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year= <ul><li>[[London]] docklands; [[1984]]</li><li>Prison station</li></ul> |
|story number           = 133
writer= [[Eric Saward]]|
|doctor                 = Fifth Doctor
director= [[Matthew Robinson]]|
|companions             = [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]], [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]]
producer= [[John Nathan-Turner]]|
|featuring              = [[Davros]]
broadcast date= [[8th February]] - [[15th February]] [[1984]] |
|enemy                 = The [[Black Dalek Leader]]
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{{Quote|Release Davros!|Commander Lytton}}
'''''Resurrection of the Daleks''''' was the fourth serial of [[Season 21 (Doctor Who 1963)|season 21]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. It was the final regular appearance of [[Janet Fielding]] as [[Tegan Jovanka]], who left the [[Fifth Doctor]] for the second time. It also marked the return of [[Davros]] and the [[Dalek]]s after their last appearance in ''[[Destiny of the Daleks (TV story)|Destiny of the Daleks]]''. [[Gustave Lytton|Lytton]] makes his debut and, strangely for villains of the time, survives with no ill effects.


==Synopsis==
Notably, this story was separated into two 45-minute episodes in place of the usual four 25-minute ones, a format that would temporarily become the norm during [[Season 22 (Doctor Who 1963)|Season 22]]; the 45-minute length eventually became the established episode length for the series following its revival in 2005.
''to be added''


==Plot==
== Synopsis ==
==== Part One ====
Captured in a time corridor, the Doctor and his companions are forced to land on [[20th century]] [[Earth]], diverted by the Doctor's oldest enemy - the Daleks. It is here the true purpose of the time corridor becomes apparent: after ninety years of imprisonment, Davros, the ruthless creator of the Daleks, is to be liberated to assist in the resurrection of his army.
A group of futuristic humanoids are running down a London alley in 1984. As they attempt to escape, they are gunned down by two policemen led by Commander Lytton. Two of the humanoids, Galloway and  Stien, escape to a warehouse where a time corridor is situated. Galloway is killed, leaving Stien alone. Lytton transports back to his battle cruiser and prepares to attack a prison space station whose only prisoner is [[Davros]], the creator of the [[Dalek]]s.


Meanwhile, [[Fifth Doctor |the Doctor]], Tegan and [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]] are being dragged down a time corridor in the [[TARDIS]]  Where they find themselves in the [[London docklands]].
Not even the Daleks foresee the poisonous threat of their creator. Indeed, who would suspect Davros of wanting to destroy his own Daleks - and why?


In the meantime, the Daleks try a direct frontal assault on the prison station which yields poor results, as the station crew, led by Dr. Styles and Lt. Mercer, fight back with considerable force. Lytton then persuades the [[Dalek variants|Dalek Supreme]] to use [[Chemical warfare|poisonous gas]] to get the crew out of the way. The plan proves to be a success and the Daleks have little trouble taking over the ship. Following orders, Watch Officer Osborn attempts to destroy Davros, first using a non-functional automated system, then in person. However, Lytton and an engineer break into the cell and kill Osborn before she can complete her mission, then release Davros from his cryogenic imprisonment.
Only the Doctor knows the truth. Will he descend to Davros' level of evil to stop him?


The Doctor and his friends have by now met a traumatised Stien, who joins them in returning to the warehouse to hunt for the end of the time corridor. There they meet a military [[Bomb disposal|bomb disposal]] squad, called in after builders uncovered what they thought to be unexploded bombs. While the others are distracted, Turlough stumbles into the time corridor, ending up on the Dalek ship.
== Plot ==
=== Part one ===
A group of futuristic humanoids are running down [[Shad Thames]] in 1984. As they attempt to escape, they are gunned down by two policemen led by [[Commander]] [[Gustave Lytton|Lytton]] in the uniform of an inspector. Two of the humanoids, [[Galloway]] and Quartermaster [[Sergeant]] [[Stien]], escape into the adjacent wharf where a time corridor is situated. Galloway is killed by a [[Dalek Trooper]], leaving Stien alone. Lytton transports back to his battle cruiser and prepares to attack a [[prison]] [[space station]]. Its only prisoner is [[Davros]], the creator of the [[Dalek]]s.


Having learned that the Doctor is in the warehouse, the Supreme Dalek orders a Dalek to be dispatched to detain him. The Dalek travels through the time corridor and appears as if from nowhere. The Doctor yells at everyone to take cover as it prepares to exterminate them...
Meanwhile, [[Fifth Doctor|the Doctor]], [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] and [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]] are being dragged down a [[time corridor]] in the [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]], shortly after their departure from [[Frontios]]. They land in an apparently disused part of London.


==== Part Two====
On the prison ship, [[Grey Dalek|Dalek]] [[Dalek drone|Drones]] attack, trying a direct frontal assault on the outside of the station airlock with poor results. The station crew, led by Dr [[Styles]] and [[Lieutenant|Lt.]] [[Mercer]], fight back in force. Lytton persuades the [[Black Dalek Leader|Supreme Dalek]] to use poisonous gas to dispose of the crew. This proves a success and the Daleks have little trouble taking over the station. Following orders, Watch Officer [[Fabian Osborn|Osborn]] tries to destroy Davros, first with a non-functional automated system, then in person. However, Lytton and an engineer break into the cell and kill Osborn before she can complete her mission. They then release Davros from his cryogenic imprisonment.
The Dalek kills several of the squad's men before the Doctor advises them to focus their fire on its eyestalk, blinding it. In the resulting struggle, the humans push the Dalek out of the warehouse window, and it explodes on hitting the ground. Tegan suffers a head injury, and blacks out. Meanwhile, on the prison station, only Styles, Mercer, and two guards are left alive of the original crew. Disguised in uniforms taken from Lytton's guards, they plan to blow up the station via its self-destruct system.


Speaking to Lytton, Davros explains that his cryogenic sentence lasted for "90 years of mind-numbing boredom." He then vows to take his revenge upon "that meddling [[Time Lord]]," the Doctor. Lytton insists he is in their grasp. While Davros's travel chair is undergoing maintenance by the engineer Kiston, Lytton explains that the Daleks lost their war against the [[Movellans]] due to the development of a virus that specifically attacks Dalek [[Biological tissue|tissue]], and have awakened Davros to find a cure. Despite Lytton's reservations, Davros demands that he remain on the prison ship while working on the virus, as it may be necessary for him to be refrozen. When Lytton leaves to discuss this with the Supreme Dalek, Davros uses a [[Hypodermic|hypodermic]]-like mind control device to take control of Kiston.
The Doctor and his friends have by now met a traumatised Stien. He joins them in returning to the warehouse to hunt for the time corridor. While the others are distracted, Turlough vanishes. While searching for him, the Doctor, Tegan and Stien meet a military bomb disposal squad, led by [[Colonel]] [[Archer (Resurrection of the Daleks)|Archer]], who were called in after builders converting the warehouse into flats uncovered what they believed were unexploded bombs. Turlough has ended up on the Dalek ship after having stumbled into the time corridor.


Meanwhile, the Doctor and the members of the bomb disposal squad, having brought the remnants of the destroyed Dalek machine back inside, are searching for the [[Kaled]] mutant that was housed inside it. They eventually find and kill it, but only after it wounds one of the squad's men. While the medical officer of the squad looks after the victim and a recovering Tegan, the Doctor and Stien head into the TARDIS to find out what is happening at the other end of the time corridor.
Having learned the Doctor is in the warehouse, the Supreme Dalek dispatches a Dalek to detain him. The Dalek travels through the time corridor and appears in the warehouse.


The TARDIS materialises inside the Dalek ship and, narrowly avoiding being captured by a guard, the Doctor tells Stien that they should find Turlough and make a swift exit. But Stien points his own weapon at the Doctor, revealing that he himself is an agent of the Daleks...
The Doctor yells at everyone to take cover as the Dalek prepares to exterminate them. ''[End of part one of four-part version.]''


====  Part Three====
The Dalek kills one of the soldiers before the Doctor gets the other men to focus their fire on its eyestalk, blinding it. In the struggle, Tegan is hit by the Dalek's sucker arm, but the others push the Dalek out of the loading bay doors, whereupon it hits the ground and explodes. Tegan has suffered a head injury and blacks out.
A squadron of Daleks close in to exterminate the Doctor, but Lytton enters and informs them that the Supreme Dalek has ordered that the Doctor must not be killed - yet. The Daleks confirm this as the truth and lead the Doctor away. On the prison ship, Turlough joins forces with the remnants of the crew, informing them of the existence of the time corridor, as a possible way of escaping the effects of the ship's self-destruct. On Earth, the man attacked by the Dalek creature is behaving very strangely and wanders away, mumbling nonsense. The group commander, Colonel Archer, decides to radio for help, although his own [[Radio|radio]] is dead. He heads outside, finds two policemen (Lytton's associates), and asks them for assistance. As he tries the radio, a policeman holds a gun to his head. The Daleks reveal their plan of [[Cloning|cloning]] the Doctor and his companions, and to use the clones to assassinate the High Council of Time Lords on [[Gallifrey]]. Stien begins the mind-copying sequence while the Doctor tries to talk him into resisting his Dalek mind conditioning. While this is going on, Styles and the two station guards are killed when trying to activate the station's [[Self-destruct|self-destruct]] system.


Back on Earth, Colonel Archer returns to the warehouse, obviously under Dalek control. Tegan makes an escape attempt, but is soon recaptured by the policemen and taken through the time corridor to the Dalek ship. The squad's scientific advisor, Professor Laird, is shot while trying to flee the soldiers. Meanwhile, in the duplication chamber, Stien is overcome with confusion: the Doctor has realized that Stien's conditioning is unstable and begins challenging his ability to think for himself. Just as the mind-copying sequence nears completion, Stien breaks his conditioning and stops the process, freeing the Doctor.
On the prison station, only Styles, Mercer and two guards are left alive of the original crew. Disguised in uniforms taken from Lytton's guards, they plan to blow up the station with its self-destruct system, even at the cost of their own lives.


The Doctor finds Turlough and Tegan, and they return to the TARDIS along with Stien and the last surviving station crew member. Rather than depart, the Doctor decides he must destroy Davros once and for all. With Stien and Lt. Mercer he heads to the station lab, leaving Tegan and Turlough in the TARDIS, which he has surreptitiously programmed on time delay to return them to the warehouse. Davros then announces that once the Doctor has been exterminated, he will build a new race of Daleks which shall be even more deadly, and they shall once more become the supreme beings.
Still in his room on the prison ship, Davros explains to Lytton that his cryogenic sentence lasted for "ninety years of mind-numbing boredom". He vows revenge on "that meddling [[Time Lord]]," the Doctor. Lytton insists he is in their grasp. While Davros's travel chair is undergoing maintenance by an engineer named [[Kiston]], Lytton explains how the Daleks lost their war against the [[Movellan]]s due to the development of a virus that specifically attacks Dalek tissue. They have woken Davros to find a cure. Despite Lytton's reservations, Davros demands he remain on the prison station while working on the virus. It may be necessary for him to be refrozen. When Lytton leaves to discuss this with the Supreme Dalek, Davros uses a [[Davros' mind control device|hypodermic-like mind control device]] (produced from a secret compartment on his chair's control panel) to take control of Kiston.


