Dalek

:For other uses, see Dalek (disambiguation).

Other appearances

Two Doctor Who movies starring Peter Cushing featured the Daleks as the main villains: Dr. Who and the Daleks, and Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD, based on the television serials The Daleks and The Dalek Invasion of Earth, respectively. However, the movies were not straight remakes. Cushing's Doctor is not an alien, but a human inventor, and is literally named "Doctor Who." The movies used brand new Dalek props, based closely on the original design but with a wider range of colours. Originally, the movie Daleks were supposed to shoot jets of flame, but this was thought to be too graphic for children, so their weapons emitted jets of deadly vapour instead.

Related Topics:
Peter Cushing - Dr. Who and the Daleks - Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD

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Nation also authorised the publication of the comic strip The Daleks in the comic TV Century 21. The one-page strip (written by David Whitaker but credited to Nation) featured the Daleks as protagonists and "heroes", and continued for two years, from their creation of the mechanised Daleks by the humanoid Dalek scientist Yarvelling to their eventual discovery in the ruins of a crashed space-liner of the co-ordinates for Earth, which they proposed to invade. Although much of the material in these strips directly contradicted what was shown on television later, some concepts like the Daleks using humanoid duplicates and the design of the Dalek Emperor did show up later on in the programme. In 1994, the UK arm of Marvel Comics reprinted all the TV 21 strips in a collected edition titled The Dalek Chronicles.

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TV Century 21 - David Whitaker - Earth - Dalek Emperor - 1994 - UK arm - Marvel Comics

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Marvel UK was publishing Doctor Who Magazine at the time, which included comic strip stories in its pages. Aside from meeting up with the Doctor in them, the DWM strips also introduced a new nemesis for the Daleks, the Dalek Killer named Abslom Daak. Daak was a convicted criminal in the 25th century who was given the choice between execution and being sent on a suicide mission against the Daleks. He chose the latter and, when the woman he loved was killed by the Daleks, made it his life's purpose to kill every Dalek he came across.

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Marvel UK - Doctor Who Magazine - Abslom Daak - 25th century

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The Daleks' popularity extended to books, stage shows and television programmes. Daleks have been the subject of many parodies, including Spike Milligan's "Pakistani Dalek" sketch in his comedy series Q, and Victor Lewis-Smith's gay Daleks. To an extent, Doctor Who itself has also parodied the Daleks from time to time. In 2002, BBC Worldwide published The Dalek Survival Guide, a parody of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbooks.

Related Topics:
Parodies - Spike Milligan - Q - Victor Lewis-Smith - Gay - 2002 - BBC Worldwide - The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook

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The Daleks have also appeared in the Dalek Empire series of audio plays by Big Finish Productions, of which three mini-series of 4 CDs each have so far been produced and saw the return of the original Dalek Emperor. They have also returned to bedevil the Doctor in Big Finish's Doctor Who line of audio plays.

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In the 2003 film , two Cushing movie-style Daleks made a cameo appearance in the "Area 52" segment amidst many famous "old-time" movie monsters. A Dalek also appears (along with the Lost in Space robot) in a 2005 television advertisement for the Australian ANZ Bank. A recent British Kit Kat advertisement features a squad of Daleks who have joined a group of Hare Krishna devotees, rolling through a shopping centre while repeatedly chanting "Peace and love!" in their distinctive voices. In the Teen Titans animated series episode "Homecoming, Pt. 1", the supervillain the Brain is housed in a conical mobile casing, the lower half of which resembles a Dalek, complete with bumps.

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2003 - Area 52 - Lost in Space - 2005 - ANZ Bank - Kit Kat - Hare Krishna - Teen Titans - Brain

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In the Red Dwarf A-Z (a collection of popular Red Dwarf gags, with commentaries by famous fans and the cast and crew), two Daleks are shown (in the Exterminate section, of course), arguing that all Earth television is human propaganda, and the works more commonly attributed to William Shakespeare and Ludwig van Beethoven were actually written by Daleks. After this one of them begins talking about past episodes of Red Dwarf, and is promptly exterminated for the crime of "not behaving like a true Dalek."

Related Topics:
Red Dwarf - William Shakespeare - Ludwig van Beethoven

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A second series episode of the BBC Radio 4 science fiction comedy Nebulous, Destiny of the Destinyod, is similar to the title of the Dalek serial Destiny of the Daleks. Nebulous is co-written by Dalek voice actor Nicholas Briggs and also features comedian and Doctor Who writer Mark Gatiss.

Related Topics:
BBC Radio 4 - Science fiction - Comedy - Nebulous - Destiny of the Daleks - Mark Gatiss

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