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the power of the daleks

story 30 : season 4 : serial EE : 6 episodes

Producer: Innes Lloyd
Director: Christopher Barry
Writer: David Whitaker
Script Editor: Gerry Davis
Designer: Derek Dodd

cast information

Patrick Troughton (Dr. Who); Michael Craze (Ben Jackson); Anneke Wills (Polly Wright); Robert James (Lesterson); Nicholas Hawtrey (Quinn); Martin King (The Examiner); Bernard Archard (Bragen); Pamela Ann Davy (Janley); Peter Bathurst (Hensell); Edward Kelsey (Resno); Richard Kane (Valmar); Gerald Taylor (Dalek); Kevin Manser (Dalek); Robert Jewell (Dalek); John Scott Martin (Dalek); Peter Hawkins (Dalek Voice); Peter Forbes-Robertson (Guard); Robert Russell (Guard); Robert Luckham (Guard); Steven Scott (Kebble);

crew information

Marjorie Yorke (Assistant Floor Manager); Sandra Reid (Costumes); Terry Nation (Creator of the Daleks); Peter Sargent (Film Cameraman); Jim Latham (Film Editor); Tristram Cary (Incidental Music); Gillian James (Make-Up); Michael Briant (Production Assistant); Brian Hodgson (Special Sounds); Graham Sothcott (Studio Lighting); Buster Cole (Studio Sound); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Episode One 5 November 1966 at 17:50 25'43" 7.9mil does not exist
2 Episode Two 12 November 1966 at 17:50 24'29" 7.8mil does not exist
3 Episode Three 19 November 1966 at 17:50 23'31" 7.5mil does not exist
4 Episode Four 26 November 1966 at 17:50 24'23" 7.8mil does not exist
5 Episode Five 3 December 1966 at 17:50 23'38" 8.0mil does not exist
6 Episode Six 10 December 1966 at 17:50 23'46" 7.8mil does not exist
  1. Episode One
    » Clips exist in the form of an 8mm home movie reel shot off a television set
  2. Episode Two
    » Clips exist in the form of an 8mm home movie reel shot off a television set
  3. Episode Three
  4. Episode Four
    » Clips exist from Perspectives: C For Computer
  5. Episode Five
    » Clips exist from Perspectives: C For Computer
    » Clip exists from Whicker's World: I Don't Like My Monsters To Have Oedipus Complexes
  6. Episode Six
    » Clip exists from Tom Tom

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who -- The Power of the Daleks
Written by: John Peel
Number 154 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1993 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 20390 9

plot synopsis

Still suspicious of the stranger claiming to be the Doctor, Ben and Polly keep a careful eye on him as the TARDIS arrives on Vulcan, where the Doctor is mistaken for being the Earth Examiner. Nobody takes heed of his warnings as he realises the implications of three Daleks being reactivated, after being found in a capsule in a Mercury swamp. Sure enough, a Dalek production line is quickly up and running, with the creatures attempting to over-run the colony before the Doctor can defeat them...

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