Doctor Who (1963) s02e30 Episode Script
The Executioners (The Chase, Part One)
Our greatest enemies have left the planet Xeros They are once again in time and space.
They cannot escape! Our time machine will soon follow them.
They will be exterminated! Exterminated! Exterminated! Don't whistle, dear, please? Hmm? Well, have you nearly finished Doctor? Stop whistling! Hmm! Well, can I do anything to help?! buzz off now, hmm What are you reading? Oh.
Is it good? Yes.
A bit far-fetched.
Oh! All right! I am redundant around here! Oh, nonsense.
Come and sit down and talk to me.
I am a useless person! Oh, Vicki! Oh, what was it? Oh it was a dress for you.
What's the matter? What's the trouble? Out of the way! Out of the way! What's the matter? Doctor! Turn it off! Oh, that's better.
Are you trying to deafen us all or something? Deafen you? No, no, dear boy.
It was an unfortunate juxtaposition of the sonic rectifier with the linial amplifier.
Oh! Of course, I should have know! Doctor, what is this machine? I've already told you, my dear.
It's a Time and Space Visualiser.
Yes, but apart from making that dreadful noise, what does it do? It converts neutrons of light energy into electrical impulses.
Oh, wonderful! I've always wanted one! Do I detect a hint of sarcasm, hmm? Dear boy, hmm? I'm sorry Doctor but you rattle off explanations that would have baffled Einstein and you expect Barbara and I to know what you're talking about.
Very well then, I'll quote you Mass is absorbed by light, therefore light has mass and energy The energy radiated by a light neutron is equal to the energy of the mass it absorbed.
Splendid child, splendid.
It's quite simple.
It just means that anything that ever happens anywhere in the universe is recorded in light neutrons.
I couldn't have put it better myself, child.
Doctor, you know when I left Earth? Scientists were trying to invent a machine that would convert the energy from light neutrons into electrical impulses.
That meant that you could just tune in and see any event in history.
Do you mean a sort of Time television? Yes, like that! Yes, that's exactly what this is.
No! Doctor, you're kidding! Why didn't you tell me? I could have fixed it for you instead of you fiddling about like that! Because I have already fixed it, my dear.
Oh, my dear Chesterton do you mind if I distract you from your cowboys and indians, hmm? Oh, all right.
Now, I want to give a little demonstration.
Will you, er, think of an event in history? Hmm? All right, I've thought of one.
Well, first the place.
Oh, Earth, that's easy.
Now, the geographical location date and time.
Nineteenth of November, 1863.
The place - Pennsylvania, USA.
Good! Don't go away.
Watch.
conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Lincoln! Abraham Lincoln.
Yes, that's what I asked for the Gettysburg address! civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
We've come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who gave their lives that that nation might live.
That is altogether fitting and proper that we should do so.
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground.
Doctor, can I have a go? Can I? Can I? Please? Yes, yes, yes, yes, now all in good time, my dear, all in good time! Now, Barbara? Vicki, did you ever see anything like it in your life? No! Put it in there.
In the slot.
Hmm, now.
We are well aware of what It's Queen Elizabeth the first! Shh! Who's that man? Oh, wait and see.
Is the Queen angry, sire? It was only a jest.
She has graciously granted you an audience.
Oh, oh your majesty! Master Shakespeare you aware of the concern your character of Falstaff has caused to Sir John Oldcastle? It was so obviously he! Ah, yes.
Ah, well, erm, I can explain your majesty.
You admit it then?! Er er yes, your majesty.
Good! Give it no more thought.
We found it very amusing! Oh! Tell me, have any plans to write a further play on him? Ah, no.
Oh.
Ah, no, I haven't, your majesty.
That's a pity.
But it does not matter.
We have idea which may be of service.
You shall write a play of Falstaff in love! Does that not fire your imagination! Oh, ah, oh, a happy idea, your majesty yes Away with you, Will.
To your pen.
I also have an idea that you may wish to use: the history of Hamlet, prince of Denmark.
I'm afraid not, sire.
Oh, do you know the story then? Er, I assure you, my lord, it would not be quite in my style.
Very well then.
Scribbler! Hamlet, prince of Denmark? Well Barbara, did you find out what you wanted to know? Oh I didn't really want to know anything.
I just wanted to see Elizabeth's court.
