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Planet of Giants

  • byJoe Siegler
  • Posted on October 1, 2021December 14, 2022
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Planet of Giants

This Story: Series 2, Story 1. Production Code J
Overall: Story 9, Episodes 43-45
Airdates: 31 Oct to 14 Nov 1964
Credits: Written by Louis Marks.  Directed by Mervyn Pinfield & Douglas Camfield (ep 3 only).

The three individual episode titles are:

  1. Planet of Giants
  2. Dangerous Journey
  3. Crisis

Links: [ Wikipedia | Tardis Data Core | Amazon US DVD | Amazon UK DVD ]

NOTE: This story was conceived and filmed as four parter, but late in production, it was changed to a three parter.  The original edits of Episodes 3 & 4 are lost, but on the DVD, the team reconstructed the original episodes.  I will only be covering the broadcast three episode version here.  This was also originally produced during Season 1 production, but held over to Season 2.

#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 43 - "Planet of Giants" (1/3 - Serial J, Story 9) - 31 Oct 1964. #DoctorWho

Who does a sci-fi staple in S2E1. Crew is shrunk and has to deal with "giant" sized items, as well as solving a murder mystery. Doors open in flight which didn't kill them, oddly. pic.twitter.com/MOah6cxE0O

— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) September 29, 2021

#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 44 - "Dangerous Journey" (2/3 - Serial J, Story 9) - 7 Nov 1964. #DoctorWho

This episode was mostly them making their way around the area they landed near in shrunken form. Some of the effects were decent for 1964. I loved them being threatened by a cat. pic.twitter.com/Mjv877AVCU

— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) October 1, 2021

#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 45 - "Crisis" (3/3 - Serial J, Story 9) - 14 Nov 1964. #DoctorWho 1/2

This story was supposed to be 4 eps, but 3/4 were mashed into this third/final one. What I didn't remember until this rewatch is crew is mostly disconnected from the full size humans. pic.twitter.com/LkEhgzLFOW

— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) October 1, 2021

#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 45 - "Crisis" (3/3 - Serial J, Story 9) - 14 Nov 1964. #DoctorWho 2/2

Barbara is still very ill after touching the poison. She's cured when they're restored to full size. The Tardis crew stop the humans by drawing attention via a phone and an explosion. pic.twitter.com/gtLNfaZP1X

— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) October 1, 2021

Fun behind the scenes photo from Planet of Giants

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