• Season 2, Story 2
• 6 episodes (individual titles, run times and UK airdates shown below)
  1. World's End (23:45) - Saturday 21 November 1964
  2. The Daleks (24:24) - Saturday 28 November 1964
  3. Day of Reckoning (26:50) - Saturday 5 December 1964
  4. The End of Tomorrow (23:25) - Saturday 12 December 1964
  5. The Waking Ally (24:33) - Saturday 19 December 1964
  6. Flashpoint (25:31) - Saturday 26 December 1964

• Author - Terry Nation
• Producer - Verity Lambert
• Director - Richard Martin

  MAIN CAST

• William Hartnell (The Doctor)
• William Russell (Ian Chesterton)
• Jacqueline Hill (Barbara Wright)
• Carole Ann Ford (Susan)

The picture quality is generally good, slight video noise but nothing that detracts from the viewing experience. The BBC Restoration Team have also used the VidFIRE process to restore the print to how it would have looked on original broadcast.
The new effects footage (see DVD Extras for further information) blends in seamlessly.
The sound quality is excellent.
Overall, you would think this story had been recorded within the past few years and not in 1964 and so I would have no hesitation in giving this DVD 95% for its sound and picture quality.

Their travels with the Doctor have taken Ian and Barbara to different times and different worlds. Now it seems he has finally brought them home. Except that London seems a lot quieter than it should be and there seems to be an air of disuse about the area under the bridge where they have materialised. Attempting to get a better view of their surroundings, Susan upsets an unsafe section of the bridge. Susan injures her ankle, but the real damage is done when the collapsing material bars their access to the TARDIS.

Barbara remains with Susan to tend to the young woman's ankle, while the Doctor and Ian go over to a nearby warehouse in search of some cutting gear. There they find a calendar dated 2164 and the body of a man, his head enclosed by some kind of communications device. As the Doctor and Ian emerge from the warehouse they see a spaceship coming in to land. They return to the TARDIS but there is no trace of Barbara or Susan. A patrol arrives forcing Ian and the Doctor to try and escape via the river. Their route is blocked by the appearance of an old foe - a Dalek.

Susan and Barbara have been found by members of a resistance cell who offer them food and shelter in exchange for work on tools and materials to be used in the fight against the Daleks. The Daleks may have invaded Earth, they may have enslaved some humans, and there are those who are simply looking out for themselves, but there are those determined to put up a fight and take back their world.

Learning of a massive Dalek mining operation in Bedfordshire, the travellers make their own way there determined to find out the secret for which the Daleks are searching. Can they possibly succeed in defeating the Daleks once again?