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|enemy = [[Spider Dalek]]
|enemy = [[Spider Dalek]]
|setting = Spaceship
|setting = Space station
|producer = [[Steven Spielberg]]
|producer = [[Steven Spielberg]]
|broadcast date = [[June (releases)|June]] [[1995 (releases)|1995]]
|broadcast date = [[June (releases)|June]] [[1995 (releases)|1995]]
|network = [[Channel 4]]
|network = [[Channel 4]]
|series = ''GamesMaster'' specials
|series = ''GamesMaster'' specials  
|publisher = Amblin Entertainment
|publisher = Amblin Entertainment
|designer = [[Amblin Entertainment]]
|designer = [[Amblin Entertainment]]
|image = SpiderDalek.JPG}}
|image = SpiderDalek.JPG}}
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'''''Spider Dalek''''' was a prequel to an unmade television movie, to be made by [[Amblin Entertainment]].
'''''VFX Tests June 1994''''', often referred to as '''''Spider Dalek''''', was a set of two sequences of test footage created by [[Amblin Entertainment]] in June of [[1994 (releases)|1994]] in expectation of a potential ''[[Doctor Who]]'' movie or TV reboot. Though the movie project in which they would have fit was never completed, the sequence was included in the special futures of [[Doctor Who (TV story)|the ''Doctor Who'' TV Movie]] that was in the end released in [[1996 (releases)|1996]].  


�The few seconds of the Spider Dalek test footage had previously been released on GameMasters in [[1995 (releases)|1995]] as part of a montage of clips from future Amblin Entertainment projects, but not as a distinct entity.
== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
A [[Spider Dalek]] roams the corridors.
Inside a [[space station]], out in the black abyss of space, a [[Spider Dalek]] roams the corridors, alternating between crawling on the floor or the ceiling thanks to its polyvalent abilities.
 
== Plot ==
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== Cast ==
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== Crew ==
== Crew ==
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== References ==
== References ==
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* A [[Spider Dalek]] is moving about the metal [[corridor]]s of a [[space station]], displaying the ability to hang from the ceiling using its clawed leg-like appendages. 


== Story notes ==
== Story notes ==
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*The 1995 glimpse of the test footage constituted the first public unveiling of the [[Spider Dalek]], a Dalek redesign which was eventually introduced into the mainstream [[Doctor Who universe]] as a [[Dalek variants|Dalek variant]] in the [[Eighth Doctor]] novel ''[[War of the Daleks (novel)|War of the Daleks]]''.
 


== Home video releases ==
== Home video releases ==
* Footage of the test animation, alongside early vortex tests, were included in the 2010 DVD release of [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'' under the title "FX test reels."
* Footage of the test animation, alongside early vortex tests, were included in the 2010 DVD release of [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'' under the title "FX test reels."
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VFX Tests June 1994, often referred to as Spider Dalek, was a set of two sequences of test footage created by Amblin Entertainment in June of 1994 in expectation of a potential Doctor Who movie or TV reboot. Though the movie project in which they would have fit was never completed, the sequence was included in the special futures of the Doctor Who TV Movie that was in the end released in 1996.

�The few seconds of the Spider Dalek test footage had previously been released on GameMasters in 1995 as part of a montage of clips from future Amblin Entertainment projects, but not as a distinct entity.

Synopsis

Inside a space station, out in the black abyss of space, a Spider Dalek roams the corridors, alternating between crawling on the floor or the ceiling thanks to its polyvalent abilities.

Crew

References

Story notes


Home video releases

  • Footage of the test animation, alongside early vortex tests, were included in the 2010 DVD release of TV: Doctor Who under the title "FX test reels."