Doctor Who (TV Series 1963–1989) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error Time and Space traveling adventures of a Gallifreyan Time Lord only known as the Doctor and his companions, traveling through time and space. Creator: Gharman tries to convince the Kaleds to vote against the Dalek project but Davros has a trick up his sleeve, while the Doctor works to destroy the tape recording of Dalek victory and the Thals plan ... 9.2 The TARDIS is drawn to the planet of the Time Lords where both the Doctor and the War Lord are placed on trial. 9.2 The Doctor and his companions are sent to the planet Skaro by the Time Lords to prevent the creation of the Daleks.

9.1 a list of 24 titles created 22 Jun 2013 a list of 31 titles created 28 Nov 2013 a list of 26 titles created 06 Jan 2015 a list of 28 titles created 05 Sep 2015 a list of 43 titles created 8 months ago Search for " Doctor Who " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Title: Doctor Who (1963–1989) 8.5/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. 3 wins & 2 nominations. See more awards » Videos Edit Storyline The Doctor is a renegade Time Lord: an eccentric, highly-intelligent scientist from a distant planet. He travels through time and space in the TARDIS, a curious device, larger on the inside than on the outside, which was designed to change its appearance to suit its surroundings. Unfortunately, the Doctor's TARDIS seems to be broken, and always appears as a blue British police box.

The Doctor has a soft spot for the planet Earth, and often visits there, either to save it from various alien threats or to whisk a choice few inhabitants away to the distant parts of the galaxy to help him fight evil there. The Doctor has many foes, including Daleks (led by Davros), and The Master, another renegade Time Lord. Time Lord biology enables them to regenerate their bodies, and so both the Doctor and the Master appear to evolve over the years... Written by Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au> 29 September 1975 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Did You Know? Trivia Nyssa portrayed by Sarah Sutton was originally not meant to be a companion and one of the few Doctor Who characters not owned by the BBC. See more » Quotes See more » Crazy Credits The final episode of the 1982 story "Earthshock" ended with the death of a continuing character. The closing credits for that episode were silent - the only time in the history of the series that this was done.

See more » Connections (United Kingdom) – See all my reviews After a wait of almost sixteen years and with only just over a week to go before the new series of "Doctor Who" begins, let's hope that some classics are on the way to warrant all the hype and, above all, that the show remains true to its original spirit and is as fun as it always was. With that in mind, I thought it might be an opportune time to reflect on some of the great stories of the past. From First Doctor William Hartnell's era, my choice of favourite story would have to be "The Dalek Invasion of Earth". The use of extensive location filming enhances its atmosphere greatly. I know that, forty years on, the Robomen look and sound silly and the flying saucer is obviously dangled from a piece of string but the serial's shortcomings are compensated by the imagery of the Dalek rising from the River Thames and a group of them patrolling Trafalgar Square, not to mention crossing Westminster Bridge in the trailer. And then there is the sensitive ending marking Carole Ann Ford's departure from the series after playing the Doctor's granddaughter, Susan, for ten stories...

So many perfect serials from Second Doctor Patrick Troughton's time on the show! "Fury from the Deep" is my choice because it frightened me more than anything else I'd ever seen. It has several excellent cliffhangers and I'll never forget one of the characters walking out to sea and not stopping as she becomes totally immersed by the water or Victoria trapped in a locked room as the seaweed and foam threaten to engulf her. I long to see this story again but, alas, it seems gone forever. I love the first six serials of the Jon Pertwee era because they are complex and challenging. Of the six, "The Mind of Evil" is my favourite though writer Don Houghton's other serial, "Inferno", comes a close second. The reason I like it is because the idea of a parasite feeding off the fear in men's minds is so much more frightening than some lumbering monster! My favourite Tom Baker serial is "Genesis of the Daleks" despite the BBC always falling back on it for repeat seasons! Writer Terry Nation, creator of the Daleks, devised the character of Davros in order to raise the standard of dialogue between hero and enemy, succeeding here in discussing many moral issues.

Sarah Jane Smith seemingly falling to her death from the rocket scaffolding, as she tries to make her escape, and the freeze frame is another moment that will always stay with me. Cliffhangers play an important part in making a good serial and "The Caves of Androzani" boasts two of the finest. When Peter Davison's Doctor and new companion Peri are shot dead at the end of the first episode I didn't foresee the resolution. It's a shame it took until the last story of this era to get it right but director Graeme Harper presents us with a thoroughly gripping tour de force. Christopher Gable is electrifying as Sharaz Jek and I love the scene of the dying Doctor, coat caked in mud, struggling to carry his companion back to the TARDIS in an act of self-sacrifice that leads to his premature regeneration at the story's close. "Revelation of the Daleks" is "Doctor Who" for adults. Writer Eric Saward presents us with an alternative take on the Doctor through the character of Orcini, and his sidekick with personal hygiene problems, which is why Colin Baker's Doctor doesn't really enter the fray until over halfway through.

Nicola Bryant, as Peri, is lucky to have worked with Harper on both his serials which may account for why she is one of my favourite companions. There are moments of real pathos in this serial such as Natasha discovering what has really become of her father and the death of Jobel, which is no mean feat when you consider the ghastly nature of his character! Finally, from Sylvester McCoy's three years on the show, my choice has to be "The Curse of Fenric". This period has come in for much criticism when, certainly during the last two years, the show was actually beginning to find its feet again. It wasn't all played for laughs as is often suggested. One of the scariest things in this serial isn't the Haemovores or the rather placid Ancient One but the transformation of the two girls into vampires because the allegory, equating loose morality with bodily decay, is far more frightening than any monster could be, even when those monsters are well-realised. The story contains some very memorable dialogue too. Who can forget the chilling menace of "We play the contest again... Time Lord"?

And, if I was only allowed just one of the seven to take to my mythical island it would have to be, if it still existed in the BBC's archive, "Fury from the Deep". I don't think I would be disappointed, given the opportunity to see it again, as anything that can leave such an indelible mark on the memory has to have been an extremely powerful piece. 20 of 24 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes Profiles The Daleks /ˈdɑːlɛks/ are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants principally portrayed in the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who . The Daleks were conceived by science-fiction writer Terry Nation and first appeared in the 1963 Doctor Who serial The Daleks , in the shells designed by Raymond Cusick . Drawing inspirations from the real-life example of the Nazis , the Daleks are merciless and pitiless cyborg aliens bent on conquest of the universe and the extermination of what they see as inferior races; their catchphrase , "Exterminate!", is a well-recognised reference in British popular culture.

Within the programme's narrative, the Daleks were engineered by the scientist Davros throughout the final years of a thousand-year war between his people, the Kaleds, and their enemies the Thals . With a few Kaleds already badly mutated and damaged by nuclear war , Davros genetically modified the Kaleds and integrated them with a tank -like, robotic shell, removing their every emotion apart from hate. His creations soon came to view themselves as the supreme race in the universe, intent on purging the universe of all non-Dalek life. Collectively they're the greatest enemies of Doctor Who's protagonist, the Time Lord known as The Doctor . Later in the programme's history, the Daleks acquired time travel technology and engaged the Time Lords in a brutal Time War affecting most of the universe, with battles taking place across all of history. They are among the show's most popular villains and their various returns to the series over the years have typically been widely reported in the television press. Creation The Daleks were created by writer Terry Nation and designed by BBC designer Raymond Cusick . [2] They were introduced in December 1963 in the second Doctor Who serial, colloquially known as The Daleks .

