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Day of the Daleks
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Synopsis


The Daleks
The Daleks
 World peace hangs in the balance. Sir Reginald Styles, a high-ranking diplomat is the only person that stands between mankind and a third and final World War. But a mysterious and savage guerrilla force from the 22nd Century believe Styles is the agent that shaped their terrifying future and therefore must die...

 The Doctor and Jo find themselves flung into the guerrillas' world; a brutal dictatorship policed by the merciless and ape-like Ogrons. The Daleks have invaded Earth, enslaved the population and face certain triumph unless The Doctor betrays all he believes in and condones the cold-blooded murder of Styles in an attempt to change the course of history... irrevocably.

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General Information

Season: Nine
Production Code: KKK
Story Number: 60
Episode Numbers:304 - 307
Number of Episodes: 4
Percentage of Episodes Held:100%
Alternative Titles:"The Day of the Daleks"
Working Titles:"The Ghost Hunters", "Years of Doom", "The Time Warriors" and "Ghosts"
Production Dates: September - October 1971
Broadcast Started: 01 January 1972
Broadcast Finished: 22 January 1972
Colour Status: Colour and B&W
Studio: BBC Television Centre (TC4 and TC8)
Location: Dropmore Park (Burnham, Buckinghamshire), Harvey House (Brentford, Middlesex) and Bull's Bridge (Hayes, Middlesex).
Writer:Louis Marks
Director:Paul Bernard
Producer:Barry Letts
Script Editor:Terrance Dicks
Editor:Dan Rae
Production Assistant:Norman Stewart
Assistant Floor Manager:Sue Hedden
Designer:David Myerscough-Jones
Costume Designer:Mary Husband
Make-Up Designer:Heather Stewart
Cameraman:Fred Hamilton
Lighting:Alan Horne
Visual Effects:Jim Ward
Fights Arranged By:Rick Lester
Incidental Music:Dudley Simpson
Special Sounds (SFX Editor):Brian Hodgson
Studio Sounds:Tony Millier
Title Sequence:Bernard Lodge and Ben Palmer
Title Music:Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Arranged by Delia Derbyshire
Daleks Originally Created By: Terry Nation
Number of Doctors: 1
The Doctor: Jon Pertwee (The Third Doctor)
Number of Companions: 4The Companions: Nicholas Courtney (The Brigadier), John Levene (Sergeant Benton), Katy Manning (Jo Grant) and Richard Franklin (Captain Mike Yates) Additional Cast: Wilfrid Carter (Sir Reginald Syles), Jimmy Winston (Shura), Anna Barry (Anat), Scott Fredericks (Boaz), Aubrey Woods (Controller), JeanMcFarlane (Miss Paget), Deborah Brayshaw (Girl Technician), Gypsie Kemp (U.N.I.T. Radio Operator), Tim Condren (Guerilla), Valentine Palmer (Monia), Peter Hill (Manager), Andrew Carr (Senior Guard), George Raistrick (Guard at Work Centre), Rick Lester (Ogron), Maurice Bush (Ogron), David Joyce (Ogron), Frank Menzies (Ogron), Bruce Wells (Ogron), Geoffrey Todd (Ogron), John Scott Martin (Dalek), Ricky Newby (Dalek), Murphy Grumbar (Dalek), Oliver Gilbert (Dalek Voice), Peter Messaline (Dalek Voice), Alex Macintosh (Television Reporter)Setting: Auderly House (1970s) and an alternative England (22nd century) Villains: Daleks and Ogrons

The Episodes

No. Episodes Broadcast
(UK)
Duration Viewers
(Millions)
In Archive
304Episode 101 January 197223'36"9.8PAL 2" colour videotape
305Episode 208 January 197223'52"10.4PAL 2" colour videotape
306Episode 315 January 197224'18"9.1PAL 2" colour videotape
307Episode 422 January 197224'17"9.1PAL 2" colour videotape

Total Duration 1 Hour 36 Minutes


Audience Appreciation

Average Viewers (Millions) 9.6
Doctor Who Magazine Poll (1998)67.77%  (Position = 82 out of 159)
Doctor Who Magazine Poll (2003)358 Points (Position = 45 out of 159)
Doctor Who Magazine Poll (2009)73.41% Higher (Position = 71 out of 200)
Doctor Who Magazine Poll (2014)77.20% Higher (Position = 65 out of 241)
Doctor Who Magazine Poll (2023) Position = 11 out of 24


Archives


 All four episodes exist in colour as PAL 2" colour videotapes.



