Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks - REVIEW - Dalekcember 

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The candy mans an evil 1970s villain!!! He's so menacing that even he intimidated the daleks! Now does he have cyanide in the candy?🤔

Should of been day of the ..... ogrons

Just a note. You said Evil aired in 1963 instead of 1967.

@@404TVfr shut up.

Would have to agree. The SE is far superior and Nic Briggs does and amazing job at improving the Daleks' voices.

I think watching the original version first creates a bad first impression

Absolutely agree. The SE is the one to watch.

I've never understood why people like the SE. The special effects are dreadful. The only good additions are the new voices and the additional Daleks and scenes from the battle section. They still manage to ruin it with dreadful sound effects and rubbish out of place laser effects. And don't get me started on the CGI city. These changes should've been subtle, unfortunately they stick out like a sore thumb

I bought the special edition as well, the voices are much better

It's amazing how you can watch a video 100s of times before and upload and still mess up a line -_- aha

The 1972 audience were confused how Aubrey Woods went from Bill the Candy Store Owner in Willy Wonka, to a villain helping the Daleks in Doctor Who.

I don't understand the poor rep this story has either. Nu-Who would have us believe you can conquer an entire planet with a single dalek. The story had so much to it the daleks are more of a cherry on the top of the sci-fi cake. The exchanges between Pertwee's Doctor and the Controller are a particular high point in my opinion.

Because the story was hemmed in, and did not had time to contract the normal voice actors of the Daleks. The producers almost got into serious legal trouble with Terry Nation for writing a Dalek story behind Nation's back. BBC noticed they need a season opening "hook" and went with the Daleks. The original bad guys were the Ogrons, but the Daleks got added to the scripts very late.

@@UnchainedAmericaThanks for the explaination!. I still enjoyed it, The Ogrons would have been boring on their own. Also Terry Nation wasn't that interesting a writer

James Bond wore similar outfits in 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service including the frilly front shirt.

I'm just imagining the Third Doctor saying "Oh yeah baby!"

This was the first Target book I bought. Yeah, TV budgets meant it didn't live up to everything that Louis Mark's wrote but I think it more than makes up for it with regard to the performances. Particularly, the exchanges between Pertwee's Doctor and the Controller.

Exactly.

And the politics in these stories were just part of the story. The Doctor didn't lecture or belabour the point. Kids saw an exciting story, whether it involved guerillas or striking miners, and the adults watching could see the contemporary references if they chose to do so. Subtlety is a sign of superior writing. Nobody likes being lectured to in an entertainment programme.

In the sequence where the Daleks are coming out of the tunnel, those Daleks are absolutely CGI. The ones on the battlefield itself are real props, but they have been digitally inserted into the old footage.

I don't understand the poor rep this story has. Nu-Who would have us believe you can conquer an entire planet with a single dalek. The story had so much to it the daleks are more of a cherry on the top of the sci-fi cake.

Just try to get that Dalek to say squirrel.

Definitely, though sadly not in the face of great competition on that score. I think this is a generally very underrated story just because there's clearly only a few daleks. But the story has so much to it that I don't think it's a detrimental as many people make out. The scene between Pertwee's Doctor and the Controller is particularly memorable, in my opinion at least.

That sucks, but Curse of Peladon is more of a classic than Day of the Daleks. Those stories you mentioned were the first three I ever saw, and Curse is by far the one I have the most vivid and fond memories of.

According to Terrance Dicks, that was an editing error.

..and now we have Starmer, the most realistic robot of all

Nu-Who claims a single dalek is enough to dominate an entire planet. Fortunately, the daleks are just the cherry on the top of the Doctor cake. The story has so much going for it anyway.

I mean...it's not really an excuse so much as it is a statement of fact.

MrTARDISreviews oh I’m with you there. I mean I personally hate the Chibnall era but I’d never say the series wasn’t political before he came along, I mean it was obvious from day one.

Yeah, even the original Daleks story was as subtle with 'Nazism is bad' as Winston Churchill bashing your face in with a brick. The Daleks literally state 'We will not adapt to the environment, we wil adapt the environment to suit us.' Also, must agree again, the series, even recently, has never been anti-male, the Hell Bent example comes across more as that particular guy was egotistical, and she was more used to being female.

Your comment just reeks of completely missing the point of media and comes across comical when you're responding to a video series about Dalek stories. Stories which are DIRECTLY influenced by political parties with stories based on current (at the time) political issues. DW has ALWAYS /forced/ politics in. It's how sci-fi works and resonates and it's what media does; draws inspiration from current political and social events.

@@MrTARDIS I know, but my point was it's subtlety that made the best points. Eg Daleks are perfect alien representations of Facism, I assume we agree? Just as Cybermen are the perfect alien representations of Communism, all Cybermen are absolutely equal to each other, both sides are Tyrannical of course, one because of pure Xenophobia, the other because they're making everybody exactly like them. My complaint is that the subtlety is /gone/ when in the new series you get things like Arachnids in the UK, which the writing etc aside, having somebody that's as literally Trump as you can possibly get, is anything but subtle. Look at Davros! In many senses he's the stand in for Hitler, leader of the Facists, but does he look or act like him? I mean the only reason I grew up Politically neutral was Dr. Who, with the basic and easy to grasp concept of 'Beware the Extremes' because as we both know, there are some corners of the Universe, which have bred the most terrible things. Things that act against everything that we believe in, they must be fought. The BBC have an affirmative action hiring policy... Their motivation for hiring people is entirely racial, they're using literal Identity Politics as a hiring practice.... I find it fascinatingly terrifying that many Dr. Who fans don't actually know this, despite how easy and openly accessible this information is, or they don't care lol. Just remember, I'm neutral Politically, I'm sickened by both sides, just confused by Intelligent people who still have a side.