They became an immediate and huge hit with viewers, featuring in a large number of subsequent serials and two 1960s motion pictures. They have become as synonymous with Doctor Who as the Doctor himself, and their behaviour and catchphrases are now part of British popular culture . "Hiding behind the sofa whenever the Daleks appear" has been cited as an element of British cultural identity; [3] and a 2008 survey indicated that nine out of ten British children were able to identify a Dalek correctly. [4] In 1999 a Dalek photographed by Lord Snowdon appeared on a postage stamp celebrating British popular culture. [5] In 2010, readers of science-fiction magazine SFX voted the Dalek as the all-time greatest monster, beating competition including Japanese movie monster Godzilla and J. R. R. Tolkien 's Gollum , of The Lord of the Rings . [6] Entry into popular culture As early as one year after first appearing on Doctor Who, the Daleks had become popular enough to be recognised even by non-viewers.

In December 1964 editorial cartoonist Leslie Gilbert Illingworth published a cartoon in the Daily Mail captioned "THE DEGAULLEK", caricaturing French President Charles de Gaulle arriving at a NATO meeting as a Dalek with de Gaulle's prominent nose. [7] The word "Dalek" has entered major dictionaries, including the Oxford English Dictionary , which defines "Dalek" as "a type of robot appearing in 'Dr. Who' [ sic ], a B.B.C. Television science-fiction programme; hence used allusively." But English-speakers at times use the term metaphorically to describe people, usually authority figures, who act like robots unable to break from their programming. For example, John Birt , the Director-General of the BBC from 1992 to 2000, was publicly called a "croak-voiced Dalek" by playwright Dennis Potter in the MacTaggart Lecture at the 1993 Edinburgh Television Festival .

[8] Physical characteristics Externally, Daleks resemble human-sized pepper shakers [2] with a single mechanical eyestalk mounted on a rotating dome, a gun mount containing an energy weapon ("gunstick" or " death ray "), and a telescopic manipulator arm usually tipped by an appendage resembling a sink plunger . Daleks have been known to use their plungers to interface with technology, crush a man's skull by suction, measure the intelligence of a subject, and extract information from a man's mind. Dalek casings are made of a bonded polycarbide material dubbed "dalekanium" by a member of the human resistance in The Dalek Invasion of Earth and by the Cult of Skaro in " Daleks in Manhattan ". The lower half of a Dalek's shell is covered with hemispherical protrusions, or "Dalek bumps", which are shown in the episode " Dalek " to be spheres embedded in the casing.

Both the BBC-licensed Dalek Book (1964) and The Doctor Who Technical Manual (1983) describe these items as being part of a sensory array, whilst in the 2005 series episode "Dalek", they're integral to a Dalek's self-destruct mechanism. Their armour has a forcefield that evaporates most bullets and resists most types of energy weapons. The forcefield seems to be concentrated around the Dalek's midsection (where the mutant is located), as normally ineffective firepower can be concentrated on the eyestalk to blind a Dalek. Daleks have a quite limited visual field, with no peripheral sight at all, and are relatively easy to hide from in fairly exposed places. Their own energy weapons are capable of destroying them. Their weapons fire a beam that has electrical tendencies, is capable of propagating through water, and might be a form of plasma .

The eyepiece is a Dalek's most vulnerable spot; impairing its vision often leads to a blind, panicked firing of its weapon while exclaiming "My vision is impaired; I can't see!" Russell T Davies subverted the catchphrase in his 2008 episode " The Stolen Earth ", in which a Dalek vaporises a paintball that has blocked its vision while proclaiming "My vision is not impaired!" The creature inside the mechanical casing is soft and repulsive in appearance and vicious in temperament. The first-ever glimpse of a Dalek mutant, in The Daleks , was a claw peeking out from under a Thal cloak after it had been removed from its casing. The mutants' actual appearance has varied, but often adheres to the Doctor's description of the species in Remembrance of the Daleks as "little green blobs in bonded polycarbide armour ".

[9] In Resurrection of the Daleks a Dalek creature, separated from its casing, attacks and severely injures a human soldier; in Revelation of the Daleks, there are two Dalek factions (Imperial and Renegade) and the creatures inside have a different appearance in each case, one resembling the amorphous creature from Resurrection, the additional the crab-like creature from the original Dalek serial. As the creature inside is rarely seen on screen, a common misconception exists that Daleks are wholly mechanical robots. In the new series Daleks are retconned to be mollusc -like in appearance, with small tentacles, one or two eyes, and an exposed brain. Daleks' voices are electronic; when out of its casing the mutant is only able to squeak. Once the mutant is removed, the casing itself can be entered and operated by humanoids; for example, in The Daleks , Ian Chesterton ( William Russell ) enters a Dalek shell to masquerade as a guard as part of an escape plan. For a large number of years it was assumed that, due to their design and gliding motion, Daleks were unable to climb stairs, and that this was a simple way of escaping them.

A well-known cartoon from Punch pictured a group of Daleks at the foot of a flight of stairs with the caption, "Well, this certainly buggers our plan to conquer the Universe". [10] In a scene from the serial Destiny of the Daleks , the Doctor and companions escape from Dalek pursuers by climbing into a ceiling duct.

The Fourth Doctor calls down, "If you're supposed to be the superior race of the universe, why don't you try climbing after us?" The Daleks generally make up for their general lack of mobility with overwhelming firepower; a joke among Doctor Who fans goes, "Real Daleks don't climb stairs; they level the building." [11] Dalek mobility has improved over the history of the series: in their first appearance, The Daleks, they were capable of movement only on the conductive metal floors of their city; in The Dalek Invasion of Earth a Dalek emerges from the waters of the River Thames , indicating that they not only had become freely mobile, but are amphibious ; Planet of the Daleks showed that they could ascend a vertical shaft by means of an external anti-gravity mat placed on the floor, Revelation of the Daleks showed Davros in his life-support chair and one of his Daleks hovering and Remembrance of the Daleks depicted them as capable of hovering up a flight of stairs.

Despite this, journalists covering the series frequently refer to the Daleks' supposed inability to climb stairs; characters escaping up a flight of stairs in the 2005 episode "Dalek" made the same joke, and were shocked when the Dalek began to hover up the stairs after uttering the phrase "ELEVATE", in a similar manner to their normal phrase "EXTERMINATE". The new series depicts the Daleks as fully capable of flight, even space flight. Prop details The non-humanoid shape of the Dalek did much to enhance the creatures' sense of menace. A lack of familiar reference points differentiated them from the traditional " bug-eyed monster " of science fiction, which Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman had wanted the show to avoid. The unsettling Dalek form, coupled with their alien voices, made a large number of believe that the props were wholly mechanical and operated by remote control. The Daleks were actually controlled from inside by short operators who had to manipulate their eyestalks, domes, and arms, as well as flashing the lights on their heads in sync with the actors supplying their voices. The Dalek cases were built in two pieces; an operator would step into the lower section, and then the top would be secured.

