Eccentric scientist Dr. Who (Peter Cushing) invents the TARDIS, a time machine, bizarrely disguised as a police telephone box for some reason! The Dr shows off his invention to his two grand-daughters, Susan and Barbara, (Roberta Tovey and Jennie Linden), and Ian (Roy Castle). Ian (Roy Castle) accidentally sets it off, sending them through time and space to the planet Skaro. There they find a race war underway. The peaceful Thals are being attacked by the mutated and vicious Daleks, who are determined to take over not only Skaro, but also the universe. Can the Dr help the Thals defeat the Daleks and get himself and family back to earth? Based on the long running BBC series Doctor Who, this is a slight deviation from the series plot lines, with the Dr being an Eccentric English scientist, rather than a time lord. This was so that there need be no exposition about where the Dr was from for world-wide audiences who had never seen the TV series. That said Cushing gives a good account of himself and the film fairly romps along, in a more light-hearted and comic manner than the TV series. The story itself is an adaption from a TV script broadcast the previous year. Good old fashioned family entertainment.
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