"The Daleks The Daleks (also known as The Mutants and The Dead Planet) is the second serial in the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"", which was first broadcast on BBC TV in seven weekly parts from 21 December 1963 to 1 February 1964. Written by Terry Nation and directed by Christopher Barry and Richard Martin, this story marks the first appearance of the show's most popular villains, the Daleks, and the recurring Skaro people, the Thals. In the serial, the First Doctor (William Hartnell), his granddaughter Susan Foreman (Carole Ann Ford), and her teachers Ian Chesterton (William Russell)"
"in the songs ""Let's Go (To Planet Skaro)"" (1998) by UK punk rock band The Shapes and ""Exterminate, Regenerate"" (2009) by UK ""Trock"" band Chameleon Circuit. Skaro Skaro is a fictional planet in the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". It was created by the writer Terry Nation as the home planet of the Daleks. In ""The Daleks"" (1963–64), Skaro is described as being the twelfth planet from its sun, while in ""Genesis of the Daleks"" (1975) it is stated that Skaro is situated in the ""Seventh Galaxy"". It is portrayed as having various moons: Flidor, Falkus and Omega"
"Skaro Skaro is a fictional planet in the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". It was created by the writer Terry Nation as the home planet of the Daleks. In ""The Daleks"" (1963–64), Skaro is described as being the twelfth planet from its sun, while in ""Genesis of the Daleks"" (1975) it is stated that Skaro is situated in the ""Seventh Galaxy"". It is portrayed as having various moons: Flidor, Falkus and Omega Mysterium, with Falkus being presented as an artificial construct created by the Daleks as a last refuge. Falkus and Omega Mysterium are also referenced in the"
"Dalek The Daleks ( ) 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, Nation portrayed the Daleks as violent, merciless and pitiless cyborg aliens, who demand total conformity to their will, bent on the conquest of the universe and the extermination of what they see as inferior races. In the programme's narrative, the Daleks"
"Planet of the Daleks Planet of the Daleks is the fourth serial of the tenth season of the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"", which was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 7 April to 12 May 1973. Continuing from the events of the serial ""Frontier in Space"", the serial involves a small team of Daleks plotting to revive an army of Daleks which are being kept in suspended animation on the planet Spiridon. The Third Doctor has been wounded after being shot by the Master on the Ogron planet. Jo Grant manages to help the"
"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. Dalek The Daleks ( ) 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, Nation portrayed the Daleks as violent, merciless and pitiless cyborg aliens, who demand"
"book ""TV Century 21"" began publishing ""The Daleks"", which was written by Whitaker and included an account of the Daleks' origins. (The comic strip was, years later, collected together in an edition titled ""The Dalek Chronicles""). The ""TV 21"" strips portray the opposing sides in Skaro's war as the Thals and the Daleks, shown as diminutive blue men with large heads somewhat similar in appearance to Dan Dare's Mekon. The Thals are a peaceful race who live on the continent of Davius. Across the Ocean of Ooze, the Daleks inhabit Dalazar. According to the comic, these humanoid Daleks build neutron"
"many planets and that a Dalek spaceship has been spotted in this solar system. Cory tries to contact their rendezvous ship, but cannot get through, and their own ship is beyond repair. Cory believes the Daleks have a base on Kembel and that is why he and Lowery are there. He explains that the Varga plant is native to the Daleks' home planet Skaro and that you become a Varga plant if you prick yourself on it. This is further evidence that the Daleks could be on Kembel. In the Dalek city on Kembel, the Dalek Supreme waits to be"
"housing insane, battle-scarred Daleks called the Asylum, has ruptured the planet's force field, thus risking escape of the insane Daleks. To prevent this, the Parliament wishes to destroy the planet remotely, but the force field is still too strong to allow that. The Daleks task the Doctor, Amy and Rory with deactivating the force field from the planet. After arriving, the Doctor, surmising that the Daleks will destroy the planet as soon as he deactivates the force field, plots an escape via a nearby teleporter which will transport them to the Dalek ship. Oswin Oswald, a surviving crew member of"