@@suddenlyfrogs9504, for the Cybermen they're not intended to be a stand-in for communism. Creators Kit Pedler and Gerry Davies saw them as a "science-gone-too-far" concept with cybernetics and augmentation which was a new thing in the 1960s. However, you can read communism into their creation...in other words, you're NOT politically neutral and you're also reading politics into a piece of media in a subjective way. Which is completely counter to what you're complaining about. The subtlety of politics in Doctor Who was never there. You bring up Davros in that story who may be the leader of a fascist group but he's not remotely like Hitler. Remember, the Kaleds do Nazi-salutes, recruit boy-soldiers and Nyder even wears a Nazi Iron Cross on his Uniform (no joke). The Happiness Patrol was based on Thatcherism. The Sun Makers was about government taxes. Planet of the Ood was about slavery (a political issue). "The BBC have an affirmative action hiring policy" - I'd like to take this opportunity to inform you that I work in the media/TV industry. I am a cis white straight male who works in media. Basically, according to people who complain at every opportunity that the BBC only hire people based on race and that most or all the white cis straight males have been axed from the company, I do not exist. Please do not try and explain my own industry to me.

@@MrTARDIS RE: The Cybermen creation part. I know that full well, my point was intentions or not, the Daleks deliberately represented Facism, the intent of the Cybermen doesn't matter, just like the intentions of people who want equality of outcome, doesn't matter, the Cybermen /ARE/ literally, in every way the embodiment of Equality of Outcome, which is (Ignoring the details and people's intentions) what Communism and it's incestual Cousin, Socialism aim for in the long run and cause, and they always have good intentions and manage to demonize classes of people, in the modern era we have this /exact/ problem, people who use the term 'Cis, White Man' think they're being anti racist and inclusive, when anti racist doesn't exist, it's just racism and the inclusivity factor's gone completely bonkers, I'm far from the only person who's noticed this, taken a long time to uninvest from the media forcing this down our throats and get annoyed enough to become known as the Fandom Menace, the angry fans sick to death of forced Politics, I mean all the examples you gave are agreed, very good examples of Political comparisons to today, or a time in history, but we clearly disagree that these cases are subtle, none of the new series is subtle. So, I'd now also like to point out to you that you didn't state that you work for the BBC, just in the TV/Media business, so I assume you mean you work somewhere other than the BBC? because they're far from the be all, end all of television, and I honestly hope the Beeb's License fee is scraped, so they get a more accurate feedback from their viewers. I mean can you name a current, modern drama series on the BBC, that doesn't present a straight white guy as anything other than Evil, Moronically Stupid, or both? Look at Star Wars! They've started flopping, from the Last Jedi onwards for /precisely/ the same reason the Dr. Who fanbase is so divided, because 99% of those against new Who, aren't sexist or racist, they're just told they are by Corporations and their Shill Cybermen, who don't seem to understand how partisan they've become. Same thing happened to me, until I decided I was sick of being insulted on a regular basis, by my all time favourite TV show and movies (Star Wars) Dividing the audience into 2 clear camps proves it's the writing, when one side is Partisan and complains that the other side are sexist and racist, while that side are just saying they want consistency and cannonicity. I mean look at Whittaker, she'd have made an amazing Romana, just like Michelle Gomez would have been as good a Rani as Kate O'Mara was, if only she didn't play it so comically, but /nooo/ change the past, the past is wrong. or to quote Rian Neo Marxist Johnson 'Let the past die, kill it if you have to'. Changing genders, races or even age, is just an excuse for lack of imagination or faith in new characters and ideas, which clearly doesn't work when mixed with the kill the past ideology. Also, the use of the word 'Cis' is so clearly partisan, that I'm done here. I'd sooner get a laugh out of a Cyberman, than stop a Corporate Shill from being racist... about themselves. Merit, that's how you get decent stories, not because they are, or aren't a race. That's racism, 101. I'm done here.

David Andrews tbh I think it’s a parody of some Doctor Who fans.

"Keep the politics out of it!" Mate, this story is about the IRA and "freedom fighters". Get out of here.

@@MrTARDIS No it's not you fool! Bloody Sunday happened after this was even broadcast! Anyway do something about your boring voice!

@@rafflesxyz4800 Bloody Sunday happened after this story was made, but the IRA had been around for a few years. There are literally interviews with the showrunners/writers on the DVD saying "Yes, this episode was inspired by the IRA". Do something about your terrible opinions.

@@rafflesxyz4800 Read actual history mate, show some goddamn respect to Bloody Sunday and shut your trap.

@@SavageBroadcast / Piss off and don't call me "mate!"

When has Current Who ever called you a "phobe or racist"?