The Daleks are the most evil creatures in the universe. Welsh writer Terry Nation created the Daleks as an allegory for the Nazis, fascism, xenophobia, racism and ethnic cleansing, drawing on his own experiences during World War II. This is very apparent in Genesis of the Daleks, a story that contains overtones of Nazi Germany. The Daleks believe that they are superior to all other life forms in the universe. The Daleks are the most iconic and the oldest monster in Doctor Who, first appearing way back in 1963 in the show’s second ever TV story. The UK general public sees the Daleks as being synonymous with Doctor Who. Doctor Who and the Daleks are like fish & chips or rock & roll. You can’t have Doctor Who without the Daleks. However, the mutant Daleks bring nothing but death and destruction and they are the Doctor’s arch enemy. The Daleks and the Cybermen are the most iconic Doctor Who monsters! It often seems that not even the Doctor can stop The Dalek Conquests of the universe.
The Daleks
★★★★☆
TX: 21/12/1963 – 01/02/1964
Written by Terry Nation Directed by Christopher Barry & Richard Martin
The First Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara land on Skaro, a planet poisoned by the radiation fallout of a nuclear war. Beyond a petrified jungle, the time travellers discover a metal city. The inhabitants of this city are the most evil creatures in the cosmos: the Daleks. The mutated Daleks retreated inside the city following a war with the Thals, some of which have survived outside the city. The Daleks capture the Doctor and his companions. But the time travellers fight back and escape after discovering that the Daleks are powered by static electricity. After conducting experiments, the mutated Daleks (encased in metal shells) realise that they are also dependent on radiation. The Daleks decide to detonate another nuclear bomb in order to wipe out the Thals and also provide themselves with more radiation. Ian persuades the Thals to mount an attack on the city to stop the Daleks and to rescue the recaptured Doctor and Susan. The Thals prevail and the Daleks are destroyed. The Doctor recovers the fluid link from his TARDIS and he and his companions depart.
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
★★★★★
TX: 21/11/1964 – 26/12/1964
Written by Terry Nation Directed by Richard Martin
The First Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara arrive in London, Earth in the year 2164, a few years after the planet was invaded and enslaved by the Daleks. The fascistic Daleks plan to hollow out the Earth’s core and replace it with a giant motor so that they can pilot the planet anywhere in the universe and invade other planets. A fissure in the Earth’s crust has been located beneath the ground in Bedfordshire, UK, so the Daleks force human slaves to mine there. The Doctor and his companions eventually make it to the mines in Bedfordshire, battling many Daleks along the way. In the control room, the Doctor orders the Robomen (cybernised human slaves) to turn on the Daleks and destroy them. In the ensuing carnage, Ian manages to divert the Dalek bomb sent down to expand the fissure in the Earth’s crust. The Daleks are overthrown by the human race. Susan elects to stay behind on Earth as she has fallen in love with a man called David Campbell. After hastily reconsidering her decision, the Doctor takes the matter out of her hands and tells her that she needs to forge a new life on Earth. But that “one day [he] shall come back”…
The Chase
★★★★☆
TX: 22/05/1965 – 26/06/1965
Written by Terry Nation Directed by Richard Martin
The Daleks locate the First Doctor and his companions on the planet Aridius. The Daleks have developed their own form of time travel. The Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki locate the Daleks on the TARDIS’s Space-Time Visualiser. The chase is on as the Daleks pursue the TARDIS through time and space. The Daleks even make a robot copy of the Doctor along the way! The time travellers land on the Mary Celeste, the top of the Empire State Building and a haunted house attraction before finally reaching the planet Mechanus. Mechanus was considered for colonisation before the plans were abandoned. A group of spherical robots called Mechanoids and a man called Steven Taylor were left behind on the planet. The Doctor and his companions decide to make Mechanus their final battleground against the Daleks. The Daleks and the flame-throwing Mechanoids fight each other, with both sides being destroyed in the process. Ian and Barbara find the Dalek’s space-time machine and decide to use it to return to London 1965, much to the Doctor’s disappointment. The Doctor leaves with Vicki and Steven, dejected that his two friends Ian and Barbara have left him.
Mission to the Unknown
★★★★★
TX: 09/10/1965
Written by Terry Nation Directed by Derek Martinus
A summit of aliens allied with the Daleks meets on the planet Kembel to plan their invasion of the galaxy. But a special agent called Marc Cory has witnessed this. He tries to send a message to Earth, warning them about the coming invasion. But he is exterminated by the Daleks before he can send it. His crew mates are killed by Varga plants that are native to the Dalek’s homeworld of Skaro. It seems that nothing can stop the Daleks this time!
The Daleks’ Master Plan
★★★★★
TX: 13/11/1965 – 29/01/1966
Written by Terry Nation & Dennis Spooner Directed by Douglas Camfield
A full em of Terranium (the rarest mineral in existence) is provided by Mavic Chen to be the core of the Time Destructor. The Daleks meet with various other allied alien races on the planet Kembel to prepare for an invasion of Earth’s galaxy. The First Doctor steals the Terranium and escapes in Chen’s ship with Steven and Katarina. After it takes off, a stowaway takes Katarina hostage. Katarina activates the airlock door and ejects them both into space, where they die. The Daleks and Mavic Chen pursue the Doctor and his companions across time and space, including Ancient Egypt, a Hollywood film set and the planet Mira. Along the way, the Doctor and his friends encounter the Meddling Monk again, who seeks revenge after the Doctor left him stranded (The Time Meddler). The Monk is forced to work with Chen and the Daleks, and they take Steven and Sara captive, forcing the Doctor to relinquish the real core. The Doctor steals the Monk’s directional control, leaving him stranded. On Kembel, the Daleks end their alliance with Chen. He captures Steven and Sara and takes them to the Dalek base. When he tries to give orders to the Daleks, they kill him. The Doctor steals the Time Destructor, which activates. Sara is aged into dust and killed, while Steven and the Doctor survive and reach the TARDIS. The Daleks try to destroy the Time Destructor but it kills them, wiping out all life on the planet. The Doctor and Steven remark on the senseless deaths of Bret, Katarina, and Sara.
