Doctor Who: Mission to the Unknown (1965)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 9 October 1965
Number of Episodes: 1
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: black and white
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Verity Lambert

SCRIPT
Script: Terry Nation
Story Editor: Donald Tosh

DIRECTION
Director: Derek Martinus

PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Ralph Walton

MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer, The BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranger: Delia Derbyshire

SOUND
Studio Sound: George Prince
Special Sound: Brian Hodgson

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Sonia Markham
Costumes: Daphne Dare

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designers: Richard Hunt, Raymond P. Cusick

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Angela Gordon
Assistant Floor Manager: Marjorie Yorke

CAST
EPISODE 1: Mission To the Unknown
William Hartnell (The Doctor) (credited but does not appear)
Edward De Souza (Marc Cory)
Barry Jackson (Jeff Garvey)
Jeremy Young (Gordon Lowery)
Robert Cartland (Malpha)
Ronald Rich (Trantis)
Robert Jewell, Kevin Manser, John Scott Martin, Gerald Taylor (Daleks)
David Graham, Peter Hawkins (Dalek voices)

UNCREDITED PERFORMERS
Roy Reeves, Tony Starn, Leslie Weeks (Varga plants)
Johnny Clayton, Pat Gorman, Sam Mansary, Len Russell (Planetarians)

EPISODES

1. Mission to the Unknown (9 October 1965)

PLOT SUMMARY

Space Security Agent Marc Cory is sent to the planet Kembel to investigate reports of a Dalek spaceship. His two companions are killed by the planet's poisonous Varga plants and Cory's life is also put in danger when he overhears the Daleks plotting with members of the six outer galaxies to invade the solar system.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC

1965
June
25: UK - studio filming at Ealing, London, UK

August
6: UK - studio recording at BBC Television Centre TC3, London, England, UK

October
9: UK - Mission to the Unknown television broadcast (on BBC1)

Dalek Cutaway

BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Handbook: The First Doctor pp.108-110
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe, Mark Stammers, Stephen James Walker)

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.69-70
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker)

KEYWORDS

aliens, daleks, plants, poison, time travel

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009