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Season 02 / Story 009 / Production code J
Planet Of Giants
The Doctors?: William Hartnell
The Companions: Susan Foreman | Barbara Wright | Ian Chesterton
Other Main Characters:
Louis Marks: Writer
Mervyn Pinfield: Director
Douglas Camfield: Director
Verity Lambert: Producer
A malfunction of the TARDIS systems reduces the Doctor and his companions to just an inch in height. In their miniaturised state, they arrive in contemporary England and stumble across a plot by a ruthless businessman, Forester (Alan Tilvern), and his misguided scientist colleague, Smithers (Reginald Barrett), to launch a new insecticide, DN 6? - a product so destructive that it would kill not only those insects harmful to agriculture but also those vital to it. Forester is even willing to commit murder to ensure the success of his business, as civil servant Arnold Farrow (Frank Crawshaw) discovers to his cost.
The criminals are eventually brought to justice when the Doctor and his friends - hampered by the fact that Barbara has herself been made ill by the insecticide - tamper with the telephone in Smithers's laboratory, thus fuelling the suspicions of the local exchange operator, Hilda Rowse (Rosemary Johnson), who sends her police constable husband, Bert (Fred Ferris), to investigate.
3 episodes:
- Planet of Giants - 31 October 1964
- Dangerous Journey - 07 November 1964
- Crisis - 14 November 1964
Script available in print from Titan Books.