The Power of the Daleks
★★★★★
TX: 5/11/1966 – 10/12/1966
Written by David Whitaker Directed by Christopher Barry
The newly regenerated Second Doctor, Ben and Polly arrive in the TARDIS on the planet Vulcan, home to a human colony. “Life depends on change, and renewal.” Posing as an Earth examiner sent to assess the colony, the Doctor discovers that the colony’s political situation is about to reach a critical point. A revolution is imminent. Added to this dilemma, the colony’s chief scientist, Lesterson, has discovered a nearby space capsule containing three inert Daleks. This story thoroughly examines the Daleks’ cunning ability to exploit human greed and scientific curiosity. Lesterson’s fascination with obtaining knowledge from the Daleks ultimately not only leads to his own downfall, but the extermination of almost everyone in the colony. The more power that Lesterson gives them, the more Daleks are created in the Dalek laboratory. Soon, a huge Dalek army emerges from the ship, ready to wipe out the colonists. Lesterson’s arrogance and scientific curiosity soon turn to mania as he accepts that his actions have brought about the end of the human colony. This diabolical massacre is only thwarted at the last moment, when the Doctor is able to overload the Daleks using the power supply given to them. The Doctor and his companions survived the Daleks to live another day… but only just. In Asylum of the Daleks, Oswin Oswald informs the Eleventh Doctor that the Daleks in the Intensive Care section of the Dalek Asylum are survivors of encounters with the Doctor on planets such as Vulcan… Spiridon, Kembel, Aridius and Exxilon. David Whittaker’s tightly scripted tale will go down as one of the most important serials in the entire history of Doctor Who. Had it not been for Patrick Troughton’s now definitive debut performance as the Doctor, the programme would not be the success that it continues to be today.
The Evil of the Daleks
★★★★★
TX: 20/05/1967 – 01/07/1967
Written by David Whittaker Directed by Derek Martinus
Following a trail after their stolen TARDIS, the Second Doctor and Jamie arrive at the Victorian home of Theodore Maxtible, scientist Edward Waterfield and his daughter Victoria. Waterfield and Theodore Maxtible experimented with time travel, which accidentally brought them into contact with the Daleks in 1866. The Daleks are trying to find the human factor, so they experiment on humans in the 19th Century.
The Daleks draft the Second Doctor into distilling the human factor in order for them to understand why they have always been defeated by humans in the past. After testing Jamie, the Dalek scientific group (Alpha, Beta and Omega) subject themselves to the human factor, which makes them regress into child-like states. The Doctor believes that he has won after gleefully riding on the back of one of the infected Daleks.
However, the Doctor and his companions are brought before the Emperor of the Daleks on the planet Skaro. The Dalek Emperor reveals that the test to find the human factor was actually a means of isolating the Dalek factor. Once implanted, the Dalek factor will make the Dalek race invincible. Holding the Doctor’s TARDIS as bait, the Dalek Emperor orders the Doctor to implant the Dalek Factor across the history of Earth. The Doctor manages to cause a civil war on the planet Skaro between the loyalist Daleks (plus human Daleks – including Maxtible) and the Daleks affected by the human factor. In the ensuing carnage, the Dalek Emperor is destroyed and the Doctor and his companions make their escape in the recovered TARDIS. Could this be “the Final End” of the Daleks (Victory of the Daleks)?
Day of the Daleks
★★★★☆
TX: 01/01/1972 – 22/01/1972
Written by Louis Marks Directed by Paul Bernard
The Daleks have invaded Earth in the 22nd Century (The Dalek Invasion of Earth). The Daleks have turned the Earth into a giant factory with all the wealth and minerals looted and taken to Skaro to expand the Dalek Empire. However, freedom fighters have travelled back in time to the 1970s to prevent the destruction of a peace conference (allegedly) by a man called Sir Reginald Styles. If the peace conference is destroyed it will lead to world war, weaken the Earth and therefore will allow the Daleks to invade. The Third Doctor, Jo and U.N.I.T are enlisted to protect the peace conference. Mike Yates demonstrates to Jo using Benton that Rank Has Its Privileges (R.H.I.P) (Empress of Mars)! But the Doctor and Jo are whisked off into the nightmarish future Earth, ruled over by the Daleks and their henchmen the Ogrons. The Doctor realises that the freedom fighters are trapped in a temporal paradox because one of their number set off the explosion that destroyed the peace conference and therefore started the wars in the first place. The Doctor, Jo and the freedom fighters return to the 1970s. U.N.I.T evacuates Auderly House and the delegates are rescued before they can be exterminated by a squad of Daleks and Ogrons, sent back to prevent history being changed, in a manner similar to the events of The Terminator franchise many years later. The Doctor and Jo find Shura in the cellar, where he tells them to get out. Shura detonates his explosive once all the humans are out of the house and once all the Daleks are inside it. History is therefore put back on track and the Dalek invasion in the 22nd Century is prevented.
Frontier in Space
★★★★☆
TX: 24/02/1973 – 31/03/1973
Written by Malcolm Hulke Directed by Paul Bernard
In the far future, the vast space empires of both Earth and Draconia are on the brink of war. This story is partly based on the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Tensions have been heightened due to recent attacks on Draconian spaceships by humans and by human attacks on Draconian spaceships. However, this is all a trick by the Master and the Ogrons, who have been using a device that causes hallucinations, which fools each side into believing that the other is attacking them. The Master and the Ogrons are trying to trigger a war between Earth and Draconia. The Third Doctor and Jo Grant escape capture multiple times, from the Ogrons, the Master, humans and the Lunar Penal Colony (also referenced in Bad Wolf). The Doctor and Jo finally make it to Draconia, where they manage to convince the Draconian Emperor that they are being fooled by the Master and the Ogrons into believing that the humans are their enemy. The Draconians are reptilian and they resemble samurai. Jo and the Doctor have saved the peace between Earth and Draconia. The Master kidnaps Jo and the Doctor and his friends follow them to the Ogron homeworld. There they discover that the Master and the Ogrons are being employed by the Daleks, who want to provoke the war so that they can emerge afterwards as the supreme beings. The Master escapes during a skirmish in which the Doctor is injured. Jo helps the Doctor into the TARDIS where the Doctor follows the Daleks’ signal to the planet Spiridon. The Doctor also uses the TARDIS’s telepathic circuits to send an emergency message to the Time Lords. This adventure leads directly into the events of Planet of the Daleks.
Planet of the Daleks
★★★★☆
TX: 07/04/1973 – 12/05/1973
Written by Terry Nation Directed by David Maloney
The Third Doctor and Jo follow the Daleks to the planet Spiridon. There they discover that the Daleks have been experimenting on the native Spiridons’ invisibility. A massive Dalek army beneath the surface of an ice volcano has been kept in suspended animation. The Daleks intend to make this army invisible and therefore invincible thanks to their experiments. The Doctor, Jo and a group of Thals from the planet Skaro make their way through Dalek control and also the ice volcano. The Dalek Supreme arrives on Spiridon to take control of the situation and activate the new invisible Dalek army. The Doctor and his companions decide to cause the ice volcano to erupt, which buries all the Daleks in molten ice. After making their goodbyes to the Thals, the Doctor and Jo narrowly avoid being exterminated by the surviving Supreme Dalek before escaping in the TARDIS.
