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

Day of the Daleks

Premise: The world is on the brink of war and Sir Reginald Styles is attempting to negotiate a settlement by arranging a peace conference to be held in his home, Auderly House.

Notes: Gone for five years, the Daleks made a return in this serial and are in colour for the first time. Creator, Terry Nation, had tried to launch the Daleks in their own series in America but with no success. There were only three Daleks made for this episode, one gold and two grey. Their rather odd voices were provided by Oliver Gilbert and Peter Messaline who only did them for this episode. A scene was written a recorded which explained how the Daleks escaped their apparent final end at the hands of the second Doctor in Evil of the Daleks but it was cut due to timing reasons.

Verdict: An amazing script is let down by bad production values and an oddly static set of Daleks. On the upside, the cast are on top form and the future world is suitably grim 7/10