====  Part Four ====
[[File:DM.jpg|thumb|A Kaled mutant attacks a soldier.]]
The Doctor confronts Davros in the lab, but his chance to kill him is lost when Stien's conditioning re-asserts itself long enough to let Lytton's troops kill Lt. Mercer. Horrified by his actions, Stien refuses to accompany the Doctor back to the time corridor, and runs off into the station.
Meanwhile, the Doctor and the members of the bomb disposal squad have brought the remnants of the wrecked Dalek back inside. They search for the [[Kaled]] mutant inside. They find and kill it after it wounds one of the squad's men. The squad's scientific advisor, Professor [[Laird|Sarah Laird]], looks after the victim and a recovering Tegan. Colonel Archer decides to radio his H.Q. for reinforcements, although his own [[radio]] is dead. Leaving the Doctor his gun-belt in case any more Daleks arrive, Archer leaves to find a telephone.


Davros' army (consisting of a [[Biochemist|biochemist]], Kiston, a soldier, and two Daleks) is growing and he dispatches his Daleks to Earth. Anticipating resistance from the Daleks not loyal to him, Davros breaks opens a capsule of the Movellan virus. Two Daleks then enter with the intention of exterminating him, but are themselves killed instead by the virus.
Archer finds a telephone box on the street, but on lifting the receiver discovers the phone has been vandalised; the cable has been cut. Stepping outside, Archer finds two policemen and asks one of the officers if he can use his radio to call for assistance. The policeman silently obliges, but when Archer tries the radio, it doesn't work. The other policeman then holds a gun to Archer's head.


Back at the warehouse, a huge battle is taking place between Davros' Daleks and those loyal to the Supreme Dalek. The TARDIS has arrived and the Doctor returns through the time corridor. He now knows that the "unexploded bombs" discovered earlier on were in fact canisters containing the Movellan virus. He opens a canister that Tegan and Turlough have brought into the TARDIS, and places it behind the Daleks who soon all start to die.
The Doctor and Stien head into the TARDIS to find out what is happening at the other end of the time corridor.


Lytton has escaped, and gleefully watches the Daleks' demise. He swaps his Dalek uniform for that of a policeman, and joins his two fellow "bobbies" on their next vigil. Back on the space station, Davros prepares to use an escape pod to flee from the station, but the Movellan virus attacks and seemingly kills him.
On Earth, the soldier attacked by the Dalek mutant behaves very strangely, wandering away, mumbling nonsense, and running upstairs. Sergeant [[Calder (Resurrection of the Daleks)|Calder]] follows the soldier, but then suddenly finds himself confronted by four Daleks which have appeared via the time corridor. Tegan and Laird hear the sound of gunfire upstairs and try to leave the warehouse — only to be caught by Archer, Calder and the soldiers (including the one blasted down by the Dalek earlier). Archer tells them the warehouse is now under martial law and he will have them shot if they try to leave. Out of the soldiers' earshot, Tegan points out to Laird that's not the real Archer, as the Colonel gave the Doctor his gun-belt and yet he's wearing one.


The Daleks are dead, and Tegan is appalled at the deaths that have taken place. The Dalek Supreme appears on the TARDIS scanner and threatens the Doctor, claiming that the Daleks have duplicates of prominent humans all over Earth, and it is just a matter of time before Earth falls.
The TARDIS materialises inside the Dalek ship and narrowly avoids being captured. The Doctor tells Stien they should find Turlough and make a swift exit. Stien points his own weapon at the Doctor, revealing himself an agent of the Daleks...


Meanwhile, a wounded Stien is trying to activate the self-destruct sequence. Just as he is about to finish, the Daleks enter and exterminate him. With his last ounce of life, he completes the sequence and destroys both the station and the Dalek ship.
=== Part two ===
A squadron of Daleks close in to exterminate the Doctor, but Lytton enters and tells them the Supreme Dalek has ordered the Doctor is not to be killed — yet. The Daleks confirm this and lead the Doctor away. On the prison station, Turlough joins forces with the remnants of the crew. He tells them of the time corridor to escape the station's self-destruction.


The Doctor calls for them all to leave, but Tegan refuses; this has been one massacre too far. She no longer enjoys her adventures and wants to give it up, so she runs off. The Doctor is saddened by this, and he and Turlough leave. As the TARDIS vanishes, Tegan runs back, remembering the Doctor's old admonishment: "Brave heart, Tegan." She calls out to the empty air that she will miss him.
The Daleks reveal their plan of [[cloning]] the Doctor and his companions and using the clones to assassinate the [[High Council of Time Lords]] on [[Gallifrey]]. Stien begins the mind-copying sequence while the Doctor tries to talk him into resisting his Dalek mind conditioning.


==Cast==
Elsewhere, Styles and the two station guards are killed while trying to activate the station's [[self-destruct]] system.
*[[Fifth Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Peter Davison]]
*[[Tegan]] - [[Janet Fielding]]
*[[Turlough]] - [[Mark Strickson]]
*[[Davros]] - [[Terry Molloy]]
*[[Stien]] - [[Rodney Bewes]]
*[[Lytton]] - [[Maurice Colbourne]]
*[[Styles]] - [[Rula Lenska]]
*Colonel [[Archer]] - [[Del Henney]]
*Professor [[Laird]] - [[Chloe Ashcroft]]
*Sergeant [[Calder]] - [[Philip McGough]]
*[[Mercer]] - [[Jim Findley]]
*[[Osborn]] - [[Sneh Gupta]]
*Trooper - [[Roger Davenport]]
*Crewmembers - [[John Adam Baker]], [[Linsey Turner]]
*[[Galloway]] - [[William Sleigh]]
*[[Dalek]] Voices - [[Brian Miller]], [[Royce Mills]]
*[[Dalek Operator]]s - [[John Scott Martin]], [[Cy Town]], [[Tony Starr]], [[Toby Byrne]]
*[[Kiston]] - [[Leslie Grantham]]


==Crew==
Back on Earth, Tegan tries to escape by running east down the Thames Path, pursued by Lytton's "policemen", and shouts for help to a man with a metal-detector down on the mud banks. But the man has his back to Tegan and is wearing headphones so he can't hear her. The "policemen" recapture Tegan and then, to her horror, one of them callously shoots the man — even though he saw and heard nothing. Back at the warehouse, Archer orders the soldiers to put the women into the time corridor, but Laird panics and runs; the soldiers open fire and kill her. Tegan is taken through the time corridor to the Dalek ship.
*[[Assistant Floor Manager]] - [[Matthew Burge]]
*[[Costumes]] - [[Janet Tharby]]
*[[Designer]] - [[John Anderson]]
*[[Film Cameraman]] - [[Ian Punter]]
*[[Film Editor]] - [[Dan Rae]]
*[[Incidental Music]] - [[Malcolm Clarke]]
*[[Make-Up]] - [[Eileen Mair]]
*[[Producer]] - [[John Nathan-Turner]]
*[[Production Assistant]] - [[Joy Sinclair]]
*[[Production Associate]] - [[June Collins]]
*[[Script Editor]] - [[Eric Saward]]
*[[Special Sounds]] - [[Dick Mills]]
*[[Studio Lighting]] - [[Ron Bristow]]
*[[Studio Sound]] - [[Scott Talbott]]
*[[Theme Arrangement]] - [[Peter Howell]]
*[[Title Music]] - [[Ron Grainer]]
*[[Visual Effects]] - [[Peter Wragg]]


==References==
Meanwhile, in the duplication chamber, Stien is overcome by confusion. The Doctor has realised Stien's conditioning is unstable. He challenges his ability to think for himself. As the mind-copying sequence nears completion, Stien breaks his conditioning and stops the process, freeing the Doctor.
*The [[Cloister Bell]] can be heard ringing when the Doctor is trying to free the TARDIS from the Daleks' time corridor.
*The Daleks use [[time corridor]] technology to travel between their space craft, the space station and Earth.
*There are cylinders of the [[Movellan]] virus stored on [[Earth]].
*The Doctor handles a [[pistol|gun]], killing a [[Kaled mutant|Dalek mutant]].  
*The [[Supreme Dalek]] is in charge of one Dalek faction.  
*Flashbacks on the Dalek's mind analysis machine included: [[Turlough]], [[Tegan]], [[Nyssa]], [[Adric]], [[Romana II]], [[Romana I]], [[K-9]], [[Harry Sullivan]], [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Sarah Jane Smith]], [[Jo Grant]], [[the Brigadier]], [[Liz Shaw]], [[Third Doctor]], [[Zoe Heriot]], [[Victoria Waterfield]], [[Jamie McCrimmon]], [[Second Doctor]], [[Ben Jackson]], [[Polly]], [[Dodo]], [[Sara Kingdom]], [[Katarina]], [[Barbara Wright]], [[Ian Chesterton]], [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] and the [[First Doctor]].
*It is explicitly shown that Daleks can electronically communicate with each other without words.


==Story Notes==
[[File:Open wide.jpg|thumb|Kiston converts a Dalek to Davros's cause.]]
*This story had the working titles of: '''Warhead''', '''The Return''', '''The Resurrection'''
The Doctor finds Turlough and Tegan, and they return to the TARDIS with Stien and the last surviving station crew member. Rather than depart, the Doctor decides he must destroy Davros once and for all. With Stien and Lt. Mercer, he heads to the station lab, leaving Tegan and Turlough in the TARDIS, which he has secretly programmed to return to the warehouse on time delay. In the lab, Davros has heard the Doctor has been taken prisoner by the Daleks. He announces that once the Doctor has been exterminated, he will build a new race of Daleks which shall be even more deadly. They shall again become the supreme beings. ''[End of part three of four-part version.]''
*Although recorded as four separate episodes it was broadcast as two 45 minute episodes in order to free up transmission slots for the broadcast of the Winter Olympics.
*An article by [[Russell T Davies]] in the ''Doctor Who Annual 2006'' suggested that the Dalek Supreme's attempt to assassinate the High Council was one of the initial clashes in the [[Last Great Time War]] mentioned in the 2005 series.
*[[Eric Saward]] was unsatisfied with the story, saying in a DVD commentary that it was too frantic, with too many ideas. The main plot was the Daleks releasing Davros in order that he might find a cure for the Movellan virus. There were several other sub-plots: the creation of duplicates to invade the Earth; the capture of the Doctor in order to create a clone that would assassinate the Time Lords' [[High Council]]; Davros's scheme to create a new race of Daleks. None of these are dealt with at any length, and they distract from the central plot.
*[[John Nathan-Turner]] hated the Dalek-like helmets of Lytton's troops, but did not have the time to change them.  
*[[Michael Wisher]] (who had played the original Davros in [[DW]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'') was unavailable to reprise his role as Davros due to theatrical work so he was replaced by actor [[Terry Molloy]].
*A clip of the battling Daleks was used in the first episode of the TV series "James May's 20th Century". This clip was used to illustrate an item about lasers.
*This story is noted for its unusually high body count, even for Doctor Who. Besides the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough, only Lytton and the Dalek Supreme survive. Much of the violence appears gratuitous, such as the murder of Laird, the killing of a crew member infected by a disease, and the shooting of a man with a metal detector.


===Ratings===
The Doctor confronts Davros in the lab. His chance to kill him is lost when Stien's conditioning reasserts itself long enough to let Lytton's troops kill Lt. Mercer. Horrified by his actions, Stien refuses to accompany the Doctor back to the time corridor and runs off into the station.
*Part 1 - 7.3 million viewers
*Part 2 - 8.0 million viewers


===Myths===
Davros's army — a biochemist, Kiston, a soldier, and two Daleks — is growing. He dispatches his loyal Daleks and troopers to Earth. Anticipating resistance by the [[Black Dalek Leader|Supreme Dalek]]. Davros opens a capsule of the Movellan virus. Two Daleks enter to exterminate him, but are killed by the virus.
*It was due to the success of the double-length episode format of this story that the BBC decided to adopt the same format for the whole of the following season. ''(It had already been decided before this that season twenty-two would consist of thirteen episodes of approximately forty-five minutes each).''


===Filming Locations===
[[File:Davros and the Virus.jpg|left|thumb|Davros succumbs to the [[Movellan virus]].]]
*Curlew Street, Bermondsey
Back at the warehouse, a battle rages between Davros's loyalists and the Supreme's Daleks. The TARDIS arrives and the Doctor returns through the time corridor. He now knows the "unexploded bombs" discovered earlier are canisters of the Movellan virus. He opens a canister that Turlough and Tegan have brought into the TARDIS. He places it behind the Daleks, who all start to die.
*Butler's Wharf, Bermondsey, London
*Shad Thames, Bermondsey
*Lafone Street, Bermondsey
*[[BBC Television Centre]] ([[List of stories recorded at BBC Television Centre|TC6 & TC8]]), Shepherd's Bush, [[London]]


===Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors===
Lytton has escaped and gleefully watches the Daleks' demise. He swaps his Dalek trooper uniform for that of a policeman and joins his two fellow "bobbies" on their next vigil. Back on the space station with the Imperial Daleks defeated, Davros prepares an escape pod to flee from the station, but the Movellan virus attacks him as well.
*The gun-carrying at one point near-murderous Doctor of this episode seems wildly out of character. ''Davros is responsible for death and destruction of billions of people and worlds due to the creation of the Daleks the Doctor wanted to destroy the daleks and stop any more destruction''


*Why do the Daleks allow Turlough to wander freely? This is not necessary in order to use him as bait.
Back on Earth, the Daleks from both sides are dead. Tegan is appalled at the deaths. Suddenly, the Supreme Dalek appears on the TARDIS scanner and threatens the Doctor, claiming the Daleks have duplicates of prominent humans all over Earth which makes it just a matter of time before Earth falls. The Doctor, however, states that the duplicates are not stable and will break free of Dalek control, just as Stein has.


*Near the end of episode 2, three Daleks go into the time corridor and four come out.
[[File:Tegan goodbye.jpg|thumb|Tegan says goodbye to the Doctor.]]
Meanwhile, a wounded Stien tries to activate the self-destruct sequence. Just as he is about to finish, the Renegade Daleks enter and exterminate him. Although dying, he manages to complete the sequence, destroying the station and the Dalek ship.


*Many of the airings of the third and fourth episodes seen on [[PBS]] stations in the US lacked sound effects; actors pointed lasers at each other noiselessly, and the final explosion was silent. Ironically, this could be seen as more realistic ''These are called non-diogetic sounds, if the characters heard the sound of the lasers or the explosions then it would be an error''.
At the warehouse, the Doctor calls for them all to leave as they must alert Earth's authorities, but Tegan says she's not coming. This has been one massacre too many. She no longer enjoys her adventures and wants to give it up, so she says a brief goodbye to the Doctor and Turlough before running off. The Doctor sadly remarks that he originally left Gallifrey for much the same reason that Tegan has just left him; he had tired of the nature of their lives and notes that he should try and mend his ways. With that, the Doctor and Turlough return to the TARDIS and as it vanishes, Tegan runs back, remembering the Doctor's old admonishment: "Brave heart, Tegan." She calls out to the empty air that, despite everything, she will miss him.


*Davros, although aware of the Movellan War, is surprised and fascinated by the problem of the impasse. Yet in [[DW]]: ''[[Destiny of the Daleks]]'' he was aware of the problem and even actively worked on solving it. ''He still finds the situation fascinating''.
== Cast ==
* [[Fifth Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Peter Davison]]
* [[Tegan Jovanka]] - [[Janet Fielding]]
* [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]] - [[Mark Strickson]]
* [[Davros]] - [[Terry Molloy]]
* [[Stien]] - [[Rodney Bewes]]
* [[Gustave Lytton|Lytton]] - [[Maurice Colbourne]]
* [[Elizabeth Styles|Styles]] - [[Rula Lenska]]
* [[Colonel]] [[Archer (Resurrection of the Daleks)|Archer]] - [[Del Henney]]
* [[Professor]] [[Sarah Laird|Laird]] - [[Chloe Ashcroft]]
* [[Sergeant]] [[Calder (Resurrection of the Daleks)|Calder]] - [[Philip McGough]]
* [[Tyler Mercer|Mercer]] - [[Jim Findley]]
* [[Fabian Osborn|Osborn]] - [[Sneh Gupta]]
* [[Trooper (Resurrection of the Daleks)|Trooper]] - [[Roger Davenport]]
* [[Baz Seaton|Crewmember]] - [[John Adam Baker]]
* [[Zena|Crewmember]] - [[Linsey Turner]]
* [[Galloway]] - [[William Sleigh]]
* [[Dalek]] Voices - [[Brian Miller (actor)|Brian Miller]], [[Royce Mills]]
* [[Dalek Operator]]s - [[John Scott Martin]], [[Cy Town]], [[Tony Starr]], [[Toby Byrne]]
* [[Kiston]] - [[Leslie Grantham|Les Grantham]]


*Despite having spent his time in suspended animation he has been able to make his mind control device and has learnt enough about Time Lords to deduce that they're 'all soft'. ''Davros' primary contact with Time Lords has been the Doctor. To the creator of the Daleks, anyone who shows compassion or mercy is soft. Taking the Doctor to represent Time Lords, he would undoubtedly consider them soft. The Daleks, based on their knowledge of and interaction with Time Lords, would undoubtedly agree.''
=== Uncredited cast ===
* [[Archer (Dalek duplicate)|Archer duplicate]] - [[Del Henney]]
* [[Calder (Resurrection of the Daleks)|Calder duplicate]] - [[Philip McGough]]
* [[Fifth Doctor Dalek duplicate (Resurrection of the Daleks)|Doctor duplicate]] - [[Peter Davison]]
* [[Tegan Jovanka (Dalek duplicate)|Tegan duplicate]] - [[Janet Fielding]]
* [[Vislor Turlough (Dalek duplicate)|Turlough duplicate]] - [[Mark Strickson]]
* Old Tramp - [[Albert Welch]]
* Escapees - [[Ulric Browne]], [[Mair Coleman]], [[George Christie]], [[Rudolf Ramillo]], [[Ranjit Nakara]], [[Della McCrae]], [[Alan Crisp]]
* [[Lytton's policemen|Lytton's Policemen]] - [[Michael Jefferies]], [[Mike Braben]]
* Soldiers - [[Mike Mungarvan]], [[Simon Crane]], [[Kevin O'Brien]]
* Dalek Troopers - [[Trevor St. John Hacker|Trevor St John Hacker]], [[Kevin Goss]], [[Barney Lawrence]], [[Tony Liotti]], [[Jeff Wayne]], [[Sean McCabe]], [[Alan Riches]], [[Christopher Wolf]], [[Michael Eriera]], [[Martin Nelson]], [[Tim Lawrence]]
* Crewmembers - [[Mike Vinden]], [[Robert Goodman]], [[Penny Lambirth]], [[Ian Marshall-Fisher|Ian Marshal-Fisher]], [[Kenneth Lawrie]], [[Nigel Tisdall]], [[Graham Cole]], [[Ginny Rose]], [[Kevin O'Brien]]
* Man with Metal Detector - [[Pat Judge]]
* Chemist - [[Adrian Scott]]


*Davros appears to distrust the Daleks, and declares that they will not abuse him again. Yet in ''Destiny'' they were slave-like in their obedience.
== Crew ==
* [[Assistant Floor Manager]] - [[Matthew Burge]]
* [[Camera Supervisor]] - [[Alec Wheal]]
* [[Costumes]] - [[Janet Tharby]]
* [[Designer (crew)|Designer]] - [[John Anderson]]
* [[Film Cameraman]] - [[Ian Punter]]
* [[Film Editor]] - [[Dan Rae]]
* [[Film sound|Film Sound]] - [[Bob Roberts (film sound)|Bob Roberts]]
* [[Incidental Music]] - [[Malcolm Clarke]]
* [[Make-Up]] - [[Eileen Mair]]
* [[Producer]] - [[John Nathan-Turner]]
* [[Production Assistant]] - [[Joy Sinclair]]
* [[Production Associate]] - [[June Collins]]
* [[Production Manager]] - [[Corinne Hollingworth]]
* [[Script Editor]] - [[Eric Saward]]
* [[Special Sounds]] - [[Dick Mills]]
* [[Studio Lighting]] - [[Ron Bristow]]
* [[Studio Sound]] - [[Scott Talbott]]
* [[Technical co-ordinator|Technical Co-ordinator]] - [[Alan Arbuthnott]]
* [[Theme Arrangement]] - [[Peter Howell]]
* [[Doctor Who theme|Title Music]] - [[Ron Grainer]]
* [[Videotape editor|Videotape Editor]] - [[Hugh Parson]]
* [[Video effects|Video Effects]] - [[Dave Chapman]]
* [[Vision Mixer]] - [[Paul Wheeler]]
* [[Visual Effects]] - [[Peter Wragg]]


*Who are the prisoners who escape at the start? Duplicates? The originals of duplicates?
== Worldbuilding ==
=== Animals ===
* A [[cat]] is mistaken for a Dalek mutant.


*Why use duplicates as soldiers, rather than to infiltrate? ''They proberly use them for both, IE a lot of spies have been soilders.''
=== Daleks ===
* The [[Black Dalek Leader|Dalek Supreme]] is in charge of one Dalek faction.
* The Daleks electronically [[communication|communicate]] with each other without words. An electronic sound is heard each time this happens.
* The Daleks [[clone]] subdued humanoids in duplication chambers. The [[Dalek duplicate|duplicates]] are intended to infiltrate strategic Earth positions. A duplicate of the Doctor is also intended to infiltrate the High Council of Gallifrey.
* The Daleks identify Turlough as a [[companion]] of the Doctor, despite having not met him directly yet.
* Davros has a [[mind control]] device for both humanoids and Daleks. He uses the device on two Daleks, which subsequently become the first [[Imperial Dalek]]s.
* When infected by the [[Movellan virus]], Daleks begin to lose control of their casings, and they lose vision while a white substance spurts out of their casings. Davros is also vulnerable.


*Why are the cylinders of Movellan virus left on 1984 Earth, a planet that the Daleks want to invade? It's a bit like the Allies hiding an atom bomb in Berlin. ''The Daleks probably think the Humans are too primitve to do anything''
=== The Doctor ===
* Flashbacks through the Doctor's mind on the Dalek's mind analysis machine include: [[Turlough]], [[Tegan]], [[Nyssa]], [[Adric]], [[Romana II]], [[Romana I]], [[K9]], [[Harry Sullivan]], the [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Sarah Jane Smith]], [[Jo Grant]], [[the Brigadier]], [[Liz Shaw]], the [[Third Doctor]], [[Zoe Heriot]], [[Victoria Waterfield]], [[Jamie McCrimmon]], the [[Second Doctor]], [[Ben Jackson]], [[Polly Wright]], [[Dodo Chaplet]], [[Sara Kingdom]], [[Katarina]], [[Steven Taylor]], [[Vicki Pallister]], [[Barbara Wright]], [[Ian Chesterton]], [[Susan Foreman]] and the [[First Doctor]].
* The Doctor decides that Davros must be killed and accepts the role of executioner with great reluctance. He ultimately does not kill him.
* The Doctor vows to change his ways after the massive death toll and Tegan's stinging criticism of his lifestyle.
* When Tegan leaves, the Doctor remembers how he left [[Gallifrey]] for similar reasons.


*When Tegan handles a cylinder she remarks on how light is. But later it takes two Dalek agents to lift one. ''It's not a matter of weight, it's a need to be very careful as the contents of the cylinder will kill their employers.''
=== Individuals ===
* Tegan quotes her dead aunt [[Vanessa (Logopolis)|Vanessa]] to justify her decision to stay on Earth.
* Lytton disguises himself as a [[policeman]]. His henchmen do likewise.


* How do the Daleks have duplicates of Tegan and Turlough? The 1984 Earth soldiers appear to be duplicated in an extraordinarily short time. And why do the Daleks make such a fuss to keep the Doctor alive to clone him, when they can clone dead people as well? ''Davros needed him alive to copy his memories, which he explicitly mentions wanting to do.''
=== Locations ===
* There are cylinders of the [[Movellan]] virus stored on [[Earth]].
* The TARDIS materialises near [[London]]'s [[Tower Bridge]] in [[1984]].


*How are the Daleks able to view what's going on inside the station from their own ship? ''Being a Prison ship, they would have to have video cameras.''
=== Time travel ===
* The Daleks use [[time corridor]] technology to travel between their spacecraft, the space station and Earth in [[1984]].
* The [[Cloister Bell]] can be heard ringing while the Doctor is trying to free the TARDIS from the Daleks' time corridor.
* Inside the time corridor, [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] is thrown around.


*Why does Davros immediately assume correctly that Lytton and his troopers are working for the Daleks after they unfreeze him? ''The Daleks are likely the only creatures in the universe that would want Davros free. The obviously Dalek-inspired design of Lytton's headgear probably also helped convince Davros that his creations were behind the attack.''
=== Weapons ===
* The Doctor handles a [[pistol]], killing a [[Dalek mutant]].
* The [[Movellan]]s hid a number of anti-Dalek virus containers on Earth.
* The Daleks equip their android duplicates with time period specific weapons, such as [[sub-machine gun]]s for Lytton's faux-policemen. This causes some consternation for Lytton, who abhors the waste of useful slaves/subjects for experimentation after the prisoners escape.
* Dalek Troopers are armed with [[laser]] weapons that have no visible beam but are lethal to humans in a single shot and can damage a Dalek with enough shots.


*Why do the duplicated Earth soldiers attack Davros's Daleks with weapons they know will not harm them? ''Their weapons actually do work against the Daleks, as we saw when they managed to disable a Dalek earlier in the story by shooting out its eye stalk. Presumably they were trying to do the same thing here.''
== Story notes ==
* This story had the working titles of ''The Return'', ''Return of the Daleks'' and ''The Resurrection''.{{Fact}}
* Although recorded as four separate episodes, it was broadcast as two forty-five-minute episodes to free up transmission slots for the broadcast of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Winter_Olympics the 1984 Winter Olympics].
* The forty-five minute episodes used the closing credits prepared for the twenty-minute parts one and three. Consequently, Kiston is uncredited on the forty-five minute part one as he does not appear until the twenty-five minute part two.
* [[Rodney Bewes]] (Stien) is erroneously credited as "Stein" in ''[[Radio Times]]'' for part one.
* [[Leslie Grantham]] (Kiston) is credited both on-screen and in ''Radio Times'' under the name Les Grantham. He is uncredited on-screen for part one, but is credited in ''Radio Times''.
* An article by [[Russell T Davies]] in the ''[[Doctor Who Annual 2006]]'' suggested that the Dalek Supreme's attempt to assassinate the High Council was one of the initial clashes in the [[Last Great Time War]] mentioned (and in subsequent years, seen) in the revived series.
* During the mind analysis scene, [[Leela]] and [[Kamelion]] are the only companions not to appear in the flashback sequence; a clip of the former, taken from ''[[The Face of Evil (TV story)|The Face of Evil]]'' was to be featured during the aforementioned flashback sequence, but was omitted by mistake. Of the companions seen, six never encountered the Daleks on-screen: Dodo, Zoe, Liz, Romana I, Adric and Nyssa.
* [[Eric Saward]] was unsatisfied with the story, saying in a [[DVD]] commentary that it was too frantic, with too many ideas. The main plot was the Daleks releasing Davros so he might find a cure for the Movellan virus. There were several sub-plots: the creation of duplicates to invade the Earth; the capture of the Doctor to create a clone to assassinate the Time Lords' [[High Council]]; Davros' scheme to create a new race of Daleks. As none of these are dealt with at any length, he felt they distracted from the central plot.
* [[John Nathan-Turner]] hated the Dalek-like helmets of Lytton's troops, but did not have the time to change them.{{Fact}}
* [[Michael Wisher]], who had played the original Davros in ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'', was unavailable to reprise his role, as he was appearing in ''The Dame of Sark'', so he was replaced by [[Terry Molloy]]. Molloy studied Wisher's approach to Davros to ensure a level of consistency.{{Fact}} The mask originally worn by Wisher, and adapted for [[David Gooderson]], was too large for Molloy, and so a new mask was created using a cast of Molloy's head.
* A clip of the battling Daleks was used in the first episode of the TV series ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May%27s_20th_Century James May's 20th Century]''; the clip was used to illustrate an item about lasers.
* This story has an unusually high body count, even for ''Doctor Who, ''at 76. Besides the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough, only Davros, Lytton and his two policemen survive. (The Dalek Supreme is technically not destroyed on-screen but was almost certainly on the Dalek ship at the time of its destruction, since there appears to have been no opportunity for it to have departed the scene.) Much of the violence appears gratuitous, such as the murder of Laird, the killing of a crew member infected by a disease, and the shooting of the man with the metal detector whose attention Tegan tries to attract - but these were likely included to set up Tegan's departure at the end of the serial, a decision which she makes due to the high death toll of the adventure.
* This story was never officially novelised during the original run of [[Target Books]] due to unsuccessful negotiations with [[Eric Saward]], as well as [[Terry Nation]]'s agent Roger Hancock.{{Fact}} However, Saward later novelised the story for BBC Books in [[2019 (releases)|2019]].
* The story was the first of three consecutive serials, along with ''[[Planet of Fire (TV story)|Planet of Fire]]'' and ''[[The Caves of Androzani (TV story)|The Caves of Androzani]]'', that saw the departure of one of the season's regular cast members. In this serial, [[Janet Fielding]] departs as Tegan.
* The visual effect used for the space station's self-destruct was later reused during the Fifth Doctor's regeneration in ''[[The Caves of Androzani (TV story)|The Caves of Androzani]]''.
* This is the first story since ''[[Planet of the Daleks (TV story)|Planet of the Daleks]]'' to feature a [[Black Dalek Leader|Dalek]] designated as the [[Supreme Dalek]]. Later sources would interestingly identify the Supremes seen in ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]'' and in this story as the same individual.
* This is the last Dalek story in the Classic Series to include scenes in the [[TARDIS control room]], and the last overall until ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]''/''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]''.
* The story was originally to have been broadcast as part of Season 20 under the title ''The Return'', but due to production problems (namely industrial action at the BBC) it was moved forward to Season 21. The story's ending had to be rewritten to include Tegan's departure, which had naturally not featured in the original version.{{Fact}}
* [[Leslie Grantham]] was considered for the role of Galloway. He chose the role of Kiston because it had more screen-time.{{Fact}}
* [[Del Henney]] was considered for Lytton before being cast as Colonel Archer. [[Terry Molloy]] was also considered before taking over as Davros.{{Fact}}
* Davros was supposed to be killed off in this story, until the estate of [[Terry Nation]] objected.{{Fact}}
* [[Matthew Robinson]] felt the story was convoluted and had too many twists.{{Fact}}
* Tegan's departure was shot last and both [[Peter Davison]] and [[Janet Fielding]] were visibly upset.
* [[Janet Fielding]] walked around the sets kicking scenery to get herself in the mood for Tegan's leaving scene.{{Fact}}
* It was [[Rodney Bewes]]'s idea to give Stien a stutter.{{Fact}}
* As with most of his other acting work after ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Likely_Lads The Likely Lads]'' (1964-66) and its sequel ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whatever_Happened_to_the_Likely_Lads%3F Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?]'' (1973-74), [[Rodney Bewes]] took the role of Stien mostly just to pay his bills, as his former co-star [[James Bolam]] was refusing to allow the BBC to broadcast reruns of either series due to a royalties dispute. In his later years, Bewes joked that the royalties he got from this story — and the 1976 movie ''The Likely Lads'', whose rights Bolam had less control over — were mostly what kept food on his table until Bolam eventually relented and allowed for repeats and VHS releases of the shows.{{Fact}}
* Davros's new mask, sculpted by Stan Mitchell, was nicknamed "[https://coronationstreet.fandom.com/wiki/Ena_Sharples Ena Sharples]" by the production team due to its perceived similarity to the legendary ''[[Coronation Street]]'' character.{{Fact}}
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Ball_(actor) Nicholas Ball], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Byrne_(actor) Michael Byrne], [[Tom Chadbon]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Firth Peter Firth], [[Tim Pigott-Smith]], [[Patrick Stewart]] and [[David Warner]] were considered for the role of Colonel Archer.{{Fact}}
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Ball_(actor) Nicholas Ball], [[Steven Berkoff]], [[Brian Blessed]], [[Tom Chadbon]], [[Kenneth Cope]], [[Timothy Dalton]], [[Paul Darrow]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gothard Michael Gothard], [[Don Henderson]], [[Martin Jarvis]], [[Michael Jayston]], [[Alfred Lynch]], [[Clive Merrison]], [[Edward Peel]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rhys-Davies John Rhys-Davies], [[Maurice Roëves]], [[George Sewell]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Stewart Patrick Stewart], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Valentine Anthony Valentine] and [[David Warner]] were considered for the role of Lytton.{{Fact}}
* [[James Ellis]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Kinnear Roy Kinnear] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Lacey Ronald Lacey] was considered for Stien.{{Fact}}
* [[Polly Adams]], [[Honor Blackman]], [[Eleanor Bron]], [[Rachel Davies]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judi_Dench Judi Dench], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Hanley Jenny Hanley], [[Diane Keen]], [[Maureen Lipman]], [[Joanna Lumley]], [[Kate O'Mara|Kate O’Mara]], [[Jacqueline Pearce]], [[Sheila Ruskin]], [[Pamela Salem]], [[Fiona Walker]] and [[Penelope Wilton]] were considered for the role of Dr Styles.{{Fact}}
* [[Miriam Margolyes]] was offered the role of Professor Sarah Laird.{{Fact}}
* [[Barry Andrews]], [[Dicken Ashworth]], [[Michael Attwell]], [[Roy Boyd]], [[Brian Croucher]], [[Tom Georgeson]], [[Brian Hall]], [[Roy Holder]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Murray_(actor) Billy Murray], [[Carl Rigg]] and Colin Sullivan were considered for Sgt. Calder and Galloway.{{Fact}}
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alun_Armstrong Alun Armstrong], [[Christopher Ellison]], [[Roy Holder]], [[Tony Osoba]] and [[William Sleigh]] were considered for Kiston.{{Fact}}
* [[Jim Broadbent]] was considered for the role of Trooper.{{Fact}}
* The story was originally to have been directed by [[Peter Grimwade]]. When the story was postponed, Grimwade took members of the production team out to dinner, but did not invite [[John Nathan-Turner]] because he had intended to take Nathan-Turner out separately. However, Nathan-Turner felt slighted by the omission and refused to allow Grimwade to direct the story when it was rescheduled for Season 21. [[Matthew Robinson]], who had never worked on the series before but had a "reputation as an action director", was used instead. However, [[Eric Saward]] had already promised Grimwade that he could provide a script for the season, so Grimwade was allowed to write the following story, ''[[Planet of Fire (TV story)|Planet of Fire]]''.{{Fact}}
* [[Leslie Grantham]] went on to play the notorious [[Den Watts|"Dirty" Den Watts]] in ''[[EastEnders]]'', again being cast on the recommendation of [[Matthew Robinson]]. Following Den's return to the soap opera in [[2004]], the character addressed another character, a temporarily wheelchair-bound [[Ian Beale]], as "Davros"; and encountered a police officer named "Kiston".
* [[Eric Saward]] watched everything that existed of the Daleks in preparation, a process he described as "never-ending torture", claiming only to like ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]''. He wanted the setting to be Earth and warehouses, but resisted the Daleks rather riding them.{{What?}}{{Fact}}
* [[Matthew Robinson]] recalled that there was a strange feeling onset and claims reports [[Eric Saward]] pulling a face when he varied a shot from the script's stage directions. He explained to Saward why and then [[John Nathan-Turner]] tore into him for discussing such things with writers.{{Fact}}
* With the exception of a brief scene in ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', this is the only story to feature the Daleks during the Peter Davison era on-screen.
* Davros shows knowledge of the Time Lords — something that had never been said in front of the character in his past two appearances.
* The Daleks know of [[Gallifrey]] and want the Doctor's duplicate to assassinate the [[High Council of Time Lords|High Council]]. They previously had not shown such knowledge before this story. ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'' had however featured a Dalek being taken to Gallifrey (though not surviving to report back what it had seen) and included a line saying that the Daleks had historically not been allowed to participate in the Gallifreyan war games because they "played too well".
* [[Eric Saward]] hoped that this serial would do for the Daleks what [[Earthshock (TV story)|''Earthshock'']] did for the [[Cybermen]].{{Fact}}
* [[Terry Nation]] green-lit the serial after being overwhelmed by the positive response to his first appearance at a convention in [[Chicago]].{{Fact}}
* [[Roy Skelton]] was unable to provide the Dalek voices, so [[Matthew Robinson]] hired [[Royce Mills]] and [[Brian Miller (actor)|Brian Miller]].
* No new Dalek casings were constructed, apart from dummies for special effects work. Instead, [[Matthew Robinson]] had to contend with a motley assortment of components, most of which dated from the [[1960s]]; one top and one skirt section were survivors of the “goon” Daleks made for [[Planet of the Daleks (TV story)|''Planet of the Daleks'']], while another bottom had been built in [[1978]] for display at exhibitions. In all, four Daleks were cobbled together for the serial.{{Fact}}
* At one point, [[John Nathan-Turner]] and [[Matthew Robinson]] had a heated, and very public, row, during which the producer castigated his director for discussing matters with [[Eric Saward]], and demanded that he refrain from conferring with a writer or script editor in the future.{{Fact}}
* The attack on the space station marked the show's first use of a motion-control rig.
* [[Ian Levine]] provided the clips of past Doctors and companions.{{Fact}}
* [[Eric Saward]] included Davros in the story to alleviate the tedium of writing Dalek dialogue, something [[Terry Nation]] discovered when he created the character for ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]].''{{Fact}}
* [[Matthew Robinson]] cast [[Terry Molloy]] because his background in radio meant that he had the vocal presence to play Davros.{{Fact}}
* The Supreme Dalek's role was originally filled by [[Dalek Emperor]]. [[Terry Nation]] objected to this because he disliked the character.{{Fact}}
* While the majority of the companions featured in the mind analysis sequence are represented via a clip from a television story featuring them, [[Katarina]] is instead represented by a publicity photo due to the fact that, at the time of ''Resurrection of the Daleks''{{'}} production, no television episodes featuring her existed within the BBC archives.


