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| The Chase | |
| Series: | Doctor Who - TV Stories |
| Season Number: | Season 2 |
| Story Number: | 16 |
| Doctor: | First Doctor |
| Companions: | Barbara Wright (departure) Ian Chesterton (departure) Vicki Pallister Steven Taylor (Introduction) |
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| Writer: | Terry Nation |
| Director: | Richard Martin Douglas Camfield (uncredited) |
| Broadcast: | 22nd May - 26th June 1965 |
| Format: | 6 25-minute Episodes |
| Previous Story: | The Space Museum |
| Following Story: | The Time Meddler |
The Chase was the eighth story of Season 2 of Doctor Who. As well as featuring the Daleks in their only comedic appearance in the series, it also featured the departures of original companions Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, played by William Russell and Jacqueline Hill respectively, and the first appearance of new companion Steven Taylor, portrayed by Peter Purves.
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The travellers are forced to flee in the TARDIS when they learn from the Time-Space Visualiser taken from the Moroks' museum that a group of Daleks equipped with their own time machine are on their trail with orders to exterminate them.
The chase begins on the desert planet Aridius and takes in a number of stopping-off points including the observation gallery of New York's Empire State Building, the 19th Century sailing ship Mary Celeste (the Daleks' appearance causing all the crew and passengers to jump overboard) and a spooky haunted house which, although the Doctor and his friends do not realise it, is actually a futuristic fun-fair attraction.
Eventually both time machines arrive on the jungle planet Mechanus, where the Daleks try to infiltrate and kill the Doctor's party using a robotic double of him. The travellers are taken prisoner by the Mechanoids - a group of robots sent some fifty years earlier to prepare landing sites for human colonists who, in the event, never arrived - and meet Steven Taylor, a stranded astronaut who has been the Mechanoids' captive for the past two years.
The Daleks and the Mechanoids engage in a fierce battle which ultimately results in their mutual destruction, and the Doctor's party seize this opportunity to escape. The Doctor reluctantly helps Ian and Barbara to use the Daleks' time machine to return home.
In the the Doctor's TARDIS the four travellers are huddling around the Time-Space Visualiser, which can pick up any event in the whole of time and space. They each choose an event to witness: Ian picks Abraham Lincoln giving his Gettysburg Address, Barbara elects to look into Elizabeth I's court, and sees the genesis of William Shakespeare's play, Hamlet; and Vicki sees the Beatles performing "Ticket to Ride", but is surprised that they should play "classical music".
The TARDIS then lands, and the Doctor confirms that the conditions are hospitable. Ian and Vicki leave into the desert wilderness, the former entrusted with the "TARDIS magnet" in case they should get lost. Vicki investigates some formations which appear to similar to seaweed, which Ian knows is impossible. They then find a trail of what appears to be blood in the sand, which Vicki runs off to follow. As they move off, they do not notice a tentacle rise up from the sand where they were.
Meanwhile, the Doctor and Barbara start sunbathing. Barbara is distracted by the sound of the Visualizer, which has not been shut off. She sees on it a "broadcast" of the Daleks preparing to give a report. The Doctor enters and hears to his horror the Daleks' plan to follow "the enemy time machine" (the TARDIS) to the Sagarro Desert on the planet Aridius. Dalek assassins will take their time machine, find the Doctor and his companions, and exterminate them. The Doctor and Barbara watch a group of Daleks embark and dematerialize. The Doctor immediately realizes that these events happened in the past — the Daleks may already be here! They must find Ian and Vicki and go.
Tiring from their walk, Ian and Vicki take a rest as the "blood" trail ends. In the sand, they find a large metal ring. At first, Vicki is reluctant to disturb it for fear of what might happen (due in no small part to a similar ring from her childhood). However, they decide they should pull it loose, and Ian duly does just that. At first, nothing happens and they prepare to leave, but then an ancient trap door creaks open in the sand. Vicki and Ian go inside the newly-opened cavern to have a look. Once they are inside the trap door close behind them: they are trapped - and another tentacle looms out of the darkness. It seems the creatures are everywhere.
Meanwhile, the Doctor and Barbara have had no luck finding their friends, night has fallen and the wind has begun to pick up, covering all tracks including their own. They decide to return to the TARDIS, not entirely certain of the direction; as it may have been covered by the sand. A sandstorm breaks out which lasts all night. When they awake they see a Dalek, buried by the sandstorm, emerging from the sand.
Two other Daleks soon arrive in their own time machine but cannot find the time travellers but do locate the TARDIS under the sand and begin to have it dug out by a group of native Aridians, whom they have enslaved. The slave force is exterminated when they are of no further value.