The operators looked out between the cylindrical louvres just beneath the dome, which were lined with mesh to conceal their faces. In addition to being hot and cramped the Dalek casings additionally muffled external sounds, making it difficult for operators to hear the director's commands or studio dialogue. John Scott Martin , a Dalek operator from the original series, said that Dalek operation was a challenge: "You had to have about six hands: one to do the eyestalk, one to do the lights, one for the gun, another for the smoke canister underneath, yet another for the sink plunger. If you were related to an octopus then it helped." For Doctor Who's 21st-century revival the Dalek casings retain the same overall shape and dimensional proportions of previous Daleks, although a large number of details have been re-designed to give the Dalek a heavier and more solid look. Changes include a larger, more pointed base; a glowing eyepiece; an all-over metallic-brass finish (specified by Davies); thicker, nailed strips on the "neck" section; a housing for the eyestalk pivot; and significantly larger dome lights.

The new prop made its on-screen debut in the 2005 episode "Dalek". These Dalek casings use a short operator inside the housing while the 'head' and eyestalk are operated via remote control. A third person, Nicholas Briggs , supplies the voice in their various appearances. In the 2010 season a new, larger model appeared in several colours representing different parts of the Dalek command hierarchy. Movement Terry Nation's original plan was for the Daleks to glide across the floor. Early versions of the Daleks rolled on nylon castors, propelled by the operator's feet. Although castors were adequate for the Daleks' debut serial, which was shot entirely at the BBC's Lime Grove Studios , for The Dalek Invasion of Earth Terry Nation wanted the Daleks to be filmed on the streets of London. To enable the Daleks to travel smoothly on location, designer Spencer Chapman built the new Dalek shells around miniature tricycles with sturdier wheels, which were hidden by enlarged fenders fitted below the original base. [3] The uneven flagstones of Central London caused the Daleks to rattle as they moved and it wasn't possible to remove this noise from the final soundtrack.

A small parabolic dish was added to the rear of the prop's casing to explain why these Daleks, unlike the ones in their first serial, weren't dependent on static electricity drawn up from the floors of the Dalek city for their motive power. Later versions of the prop had more efficient wheels and were once again simply propelled by the seated operators' feet, but they remained so heavy that when going up ramps they often had to be pushed by stagehands out of camera shot. The difficulty of operating all the prop's parts at once contributed to the occasionally jerky Dalek movements. This problem has largely been eradicated with the advent of the "new series" version, as its remotely controlled dome and eyestalk allow the operator to concentrate on the smooth movement of the Dalek and its arms. [3] Voices The staccato delivery, harsh tone, and rising inflexion of the Dalek voice were initially developed by voice actors Peter Hawkins and David Graham , who would vary the pitch and speed of the lines according to the emotion needed. Their voices were further processed electronically by Brian Hodgson at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop .

Although the exact sound-processing devices used have varied, the original 1963 effect used equalisation to boost the mid-range of the actor's voice, then subjected it to ring modulation with a 30 Hz sine wave . The distinctive harsh grating vocal timbre this produced has remained the pattern for all Dalek voices after (with the exception of those in the 1985 serial Revelation of the Daleks , for which director Graeme Harper deliberately used less distortion). [3] Besides Hawkins and Graham, notable voice actors for the Daleks have included Roy Skelton , who first voiced the Daleks in the 1967 storey The Evil of the Daleks and went on to provide voices for five additional Dalek serials including Planet of the Daleks , and for the one-off anniversary special The Five Doctors . Michael Wisher , the actor who originated the role of Dalek creator Davros in Genesis of the Daleks , provided Dalek voices for that same story, as well as for Frontier in Space , Planet of the Daleks , and Death to the Daleks . Other Dalek voice actors include Royce Mills (three stories), Brian Miller (two stories), and Oliver Gilbert and Peter Messaline (one story).

John Leeson , who performed the voice of K9 in several Doctor Who stories, and Davros actors Terry Molloy and David Gooderson additionally contributed supporting voices for various Dalek serials. Since 2005, the Dalek voice in the television series has been provided by Nicholas Briggs , speaking into a microphone connected to a voice modulator. Briggs had previously provided Dalek and additional alien voices for Big Finish Productions audio plays . In a 2006 BBC Radio interview, Briggs said that when the BBC asked him to do the voice for the new television series, they instructed him to bring his own analogue ring modulator that he had used in the audio plays. The BBC's sound department had changed to a digital platform and couldn't adequately create the distinctive Dalek sound with their modern equipment. Briggs went as far as to bring the voice modulator to the actors' readings of the scripts. Construction Manufacturing the props was expensive. In scenes where a large number of Daleks had to appear, a few of them would be represented by wooden replicas ( Destiny of the Daleks ) or life-size photographic enlargements in the early black-and-white episodes ( The Daleks , The Dalek Invasion of Earth , and The Power of the Daleks ).

[4] In storeys involving armies of Daleks, the BBC effects team even turned to using commercially available toy Daleks, manufactured by Louis Marx & Co and Herts Plastic Moulders Ltd. Examples of this can be observed in the serials The Power of the Daleks, The Evil of the Daleks, and Planet of the Daleks. Judicious editing techniques additionally gave the impression that there were more Daleks than were actually available, such as using a split screen in "The Parting of the Ways". Four fully functioning props were commissioned for the first serial "The Daleks" in 1963, and were constructed from BBC plans by Shawcraft Engineering. [4] These became known in fan circles as "Mk I Daleks" . Shawcraft were additionally commissioned to construct approximately 20 Daleks for the two Dalek movies in 1965 and 1966 (see ). Some of these movie props filtered back to the BBC and were seen in the televised serials, notably The Chase, which was aired before the first movie's debut. [4] The remaining props not bought by the BBC were either donated to charity or given away as prizes in competitions.

[5] The BBC's own Dalek props were reused a large number of times, with components of the original Shawcraft "Mk I Daleks" surviving right through to their final classic series appearance in 1988. [5] But years of storage and repainting took their toll. By the time of the Sixth Doctor 's Revelation of the Daleks new props were being manufactured out of fibreglass . These models were lighter and more affordable to construct than their predecessors. These newer models were slightly bulkier in appearance around the mid-shoulder section, and additionally had a redesigned skirt section which was more vertical at the back. Other minor changes were made to the design due to these new construction methods, including altering the fender and incorporating the arm boxes, collars, and slats into a single fibreglass moulding. These props were repainted in grey for the Seventh Doctor serial Remembrance of the Daleks and designated as " Renegade Daleks "; another redesign, painted in cream and gold, became the " Imperial Dalek " faction. [5] New Dalek props were built for the twenty-first century version of Doctor Who.

The first, which appeared alone in the 2005 episode " Dalek ", was built by modelmaker Mike Tucker . Additional Dalek props based on Tucker's master were subsequently built out of fibreglass by Cardiff -based Specialist Models. [20] Development Wishing to create an alien creature that didn't look like a "man in a suit", Terry Nation stated in his script for the first Dalek serial that they should have no legs. He was additionally inspired by a performance by the Georgian National Ballet , in which dancers in long skirts appeared to glide across the stage. For a large number of of the shows, the Daleks were operated by retired ballet dancers wearing black socks while sitting inside the Dalek. Raymond Cusick (who died on 21 February 2013) [5] was given the task of designing the Daleks when Ridley Scott , then a designer for the BBC, proved unavailable after having been initially assigned to their debut serial.

