Ep. 75 Journey Into Terror

"Yes...yes, it exists - in the dark recesses of the human minds. Millions of people secretly believing! Think of the immense power of all these people, combined together, makes this place become a reality, hmm?"

   The popcorn continues with this one.
    The TARDIS arrives in an "Old Dark House" in the middle of a thunderstorm.  Most of the familiar ghouls are there, Count Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster and a mad ghost woman.
    The regular cast let their hair down a little and play this ala Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.  Everyone acts a little more frightened that the, by now, hardened TARDIS crew would.  Ian is hesitant to go up the stairs,  Barbara screams, Ian and the Doctor play "no, you go first" before entering a mad scientist's lab etc.
    There are plenty of nice bits in this.  Vicki teasing Barbara about her hair turning white. the Doctor theorizing about the nature of the place.  It turns out that it's really a haunted house in the far off future of 1996.  The Daleks getting their butts handed to them by Frankenstein's Monster.
   Things take a turn from the comedic when Vicki gets left behind in the confusion.  She ends up stowing away on the Dalek ship, but the others don't know that at this point. 
   It's stated that the TARDIS can't return to the place and time that it has already been.  This is the first time that this is explicitly stated in the series.  There was a "fast return" switch in The Edge of Destruction.  It didn't work then, so maybe this is the first on-screen admission that the Doctor couldn't repair it.  The Doctor indicates that it is a mechanical fault that could take months or years to correct; the Daleks won't give them that time.
   Ian suggests stealing the Dalek time machine to rescue Vicki and the others agree.
   The Daleks are closing in on the TARDIS  and have a secret weapon up their plungers.  They have made a robot double of the Doctor.

He's just about to do the Monster Mash on a Dalek.

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