Death to the Daleks
★★☆☆☆
TX: 23/02/1974 – 16/03/1974
Written by Terry Nation Directed by Michael E Briant
The planet Exxilon used to be home to a mighty civilisation. But after the inhabitants began to worship the incredible technology that they had created, civilisation on Exxilon went into decline. A vast city sits on Exxilon, with a beacon that draws power from any passing spaceship, causing them to crash. A group of humans have crash landed there, on a mission to mine an element called parrinium needed to fight a space plague. The TARDIS is drained too and the Doctor and Sarah-Jane arrive on the planet, whilst on their way to the planet Florana (Invasion of the Dinosaurs). The Doctor joins the human expedition who explain their situation to him. Not long after, a Dalek ship lands on Exxilon too. The Daleks’ weapons are useless because of the power drain. The Doctor and the humans are forced into an uneasy alliance with the disabled Daleks. Their task is to remove the power block from the city whilst the primitive Exxilons mine for the parrinium they all want. The Doctor and a native called Bellal navigate their way through the Exxilon city, avoiding many traps along the way. After the Doctor disables the power block, the Daleks reveal their true intentions. They plan to use the supply of parrinium to blackmail the great space powers to do what they want. However, a human called Galloway stows aboard the Dalek ship and destroys it with an explosive device. The Doctor and Sarah-Jane leave the humans to get the parrinium to those in need.
Genesis of the Daleks
★★★★★
TX: 08/03/1975 – 12/04/1975
Written by Terry Nation Directed by David Maloney
The Time Lords send the Fourth Doctor, Sarah-Jane and Harry back in time to the planet Skaro in order to prevent the Daleks from ever being created. Skaro is at the end of a thousand-year war between the Kaleds and the Thals. It is a war of attrition and both sides have been reduced to the level of trench warfare. However, the evil Kaled scientist Davros has decided the fate for his own race. They will become mutants encased inside a Mark III Travel Machine, later known as a ‘Dalek’. Davros’s servant Nyder and the other Kaled security officials are based on SS Officers and the whole story of Genesis of the Daleks is an allegory for Nazi Germany. Sadly, Trump’s America is the new Nazi Germany. Davros deliberately sacrifices his own people (by giving the Thals the formula to expose the Kaled city dome to their powerful rocket) thereby ending the war but also giving the perfect excuse to launch the Dalek programme. The Doctor realises that he needs to stop Davros. However, Davros is a disabled genius and he realises that the Doctor and his companions are from the future. Davros interrogates the Doctor about future Dalek defeats, providing him with vital knowledge about how to make the Daleks invincible. The Doctor, Sarah-Jane and Harry escape and the Doctor rigs the Dalek incubation chamber to explode. But, at the final moment, the Doctor can’t bring himself to destroy the Daleks because he doesn’t feel that he has the right to commit genocide and therefore become no better than the Daleks themselves. Does the Doctor have the right? I am always right! The racist Daleks turn on Davros and apparently kill their creator, because they refuse to accept any being as being superior to them. The Doctor, Sarah-Jane and Harry leave using the time ring given to them by the Time Lords. The Doctor consoles them by saying that he has at the very least delayed the Daleks’ evolution by a few thousand years. The Daleks were created by Terry Nation as an allegory for the Nazis and some fans have argued that Davros is also an allegory for Adolf Hitler. Steven Moffat revealed that the inspiration for Boom was from a scene in Genesis of the Daleks where the Fourth Doctor is standing on a landmine and he can’t move without Harry’s help.
Destiny of the Daleks
★★★☆☆
TX: 01/09/1979 – 22/09/1979
Written by Terry Nation Directed by Ken Grieve
The Daleks return to their home planet of Skaro in order to find their creator, Davros. The Daleks need Davros’ help to win a war with the robotic Movellans, who, like the Daleks, are slaves to logic. The Daleks need Davros to reprogram their battle computers so that they can outmanoeuvre the Movellans. But the Fourth Doctor and the newly regenerated Romana intervene and show to the Movellans that their stalemate with the Daleks is never-ending because they are both logical. Davros orders a squad of suicide Daleks to destroy the Movellan ship on Skaro, but the Doctor detonates their explosives before they can reach the ship. Davros is captured by rebels and placed into suspended animation.
The Five Doctors
★★★★★
TX: 25/11/1983
Written by Terrance Dicks Directed by Peter Moffatt
The first Five incarnations of the Doctor and some of their companions are brought to the Death Zone on Gallifrey to participate in the Game of Rassilon. Along the way, the Doctors and their companions fight familiar enemies, such as a Dalek, the Cybermen, the Master, a Yeti and the Raston Warrior Robot. The Fifth Doctor realises that there is a traitor on the High Council of the Time Lords: Borusa. Borusa frames the Castellan for his own misdemeanours. The Doctor unmasks Borusa as a traitor. Borusa intends to claim immortality from the legendary Rassilon inside Rassilon’s tomb. However, the Doctors realise that this a trick, as Borusa is sealed inside the tomb forever. The Doctors and their companions return to their proper places in time and space. Chancellor Flavia offers the Doctor the office of the Presidency of the Time Lords, but the Doctor turns this down and runs away in the TARDIS once again.
Resurrection of the Daleks
★★★★☆
TX: 08/02/1984 – 15/02/1984
Written by Eric Saward Directed by Matthew Robinson
The Daleks have lost the war to the Movellans (Destiny of the Daleks). The Movellans developed a virus that exclusively kills Daleks. The Daleks (with help from mercenaries like Lytton) now seek out Davros to find a cure. Lytton releases Davros from his prison and reveals to him the outcome of the Dalek-Movellan war. Outraged, Davros resolves to find a cure to the Movellan virus. Meanwhile, the Daleks make duplicates of the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough in order to send them to assassinate the High Council of the Time Lords on Gallifrey. The Doctor confronts Davros who deceives the Doctor into believing that he wants to reprogram the Daleks for good. Instead, Davros decides to wipe out the old Dalek order and create a new race of Daleks loyal to him. He releases a virus thinking himself immune to it, but this apparently kills him too, shortly before his ship explodes…
Revelation of the Daleks
★★★★★
TX: 23/03/1985 – 30/03/1985
Written by Eric Saward Directed by Graeme Harper
On the funeral planet of Necros, the Sixth Doctor decides to visit his old friend Arthur Stengos with his friend Peri. However, all is not well at Tranquil Repose – the mortuary that stores corpses on the planet. Davros has installed himself as the Great Healer at the facility. However, two members of Davros’ staff plan to have him assassinated by Orcini and his squire Bostock. Orcini was excommunicated from the Grand Order of Oberon. The Doctor, Peri and two other intruders discover that Davros is turning the bodies of the recently and nearly deceased at Tranquil Repose into a new race of Daleks. However, the original Daleks arrive to take Davros back to Skaro against his will. Orcini and his squire Bostok sacrifice themselves to try and destroy Davros, leaving just enough time for the Doctor and his friends to escape. But Orcini detonates his bomb too late to stop Davros’ ship. Revelation of the Daleks is loosely based on The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh.