Er, did you see the way Shakespeare looked when he thought of Hamlet? Yes, I did! I Well, where are we now? Shh This is BBC1.
The next programme is due to start in just under one minute.
Vicki! What year have you got on there? Come along, come! You've got a television Shh! show, it I want to watch it! Here singing their latest number one hit.
.
it's the fabulous wait for it It's the fabulous Beatles! Yes! #Beatles: Ticket to Ride Oh! Oh, Barbara! Now you've squashed my favourite Beatles! But Vicki, I had no idea you knew about the Beatles?! Of course I know about them.
I've been to their Memorial Theatre in Liverpool.
We well, what do you think of them, Vicki? Well, they're marvellous, but I didn't know they played classical music! Classical music?! Get with it, Barbara! Get with it! Styles change, styles change! I think you'd better turn it off, my dear.
Yes, we're about to materialise.
Well, everything appears to be all right, yes.
The oxygen's high and the gravity is a little greater than Earth, hmm! Ooh, it's hot! Well, it's no small wonder.
Look up there, my dear, hmm! Look! Two suns moving very quickly, hmm? I expect the days and nights are very short here, hmm? Are we going to explore now then? I shouldn't think there is anything to explore.
Just miles and miles of sand.
Those strange things? You never know - over that sand-dune there might be a a city or a a space-station or anything.
The child's just like me, you know? Always wants to know what's on t'other side of the hill! I'm gonna find out too! Vicki, come back! I'd better follow her.
No, no, no, no, Chesterton, here, here.
What? Look here, you'd better take this TARDIS magnet with you.
Watch that little green light in there.
Yeah Don't drop it, otherwise you'll get lost.
Ian! All right, I'm coming! We won't go any further than the ridge.
Yes, yes, yes.
Look at her! Don't worry.
I'll look after her.
Come on! All right, Christopher Columbus! Hang on! Come on! Yes, over there! Look at this thing.
Oh, what is it? It looks like a man, doesn't it? Yes - but of frozen seaweed! Funny shape Funny smell! Oh! Ian! Ian! Come and look at this.
Hey! You know this gadget of the Doctor's? It it really works.
Never mind that - look at this.
What? What is it? I don't know Pooh! What an awful smell.
Well, at least it's not a pool of acid! That makes a change! Look, there's lots more of it.
Yeah.
It's a trail.
Probably blood! Oh yes, it's bound to be! Come on, let's see where it leads.
All right.
What's that awful noise? I beg your pardon - awful noise? That's no way to talk about my singing! No Doctor, not that awful noise! The other one, listen to it! Mmm? Oh, yes yes, it sounds like the, er, the Visualiser.
I think it's still on Yes, would you mind going in and switching it off for me dear? OK.
I've had enough sun anyway.
Yes, thank you! Oh, humph! Awful noise indeed, huh! I can charm the nightingales out of the trees! The supreme Dalek is ready to receive your report! The report is ready.
Doctor! Doctor, come quickly! Yes, all right, my dear, all right, all right.
What is it now? Gracious me, can't I even relax for five The Daleks! Give your report.
Our time machine has been completed.
The operation will proceed at once.
The movement scanners have located the enemy time machine - TARDIS.
TARDIS! TARDIS! TARDIS! TARDIS! TARDIS! Doctor, he said the TARDIS and look on their screen, that's us! What is more important, he referred to the TARDIS as the enemy time machine.
At present it lies in the Segaro desert of the planet Aridius.
We await command.
The Doctor and the three humans delayed our conquest of Earth.
Daleks cannot be defeated! To defy Daleks is death! They will pay for their crime! Annihilate! Annihilate! Annihilate! Annihilate! Annihilate! Annihilate! The assassination group will embark at once in our time machine.
They pursue the humans through all eternity.
They must be destroyed! Exterminate them! Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate! My machine can only pick up the things that happened in the past.
Then they're on their way here! Or worse, already here.
You heard their orders we are to be exterminated! But Doctor, can't we get away from them? Yes, yes, yes, yes, but Ian and the child come on, we have such little time.
Oh, come on, keep going! What do you think I am? One of these_? Yes.
Yes.
Well, no space city, Vicki.
_, I suppose.
_.
Ah, Oh! Oh, the trail just ends.
Well, we're a long way from the TARDIS now, Vicki.
Yeah.
Ah, we ought to get back really, you know.