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Notes


"Day of the Daleks" is the first Dalek story since the 1967 Second Doctor story "The Evil of the Daleks" that ended the Season Four – so making it the first Dalek story, made for television, that depicts the Daleks in colour.

Despite the on-screen title being "Day of the Daleks" this story has been incorrectly referred to as "The Day of the Daleks". This error has occurred in many places including the Radio Times listings and on the BBC video releases.

The original storyline was written by Louis Marks and was not intended at first to be a Dalek story. It was decided to incorporate the Daleks very late in its planning stage and then as a more of a sequel to the 1964 First Doctor story "The Dalek Invasion of Earth", though in the event reference is made only to the Daleks having ‘invaded Earth again’ and it is merely implied that they have altered their own past to do so.

As production loomed it was discovered that only three complete Daleks were still retained by the BBC this meant that Director Paul Bernard was faced with considerable limitations in planning the shots of the Dalek attack on Auderly House.

All three Daleks used in this story were refurbished. Two were given a grey-and-black livery while the third was painted in gold and black. This made a change from the show's monochrome years when the superior Daleks had borne a predominantly black colour scheme while the regular Daleks were grey and blue. Hence the reason why only three Daleks appear on screen at any one time. Film editing was used to in an attempt to give the illusion that there were more than three Daleks.

To explain the return of the Daleks after their "final end" (as stated by the Second Doctor in "The Evil of the Daleks"), lines were scripted to reveal that the humanised Daleks had lost the civil war seen in "The Evil of the Daleks", placing this story after "The Evil of the Daleks" in the Daleks' own chronology. However, this scene was ultimately not filmed.

The Daleks' lackeys (referred to for much of the story's gestation as simply “Monsters”). They were neither named nor described in Louis Marks's scripts but were initially envisaged as dog-like humanoids who spoke fluent English. Director Paul Bernard however, suggested that they should be slow-speaking monstrous apes, and the race's name became ‘Ogorons’ and then ‘Ogrons’.

Nicholas Courtney (playing the part of The Brigadier) appeared, uncredited, in the reprise from the end of episode two that was shown at the beginning of in episode three.

While Nicholas Courtney, John Levene (who plays Sergeant Benton) and Richard Franklin (who plays Captain Mike Yates) had all been contracted for the entirety of Season Eight, it was decided to hire them only on a story-by-story basis during Season Nine. This approach was the same with Roger Delgado, who had also been a regular during Season Eight but would now only be contracted to play The Master for specific stories.

BBC television news reporter Alex Macintosh appears as himself in episode four.

Dalekanium is presented in this story as an unstable explosive in the alternate future. In "The Dalek Invasion of Earth", Dortmun also calls the material that the Dalek casings are made of as dalekanium. This is continued in "Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks".

Watch out for the scene, early in the first episode, where The Doctor and Jo Grant, while working on the TARDIS console, see themselves briefly appear at the entrance to The Doctor’s lab. Originally this story was to end with a scene where The Doctor and Jo went back to the lab, and saw their earlier selves working at the TARDIS console – so maintaining continuity. However, in editing, episode four was found to be overrunning and so this last scene was cut from the finished story. Terrance Dicks would later restore the scene in his Target novelisation of this story.

One notable aspect of episode four (used in a mindprobe of The Doctor) was the inclusion of photocaptions of the First and Second Doctors. This was the first visual reference to the First Doctor since "The Power of the Daleks" and The Second Doctor since his final story, "The War Games". To represent the First Doctor, two images from "An Unearthly Child" and one from "The Daleks" were selected, while pictures from "The Faceless Ones" and "The Invasion" were used to depict the Second Doctor.

