Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks (1972)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 1 January 1972 - 22 January 1972
Number of Episodes: 4
Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Barry Letts

SCRIPT
Script: Louis Marks
Story Editor: Terrance Dicks
Daleks Originated By: Terry Nation

DIRECTION
Director: Paul Bernard

PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Alan Horne
Film Camera: Fred Hamilton

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Dan Rae

MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranged By: Delia Derbyshire
Incidental Music: Dudley Simpson

SOUND
Studio Sound: Tony Millier
Special Sounds: Brian Hodgson

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Heather Stewart
Costumes: Mary Husband

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Jim Ward

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: David Myerscough-Jones

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Norman Stewart
Assistant Floor Manager: Sue Hedden

STUNTS
Fight Arranger: Rick Lester

CAST
Jon Pertwee (Doctor Who)
Katy Manning (Jo Grant)
Anna Barry (Anat)
Scott Fredericks (Boaz)
Aubrey Woods (controller of Earth Sector One)
Murphy Grumbar, John Scott Martin, Rick Newby (Daleks)
Oliver Gilbert, Peter Messaline (Dalek voices)
Maurice Bush, Rick Lester, David Joyce, Frank Menzies, Geoff Todd, Bruce Wells (Ogrons)
Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart)
Richard Franklin (Captain Mike Yates)
John Levene (Sgt Benton)
Jimmy Winston (Shura)
Deborah Brayshaw (girl technician)
Gypsie Kemp (UNIT radio operator)
Wilfred Carter (Sir Reginald Styles)
Jean McFarlane (Miss Paget)
Tim Condren (guerilla)
Valentine Palmer (Monia)
Andrew Carr (senior guard)
George Raistrick (guard at work centre)
Peter Hill (manager)
Alex Macintosh (television reporter)
David Melbourne (UNIT guard - uncredited)
Desmond Verlini (Styles' aide - uncredited)
Barbara Chambers, Leon Maybanks (UNIT personnel - uncredited)
Brychan Powell (Dalek guard - uncredited)
Scarlett O'Hara, Alison Daumler, Karen Butch (girl technicians - uncredited)
Charles Aday-Gray, Donald Baker, Robert Bauld, Robert Baldwin, Keith Beresford, Terence Brown, Betty Cameron, Ron Collins, Alan Coper, Jane Cousins, BJ Crane, Michael Culling, Jeanne Doree, Richard Eden, Sue Farebrother, Iris Fry, Pat Gorman, Beverley Grant, Ted Heath, Paul Hickin, Ron Hicks, Nick Hobbs, Christopher Holmes, MJ Howes, Derek Hunt, Gaynor Jackson, Suzanne Jackson, Brian Justice, Sam Mansaray, David Melbourne, R Pickford, Michael Potter, Brychan Powell, Hugh Price, Terence Price, Anne Priestley, Colin Richmond, Hugh Rodgers, Stan Ross, Len Saunders, Basil Tang, Pat Taylor, Harry Tierney, Terry Walsh, Glen Whitter, Eileen Winterton, Vincent Wong, JH Wright (extras at peace conference - uncredited)

PLOT SUMMARY

An attempt is made to kill the leader of a world peace conference. After disappearing the assailant is attacked by the alien Ogrons and found by UNIT. More like him come to attack but the Doctor learns they are from the future where Earth is ruled by the Ogrons under their masters, the Daleks.

After a massive gap (actually five years) the Daleks were back. Trailed on Blue Peter, it was terribly exciting at the time but now we know the Daleks were shoe horned into an existing story, which all seems a bit anti-climactic and mundane now. The Ogrons still look good, though.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video
Laserdisc Distributor: Encore

1972
January
1: UK - Episode One first television broadcast (on BBC1)
8: UK - Episode Two first television broadcast (on BBC1)
15: UK - Episode Three first television broadcast (on BBC1)
22: UK - Episode Four first television broadcast (on BBC1)

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BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.216-220
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker)

MAGAZINES

Shivers no.42 p.23 (UK)
review

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

aliens, time travel

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009