The Doctor and Barbara are saved by other amphibious humanoid Aridians, who explain that Aridius was not always a desert, but that the suns have got nearer the planet and destroyed the seas. Only themselves and the hideous Mire Beasts are left, and the Mire Beasts can only be contained by destroying sections of the Aridian city that have become over-run. The Daleks soon contact the Aridians in the underground city and tell them they will leave Aridius if the Doctor and his party are handed over, and the elders agree to this. The Aridians also find Vicki and Ian, who was injured when a wall collapsed in an explosion to kill the Mire Beasts that were threatening them. The Mire Beasts soon reappear, killing the Aridian Malsan who was holding the party prisoner in preparation for the handover. The Doctor and his friends flee in the confusion and manage to evade a Dalek scout and return to the TARDIS. The Supreme Dalek vows revenge.
There now follows a chase through time and space, with the Dalek vessel determined to track down and exterminate the Doctor and his friends. They are but fifteen minutes behind and the gap is closing. The first stop is the top of the Empire State Building in New York City, where a young man from Alabama, Morton Dill, tells them it is 1966. Fortunately for him neither the TARDIS nor the Dalek time vessel stays long and his life is not imperilled. The Doctor next reaches the Atlantic Ocean and boards a sailing ship captained by Benjamin Briggs. The crew venture outside and see the Daleks arrive. Some of the crew they exterminate. Others they force into the sea. As the Doctor's TARDIS departs it is revealed the ship is the legendary Mary Celeste. In the TARDIS, the Doctor calculates that their advantage has narrowed down to only eight minutes.
The time craft land in a mysterious old house where both Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster have come alive. These terrors stalk the building but also attack the Daleks when they arrive. In the confusion to depart, the Doctor, Ian and Barbara leave Vicki behind, never realising they have simply been visiting a futuristic theme attraction called the Festival of Ghana in 1996. The Daleks are repelled back into their vessel by the monsters (who are in fact robots), and Vicki stows away aboard the Dalek ship. She travels in it to the jungle world of Mechanus, where the Doctor's TARDIS has already landed.
The Doctor, Ian and Barbara are very sad about Vicki's possible fate at the hands of the Daleks and blame themselves. They decide their only course to rescue her is to try and take control of the Daleks' own time vessel. On that ship Vicki witnesses the Daleks' Replicator machine in action: an android replica of the Doctor is produced and is programmed to "infiltrate and kill".
When the Dalek ship arrives on Mechanus the robot killer is despatched. The jungle is also hostile, with large fungoid plants which attack humans, and only retreat when exposed to light. The time travellers now split up and Barbara stays to protect a machine the Doctor has built to defend them from the Daleks. She encounters the robot Doctor, while and Ian and the Doctor are reunited with Vicki, who is hiding in the jungle. After a while the four travellers are reunited and the real Doctor unmasks the robot counterpart, disabling it with his stick.
The Daleks too have fallen victim to the fungoid creatures and call off their search until the morning, letting the Doctor and his party sleep freely in a nearby cave. In the morning the Doctor notices that there is vast metal city over the jungle and they all decide to venture into the structure. Within moments a robot Mechanoid arrives and invites them into the city.
It is obviously armed, but says it means them no harm. The travellers do as they are bidden and enter the Mechanoid City. Among the Mechanoids is a dishevelled Human survivor named Steven Taylor. He is an astronaut from Earth who crash-landed on the planet two years earlier and has been kept as a prisoner by the Mechanoids since then. They are colonising robots built to make the city for human colonisers that never arrived, and so their current guests will be kept in the city permanently: Steven has not been permitted to leave.
The Daleks now attack the city so it is time for action. The Doctor and his party and Steven manage to escape from the city down some cables while the Mechanoids and Daleks become involved in a pitched battle which devastates both sides and the building. They flee to safety but are separated from Steven, whom they presume to have been killed.
For Ian and Barbara it is decision time. The navigable time machine gives them a chance to get back to modern day Earth. They find the deserted Dalek time machine and persuade the Doctor to show Ian how to operate it. After a tearful farewell, Ian and Barbara return to their own planet at last – and almost to their own time, being two years out in London of 1965. The machine is destroyed using the auto-destruct mechanism once Barbara and Ian are out of it.
The Doctor and Vicki oversee their farewell on the Time-Space Visualizer, glad they made it, but the Doctor is very sad at the loss. Neither of them notice that a new traveller has sneaked aboard the TARDIS...
