Next Phase Is This
Part of the first Dalek serial, this is the 1960s episode that aired on 28 December 1963. The TARDIS crew, the First Doctor, Susan, Ian, and Barbara, are still on the planet Skaro, suffering from radiation sickness after exploring the petrified forest and the Dalek city. The Doctor and his companions are prisoners of the…
After escaping the Stone Age in “The Firemaker”, the TARDIS lands in a petrified forest on an unknown planet. The landscape is eerie and still — everything looks like stone, even the plants. The Doctor is fascinated by a gleaming metal city visible in the distance and insists on exploring it, over Barbara’s objections. Inside…
Kal accuses Za of murdering Old Mother, but the Doctor exposes Kal as the real killer. Za then holds the travelers prisoner and demands they show the tribe how to make fire if they want to survive. The crew does make a fire to stay alive, but that might mean they aren’t allowed to leave….
The group becomes prisoners in a deadly leadership fight within the tribe. “Old Mother” frees them on the condition they leave and don’t make fire. As they try to get back to the TARDIS, tribal members Za and Hur follow them into the forest.
The TARDIS lands in the Stone Age. The Doctor, Susan, Ian, and Barbara are captured by a tribe of cavemen who have lost the secret of making fire. The tribe’s power struggle pulls the time travelers into danger, and the Doctor is captured for making fire.
Schoolteachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright are puzzled by their student Susan Foreman, who seems brilliant but has odd gaps in her knowledge. They follow her home to a junkyard at 76 Totter’s Lane, where they meet her mysterious grandfather, “the Doctor”. Forcing their way into what looks like a police box, they discover it’s…