Yeah They'll be missing us.
If you look at the sun through your fingers, you have twenty instead of ten.
Hmm? Yes.
Oh, I could do with a drink.
Oh yes.
Ah.
We should get back, you know.
Yeah, soon be dark, you know.
Look at those suns.
Just like the Doctor said - they move fast.
Hard this ground, isn't it? Like glass.
Come on, Ian.
Let's go.
Yeah, all right.
Hello? What's this? A ring! Ha! A ring in the sand! No! No! The ring in the field! What are you talking about? What's the matter? Well, you see, when I was very young Yes? Near where I lived there was a field, and in this field there was a ring just like that, sticking out of the ground.
Yes? You see, the point was, on the other side of the hedge there was a castle, an enormous thing, with a drawbridge.
Hmm.
.
? And Well, go on! Ha! We had this thing, that if we pulled that ring Yes? The drawbridge would come down and something awful would come out! Vicki! Look around you.
Can you see a castle anywhere? No, but for heavens sake something's gonna happen if we pull that thing.
Well, shall I pull it or shan't I? Yes, all right, go on.
I think I'll move it now.
Try turning it.
No, won't turn.
Hold on.
Ah, Excalibur! Come on, no castles, no drawbridges.
Back we go.
Vicki, just check it, eh? Steps! Vicki! Ian! Nothing! This wretched wind has wiped out all their tracks, huh! It's getting so cold here.
Yeah, come on Doctor, let's go back to the TARD Ah, this way, dear.
No, no, no, it's that way.
I remember.
I have the directional instincts of a homing Pigeon! Now come along, follow me, hmm! Hello! Oh! Oh, Ian, stay over here by this wall.
Oh, there it is! _.
It's changed! The whole landscape has changed! The TARDIS has gone, there's no sign of it! Ah, it's probably got buried in that sandstorm.
But where? All these stretches of sand look exactly alike.
Yes, well, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Ah, I've got an idea.
Let's have a look at the TARDIS magnet.
Oh, I'm sorry, I've just remembered.
I gave it to Ian.
Ha, well come on, come on, we can't waste time, let's get going.
That sun'll be up in a minute and we've no food.
and there's no water, no shade Get down! Get down! Oh! What's the matter?
They cannot escape! Our time machine will soon follow them.
They will be exterminated! Exterminated! Exterminated! Don't whistle, dear, please? Hmm? Well, have you nearly finished Doctor? Stop whistling! Hmm! Well, can I do anything to help?! buzz off now, hmm What are you reading? Oh.
Is it good? Yes.
A bit far-fetched.
Oh! All right! I am redundant around here! Oh, nonsense.
Come and sit down and talk to me.
I am a useless person! Oh, Vicki! Oh, what was it? Oh it was a dress for you.
What's the matter? What's the trouble? Out of the way! Out of the way! What's the matter? Doctor! Turn it off! Oh, that's better.
Are you trying to deafen us all or something? Deafen you? No, no, dear boy.
It was an unfortunate juxtaposition of the sonic rectifier with the linial amplifier.
Oh! Of course, I should have know! Doctor, what is this machine? I've already told you, my dear.
It's a Time and Space Visualiser.
Yes, but apart from making that dreadful noise, what does it do? It converts neutrons of light energy into electrical impulses.
Oh, wonderful! I've always wanted one! Do I detect a hint of sarcasm, hmm? Dear boy, hmm? I'm sorry Doctor but you rattle off explanations that would have baffled Einstein and you expect Barbara and I to know what you're talking about.
Very well then, I'll quote you Mass is absorbed by light, therefore light has mass and energy The energy radiated by a light neutron is equal to the energy of the mass it absorbed.
Splendid child, splendid.
It's quite simple.
It just means that anything that ever happens anywhere in the universe is recorded in light neutrons.
I couldn't have put it better myself, child.
Doctor, you know when I left Earth? Scientists were trying to invent a machine that would convert the energy from light neutrons into electrical impulses.
That meant that you could just tune in and see any event in history.
Do you mean a sort of Time television? Yes, like that! Yes, that's exactly what this is.
No! Doctor, you're kidding! Why didn't you tell me? I could have fixed it for you instead of you fiddling about like that! Because I have already fixed it, my dear.
Oh, my dear Chesterton do you mind if I distract you from your cowboys and indians, hmm? Oh, all right.
