The History of the Daleks (short story)

The History of the Daleks
Main character(s):	Daleks, Davros, Dalek Prime
Featuring:	The Doctor
Key crew
Publisher:	St Martin's Press
Writers:	John Peel, Terry Nation
Release details
Printed in:	The Official Doctor Who & the Daleks Book
Release date:	31 December 1988

The History of the Daleks was a narrative retelling of the Daleks' history published in The Official Doctor Who & the Daleks Book, which was written by John Peel and Terry Nation. It detailed the Daleks' history in an in-universe, chronological order using all major TV appearances from 1963 to 1988, linking every story in the classic run of Doctor Who with the exception of Remembrance of the Daleks (as it was presumably written before it aired, despite being published after).

Summary

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Notes

• This story is notable for explicitly stating the Thals' counterpart tribe and ancestors to the Daleks, the Dals, renamed themselves as the Kaleds.
• The Dalek City's destruction as seen in The Evil of the Daleks is placed as the final end of the Dalek race— something Remembrance of the Daleks, the only story not referenced in the history, contradicts by featuring the destruction of Skaro. John Peel's later novel War of the Daleks provided a possible explanation that it was not actually Skaro destroyed, but a decoy planet called Antalin.

Continuity

• Skaro is the twelfth planet in its solar system. (TV: "The Ambush")

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