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A very nice, solid continuation of the story, some great chases scenes as the Doctor is driven further underground.

Some really nice use of shadows, not often used as a threat on the show, but on a few occasions they work well. The liquid ice works incredibly well, whatever it was, it certainly looks the part.

These Daleks are perhaps a bit short sighted, Jo is allowed to roam freely, climbing out of packing cases in full view, but alas they fail to see her.

It's a good cliffhanger, plus I like the ingenuity of the escape route.

Review of all 6 episodes:

Following on from the Daleks appearance in the final part of the previous story this story follows their latest plot to conquer the galaxy. The Doctor has been injured and calls for help from the Time Lords. They cause the TARDIS to travel to the planet where the Daleks are massing their army and perfecting their new weapons (including a power of invisibility). While The Doctor goes into a coma Jo ventures out onto the jungle like planet. They end up teaming up with a small group of Thals to try to stop the Daleks.

The story is decent with excellent moments and a good helping of fun action along the way. There are some good ideas, nice dialogue and decent acting and whilst far from perfect this is an enjoyable and solid quality adventure.

Part 1 has a tense beginning with the Doctor's life seeming at risk and after some jungle peril with dangerous plants there is a great cliffhanger with the discovery of an invisible Dalek. Part 2 is the strongest episode with the excitement of the Daleks, the Doctor getting more involved in the action and some really good dialogue such as the Doctor's great chat to Codal about bravery. After that there continue to be interesting elements such as the ice volcano and the exciting prospect of a huge army of Daleks waiting to be put into action. There is plenty of action and confrontation with Daleks too but these confrontations are less effective when they involve people grappling Daleks, throwing cloaks over themor pushing them into waterholes. The threat of the Dalek army and speeches of menace from them are great but it is made less thrilling when they are also shown to be so vulnerable to attack from unarmed humanoids. There are also some less than convincing aspects to other scenes along the way.

Overall though this is solid entertainment and a decent adventure on an interesting alien world.

My ratings: Part 1 - 8/10, Part 2 - 9/10, Part 3 - 8/10, Parts 4 & 5 - 7.5/10, Part 6 - 8/10. Overall - 8/10.

The location changes from the jungle setting to indoor locations such as the dalek base.

Even then the set designers are stretching themselves to create ice tunnels that is not CSO or blue screen. Also the Dalek holding that map made me wonder how did he grasp it in the first place.

Jo Grant is still seperated from others and seems to be in her own story with Wester the invisible Spiridon.

At least there is some action as the Doctor and Codal use a jamming device to disable a dalek.

They also reunite with the other Thals. There is a nifty escape plan to improvise a hot air balloon as the daleks try to force themselves in.

It is a story where I think Terry nation is not firing on full cylinders. Maybe he was too busy borrowing from his other stories.