"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 by the Time Lords to the planet Skaro at the time of the Daleks' creation to prevent them from becoming"
"and seven grandchildren. He died of heart failure in his sleep after a short illness on 21 February 2013 at age 84. Raymond Cusick Raymond Patrick Cusick (28 April 1928 – 21 February 2013) was a designer for the BBC. He is best known for designing the Daleks, a race of aliens who move around in tank-like travel machines, for the science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". Born in the Lambeth district of London, Cusick became interested in engineering while still at art school and began attending evening classes. However, his father wanted him to follow a more regular career,"
"Raymond Cusick Raymond Patrick Cusick (28 April 1928 – 21 February 2013) was a designer for the BBC. He is best known for designing the Daleks, a race of aliens who move around in tank-like travel machines, for the science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". Born in the Lambeth district of London, Cusick became interested in engineering while still at art school and began attending evening classes. However, his father wanted him to follow a more regular career, so Cusick took a course in mathematics and science at Borough Polytechnic, intending to become a civil engineer. Not finding this to"
"Maloney himself appeared on-screen in a number of TV and DVD documentaries about his work on ""Doctor Who"". He also provided DVD commentaries for three of the serials he directed, ""The Mind Robber"", ""Genesis of the Daleks"" and ""The Talons of Weng-Chiang"". David Maloney died on 18 July 2006 at the Marie Curie Hospice, Hampstead, at the age of 72. He is survived by his children, Paul, Matthew and Sophia; his wife Edwina (née King) predeceased him. As well as producing the first three seasons of ""Blake's 7"", Maloney also directed the following three episodes: David Maloney David John Lee"
"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"
"Blood and Roses. Wiles died on April 5, 1999 at the age of 73. John Wiles John Wiles (20 September 1925 – 5 April 1999) was a television writer and producer, now best known for being the second producer of the popular science fiction serial ""Doctor Who"", succeeding Verity Lambert. He was credited as producer on four serials between 1965 and 1966, namely ""The Myth Makers"", ""The Daleks' Master Plan"" (which lasted for twelve episodes), ""The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve"", and ""The Ark"". Wiles found his time as producer difficult and frustrating. Although he had a good working relationship"
"the Daleks"", ""Destiny of the Daleks"", ""Resurrection of the Daleks"", ""Revelation of the Daleks"", and ""Remembrance of the Daleks"". Davros Davros is a character from the long-running British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". He was created by screenwriter Terry Nation, originally for the 1975 serial ""Genesis of the Daleks"". Davros is a major enemy of the series' protagonist, the Doctor, and is the creator of the Doctor's deadliest enemies, the Daleks. Davros is a genius who has mastered many areas of science, but also a megalomaniac who believes that through his creations he can become the supreme being and"
"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 the show's most popular villains and their returns to the series over the decades have gained media attention and their frequent order to ""Exterminate!"" has become common usage. The Daleks were created by writer Terry Nation and designed by BBC designer Raymond Cusick. 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,"
"Terry Nation Terence Joseph Nation (8 August 19309 March 1997) was a Welsh television writer and novelist. Nation first made his name as a comedy writer before becoming a prolific writer for drama, working on many of the most popular British series of the 1960s and 1970s. He made a significant contribution to the long-running BBC science-fiction series ""Doctor Who"" from its outset, creating the villainous Daleks which established its early popularity and later devising the recurring character of Davros. Nation was also the creator of two series for the BBC, ""Survivors"" and ""Blake's 7"". Born in Llandaff, Cardiff, Nation"
"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"
"those in the 1985 serial ""Revelation of the Daleks"", for which director Graeme Harper deliberately used less distortion). Besides Hawkins and Graham, other voice actors for the Daleks have included Roy Skelton, who first voiced the Daleks in the 1967 story ""The Evil of the Daleks"" and provided 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"
"the Seventh Doctor, the disc features the serial put together as a single feature in widescreen format with an introduction from current show runner Steven Moffat, as well as its original version. Remembrance of the Daleks Remembrance of the Daleks is the first serial of the 25th season of the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". The serial was first broadcast in four weekly episodes from 5 October to 26 October 1988. It was written by Ben Aaronovitch and directed by Andrew Morgan. In the serial, alien time traveller the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and his companion Ace (Sophie Aldred)"
"Gene Colan Eugene Jules ""Gene"" Colan (; September 1, 1926 – June 23, 2011) was an American comic book artist best known for his work for Marvel Comics, where his signature titles include the superhero series ""Daredevil"", the cult-hit satiric series ""Howard the Duck"", and ""The Tomb of Dracula"", considered one of comics' classic horror series. He co-created the Falcon, the first African-American superhero in mainstream comics, and the non-costumed, supernatural vampire hunter Blade, who went on to appear in a series of films starring Wesley Snipes. Colan was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in"
