"THEY MUST CONTINUE TO BELIEVE THERE ARE ONLY FOUR OF US!" The Daleks may be the supreme masters of the universe but they have yet to master the art of WHISPERING!
The Daleks are at their best when they are at some sort of disadvantage - because that's when they are forced to be devious, sneaky and clever; when they can't simply go around shouting "Exterminate". The Dalek here says "We will co-operate until the creatures are no longer useful to us". It's why Power of the Daleks is such a good story. The true power of the Daleks is their clever ruthlessness, they don;t just rely on their guns, they are smart and exploit situations and enemy weaknesses to their own advantage.
+EditorOfSL In this serial there was only one voice actor for the Daleks: Michael Wisher. In most serials there are usually two. Remembrance is the only one with 4.
One of my favorite Doctor Who stories. It had everything: daleks, alien cult religion, rational aliens who reject the cult, heroic humans, a gruff, suspicious human who heroically sacrifices himself, and the doctor who tells the victors not to tell their story in a way that makes war seem like fun. I love how the writers and characters provided an pro-peace message without beating people over the head with it. Something the new writers could learn from.
...and don't forget the score - the music written for this story is genuinely scary and other worldly, some of the best ever to appear in Doctor Who (and that's saying something)
Just so everyone knows, the target model not shown at about 3:13 was a small model TARDIS they were shooting at. The Daleks keep little TARDISes for target practice!
Isn't it bizarre that on colour TV they switched to black and white daleks for an entire serial xD all that money wasted on baby blue paint in the 60's
PandaInAction ♐ like how actors on stage wear makeup to avoid being drowned out by the lighting, props were painted during the black and white days to avoid the same sort of overexposure 🙂
Until the bronze ones started being able to set people who touch them on fire or crush their skulls with their plungers. Then there was the hyperaggressive octopods they became in that one serial when they were exposed to the air…
@@boeloevanboeloefontein what it comes to murder and destruction the Daleks are the best some of them survived in pig stomachs and stained-glass casings.
Not at all. Both are attention disorders, but adhd brings hyperactivity. A.D.D=Attention Deficit Disorder A.D.H.D=Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. A.D.D Does not cause trouble standing still, just make you bored more easily and make you more easy to distract. A.D.H.D will make you struggle to say sit still or listen for longer periods of time and also make impulsive decisions. The strengths of these symptoms will vary from person to person, for example: I have A.D.D, but I rarely experience boredom and have no Issue with doing nothing for hours, but I can get distracted fairly easily.
Wow seeing this makes me wish there was a story like this is modern times. There could be a lot of fun in a story where a Dalek and the Doctor have to work together.
I like the way the Daleks are portrayed in this serial, hateful, xenophobic, but once you take away their killing power they become cowardly and easily cowed by logic and an imposing presence. They are little green blobs with tentacles inside those machines, so to them humans must seem very big and scary when they can't kill them with a single blast.
It's a weird change from the 60s Daleks who would physically dominate people by speaking over them, pushing them up against walls, and demanding they verbally confirm they understood what the Daleks were saying. We never really got Daleks like that again - even with the reboot.
@sword4005 The novelizations of the old stories seem to have the Daleks be somewhat more polite. In the Invasion of Earth novelization, I don't even think they yell. They just seem mildly annoyed.
These silver daleks were the first I ever saw and still my faves. Love the way they are truly in a jam just like the humans. Tense daleks are the best daleks.
@@cindervee478 i dont think that counts when it was covered in so much dirt and was just in the background, like practically every classic dalek in that story. That episode was a disappointment despite the amazing idea of a dalek asylum
Controversial opinion I'd say these daleks are probably one of the best dalek designs in the history of doctor who. If they ended up redesigning the daleks sometime in the future and used this silver/black colour scheme. I'd be alright with that
I remember seeing these at the boys and girls exhibition at Olympia, they petrified the life out of me. I was about 8 or 9 at the time. They still frighten me.
@@minicle426 I highly doubt it, that method used very long exposure times for each individual frame and probably wouldn't have been possible to achieve outside on a location shoot
The music was the only weak point of this story. I kind of like this take on the Daleks you actually see them attempt a scientific survey etc showing that there were some brains to them not just shouting maniacs. It has a hark back to the 60s about it.
The music was great, real character especially when sarah finds the city, really evocative. I would also say the Dalek theme was appropriate for what they were in this story.
@@almanacofsleep Yeah, I always loved the soundtrack as a standout. The Exxilon chanting, the 'trundling' Dalek theme, and the piece that plays when the city is destroyed. Brilliant.
Yeah, why weren't they completely incapacitated? The shell is completely electronic right? If Cybermen were on this planet they should start dying immediately.
