This story has also been referred to as "The Invaders" and "World's End" - notably in the frontspiece of the Target novelisation. "World's End" is the title of the first episode and was applied to the story as a whole by the 1973 Radio Times Tenth Anniversary Special. In a touch of irony, the story begins in the real World's End area of Chelsea in London.
This story features the first departure of an original cast member: Carole Ann Ford who played The Doctor's 'granddaughter', Susan. It was the production team's idea rather than writer Terry Nation's to write Susan out by way of a romance with the freedom fighter David Campbell.
Carole Ann Ford's departure was the first of what would be many cast changes in the history of the programme.
Carole Ann Ford reprised her role as Susan in the 1983 Twentieth Anniversary Special "The Five Doctors", although no mention was made of David Campbell or her life after she left the TARDIS. Some of this was explored in the BBC The Eighth Doctor Stories novel "Legacy of the Daleks" by John Peel.
The Doctor gets to visit his granddaughter again in the 2009 Big Finish Productions subscriber special audio story "An Earthly Child" starring Carole Ann Ford as Susan and Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor. This story also introduces The Doctor's great grandson Alex Campbell, played by Jake McGann, who is Paul McGann's son.
With the departure of Susan it was planned that this story would have introduced a fifteen-year-old girl named Saida, played by Pamela Franklin, as a new companion by having her stow away aboard the TARDIS at the end of the last episode. This idea was subsequently dropped and Saida became just a one-off character, renamed Jenny and played by Ann Davies.
Nicholas Smith, who would later become famous as Mr. Rumbold in Are You Being Served?, appears in his first speaking role in television. He was originally only to have appeared in episode three but he ended up leading the miners' revolution in episodes five and six.
Bernard Kay, who portrays Carl Tyler (and also provides the voice over on the longer of the 2 surviving BBC trailers for this story), would later appear in "The Crusade", "The Faceless Ones" and "Colony in Space".
An injured William Hartnell does not appear in "The End of Tomorrow" (apart from in the film insert reprise from the third) though his stand-in Edmund Warwick does. Edmund Warwick went on to appear as the First Doctor's robotic double in the later Dalek story, "The Chase".
In this story we see The Doctor kill a person. He attacks a Roboman, explaining 'I never take life... only when my own is immediately threatened!'
Dortmun calls the material the Daleks casings are made of as ‘Dalekanium’. In the 2007 Tenth Doctor story "Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks", Dalekanium is confirmed by the Daleks themselves to be the substance which Dalek casings are made from. However, in the alternate future of the 1972 Third Doctor story, "Day of the Daleks" (and the PC computer game "Destiny of The Doctors"), Dalekanium is an unstable explosive that can penetrate Dalek casings.
The Tenth Doctor is heard to mention the Dalek’s plan to move the Earth in "The Stolen Earth/Journey's End".
The Virgin Books' The New Adventures novel "GodEngine" by Craig Hinton offers an alternate explanation for the Daleks' attempt to remove the Earth's core: an ancient Osirian weapon, capable of turning a star into a giant plasma cannon, which can be operated only on a planet without a bipolar magnetic field. "GodEngine" suggests that the Daleks were working with a rogue group of Ice Warriors to assemble this weapon, and planned to install it on the Earth. The novel also states that The Doctor returned to recover Susan's discarded TARDIS key.
This story features the first of many quarries to be used in the show's location filming - this one, John's Hole Quarry, actually is representing a quarry rather than an alien landscape.
This was the very first story which made extensive use of location filming, with London being chosen as the primary backdrop. The decision to use London also helped to keep the show within its production budget given that the BBC's Lime Grove studios, where Doctor Who was produced, were located at nearby Shepherd's Bush. Location filming took place in various parts of London including extensive sequences at Whitehall, Trafalgar Square, Westminster Bridge, Albert Embankment, The Royal Albert Hall, Kensington and the Albert Memorial. Scenes involving the Dalek roadblock were filmed at Wembley.
The dockland scenes were shot at the abandoned Wood Lane (Central Line) tube station in West London and the river sequences both shot besides the River Thames at St Katherine's Dock in Wapping and at Kew railway bridge.
The Black Dalek's 'pet', the Slyther, manages to change appearance somewhat between the end of the fourth episode and the beginning of the fifth. (This was due to dissatisfaction on the production team's part with the original version of the costume).
Along with "Planet of Giants" this story was actually the final story made in the first recording block, but was held over to open Season Two.
"The Dalek Invasion of Earth" is Story Editor David Whitaker's last involvement with Doctor Who.
A clip of the speech by The Doctor, to Susan at the end of this story, saying that he would return would be reused as the prologue to the 1983 Twentieth Anniversary Special "The Five Doctors".
This story was the basis for the 1966 Amicus Doctor Who film, Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD, staring Peter Cushing as Doctor Who. The film version starred Bernard Cribbins (as Tom Campbell), Jill Curzon (as Louise) and Roberta Tovey (as Susan).
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The Firsts:
The first Dalek story set on Earth.
The first departure of an original cast member. Carole Ann Ford who played The Doctor's 'granddaughter', Susan.
The first story in which the Daleks are heard to use their famous battle-cry of 'Exterminate'.
The first story to feature The Doctor actually killing a person - namely a Roboman.
The first story that Dalekanium (the powerful metal from which Dalek cases are formed) is mentioned.
The first Doctor Who story to contain a major use of location filming.
The first of many quarries to be used in the show's location filming - the first being John's Hole Quarry.
The first Doctor Who story to be directed by Richard Martin.
The first Doctor Who story to be recorded at Riverside.
The first Doctor Who story to have an individual episode watched by more than 12 million viewers. This being the second and sixth episodes.
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