"Death to the Daleks Death to the Daleks is the third serial of the 11th season of the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"", which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 23 February to 16 March 1974. In the serial, the Daleks and a human expedition both arrive on the planet Exxilon to seek a mineral found in abundance there. This was the last serial to have an episode wiped. Travelling through space, the TARDIS suffers an energy drain and crash-lands on the planet Exxilon. The Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith venture outside to"
"Dalek tin set in 1999, with episode 3 in black and white. The stories were released on VHS individually in North America. It was released on DVD alongside the previous story, ""Frontier in Space"", in the box set ""Dalek War"" on 5 October 2009, with episode 3 now restored to full colour. Planet of the Daleks Planet of the Daleks is the fourth serial of the tenth season of the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"", which was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 7 April to 12 May 1973. Continuing from the events of the"
"Dalek Inquisitor General is described as being of the ""New Series"" design but having a casing of gunmetal black with gold slats and hemispheres. The concept of an Emperor Dalek was first introduced in ""The Dalek Book"" (1964), re-appearing shortly thereafter in the ""TV21"" comic strip ""The Daleks"" (1965 – 1967). In the comic strip version of events the planet Skaro was inhabited by two warring humanoid species; the tall, peaceful Thals and the aggressive blue-skinned Daleks. The Daleks build a neutron bomb to finally destroy the Thals and bring the conflict to an end. A meteorite storm causes the"
"other Daleks. They dematerialise just as the Daleks open fire. The Dalek Supreme orders operations to recover the invasion force and contact the Dalek High Council for a rescue ship. The Daleks have been delayed, but will never be defeated... The story was originally commissioned as ""Planet of the Daleks"", but during production it briefly changed to ""Destination: Daleks"". Episodes 2 & 4 do not feature a reprise of the previous episode's cliffhanger ending, while the reprise in Episodes 3 and 5 are re-performances. Though this latter technique was commonplace in 1960s episodes, by this time in the programme's history"
"Asylum of the Daleks ""Asylum of the Daleks"" is the first episode of the seventh series of the British science fiction television programme ""Doctor Who"", broadcast on BBC One on 1 September 2012. It was written by executive producer Steven Moffat and directed by Nick Hurran. The episode features the alien time traveller the Doctor (Matt Smith) being captured by the Daleks, along with his companions Amy (Karen Gillan) and Rory (Arthur Darvill), who are about to divorce. They are sent by the Daleks to the Asylum, a planet where insane Daleks are exiled, to enable the Asylum to be"
"""The Daleks"" (1963–64), made both the Daleks and ""Doctor Who"" very popular. A Dalek appeared on a postage stamp celebrating British popular culture in 1999, photographed by Lord Snowdon. In ""Victory of the Daleks"" a new set of Daleks were introduced that come in a range of colours; the colour denoting its role within the species. Cybermen were originally a wholly organic species of humanoids originating on Earth's twin planet Mondas that began to implant more and more artificial parts into their bodies. This led to the race becoming coldly logical and calculating cyborgs, with emotions usually only shown when"
"story of which concludes with the apparent destruction of the Daleks due to a civil war on Skaro, the Second Doctor states that this is the creatures' ""final end"". In ""Destiny of the Daleks"" (1979), set many centuries after the events of ""Genesis of the Daleks"", the Daleks return to an abandoned and still radioactive Skaro to retrieve their creator, Davros. In the subsequent serial ""Revelation of the Daleks"" (1985), the Daleks are shown to have re-occupied Skaro; those loyal to the Dalek Supreme travelling from there to capture Davros and destroy his new Dalek army on the planet Necros."
