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Planet of Giants
Broadcast: Saturday 24th July 1999
7:30am-8:00am EDT (11:30 GMT) < > « »
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Featuring: William Hartnell, Carole Ann Ford, Jacqueline Hill, William Russell, Frank Crawshaw, Alan Tilvern

An accident in flight leads to the TARDIS and the travellers being miniaturised. Now only an inch high, the Doctor, Barbara, Ian and Susan explore an English country garden.


Synopsis Source: Doctor Who Guide
Broadcast Source: TWIDW
 

Report from the This Week in Doctor Who Archive:

Friday 23rd July 1999:
SPACE: The Imagination Station
http://www.spacecast.com/ and
http://www.hwcn.org/~an933/spacedw.htm
Sat-Mon 7:30AM EDT Planet of Giants eps 1 - 3 of 3 (Planet Of Giants, Dangerous Journey, Crisis)
Tue-Fri 7:30AM EDT The Dalek Invasion of Earth eps 1 - 4 of 6 (World's End, The Daleks, Day Of Reckoning, The End Of Tomorrow)

For Planet of Giants, see UK Gold's listing for a description. Later in the week, the 1st Doctor and company finally get back to Earth - a mere 200 years late. London is in ruins. A mysterious force has taken over, but what is it? On its original broadcast, the overall story title was not used, so the reappearance of the Daleks took most of the British public as a complete surprise. Remade as Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., a 1966 movie with Peter Cushing as the Doctor which deserves some TV time.