An account in Jeremy Bentham's Doctor Who—The Early Years (1986) says that after Nation wrote the script, Cusick was given only an hour to come up with the design for the Daleks, and was inspired in his initial sketches by a pepper shaker on a table. Cusick himself, however, states that he based it on a man seated in a chair, and only used the pepper shaker to demonstrate how it might move. [5] In 1964 Nation told a Daily Mirror reporter that the Dalek name came from a dictionary or encyclopaedia volume, the spine of which read "Dal – Lek" (or, according to another version, "Dal – Eks"). He later admitted that this book and the origin of the Dalek name was completely fictitious, and that anyone bothering to cheque out his storey would have found him out. The name had in reality simply rolled off his typewriter. Later, Nation was pleasantly surprised to discover that in Serbo-Croatian the word "dalek" means "far", or "distant". [3] Nation grew up throughout World War II, and remembered the fear caused by German bombings.

He consciously based the Daleks on the Nazis , conceiving the species as faceless, authoritarian figures dedicated to conquest and complete conformity. [6] The allusion is most obvious in the Dalek storeys penned by Nation, in particular The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964) and Genesis of the Daleks (1975). [6] [6] [6] Prior to writing the first Dalek serial, Nation was chief scriptwriter for comedian Tony Hancock . The two had a falling out, and Nation either resigned or was fired. [6] When Hancock left the BBC, he worked on several series proposals, one of which was called From Plip to Plop, a comedic history of the world which would have ended with a nuclear apocalypse, the survivors being reduced to living in dustbin-like robot casings and eating radiation to stay alive. According to biographer Cliff Goodwin, when Hancock saw the Daleks, he allegedly shouted at the screen, "That bloody Nation—he's stolen my robots!" The naming of early Doctor Who storeys is complex and at times controversial.

[23] [7] The first Dalek serial is called, variously, The Survivors (the pre-production title), The Mutants (its official title at the time of production and broadcast, later taken by another unrelated story ), Beyond the Sun (used on a few production documentation), The Dead Planet (the on-screen title of the serial's first episode), or simply The Daleks . [23] The instant appeal of the Daleks caught the BBC off guard, and transformed Doctor Who from a Saturday tea-time children's educational programme to a must-watch national phenomenon. Children were alternately frightened and fascinated by the alien look of the monsters, and the Doctor Who production office was inundated by letters and calls asking about the creatures. Newspaper articles focused attention on the series and the Daleks, further enhancing their popularity. Nation jointly owned the intellectual property rights to the Daleks with the BBC, and the money-making concept proved nearly impossible to sell to anyone else; he was dependent on the BBC wanting to produce storeys featuring the creatures. Several attempts to market the Daleks outside of the series were unsuccessful.

[7] [7] Since Nation's death in 1997, his share of the rights is now administered by his former agent, Tim Hancock. [24] Early plans for what eventually became the 1996 Doctor Who television movie included radically redesigned Daleks whose cases unfolded like spiders' legs. [7] The concept for these " Spider Daleks " was abandoned, but picked up again in several Doctor Who spin-offs . When the new series was announced, a large number of fans hoped the Daleks would return once more to the programme. [26] [7] The Nation estate however demanded levels of creative control over the Daleks' appearances and scripts that were unacceptable to the BBC. [28] Eventually the Daleks were cleared to seem in the first series. [24] [29] Fictional history Dalek in-universe history has seen a large number of retroactive changes , which have caused continuity problems. When the Daleks first appeared, they were presented as the descendants of the Dals, mutated after a brief nuclear war between the Dal and Thal races 500 years ago. This race of Daleks is destroyed when their power supply is wrecked.

Notwithstanding when they reappear in The Dalek Invasion of Earth , they have conquered Earth in the twenty-second century. Later storeys saw them develop time travel and a space empire. In 1975, Terry Nation revised the Daleks' origins in Genesis of the Daleks, where the Dals were now called Kaleds (of which "Daleks" is an anagram ), and the Dalek design was attributed to one man, the crippled Kaled chief scientist and evil genius, Davros. Instead of a short nuclear exchange, the Kaled-Thal war was portrayed as a thousand-year-long war of attrition , fought with nuclear , biological and chemical weapons which caused widespread mutations among the Kaled race. Davros experimented on living Kaled cells to find the ultimate mutated form of the Kaled species and placed the subjects in tank -like "travel machines" whose design was based on his own life-support chair. Genesis of the Daleks marked a new era for the depiction of the species, with most of their previous history either forgotten or barely referred to again.

[30] Future storeys in the original Doctor Who series, which followed a rough story arc , would additionally focus more on Davros, much to the dissatisfaction of a few fans who felt that the Daleks should take centre stage rather than merely fitting minions of their creator. Davros made his last televised appearance for 20 years in Remembrance of the Daleks, which depicted a civil war between two factions of Daleks. One faction, the "Imperial Daleks", were loyal to Davros, who had become their Emperor, whilst the other, the "Renegade Daleks", followed a black Supreme Dalek. By the end of the story, both factions have been wiped out and the Doctor has tricked them into destroying Skaro, though Davros escapes. A single Dalek appeared in " Dalek ", written by Robert Shearman , which was broadcast on BBC One on 30 April 2005. This Dalek appeared to be the sole Dalek survivor of the Time War which had destroyed both the Daleks and the Time Lords. A Dalek Emperor returned at the end of the 2005 series, having rebuilt the Dalek race with genetic material harvested from human subjects.

It saw itself as a god, and the new Daleks were shown worshipping it. These Daleks and their fleet were destroyed in " The Parting of the Ways ". The 2006 season finale " Army of Ghosts "/" Doomsday " featured a squad of four Dalek survivors from the old Empire, known as the Cult of Skaro , led by a black Dalek known as " Sec ", that had survived the Time War by escaping into the Void between dimensions. They emerged, along with the Genesis Ark, a Time Lord prison vessel containing millions of Daleks, at Canary Wharf due to the actions of the Torchwood Institute and Cybermen from a parallel world . This resulted in a Cyberman-Dalek clash in London, which was resolved when the Tenth Doctor caused both groups to be sucked back into the Void. The Cult survived by utilising an "emergency temporal shift" to escape.

These four Daleks - Sec, Jast, Thay and Caan - returned in the two-part storey " Daleks in Manhattan "/" Evolution of the Daleks ", in which whilst stranded in 1930s New York, they set up a base in the partially built Empire State Building and attempt to rebuild the Dalek race. To this end, Dalek Sec merges with a human being to become a Human/Dalek hybrid. The Cult then set about creating "Human Daleks" by "formatting" the brains of a few thousand captured humans, with the intention of producing hybrids which remain fully human in appearance but with Dalek minds. Dalek Sec, however, starts to become so human that he changes the DNA to make the hybrids more human. This angers the rest of the Cult, resulting in mutiny and the death of Sec, Thay and Jast as well as the wiping out of all the hybrids. This leaves Dalek Caan as the last Dalek in existence. When the Doctor makes Caan realise that he's the last of his kind, Caan uses emergency temporal shift and escapes once more.