"assigned to ""Blake's 7"". The directors would work in rotation, each directing four episodes. Episode seven would be directed by Paul Ciappessoni. Mayne was killed in a boating accident and was replaced by Vere Lorrimer. The eighth episode, ""Duel"", was directed by another ""Doctor Who"" veteran, Douglas Camfield. Maloney assembled the rest of his production team and engaged Roger Murray-Leach, with whom he had worked on the ""Doctor Who"" serials ""Planet of Evil"", ""The Deadly Assassin"" and ""The Talons of Weng-Chiang"", as production designer. To ensure uniformity of concept, Maloney asked Murray-Leach to design both the interior and exterior of"
"Fred Kida, that appeared posthumously in ""Super-Villain Team-Up"" #1 (Aug. 1975). Artist Gene Colan said that Everett had been Lee's first choice to draw the horror series ""Tomb of Dracula"", which premiered in 1972 and for which Colan then lobbied successfully. Everett died February 27, 1973 at the age of 55. Bill Everett William Blake ""Bill"" Everett (; May 18, 1917 – February 27, 1973) was a comic book writer-artist best known for creating Namor the Sub-Mariner as well as co-creating Zombie and Daredevil with writer Stan Lee for Marvel Comics. He was a descendant of the poet William Blake"
"of the original TV and Movie props, they were of the basic Mark 1 Movie Dalek design but with fenders, dome lights and guns of the type seen on TV Daleks at the time. ""Doctor Who and the Daleks in the Seven Keys to Doomsday"" was a stage play written by Terrance Dicks which ran at the Adelphi Theatre in London, England for four weeks beginning on 16 December 1974. Five Daleks were created for the play by Philip Poole and Phillip Alleston under the guidance of model maker, sculptor and film designer Allister Bowtell. They were of a similar"
"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"
"non-Dalek beings. They even attack the Time Lords in the Time War, as shown during the 50th Anniversary of the show. They continue to be a recurring 'monster' within the Doctor Who franchise, their most recent appearances being in the 2015 episodes ""The Witch's Familiar"" and ""Hell Bent"". Davros has also been a recurring figure since his debut in ""Genesis of the Daleks"", although played by several different actors. The Daleks were created by writer Terry Nation (who intended them to be an allegory of the Nazis) and BBC designer Raymond Cusick. The Daleks' début in the programme's second serial,"
"Roger Murray-Leach Roger Murray-Leach (born 25 June 1943) is a British Production Designer, who is probably best known for his work on British television series' ""Doctor Who"" and Blake's 7 in the 1970s, although he went on later to work on major feature films. He trained as an architect and joined the BBC design department in the 1970s, quickly gaining a reputation for great imagination and flair. He began working on Doctor Who when Philip Hinchcliffe took over as producer in late 1974. Hinchcliffe's vision for the series included giving a high priority to set design and he quickly realised"
"John Wiles John Wiles (20 September 1925 – 5 April 1999) was a television writer and producer, now best known for being the second producer of the popular science fiction serial ""Doctor Who"", succeeding Verity Lambert. He was credited as producer on four serials between 1965 and 1966, namely ""The Myth Makers"", ""The Daleks' Master Plan"" (which lasted for twelve episodes), ""The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve"", and ""The Ark"". Wiles found his time as producer difficult and frustrating. Although he had a good working relationship with story editor Donald Tosh, Wiles found that he was unable to make many"
"universe into Boucher's ""Doctor Who"" serial ""The Robots of Death"" through the character Carnell (Scott Fredericks), whom Boucher created for the ""Blake's 7"" episode ""Weapon"". During April 2000 producer Andrew Mark Sewell announced that he had bought the rights to ""Blake's 7"" from the estate of Terry Nation, and was planning to produce a TV movie set 20 years after the finale of the original series. During July 2003, Sewell announced that he, Paul Darrow and Simon Moorhead had formed a consortium called 'B7 Enterprises' that had acquired the rights and was planning a television miniseries budgeted at between five"
"Daleks"" and refers to two other species, the Tharons and the Dals, as both being extinct due to Kaled genocide by the time of the Kaled-Thal war. The central plot device of the ""Doctor Who"" television programme, and of the Whoniverse, is time travel. Coupled with successive programme producers' and scriptwriters' uneven approach to continuity, attempts at imposing a strict chronology upon Skaro's fictional history are problematic. The events leading to the creation of the Daleks, as depicted in ""Genesis of the Daleks"" (1975), apparently pre-date those of ""The Daleks"" (1963–64) while in ""The Evil of the Daleks"" (1967), the"
"Brian Hayles Brian Hayles (7 March 1931 – 30 October 1978) was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. His body of work as a writer for television and film, most notably for the BBC science fiction series ""Doctor Who"", lasted from 1962 to 1978. Hayles wrote six stories for ""Doctor Who"" and is best known for his creation of the Celestial Toymaker in the 1966 story of the same name, the Ice Warriors, introduced in the 1967 story of the same name, and the feudal planet Peladon, the setting for ""The Curse of Peladon"" and its sequel ""The Monster of Peladon""."
