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death to the daleks

story 72 : season 11 : serial XXX : 4 episodes

Producer: Barry Letts
Director: Michael Briant
Writer: Terry Nation
Script Editor: Terrance Dicks
Designer: Colin Green

cast information

Jon Pertwee (Doctor Who); Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith); Duncan Lamont (Dan Galloway); John Abineri (Richard Railton); Neil Seiler (Commander Stewart); Julian Fox (Peter Hamilton); Joy Harrison (Jill Tarrant); Mostyn Evans (High Priest); Michael Wisher (Dalek voices); John Scott Martin (Dalek Operator); Murphy Grunbar (Dalek Operator); Cy Town (Dalek Operator); Arnold Yarrow (Bellal); Roy Heymann (Gotal);

crew information

Richard Leyland (Assistant Floor Manager); L Rowland Warne (Costumes); Terry Walsh (Fight Arranger); Bill Matthews (Film Cameraman); Bob Rymer (Film Editor); Carey Blyton (Incidental Music); Magdalen Gaffney (Make-Up); Cynthia Goodwin (Make-Up); John Friedlander (Masks); London Saxophone Quartet (Music); Chris D'Oyly-John (Production Assistant); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Derek Slee (Studio Lighting); Richard Chubb (Studio Sound); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Jim Ward (Visual Effects); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part One 23 February 1974 at 17:30 24'32" 8.1mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
NTSC 2 inch colour videotape
PAL conversion
2 Part Two 2 March 1974 at 17:30 24'25" 9.5mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
3 Part Three 9 March 1974 at 17:30 24'24" 10.5mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
4 Part Four 16 March 1974 at 17:30 24'35" 9.5mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
  1. Part One
    » Recovered from a private collector c.1992
    » Recovered from Canada c.1979
    » Conversion from NTSC 2 inch broadcast tape
  2. Part Two
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  3. Part Three
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  4. Part Four
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who -- Death to the Daleks
Written by: Terrance Dicks
Number 020 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1978 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Roy Knipe
20 July 1978 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Roy Knipe
ISBN: 0 426 20042 X
March 1990 Published by Goldmann Verlag, Germany in paperback
Translated into German by Bettina Zeller
With cover artwork by: Roy Knipe
ISBN: 3 442 23623 1
18 April 1991 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 20042 X

plot synopsis

All of the TARDIS power banks are drained, and it has to land on the planet Exxilon, where a vast city absorbs all of the energy of passing spacecraft, forcing them down on the rocky terrain. The Doctor and Sarah meet a stranded Earth expedition, who are trying to find Parranium, the only known cure to a deadly space plague. When the Daleks arrive, unable to use their guns due to the power drain, an unholy alliance between them and the humans occurs, but can the Daleks be trusted?

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