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|image= The Doctor and the Dalek.jpg

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|publisher= BBC

|release date= [[22 October (releases)|22 October]] [[2014 (releases)|2014]] (levels 1 - 8)

|enemy = {{il|[[Dalek]]s|[[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]]|[[Cybermat]]s|[[Sontaran]]s|[[Skar|Major Skar]]}}

|setting = {{il|[[Sontar]] | [[Telos]] | [[Starbane]]}}

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|companions = [[Lumpy]]

|writer = [[Phil Ford]]

'''''The Doctor and the Dalek''''' is a ''[[Doctor Who]]'' online game, written by [[Phil Ford]]. It features the [[Twelfth Doctor]] allying with a [[Dalek]], dealing with the [[Cybermen]] and [[Sontaran]]s.

It reflects the new KS2 curriculum, integrating elements of coding in order to help teach students the basics.

A [[Dalek flying saucer|Dalek saucer]] and a [[Cyber Ship]] engage in battle. [[The Doctor's TARDIS]] materialises in the midst of the crossfire after receiving a [[distress signal]] from within the Cyber Ship. Inside, two Cybermen interrogate a Dalek prisoner, demanding to know where it has hidden an artefact, but the Dalek refuses to answer. Before the Cybermen can continue, the TARDIS appears and flattens to two Cybermen.

The Doctor asks the Dalek what was going on. The Dalek opens its casing where the [[Kaled mutant]] has hidden the artefact - a piece of the [[Orb of Fates]]. The Doctor recognises the Orb as a key to an immensely powerful [[Time Lord]] weapon called the [[Starbane]]. Whoever controls the Starbane could conquer the [[universe]], which the Doctor deduces that both the Daleks and Cybermen intend to do. However, the Dalek tells him the Cybermen have altered its Dalek nature and it decrees that neither the Daleks nor the Cybermen must be allowed to control the Starbane. Both must be stopped.  

The two Orb elements fit together and try to reach out to find the last one. The TARDIS is taken to [[Sontar]] where a troop of [[Sontaran]]s led by [[Major]] [[Skar]] threaten to kill the occupants. But the Doctor reveals who he is and reasons that Sontar High Command would be interested in seeing him. In response, the Sontarans trap the TARDIS is a [[stasis field]], which the Doctor is able to open from the inside of the TARDIS. He lets Lumpy out undetected but stays inside once again, reasoning that he has to stay inside the TARDIS to reopen the stasis field later.

The three elements of the Orb merge back together and the TARDIS lands right in the middle of the Starbane, wrecked walkways and [[Gallifrey]]an décor strewn everywhere. The ship being a huge temporal energy reactor, the Doctor explains that if they introduce the Orb into Starbane's core, both the Orb and the Starbane will be destroyed and the plans of the Daleks and Cybermen thwarted. But Lumpy points out a problem: the Starbane is already occupied by Dalek forces.

Lumpy sets off with the Orb to locate the heart of the Starbane while avoiding Dalek patrols, who try to attack him on site despite his attempts to blend in. With further upgrades to his weapons and mobility system, he soon nears his objective, but he then stops following the Doctor's instructions and exclaims "You lose, Doctor!" A [[Red Dalek]] explains that Lumpy's capture by the Cybermen while he had the Orb in his possession was engineered from the very beginning. Lumpy's nature was never truley modified and now the Doctor has practically handed the Orb and the Starbane over to the Daleks.

After learning of the Dalek deception, the Doctor initiated his back-up plan. Never prepared to trust a Dalek from the very beginning, he reveals that when upgrading Lumpy, he made some additions that will allow him to take control of Lumpy. Lumpy is to be the Dalek that saves the universe whether he wants to or not. The other Daleks immediately turn against a furious Lumpy and chase him down as the Doctor leads him ever closer to the heart of the Starbane.

The Doctor successfully drives Lumpy to the ship's core, the other Daleks failing to catch up. In an attempt to deter the Doctor from finishing the job, Lumpy states that the Doctor will also be killed if he destroys the Starbane. The Doctor, however, is already piloting the TARDIS away as he has Lumpy throw the Orb of Fates into the core. Before the Starbane's destruction, he spots Lumpy moving around near one of the windows. The Starbane explodes, killing all the Daleks within. A critically damaged Lumpy flies of into [[space]] with the rest of the wreckage, screaming the Doctor's name. From the safety of the TARDIS, the Doctor, despite expecting some kind of trick from the Daleks to begin with, frowns and says goodbye to his unlikely companion.

* [[Dalek]]s /"[[Lumpy]]" - [[Nicholas Briggs]]

 

* [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] - Nicholas Briggs

* Daleks and [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] previously had significant roles together in the video games ''[[Return to Earth (video game)|Return to Earth]]'', ''[[The Mazes of Time (video game)|The Mazes of Time]]'' and ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]''.

* [[Red Dalek]]s and [[Black Dalek]]s, with the [[2005 (production)|2005]] design, are seen inside the Starbane, along with [[Green]] Daleks (which look similar to the [[Ironside Project|Ironsides]]) and at least one [[White]] Dalek. During simulations, the player also had the option to turn Lumpy's casing [[Blue Dalek|blue]] but it reverts to bronze upon returning to the main level.

== References ==

* Just as he did [[Rusty]], whom the Doctor also named, the Doctor considers Lumpy "a Dalek who has seen the light". ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'')

* The Doctor returns to the [[Cyber-tomb|tombs of the Cybermen]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV story)|The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'', [[GAME]]: ''[[The Mazes of Time (video game)|The Mazes of Time]]'')

* Lumpy can enter the TARDIS from the back if flying over it. The [[Second Doctor]] previously did similar to this by entering via the roof. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Peril at 60 Fathoms (comic story)|Peril at 60 Fathoms]]'')

* A White Dalek appears. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Engines of War (novel)|Engines of War]]'')

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/articles/BBC-to-Launch-The-Doctor-and-the-Dalek-Game-for-Kids BBC Blogs - BBC to Launch 'The Doctor and the Dalek' Game for Kids]  

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