The Daleks returned in the 2008 season's two-part finale, " The Stolen Earth "/" Journey's End ", accompanied once again by their creator Davros. The storey reveals that Caan's temporal shift sent him into the Time War whence he rescued Davros, in the process gaining the ability to see the future at the cost of his own sanity. Davros has created a new race using his own body's cells. The episode depicts a Dalek invasion of Earth, which with additional planets is taken to the Medusa Cascade, led by a red Supreme Dalek, who has kept Caan and Davros imprisoned in "The Vault", a section of the Dalek flagship, the Crucible. Davros and the Daleks plan to destroy reality itself with a "reality bomb" for which they need the stolen planets. The plan fails due to the interference of Donna Noble , a companion of the Doctor, and Caan himself, who has been manipulating events to destroy the Daleks after realising the severity of the atrocities they have committed.

The Daleks returned in the 2010 episode " Victory of the Daleks ", the third episode of the series; Daleks who escaped the destruction of Davros' empire fell back in time and, by chance, managed to retrieve the "Progenitor". [31] This is a tiny apparatus which contains 'original' Dalek DNA. The activation of the Progenitor results in the creation of a "new paradigm" of Daleks. The New Paradigm Daleks deem their creators inferior and exterminate them; their creators make no resistance to this, deeming themselves inferior as well. They are organised into different roles (drone, scientist, strategists, supreme and eternal), which are identifiable with colour-coded armour instead of the identification plates under the eyestalk used by their predecessors. They escape the Doctor at the end of the episode via time travel with the intent to rebuild their Empire. [8] The Daleks only appeared briefly in subsequent finales " The Pandorica Opens "/" The Big Bang " (2010) as Steven Moffat decided to "give them a rest" and stated "There's a problem with the Daleks.

They are the most famous of the Doctor's adversaries and the most frequent, which means they're the most reliably defeatable enemies in the universe." [8] They next appear in " Asylum of the Daleks " (2012), where the Daleks are shown to have greatly increased numbers and have a Parliament; in addition to the traditional "modern" Daleks, several designs from both the original and new series appear. All record of the Doctor is removed from their collective consciousness at the end of the episode. The Daleks then appear in the fiftieth Anniversary special " The Day of the Doctor ", where they're seen being defeated in the Time War . In " The Time of the Doctor ", the Daleks are one of the races that travel to Trenzalore and besiege it for centuries to stop the Doctor from releasing the Time Lords. Due to converting Tasha Lem into a Dalek puppet, they regain knowledge of the Doctor. In the end, they're the only enemy left, the others having retreated or been destroyed and nearly kill the near-death Doctor before the Time Lords intervene and grant him a new regeneration cycle. The Doctor then uses his regeneration energy to obliterate the Daleks on the planet.

The Twelfth Doctor 's first encounter with the Daleks is in his second full episode, " Into the Dalek ". A beleaguered ship of the "Combined Galactic Resistance" has discovered a broken Dalek that has turned "good", desiring to kill all additional Daleks. The Doctor, Clara and a team of soldiers are miniaturised and enter the Dalek, which the Doctor names Rusty. They repair the damage, but accidentally restore it to its original nature, causing it to go on the rampage and alert the Dalek fleet to the whereabouts of the rebel ship. Notwithstanding the Doctor manages to return Rusty to its previous state by linking his mind with the Dalek's: Rusty shares the Doctor's view of the universe's beauty, but additionally his deep hatred of the Daleks. Rusty destroys the additional Daleks and departs the ship, determined to track down and bring an end to the Dalek race. Dalek culture Daleks have little, if any, individual personality, ostensibly no emotions additional than hatred and anger, and a strict command structure in which they're conditioned to obey superiors' orders without question.

Dalek speech is characterised by repeated phrases, and by orders given to themselves and to others. [8] Unlike the stereotypical emotionless robots often found in science fiction, Daleks are often angry; author Kim Newman has described the Daleks as behaving "like toddlers in perpetual hissy fits", gloating when in power and flying into rage when thwarted. [8] They tend to be excitable and will repeat the same word or phrase over and over again in heightened emotional states, most famously "Exterminate! Exterminate!" In terms of their behaviour, Daleks are extremely aggressive, and seem driven by an instinct to attack. This instinct is so strong that Daleks have been depicted fighting the urge to kill or even attacking when unarmed. The Fifth Doctor characterises this impulse by saying, "However you respond [to Daleks] is seen as an act of provocation." The fundamental feature of Dalek culture and psychology is an unquestioned belief in the superiority of the Dalek race, and their default directive is to destroy all non-Dalek life-forms. Other species are either to be exterminated immediately or enslaved and then exterminated once they're no longer useful.

The Dalek obsession with their own superiority is illustrated by the schism between the Renegade and Imperial Daleks seen in Revelation of the Daleks and Remembrance of the Daleks: the two factions each consider the additional to be a perversion notwithstanding the relatively minor differences between them. This intolerance of any "contamination" within themselves is additionally shown in "Dalek", The Evil of the Daleks and in the Big Finish Productions audio play The Mutant Phase . This superiority complex is the basis of the Daleks' ruthlessness and lack of compassion. This is shown in extreme in " Victory of the Daleks ", where the new, pure Daleks destroy their creators, impure Daleks, with the latters' consent. It is nearly impossible to negotiate or reason with a Dalek, a single-mindedness that makes them dangerous and not to be underestimated. The Eleventh Doctor ( Matt Smith ) is later puzzled in the "Asylum of the Daleks" as to why the Daleks don't just kill the sequestered ones that have "gone wrong".

Although the Asylum is subsequently obliterated, the Prime Minister of the Daleks explains that "it is offensive to us to destroy such divine hatred", and the Doctor is sickened at the revelation that hatred is actually considered beautiful by the Daleks. Dalek society is depicted as one of extreme scientific and technological advancement; the Third Doctor states that "it was their inventive genius that made them one of the greatest powers in the universe." Notwithstanding their reliance on logic and machinery is additionally a strategic weakness which they recognise, and thus use more emotion-driven species as agents to compensate for these shortcomings. Although the Daleks aren't known for their regard for due process , they have taken at least two enemies back to Skaro for a "trial", rather than killing them immediately. The first was their creator, Davros, in Revelation of the Daleks, and the second was the renegade Time Lord known as the Master in the 1996 television movie. The reasons for the Master's trial, and why the Doctor would be asked to retrieve the Master's remains, have never been explained on screen. The Doctor Who Annual 2006 implies that the trial might have been due to a treaty signed between the Time Lords and the Daleks.