"Davros Davros is a character from the long-running British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". He was created by screenwriter Terry Nation, originally for the 1975 serial ""Genesis of the Daleks"". Davros is a major enemy of the series' protagonist, the Doctor, and is the creator of the Doctor's deadliest enemies, the Daleks. Davros is a genius who has mastered many areas of science, but also a megalomaniac who believes that through his creations he can become the supreme being and ruler of the Universe. The character has been compared to the infamous dictator Adolf Hitler several times, including by"
"Destiny of the Daleks Destiny of the Daleks is the first serial of the 17th season of the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"", which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 1 September to 22 September 1979. The story introduces Lalla Ward as the newly regenerated Romana. The serial is set on the planet Skaro centuries after events of the 1975 serial ""Genesis of the Daleks"". In the serial, the Daleks arrive on Skaro to find their creator Davros (David Gooderson) in suspended animation. They seek Davros' guidance to help them beat the Movellan race"
"Arnold Drake Arnold Drake (March 1, 1924 – March 12, 2007) was an American comic book writer and screenwriter best known for co-creating the DC Comics characters Deadman and the Doom Patrol, and the Marvel Comics characters the Guardians of the Galaxy, among others. Drake was posthumously inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2008. Arnold Drake was the third child of Max Druckman, a Manhattan furniture dealer who died in June 1966 at his home in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City, and Pearl Cohen. His eldest brother, Ervin Drake, born Ervin Maurice Druckman, and"
"released an audio book of himself reading his autobiography ""You're Him, Aren't You?"". Paul Darrow Paul Darrow (born Paul Valentine Birkby on 2 May 1941) is an English actor best known for his portrayal of Kerr Avon in the BBC science fiction television series ""Blake's 7"". He also guest starred twice on ""Doctor Who"", playing Captain Hawkins in the serial ""Doctor Who and the Silurians"" which was transmitted in 1970 and Maylin Tekker in the serial ""Timelash"" which was transmitted in 1985. He is also the voice of ""Jack"", on independent radio stations JACK FM and Union JACK, whose lines"
"who explains that the Daleks were created by ""a genius... a man who was king of his own little world"", and again by the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) in the episode ""Evolution of the Daleks"" (2007), where he refers to the Daleks' creator as believing that ""removing emotions makes you stronger"". Davros makes his first official appearance in the episode ""The Stolen Earth"" (2008), portrayed by Julian Bleach. The episode reveals that Davros was thought to have died during the first year of the Time War, when his command ship ""flew into the jaws of the Nightmare Child"" at 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. In 1964"
"""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"
"David Gooderson David Gooderson (born 24 February 1941) is an English actor who has appeared in several television roles. As well as portraying Davros, creator of the Daleks in the ""Doctor Who"" serial ""Destiny of the Daleks"", he has appeared in ""Lovejoy"", ""Mapp & Lucia"" and ""A Touch of Frost"" amongst other roles. Gooderson has also appeared in many radio programmes for the BBC, including ""The Next Programme Follows Almost Immediately"" with Bill Wallis, David Jason, Denise Coffey and Jonathan Cecil and ""Huddwinks"" with Roy Hudd and others. David Gooderson was a member of the Cambridge Footlights, and featured in"
"David Collings David Collings (born 4 June 1940) is an English actor. In an extensive career he has appeared in countless roles on stage, television, film and radio as well as various audio books, voiceovers, concert readings and other work. He garnered a following through his numerous appearances in cult sci-fi series such as ""Doctor Who"", ""Sapphire & Steel"" and ""Blake's 7"", as well as voicing the titular character in the series ""Monkey"" and Legolas in the classic BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Tolkien's ""The Lord of the Rings"". Collings was born in Brighton on 4 June 1940. Collings' screen"
"work on ""Daredevil"" was anywhere near his best."" Tuska drew DC's ""Masters of the Universe"" limited series in 1982. Retired from active comics work as of the 2000s, Tuska lived in Manchester Township, New Jersey with his wife Dorothy (""Dot""), where he did commissioned art. The couple had three children, Barbara, Kathy and Robert. Tuska died in 2009 ""near the stroke of midnight between October 15 and October 16,"" officially on the latter date. His last published comic-book art was one of four variant covers for Dynamite Entertainment's ""Masquerade"" #2 (March 2009). Tuska was a 1997 recipient of the industry's"