Day 348: Planet of the Daleks Episode 5

This episode features a scene in a quarry. It's one of the great jokes about Classic Doctor Who, that it's all set in quarries with wobbly sets. Normally, I would reject these claims and say that there are plenty of Doctor Who stories that aren't set in quarries. However, this is the third episode this series that has a quarry doubling for an alien landscape (fourth if you count the next story, which is actually set in a quarry). And it's not as if the story was looking to set itself in a quarry either, it is instead set on a jungle planet. What we are left with then is Doctor Who living up to the clichés associated with it. I understand why, locations are tricky to find, this scene explicitly called for a Dalek to be sent into a pool of molten ice which could be tricky to recreate in a studio and also quarries can be cheap to film in, however the point still stands that we are beginning to notice some minor problems with Doctor Who as broadcast.