[8] The framing device for the I, Davros audio plays is a Dalek trial to determine if Davros should be the Daleks' leader once more. [8] Spin-off novels contain several tongue-in-cheek mentions of Dalek poetry, and an anecdote about an opera based upon it, which was lost to posterity when the entire cast was exterminated on the opening night. Two stanzas are given in the novel The Also People by Ben Aaronovitch. In an alternative timeline portrayed in the Big Finish Productions audio adventure The Time of the Daleks , the Daleks show a fondness for the works of Shakespeare . A similar idea was satirised by comedian Frankie Boyle in the BBC comedy quiz programme Mock the Week ; he gave the fictional Dalek poem "Daffodils; EXTERMINATE DAFFODILS!" as an "unlikely line to hear in Doctor Who". Because the Doctor has defeated the Daleks so often, he has become their collective arch-enemy and they have standing orders to capture or exterminate him on sight.

In later fiction, the Daleks know the Doctor as "Ka Faraq Gatri" ("Bringer of Darkness" or "Destroyer of Worlds"), and "The Oncoming Storm". Both the Ninth Doctor ( Christopher Eccleston ) and Rose Tyler ( Billie Piper ) suggest that the Doctor is one of the few beings the Daleks fear. In " Doomsday ", Rose notes that while the Daleks see the extermination of five million Cybermen as "pest control", "one Doctor" visibly un-nerves them (to the point they physically recoil). To his indignant surprise, in "Asylum of the Daleks", the Eleventh Doctor ( Matt Smith ) learns that the Daleks have designated him as "The Predator". As the Doctor escapes the Asylum (with companions Amy and Rory), a Dalek-converted-human (Oswin Oswald) prisoner provides critical assistance, which culminates in completely deleting the Doctor from the Dalek hive-consciousness (the PathWeb), thus wiping the slate entirely blank. Notwithstanding this was reversed in " The Time of the Doctor ", when the Daleks regained knowledge of the Doctor through the memory of an old acquaintance of the Doctor, Tasha Lem.

Measurements A rel is a Dalek and Kaled unit of measurement. It was usually a measurement of time , with a duration of slightly more than one second, as mentioned in " Doomsday ", " Evolution of the Daleks " and " Journey's End ", counting down to the ignition of the reality bomb. (One earth minute most likely equals about 50 rels.) Notwithstanding in a few comic books it was additionally used as a unit of velocity . Finally, in a few cases it was used as a unit of hydroelectric energy (not to be confused with a vep, the unit used to measure artificial sunlight). The rel was first used in the non-canonical feature film Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. , soon after appearing in early Doctor Who comic books. Licensed appearances Two Doctor Who movies starring Peter Cushing featured the Daleks as the main villains: Dr. Who and the Daleks , and Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD , based on the television serials The Daleks and The Dalek Invasion of Earth, respectively. The movies weren't direct remakes; for example, the Doctor in the Cushing films was a human inventor called "Dr.

Who" who built a time-travelling device named Tardis, instead of a mysterious alien who stole a device called "the TARDIS". Four books focusing on the Daleks were published in the 1960s. The Dalek Book (1964, written by Terry Nation and David Whitaker ), The Dalek World (1965, written by Nation and Whitaker) and The Dalek Outer Space Book (1966, by Nation and Brad Ashton) were all hardcover books formatted like annuals , containing text storeys and comics about the Daleks, along with fictional information (sometimes based on the television serials, additional times made up for the books). Nation additionally published The Dalek Pocketbook and Space-Travellers Guide, which collected articles and features treating the Daleks as if they were real. Four more annuals were published in the 1970s by World Distributors under the title Terry Nation's Dalek Annual (with cover dates 1976–1979, but published 1975–1978).

Two original novels by John Peel , War of the Daleks (1997) and Legacy of the Daleks (1998), were released as part of the Eighth Doctor Adventures series of Doctor Who novels. A novella, The Dalek Factor by Simon Clark , was published in 2004, and two books featuring the Daleks and the Tenth Doctor ( I am a Dalek by Gareth Roberts , 2006, and Prisoner of the Daleks by Trevor Baxendale , 2009) have been released as part of the New Series Adventures . Nation authorised the publication of the comic strip The Daleks in the comic TV Century 21 in 1965. The weekly one-page strip, written by Whitaker but credited to Nation, featured the Daleks as protagonists and "heroes", and continued for two years, from their creation of the mechanised Daleks by the humanoid Dalek scientist, Yarvelling, to their eventual discovery in the ruins of a crashed space-liner of the co-ordinates for Earth , which they proposed to invade.

Although much of the material in these strips directly contradicted what was shown on television, a few concepts like the Daleks using humanoid duplicates and the design of the Dalek Emperor did show up later on in the programme. At the same time, a Doctor Who strip was additionally being published in TV Comic . Initially, the strip didn't have the rights to use the Daleks, so the First Doctor battled the "Trods" instead, cone-shaped robotic creatures that ran on static electricity. By the time the Second Doctor appeared in the strip in 1967 the rights issues had been resolved, and the Daleks began making appearances starting in The Trodos Ambush (TVC #788-#791), where they massacred the Trods. The Daleks additionally made appearances in the Third Doctor -era Dr. Who comic strip that featured in the combined Countdown / TV Action comic throughout the early 1970s.

[34] Other licenced appearances have included a number of stage plays (see below) and television adverts for Wall's "Sky Ray" ice lollies (1966), Weetabix breakfast cereal (1977), Kit Kat chocolate bars (2001), [35] and the ANZ Bank (2005). [37] In 2003, Daleks additionally appeared in UK billboard ads for Energizer batteries, alongside the slogan "Are You Power Mad?" [35] Other major appearances The Dalek Generation by Nicholas Briggs (New Series Adventures), published April 2013 Other appearances Non-Doctor Who television and film Daleks have made cameo appearances in television programmes and films unrelated to Doctor Who from the 1960s to the present day. Dalek toys are seen in a department store in "Death at Bargain Prices", a 1965 episode of the fantasy/thriller series The Avengers , which like Doctor Who was created by Sydney Newman, although broadcast on the rival ITV network. [38] During the 1992 Christmas special of the comedy series Mr.

Bean , the title character uses children's toys to play out a bizarre nativity scene in which a Dalek exterminates a tiny lamb and a tyrannosaurus rex. [39] Two to three purple toy Daleks are additionally seen in the background of an episode of the American children's cartoon Rugrats . [40] In the television special The Red Dwarf A–Z , two Daleks are shown (under "E" for "Exterminate") arguing that all Earth television is human propaganda, and the works more commonly attributed to William Shakespeare and Ludwig van Beethoven were actually written by Daleks, although they deny having written " Mandy " by Barry Manilow ; subsequently, one of them remarks that the "change the bulb" joke from the episode " Legion " was funny, and is promptly exterminated by the additional for the crime of "not behaving like a true Dalek". [41] In the 2004 series of Coupling , written by Steven Moffat (who was later to write for and produce Doctor Who), a Dalek appears in the second episode of season four.

[42] This was voiced by Nicholas Briggs , [43] who later went on to provide Dalek voices for the series proper from 2005 onwards. (Terry Nation's original Dalek rights deal with the BBC had been negotiated by his then agent Beryl Vertue , later Moffat's mother-in-law.) [44] In the film Looney Tunes: Back in Action , the secret military base, Area 52, detains a number of monsters and robots from old sci-fi films; among those are a few Daleks, who upon release by Marvin the Martian , proceed to attack while spouting their catchphrases. [35] [45] A Dalek appeared alongside Darth Vader , Ming the Merciless , a Klingon , the Sixth Doctor and a 1980s Cyberman in a 2003 episode of the British motoring programme Top Gear , to see who was "Master of the Universe" with a lap around their test track in a racing modified Honda Civic .

