, Earth and Draconia, are on the brink of war.

Notes: This story and the next one form a loose twelve part epic where the Dalek's hire the Master to engage a war between Earth and Draconia so that when the Dalek army attacks both empires will be too weak to resist. Michael Wisher provides the Dalek voices for the first time here and would later go on to play Davros in Genesis of the Daleks. This was the last appearance of Roger Delgado as the Master as he died in a car crash in Turkey not long after the serial had finished its original broadcast.

Verdict: While it may be repetitive, there's no denying that this story has an epic scale that has rarely been seen in Doctor Who before. The adventure takes you across the galaxy and back and the appearance of the Daleks at the end is classic 9/10

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