The Dalek casings move by telekinesis and the eyestalks are hooked directly into the brains of the Dalek mutants. Only their weapons required a non-biological power source.
I remember seeing these on PBS as a child in the 80’s. I thought they looked a little cheap. I was too young to appreciate the writing. Now I see this as more entertaining than the big budget Marvel and StarWars exploitation content simply because they are genuine.
I like the 'time war dalek' design but was never sure about its copper colour, which felt like some trendy nod towards a steampunk aesthetic. Giving it more of an iron colour would have fit better with show's history.
@@cindervee478 Yes and no. Yes because they were a new design but no because they failed as they were hideous for regular daleks. As leader daleks they look great but for standard drones nah not at all. To me daleks need to have the class shape theyve had since 1963 all the way to the bronze daleks. every new iteration needs a new design but on the same shape. So new designed slats, new eye, dome, fender, etc. Some fan ones are amazing and 10x better than the paradigm ones
The sound from the failed extermination at the start. Then I realised. 'Keep away! Keep away!' The daleks panicked though still tried to control the situation with their so called power rhetoric.
I’ve just figured out why the Dalek spaceship looks odd. It’s actually a very small model & the camera filming this is so close to the spaceship that the front entrance is in focus, but the sloping sides from its top are out of focus.
Another planet that looks like a disused quarry in the south of England... in winter. Interesting! Also, love how Dalek ship interiors uses rivets. Presumably they have mastered welding but just love the retro rivet look.
And the "Earth Creatures" apparently DIDN'T overhear the Daleks, clearly within earshot, plotting to double-cross them? 😂😂😂 Moral of the story: Never trust a Dalek! Even one suffering weaponry malfunction!
mlhill2002 well..no it was made to be a family show not adult. I do agree that the show needs to drop the sitcom and cbbc level of humour moffats era had though
My memory blurred this with Colony in Space. And like... can you blame me? Both John Pertwe episodes on a planet that looks like a quarry with weird alien cavemen in the background.
The beacon on the City was responsible for the power block. The city dies at the end of the story. I am currently reading the novel and I have the story on DVD. The inside of the City is seen. The Dalek's voice originate from a Translator Unit which amplifies the Creature's thoughts. The domes on the Dalek's lower panels are Sense Globes. The discs behind the eye unit are insulators which protects the eye mechanism from cosmic rays.
She is supposed to be terrified, but did anyone else notice that at :09 Mark, as she is hiding her face, that woman has a look of amusement on her face?
Great at cleaning blocked drains too ...come with the drain suction cup as an accessory in those days .... Chickens weren't safe though ...Eggs Terminate , Eggs Terminate ..
I got this episode for my birthday and I liked it. I don't know if anyone knew this, but the guy voicing the Daleks in this episode later went on to play Davros in Genesis of the Daleks. 0:31-0:37 I just noticed that in the 2005 episode, Dalek, the 9th Doctor and the Dalek said something similar to these lines. Maybe the script writer took some inspiration from this.
Ninth Doctor: It's not working... Fantastic! Oh, FANTASTIC! Powerless! Look at you. The great space dustbin. HOW DOES IT FEEL!? The Third Doctor is notably confident here but not even he realizes the threat the Daleks can become. He had no clue about the devastation the Time War would bring half a dozen regenerations later. The Ninth Doctor was scared of his life when he faced the Metaltron Dalek (a single Dalek) before realizing that it was powerless. Once he realized this, he acts much colder, spiteful, and full of hatred over that Dalek, something that the Third Doctor wouldn't even expect to react to it in that time. Comparing the tone here to that of "The Last Dalek in the Universe" shows how much had changed since then.
Indeed, I remember a scene in ‘trial of the Doctor’ where the 6th Doctor mentions Daleks along with other forces like the Cybermen, Sontarans as not as threatening as the Time Lords…but then the Time War started with the Daleks against the Time Lords. In the final days, Daleks were overpowering Gallifrey’s defenses which lead to the Fall of Arcadia. The Daleks were slowly becoming the Doctor’s greatest threat
Mummies wrestling with Daleks.....what more could you want?.I remember this from first time around......and silver Daleks always look best.....no contest
Is no one going to mention Sarah in a swim suit? I loved how she proudly proclaimed "I can sink anywhere!" when the Doctor said she couldn't sink because the water was effervescent.
I didn't see that in this clip. (I have not seen the entire episode.) Trust me, if I had seen Sarah Jane in a bathing suit, I would have commented.😁 I had such a crush on her back in the day!😎
So we just gonna ignore the fact that the one Dalek in the background never moves. It looks like they had four props but only three people to pilot those props.
Ah, the best Dalek stories are always the ones where they are angry, vicious, resentful, sneaky, neurotic and hate filled. Also this was their most stylish corporate image.