[47] The Dalek couldn't get into the car, so it exterminated the additional drivers (with the exception of the Klingon and the Doctor; who had apparently fled beforehand as they weren't present); the Cyberman was eventually declared the winner by the hosts. [48] In the final episode of the 2007 series of The Vicar of Dibley , Dawn French 's character gets married, supported by two Dalek bridesmaids. In a 2009 episode of the American sitcom Better Off Ted , a deactivated Dalek is spotted in the sub-basement where the supposed "Robot Farm" is located. [49] In a December 2009 episode ("Party Animals") of the British children's television series Shaun the Sheep , one of the sheep is dressed as a crude version of a Dalek trying to get up a few stairs but failing because of the suit. In 2010, a Dalek was a "guest" on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson sitting off to the side and keeping a watchful eye on Ferguson. It never spoke, but occasionally moved around. This was a lead-up to having Matt Smith as a real guest on the show.

On May 4, 2011, the popular animated television show, South Park aired its 211th episode, #1502 entitled " Funnybot " featuring a new character, "Funnybot". Funnybot was designed by the Germans to prove that they were a funny people, contrary to what the students of South Park Elementary had to say about them. What the Germans created looked in a few ways similar to a Dalek, and in the end lived up to its appearance, albeit with Gatling guns in lieu of a death ray. [50] In the children's book Animalia by Graeme Base, a Dalek appears on the pages with objects starting with the letter D. [51] The December 9, 2012 episode of The Simpsons entitled " The Day the Earth Stood Cool ," an outline of a Dalek can be seen on the bottom drawer of T-Rex's dresser when Bart discovers his action figures. On September 2, 2013, the Daleks made an appearance in the sketch "Doctor Who's Line is it Anyway?", on the Cartoon Network show MAD .

Comic books In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume III: Century 1969, a Dalek can be seen throughout a psychedelic hallucination by Mina Murray Music Daleks have been referred to or associated in a large number of musical compositions. The first known musical reference to Daleks is the 1964 novelty single "I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas with a Dalek" by the Go-Go's , released throughout the 1960s' " Dalekmania " fad. Dalek voices were sampled and recreated in the 1988 novelty single " Doctorin' the Tardis " by The Timelords (who later performed as the KLF ), Daleks were additionally sampled by the German electronic band Rotersand in their 2005 single "Exterminate Annihilate Destroy".

[53] Many additional musicians have mentioned Daleks in lyrics, including: the Clash , in " Remote Control " ("Repression—gonna be a Dalek / Repression—I am a robot / Repression—I obey."); [54] the Creatures , in "Weathercade" ("The Dalek drones are drowning"); [55] Martin Gordon in "Her Daddy Was a Dalek, Her Mummy Was a Non-Stick Frying Pan" from his album "The Joy of More Hogwash" [56] and the Supernaturals , in "Smile" ("I feel like a Dalek inside/ Everything's gone grey but used to be so black and white"). [57] The trock band Chameleon Circuit 's eponymous album features a song called Exterminate, Regenerate; which illustrates the conflict between the Doctor and the Daleks. Bands have even incorporated Daleks into their names: Dalek I Love You , a synthpop band active for over ten years from the late 1970s to the beginning of the 1990s, and instrumental surf-rock trio Dalek Beach Party, whose 1992 EP featured the song "Exterminate!

Exterminate!" [58] Dalek is additionally mentioned and pictured in the Doc Brown vs Doctor Who. Epic Rap Battles of History Season 2, being summoned by Brown to exterminate the Tenth Doctor. Samples of Dalek voices uttering the phrases "the prisoners have escaped" and "exterminate them" appear in the song "Shakespeare's Tacklebox" by the Australian band Spiderbait on their 1993 debut LP "ShaShaVaGlava". [59] Politics At the 1966 Conservative Party conference in Blackpool , delegate Hugh Dykes publicly compared the Labour government's Defence Secretary Denis Healey to the creatures. "Mr. Healey is the Dalek of defence, pointing a metal finger at the armed forces and saying 'I will eliminate you'." In a British Government Parliamentary Debate in the House of Commons on 12 February 1968, the then Minister of Technology Tony Benn mentioned the Daleks throughout a reply to a question from the Labour MP Hugh Jenkins concerning the Concorde aircraft project.

In the context of the dangers of solar flares , he said, "Because we're exploring the frontiers of technology, a few people think Concorde will be avoiding solar flares like Dr. Who avoiding Daleks. It isn't like this at all." [60] Daleks have been used in political cartoons to caricature: Douglas Hurd , as the 'Douglek', in Private Eye's Dan Dire – Pilot of the Future ; Tony Benn , [62] John Birt , [63] Tony Blair [64] [65] (also portrayed as Davros ), [66] Alastair Campbell , [64] Alec Douglas-Home , [67] Charles de Gaulle , Peter Mandelson , [64] Mark Thompson . [68] Magazine covers Daleks have appeared on magazine covers promoting Doctor Who after the "Dalekmania" fad of the 1960s. Radio Times has featured the Daleks on its cover several times, beginning with the 21–27 November 1964 issue which promoted The Dalek Invasion of Earth. [69] Other magazines additionally used Daleks to attract readers' attention, including Girl Illustrated.

In April 2005, Radio Times created a special cover to commemorate both the return of the Daleks to the screen in " Dalek " and the forthcoming general election . [70] This cover recreated a scene from The Dalek Invasion of Earth in which the Daleks were seen crossing Westminster Bridge , with the Houses of Parliament in the background. The cover text read "VOTE DALEK!" In a 2008 contest sponsored by the Periodical Publishers Association , this cover was voted the best British magazine cover of all time. [71] In 2013 it was voted "Cover of the century" by the Professional Publishers Association . [72] The 2010 UK general election campaign additionally prompted a collector's set of three near-identical covers of the Radio Times on 17 April with exactly the same headline but with the newly redesigned Daleks in their primary colours representing the three main political parties, Red being Labour, Blue as Conservative and Yellow as Liberal Democrats. Parodies Daleks have been the subject of a large number of parodies , including Spike Milligan 's " Pakistani Dalek " sketch in his comedy series Q , and Victor Lewis-Smith 's "Gay Daleks".

[73] Occasionally the BBC has used the Daleks to parody additional subjects: in 2002, BBC Worldwide published the Dalek Survival Guide, a parody of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbooks . Comedian Eddie Izzard has an extended stand-up routine about Daleks, which was included in his 1993 stand-up show " Live at the Ambassadors ". [74] The Daleks made two brief appearances in a pantomime version of Aladdin at the Birmingham Hippodrome which starred Torchwood star John Barrowman in the lead role. [76] A joke-telling robot, possessing a Dalek-like boom, and loosely modelled after the Dalek, additionally appeared in the South Park episode " Funnybot ", even spouting out "exterminate". [77] A Dalek can additionally be seen in the background at timepoints 1:13 and 1:17 in the Sam & Max animated series episode The Trouble With Gary. In the Community parody of Doctor Who called Inspector Spacetime, they're referred to as Blorgons.

