6. The Power Of The Daleks
The poor Second Doctor suffered even more greatly from the BBC cull of episodes than the first. Patrick Troughtons debut series virtually wiped from existence? Thats a tragedy. And his opening story, of which none of the six episodes remain, is apparently a corker.
The Power Of The Daleks gets straight underway with a base under siege storyline that epitomised the Second Doctors era. The newly regenerated Doctor and current companions Ben and Polly arrive on the planet Vulcan (No, not
that Vulcan; apparently this came first) and find that the inhabitants of the colony, an altogether unsavory lot, have uncovered a crashed space capsule, containingof coursethe nefarious Daleks. And I say nefarious, because (in a manner similar to the much more recent
Victory Of The Daleks), these Daleks are pretending to be the colonists loyal servants. The Dalek powerbase on Vulcan quickly grows and soon every one of the colonists find themselves being EXTERMINATED! The Doctor has to use the colonys power base to destroy them, all while thwarting the evil schemes of a colonist called Bragen played by Bernard Archard (who would return to Doctor Who as Marcus Scarman in the excellent
Pyramids Of Mars), and his attempts to take over the colony. Not bad for the new Doctor. Kind of puts the Tenth Doctors defeat of the killer Christmas tree-controlling Sycorax to shame.