Remembrance of the Daleks
★★★★★
TX: 05/10/1988 – 26/10/1988
Written by Ben Aaronovitch Directed by Andrew Morgan
A civil war has broken out on Skaro between two different Dalek factions: the Imperial Daleks (committed to racial purity) loyal to the Dalek Emperor (Davros) and the Renegade Daleks. The battleground moves to London, Earth in 1963. The Seventh Doctor and Ace have arrived there too because the Doctor wants to trick Davros into obtaining an ancient Time Lord artefact called the Hand of Omega. This remote stellar manipulator has the ability to destroy suns. The Doctor reprogrammed the device so that when Davros and the Imperial Daleks use the Hand, it destroys Skaro’s sun, Skaro and also Davros’s ship.
Dalek
★★★★★
TX: 30/04/2005
Written by Rob Shearman Directed by Joe Ahearne
The TARDIS is drawn off course by a signal that takes the Ninth Doctor and Rose to an underground base in Utah. The base is home to a private collection of extraterrestrial artefacts (including a Slitheen’s arm from Aliens of London/World War Three and a Cyberman head from Revenge of the Cybermen) owned by a powerful billionaire businessman called Henry Van Statten (who has similarities to Elon Musk, 20 years before his fame). Van Statten’s prized exhibit is what he calls a Metaltron. But the Doctor realises to his horror that it is in fact a Dalek, the most evil race in the universe. Van Statten interrogates the Doctor (Vengeance on Varos) because he is also an alien, but the Doctor warns him that the Dalek will exterminate everyone on Earth. The Daleks are motivated by racial hatred and they want to exterminate all non-Dalek lifeforms in the cosmos. The Doctor was unsuccessful in completely wiping out the Daleks during the Time War. Rose Tyler takes pity on the caged Dalek and touches it. Her DNA revives it because she is a time traveller. The Dalek gets loose and kills hundreds of Van Statten’s staff. After Rose is captured by the Dalek, the Doctor resolves to use an alien weapon in Van Statten’s archive to destroy it. But Rose persuades the Doctor to spare the Dalek as it is mutating as a result of absorbing Rose’s DNA and has therefore gone insane. The Dalek commits suicide rather than carry any further pain. Van Statten is sacked by his own PA. A boy genius called Adam, who worked for Van Statten, joins Rose and the Doctor in the TARDIS by stowing aboard. This is what another boy genius called Adric did in Full Circle and State of Decay. Billie Piper and Christopher Eccleston both give incredible performances in this fantastic episode. Eccleston is on the podium of Doctors!
Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways
★★★★★
TX: 11/06/2005 – 18/06/2005
Written by Russell T Davies Directed by Joe Ahearne
In the year 200,100, society on planet Earth has devolved to the point where the population simply sits and watches sadistic reality TV and game shows where the losing contestants are executed on live television for the entertainment of others. In reality, the unfortunate contestants are transported to a massive Dalek fleet hiding on the edge of Earth’s solar system, where they are harvested in order to become part of a new Dalek army. Led by the Dalek Emperor, who has survived the Time War, the Dalek fleet launches a devastating attack on the planet Earth. The Ninth Doctor, Captain Jack and other humans hopelessly mount a defence on the Game Station orbiting the Earth. The Doctor sends Rose Tyler back home to the present in the TARDIS to keep her safe. But Rose returns after she looks into the heart of the TARDIS and with the power of the time vortex she defeats the Dalek Emperor and the Daleks once and for all. The Doctor takes the power of the time vortex out of Rose by kissing her and he absorbs it himself. But the power is too much for the Doctor too and so this forces him to regenerate.
Army of Ghosts/Doomsday
★★★★★
TX: 01/07/2006 – 08/07/2006
Written by Russell T Davies Directed by Graeme Harper
The Tenth Doctor and Rose return to present day London to visit Rose’s mum Jackie. However, the world is overrun with ghosts that appear on regularly shifts thanks to the Torchwood Institute. The Doctor conducts experiments on a ghost to find its origin. Then he, Rose and Jackie travel to Torchwood’s headquarters in Canary Wharf to find out more. The head of Torchwood, Yvonne Hartman informs the Doctor that the secret Torchwood Institute was established in 1879 by Queen Victoria in order to combat extraterrestrial threats, including the Doctor (Tooth and Claw)! The Doctor discourages Torchwood from conducting further ghost shifts, as this is further fracturing the fabric between dimensions caused by the arrival a gigantic sphere kept in the base. The sphere is a void ship which contains the last surviving Daleks, the Cult of Skaro – a secret order created by the Dalek Emperor. The ghosts turn out to be Cybermen that have followed the void ship and crossed into our universe from a parallel world that the Doctor and Rose previously visited.
The Cybermen have infiltrated Torchwood through the use of their drones, but Rose’s boyfriend Mickey Smith has also crossed over from the parallel world. Mickey and Rose become prisoners to the Daleks. The Daleks need the handprint of a time traveller to open the Genesis Ark, a dimensionally transcendental Time Lord prison ship containing millions of Daleks. The Daleks and the Cybermen wage war against each other and Torchwood becomes their first battleground. The Cybermen and the Preachers (who have also arrived from the parallel universe via parallel Torchwood technology) use weapons that attack polycarbite, the skin of a Dalek. During the Battle of Canary Wharf, the Doctor unites with Rose’s parallel father Pete Tyler and Jake Simmonds whilst Jackie narrowly escapes being upgraded into a Cyberman (Yvonne Hartman is less fortunate). The Doctor realises that he, Rose, Mickey, Pete, Jake and all of the Daleks and Cybermen are soaked in background radiation as a result of travelling through the void between the dimensions. The Doctor plans to reverse the ghost shift which will suck all of the Cybermen and the Daleks back into the Void. The Doctor tries to convince Rose to join her mother and the rest of her family in the parallel world where she will be safe. But, Rose refuses because she doesn’t want to leave the Doctor’s side. The Doctor and Rose open the breach which sucks all of the Daleks and Cybermen back into the void. Rose is almost accidentally sucked into the void too, but Pete returns and rescues her at the last moment. Rose is trapped in the parallel world with her family, but she manages to say a heartbreaking goodbye to a hologram of the Doctor on Bad Wolf Bay.
Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks
★★☆☆☆
TX: 21/04/2007 – 28/04/2007
Written by Helen Raynor Directed by James Strong
The Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones arrive in New York in 1930 at the height of the Great Depression. They visit Hooverville, a small settlement of homeless people who lost everything in the Wall Street Crash. Mr Diagoras is employing people who work in Hooverville to work on the building of the Empire State Building. He also sends a small group of them plus the Doctor and Martha down into the sewers of the city. The group are attacked by a bunch of human-pig slaves and Martha’s new friend Frank (Andrew Garfield) is captured. The pig slaves are a creation of the Daleks, who are experimenting on humans beneath the city in order to ensure the survival of their own race. The last Daleks have decided to forego their commitment to racism and instead evolve to become part human, the ultimate survivors. Mr Diagoras, who is employed by the Daleks, becomes the first of a new race of human-Dalek hybrids when Dalek Sec (leader of the Cult of Skaro) splices itself onto him. The Daleks intend to harness a gamma strike to the mast of the Empire State Building, to which Dalekanium has been fixed. This will provide the power needed to convert hundreds of captured humans into human-Dalek hybrids. A Rel is a Dalek time unit of measurement for a second. Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks is problematic because the Daleks would never do this plan because the Daleks fundamentally believe that they are superior to all other lifeforms and they would therefore never compromise their impurity by becoming half human or indeed half anything else! The rest of the Cult of Skaro turn on Dalek Sec and ultimately exterminate him once they realise that he has become corrupted by his human side and they are disgusted by his racial impurity. The Doctor realises that the human-Dalek hybrids have a bit of Time Lord DNA inside them as he got in the way of the lightning strike. This enables them to revolt against Dalek Jast and Dalek Caan and destroy them. Dalek Caan wipes out the human-Dalek hybrids, writing them off as a failed experiment. The Doctor pleas with Caan to let him help it, but Caan uses an emergency temporal shift to escape. The Doctor and Martha bid their farewells to Tallulah (a showgirl) and her boyfriend Lazlo, a human who was half-converted into a pig slave by the Daleks. The Doctor tells Martha that he is certain that he will encounter Dalek Caan again.
The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End
★★★★★
TX: 28/06/2008 – 05/07/2008
Written by Russell T Davies Directed by Graeme Harper
The Daleks capture the Earth and 26 other planets in a pocket of time in the Medusa Cascade in order to create a wavelength to project Davros’ nightmarish latest invention: the reality bomb. This device cancels out the electrical field surrounding atoms causing the atomic structure of a particular being to fall apart. The net result of sending out this wavelength across the entire the cosmos will be the destruction of all reality itself. The Tenth Doctor and his many companions must stop the insane Davros from completing his diabolical plan.
After being taken prisoner onboard the Dalek crucible one-by-one, the Doctor and his ‘Children of Time’ stand witness to Davros’ horrifying experiments. However, the Doctor’s companion Donna Noble has accidentally caused a meta-crisis by touching his hand in the jar inside the TARDIS, which was bursting with regeneration energy from the Doctor. The meta-crisis makes Donna into a genius and she and the Duplicate Doctor (created by the meta-crisis) use the Dalek ship controls to thwart Davros’ plan, send 26 of the 27 stolen planets back home and to destroy the Daleks. The Doctor and his many companions tow the Earth back home through the use of the TARDIS. After saying goodbye to his other companions, the Doctor has to take the power out of Donna Noble by sadly wiping her memory of all of their adventures together.
Victory of the Daleks
★★★☆☆
TX: 17/04/2010
Written by Mark Gatiss Directed by Andrew Gunn
The Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond respond to an urgent call from Winston Churchill and arrive in London, 1941 at the height of the London Blitz. Churchill is testing out his new line of Ironsides, which he is convinced will bring about an end to the war. But the Doctor quickly identifies that Bracewell’s obedient Ironsides are actually Daleks in disguise, “I AM YOUR SOLDIER” is reminiscent of the Daleks’ pledge that “I AM YOUR SERVANT” in The Power of the Daleks. The Doctor pleads with Churchill that the Daleks are evil and are not to be trusted. He is proven right when the Daleks reveal that Bracewell is an android that they created and they steal the Doctor’s testimony and use it to activate the Progenitor onboard the Dalek ship. The Doctor takes the TARDIS to the Dalek ship where he witnesses the birth of a new Dalek Paradigm. The Paradigm Daleks ruthlessly exterminate the Ironside Daleks, deeming them to be impure and inferior. Back on Earth, Churchill, Bracewell and Amy come up with the idea of modifying Spitfires so that they can fly through space and attack the Dalek ship, disabling the signal keeping London’s lights on during the night Blitz. With the ray and the shields destroyed, the final Spitfire prepares to destroy the Dalek ship – “the final end” for the Daleks (The Evil of the Daleks). The Paradigm Daleks contact the Doctor in his TARDIS and blackmail him into calling off the attack. The Daleks tell him that Bracewell is an android bomb that they created and they threaten to detonate him. The Doctor returns to Earth and with Amy’s help, he deactivates the bomb within Bracewell, freeing him from Dalek control. Unfortunately, the Daleks escape. The Doctor rekindles his friendship with Churchill before leaving with Amy.
The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang
★★★☆☆
TX: 19/06/2010 – 26/06/2010
Written by Steven Moffat Directed by Toby Haynes
The Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond arrive at Stonehenge in 102 AD after following a trail of messages left for them by River Song. River is posing as Cleopatra as part of a Roman Legion stationed by Stonehenge. The Doctor, Amy and River discover an underhenge cave beneath Stonehenge, which contains the Pandorica – a legendary box built to contain the most feared thing in the entire universe. A corroded Cyberman was stationed as a sentry to protect the Pandorica. The mystery deepens when the Roman Legion is revealed to be a squad of plastic Autons, one of which is Amy’s fiancée Rory – back from the dead! An Alliance of the Doctor’s worst enemies, including the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Silurians and the Autons, have come together to imprison the Doctor inside the Pandorica. The Alliance have deduced that the cracks in time that the Doctor and Amy have witnessed throughout the universe are the result of the Doctor’s TARDIS exploding and they have therefore incarcerated him to prevent this from happening. However, the TARDIS explodes anyway with River inside, causing the universe to end.
