E: 07/10 win bbc dvd doctor who - the dalek war boxset

Midnighter

The question: What was the original "title" (assigned by writer Terry Nation at the submission of his scripts) of the first episode of PLANET OF THE DALEKS?

ANSWER: Destinus

Anyone know the answer for this one?

Enter here: http://eyeofhorus.org.uk/tinc?key=QTsLhkos&formname=competition_dalekwar

Please thank RaymondTerrific for the answer.

bladeyboy

I am fairly certain the answer is :- "The Mutants".

See Wikipedia under Terry Nation.

little_dumplings

Edited to remove my embarrassingly wrong answer......

Thanks Raymond for the correct answer...you really are Terrific

Sorry to those who may have emailed 'The Dead Planet'... I'm going to sit on the naughty step

RaymondTerrific

I think you're both thinking of "The Daleks", the William Hartnell story. "The Planet of the Daleks" was a Jon Pertwee story. Terry Nation named the individual episodes because he didn't realise that the production team had stopped doing that by then. He named the first episode:

Destinus

From here: http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/sss.html

Now I really am a geek.:cool: