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+|name            = ''The Evil of the Daleks''
 |novelisation of = The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)
-|image           = The Evil of the Daleks BBC novelisation.jpg
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+The Evil of the Daleks (2023 hardback).jpg|Hardback
+The Evil of the Daleks (2024 paperback).jpg|Paperback
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 |series          = [[BBC Books novelisation]]s
-|doctor          = Second Doctor
+|main character  = [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]]
-|companions      = [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]], [[Victoria Waterfield|Victoria]], [[Zoe Heriot|Zoe]]
+|featuring       = Second Doctor
-|enemy           = [[Theodore Maxtible|Maxtible]] [[Dalek]]s
+|featuring2      = Victoria Waterfield
+|featuring3      = Alpha (The Evil of the Daleks)
+|featuring4      = Zoe Heriot
+|enemy           = [[Dalek Prime|Dalek Emperor]]
 |setting         = [[Gatwick Airport]], [[20 July]] [[1966]], [[England]], [[2 June]] [[1866]], [[Skaro]], [[51st century]]
-|writer          = [[Frazer Hines]]
+|writer          = Frazer Hines, Mike Tucker, Steve Cole
-|read by         = Frazer Hines
+|read by         = Frazer Hines, [[Nicholas Briggs]]
 |publisher       = BBC Books
-|release date    = [[26 October (releases)|26 October]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]]
+|publisher2      = Target Books
+|publisher3      = Doctor Who Magazine{{!}}''Doctor Who Magazine'' (de facto)
+|release date    = 26 October 2023 (hardback)
+|release date2   = 10 October 2024 (paperback)
 |cover           =
 |format          =
-|isbn            = 1785948431
+|isbn            = 9781785948431
-|prev            =  Doctor Who and the Library of Time (anthology)
+|prev            = Doctor Who and the Library of Time (anthology)
-|next            =
+|next            = The Church on Ruby Road (novelisation)
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+}}{{prose stub}} {{you may|The Evil of the Daleks (novelisation)|n1=the 1993 novelisation}}
-'''''The Evil of the Daleks''''' was a novelisation based on the [[1967 (releases)|1967]] television serial ''[[The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)|The Evil of the Daleks]]''. It was written by [[Frazer Hines]] and released by [[BBC Books]] on [[26 October (releases)|26 October]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]].
+'''''The Evil of the Daleks''''' was a novelisation based on the [[1967 (releases)|1967]] television serial {{cs|The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)}}. It was [[Writer|written]] by [[Frazer Hines]], [[Mike Tucker]] and [[Steve Cole]] and released by [[BBC Books]] on [[26 October (releases)|26 October]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]]. It was the second such official novelisation following the [[The Evil of the Daleks (novelisation)|original]] and justified itself as, in essence, a novelisation of the [[The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)#Repeat transmission|1968 televised repeat]] of the original TV serial, making use of the framing device of [[Zoe Heriot]] being shown the events of the earlier adventure on a [[mind projector]] shortly after joining [[the Doctor's TARDIS]].
+The novelisation was re-released as a paperback by [[Target Books]] and included for free with [[DWM 609|issue 609]] of ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' on [[10 October (releases)|10 October]] [[2024 (releases)|2024]].
 == Publisher's summary ==
 Young [[astrophysicist]] [[Zoe Heriot|Zoe]] wishes to join [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]] and [[Second Doctor|the Doctor]] on their travels. To give her fair warning of the dangers she may face, the Doctor uses a [[mind projector]] to share one of their most harrowing adventures...
-And so, Jamie is forced to relive his struggle against the evil Daleks at their most powerful and calculating. In a complex plot that drags him from modern-day [[London]] to [[Victorian era|Victorian times]] and finally to the [[Dalek]] world of [[Skaro]], he endures ordeals that test his courage, strength - and his friendship with the Doctor - to the limit...
+And so, Jamie is forced to relive his struggle against the [[evil]] [[Dalek]]s at their most powerful and calculating. In a [[Operation Human Factor|complex plot]] that drags him from [[1966|modern-day]] [[London]] to [[Victorian era|Victorian times]] and finally to the [[Dalek]] world of [[Skaro]], he endures ordeals that test his [[courage]], [[strength]] - and his [[friendship]] with the Doctor - to the limit...
+== Chapter titles ==
+* Chapter One: To Set a Trap
+:''First Interlude''
+* Chapter Two: The Net Tightens
+:''Second Interlude''
+* Chapter Three: A Trial of Strength
+: ''Third Interlude''
+* Chapter Four: A Test of Skill
+:''Fourth Interlude''
+* Chapter Five: The Human Factor
+:''Fifth Interlude''
+* Chapter Six: Escape to Danger
+:''Sixth Interlude''
+* Chapter Seven: The End of the Daleks
+:''Coda''
 == Plot ==
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 * [[Ruth Maxtible]]
 * [[Arthur Terrall]]
+* [[Kemel]]
 * [[Toby (The Evil of the Daleks)|Toby]]
 * [[Mollie Dawson]]
-* [[Dalek Emperor]]
+* [[Dalek Prime|Dalek Emperor]]
+* [[Alpha (The Evil of the Daleks)|Alpha]]
+* [[Beta (The Evil of the Daleks)|Beta]]
+* [[Omega (The Evil of the Daleks)|Omega]]
+* [[Black Dalek (The Evil of the Daleks)|Black Dalek]]
+* [[Frank Kennedy]]
+* [[Keith Perry]]
+* [[Bob Hall]]
 * [[Zoe Heriot]]
-''to be added''
 == Worldbuilding ==
 ''to be added''
-== Deviations from televised story ==
+== Differences from other versions ==
-''to be added''
+As with most novelisations, there are notable differences and contradictions in the details with the parent story, although this one provides some possible in-universe justifications given its narrative framing device. In one of the interludes, the Doctor explains that the TARDIS is able to take a psychic recording of nearby events after it lands, allowing him to project events at which he was not present. In the coda, the Doctor also claims to have been testing his memory after a recent bump to the head. The implication that an inaccuracy with either of these could cause some details to be related differently is subtly present.
+Additionally, the interludes are narrated by Jamie in the first-person; he and Zoe later had their memories altered, nearly erased, by the [[Time Lord]]s after {{cs|The War Games (TV story)}}.
+=== Deviations from televised story ===
+* [[Frank Kennedy|Kennedy]] is given the [[first name]] Frank.
+* The final scene from Episode 2, in which two Daleks discuss the beginning of the experiment and demand there be no delay, is absent.
+* Terrall has further flashbacks to his time in the [[Crimean War]]. His Dalek conditioning further confuses these thoughts, causing him to believe he is actually fighting a [[Thal-Dalek War|war of extermination]] against the [[Thal]]s.
+* [[Kemel]] receives an expanded backstory explaining how he ended up in the employ of Maxtible: he was a [[Wrestler|wrestler]] in [[London]] who was defended from a [[murder]] charge by Maxtible after killing a [[thief]] in self-defence.
+* Besides Jamie, the Daleks also factor both Kemel and Victoria into the [[Operation Human Factor|Human Factor experiment]], in order to determine if the traits displayed by Jamie are common across race and [[gender]].
+* Terral, Ruth and Mollie all witness the destruction of Maxtible's house from afar in an additional scene to feature them after their departure.
+* A [[Black Dalek (The Evil of the Daleks)|Black Dalek]] is present on [[Skaro]], serving as the Emperor's second-in-command, in a role virtually identical to the [[Black Dalek Leader]]. However, it is destroyed by the [[humanised Dalek]]s at the start of the rebellion ([[Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)|other material]] suggests the Black Dalek Leader survived up until the events of {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}). No [[Black Dalek]]s were present in the TV serial, despite the Emperor's [[Emperor's Personal Guard|black-domed guards]] being referred to as such.
+* Further detail is given to the history and function of the [[Dalek City]].
+* The characters discuss how the Daleks go to the trouble of genuinely discovering how to transmute [[metal]] into [[gold]] despite using it as nothing more than a lure to infect Maxtible with the [[Dalek factor]]. The Doctor attributes this to spite.
+* [[Omega (The Evil of the Daleks)|Omega]] is identified as one of the first humanised Daleks to be killed by the Emperor's guards just as the Doctor incites the rebellion.
+* After the [[Dalek Civil War]] begins, the Doctor begins hunting for humanised Dalek reinforcements, finding a group of them who are in the process of giving themselves [[name]]s and scratching them onto their [[casing]]s.
+* At Kemel's death scene, instead of Maxtible beckoning Kemel towards him as they escape the city and Kemel cautiously complying, Kemel immediately knows not to trust him steps forward to defend Jamie and Victoria from the Dalekised Maxtible, who then attacks him.
+* After killing Kemel, Maxtible gets into a fight with Jamie and falls over the same precipice as Kemel. In the original serial, Maxtible responded to orders for all Daleks to return to the city and implicitly died in the fighting.
+* The Emperor summons all [[Dalek leader]]s to put down the rebellion, whereas on TV he specifically summons all [[Black Dalek Leader (rank)|Black Dalek Leaders]].
+* Greater emphasis is placed on the toll the Doctor's conflicted thoughts and emotions begin to take on him as he drives the Daleks towards [[genocide]], and the [[death]]s that were caused along the way.
+=== Comparisons with the 1993 novelisation ===
+* While both versions give Kemel a backstory, the two are entirely different. In the original novelisation, he met Maxtible while working for a [[blacksmith]] in [[Turkey (country)|Turkey]], not as a wrestler in London.
+* The notable [[Red Dalek (The Evil of the Daleks)|Red Dalek]] is never identified in this version. Technically, there is no explicit confirmation that a [[Red Dalek]] is ''not'' present. However, in one of the scenes it originally featured in, it is replaced by a Dalek which is said to look similar to all the rest and is also not the leader of [[Operation Human Factor|the operation]].
+* Both versions feature [[Black Dalek]]s, which were not in the televised version. Whereas the original novelisation replaced all the Emperor's black-domed guards with Black Daleks, the 2023 novelisation features a singular prominent Black Dalek as well as black-domed Daleks.
+* Ironically, the [[Black Dalek Leader]], although directly mentioned, is explicitly ''not'' present in the original novelisation, even though author [[John Peel]] effectively codified the character's literary portrayal in his other [[Target novelisation]]s (by his authorial intent, the Black Dalek is said to have died in {{cs|The Mutation of Time (novelisation)}}). The individual Black Dalek in the 2023 version is so similar in its portrayal to the Black Dalek Leader that it could be interpreted as the same character, save for its alternate fate.
+* Both novelisations give the Emperor's backstory as being one of the earliest Daleks. The 2023 novelisation does not give mentions of [[Davros]], the [[Dalek Prime]] or any of the experiments it conducted on itself, nor many of the other heavier continuity points as the 1993 novelisation does, but both versions of the backstory are nevertheless compatible.
+* The 1993 novelisation notably set the background of the story as taking place during the [[Great War (The Evil of the Daleks)|Great War]], sparked by [[Time Destructor Incident|the events]] of {{cs|The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)}}. Although no such details are included in the 2023 novelisation which is more self-contained, reference is made to an ongoing Dalek "war effort". {{cs|Daleks vs Daleks! (short story)}} also supports both in their being an ongoing conflict at the time of the story's events.
