Dr. Who and the Daleks
Directed by	Gordon Flemyng
Produced by	Max J. Rosenberg Milton Subotsky
Written by	Terry Nation Max Rosenberg (uncredited) Milton Subotsky David Whitaker (uncredited)
Starring	Peter Cushing Roy Castle Jennie Linden Roberta Tovey Barrie Ingham
Music by	Barry Gray Malcolm Lockyer
Cinematography	John Wilcox
Editing by	Oswald Hafenrichter
Release date(s)	25 June 1965
Running time	83 min.
Language	English
IMDb profile

Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) was the first of two Doctor Who films made in the 1960s, and was followed by Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD. DVD cover scan from the movie Dr. Who and the Daleks, personal scan, claiming fair use (does not detract from original work, scanned from legal copy, image is of sufficiently low resolution). ... Terry Nation (August 8, 1930 – March 9, 1997) was a British television screenwriter and is probably best known for creating the villainous Daleks for the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Max Rosenberg (September 13, 1914-June 14, 2004) was a film producer, mostly of horror or supernatural films such as Tales from the Crypt (1972), The Land That Time Forgot (1975), and its sequel, The People That Time Forgot (1977). ... David Whitaker (1928 - February 4, 1980) helped create the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and served as the series first script editor. ... Peter Cushing OBE Cushing (left) in the television adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four in the winter of 1954 on BBC Television. ... Roy Castle OBE (born August 31, 1932 in Scholes, near Holmfirth; died September 2, 1994) was a British dancer, singer, comedian, actor and musician. ... Jennie Linden (born 8 December 1939 in Worthing) is an English film and television actress. ... Roberta Tovey (born 9 August 1953 in Shepherds Bush, London) is an English actress who has appeared in many films and television programmes. ... Barrie Ingham was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, February 10. ... Barry Gray (July 18, 1908 in Lancashire, England - April 26, 1984 in Guernsey, Channel Islands) was a British musician and composer who is best known for his work for Gerry Anderson. ... Malcolm Lockyer (5 October 1923 - 28 June 1976) was a film composer and conductor. ... Yugoslavian born editor Oswald Hafenrichter (1899 - 1973) cut his teeth on a series of German films in the early 30s and some Italian films in the mid 40s. ... June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 189 days remaining. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme (and 1996 television movie) produced by the BBC about the adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as the Doctor, who explores time and space with his companions, solving problems and righting wrongs. ... Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD (1966) is the second of two Doctor Who films made during the 1960s to feature Peter Cushing as the time traveller Dr. Who (unlike the television series, where the character is simply called the Doctor). ...

The film features Peter Cushing as Dr. Who, Roberta Tovey as Susan, Jennie Linden as Barbara, and noted Carry On star Roy Castle as Ian. Peter Cushing OBE Cushing (left) in the television adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four in the winter of 1954 on BBC Television. ... Roberta Tovey (born 9 August 1953 in Shepherds Bush, London) is an English actress who has appeared in many films and television programmes. ... Jennie Linden (born 8 December 1939 in Worthing) is an English film and television actress. ... The Carry On films were a long-running series of British popular low-budget comedy films, directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers. ... Roy Castle OBE (born August 31, 1932 in Scholes, near Holmfirth; died September 2, 1994) was a British dancer, singer, comedian, actor and musician. ...

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Plot

Dr. Who and his granddaughters, Susan and Barbara, show Barbara's new boyfriend Ian his invention, a time machine called Tardis. Ian accidentally activates the machine, which takes them to the planet Skaro, home to the peaceful Thals and the deadly Daleks. Susan Foreman is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Barbara Wright is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and a companion of the First Doctor. ... Ian Chesterton is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and a companion of the First Doctor. ... Time travel is a concept that has long fascinated humanity—whether it is Merlin experiencing time backwards, or religious traditions like Mohammeds trip to Jerusalem and ascent to heaven, returning before a glass knocked over had spilt its contents. ... Skaro from space (from the 1996 Doctor Who television movie. ... The Thals are a fictional race of humanoid aliens from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, originating on the planet Skaro. ... The Daleks (pronounced DAH-lecks; IPA: ) are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

The group get radiation sickness from the planet's surface. Whilst exploring an apparently abandoned city, they are captured by the Daleks who live there. They escape and are cured by the Thals, by anti-radition drugs they have invented. The Daleks, wanting to leave their city to wipe out the Thals, trick the Thals into trading the drugs for food (due to a famine in the Thals' settlement), but the Daleks kill all the Thals who go to collect the food. Radiation poisoning, also called radiation sickness, is a form of damage to organic tissue due to excessive exposure to ionizing radiation. ... A famine is a social and economic crisis that is commonly accompanied by widespread malnutrition, starvation, epidemic and increased mortality. ...

Dr. Who then convinces the Thals to attack the Dalek city, which they do, killing all of the Daleks inside, and stopping the nuclear bomb the Daleks were preparing to dentonate to kill the Thals. Dr. Who, Susan, Ian and Barbara leave in Tardis, but end up not back in London, but an unknown destination. The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945 lifted nuclear fallout some 18 km (60,000 feet) above the epicenter. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

Changes from the series

Several changes were made to the main characters. Cushing's Dr. Who is an Earth-born scientist and inventor who built Tardis (not the TARDIS as in the television show), his time travelling ship. Cushing plays the Doctor as an amiable and absent-minded inventor, in contrast to William Hartnell's more prickly and mysterious persona. Barbara and Susan are now both his granddaughters (with their surname presumably being Who, not Foreman or Wright). Ian Chesterton is now Barbara's bumbling boyfriend, and the entire subplot of them being Susan's teachers is dropped. Ian is the comic relief in the film, rather than the heroic version seen in The Daleks. Dr. Who is a character in two films made by AARU Productions in the 1960s based on the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... The Third Doctor emerging from the TARDIS in the 1970 serial Spearhead from Space. ... Time travel is a concept that has long fascinated humanity—whether it is Merlin experiencing time backwards, or religious traditions like Mohammeds trip to Jerusalem and ascent to heaven, returning before a glass knocked over had spilt its contents. ... William Hartnell in a publicity still as the First Doctor William Henry Hartnell (January 8, 1908–April 23, 1975), a British actor, was the first actor to play the lead role of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1963 to 1966. ... The Daleks (also known as The Mutants, among other titles, see below) is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast weekly from 21 December 1963 to 1 February 1964. ...

Because of this departure from the established continuity of the television series, this film is generally not considered canon, although attempts have been made in various spin-off media to fit it in. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Doctor Who spin-offs refers to material created outside of, but related to, the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Notes

• Originally, the Daleks were going to have flamethrowers; but these were vetoed (for fear of being too frightening, and also health and safety reasons) and replaced with smoke-projectors.
• The Daleks were slightly redesigned from their appearance in the television series. Several of the movie Dalek models were purchased by the BBC and used in the serial The Chase. As the film was not released until after The Chase, this film actually marks the Daleks' second appearance.
• David Whitaker novelised the original television serial in 1964 as Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (later retitled Doctor Who and the Daleks). Although not strictly a novelisation of the film, there are some similiaries in that the book has Ian joining the TARDIS crew for the first time as he does here (even though he actually joined the Doctor in a previous serial in the television version).

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Trivia

• In the film Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (co-written by long-time Doctor Who contributor Bob Baker), a marquee is briefly seen advertising "Dr. Hoe and the Garlics", a reference to this film.
• The 2004 Doctor Who conventions, Dr. Who and the Daleks and Dr. Who and the Daleks II were named after this film, despite focussing upon the television series.

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External links

• Doctor Who Reference Guide entry for the film