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Cast  Doctor ... William Hartnell Susan Foreman ... Carole Ann Ford Ian Chesterton ... William Russell Barbara Wright ... Jacqueline Hill  With
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| Episode | Air Date | Runtime |
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| Planet of Giants | 10/31/64 | 23 min. 15 sec. |
| Dangerous Journey | 11/07/64 | 23 min. 40 sec. |
| Crisis | 11/14/64 | 26 min. 43 sec. |
The Doctor attempts a new operation to transport the TARDIS to the 20th century. The console overheats, an alarm sounds, the scanner screen cracks and the doors open while in flight. Ian, Barbara and Susan force the doors dosed. The ship materialises in a rocky valley. The travellers explore in two groups: the Doctor and Barbara find what appears to be a huge dead snake while Susan and Ian find a massive dead ant. The Doctor realises that the snake is, in fact, an earthworm; Ian's discovery of both a massive seed packet and matchbox confirm that they have been nilniaturised, and are now about one inch high. The TARDIS has landed between slabs in the crazy-paving of a garden, dimkdshed by space pressure when the doors opened.
Manned by both a shadow and a boorning noise, Ian is hiding inside the matchbox when it is picked up byone Arnold Farrow, who is making notes in the garden. A man named Forester arrives and is aghast to learn that Panow cannot approve the manufacture of his new insecticide, DN6 - it is totally destructive to all insects. Realising that he will be financially mined if Farrow submits his ministryreport, Forester shoots him. After Forester has gone, Ian emerges to look at the huge corpse and is loined by the Doctor, Susan and Barbara. The Doctor suggests that they return to the TARDIS at once. Susan screams out A now-giant catislooking down at them...
The travellers remain still, and the cat loses interest, wandering off. They need to repon the murder, hut are unable to communicate and fear being captured as freaks. Another giant figure approaches; Barbara and Ian hide in FarroWs abandoned briefcase while the Doctor and Susan make for a drainpipe. Forester returns with Smithers, the scientist who has created DN6 as a means to end starvation, and informs Smithers that they will arrange for it to appear that Fanow died on the sailing holiday he was about to embark upon. Smithers wants no part of the murder and simply wishes to complete his work The corpse is hidden and the briefcase taken into Smithers' laboratory, where it Is placed on the bench.
Ian and Barbara explore the laboratory bench and find huge wheat grains covered with a sticky substance. Unseen by Ian, Barbara handles one of these before they set about trying to find a way to cllmb down from the bench. Barbara faints when she is confronted by a huge fly, which dies moment later when it comes into contact with the wheat grains. Ian condudes that the insecticide is lethal.
The Doctor and Susan dirrib up the oorroded
drainpipe into the laboratory's sink. Ian and
Barbara are about to join them when Forester and
Smithers enter, having deaned away the traces of
the shooting. Smithers needs to wash his hands;
he fiils the sink and then lets it empty. Water flows
down the drain in which the Doctor and Susan are
hiding
The Doctor and Susan hide in the overflow pipe and the water fails past them. They then clamber up to join Ian and Barbara on the bench. Finding Farrow's notebook, the Doctor realises that DN6 is everlasting and will upset the balance of nature; it could even be lethal to humans. Barbara is ti~ying to hide the fact that she is feeling weak as the trav- ellers attempt to lift a telephone receiver to Ca" for the police.
in another room, Forester alters FarroWs report in DN6's favour and then telephones Mr whit- more at the Mtnistry, pretending to be Farrow; he danns that 9N6 is a breakthrough. However, his tones are noted by the local phone operator, Hilda. The travellers lift the extension in the lab and call for help, but Hilda is unable to hear their voices. Barbara collapses, and the Doctor detects that she has touched DN6; she must be returned to her norrnai size.
Suspidous, Hilda tricks Forester into answering the telephone, and confirms to her policeman husband, Bert, that this is the man who imitated Farrow. The Doctor decides that they should start a fire to attract people to the house, and the trav- ellers embark upon an arnbitious plan to strike a giant match, light a ~et from a gas tap and leave it to ignite a can of insecticide. Smithers realises too late the full effect of 9N6; in the lab, Forester pulls a gun on hirn. At that moment the can explodes in Forester's face. Bert arrives to take charge of the situation.
The travellers escape down the sink pipe and
return to the TARDIS where the Doctor rccreates
the situation that will allow them to return to
normal size. As this happens, the sample seed the Doctor took shriri~ to normal size. Barbara recovers. The TARDIS begins to materialise again, but the repaired scanner shows only interference...
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