In an alternate timeline, a young Amelia Pond dreams about the stars even though there are no longer any left in the sky due to the TARDIS exploding. The young Amelia receives a note telling her to go to the museum where the Pandorica is kept. It opens revealing the adult Amy inside, who was placed in there by Rory and the Doctor because the Pandorica has a restorative effect. Rory freed the Doctor using his sonic screwdriver given to him by a future version of the Doctor. The Roman Auton Rory guards the Pandorica for 2,000 years to protect Amy from harm. In the present day, the Doctor, Amy and Rory reunite with the young Amelia Pond in the museum. They get chased by a Dalek restored by the light of the Pandorica. The Doctor uses the vortex manipulator to go back and give Rory his screwdriver. As the universe continues to collapse, Amelia disappears. The Doctor discovers that the “sun” is the still-exploding TARDIS. River, trapped inside the TARDIS, is being kept alive in a time loop. The Doctor saves River. The Doctor creates a diversion for the Dalek, allowing him to rig the Pandorica to fly into the TARDIS explosion, using what exists of the original universe inside the Pandorica to create a second Big Bang. Before this, the Doctor instructs Amy to focus on her family and Rory to restore them in the new universe. The Doctor begins witnessing events in his life in reverse as the cracks in the universe close. The Doctor has to stay outside this new universe for that to happen. After a final goodbye to Amelia on the night they met, he enters the cracks and disappears. Amy wakes in her home in 2010 to discover that her parents and Rory have been brought back into existence. Amy and Rory celebrate their wedding day. At the reception, River leaves her diary for Amy which prompts Amy to recall the Doctor. She interrupts her father’s speech, imploring the Doctor to come to the wedding. The TARDIS and the Doctor appear at the reception. Aboard the TARDIS, the Doctor explains to Amy and Rory that unanswered questions remain about the TARDIS explosion. The Doctor is sent an invitation to travel on the space Orient Express (Mummy on the Orient Express).
Asylum of the Daleks
★★☆☆☆
TX: 01/09/2012
Written by Steven Moffat Directed by Nick Hurran
All of the insane Daleks are locked up in the Dalek Asylum. But unfortunately for the Daleks, a human spaceship has crashed into the Asylum and a survivor called Oswin Oswald has got in. Jenna Coleman is looking damn fine in her first episode! This means that all of the insane Daleks could escape the Dalek Asylum. The Prime Minister of the Daleks does not want this and so it convenes the Parliament of the Daleks to enlist the help of the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams. The Doctor is “the Predator of the Daleks” and so he is the only one who can go down into the Dalek Asylum and deactivate the forcefield. The trio are sent down to the Asylum to turn off the planet’s forcefield from within the Asylum. This will enable the Dalek ship to destroy the Asylum once and for all. The Doctor, Amy and Rory encounter Dalek puppets and hundreds of Daleks along the way. Amy and Rory have filed for divorce so the Doctor battles bravely to save their marriage and to defeat the Daleks. Oswin Oswald informs the Doctor that the Daleks in the Intensive Care section of the Dalek Asylum are survivors of encounters with him on planets such as Spiridon (Planet of the Daleks), Kembel (The Daleks’ Master Plan), Aridius (The Chase), Vulcan (The Power of the Daleks) and Exxilon (Death to the Daleks). After navigating his way through intensive care (full of Daleks that survived him), the Doctor finally comes face-to-face with Oswin Oswald. To his horror, he discovers that he is too late and that Oswin has been fully converted into a Dalek. The distraught Oswin resolves to help the Doctor and his companions escape the destruction of the Asylum by turning off the forcefield. Amy and Rory have reconciled their marriage and the Doctor teleports with them up to the Dalek ship. The Doctor discovers that Oswin deleted the Dalek race’s memory of the Doctor so none of them can remember him. Content by this, the Doctor leaves in the TARDIS and drops the happy Amy and Rory off at home.
The Day of the Doctor
★★★★★
TX: 23/11/2013
Written by Steven Moffat Directed by Nick Hurran
The Eleventh Doctor and his companion, schoolteacher Clara Oswald are summoned by U.N.I.T to the National Gallery. Kate Stewart and Osgood have noticed some unusual activity in paintings there. One painting from Elizabethan England contains the Tenth Doctor! The Tenth Doctor eloped with Queen Elizabeth I and narrowly avoids being eaten by a Zygon! The Zygons are planning to invade the modern world through the paintings which are doorways in time. The Zygons therefore have already infiltrated U.N.I.T in the present day. Meanwhile the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors are reunited with the War Doctor, the forgotten incarnation of the Doctor that fought in the Time War. The War Doctor plans to use the Moment to destroy both the Daleks and the Time Lords, thereby ending the Time War at a terrible cost. The Doctors and Clara negotiate a peace deal between the humans and the Zygons in the present day U.N.I.T Black Archive. The Tenth and Eleventh Doctors and Clara follow the War Doctor back to Gallifrey and convince him to reverse the outcome of the Time War. All of the incarnations of the Doctors work together to seal Gallifrey in a pocket universe, saving it from destruction by the Daleks. The Doctors are unsure whether they were successful in their attempt to save Gallifrey. But the Curator of the National Gallery (who has a familiar face) informs the Eleventh Doctor that the title of the main painting is ‘Gallifrey Falls No More’, a clue that the Doctor did indeed save Gallifrey and that it is still out there waiting to be found by him.
The Time of the Doctor
★★★☆☆
TX: 25/12/2013
Written by Steven Moffat Directed by Jamie Payne
The Eleventh Doctor and Clara follow a signal to the fabled planet of Trenzalore. Trenzalore is surrounded by a fleet of various aliens and monsters, including the Church of the Papal Mainframe. Tasha Lem beams the Doctor and Clara down to the planet where they find the town of Christmas. Another Crack in Time is within one of the buildings in the town. The Doctor hears that the Time Lords are on the other side of the crack and that they are calling though time in order to escape. Tasha Lem tells the Doctor that the assembled hordes of the Doctor’s enemies have united to prevent the Doctor from saying his real name, opening the crack and allowing the Time Lords back through. Silence must fall when the question is asked. The return of the Time Lords would restart the Time War and the Church of the Papal Mainframe and the Silence are committed to preventing that. They blow up the Doctor’s TARDIS, paradoxically creating the very Cracks in Time through which the Time Lords are now calling (Series 5 arc). They engineer a psychopath to kill the Doctor (River Song – Series 6 arc). The Doctor sends Clara back home in the TARDIS and stays on Trenzalore for 300 years, defending the town of Christmas from Daleks, Cybermen, Weeping Angels, Sontarans and the Silence. When Clara returns, the Doctor is old and drained, having run out of regenerations. His friend Handles, a Cyberman head has also expired. The Doctor and Clara confront Tasha Lem to end the stalemate, but they are too late as Tasha Lem is already dead and is now a Dalek puppet along with the rest of the Church of the Papal Mainframe. The Doctor sends Clara back home again, but this time Tasha Lem picks Clara up in the TARDIS and brings her back to Trenzalore. The town of Christmas is in the heat of battle and is overrun with Daleks. Clara finds the ancient and wizened Doctor, who decides to confront the Daleks one final time. Clara calls through the Crack in Time, begging the Time Lords to help the Doctor. The Time Lords send a new regeneration cycle through the crack to the Doctor. The Doctor starts regenerating and uses the explosive regeneration power to destroy the Daleks. Back in the TARDIS, Clara says her goodbye to the Eleventh Doctor before he quickly regenerates into the Twelfth Doctor…
Into the Dalek
★★★★★
TX: 30/08/2014
Written by Phil Ford & Steven Moffat Directed by Ben Wheatley
The Twelfth Doctor rescues a rebel called Journey Blue moments before her ship is destroyed by the Daleks. The Doctor takes her back to her outpost, in which a Dalek is imprisoned. The Dalek (nicknamed ‘Rusty’ by the Doctor) has become corrupted and now wants to see the destruction of its own race. The Doctor, his companion Clara Oswald, Journey Blue and a few other rebels are miniaturised and put inside the Dalek to find the source of the ‘morality’ malfunction. After fighting through anti-bodies and other obstacles, the Doctor and his companions find the source of the malfunction, which they accidentally repair. This resets the Dalek back to being evil again and it starts exterminating humans before sending a distress signal to the other Daleks. The Doctor despairs that his actions have caused the Dalek to revert to killing, but Clara persuades the Doctor to pull himself together. The Doctor and party make it to the Dalek’s cortex vault where the Doctor links his own mind into that of the Dalek’s. Rusty the Dalek sees the wonders of the universe but also the evil of the Daleks. Rusty then destroys the squad of Daleks that invaded the outpost station in order to rescue it. Rusty tells the Doctor that actually he is a good Dalek before leaving.
