William Hartnell
Season One

B. The Daleks

Writer: Terry Nation
Directors: Christopher Barry (1,2,4,5) and Richard Martin (3,6,7)
Designers: Raymond P Cusick (1-5,7) and Jeremy Davies (6)
Incidental Music Composed and Conducted by: Tristram Cary

TRANSMISSION DETAILS:

 5. The Dead planet               21.12.63   5.15pm - 5.40pm   6.9M/67th/59%
 6. The Survivors                 28.12.83   5.15pm - 5.40pm   6.4M/78th/58%
 7. The Escape                    04.01.64   5.15pm - 5.40pm   8.9M/45th/63%
 8. The Ambush                    11.01.64   5.15pm - 5.40pm   9.9M/28th/63%
 9. The Expedition                18.01.64   5.15pm - 5.40pm   9.9M/27th/63%
10. The Ordeal                    25.01.64   5.15pm - 5.40pm  10.4M/29th/63%
11. The Rescue                    01.02.64   5.15pm - 5.40pm  10.4M/25th/65%

REPEAT DETAILS:

    The Rescue                    13.11.99  10.30pm - 11.55pm

CAST:

DALEK VOICES: David Graham (2-7), Peter Hawkins (2-7); DALEKS: Robert Jewell (2-7), Kevin Manser (2-7), Peter Murphy (5-6), Michael Summerton (2-4,7), Gerald Taylor (2-7); ALYDON: John Lee (3-7); DYONI: Virgina Wetherell (3-6); GANATUS: Philip Bond (3-7); TEMMOSUS: Alan Wheatley (3-4); ANTODUS: Marcus Hammond (4-7); KRISTAS: Jonathon Crane (4-7); ELYON: Gerald Curtis (4-5); THALS: (only credited for 7 but appeared in 2-7) Chris Browning, Katie Cashfield, Vez Delahunt, Kevin Glenny, Ruth Harrison, Lesley Hill, Steve Pokol, Jeanette Rossini, Eric Smith. UNCREDITED: THAL DOUBLE: Frans Van Nordo; DOUBLE FOR ANTODUS: Peter Diamond; DOUBLE FOR ALYDON: Chris Browning

STORY:

The TARDIS lands on a mysterious world. The Doctor asks Susan to check for radiation, and the TARDIS gieger counter shows all is well, until they have left, when the counter reads danger. Outside the TARDIS the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara discover a petrified forest.

They also come across a huge city. The Doctor and Susan want to explore, but Ian and Barbara want to leave. The Doctor appears to agree, but sabotages the TARDIS. A vital component needs mercury, and the city is the only place likely to have any. Unwittingly they attempt to gain access to the city.

Barbara is captured, and later the Doctor, Ian and Susan are also captured by metallic creatures known as Daleks. Earlier the Doctor had been given drugs, left by a Thal outside the TARDIS. Susan is the only one fit enough to return to the TARDIS. The others are suffering from radiation sickness, and Ian was temporarily paralised by the Daleks.

The Daleks find that the Thal drugs are of no use to them, and that to survive they need radiation. The Daleks plan to fire another neutron bomb that would also serve to wipe out their enemy - the Thals. The Doctor allys himself with the Thals, and after a battle the bomb's countdown is halted, and power to the city, and the Daleks is terminated.

STUDIOS:

Lime Grove Studio D, Ealing Television Film Studios

ALTERNATIVE TITLES:

The Mutants (this was the official title until the Pertwee story of this name was made), The Dead Planet, The Survivors

WORKING TITLES:

Part 6 - The Caves of Terror, Part 7 - The Execution

NOTES:

This story was the basis of the first Dalek film, Dr. Who and the Daleks

NOVELISATIONS:

Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks David Whitaker

VIDEO:

The Daleks

William HartnellSeason One