Daleks: The Early Years

Daleks: The Early Years was a video containing rare episodes from early Dalek stories. It was presented by Peter Davison and contained the following full episodes:
* The Daleks' Master Plan: "Counter Plot"Both this episode and "Escape Switch" were at the time the only instalments of the story known to exist.
* The Daleks' Master Plan: "Escape Switch"
* The Evil of the Daleks episode two
as well as interviews with Terry Nation, Raymond Cusick, John Scott Martin, Roy Skelton; clips from The Daleks, The Chase, The Daleks' Master Plan (surviving clips), Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., The Power of the Daleks and The Five Doctors; the BBC trailers for The Dalek Invasion of Earth; an outtake from The Five Doctors; and an extract from "I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek" by The Go-Go's.
== Crew ==
* - Daleks - The Early Years
* Presented by - Peter Davison
* with - Terry Nation, Raymond P. Cusick, John Scott Martin, Roy Skelton
* Special thanks to - Museum of the Moving Image, South Bank, London and KRMA TV, Denver, USA
* Doctor Who theme composed by - Ron Grainer
* Theme arranged and performed by - Keff McCulloch
* Production Assistant - Ingrid Taylor
* Make-up - Erika Wareing
* Cameraman - Mike Winser
* Post Production - Ace Editing
* Sound - Tim Davies
* Lighting - Ian Dow
* Written and Produced by - John Nathan-Turner
* BBC
* © British Broadcasting Corporation and BBC Enterprises Ltd. MCMXCII
== Notes ==
* This was one of a series of videos produced by John Nathan-Turner intended to release rare episodes and incomplete serials, as well as interviews and other extras that wouldn't have seen a video release at the time.
* All British releases were handled by BBC Worldwide, Australasian releases by Polygram and American releases by CBS/Fox.
* The video was classified "U" in the UK and "PG" for "Low Level Violence" in Australia.
* It was released on 6 July 1991 in the UK, 1992 in America and on 3 February 1993 in Australia.
* The arrangement of the Doctor Who theme used for this and succeeding Years releases was originally arranged by Keff McCulloch for the 1989 album Doctor Who: Variations on a Theme.
* Peter Davison mistakenly referred to the first episode of The Daleks as "The Dead City" rather than "The Dead Planet".
* Highlights from the documentary were featured on the Special Edition DVD and Blu-ray release of The Power of the Daleks.
Six similar videos were later released up to 1994. They were:
* The Hartnell Years
* The Troughton Years
* The Pertwee Years
* Cybermen: The Early Years
* The Tom Baker Years
* The Colin Baker Years
== Home video releases ==
=== VHS releases ===
The documentary was released on VHS on 6 July 1992.
Daleks - the early years.jpg|Daleks: The Early Years VHS cover
=== DVD and Blu-ray rreleases ===
Highlights from the documentary was released on the special edition DVD and Blu-ray release of The Power of the Daleks in 2020.
== Footnotes ==
Category:VHS box sets
Category:Doctor Who video documentaries
Category:1992 documentaries
Category:Species spotlight documentaries