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 Doctor Who: Death to the
Daleks [1974]
Date(s) of Broadcast:
23 February 1974 - 16 March 1974
Number of Episodes: 4
Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Barry Letts
SCRIPT
Script: Terry Nation
Story Editor: Terrance Dicks, Robert Holmes [uncredited]
DIRECTION
Director: Michael Briant
PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Derek Slee
Film Camera: Bill Matthews
EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Bob Rymer
MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranged By: Delia Derbyshire
Incidental Music: Carey Blyton
Incidental Music Performed By: The London Saxaphone Quartet
SOUND
Studio Sound: Richard Chubb
Special Sounds: Dick Mills
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Magdalen Gaffney, Cynthia Goodwin
Costumes: L. Rowland Warne
Masks: John Friedlander
VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Jim Ward
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Colin Green
MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Chris D'Oyly-John
Assistant Floor Manager: Richard Leyland
STUNTS
Fight Arranger: Terry Walsh
CAST
Jon Pertwee [The Doctor]
Elizabeth Sladen [Sarah Jane Smith]
Duncan Lamont [Lt Dan Galloway]
Julian Fox [Lt Peter Hamilton]
Joy Harrison [Jill Tarrant]
Murphy Grumbar, John Scott Martin, Cy Town [Daleks]
Michael Wisher [Dalek voices]
John Abineri [Captain Richard Railton]
Neil Seiler [Commander Stewart]
Mostyn Evans [High Priest]
Terry Walsh [spaceman]
Arnold Yarrow [Bellal]
Roy Heymann [Gotal]
Steven Ismay, Terry Walsh [zombies]
Leslie Bates, Bob Blaine, Derek Chafer, Terry Denville, Steven Ismay,
Kevin Moran, Roy Pierce, Dennis Plenty, Mike Reynel, David Rolfe,
Terry Sartain, Nigel Winder [Exxilons – uncredited]
SUMMARY
The Doctor encounters a Marine Space Corps team
on the planet Exxilon who are searching for a cure to a plague that
is sweeping the galaxy. Also on the planet are the savage indigenous
tribe and a group of Daleks.
CAPSULE REVIEW
Even bearing in mind the wretched Destiny
of the Daleks [1979], this may be the worst Dalek story ever.
The sight of a few powerless Daleks wobbling along a gravel pit truly
undermines their position as the greatest Doctor Who
villains. The story itself is The
Power of the Daleks [1966] with the macguffin changed.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video
TIMELINE
1974
February
23: UK - Part One first television broadcast [on BBC1]
March
2: UK - Part Two first television broadcast [on BBC1]
9: UK - Part Three first television broadcast [on BBC1]
16: UK - Part Four first television broadcast [on BBC1]
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
The Exxilons -
working title
REFERENCES
BOOKS
Doctor
Who: The Television Companion pp.258-260
credits, synopsis, review [by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker]
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits KEYWORDS
aliens, time travel
Last Updated:
21 April, 2008
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