Merchandising The BBC approached Walter Tuckwell, a New Zealand-born entrepreneur who was handling product merchandising for additional BBC shows, and asked him to do the same for the Daleks and Doctor Who. Tuckwell created a glossy sales brochure that sparked off a Dalek craze, dubbed "Dalekmania" by the press, which peaked in 1965. Toys and models The first Dalek toys were released in 1965 as part of the "Dalekmania" craze. These included battery-operated, friction drive and "Rolykins" Daleks from Louis Marx & Co. , as well as models from Cherilea, Herts Plastic Moulders Ltd and Cowan, de Groot Ltd, and "Bendy" Daleks made by Newfeld Ltd. At the height of the Daleks' popularity, in addition to toy replicas, there were Dalek board games and activity sets, slide projectors for children and even Dalek playsuits made from PVC. Collectible cards, stickers, toy guns, music singles, punching bags and a large number of additional items were additionally produced in this period.

Dalek toys released in the 1970s included a new version of Louis Marx's battery-operated Dalek (1974), a "talking Dalek" from Palitoy (1975) and a Dalek board game (1975) and Dalek action figure (1977), both from Denys Fisher . [78] From 1988 to 2002, Dapol released a line of Dalek toys in conjunction with its Doctor Who action figure series. In 1984, Sevans Models released a self-assembly model kit for a one-fifth scale Dalek, which Doctor Who historian David Howe has described as "the most accurate model of a Dalek ever to be released". Comet Miniatures released two Dalek self-assembly model kits in the 1990s. In 1992, Bally released a Doctor Who pinball machine which prominently featured the Daleks both as a primary playfield feature and as a motorised toy in the topper. [79] Bluebird Toys produced a Dalek-themed Doctor Who playset in 1998.

Beginning in 2000, Product Enterprise (who later operated under the names "Iconic Replicas" and "Sixteen 12 Collectibles") produced various Dalek toys. These included one-inch (2.5 cm) Dalek "Rolykins" (based on the Louis Marx toy from 1965); push-along "talking" 7-inch (17.8 cm) Daleks; 2½-inch (6.4 cm) Dalek "Rollamatics" with a pull back and release mechanism; and a one-foot (30.5 cm) remote control Dalek. In 2005 Character Options was granted the "Master Toy License" for the revived Doctor Who series, including the Daleks. Their product lines have included 5-inch (12.7 cm) static/push-along and radio controlled Daleks, radio controlled 12-inch (30.5 cm) versions and radio controlled 18-inch (45.7 cm) / 1:3 scale variants. The 12-inch remote control Dalek won the 2005 award for Best Electronic Toy of the Year from the Toy Retailers Association .

Some versions of the 18-inch model included semi-autonomous and voice command-features. In 2008, the company acquired a licence to produce 5-inch (12.7 cm) Daleks of the various "classic series" variants. For the fifth revived series, both Ironside (Post-Time war Daleks in camouflage khaki), Drone (new, red) and, later, Strategist Daleks (new, blue) were released as both RC Infrared Battle Daleks and action figures. Video games Licensed Doctor Who games featuring Daleks include 1984's The Key to Time, a text adventure game for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum . [81] Daleks additionally appeared in minor roles or as thinly disguised versions in other, minor games throughout the 80s, but didn't feature as central adversaries in a licenced game until 1992, when Admiral Software published Dalek Attack . [82] The game allowed the player to play various Doctors or companions, running them through several environments to defeat the Daleks. [82] [86] In 1997 the BBC released a PC game entitled Destiny of the Doctors which additionally featured the Daleks, among additional adversaries.

Unauthorized games featuring Daleks continued to seem through the 1990s and 2000s, including Dalek-based modifications of Dark Forces , Quake , and Half-Life , and even more recently, a mod of Halo: Combat Evolved ; a large number of of these can be found online, including an Adobe Flash game, Dalek:Dissolution Earth. [88] In 1998 QWho, a modification for Quake, featured the Daleks as adversaries. This additionally formed the basis of TimeQuake, a total conversion written in 2000 which included additional Doctor Who monsters such as Sontarans . [89] An Additional unauthorised game is DalekTron, a based on Robotron: 2084 written to coincide with the 2005 series. [90] One authorised online game is The Last Dalek, a Flash game created by New Media Collective for the BBC. It is based on the 2005 episode "Dalek" and can be played at the official BBC Doctor Who website.

[92] The Doctor Who website additionally features another game, Daleks vs Cybermen (also known as Cyber Troop Control Interface), based on the 2006 episode "Doomsday"; in this game, the player controls troops of Cybermen which must fight Daleks as well as Torchwood Institute members. [94] On 5 June 2010, the BBC released the first of four official computer games on its website, 'Doctor Who: The Adventure Games', which are intended as part of the official TV series adventures. In the first of these, 'The City of the Daleks', the Doctor in his eleventh incarnation and Amy Pond must stop the Daleks re-writing time and reviving Skaro, their homeland. They additionally appear in the Nintendo DS and Wii games Doctor Who: Evacuation Earth and Doctor Who: Return to Earth . Several Daleks appear in the iOS game The Mazes of Time [95] as rare enemies the player faces, appearing only in the first and final levels. The robot model 883 in the game Paradroid for the Commodore 64 looks like a Dalek.

The game was later ported to additional platforms, and several free software clones have been developed since, among them Freedroid Classic. Based on this game is a Diablo style role-playing game called Freedroid RPG where several Dalek-like robots appear. The base version is called Dalex, its powerful, but slow weapon, the Exterminator, is additionally available to the player. Full-size reproductions Dalek fans have been building life-size reproduction Daleks for a large number of years. [97] The BBC and Terry Nation estate officially disapprove of self-built Daleks, but usually intervene only if attempts are made to trade unlicensed Daleks and Dalek components commercially, or if it is considered that actual or intended use might damage the BBC's reputation or the Doctor Who/Dalek brand. [99] The Crewe , Cheshire-based company "This Planet Earth" is the only business which has been licenced by the BBC and the Terry Nation Estate to produce full-size TV Dalek replicas, and by Canal+ Image UK Ltd. to produce full size Movie Dalek replicas commercially.

[100] [101] Doctor Who (1963) - Season 12, Episode 11: Genesis of the Daleks, Part One - TV.com Genesis of the Daleks, Part One AIRED: 3/8/75 The planet Skaro, the distant past. The Time Lords divert the Doctor, Sarah and Harry to this war-torn world, and give the Doctor a mission: the evil of the Daleks is about to be born here, and the Doctor is to avert or change their creation. Join the discussion of this episode Episode Discussion Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions See All Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions Trivia & Quotes Fresh Off the Boat Clean Slate NEW Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Decline and Fall NEW NEW ABC Important: You must only upload images which you have created yourself or that you are expressly authorised or licensed to upload. By clicking "Publish", you are confirming that the image fully complies with TV.com’s Terms of Use and that you own all rights to the image or have authorization to upload it. Please read the following before uploading Do not upload anything which you do not own or are fully licensed to upload.

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Question: In the BBC television series Dr Who, the villain Davros was from which fictional planet?
Answer: Skaro