*When the Doctor is captured by the Daleks he asks where Davros is. But he does not know that the Dalek ship is docked onto the prison ship where Davros was held, let alone that he has been released. ''He says that he assumes that Davros is about somewhere, he doesn't actually know that the Dalek ship is docked onto the prison ship.''
=== Ratings ===
* Part one - 7.3 million viewers
* Part two - 8.0 million viewers


*The Dalek plan to infiltrate Earth with their duplicates is one of the weak points of the multi-layered and confusing plot. The Dalek plan is never really explained. At the end of the story the Dalek Supreme tells the Doctor that the duplicates have infiltrated Earth. The Doctor explains to Tegan and Turlough that these duplicates will become unstable like Stien. Does this mean they will die, or that they will lose their Dalek conditioning? In the meantime, could they not they create chaos on Earth? ''At the end, Turlough suggests they inform Earth's authorities, and the Doctor agrees, so that is what they most likely done after leaving Tegan.''
=== Myths ===
* It was due to the success of the double-length episode format of this story that the BBC decided to adopt the format for the whole of the following season. ''(It had already been decided before this that season twenty-two would consist of thirteen episodes of approximately forty-five minutes each).''
* The serial had a working title of ''Warhead''. It originates in an eyewitness account of a visit to JNT's office where it appears to have been one of those titles that the producer was fond of writing on his whiteboard to misdirect fans.
* Dalek operators [[John Scott Martin]], [[Cy Town]], [[Tony Starr]] and [[Toby Byrne]] are not credited in ''Radio Times''. ''(They are credited in the ''Radio Times'' programme listings for both episodes, but the "Dalek Operators" credit is quite easy to miss as on both occasions it appears in smaller type alongside the production crew members.)''


*The Dalek that is pushed out the window at the beginning of episode 2 bears little resemblance to the Dalek in the combat scene just before. It's a different colour, and its eye stalk is ridiculously short, to name just the most obvious discrepancies.
=== Filming locations ===
* Curlew Street, Bermondsey
* [[Butler's Wharf]], Bermondsey, London
* Shad Thames, Bermondsey
* Lafone Street, Bermondsey
* [[BBC Television Centre]] ([[List of stories recorded at BBC Television Centre|TC6 &amp; TC8]]), Shepherd's Bush, [[London]]


*When the Daleks discover the Doctor they mean to exterminate him. Lytton appears and tells them that the Supreme Dalek wants him alive. One of the Daleks electronically confers with the Dalek Supreme and confirms this. Why would the Dalek Supreme give this command to Lytton, who is not entirely trustworthy, but not to the party of Daleks sent to the Doctor? ''The Daleks could be arguing among themselves over just such an order when they first appear; as possible evidence for this, they have plenty of time to shoot the Doctor, but don't. Their first instinct would certainly be to exterminate him.''
=== Production errors ===
{{discontinuity}}
* Near the end of part two, three Daleks go into the time corridor — but ''four'' come out.
* Many of the broadcast videotapes of parts three and four seen on [[PBS]] stations in the US lacked sound effects; actors pointed lasers at each other noiselessly and the final explosion was silent. ''(This was due to an unfortunate mix-up of videotapes at BBC Enterprises, which resulted in unsyphered copies — i.e. minus incidental music and sound effects — being supplied.)''
* In part two when the Dalek shoots the army soldier, the laser goes nowhere near where the gunstick is pointing.
* The Dalek pushed out of the warehouse's loading bay doors differs from the Dalek in the studio-shot combat scene just before. It's a different colour, its eyestalk is shorter, and the rings around its mesh are mutilated with severe dents.
* When the Doctor shoots the Dalek mutant, no bullet holes appear in the sheet.
* When Davros says "Now for the Daleks", his mouth does not move at all.
* During part one, in the TARDIS control room scene, you can see the shadow of a boom microphone.
* In many scenes the 'cuffs' on the Dalek grills vary positions between each other throughout the story.
* On some grey Daleks there is no wire mesh between the solar panel slats.
* In one scene, [[Terry Molloy]]'s left eye can be seen underneath Davros's mask.
* In the scene when the Doctor goes to collect the explosive charges in the warehouse (in the same room as the time corridor entrance), there is an audible rattling as the camera moves backwards. As he walks towards the time corridor's entrance, the rattling is heard again.
* In part two, when the Doctor comes across the room containing the corpses of the Daleks' victims, including the real Colonel Archer and Sergeant Calder, the Colonel's body is still wearing the gun-belt he gave to the Doctor in part one.


