Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks (1988)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 5 October 1988 - 26 October 1988
Number of Episodes: 4
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound: stereo

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: John Nathan-Turner

SCRIPT
Script: Ben Aaronovitch
Script Editor: Andrew Cartmel

DIRECTION
Director: Andrew Morgan

PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Henry Barber
OB Camera: Robin Sutherland, Barry Chaston

MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranger: Keff McCulloch
Incidental Music: Keff McCulloch

SOUND
Special Sound: Dick Mills
Studio Sound: Scott Talbot

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Christine Greenwood
Costumes: Ken Trew

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Stuart Brisdon

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Martin Collins

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Associate: June Collins
Production Assistant: Rosemary Parsons
Assistant Floor Managers: Val McCrimmon, Lynn Grant

STUNTS
Stunt Arranger: Tip Tipping

CAST
Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor)
Sophie Aldred (Ace)
Simon Williams (Group Captain'Chunky' Gilmore)
Pamela Salem (Professor Rachel Jensen)
Dursley Mclinden (Sgt Mike Smith)
Karen Gledhill (Allison Williams)
George Sewell (Ratcliffe)
Jasmine Breaks (the girl)
Michael Sheard (headmaster
Harry Fowler (Harry)
Hugh Spight, John Scott Martin, Tony Starr, Cy Town (Dalek operators)
Roy Skelton, Royce Mills, Brian Miller (Dalek voices)
John Leeson (battle computer voice (credited as Dalek voice)
Peter Hamilton Dyer (Embery)
Joseph Marcell (John)
Peter Halliday (vicar)
Tracet Eddon (double for Ace (credited as stuntwoman))
William Thomas (Martin)
Derek Keller (Kaufman)
Terry Molloy (Davros / Emperor Dalek (credited to Roy Tromelly for Episode 3)
Hugh Spight (Black Dalek - uncredited)
Norman Bacon, David Harrison, Nigel Wild (Dalek operators - uncredited)
Simon Harboro (teleprinter operator - uncredited)
Frances Tanner, Rebecca Knight (typists - uncredited)
Neil Lyndon Johnson (dead soldier (Andrews) - uncredited)
Paul Vaughn Teague (A/C Grant - uncredited)
Ray Martin (school teacher - uncredited)
Zoe Barry-Hughes, Tamsin Breaks, Zoe Morgan, Anna Stevenson, Hero Trew (policemen - uncredited)
Chris Andrews, Peter Gates Fleming (girls - uncredited)
Ronnie Aldon, Ian Clare, Judy Collins, Averil Dean, Tom Gandl, Selina Gilbert, Linda Kent, Alison Mcguire, Wyn Mcleod, Kelly Murray, Frank Novak, Alfred Rogers, Tina Sarsfield, Judd Solo, Lee Towset, Pam Wardell, Peter Whitaker (onlookers - uncredited)
Kathleen Bidmead (Mrs Smith - uncredited)
Richie Kennedy (milkman - uncredited)
Ron Berry (grave digger - uncredited)
June Easther (aunt - uncredited)
Robin Easther (uncle - uncredited)
John Evans (undertaker - uncredited)
Colin Baldwin, Gary Dean, Hugh Elton, David J Ross, Doug Starke, Colin Thomas (pallbearers - uncredited)
Tony Aspin, Ian Bodenham, Charles Hunter, Ian Johns, Bill Malin, Ross Murray, Lee Ryan, David Skinner, Stuart Smith, Jack Talbot, Robert Terson, Derek Van Weenan, Norman Warren (soldiers - uncredited)
Matthew King, Tommy Charlton, Alec Gifford, Steve Little (Association men - uncredited)

PLOT SUMMARY

Landing near Coal Hill school in November 1963 The Doctor and Ace encounter two warring factions of Daleks hunting for the hand of Omega, a remote stellar manipulator stolen from the Time Lords and hidden by the Doctor.

With a script editor - Andrew Cartmel - giving the series direction, it all falls into place. Continuity may have confused the casual viewer, but with the BBC pitting the programme against the top rated Coronation Street how many of them were watching? For Doctor Who fans it's a treat. McCoy is given a character to play - more than a Time Lord, a traveller who knows more than he is letting on, as different from other Doctors as Pertwee was to Hartnell, but isn't that the point? Sophie Aldred is funny, personable, vulnerable and a great action heroine. The story really moves. The Daleks look great (and they go up stairs) and the links to previous stories add something to the story. Brilliant.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video

1988
October
5: UK - Part One television broadcast (on BBC1)
12: UK - Part Two television broadcast (on BBC1)
19: UK - Part Three television broadcast (on BBC1)
26: UK - Part Four television broadcast (on BBC1)

Nightfall - working title
Die Hand des Omega - German title

MAGAZINES

In-Vision no.96 (2001) (UK)
credits, production notes

BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.513-516
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker)

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

aliens, time travel

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008