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DVD Release A DVD release of this story has been delayed for quite some time, reportedly due to rights issues regarding the use of the Beatles song, "Ticket to Ride". In October 2009 it was reported that a DVD release was finally expected in 2010 along with The Space Museum, however whether it will be intact and include the "Ticket to Ride" clip is as yet unknown.[1]
Video Release Released as The Daleks Box Set

| Season 2 |
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| Planet of Giants • The Dalek Invasion of Earth • The Rescue • The Romans • The Web Planet • The Crusade • The Space Museum • The Chase • The Time Meddler |
| Dalek television stories |
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| Major appearances: The Daleks • The Dalek Invasion of Earth • The Chase • Mission to the Unknown • The Daleks' Master Plan • The Power of the Daleks • The Evil of the Daleks • Day of the Daleks • Planet of the Daleks • Death to the Daleks • Genesis of the Daleks • Destiny of the Daleks • Resurrection of the Daleks • Revelation of the Daleks • Remembrance of the Daleks • Dalek • Bad Wolf/ The Parting of the Ways • Army of Ghosts/Doomsday • Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks • The Stolen Earth / Journey's End |
| Minor appearances: The Space Museum • The Wheel in Space • The War Games • The Mind of Evil • Frontier in Space • Logopolis • The Five Doctors • The TV Movie • Human Nature • The Waters of Mars |
| Non-canonical: The Curse of Fatal Death |
| • Complete List of Appearances • |
| EPISODE | |
| The Chase | |
| Attribution | |
| Series: | The Next Generation |
| Story by: | Ronald D. Moore and Joe Menosky |
| Teleplay by: | Joe Menosky |
| Directed by: | Jonathan Frakes |
| Production information | |
| Episode no.: | 6x20 |
| Production no.: | 246 |
| First aired: | 26 April 1993 |
| Chronology | |
| Date: | 46731.5 (2369) |
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| MISSION The Chase |
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| Game: | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City |
| For: | Ricardo Diaz |
| Location: | Starfish Island, Vice City |
| Target: | Streetwannabees leader. |
| Conditions of mission failure: | Player death Kill the thief |
| Reward: | $1000 |
| Unlocks: | Phnom Penh '86 |
| Unlocked by: | Guardian Angels |
The Chase is a mission in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City given to protagonist Tommy Vercetti by Ricardo Diaz from his mansion in Starfish Island, Vice City.
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The leader of the Streetwannabees has been stealing 3% of Diaz's income, and he doesn't like that! He wants you to go to the guy's apartment, and then follow him to where he's stashing the money.
You've got a new boss in the form of Diaz - follow the D on your map to Starfish Island, and his palatial estate. Someone's screwing him out of 3%, and it's up to you to find out where the cash is stashed. Follow the pink marker, pilfering Diaz's [[Infernus] if the whim takes you, until you reach the thief's apartment block. Check the window when prompted, then run after him to the roof. It's a good idea to scout this route before activating the last checkpoint, to make sure where all ramps and planks are, but it's entirely optional. There's a puny Faggio waiting for you at the end, and sadly you can't park your car in advance, because when you get back to this spot it will disappear. Basically he runs across the rooftops, stopping to shooting the barrels about third quarter of the way along (tread carefully to avoid being set on fire), then he jumps off at the end, gets in his BF Injection and you need to chase him all the way to a mansion in Prawn Island. Stay far enough back so that you're out of range of his rifle, but don't lose track of him. All you have to do is to wait for him until he runs inside to pick up Diaz's money.
(Diaz's Mansion, Tommy Vercetti and Ricardo Diaz)
Ricardo Diaz: Come on, baby, go! Yeah! Yeah! Arrrr! Stupid Horse! I'll chop your head off! Grrrr...Who is this dickhead?
Tommy Vercetti: Tommy Vercetti. You remember me.
Ricardo Diaz: Excuse me. I'm a little anxious. Never trust a goddamn horse! You do a good job - you work for me now.
Tommy Vercetti: I work for money.
Ricardo Diaz: As I said, amigo. You work for me now.
Tommy Vercetti: I work...
Ricardo Diaz: Shut up! Some Judas has betrayed me. He thinks I don't know how much money I should be making, but stealing 3% is as good as stealing 100%. No one does this to me. NO ONE. You follow him from his apartement and you see where he goes! Later, we kill him.
(Starfish Island, Tommy.)
Tommy Vercetti: This asshole thinks he can mess with me? If this is the best Vice City has to offer, this is gonna be easy.
(The thief's apartment, The Thief)
The Thief: Ooh, shit!
(The roof, The Thief and Tommy)
The Thief: Loser! Too slow, grandad!
Tommy Vercetti: You better keep running asshole.
![]() Tommy Vercetti chasing the Sharks gang member in Vice Point |
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The Chase was the an asteroid field oribiting the binary stars Toydar and Little Toydar in the Toydaria system. Located in Hutt Space of the Mid Rim, it was situated beyond the planet Fii.
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