*Later, when the survivors of the ship's crew are killed in the self-destruct chamber, a Daleks tells Lytton it must inform the Dalek Supreme. But it physically leaves. ''Actually, the camera just switches to focus on Lytton. You can actually hear the Dalek electronically communicating with the Supreme Dalek in the background. It just doesn't appear in the shot itself.''
== Continuity ==
* Davros was placed in suspended animation 90 years ago during [[TV]]: ''[[Destiny of the Daleks (TV story)|Destiny of the Daleks]]''.
* Lytton and his two faux-police goons reappear in [[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]''.
* As the Daleks probe the Doctor's mind, flashbacks on the mind analysis machine included: Turlough, ([[TV]]: ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'') Tegan, ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') [[Nyssa]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Black Orchid (TV story)|Black Orchid]]'') [[Adric]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Warriors' Gate (TV story)|Warriors' Gate]]'') [[Romana II]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Warriors' Gate (TV story)|Warriors' Gate]]'') [[Romana I]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'') [[K9]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Warriors' Gate (TV story)|Warriors' Gate]]'') [[Harry Sullivan]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Zygons (TV story)|Terror of the Zygons]]'') the [[Fourth Doctor]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|Pyramids of Mars]]'') [[Sarah Jane Smith]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|Pyramids of Mars]]'') [[Jo Grant]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mutants (TV story)|The Mutants]]'') [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ambassadors of Death (TV story)|The Ambassdors of Death]]'') [[Liz Shaw]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'') the [[Third Doctor]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mutants (TV story)|The Mutants]]'') [[Zoe Heriot]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') [[Victoria Waterfield]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Enemy of the World (TV story)|The Enemy of the World]]'') [[Jamie McCrimmon]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Enemy of the World (TV story)|The Enemy of the World]]'') the [[Second Doctor]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') [[Ben Jackson]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'') [[Polly Wright]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'') [[Dodo Chaplet]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Machines (TV story)|The War Machines]]'') [[Sara Kingdom]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]'') [[Katarina]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]'') [[Steven Taylor]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Meddler (TV story)|The Time Meddler]]'') [[Vicki Pallister]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Rescue (TV story)|The Rescue]]'') [[Barbara Wright]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'') [[Ian Chesterton]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'') [[Susan Foreman]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'') and the [[First Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]'')
* Tegan leaves the TARDIS but is eventually reunited with the Doctor in [[Brisbane]], [[Australia]] on [[22 September]] [[2006]], 22 years later in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Gathering (audio story)|The Gathering]].'' She has another different encounter with the Doctor in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Good Companions (short story)|Good Companions]]''. She would later encounter the [[Thirteenth Doctor]], as well as talk with a holographic representation of the Fifth Doctor in [[TV]]: ''[[The Power of the Doctor (TV story)|The Power of the Doctor]]''.
* The Doctor meets Davros again in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Davros (audio story)|Davros]]''.
* The use of contagion by the Daleks as a weapon is a recurring element of Dalek exploits. In [[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'' they infect Earth with a plague. In [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Daleks (TV story)|Planet of the Daleks]]'', they conquer [[Spiridon]] with disease. In [[TV]]: ''[[Death to the Daleks (TV story)|Death to the Daleks]]'', they threaten to launch plague missiles. Also, in [[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'', [[Davros]] contemplates a hypothetical situation proposed by the [[Fourth Doctor]] of a disease that would wipe out all life. He later creates it in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Terror Firma (audio story)|Terror Firma]]''.
* When the Doctor makes his decision to murder Davros, he justifies his plan by recalling his hesitation (and eventual decline) to cause the genocide of the Daleks before they could develop into ruthless, ethno-supremacist monsters. He claims that this was a mistake. ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'')
* Tegan previously encountered a Dalek in the Cathedral of Power of the Elite on [[Florana]] in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Elite (audio story)|The Elite]],'' and also met several other Daleks on planet XB93 during [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Nightmare of the Daleks (audio story)|Nightmare of the Daleks]]''.
* The Doctor says he wouldn't know what to do with an army, but will command one later against [[Morbius]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Warmonger (novel)|Warmonger]]'') After being offered an army by [[Missy]], the [[Twelfth Doctor]] stated that he doesn't need one because he had his companions in [[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]''.
* The Daleks previously created [[Fifth Doctor Dalek duplicate (Dalek Soul)|numerous duplicates]] of the Fifth Doctor on [[Mojox]] during [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dalek Soul (audio story)|Dalek Soul]].''


*Why does Davros look so different to when we last saw him in [[DW]]: ''[[Destiny of the Daleks]]''? ''The new mask was created with a 'sagging' effect to simulate the years spent in cryo-stasis''
== Home video and audio releases ==
 
=== DVD releases ===
*How does does the Dalek Supreme survive the contagion or the destruction of the prison ship? ''The Supreme Dalek was on the Dalek ship; the Movellan virus probably never got a chance to spread there before Stien set off the self-destruct. Odds are the Supreme ''didn't'' survive the events of the story, as it is never seen again after the prison and the Dalek ship are destroyed.''
Released as ''Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks'', the [[UK]] DVD release was the 4-part edition untransmitted in the UK, which came with an additional rubber case that went over the top of the standard packaging.
 
*Leela doesn't appear on the scanner.
 
==Continuity==
*With the exception a brief scene in [[DW]]: ''[[The Five Doctors]]'', this is the only story to feature the Daleks during the Peter Davison era.
*Davros was placed in suspended animation in [[DW]]: ''[[Destiny of the Daleks]]''.
*Lytton reappears in [[DW]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]''.
*Flashbacks on the Dalek's mind analysis machine included: Turlough ([[DW]]: ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]''), Tegan ([[DW]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]''), Nyssa ([[DW]]: ''[[Black Orchid (TV story)|Black Orchid]]''), Adric ([[DW]]: ''[[Warriors' Gate]]''), Romana II ([[DW]]: ''[[Warriors' Gate]]''), Romana I ([[DW]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation]]''), K-9 ([[DW]]: ''[[Warriors' Gate]]''), Harry ([[DW]]: ''[[Terror of the Zygons]]''), the Fourth Doctor ([[DW]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]''), Sarah Jane Smith ([[DW]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]''), Jo ([[DW]]: ''[[The Mutants]]''), the Brigadier ([[DW]]: ''[[The Ambassadors of Death]]''), Liz Shaw ([[DW]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space]]''), the Third Doctor ([[DW]]: ''[[The Mutants]]''), Zoe ([[DW]]: ''[[The War Games]]''), Victoria ([[DW]]: ''[[The Enemy of the World]]''), Jamie ([[DW]]: ''[[The Enemy of the World]]''), the Second Doctor ([[DW]]: ''[[The War Games]]''), Ben ([[DW]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]''), Polly ([[DW]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]''), Dodo [[DW]]: ''([[The War Machines]]''), Sara ([[DW]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan]]''), Katarina ([[DW]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan]]''), Steven ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Meddler]]''), Vicki ([[DW]]: ''[[The Rescue]]''), Barbara ([[DW]]: ''[[The Daleks]]''), Ian ([[DW]]: ''[[The Daleks]]''), Susan ([[DW]]: ''[[The Daleks]]''), and the First Doctor ([[DW]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan]]''). Leela is missed out for unknown, in the Whoniverse, reasons.
*Tegan departs the Doctor and the TARDIS, but re-meets the Doctor in [[BFA]]: ''[[The Gathering]]''.
*Tegan also has another different encounter with the Doctor in [[ST]]: ''[[Good Companions]]''.
*Davros next appears in [[BFA]]: ''[[Davros (audio story)|Davros]]'', he next appears on screen in [[DW]]: ''[[Revelation of the Daleks]]''.
*Sometimes mistaken for an "everybody dies" episode, every guest star dies, the other "everybody dies" stories include [[DW]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]'', and [[DW]]: ''[[Horror of Fang Rock]]''.
*The use of contagion by the Daleks as a weapon is a recurring element of the classical Dalek stories.In ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'' they infect Earth with a plague. In ''[[Planet of the Daleks]]'' they conquer [[Spiridon]] with disease. In ''[[Death to the Daleks]]'' they threaten to launch plague missiles. In ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'' [[Davros]] contemplates a disease that would wipe out all life. He later creates it in ''[[Terra Firma]]''.  And in ''Resurrection'' the Daleks use disease to capture the prison ship.
 
==Timeline==
For the Doctor:
*This story occurs after [[ST]]: ''[[Last Minute Shopping]]''
*This story occurs before [[MA]]: ''[[Lords of the Storm]]''
 
For Davros:
*This story occurs after [[DW]]: ''[[Destiny of the Daleks]]''
*This story occurs before [[BFA]]: ''[[Davros (audio story)|Davros]]''
 
==DVD, Video, and Other Releases==
'''DVD Releases'''
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Released as ''Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks'', the [[UK]] DVD release came with an additional rubber case that went over the top of the standard packaging.


Released:
Released:
*Region 2 [[18th November]] [[2002]]
* Region 2 - [[18 November (releases)|18 November]] [[2002 (releases)|2002]]
 
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*Region 4 [[3rd February]] [[2003]]
* Region 4 - [[3 February (releases)|3 February]] [[2003 (releases)|2003]]
*Region 1 [[1st July]] [[2003]]
* Region 1 - [[1 July (releases)|1 July]] 2003
 
::NTSC - [[Warner Video]] E1759
::NTSC - [[Warner Video]] E1759


Contents:
Contents:
*[[On Location]] - [[Eric Saward]], [[Matthew Robinson]], and [[John Nathan-Turner]] interviewed about the story.
* ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks: On Location|Resurrection of the Daleks: Location]]'' - Return to London's Shad Thames with [[Eric Saward]], [[Matthew Robinson]], and [[John Nathan-Turner]]
*[[Breakfast Time]] - Two features from the [[BBC]] morning magazine show.
* ''[[Breakfast Time]]'' - [[Janet Fielding]] and [[John Nathan-Turner]]
*Deleted Scenes
* Deleted Scenes
*Trailer
* Trailer
*5.1 Mix
* 5.1 Mix
*Music-only Option
* Music-only Option
*[[TARDIS-Cam]] #4
* ''[[TARDIS Cam No.2 (webcast)|TARDIS Cam No.4]]''
*Photo Gallery
* Photo Gallery
*Production Subtitles
* Production Subtitles
*Easter Eggs (Countdown clock/Clean titles sequence)
* [[Easter Egg]] - Original VT countdown used before part two. To access this hidden feature, press left at ''Resurrection of the Daleks: On Location'' on the Special Features menu.
*Commentary: [[Peter Davison]], [[Janet Fielding]], and [[Matthew Robinson]]
* Easter Egg - Opening and closing themes, without credits. To access this hidden feature, press left at ''Who's Who'' on the Special Features menu.
* Commentary: [[Peter Davison]], [[Janet Fielding]], and [[Matthew Robinson]]


Rear Credits:
Rear Credits:
*Starring [[Peter Davison]]
* Starring [[Peter Davison]]
*By [[Eric Saward]]
* By [[Eric Saward]]
*Produced by [[John Nathan-Turner]]
* Produced by [[John Nathan-Turner]]
*Directed by [[Matthew Robinson]]
* Directed by [[Matthew Robinson]]
*Incidental Music by [[Malcolm Clarke]]
* Incidental Music by [[Malcolm Clarke]]


Notes:
Notes:
*Editing for DVD release completed by [[Doctor Who Restoration Team]].
* Editing for the DVD release was completed by the [[Doctor Who Restoration Team]].
*It is also being released as part of the Davros box set with [[Genesis of the Daleks]], [[Destiny of the Daleks]], [[Revelation of the Daleks]] and [[Remembrance of the Daleks]].
* It has also been released as part of the Davros box set with ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Destiny of the Daleks (TV story)|Destiny of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)|Revelation of the Daleks]]'' and ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]''.