The Magician’s Apprentice/The Witch’s Familiar
★★★★★
TX: 19/09/2015 – 26/09/2015
Written by Steven Moffat Directed by Hettie MacDonald
Davros’ agent, Colony Sarff kidnaps the Doctor, his companion Clara, the TARDIS and the Master (Missy) and takes them to Skaro, the home-world of the Daleks. Davros talks to the Doctor about his philosophy and about their first meeting when Davros was a child. Meanwhile, Clara and Missy (who have both survived extermination) navigate their way through the Dalek city thanks to Missy disguising Clara as a Dalek. The dying Davros tricks the Doctor into believing that he has a better side and out of compassion, the Doctor unknowingly helps Davros by pouring regeneration energy into the Dalek race through Davros’ life support cables, making them invincible. Missy arrives, kills Sarff and rescues the Doctor in the nick of time and the time travellers make their escape after Missy pokes Davros in the eye. The regeneration energy also poured into the insane Daleks that were disposed of in the sewers beneath the Dalek city, which Missy and Clara made their way through. The regenerating insane Daleks attack the Dalek city causing a civil war. In the ensuing destruction, the Doctor and Clara escape in the TARDIS whilst Missy is captured by the Daleks. The Doctor notes (after a trick played by Missy, into trying to make him kill Clara encased in a Dalek) that the word ‘mercy’ was programmed into the vocabulary of the Daleks. The Doctor travels back in time to save a young Davros from the handmines on the battleground of the Kaled-Thal War on Skaro, thereby teaching him an important lesson about mercy for the future.
The Pilot
★★★★☆
TX: 15/04/2017
Written by Steven Moffat Directed by Lawrence Gough
The Twelfth Doctor is working as a lecturer at St Luke’s University, Bristol when he meets his new companion, canteen worker and student Bill Potts. Bill discovers that the Doctor can travel through time and space in a police box called the TARDIS. The Doctor and his friend Nardole are guarding a vault beneath the university, but the Doctor refuses to tell Bill what is inside it. Bill discovers a girl called Heather in a puddle who starts following her. Bill seeks refuge with the Doctor and Nardole in the TARDIS. The Doctor pilots the TARDIS away from Heather, but Heather chases them, first to Australia and then to a ship during the Dalek-Movellan war. After narrowly escaping extermination by a Dalek, Bill and the Doctor persuade Heather to engage with her human, emotional side and she stops attacking them, disappearing back into a puddle. The Doctor, Bill and Nardole return to Earth, where the Doctor invites Bill to travel in time and space with him in the TARDIS. Bill accepts and the pair leave for further adventures together.
Twice Upon a Time
★★★☆☆
TX: 25/12/2017
Written by Steven Moffat Directed by Rachel Talalay
The Twelfth Doctor is (reluctantly) regenerating and he reunites with the First Doctor who is also regenerating. The pair bicker and squabble like an old married couple. The Twelfth and First Doctors meet a distant ancestor of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. The three are captured by glass avatars and taken to a distant planet. The First Doctor is shown his future as “the Doctor of war”. The Twelfth Doctor is reunited with a glass avatar of Bill. The First Doctor tells Bill about why he left Gallifrey in the first place and Bill sees how much the Doctor that she knows has changed since his early days. The Twelfth Doctor is reunited with Rusty the Dalek, whom he previously encountered in Into the Dalek. Rusty still hates the Daleks, but Rusty is not the Doctor’s friend however. Rusty reveals that the pilot and its ship, known as Testimony, were created on New Earth, designed to extract people from their timelines at the moment of their death, and archive their memories into glass avatars, which are an invention of Professor Helen Clay of New Earth University. The Doctors return Captain Archibald Hamish Lethbridge-Stewart back to No Man’s Land on the battlefield in France during Christmas 1914. The Christmas Truce of World War I occurs before the Doctors’ very eyes. The First Doctor realises that this is what it truly means to be a Doctor. Content, the First Doctor leaves in his TARDIS and completes his regeneration. The Twelfth Doctor is encouraged to do the same by glass avatars of Bill, Nardole and Clara. The Doctor bids goodbye to his friends before leaving in the TARDIS. After a long speech, the Twelfth Doctor regenerates into the Thirteenth Doctor. The new Doctor presses a button on the console and the TARDIS explodes around her. The Thirteenth Doctor is thrown out of the exploding TARDIS and she falls to Earth…
Resolution
★★★☆☆
TX: 01/01/2019
Written by Chris Chibnall Directed by Wayne Yip
The Thirteenth Doctor, Yaz, Graham and Ryan return to Earth, where Ryan is reunited with his absent father, Aaron Sinclair. However, things are far from safe! A Reconnaissance Dalek mutant, concealed for centuries on Earth, has found a new puppet… archaeologist Lin. The Dalek human puppet Lin kills various humans and constructs a new Dalek scrapmetal casing in a junkyard. The Doctor tries to contact Kate Stewart, but discovers to her disappointment that all U.N.I.T operations have been suspended due to funding withdrawals as a result of Brexit. The word ‘Brexit’ is like a swear word in our household! My whole family voted to Remain in the EU. Eventually, the Doctor and company find Lin freed from the now-rebuilt Dalek’s control. After killing a military patrol, the Dalek flies to Government Communications Headquarters, massacring the staff, and attempts to summon a Dalek fleet in order to conquer the Earth. The Doctor, her TARDIS crew, Aaron and the two archaeologists (Lin and Mitch) immediately go to GCHQ and scupper the fleet-summoning signal, destroying the Dalek’s casing in the process. However, the mutant survives and possesses Aaron, threatening to kill him unless the Doctor takes it to Skaro to rally the fleet. The Doctor agrees, but instead takes the Dalek mutant to a supernova. Ryan saves his dad Aaron at the last moment as the Dalek mutant is cast into the supernova. Back in Sheffield, the Doctor offers Aaron Sinclair the chance to travel in the TARDIS, but Aaron declines. The TARDIS crew bid farewell to Aaron and the archaeologists and depart.
