Friday, 24 April 2026

Settings: The Evil of the Daleks

The season finale of season four is arguably the first such serial to actually feel like a season finale. It’s one of the more popular Second Doctor stories, despite all but one episode being missing – albeit they are now animated. From the perspective of these posts, however, it’s very much not an exploratory story, and there’s relatively little to say about the setting. But still, we can work with the basics that we have.

Where & When

The story has three distinct settings. It starts off in southern England on the 20th July 1966, immediately after the events of The Faceless Ones. The main section, however, takes place on the 2nd and 3rd June 1866, at an English country house, with all of the action being confined to the building and its grounds.