The Daleks: The Destroyers

The Lost Stories #2.2b

by Terry Nation

When the crew of Explorer Base One is attacked by the Daleks, Space Security Agents Sara Kingdom, Mark Seven and Jason Corey investigate. They discover a plan that threatens the future of the entire galaxy…

Genres: Doctor Who, Audiobook, Science Fiction

Audio CD

First published December 1, 2010

About the author

Terry Nation was a Welsh screenwriter and novelist. After briefly joining his father's furniture-making business and attempting stand-up comedy, Nation turned his hand to writing and worked on radio scripts for The Goon Show and a range of TV dramas such as The Saint, The Avengers, Z Cars, The Baron, The Champions, Department S and The Persuaders. He went on to write about 100 episodes of Doctor Who and wrote scripts for the American TV series MacGyver (1985) and A Fine Romance (1989).

He is probably best known for creating iconic villains the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who. Nation also created two science-fiction shows - Survivors and Blake's 7.

Terry Nation moved to Los Angeles, California, United States in 1980. He died from emphysema on 9 March 1997, aged 66.

Reviews

[Rick · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an odd one. There’s that one episode of classic Doctor Who, Mission to the Unknown, in which neither the Doctor nor any of his companions appear. It’s weird. The Daleks are there but the episode is, in fact, a prelude to a 12-part epic, The Daleks’ Masterplan, that would begin four weeks later after The Myth Makers ended. This is related to it, but it’s kind of difficult to puzzle out exactly how. It is known that Terry Nation, generally acknowledged as the creator of the Daleks, wanted to spin these space Nazis off into their own series, perhaps to sell to the American television and film markets, and this hope actually led to the absence of the Daleks from classic Doctor Who for several years. I’m fairly certain that this was intended as a pilot for that possible series. What I’m not sure about is when this was actually written. Was it before The Daleks’ Masterplan, or after. We have the appearance of Sara Kingdom, who joins The Doctor and Steven Tyler during that, sadly now all but lost, television epic and a lot of the plot elements that would appear in that adventure also appear here. But it doesn’t quite mesh with events from that story arc. Also Sara Kingdom isn’t exactly the same character, she doesn’t seem as adventurous or courageous as she appears in that story. In any case these two “episodes” are certainly from the era of the mid-1960s and have touches of what one would expect from sci-fi and adventure shows and films of that time period. So it’s some good old-fashioned sci-fi/adventure with Sara Kingdom vs the Daleks. Nothing surprising or unexpected. Entertaining, but it is what it is.

[Paulo "paper books only" · Rating 2 out of 5]

- The destroyers is a little short story that follows Sara Kingdom (IF anyone know, she is in the first story the Daleks appear with the First Doctor, Susan, Ian & Barbara. She appears in 8 of the 12 story episodes arc. Unfortunally most of those episodes dissapeared.

In this story the Doctor does not appear. For what I've search the internet this Lost Story was supposedly the pilot of an spin-off series focusing on the Daleks made by Terry Nation. Unfortunally that came not to be. This is most unfortunate because afterwards BBC took the Daleks out of Doctor Who but later in the series they returned.

This story is set in the future as a space exploration team guarding their dome are attacked by the Daleks. Several members of Special Space Security (SSS) are sent to investigate including Sara Kingdom - her brother David Kingdom was in the dome- presumbly dead), an android Mark Seven and the captain Jason.

After they arrived they learn that some of the personal were capture and they try to free them. The Daleks escape the Dome taking David with them. The ending sugests that this was the first phase of a master plan to attack Earth.

[Shaun Collins · Rating 4 out of 5]

Truly excellent Dalek adventure with Sarah Kingdom, Space Service Agent. Feels just like an early episode of Doctor Who without the Doctor. For our complete thoughts, visit https://travelingthevortex.com/?p=8871

[Charles Mitchell · Rating 5 out of 5]

An update on Terry Nation's pilot script for the proposed 1967 spin off series The Daleks. The production fell through, but you can hear Sarah Kingdom (Jean Marsh) and her compatriots fight against the evil Daleks.

[Billy Martel · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting window into what might have been. Big Finish has done its best to find out how to make this canon. But I’m not feeling it. It doesn’t feel like Sarah, it doesn’t feel like Doctor Who. It definitely feels like a rough draft for a few Blakes 7 ideas though.

[H. Givens · Rating 2 out of 5]

Struggled to pay attention, and it doesn't seem to mean much without the episode it was connected to. But I liked the characters and the ending.

[Debra Cook · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sara kingdom fights the daleks.