Episode Number:

Episode Title:

Transmission Date:

Duration:

Ratings (in Millions):

1

Planet of Giants

31/10/64

23.15

8.4

2

Dangerous Journey

7/11/64

23.40

8.4

3

Crisis

14/11/64

26.35

8.9

 

Season:

Doctor:

Producers:

Script Editor:

Writer:

Directors:

Two

William Hartnell

Verity Lambert,

Mervyn Pinfield

David Whitaker

Louis Marks

Mervyn Pinfield, Douglas Camfield

 

 

  

William Hartnell - (The Doctor)

William Russell - (Ian Chesterton)

Jaqueline Hill - (Barbara Wright)

Carole Ann Ford - (Susan)

 

  

Alan Tilvern - (Forester)

Frank Crawshaw - (Farrow)

Reginald Barratt - (Smithers)

Rosemary Johnson - (Hilda Rowse)

Fred Ferris - (Bert Rowse)

 

  

Whilst trying to return Ian and Barbera to the twentieth century, the Doctor attempts an unorthodox new technique, causing the TARDIS doors to open in mid-flight, setting alarms ringing inside the craft.

 

Arriving on Earth, the time-travellers discover that they have all been reduced in size - they are now minute people in a world of giant objects. The TARDIS has landed them between the cracks in a garden patio - a garden teeming with giant worms, ants and cats. All deadly hazards for the miniature travellers.

 

To make matters worse, the TARDIS crew are caught up in the trials of a deadly new insecticide - DN6. A chemical so deadly that all insect life is threatened - a chemical that is also lethal to minuscule time-travellers...

 

  

Working Title:

The Miniscules.

 

Things to look for:

  • No sound effects for the TARDIS as it arrives.

 

The Doctor Who Archive:

All 3 episodes exist.

 

Bloopers:

  • Coming Soon

 

  

 

Click for larger image- Planet of Giants, edited episodic format, Released January 14th 2002; PAL (BBC Video cat.#7263).

 

 

Not yet released on DVD.

 

 

Not yet released on Audio.

 

 

- Planet of Giants by Terrance Dicks, Published 1990 - [Target no.145]

 

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