When the Doctor is told the Daleks plan to wipe out the Thals and he exclaims: "That's sheer murder!" It's one of the first times we see the Doctor show compassion. Day of the Daleks, released on VHS as The Day of the Daleks, was the first story of season 9 of Doctor Who. It is notable for marking the return of the Daleks as. Adventures 1966/67 series. The Power of the Daleks. The Highlanders. The Underwater Menace. The Moonbase. The Macra Terror. The Faceless Ones. The Evil of the Daleks. A page for describing Characters: Doctor Who Classic Series Companions. The many people (and the occasional robot) who accompany the Doctor in the classic. A design classic, the Daleks have been with us for an astonishing 50 years We've selected the eight most iconic Dalek designs from over 50 years of Doctor Who, and we. The Daleks' Aridian slaves finish digging out the Doctor's TARDIS. As Barbara and the Doctor duck out of the way two more Daleks appear, but cannot find the time. An eccentric inventor and his companions travel in his TARDIS to the Planet Skaro and battle the evil menace of the Daleks. Dalek model on display at the BBC Shop in London, demonstrating their design in the revived series. The 8 greatest Dalek designs of all time. A design classic, the Daleks have been with us for an astonishing 5. We've selected the eight most iconic Dalek designs from over 5. Doctor Who, and we've enlisted some leading designers to explain why they work. First here's Dave Bradley of the sci- fi bible, SFX magazine, to explain exactly why these cruel cyborgs have become so iconic.. Dave Bradley, editor- in- chief of SFX magazine. Daleks have achieved just such a significance. Mark I Dalek. The original Dalek design, from the second story of the first Doctor Who series back in 1. The original Daleks, introduced in 1. And it's testimony to the ingenuity of their creators (concept: Terry Nation; design: Raymond Cusick; construction: Shawcraft Engineering of Uxbridge under Bill Roberts) that the basic design has remained largely unchanged since. Unlike later versions, the original Dalek had no shoulder slats or mesh, and a distinctly . Also, the eye lenses were illuminated and had an iris that could expand and contract. The Daleks were designed to glide, not walk. Creator Terry Nation was inspired by a performance by the Georgian National Ballet, in which dancers in long skirts appeared to glide across the stage. For many of the shows, the Daleks were played by retired ballet dancers. Terry Nation wanted to create an alien creature that did not look like a . Even though the Daleks of today have evolved a little they still bear a striking resemblance to the original and that has to be down to the fact that the design is such a strong one. The segmented bodies made them look invincibly armour- clad and while they had no faces it was more than obvious what they were looking at and, more importantly, which way their weapons were facing. Imagine what those Daleks might have looked like.. Movie Daleks. With the movies, Daleks turned from monochrome to glorious technicolour. The popularity of the 1. TV show led to two cinema releases, Dr Who and the Daleks, and Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2. AD. The obvious difference was that they were appearing in colour (British TV being black and white at the time), and the production team at Shawcraft Engineering made the most of it, painting the Daleks in bold hues. Drones were primarily silver with mid- blue domes, hemispheres and fenders, and gold collars, while higher up the hierarchy other Daleks were gold, black and red. Daleks were colour coded according to hierarchy. Aside from colour there were only minor variants from the TV show: in the first film, for instance, some Daleks were fitted with a two- jawed mechanical claw instead of a plunger and one was seen with a cutting torch instead of a telescopic arm. Mark III ('7. 0s version)When colour TV began, the producers resisted the temptation to give the Daleks garish hues. When colour TV came to the BBC in the '7. In contrast to the garish hues of the movies, the new Daleks were finished in a colder, military grey, with pitch- black hemispheres and fender. Despite the occasional adornment with black slats and/or collars, this sinister look remained the standard Dalek colour scheme over the next 1. In the 1. 97. 5 story Genesis of the Daleks, both the machines and their humanoid creators were clearly inspired by Nazi imagery. Mark Mc. Gee says. Mark Mc. Gee. This is one of my earliest memories of the Daleks (from behind the sofa of course). The design of this variant was pretty much spot on; the eye bulbs were subtle, the bumper was not over the top and it didn't have lots of extra bits sticking out like some of the others. It was a functional travelling machine created by a mad scientist for a brutal regime and it performed its role perfectly. Special Weapons Dalek. THIS is a laser gun. It has no manipulator arm, eye- stalk or dome lights, just a large energy cannon mounted on the front of the casing. The casing appears battle- scarred and far dirtier than other Daleks, which are usually shown in a clean condition. Reminiscent of First World War hardware, this was the Dalek that even scared other Daleks. They called it 'The Abomination', and it returned in the most recent series on a planet where the craziest Daleks are imprisoned by the Daleks themselves. After 2. 