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the dalek invasion of earth

story 10 : season 2 : serial K : 6 episodes

Producer: Verity Lambert
Director: Richard Martin
Writer: Terry Nation
Script Editor: David Whitaker
Designer: Spencer Chapman

cast information

William Hartnell (Dr. Who); William Russell (Ian Chesterton); Jacqueline Hill (Barbara Wright); Carole Ann Ford (Susan); Bernard Kay (Carl Tyler); Peter Fraser (David Campbell); Alan Judd (Dortmun); Martyn Huntley (Roboman); Peter Badger (Roboman); Robert Jewell (Dalek); Gerald Taylor (Dalek); Nick Evans (Dalek); Kevin Manser (Dalek); Peter Murphy (Dalek); Robert Aldous (Insurgent); Peter Hawkins (Dalek Voice); David Graham (Dalek Voice); Ann Davies (Jenny); Michael Goldie (Craddock); Michael Davis (Thomson); Richard McNeff (Baker); Graham Rigby (Larry Madison); Nicholas Smith (Wells); Nick Evans (Slyther); Patrick O Connell (Ashton); Jean Conroy (The Women in the Wood); Meriel Hobson (The Women in the Wood);

crew information

Christina Lawton (Assistant Floor Manager); Mervyn Pinfield (Associate Producer); Daphne Dare (Costumes); Tony Pearce (Costumes); Peter Diamond (Fight Arranger); Peter Hamilton (Film Cameraman); John Griffiths (Film Editor); Francis Chagrin (Incidental Music); Elizabeth Blattner (Make-Up); Sonia Markham (Make-Up); Jane Shirley (Production Assistant); Brian Hodgson (Special Sounds); Howard King (Studio Lighting); Jack Brummitt (Studio Sound); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 World's End 21 November 1964 at 17:40 23'42" 11.4mil 16mm telerecording
2 The Daleks 28 November 1964 at 17:40 24'19" 12.4mil 16mm telerecording
3 Day of Reckoning 5 December 1964 at 17:40 26'50" 11.9mil 16mm telerecording
4 The End of Tomorrow 12 December 1964 at 17:40 23'23" 11.9mil 16mm telerecording
5 The Waking Ally 19 December 1964 at 17:40 24'29" 11.4mil 35mm telerecording
16mm telerecording
6 Flashpoint 26 December 1964 at 17:55 25'41" 12.4mil 16mm telerecording
  1. World's End
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978
    » Arabic print also held
  2. The Daleks
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978
    » Arabic print also held
  3. Day of Reckoning
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978
  4. The End of Tomorrow
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978
    » Arabic print also held
  5. The Waking Ally
    » 35mm print was held by FVTL when audited in 1978
    » Negative film print (16mm) recovered from Ents c.1978
  6. Flashpoint
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978
    » Arabic print also held
    » Video release has 'next episode' caption deleted

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth
Written by: Terrance Dicks
Number 017 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1977 Published by Allan Wingate Ltd, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
24 March 1977 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 11244 X
1981 Published by Schneider-Buch, Germany in paperback
Translated into German by Ulla Neckenauer
With cover artwork by: David Hardy
ISBN: 3 505 07302 4
May 1987 Published by Éditions Garancière, France in paperback
Translated into French by Roland C Wagner & Corine Derblum
With cover artwork by: Penichoux
ISBN: 2 734 00203 5
September 1989 Published by Goldmann Verlag, Germany in paperback
Translated into German by Bettina Zeller
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 3 442 23612 6
August 1990 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 11244 X

plot synopsis

Earth has been conquered by the Daleks, with mankind almost wiped out by a space plague, and all but a handful of resistance fighters who survived have been turned into zombie-like Robomen, to work as drones for the aliens. As the TARDIS arrives, Ian and the Doctor are captured by the Daleks, while Barbara and Susan join the resistance. The Doctor manages to foil the Daleks plan to hollow out the core of the planet and build a propulsion system to make the Earth into a type of giant spaceship. As he prepares to leave with Ian and Barbara, he decides to leave Susan behind with David Campbell, whom she has fallen in love with, so that she can spend the rest of her life on Earth

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