Now, I want to give a little demonstration.
Will you, er, think of an event in history? Hmm? All right, I've thought of one.
Well, first the place.
Oh, Earth, that's easy.
Now, the geographical location date and time.
Nineteenth of November, 1863.
The place - Pennsylvania, USA.
Good! Don't go away.
Watch.
conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Lincoln! Abraham Lincoln.
Yes, that's what I asked for the Gettysburg address! civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
We've come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who gave their lives that that nation might live.
That is altogether fitting and proper that we should do so.
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground.
Doctor, can I have a go? Can I? Can I? Please? Yes, yes, yes, yes, now all in good time, my dear, all in good time! Now, Barbara? Vicki, did you ever see anything like it in your life? No! Put it in there.
In the slot.
Hmm, now.
We are well aware of what It's Queen Elizabeth the first! Shh! Who's that man? Oh, wait and see.
Is the Queen angry, sire? It was only a jest.
She has graciously granted you an audience.
Oh, oh your majesty! Master Shakespeare you aware of the concern your character of Falstaff has caused to Sir John Oldcastle? It was so obviously he! Ah, yes.
Ah, well, erm, I can explain your majesty.
You admit it then?! Er er yes, your majesty.
Good! Give it no more thought.
We found it very amusing! Oh! Tell me, have any plans to write a further play on him? Ah, no.
Oh.
Ah, no, I haven't, your majesty.
That's a pity.
But it does not matter.
We have idea which may be of service.
You shall write a play of Falstaff in love! Does that not fire your imagination! Oh, ah, oh, a happy idea, your majesty yes Away with you, Will.
To your pen.
I also have an idea that you may wish to use: the history of Hamlet, prince of Denmark.
I'm afraid not, sire.
Oh, do you know the story then? Er, I assure you, my lord, it would not be quite in my style.
Very well then.
Scribbler! Hamlet, prince of Denmark? Well Barbara, did you find out what you wanted to know? Oh I didn't really want to know anything.
I just wanted to see Elizabeth's court.
Er, did you see the way Shakespeare looked when he thought of Hamlet? Yes, I did! I Well, where are we now? Shh This is BBC1.
The next programme is due to start in just under one minute.
Vicki! What year have you got on there? Come along, come! You've got a television Shh! show, it I want to watch it! Here singing their latest number one hit.
.
it's the fabulous wait for it It's the fabulous Beatles! Yes! #Beatles: Ticket to Ride Oh! Oh, Barbara! Now you've squashed my favourite Beatles! But Vicki, I had no idea you knew about the Beatles?! Of course I know about them.
I've been to their Memorial Theatre in Liverpool.
We well, what do you think of them, Vicki? Well, they're marvellous, but I didn't know they played classical music! Classical music?! Get with it, Barbara! Get with it! Styles change, styles change! I think you'd better turn it off, my dear.
Yes, we're about to materialise.
Well, everything appears to be all right, yes.
The oxygen's high and the gravity is a little greater than Earth, hmm! Ooh, it's hot! Well, it's no small wonder.
Look up there, my dear, hmm! Look! Two suns moving very quickly, hmm? I expect the days and nights are very short here, hmm? Are we going to explore now then? I shouldn't think there is anything to explore.
Just miles and miles of sand.
Those strange things? You never know - over that sand-dune there might be a a city or a a space-station or anything.
The child's just like me, you know? Always wants to know what's on t'other side of the hill! I'm gonna find out too! Vicki, come back! I'd better follow her.
No, no, no, no, Chesterton, here, here.
What? Look here, you'd better take this TARDIS magnet with you.
Watch that little green light in there.
Yeah Don't drop it, otherwise you'll get lost.
Ian! All right, I'm coming! We won't go any further than the ridge.
Yes, yes, yes.
Look at her! Don't worry.
I'll look after her.
Come on! All right, Christopher Columbus! Hang on! Come on! Yes, over there! Look at this thing.
Oh, what is it? It looks like a man, doesn't it? Yes - but of frozen seaweed! Funny shape Funny smell! Oh! Ian! Ian! Come and look at this.
Hey! You know this gadget of the Doctor's? It it really works.
Never mind that - look at this.
What? What is it? I don't know Pooh! What an awful smell.
Well, at least it's not a pool of acid! That makes a change! Look, there's lots more of it.