Revolution of the Daleks
★★★★☆
TX: 01/01/2021
Written by Chris Chibnall Directed by Lee Haven Jones
The Thirteenth Doctor is busted out of space prison (Shada) by Captain Jack Harkness and the pair return to Earth. The Doctor is reunited with Graham, Ryan and Yaz, who were concerned about the Doctor’s safety. Graham, Ryan and Yaz were returned to Earth in the spare TARDIS, following the events of The Timeless Children. Meanwhile, a global conspiracy involving the UK Prime Minister and businessman Jack Robertson (whom the fam previously met in Arachnids in the UK) is afoot. The pair have worked together to create a race of metallic defence drones, based on the designs provided by the Reconnaissance Dalek mutant, which has survived the events of Resolution. The pure Dalek race from Skaro arrives in a spaceship (Revelation of the Daleks), however they ruthlessly exterminate the Reconnaissance Dalek, which they deem to be impure (The Evil of the Daleks, Remembrance of the Daleks, Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks, Victory of the Daleks). Jack Robertson tries to strike a deal with the Daleks, but naturally this fails (Death to the Daleks). Captain Jack, Graham, and Ryan infiltrate the Dalek ship to rig it with explosives (Death to the Daleks). The Doctor tricks the Daleks into the spare TARDIS (The Chase) where it is set to collapse in on itself and be transported into the Void to be destroyed, mirroring the ending of Doomsday. Robertson weakly claims he was acting as a “decoy” by betraying the Doctor, before using his encounter with the Daleks to restore his public reputation. After Jack leaves to catch up with Gwen Cooper (Torchwood), the Doctor prepares to resume travelling with her companions. However, Ryan announces his decision to stay on Earth and Graham elects to remain with his grandson. They sadly part ways with the Doctor, who gifts them with her psychic paper (The End of the World et al). The Doctor and Yaz continue their adventures together, while Ryan and Graham decide to use their new psychic paper to investigate strange phenomena on Earth. Ryan and Graham first attempt to help Ryan ride a bicycle as they did before meeting the Doctor and see a vision of Grace O’Brien watching over them (The Woman Who Fell to Earth).
Flux
★★☆☆☆
TX: 31/10/2021 – 05/12/2021
Written by Chris Chibnall & Maxine Alderton Directed by Jamie Magnus Stone & Azhur Saleem
During the Great Disruption caused by the Flux and the Ravagers (Once, Upon Time) that made “time run wild”, the Dalek Empire, like other hostile powers, tried to assert its power, exploiting the power vacuum and lack of opposition. The Daleks expanded their empire quickly, with their “borders” growing to encompass a sector—which Bel dubbed the “Dalek Sector” as she tried to escape it—of the galaxy, including conquering abandoned Lupari space. In effect, powers like the Daleks, the Cybermen, and the Sontaran Empire were acting as they always did, expanding and fighting for, as Bel put it, “the spoils” amid a universe–wide destruction. As such, she hoped that the three powers would destroy each other in the end. After avoiding a Dalek patrol on a forested world, Bel managed to barely escape the sector while under fire from Daleks, later avoiding the expanding borders of the Dalek Empire once again after escaping a Cyberman-invaded planet (Once, Upon Time). As the Flux continued to rage, the Daleks knew the danger it posed to themselves, so they and the Cybermen agreed to meet the Sontarans to form an alliance (The Vanquishers). The Dalek War Fleet (Eve of the Daleks) was sent to the designated location in the year 2021, but the Sontarans had tricked their rivals and, once all Dalek and Cyber battalions had arrived, the Sontarans shielded behind a battalion wall of Lupari vessels intending to let the Flux ravage the Dalek flying saucers and Cyber-ships, only for the Sontarans themselves to be left outside of the shield due to the Doctor’s meddling, leaving their craft to face the same fate as the Daleks and Cybermen (The Vanquishers).
Eve of the Daleks
★☆☆☆☆
TX: 01/01/2022
Written by Chris Chibnall Directed by Annetta Laufer
After realising her role in the destruction of the War Fleet and locating her TARDIS in ELF Storage on New Year’s Eve in 2021, three Executioner Daleks were dispatched to execute the Doctor by Dalek High Command. When they succeeded, the damaged TARDIS created a time loop, which repeatedly resurrected her as the Daleks kept killing her in a manner similar to the events of Groundhog Day. Eventually, the Doctor lured the Executioner Daleks to a pile of explosives that she had arranged to detonate, destroying them.
The Power of the Doctor
★★★★★
TX: 23/10/2022
Written by Chris Chibnall Directed by Jamie Magnus Stone
Shortly after Dan decides to leave the TARDIS, the Thirteenth Doctor and Yaz are summoned to U.N.I.T by Kate Stewart who also reunites the Doctor with her former companions Tegan and Ace. Kate believes there to be a connection between volcanic activity, Tsarist Russia, some paintings and a scientific lecture and she is right! The Master has returned and he embarks on his most diabolical plan yet! After being freed from U.N.I.T HQ by the Cybermen, the Master uses the Daleks to capture the Doctor. The Doctor is placed into a DNA chamber and forced to regenerate into the Master. The Doctor-Master takes Yaz in the TARDIS, but Yaz escapes and manages to find the Doctor’s old friend Vinder. The two lay a trap for the Master. Meanwhile, Kate, Ace and Tegan narrowly escape being upgraded by the Cybermen. Between regenerations, the Doctor encounters the Guardians of the Edge, former incarnations of herself (5, 6, 7 & 8)! The Doctors unite mentally to defeat the Master, whilst a hologram of the Doctor assists Yaz and Vinder. The Master-Doctor is cornered and his CyberMasters shoot each other after being tricked by the Fugitive Doctor. The Daleks are destroyed by the global volcanic eruptions. The Master-Doctor is forced to regenerate back into the Thirteenth Doctor, freeing her at last! Defeated, the Master mortally wounds the Doctor with the Qurunx’s energy beam, before seemingly dying of his own injuries without regenerating. The Doctor is fatally injured and carried back to the TARDIS by Yaz. The Doctor bids goodbye to her companions, who form a support group on Earth. Alone on a cliff top, the Doctor regenerates back into a familiar face…
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