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Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks (1966)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 5 November 1966 - 10 December 1966
Number of Episodes: 6
Average Episode Running Times: 24 mins
Format: black and white
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Innes Lloyd

SCRIPT
Script: David Whitaker, Dennis Spooner (uncredited)
Story Editor: Gerry Davis
Daleks Created By: Terry Nation

DIRECTION
Director: Christopher Barry

PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Graham Sothcott
Film Cameraman: Peter Sargent
Vision Mixers: Clive Doig, Dennis Curran (both uncredited)

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Jim Latham

MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranged By: Delia Derbeyshire
Incidental Music: Tristram Cary (from stock)

SOUND
Studio Sound: Buster Cole
Special Sounds: Brian Hodgson
Grams Operator: Lance Andrews (uncredited)

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Gillian James
Costumes: Sandra Reid

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Derek Dodd

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Michael Briant
Assistant Floor Manager: Marjorie Yorke
Floor Assistants: Julian Aston, Eddie Shah (both uncredited)
Assistants: Gail Paul, Sybil Harper, Jennifer Jones (all uncredited)

CAST
EPISODE 1
Patrick Troughton (Dr. Who)
Anneke Eills (Polly)
Michael Craze (Ben)
Martin King (The Examiner)
Nicolas Hawtrey (Quinn)
Bernard Archard (Bragen)
Robert James (Lesterson)
Pamela Ann Davy (Janley)
Peter Bathurst (Hensell)

EPISODE 2
Patrick Troughton (Dr. Who)
Anneke Eills (Polly)
Michael Craze (Ben)
Nicolas Hawtrey (Quinn)
Bernard Archard (Bragen)
Robert James (Lesterson)
Pamela Ann Davy (Janley)
Peter Bathurst (Hensell)
Edward Kelsey (Resno)
Gerald Taylor (Dalek - uncredited)
Peter Hawkins (Dalek voice - uncredited)

EPISODE 3
Patrick Troughton (Dr. Who)
Anneke Eills (Polly)
Michael Craze (Ben)
Nicolas Hawtrey (Quinn)
Bernard Archard (Bragen)
Robert James (Lesterson)
Pamela Ann Davy (Janley)
Peter Bathurst (Hensell)
Richard Kane (Valmar)
Gerald Taylor, Kevin Manser, Robert Jewell (Daleks)
Peter Hawkins (Dalek voices)

EPISODE 4
Patrick Troughton (Dr. Who)
Anneke Eills (Polly)
Michael Craze (Ben)
Nicolas Hawtrey (Quinn)
Bernard Archard (Bragen)
Robert James (Lesterson)
Pamela Ann Davy (Janley)
Peter Bathurst (Hensell)
Richard Kane (Valmar)
Gerald Taylor, Kevin Manser, Robert Jewell, John Scott Martin (Daleks)
Peter Hawkins (Dalek voices)
Peter Forbes-Robertson (guard)
Steven Scott (Kebble)

EPISODE 5
Patrick Troughton (Dr. Who)
Anneke Eills (Polly)
Michael Craze (Ben)
Nicolas Hawtrey (Quinn)
Bernard Archard (Bragen)
Robert James (Lesterson)
Pamela Ann Davy (Janley)
Peter Bathurst (Hensell)
Richard Kane (Valmar)
Gerald Taylor, Kevin Manser, Robert Jewell, John Scott Martin (Daleks)
Peter Hawkins (Dalek voices)
Peter Forbes-Robertson, Robert Russell, Robert Luckham (guards)
Steven Scott (Kebble)

EPISODE 6
Patrick Troughton (Dr. Who)
Anneke Eills (Polly)
Michael Craze (Ben)
Nicolas Hawtrey (Quinn)
Bernard Archard (Bragen)
Robert James (Lesterson)
Pamela Ann Davy (Janley)
Richard Kane (Valmar)
Gerald Taylor, Robert Jewell, John Scott Martin (Daleks)
Peter Hawkins (Dalek voices)
Peter Forbes-Robertson, Robert Russell (guards)
Steven Scott (Kebble)

ADDITIONAL UNCREDITED PERFORMERS
Tony Lammar, Tony Leary, Bernard Forest, Victor Munt (guards - uncredited)
Nigel Parry Jones, David James, Dave Carter, Philip Ryan, Tony Rohr (male rebels - uncredited)
Nadia Baker, Jenny Lautrec, Jenny Robbins, Judith Pollard (female rebels - uncredited)

PLOT SUMMARY

The new Doctor, Polly and Bewn arrive on the planet Vulcan where they become involved in a murder investigation. The authorities have their hands full dealing with local rebels. But things are about to get a lot worse when a scientist, Lesterson, discovers a crashed spaceship containing apparently dormant Daleks - who aren't going to be dormant for much longer...

AVAILABILITY

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video

TIMELINE

1966
September

16: UK - shooting begins at Ealing Studios, Stage 2
30: UK - shooting ends at Ealing Studios, Stage 2

October
22: UK - shooting at Riverside Studio 1
29: UK - shooting at Riverside Studio 1

November
5: UK - Episode 1 television broadcast (on BBC1)
5: UK - shooting at Riverside Studio 1
12: UK - Episode 2 television broadcast (on BBC1)
12: UK - shooting at Riverside Studio 1
19: UK - Episode 3 television broadcast (on BBC1)
19: UK - shooting at Riverside Studio 1
26: UK - Episode 4 television broadcast (on BBC1)

December
3: UK - Episode 5 television broadcast (on BBC1)
10: UK - Episode 6 television broadcast (on BBC1)

LINKS

SEE ALSO
Dalek Invasion Earth: 2150 AD (1966)
Dalekmania (1995)
Daleks: The Early Years (1993)
Doctor Who (1996)
Doctor Who: The Mutants (1963)
Doctor Who: The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964)
Doctor Who: The Chase (1965)
Doctor Who: Mission to the Unknown (1965)
Doctor Who: The Space Museum (1965)
Doctor Who: The Dalek Master Plan (1965 - 1966)
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks (1967)
Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks (1972)
Doctor Who: Frontier In Space (1973)
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks (1973)
Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks (1974)
Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks (1975)
Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks (1979)
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors (1983)
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks (1984)
Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks (1985)
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks (1988)
Doctor Who: Dalek (2005)
Doctor Who: Bad Wolf (2005)
Doctor Who: The Parting of the Ways (2005)
Dr Who And The Daleks (1965)

REFERENCES

BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Handbook: The Second Doctor pp.40-45
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe, Mark Stammers, Stephen James Walker)

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.107-111
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker)

KEYWORDS

aliens; time travel; daleks

 


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