Strangely this story features the TARDIS console once more outside of the TARDIS itself, as in "The Ambassadors of Death" and "Inferno" – despite it being back inside the TARDIS during the previous season.

A section of the closing title sequence appears in the background on the screen of the Daleks' mind analysis machine at the end of episode three. The first of the episode's closing credits is superimposed over this scene just before the foreground images are removed, leaving just the title sequence. The rest of the credits then follow.

This was the first of a number of stories in which the key colour used for the CSO effects was yellow rather than blue.

Episode two of this story gained an audience of 10.3 million - the first time an individual episode had exceeded ten million viewers since part three of 1965/66 First Doctor story "The Daleks' Master Plan" more than six years earlier.

This story was repeated on BBC One as a 60-minute omnibus in September 1973.

The novelisation of this story, by Terrance Dicks, was published by Target Books in April 1974. It renames the manor from ‘Auderley House’ to ‘Austerly House’. There have been Dutch, Turkish, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese language editions. A Brazilian edition, was also published with the title "Doutor Who e a Mudança da História" ("Doctor Who and the Change in History").

This story was released on VHS and Betamax in July 1986. This was, in fact, the final Doctor Who release in the Betamax format.



First and Last

The Firsts:

 The first story of Season Nine.

 The first appearance of the Daleks in the show since 1967 (and the first time in colour on TV).

 The first time that Jo Grant encounters the Daleks.

 The first appearance of the Ogrons.

 The first visual reference to the Second Doctor since "The War Games".

 The first visual reference to the First Doctor since "The Power of the Daleks".

 The first of a number of stories in which the key colour used for the CSO effects was yellow rather than blue.

 Episode Two was the first time an individual episode had exceeded ten million viewers since part three of 1965/66 First Doctor story "The Daleks' Master Plan".

 The first Doctor Who story to be directed by Paul Bernard


The Lasts (Subject to Future Stories):

 The last Doctor Who story to be released in the Betamax format.


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Story Images

Show Text
The Brigadier, Jo and The Doctor
The Brigadier, Jo and The Doctor
Shura, Anat and Boaz
Shura, Anat and Boaz
The Brigadier Instructs Captain Yates
The Brigadier Instructs Captain Yates
Sergeant Benton
Sergeant Benton
 
The Brigadier
The Brigadier
The Gold Dalek
The Gold Dalek
The Daleks
The Daleks
The Daleks and Ogrons Arrive
The Daleks and Ogrons Arrive
 
Exiting the Tunnel
Exiting the Tunnel
Daleks and Ogrons
Daleks and Ogrons
Dalek Attack
Dalek Attack
The Doctor Surrenders
The Doctor Surrenders




Quote of the Story


 'Look, try and use your intelligence, man, even if you are a politician.'

The Doctor



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Release Information

FormatTitleRelease Date (UK)Code NumberCover ArtRemarks
Video
VHS
The Day of the DaleksJuly 1986BBCV 2036Sid SuttonOmnibus format Released on VHS and Betamax
Video
VHS
The Day of the DaleksMarch 1988BBCV 4109Sid SuttonOmnibus format Re-released budget-priced
Video
VHS
The Day of the DaleksFebruary 1994BBCV 5219Sid SuttonEpisodic format
Video
Laser Disc
Day of the DaleksDecember 1996EE1202Pete WallbankEpisodic format
Video
DVD
Day of the DaleksSeptember 2011BBCDVD 3043Photo-montageSpecial Edition Includes new visual and audio FX and new Dalek voices
Video
Blu-Ray
Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 9 (Limited Edition)March 2023BBCBD 0566Photo-montageBlu-Ray Limited Edition boxed set containing 5 specially restored stories


