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genesis of the daleks

story 78 : season 12 : serial 4E : 6 episodes

Producer: Barry Letts
Director: David Maloney
Writer: Terry Nation
Script Editor: Robert Holmes
Designer: David Spode

cast information

Tom Baker (Doctor Who); Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith); Ian Marter (Harry Sullivan); Michael Wisher (Davros); Peter Miles (Nyder); Dennis Chinnery (Gharman); Guy Siner (Ravon); John Franklyn-Robbins (Time Lord); Harriet Philpin (Bettan); Stephen Yardley (Sevrin); James Garbutt (Ronson); Drew Wood (Tane); Jeremy Chandler (Gerrill); Andrew Johns (Kravos); Pat Gorman (Thal Soldier); Tom Georgeson (Kavell); Ivor Roberts (Mogran); Michael Lynch (Thal Politician); Hilary Minster (Thal Soldier); Max Faulkner (Thal Guard); Roy Skelton (Dalek Voice); Peter Mantle (Kaled Guard); John Gleeson (Thal Soldier); Richard Reeves (Kaled Leader); John Scott Martin (Dalek Operator); Cy Town (Dalek Operator); Keith Ashley (Dalek Operator);

crew information

Karilyn Collier (Assistant Floor Manager); Barbara Kidd (Costumes); John Friedlander (Davros Mask); Elmer Cossey (Film Cameraman); Larry Toft (Film Editor); Dudley Simpson (Incidental Music); Sylvia James (Make-Up); Rosemary Crowson (Production Assistant); George Gallacio (Production Unit Manager); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Duncan Brown (Studio Lighting); Tony Millier (Studio Sound); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Peter Day (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part One 8 March 1975 at 17:30 24'30" 10.7mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
2 Part Two 15 March 1975 at 17:30 24'51" 10.5mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
3 Part Three 22 March 1975 at 17:30 22'38" 8.5mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
4 Part Four 29 March 1975 at 17:30 23'38" 8.8mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
5 Part Five 5 April 1975 at 17:30 23'27" 9.8mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
6 Part Six 12 April 1975 at 17:30 23'30" 9.1mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
  1. Part One
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978 (this tape suffers from a small amount of quad scratching)
  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
  5. Part Five
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  6. Part Six
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks
Written by: Terrance Dicks
Number 027 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1976 Published by Allan Wingate Ltd, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 855 23072 X
22 July 1976 Published by Tandem, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 11260 1
21 July 1977 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 11260 1
May 1979 Published by Pinnacle Books, USA in paperback
With cover artwork by: David Mann
19 September 1991 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 11260 1

plot synopsis

Diverted from the transmat beam taking them back to the Nerva, the Doctor, Sarah and Harry find themselves on Skaro. The Time Lords have given the Doctor a mission to stop or at least hinder the creation of the Daleks, and in the Kaled bunker, he witnesses the crippled scientist Davros proudly showing off his new Mark Three travel machine, housing the genetically mutated body of a Kaled - primitive, but it's undoubtedly a Dalek. As Davros betrays his own race, and then wipes out the Thals, the Doctor has to try and find it within himself to commit genocide and wipe out the Daleks forever

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