'''Video Releases'''
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Released as ''Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks''.
=== Special Edition release ===
This story was released as ''Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks: Special Edition''


Released:
Released:
* [[UK]] [[28 March (releases)|28 March]] [[2011 (releases)|2011]] Region 2
* [[Australia]] [[5 May (releases)|5 May]] 2011 Region 4
* [[US]] [[12 June (releases)|12 June]] [[2012 (releases)|2012]] - Region 1


*First Release:
==== Special Features ====
:*[[UK]] [[November]] [[1993]]
* Commentary #1 (on two-part broadcast edit) by [[Terry Molloy]] ([[Davros]]), writer Eric Saward and visual effects designer [[Peter Wragg]], moderated by [[Nicholas Pegg]]
* Commentary #2 (on four-part production edit) by Peter Davison ([[Fifth Doctor|The Doctor]]), Janet Fielding ([[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]]), and director Matthew Robinson
* Original two-part transmitted version plus a four-part version
* Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound mix
* ''[[Casting Far and Wide (documentary)|Casting Far and Wide]]'' - Interviews with five actors who worked on the show
* ''On Location'' - Producer John Nathan-Turner, Matthew Robinson and Eric Saward return to London's Shad Thames to reminisce about the story
* Extended and deleted scenes
* ''Breakfast Time'' - Janet Fielding and John Nathan-Turner interviewed
* ''[[The Last Dalek (documentary)|The Last Dalek]]'' - A behind-the-scenes look at the filming for 1967's ''[[The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)|The Evil of the Daleks]]'' (moved here from ''[[The Seeds of Death (TV story)|The Seeds of Death]]'' DVD)
* ''[[Come in Number Five (documentary)|Come in Number Five]]'' - A retrospective of Peter Davison's tenure as the Fifth Doctor, presented by [[David Tennant]]
* ''[[Tomorrow's Times: The Fifth Doctor (documentary)|Tomorrow's Times - The Fifth Doctor]]'' - Press reactions to the Davison era
* ''Walrus'' - An archive oddity featuring a Dalek
* [[BBC One|BBC1]] Trailer
* ''TARDIS Cam 4''
* Isolated music track
* ''[[Radio Times]]'' listings (DVD-ROM)
* Production information subtitles
* Photo gallery
* Coming Soon trailer - ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]''
* Easter Eggs:
** Clean 1982 title sequence & closing credits. To access this hidden feature, press right at Part Two on Disc One's Episode Selection menu to illuminate the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' logo.
** VT countdown for Part Two. To access this hidden feature, select Feature Audio Mono from the Audio Options section of Disc One's Special Features menu, then press left at Feature Audio Mono to illuminate the ''Doctor Who'' logo.


::PAL - [[BBC Video]] BBCV5143
Notes:
:*[[Australia]]/[[NZ]] [[February]] [[1994]]
* It is only available in the UK and Australia as part of the ''[[Revisitations|Revisitations 2]]'' box set.
:*[[US]] [[May]] [[1994]]


::NTSC - [[Warner Video]] E1261
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Notes: Presented in the non-broadcast (original edit) four part format.
=== VHS releases ===
This story was released as ''Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks''.


*Second Release:
First Release:
:*[[UK]] [[September]] [[2001]]
* [[UK]] [[November (releases)|November]] [[1993 (releases)|1993]]
:PAL - [[BBC Video]] BBCV5143
* [[Australia]]/[[NZ]] [[February (releases)|February]] [[1994 (releases)|1994]]
* [[US]] [[May (releases)|May]] 1994
:NTSC - [[Warner Video]] E1261


::PAL - [[BBC Video]] BBCV7253
:<u>Note:</u> The story was presented as the untransmitted (original edit) four-part version, a decision which would appear to have been made at the last minute by BBC Video, as the rear sleeve refers to the story as being the broadcast two 45-minute episode version.


Notes: [[W.H. Smith]] exclusive as part of the [[The Davros Collection]] box set.
Second Release:
* [[UK]] [[September (releases)|September]] [[2001 (releases)|2001]]
:PAL - [[BBC Video]] BBCV7253
:Notes: [[W H Smith]] exclusive as part of the [[The Davros Collection]] box set.


==Novelisation==
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*This story was never official novelised due to unsuccessful negotiations with Eric Saward, however the New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club had novelised it [http://nzdwfc.tetrap.com/archive/resurrection/ Resurrection of the Daleks By Paul Scoones].
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Resurrection of the Daleks was the fourth serial of season 21 of Doctor Who. It was the final regular appearance of Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka, who left the Fifth Doctor for the second time. It also marked the return of Davros and the Daleks after their last appearance in Destiny of the Daleks. Lytton makes his debut and, strangely for villains of the time, survives with no ill effects.

Notably, this story was separated into two 45-minute episodes in place of the usual four 25-minute ones, a format that would temporarily become the norm during Season 22; the 45-minute length eventually became the established episode length for the series following its revival in 2005.

Synopsis[[edit] | [edit source]]

Captured in a time corridor, the Doctor and his companions are forced to land on 20th century Earth, diverted by the Doctor's oldest enemy - the Daleks. It is here the true purpose of the time corridor becomes apparent: after ninety years of imprisonment, Davros, the ruthless creator of the Daleks, is to be liberated to assist in the resurrection of his army.

Not even the Daleks foresee the poisonous threat of their creator. Indeed, who would suspect Davros of wanting to destroy his own Daleks - and why?

Only the Doctor knows the truth. Will he descend to Davros' level of evil to stop him?

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

Part one[[edit] | [edit source]]

A group of futuristic humanoids are running down Shad Thames in 1984. As they attempt to escape, they are gunned down by two policemen led by Commander Lytton in the uniform of an inspector. Two of the humanoids, Galloway and Quartermaster Sergeant Stien, escape into the adjacent wharf where a time corridor is situated. Galloway is killed by a Dalek Trooper, leaving Stien alone. Lytton transports back to his battle cruiser and prepares to attack a prison space station. Its only prisoner is Davros, the creator of the Daleks.

Meanwhile, the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough are being dragged down a time corridor in the TARDIS, shortly after their departure from Frontios. They land in an apparently disused part of London.

On the prison ship, Dalek Drones attack, trying a direct frontal assault on the outside of the station airlock with poor results. The station crew, led by Dr Styles and Lt. Mercer, fight back in force. Lytton persuades the Supreme Dalek to use poisonous gas to dispose of the crew. This proves a success and the Daleks have little trouble taking over the station. Following orders, Watch Officer Osborn tries to destroy Davros, first with a non-functional automated system, then in person. However, Lytton and an engineer break into the cell and kill Osborn before she can complete her mission. They then release Davros from his cryogenic imprisonment.

The Doctor and his friends have by now met a traumatised Stien. He joins them in returning to the warehouse to hunt for the time corridor. While the others are distracted, Turlough vanishes. While searching for him, the Doctor, Tegan and Stien meet a military bomb disposal squad, led by Colonel Archer, who were called in after builders converting the warehouse into flats uncovered what they believed were unexploded bombs. Turlough has ended up on the Dalek ship after having stumbled into the time corridor.

Having learned the Doctor is in the warehouse, the Supreme Dalek dispatches a Dalek to detain him. The Dalek travels through the time corridor and appears in the warehouse.

The Doctor yells at everyone to take cover as the Dalek prepares to exterminate them. [End of part one of four-part version.]

The Dalek kills one of the soldiers before the Doctor gets the other men to focus their fire on its eyestalk, blinding it. In the struggle, Tegan is hit by the Dalek's sucker arm, but the others push the Dalek out of the loading bay doors, whereupon it hits the ground and explodes. Tegan has suffered a head injury and blacks out.

On the prison station, only Styles, Mercer and two guards are left alive of the original crew. Disguised in uniforms taken from Lytton's guards, they plan to blow up the station with its self-destruct system, even at the cost of their own lives.

Still in his room on the prison ship, Davros explains to Lytton that his cryogenic sentence lasted for "ninety years of mind-numbing boredom". He vows revenge on "that meddling Time Lord," the Doctor. Lytton insists he is in their grasp. While Davros's travel chair is undergoing maintenance by an engineer named Kiston, Lytton explains how the Daleks lost their war against the Movellans due to the development of a virus that specifically attacks Dalek tissue. They have woken Davros to find a cure. Despite Lytton's reservations, Davros demands he remain on the prison station while working on the virus. It may be necessary for him to be refrozen. When Lytton leaves to discuss this with the Supreme Dalek, Davros uses a hypodermic-like mind control device (produced from a secret compartment on his chair's control panel) to take control of Kiston.

A Kaled mutant attacks a soldier.

Meanwhile, the Doctor and the members of the bomb disposal squad have brought the remnants of the wrecked Dalek back inside. They search for the Kaled mutant inside. They find and kill it after it wounds one of the squad's men. The squad's scientific advisor, Professor Sarah Laird, looks after the victim and a recovering Tegan. Colonel Archer decides to radio his H.Q. for reinforcements, although his own radio is dead. Leaving the Doctor his gun-belt in case any more Daleks arrive, Archer leaves to find a telephone.

Archer finds a telephone box on the street, but on lifting the receiver discovers the phone has been vandalised; the cable has been cut. Stepping outside, Archer finds two policemen and asks one of the officers if he can use his radio to call for assistance. The policeman silently obliges, but when Archer tries the radio, it doesn't work. The other policeman then holds a gun to Archer's head.

The Doctor and Stien head into the TARDIS to find out what is happening at the other end of the time corridor.

On Earth, the soldier attacked by the Dalek mutant behaves very strangely, wandering away, mumbling nonsense, and running upstairs. Sergeant Calder follows the soldier, but then suddenly finds himself confronted by four Daleks which have appeared via the time corridor. Tegan and Laird hear the sound of gunfire upstairs and try to leave the warehouse — only to be caught by Archer, Calder and the soldiers (including the one blasted down by the Dalek earlier). Archer tells them the warehouse is now under martial law and he will have them shot if they try to leave. Out of the soldiers' earshot, Tegan points out to Laird that's not the real Archer, as the Colonel gave the Doctor his gun-belt and yet he's wearing one.

The TARDIS materialises inside the Dalek ship and narrowly avoids being captured. The Doctor tells Stien they should find Turlough and make a swift exit. Stien points his own weapon at the Doctor, revealing himself an agent of the Daleks...

Part two[[edit] | [edit source]]

A squadron of Daleks close in to exterminate the Doctor, but Lytton enters and tells them the Supreme Dalek has ordered the Doctor is not to be killed — yet. The Daleks confirm this and lead the Doctor away. On the prison station, Turlough joins forces with the remnants of the crew. He tells them of the time corridor to escape the station's self-destruction.

The Daleks reveal their plan of cloning the Doctor and his companions and using the clones to assassinate the High Council of Time Lords on Gallifrey. Stien begins the mind-copying sequence while the Doctor tries to talk him into resisting his Dalek mind conditioning.

Elsewhere, Styles and the two station guards are killed while trying to activate the station's self-destruct system.

Back on Earth, Tegan tries to escape by running east down the Thames Path, pursued by Lytton's "policemen", and shouts for help to a man with a metal-detector down on the mud banks. But the man has his back to Tegan and is wearing headphones so he can't hear her. The "policemen" recapture Tegan and then, to her horror, one of them callously shoots the man — even though he saw and heard nothing. Back at the warehouse, Archer orders the soldiers to put the women into the time corridor, but Laird panics and runs; the soldiers open fire and kill her. Tegan is taken through the time corridor to the Dalek ship.

Meanwhile, in the duplication chamber, Stien is overcome by confusion. The Doctor has realised Stien's conditioning is unstable. He challenges his ability to think for himself. As the mind-copying sequence nears completion, Stien breaks his conditioning and stops the process, freeing the Doctor.

Kiston converts a Dalek to Davros's cause.