Yeah.
It's a trail.
Probably blood! Oh yes, it's bound to be! Come on, let's see where it leads.
All right.
What's that awful noise? I beg your pardon - awful noise? That's no way to talk about my singing! No Doctor, not that awful noise! The other one, listen to it! Mmm? Oh, yes yes, it sounds like the, er, the Visualiser.
I think it's still on Yes, would you mind going in and switching it off for me dear? OK.
I've had enough sun anyway.
Yes, thank you! Oh, humph! Awful noise indeed, huh! I can charm the nightingales out of the trees! The supreme Dalek is ready to receive your report! The report is ready.
Doctor! Doctor, come quickly! Yes, all right, my dear, all right, all right.
What is it now? Gracious me, can't I even relax for five The Daleks! Give your report.
Our time machine has been completed.
The operation will proceed at once.
The movement scanners have located the enemy time machine - TARDIS.
TARDIS! TARDIS! TARDIS! TARDIS! TARDIS! Doctor, he said the TARDIS and look on their screen, that's us! What is more important, he referred to the TARDIS as the enemy time machine.
At present it lies in the Segaro desert of the planet Aridius.
We await command.
The Doctor and the three humans delayed our conquest of Earth.
Daleks cannot be defeated! To defy Daleks is death! They will pay for their crime! Annihilate! Annihilate! Annihilate! Annihilate! Annihilate! Annihilate! The assassination group will embark at once in our time machine.
They pursue the humans through all eternity.
They must be destroyed! Exterminate them! Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate! My machine can only pick up the things that happened in the past.
Then they're on their way here! Or worse, already here.
You heard their orders we are to be exterminated! But Doctor, can't we get away from them? Yes, yes, yes, yes, but Ian and the child come on, we have such little time.
Oh, come on, keep going! What do you think I am? One of these_? Yes.
Yes.
Well, no space city, Vicki.
_, I suppose.
_.
Ah, Oh! Oh, the trail just ends.
Well, we're a long way from the TARDIS now, Vicki.
Yeah.
Ah, we ought to get back really, you know.
Yeah They'll be missing us.
If you look at the sun through your fingers, you have twenty instead of ten.
Hmm? Yes.
Oh, I could do with a drink.
Oh yes.
Ah.
We should get back, you know.
Yeah, soon be dark, you know.
Look at those suns.
Just like the Doctor said - they move fast.
Hard this ground, isn't it? Like glass.
Come on, Ian.
Let's go.
Yeah, all right.
Hello? What's this? A ring! Ha! A ring in the sand! No! No! The ring in the field! What are you talking about? What's the matter? Well, you see, when I was very young Yes? Near where I lived there was a field, and in this field there was a ring just like that, sticking out of the ground.
Yes? You see, the point was, on the other side of the hedge there was a castle, an enormous thing, with a drawbridge.
Hmm.
.
? And Well, go on! Ha! We had this thing, that if we pulled that ring Yes? The drawbridge would come down and something awful would come out! Vicki! Look around you.
Can you see a castle anywhere? No, but for heavens sake something's gonna happen if we pull that thing.
Well, shall I pull it or shan't I? Yes, all right, go on.
I think I'll move it now.
Try turning it.
No, won't turn.
Hold on.
Ah, Excalibur! Come on, no castles, no drawbridges.
Back we go.
Vicki, just check it, eh? Steps! Vicki! Ian! Nothing! This wretched wind has wiped out all their tracks, huh! It's getting so cold here.
Yeah, come on Doctor, let's go back to the TARD Ah, this way, dear.
No, no, no, it's that way.
I remember.
I have the directional instincts of a homing Pigeon! Now come along, follow me, hmm! Hello! Oh! Oh, Ian, stay over here by this wall.
Oh, there it is! _.
It's changed! The whole landscape has changed! The TARDIS has gone, there's no sign of it! Ah, it's probably got buried in that sandstorm.
But where? All these stretches of sand look exactly alike.
Yes, well, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Ah, I've got an idea.
Let's have a look at the TARDIS magnet.
Oh, I'm sorry, I've just remembered.
I gave it to Ian.
Ha, well come on, come on, we can't waste time, let's get going.
That sun'll be up in a minute and we've no food.
and there's no water, no shade Get down! Get down! Oh! What's the matter?