Feature by MARK WRIGHT
Graduate drama students Marco Simioni (as Marc Cory), Dan Gilligan (Gordon Lowery) and Jacob Marrison (Jeff Garvey) in a publicity shot for the 2019 version of Mission to the Unknown.
On Friday 6 August 1965, a highly unusual episode of Doctor Who was recorded at BBC Television Centre between 8.30 and 9.45pm. The single episode Mission to the Unknown featured none of Doctor Who’s regular cast, instead showcasing the series’ most notorious villains in a pulpy sci-fiadventure designed as a curtain-raiser to the epic 12-part story The Daleks’ Master Plan (1965-66).