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PRODUCTION INFO

Name

The Daleks

Serial Code

First Transmitted

23 November 2023

Final Ratings

N/A

DVD RELEASE

BLU-RAY RELEASE

GALLERY

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CAST

Regular Cast

William Hartnell (Dr Who), Carole Ann Ford (Susan), Jacqueline Hill (Barbara), William Russell (Ian)

Guest Cast

Peter Hawkins, David Graham (Dalek Voices) [2-7], Robert Jewell [2-7], Kevin Manser [2-7], Michael Summerton [2-4], Gerald Taylor [2-7], Peter Murphy [5-7] (Daleks), Alan Wheatley (Temmosus) [3-4], John Lee (Alydon) [3-7], Virgina Wetherell (Dyoni) [3-7], Philip Bond (Ganatus) [3-7], Marcus Hammond (Antodus) [4-7], Jonathon Crane (Kristas) [4-7], Gerald Curtis (Elyon) [4-5], Chris Browning, Katie Cashfield, Vez Delahunt, Kevin Glenny, Ruth Harrison, Lesley Hill, Steve Pokol, Jeanette Rossini, Eric Smith (Thals) [7]*.

CREW

Written by	Terry Nation
Directed by	Christopher Barry/Richard Martin
Produced by	Verity Lambert

SYPNOSIS

The TARDIS has brought the travellers to the planet Skaro where they meet two indigenous races — The Daleks, malicious mutant creatures encased in armoured travel machines, and the Thals, beautiful humanoids with pacifist principles. They convince the Thals of the need to fight for their own survival.

Joining forces with them and braving Skaro’s many dangers, they launch a two-pronged attack on The Dalek city. The Daleks are all killed when, during the course of the fighting, their power supply is cut off.

NOTES

Deviations from the original serial

Rels, The Dalek unit of time, are used by the Daleks when counting down the detonation of the neutron bomb.

Updated visual effects are used for The Dalek ray blast.

Visual effects are used to show the TARDIS materialising and dematerialising.

The reprise from An Unearthly Child and the cliffhanger leading into The Edge of Destruction have been removed.

Significant changes are made to the soundtrack, incorporating parts of Tristram Cary’s score for the Daleks’ Master Plan, along with newly-composed music by Mark Ayres.

Mentions of Dals have been replaced in dialogue by Kaleds.

Several flashbacks to earlier moments in the story have been added.

Hartnell’s flubbing of the line “It’s possible that they may have been anti-radiation gloves… drugs” is shortened so that he says “anti-radiation drugs”.