THE EVIL OF THE DALEKS

Written by David Whitaker.

Directed by Derek Martinus & Timothy Combe (Dalek fight film sequence in Episode 7 only). .

Transmitted originally: 20 May 1967 to 1 July 1967.

"Anyone would think that it's a little game, and it's not. People have died. The Daleks are all over, fit to murder the lot of us, and all you can say is that you've had good night's work. Well, I'm telling you this, we're finished. You're just too callous for me. Anything goes by the board, anything at all. You don't give that much for a living soul except yourself. Just whose side are you on?" - Jamie [Talking to the Doctor].

THE STORY

The TARDIS has been stolen by antiques dealer Edward Waterfield, who lures the Doctor and Jamie into a trap. They are transported back to Waterfield's home time of 1867, where his daughter, Victoria is being held hostage by the Daleks to ensure his cooperation. The Daleks force the Doctor to monitor Jamie's performance of a test - the rescue of Victoria - with the supposed intention of identifying the human factor; the special quality possessed by humans that enables them the defeat the Daleks.

The Doctor, having succeeded in this task implants the human factor into three test Daleks - with the result that they become friendly and playful! Everyone is transported back to Skaro where the Doctor discovers the Dalek's true aim, to isolate the Dalek factor - the impulse to destroy - and implant it into humans. The Emperor Dalek informs him that the TARDIS will be used to spread the Dalek factor throughout all time. by a ruse, however, the Doctor is able to infuse many more Daleks with the human factor. A civil war breaks out between the two factions and they are apparently all destroyed. As Waterfield has been killed during the course of the action, the Doctor offers Victoria a place aboard the TARDIS.

CAST:

Dr Who (Patrick Troughton), Jamie (Frazer Hines), Victoria (Deborah Watling), Bob Hall (Alec Ross), Kennedy (Griffith Davies), Edward Waterfield (John Bailey), Perry (Geoffrey Colville), Daleks (Robert Jewell, Gerald Taylor, John Scott Martin, Murphy Grumbar, Ken Tyllsen), Dalek Voices (Roy Skelton, Peter Hawkins), Mollie Dawson (Jo Rowbottom), Theodore Maxtible (Marius Goring), Ruth Maxtible (Brigit Forsyth), Toby (Windsor Davies), Arthur Terrall (Gary Watson), Kemel (Sonny Caldinez).

FACTS:

The theme given to the Daleks by Dudley Simpson in his incidental music was based on the series' own signature tune.

Patrick Troughton and Deborah Watling appear only in film insets in the fourth episode as they were on holiday during the week it was recorded.

Sound effects from 'The Mutants' and 'The Dalek's Masterplan' were reused for the Dalek city.

OTHER FORMATS:

The Second Doctor Novelisations

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