'Dr. Who' Annual 1966 [2]

'He went to the central control panels and his hands ran over the familiar controls. He watched the great doors as they began to swing shut. His hands faltered as he saw what was coming towards them across the metal plain.

 

'A great horde of mechanical monsters, some on wheels and some on legs and some on both, was attacking them. The Mechanistrians had brought all their forces into operation against them. Dr Who’s mind almost reeled as he saw the monstrous and fantastic shapes which had been wrought by these masters of technology, those eerie beings, powered each by an incredible and ancient human brain and spread all over this planet in those mountains of metal, working, working, working, all for their own inscrutable purposes. How little he knew of this world, on which he had spent so little time.'

 

-- 'The Dr. Who Annual' [1966], courtesy of the BBC

 

Read the whole thing as a PDF on the BBC/2Entertain DVD of 'The Web Planet' [1965].

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