3 years the Special Weapons Dalek returned (far right)Gavin Rothery says. Gavin Rothery. It was the first time I ever saw a 'non- standard' Dalek, and it was very exciting when it appeared. The Daleks were always built up as a significant threat whenever they appeared in a story, so the appearance of a special version that was even more dangerous was a real thrill. There aren't that many baddies that evoke this sort of feeling in me, but I love it when they do. Couple this with the limited screen time and you have a truly memorable sci- fi character in much the same way Boba Fett played out in the original Star Wars trilogy. The ingredients are the same - not much screen time at all, very cool looking, framed narratively as a very dangerous threat and used appropriately within the narrative. For me, this is sci- fi done right and I love it. Gold Dalek. While the rank and file foot- soliders of the Dalek army remained stubbornly monochrome, the generals were often permitted a splash of colour. A Gold Dalek first appeared in Day of the Daleks (1. While the drones stayed grey, the Dalek leaders were eventually given a touch of bling. Matt Mc. Guire says. What I find fascinating about this Dalek is that it is actually a modified prop given to Terry Nation from the 1. Peter Cushing movie Dr Who and the Daleks! I always loved the big bold colours, bulbous 'talk lights' and the thick base the movie Daleks afforded over their TV counterparts. Combining the two (purely due to budget I'd reason) was a match made in heaven. Oh, it also had a standard torch built into its eye piece! What self- respecting Dalek wouldn't aspire to that? From the 1. 97. 0s, Daleks began to indicate rank by colour, gold or black often being the highest. New Series Dalek (2. The 2. 00. 5 Daleks were heavier, more solid and finished in a bronze colour scheme. After a 1. 6- year hiatus, Doctor Who returned to our screens in 2. Almost every component was re- designed to give it a heavier and more solid look. With input from executive producer Russell T Davies, comic book artist Bryan Hitch and production designer Edward Thomas, the first batch were constructed by special effects company The Model Unit under the direction of Mike Tucker. The new designs incorporated additional detailing to many of the components, including the dome, gun, appendage boxes, plunger and eyeball, and were finished in an metallic bronze colour scheme. The Dalek race is struggling to survive after near- total destruction, giving scriptwriters and production designers wide scope for introducing new variants of Dalek. Only minor variations to the design were made subsequent episodes, until the groundbreaking New Paradigm Daleks were introduced in the 2. Victory of the Daleks. These new models came in bright, shiny colours and seemed like they were trying to appeal to fans of Apple products. We've included a picture of the New Paradigm Daleks below so you can see what they look like - but they're not on our list of best designs because, quite frankly, most people we spoke to hated them. The New Paradigm Daleks were not a great critical success with fans. Dalek Sec. Dalek Sec was half- human, half- Dalek. The Daleks may appear to be united, but we've recently learned there are several rebellious factions. One such splinter group is the Cult of Skaro, led by Dalek Sec, who carried out an experiment to become a Dalek- human hybrid in the 2. Daleks in Manhattan. Neill Gorton and his team at Millennium FX did an impressive job on the prosthetics, combining the human and the inhuman to grotesque effect to create a truly original design. Churchill Daleks. Never in the field of human conflict had Dalek watchers been so disoriented. The original story of the Daleks was so clearly influenced by the rise of the Nazis that it was a masterstroke of irony when the 2. Victory of the Daleks' saw the evil race in camouflage colours, sporting Union Jacks, and claiming to fight on the side of Winston Churchill. Of course it was a trick, but we loved the use of iconic wartime imagery to add a new twist to a classic design. The Churchill Daleks declared themselves loyal to Britain's war effort. Now read SFX! The latest issue of SFX, the world's number one sci- fi mag, features a behind- the- scenes preview of the new series of Doctor Who including an interview with the new companion. There's also a look behind the scenes of Iron Man 3 and a tribute to the great Gerry Anderson. SFX is available in all good book stores or can you can buy an i. Pad version via Newsstand or order your print copy from this site. For more on sci- design read: Did we include your favourite Dalek? Let us know in the comments! Asylum of the Daleks - Wikipedia. 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 destroyed before the insane Daleks can escape. The Doctor is helped along the way by Oswin Oswald (Jenna- Louise Coleman), a woman whose spaceship had crashed on the planet a year ago and has been trapped there since then. Coleman makes her first appearance in Doctor Who in this episode, before returning as the Doctor's new companion in the 2. Christmas special; her appearance was successfully kept a secret from the general public prior to the episode's broadcast, as her casting as the new companion had already been announced. The episode was watched by 8. UK, and received attention on BBC i. Player and international broadcasts. Critical reception was positive, though some critics questioned the circumstances behind Amy and Rory's divorce. Prequels. The messenger provides space- time coordinates to the planet Skaro, home planet of the Daleks. In addition, Pond Life is an earlier five- part mini serial prequel to this episode, which was released serially in the week leading up to the premiere. The Doctor's suspicions are confirmed when Darla turns out to be a humanoid Dalek puppet and teleports him to the spaceship housing the Parliament of the Daleks. There he is reunited with a now divorced Amy and Rory, who have been similarly kidnapped from present- day Earth by other humanoid Dalek puppets, just after