"variants in having no shoulder slats or mesh, nine eye discs (the greatest number of any version) and a ""toffee apple"" shaped eyeball. The eye lenses are illuminated and shown to have an iris which can expand and contract. These Daleks have a silver colour scheme with blue/grey shoulders, blue hemispheres and eye discs, collars in natural aluminium and black fenders. The story refers to them being powered by static electricity, with mobility limited to the metal floors in the Dalek City on their home planet, Skaro. In the episode ""The Ambush"" a Dalek is shown using a device resembling"
"""Asylum of the Daleks"" (2012) a flock of bird-like creatures are seen briefly, flying in the distance above the ruins of the Dalek City. Other media have introduced additional creatures. ""The Dalek Book""'s ""Dalography of Skaro"" states that vast serpents, mutated from earthworms by a neutron bomb explosion, live below the surface of the continent of Darren. The book also contains ""The Dalek Dictionary"", which includes entries for ""Lallapalange"" (an extinct harmony bird which sang with two voices) and ""Urvacryl"" (a two-headed eel inhabiting the Lake of Mutations). Later, the TV21 ""The Daleks"" comic strip added giant eels, Terrorkons (large"
"they were deemed inferior. Each Dalek is a different colour and each represents a specific place in Dalek Hierarchy — Drone, Scientist, Strategist, Eternal and Supreme. The Daleks activate a time corridor, and escape into the future, delaying the Doctor by threatening to destroy Earth. Amy Pond doesn't recognise the Daleks when she first meets them, despite the Daleks' invasion of Earth and the planets appearing in Earth's sky, which the Doctor says is not possible. In ""Flesh and Stone"" (2010), the Eleventh Doctor theorises that the cracks in the universe caused the events to be unwritten. The White Supreme"
"serial in 1963, are ""Doctor Who""s oldest villains. The Daleks are Kaleds from the planet Skaro, mutated by the scientist Davros and housed in mechanical armour shells for mobility. The actual creatures resemble octopuses with large, pronounced brains. Their armour shells have a single eye-stalk, a sink-plunger-like device that serves the purpose of a hand, and a directed-energy weapon. Their main weakness is their eyestalk; attacks upon them using various weapons can blind a Dalek, making it go mad. Their chief role in the series plot, as they frequently remark in their instantly recognisable metallic voices, is to ""exterminate"" all"
"Earth going on the offensive. In 2013, another novel, ""The Dalek Generation"", was released. It shows that in the future, the Daleks, after a galactic recession, have helped develop planets for humanity which are called the Sunlight Worlds. These Daleks work with the Dalek Time Controller, a character from the Big Finish audios, to manipulate the Eleventh Doctor into helping them activate the Cradle of the Gods, a device with which they hope to turn the Sunlight Planets into copies of Skaro. However, the Doctor is able to foil their plan with the help of the Dalek Human Jenibeth, although"
"brain of the city while the Daleks and humans destroy the transmitter, and the Daleks are destroyed by a human sacrificing himself with a Dalek bomb. The Dalek Emperor is not in attendance; the Daleks being led by a Supreme Dalek instead, with references made to a Dalek High Council. ""Frontier"" and ""Planet"" are set in the 26th century, while ""Death"" refers to the recent ""Dalek Wars"". In 1975, Terry Nation retconned the Daleks' origins in the serial ""Genesis of the Daleks"", where the Fourth Doctor was sent by the Time Lords to the moment of the Daleks' creation, to"
"is the treacherous Guardian of Earth, Mavic Chen, who has brought a sample of the extremely rare Taranium, which will become a part of the Daleks' ultimate weapon, the Time Destructor. The Daleks soon learn of their presence on the planet and the Dalek Supreme gives the command that Operation Inferno is to be carried out- burning down the jungle. The travelers shelter at the Dalek city. The Doctor manages to steal the Taranium by impersonating delegate Zephon, and he, his companions and Bret escape on Chen's ship, termed a Spar. The Daleks exterminate Zephon for allowing the Doctor to"
"the Daleks"" was released on DVD in the UK on 18 June 2012, and in region 1 on 10 July 2012. Death to the Daleks Death to the Daleks is the third serial of the 11th season of the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"", which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 23 February to 16 March 1974. In the serial, the Daleks and a human expedition both arrive on the planet Exxilon to seek a mineral found in abundance there. This was the last serial to have an episode wiped. Travelling through space, the"
"""dead"" Daleks and, upon their re-activation, conjecture as to ""what sort of positronic brain must this device possess"". However, the Daleks are actually organic life-forms that were encased in robotic shells, and thus do not possess the purported positronic brain and, in any case, do not obey the Three Laws of Robotics. In the seventeenth season (1979–80) story ""The Horns of Nimon"", the fourth incarnation of the Doctor, played by Tom Baker, recognizes the Labyrinth-like building complex that serves as the lair of the Nimons as resembling both physically and functionally a ""giant positronic circuit"". When adequately fueled, the circuit"