In Print

FormatTitleRelease Date (UK)PublisherAuthorCover ArtRemarks
Novel
Novel
Doctor Who and the Day of the DaleksApril 1974Target No. 18Terrance DicksChris AchilleosISBN: 0-426-10380-7
(1st Edition Target Cover)
Novel
Novel
Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks1976Target No. 18Terrance DicksChris AchilleosISBN: 0-426-10380-7
(2nd Edition Target Cover)
Novel
Novel
Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks1982Target No. 18Terrance DicksAndrew SkilleterNew cover reprint.
ISBN: 0-426-10380-7
Novel
Novel
Dalek Omnibus1983WH AllenTerrance DicksAndrew SkilleterHardback. ISBN: 0-491-03420-3
Novel
Novel
The Day of the DaleksApril 1991Target No. 18Terrance DicksAlister PearsonVirgin new cover reprint.
ISBN: 0-426-10380-7
Novel
Novel
Doctor Who and the Day of the DaleksMay 2012Target No. 18Terrance DicksChris AchilleosBBC reprint with introduction by Gary Russell. ISBN: 978-1-849-90473-5
CD
CD
Day of the DaleksNovember 2016Target No. 18Terrance DicksChris AchilleosAudio version of the Target Novel read by Nicholas Briggs and Richard Franklin (Captain Mike Yates).
Novel
Novel
The Essential Terrance Dicks Volume 1August 2021BBC BooksTerrance DicksHardback with a forward by Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Doctor Who CMS Magazine (An Adventure in Space and Time)Issue 60
Doctor Who WeeklyIssue 1 (Released: October 1979)
Doctor Who Magazine - ArchiveIssue 111 (Released: April 1986)
Doctor Who Magazine - ArchiveIssue 301 (Released: March 2001)
Doctor Who Magazine - Time TeamIssue 329 (Released: April 2003)
Doctor Who Magazine - The Fact of FictionIssue 430 (Released: February 2011)
Doctor Who DVD FilesVolume 92 (Released: July 2012)

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The Doctor and Companions

 
Jon Pertwee
The Third Doctor

   

Nicholas Courtney
The Brigadier
John Levene
Sergeant Benton
Katy Manning
Jo Grant
   
Richard Franklin
Captain Mike Yates





On Release

Original VHS and Betamax Video Cover
Original VHS and Betamax Video Cover

BBC
VIDEO
Re-released VHS Video Cover
Re-released VHS Video Cover

BBC
VIDEO
Episodic Release VHS Video Cover
Episodic Release VHS Video Cover

BBC
VIDEO
   
Laser Disc Cover
Laser Disc Cover

Encore Entertainment
VIDEO
DVD Cover
DVD Cover

BBC
VIDEO
The Collection Season 9 Limited Edition Blu-Ray Cover
The Collection Season 9 Limited Edition Blu-Ray Cover

BBC
VIDEO
   


In Print

Original Target Book Cover
Original Target Book Cover

Target
NOVEL
Original Target Book Cover (1976 Edition)
Original Target Book Cover (1976 Edition)

Target
NOVEL
Reprinted Target Book Cover
Reprinted Target Book Cover

Target
NOVEL
Dalek Omnibus Cover
Dalek Omnibus Cover

WH Allen
NOVEL
   
Reprinted Virgin Book Cover
Reprinted Virgin Book Cover

Virgin
NOVEL
Reprinted BBC Book Cover
Reprinted BBC Book Cover

BBC
NOVEL
Target Audio CD Cover
Target Audio CD Cover

BBC
CD
The Essential Terrance Dicks Volume 1 Book Cover
The Essential Terrance Dicks Volume 1 Book Cover

BBC
NOVEL
   



Magazines

Doctor Who CMS Magazine (An Adventure in Space and Time): Issue 60
Doctor Who CMS Magazine (An Adventure in Space and Time): Issue 60

CMS
Doctor Who Weekly: Issue 1
Doctor Who Weekly: Issue 1

Marvel Comics
Doctor Who Magazine - Archive: Issue 111
Doctor Who Magazine - Archive: Issue 111

Marvel Comics
Doctor Who Magazine - Archive: Issue 301
Doctor Who Magazine - Archive: Issue 301

Marvel Comics
   
Doctor Who Magazine - Time Team: Issue 329
Doctor Who Magazine - Time Team: Issue 329

Marvel Comics
Doctor Who Magazine - The Fact of Fiction: Issue 430
Doctor Who Magazine - The Fact of Fiction: Issue 430

Marvel Comics
Doctor Who DVD Files: Volume 92
Doctor Who DVD Files: Volume 92

GE Fabbri


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