Rory has delivered Amy their divorce papers. The Doctor is surprised when, rather than exterminate him as he expects, the Daleks ask him for help. The Dalek Prime Minister explains that they have a planet known as the Asylum - which the Parliament is currently orbiting - where they keep battle- scarred Daleks that have gone insane. They are unwilling to kill these Daleks, as destroying such pure hatred would contravene their sense of beauty - something which sickens the Doctor. The Parliament has received a transmission of the Habanera Aria from the heart of the Asylum. The Doctor makes contact with the source of the transmission: a woman named Oswin Oswald, who states that she was Junior Entertainment Manager on the starliner Alaska, which crashed into the Asylum. Oswin claims to have been fending off Dalek attacks for a year, occupying herself by making souffl. The crash had ruptured the planet's force- field, thus risking escape of the planet's inmates. To prevent this, the Parliament wishes to destroy the planet remotely, but the force- field is not ruptured sufficiently to allow that. The force- field can only be deactivated from the planet itself, but afraid to face such a mission themselves, the Daleks task the Doctor, Amy and Rory with doing so. The three are given bracelets to protect them from the planet's nanogene cloud, which would convert them into Dalek puppets to serve the facility's security systems, before being dropped through the force- field breach onto the surface of the planet via a gravity tunnel. The Doctor and Amy land close to each other, and are discovered by Harvey, another survivor from the Alaska. Rory, however, is dropped to the bottom of a long shaft into the Asylum. There he accidentally awakens some of its inhabitants, but is guided to a safe room by Oswin, who has accessed the computers. Meanwhile, Harvey guides the Doctor and Amy to his Alaska escape pod, where he attacks them after being revealed as a Dalek puppet, converted by the nanogene cloud. A similar fate has befallen the corpses of other Alaska survivors, who re- animate and attack the Doctor and Amy, stealing Amy's nano- field bracelet just before the pair are saved by Oswin, who also guides them to Rory through a hatch in the bottom of the pod. Now unprotected against the nanogenes, Amy begins to be converted, experiencing memory loss and hallucinations. The Doctor guesses that the Daleks will destroy the planet as soon as he deactivates the force- field, but he realises that Rory's hideout is a telepad, via which they can teleport onto the Dalek Parliament ship. Oswin agrees to deactivate the force- field in return for the Doctor coming to rescue her. While the Doctor is gone, Rory tries to give Amy his bracelet. The Doctor had stated that love slows the Dalek puppet conversion, so Rory argues that he would be converted more slowly because he has always loved Amy more than she loves him, referring his 2. Amy angrily replies that she loves him equally, but gave him up since she is unable to have children as a result of the events of . They realise that the Doctor had secretly slipped his bracelet onto her without telling them (since as a Time Lord he is probably immune to the nanogenes) to possibly get them to discuss their feelings. They begin to re- activate, but he is saved by Oswin, who deletes the Doctor from the Daleks' collective telepathically- shared knowledge, leaving them with no memory of him. The Doctor has never been able to hack into their hive intelligence, let alone remove anything from it, and is confused to how she has done so. The Doctor enters Oswin's chamber, only to discover to his horror that she is really a Dalek. It turns out that Oswin had been captured by Daleks after the Alaska crashed on the Asylum and, to preserve her genius- level intellect for Dalek use, was turned into a full Dalek rather than a standard puppet. Unable to cope with her conversion, her mind retreated into a fantasy of survival as a human. The Doctor had suspected that something was wrong from the beginning, however, as one of the things Oswin had kept herself busy with while in hiding had been making souffl. Oswin is nearly overcome by her Dalek personality at this revelation, but she still possesses human emotions and is unable to kill the Doctor. Her confrontation causes the Doctor to reflect that the Daleks' many achievements — including their parliamentary discourse and newfound diversity — have been developed in fearful response to his threat to their existence. Oswin fulfils her promise of deactivating the force- field, making her final request that the Doctor remember her as the human she once was: . Run, you clever boy, and remember.. The Doctor returns to Amy and Rory, and they teleport back to the TARDIS just as the planet is destroyed. The Daleks fail to recognise the Doctor due to his removal from their hive intelligence. He jubilantly leaves the ship, and drops the reunited Amy and Rory back home. He then departs alone, delighting in the Dalek Parliament's closing question to him: . In her opening speech, Darla refers to the Doctor faking his death in the episodes . The concept of nanogenes - microscopic machines - is mentioned in the two- parter . This included a Dalek owned by Russell T Davies, Moffat's predecessor. She stated that he was . It was the #1 cable program in its timeslot, and the most watched telecast in the history of the network. The episode also garnered a 0. Dan Martin of The Guardian praised Moffat's . Martin also notes that . He particularly praised Coleman, whom he called . He also praised Coleman's debut, Smith's performance, the special effects, and Amy and Rory's emotional subplot. Club graded . 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