 == Notes ==
-''to be added''
+* Each chapter corresponds to one episode of the televised serial. The chapter titles for all bar "Chapter Six: Escape to Danger" are the original working titles for the televised episodes,<ref>[http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/ll.html ''The Evil of the Daleks'' at Shannon Sullivan's A Brief History of Time (Travel)]</ref> even though individual episode titles were by this time no longer being used; [[Season 3 (Doctor Who 1963)|Season 3]]'s four-part story {{cs|The Gunfighters (TV story)}} being the last to feature them. No working title is given on existing BBC paperwork for ''The Evil of the Daleks'' episode six. The original novelisation also featured these titles (except "Escape to Danger") among its 33 chapters.
+* Each chapter concludes with the Doctor taking a short break from retelling the story on the mind projector, allowing him, Jamie and Zoe to comment on the events. This framing device results in the novel becoming a fully-detailed account of what takes place chronologically between {{cs|The Wheel in Space (TV story)}} and {{cs|Fear of the Daleks (audio story)}}.
+* The interludes with Zoe and the mind projector are written in the first person from Jamie's perspective. The main bulk of the story, retelling ''The Evil of the Daleks'', is written in the third person.
+* A poster for this novelisation and {{cs|Rose (novelisation)}} was included in [[SFX 373]].
+* Coincidentally, both narratives are chronologically followed by [[Big Finish Productions]] releases in ''[[The Companion Chronicles]]'' which feature the Daleks: {{cs|The Death of the Daleks (audio story)|The Death of the Daleks}} immediately follows ''The Evil of the Daleks'', and {{cs|Fear of the Daleks (audio story)}} immediately follows ''The Wheel in Space''.
 == Continuity ==
-''to be added''
+* The Doctor begins questioning the morality of his actions as he realises the [[genocide|implications]] of what he is doing to the Daleks. On their next landing after departing Skaro, he is struggling to come to terms with this. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Death of the Daleks (audio story)}}). The [[Fourth Doctor]] later experienced the same moral quandry when given the chance to wipe out the Daleks [[Creation of the Daleks|from birth]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)}})
+* The Daleks are engaged in an ongoing [[Great War (The Evil of the Daleks)|war effort]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Daleks vs Daleks! (short story)}})
+* Some humanised Daleks attempt to give each other names, with the Doctor considering that they could start their own civilisation if they survived. Led by Alpha, they survivors would go on to attempt this. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Children of the Revolution (comic story)}}).
+* After finishing the story, the Doctor explains to Jamie that he was giving himself a mental workout to make sure there was no lasting damage caused by the rocket and his recent bump to the [[head]]. ({{cs|The Wheel in Space (TV story)}})
+* Jamie believes the Doctor chose to show Zoe their first meeting with Victoria because the two miss her after her recent departure. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Fury from the Deep (TV story)}})
+* Due to the Time Lords erasing her memories, Zoe recalled her reaction to being shown the story differently once her memories began to resurface. She remembered being terrified of the Daleks, to the point where the Doctor apologised for showing her the projection, and she rationalised this as recurring [[nightmare]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Fear of the Daleks (audio story)}})
 == Audiobook ==
-* This novel was released as an audiobook on [[26 October (releases)|26 October]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]] complete and unabridged by [[BBC Audio]] and read by [[Frazer Hines]] .
+* This novel was released as an audiobook on [[26 October (releases)|26 October]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]] complete and unabridged by [[BBC Audio]] and read by [[Frazer Hines]], with Dalek voices by [[Nicholas Briggs]].
 <gallery position="center" captionalign="center" hideaddbutton="true">
 The Evil of the Daleks BBC audiobook.jpg|Audiobook cover
 </gallery>
+== References ==
+{{Reflist}}
 == External links ==
-* {{penguin|456902/doctor-who-evil-of-the-daleks-by-hines-frazer/9781785948435}}
+* {{penguin|456902/doctor-who-evil-of-the-daleks-by-hines-frazer/9781785948435|The Evil of the Daleks - novel}}
+* {{penguin|455481/doctor-who-the-evil-of-the-daleks-by-hines-frazer/9781529906516|The Evil of the Daleks - audio}}
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