"They have renounced violence and become pacifist farmers. During the story it is revealed that the Dals, now calling themselves 'Daleks', have evolved into aggressive creatures who cannot survive outside of the mobile, metal casings they have created. After centuries of freedom from strife the Thals are forced to take up arms again when the Daleks attempt to wipe them out by releasing radiation into Skaro's atmosphere. The First Doctor helps the Thals to victory, with all of the Daleks apparently dying when the flow of static electricity required to power their casings is disrupted. In ""Planet of the Daleks"""
"for the planet Trenzalore and turned into Dalek puppets. In ""The Magician's Apprentice"" (2015), Bors, a human friend of the Doctor from the year 1138, is revealed to be a Dalek puppet tasked by his masters with obtaining the TARDIS. Capitalising on the wave of ""Dalekmania"" gripping Britain following their initial appearances in the ""Doctor Who"" programme, two films featuring the Daleks were produced: ""Dr. Who and the Daleks"" (1965) and ""Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D."" (1966). The storylines for these movies are essentially identical to the first two TV serials in which the Daleks were seen, with the primary"
"aquatic creatures resembling wingless, two-headed dragons) and amorphous Sand Creatures. ""The Dalek Outer Space Book"" contains illustrations of several subterranean creatures including ""Sponge People"", a ""Sucker"" (resembling a red beetle), the tentacled Krakis and an unnamed squirrel-like animal. To this can be added yellow and black beetles and ""rock leopards"", mentioned in the novelisation of ""Remembrance of the Daleks"". In the television serial ""The Daleks"" two sentient, humanoid species are described as having existed on Skaro; the Dals, teachers and philosophers, and the Thals, a race of warriors. Radiation from a neutronic war caused both species to mutate. By the"
"Resurrection of the Daleks Resurrection of the Daleks is the fourth serial of the 21st season in the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"", which was first broadcast in two weekly parts between 8 February and 15 February 1984. This story marks the final regular appearance of Janet Fielding as companion Tegan Jovanka and the return of the Daleks, last seen in ""Destiny of the Daleks"" (1979). Run time on this serial was 46 minutes for each of the two episodes; reruns used the original four episode format that occupied four 25-minute time slots. A group of futuristic humanoids"
"him to Skaro. In ""The Pilot"" (2017), the Doctor briefly visits a battle in the Dalek-Movellan war while trying to escape a time travelling enemy. Daleks have little, if any, individual personality, ostensibly no emotions other than hatred and anger, and a strict command structure in which they are conditioned to obey superiors' orders without question. Dalek speech is characterised by repeated phrases, and by orders given to themselves and to others. 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"
"are released and go back to their own galaxies to warn them of the Daleks. The Doctor activates the Time Destructor and the Daleks are destroyed, though his companion Sara Kingdom is turned to dust. The Daleks develop factory ships for conquest, as seen in ""The Power of the Daleks"" (1966). Daleks are revived after their ship has been in a swamp on the planet Vulcan for over 200 years. They recognise the newly regenerated Second Doctor. The Daleks join forces with a rebel group and with the colony's power source they begin producing more Daleks to exterminate the colony."
"version (marketed as a 'Director's Cut') was screened theatrically in the United States via Fathom Events on 11 June 2018. Genesis of the Daleks Genesis of the Daleks is the fourth serial of the twelfth season of the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". It was written by Terry Nation and directed by David Maloney, and originally broadcast in six weekly parts from 8 March to 12 April 1975 on BBC1. In the serial, the alien time traveller the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) and his travelling companions Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) and Harry Sullivan (Ian Marter) are directed"
"Death and the Daleks Death and the Daleks is a Big Finish Productions audio drama featuring Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". The Braxiatel Collection has been occupied by the Fifth Axis. Shortly after the events depicted in ""Life During Wartime"" Bernice discovered that the Axis was actually being controlled by the Daleks. She must return to the planet Heaven to rescue her father and overthrow the Daleks. This CD also contains, as a bonus feature, the story ""Closure"" starring Lisa Bowerman and Sarah"