The Doctor finds Turlough and Tegan, and they return to the TARDIS with Stien and the last surviving station crew member. Rather than depart, the Doctor decides he must destroy Davros once and for all. With Stien and Lt. Mercer, he heads to the station lab, leaving Tegan and Turlough in the TARDIS, which he has secretly programmed to return to the warehouse on time delay. In the lab, Davros has heard the Doctor has been taken prisoner by the Daleks. He announces that once the Doctor has been exterminated, he will build a new race of Daleks which shall be even more deadly. They shall again become the supreme beings. [End of part three of four-part version.]

The Doctor confronts Davros in the lab. His chance to kill him is lost when Stien's conditioning reasserts itself long enough to let Lytton's troops kill Lt. Mercer. Horrified by his actions, Stien refuses to accompany the Doctor back to the time corridor and runs off into the station.

Davros's army — a biochemist, Kiston, a soldier, and two Daleks — is growing. He dispatches his loyal Daleks and troopers to Earth. Anticipating resistance by the Supreme Dalek. Davros opens a capsule of the Movellan virus. Two Daleks enter to exterminate him, but are killed by the virus.

Davros succumbs to the Movellan virus.

Back at the warehouse, a battle rages between Davros's loyalists and the Supreme's Daleks. The TARDIS arrives and the Doctor returns through the time corridor. He now knows the "unexploded bombs" discovered earlier are canisters of the Movellan virus. He opens a canister that Turlough and Tegan have brought into the TARDIS. He places it behind the Daleks, who all start to die.

Lytton has escaped and gleefully watches the Daleks' demise. He swaps his Dalek trooper uniform for that of a policeman and joins his two fellow "bobbies" on their next vigil. Back on the space station with the Imperial Daleks defeated, Davros prepares an escape pod to flee from the station, but the Movellan virus attacks him as well.

Back on Earth, the Daleks from both sides are dead. Tegan is appalled at the deaths. Suddenly, the Supreme Dalek appears on the TARDIS scanner and threatens the Doctor, claiming the Daleks have duplicates of prominent humans all over Earth which makes it just a matter of time before Earth falls. The Doctor, however, states that the duplicates are not stable and will break free of Dalek control, just as Stein has.

Tegan says goodbye to the Doctor.

Meanwhile, a wounded Stien tries to activate the self-destruct sequence. Just as he is about to finish, the Renegade Daleks enter and exterminate him. Although dying, he manages to complete the sequence, destroying the station and the Dalek ship.

At the warehouse, the Doctor calls for them all to leave as they must alert Earth's authorities, but Tegan says she's not coming. This has been one massacre too many. She no longer enjoys her adventures and wants to give it up, so she says a brief goodbye to the Doctor and Turlough before running off. The Doctor sadly remarks that he originally left Gallifrey for much the same reason that Tegan has just left him; he had tired of the nature of their lives and notes that he should try and mend his ways. With that, the Doctor and Turlough return to the TARDIS and as it vanishes, Tegan runs back, remembering the Doctor's old admonishment: "Brave heart, Tegan." She calls out to the empty air that, despite everything, she will miss him.

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Uncredited cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Animals[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • A cat is mistaken for a Dalek mutant.

Daleks[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Dalek Supreme is in charge of one Dalek faction.
  • The Daleks electronically communicate with each other without words. An electronic sound is heard each time this happens.
  • The Daleks clone subdued humanoids in duplication chambers. The duplicates are intended to infiltrate strategic Earth positions. A duplicate of the Doctor is also intended to infiltrate the High Council of Gallifrey.
  • The Daleks identify Turlough as a companion of the Doctor, despite having not met him directly yet.
  • Davros has a mind control device for both humanoids and Daleks. He uses the device on two Daleks, which subsequently become the first Imperial Daleks.
  • When infected by the Movellan virus, Daleks begin to lose control of their casings, and they lose vision while a white substance spurts out of their casings. Davros is also vulnerable.

The Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Tegan quotes her dead aunt Vanessa to justify her decision to stay on Earth.
  • Lytton disguises himself as a policeman. His henchmen do likewise.

Locations[[edit] | [edit source]]

Time travel[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Daleks use time corridor technology to travel between their spacecraft, the space station and Earth in 1984.
  • The Cloister Bell can be heard ringing while the Doctor is trying to free the TARDIS from the Daleks' time corridor.
  • Inside the time corridor, the Doctor's TARDIS is thrown around.

Weapons[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Doctor handles a pistol, killing a Dalek mutant.
  • The Movellans hid a number of anti-Dalek virus containers on Earth.
  • The Daleks equip their android duplicates with time period specific weapons, such as sub-machine guns for Lytton's faux-policemen. This causes some consternation for Lytton, who abhors the waste of useful slaves/subjects for experimentation after the prisoners escape.
  • Dalek Troopers are armed with laser weapons that have no visible beam but are lethal to humans in a single shot and can damage a Dalek with enough shots.

Story notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Ratings[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Part one - 7.3 million viewers
  • Part two - 8.0 million viewers

Myths[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • It was due to the success of the double-length episode format of this story that the BBC decided to adopt the format for the whole of the following season. (It had already been decided before this that season twenty-two would consist of thirteen episodes of approximately forty-five minutes each).
  • The serial had a working title of Warhead. It originates in an eyewitness account of a visit to JNT's office where it appears to have been one of those titles that the producer was fond of writing on his whiteboard to misdirect fans.
  • Dalek operators John Scott Martin, Cy Town, Tony Starr and Toby Byrne are not credited in Radio Times. (They are credited in the Radio Times programme listings for both episodes, but the "Dalek Operators" credit is quite easy to miss as on both occasions it appears in smaller type alongside the production crew members.)

Filming locations[[edit] | [edit source]]

Production errors[[edit] | [edit source]]

If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.
  • Near the end of part two, three Daleks go into the time corridor — but four come out.
  • Many of the broadcast videotapes of parts three and four seen on PBS stations in the US lacked sound effects; actors pointed lasers at each other noiselessly and the final explosion was silent. (This was due to an unfortunate mix-up of videotapes at BBC Enterprises, which resulted in unsyphered copies — i.e. minus incidental music and sound effects — being supplied.)
  • In part two when the Dalek shoots the army soldier, the laser goes nowhere near where the gunstick is pointing.
  • The Dalek pushed out of the warehouse's loading bay doors differs from the Dalek in the studio-shot combat scene just before. It's a different colour, its eyestalk is shorter, and the rings around its mesh are mutilated with severe dents.
  • When the Doctor shoots the Dalek mutant, no bullet holes appear in the sheet.
  • When Davros says "Now for the Daleks", his mouth does not move at all.
  • During part one, in the TARDIS control room scene, you can see the shadow of a boom microphone.
  • In many scenes the 'cuffs' on the Dalek grills vary positions between each other throughout the story.
  • On some grey Daleks there is no wire mesh between the solar panel slats.
  • In one scene, Terry Molloy's left eye can be seen underneath Davros's mask.
  • In the scene when the Doctor goes to collect the explosive charges in the warehouse (in the same room as the time corridor entrance), there is an audible rattling as the camera moves backwards. As he walks towards the time corridor's entrance, the rattling is heard again.
  • In part two, when the Doctor comes across the room containing the corpses of the Daleks' victims, including the real Colonel Archer and Sergeant Calder, the Colonel's body is still wearing the gun-belt he gave to the Doctor in part one.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Home video and audio releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

DVD releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

Released as Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks, the UK DVD release was the 4-part edition untransmitted in the UK, which came with an additional rubber case that went over the top of the standard packaging.

Released:

PAL - BBC DVD BBCDVD1100
NTSC - Warner Video E1759

Contents:

Rear Credits:

Notes:

  • Region 2 UK DVD cover

    Region 2 UK DVD cover

  • Region 4 DVD cover

    Region 4 DVD cover

  • Region 4 DVD slipcase cover

    Region 4 DVD slipcase cover

  • Region 1 DVD cover

    Region 1 DVD cover

  • Region 2 Netherlands DVD cover

    Region 2 Netherlands DVD cover

  • Davros Region 1 cover

    Davros Region 1 cover

  • Region 4 Davros cover

    Region 4 Davros cover

  • Davros Region 2 cover

    Davros Region 2 cover

Special Edition release[[edit] | [edit source]]

This story was released as Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks: Special Edition

Released:

Special Features[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Commentary #1 (on two-part broadcast edit) by Terry Molloy (Davros), writer Eric Saward and visual effects designer Peter Wragg, moderated by Nicholas Pegg
  • Commentary #2 (on four-part production edit) by Peter Davison (The Doctor), Janet Fielding (Tegan), and director Matthew Robinson
  • Original two-part transmitted version plus a four-part version
  • Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound mix
  • Casting Far and Wide - Interviews with five actors who worked on the show
  • On Location - Producer John Nathan-Turner, Matthew Robinson and Eric Saward return to London's Shad Thames to reminisce about the story
  • Extended and deleted scenes
  • Breakfast Time - Janet Fielding and John Nathan-Turner interviewed
  • The Last Dalek - A behind-the-scenes look at the filming for 1967's The Evil of the Daleks (moved here from The Seeds of Death DVD)
  • Come in Number Five - A retrospective of Peter Davison's tenure as the Fifth Doctor, presented by David Tennant
  • Tomorrow's Times - The Fifth Doctor - Press reactions to the Davison era
  • Walrus - An archive oddity featuring a Dalek
  • BBC1 Trailer
  • TARDIS Cam 4
  • Isolated music track
  • Radio Times listings (DVD-ROM)
  • Production information subtitles
  • Photo gallery
  • Coming Soon trailer - Planet of the Spiders
  • Easter Eggs:
    • Clean 1982 title sequence & closing credits. To access this hidden feature, press right at Part Two on Disc One's Episode Selection menu to illuminate the Doctor Who logo.
    • VT countdown for Part Two. To access this hidden feature, select Feature Audio Mono from the Audio Options section of Disc One's Special Features menu, then press left at Feature Audio Mono to illuminate the Doctor Who logo.

Notes:

  • It is only available in the UK and Australia as part of the Revisitations 2 box set.
  • Region 2 DVD UK cover

    Region 2 DVD UK cover

  • Region 4 cover

    Region 4 cover

  • Region 1 cover

    Region 1 cover

  • Revisitations 2 Region 2 cover

    Revisitations 2 Region 2 cover

  • Region 4 Revisitations 2 cover

    Region 4 Revisitations 2 cover

VHS releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

This story was released as Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks.

First Release:

PAL - BBC Video BBCV5143
NTSC - Warner Video E1261
Note: The story was presented as the untransmitted (original edit) four-part version, a decision which would appear to have been made at the last minute by BBC Video, as the rear sleeve refers to the story as being the broadcast two 45-minute episode version.

Second Release:

PAL - BBC Video BBCV7253
Notes: W H Smith exclusive as part of the The Davros Collection box set.
  • US VHS cover

    US VHS cover

  • Australian VHS cover

    Australian VHS cover

  • UK VHS cover

    UK VHS cover

  • UK VHS box set cover

    UK VHS box set cover

  • UK box set spine art

    UK box set spine art

  • UK VHS re release cover

    UK VHS re release cover

  • VHS AUS box set cover

    VHS AUS box set cover

  • Australian VHS re release cover

    Australian VHS re release cover

Foonotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ PROSE: Mission to the Unknown [+]Loading...["Mission to the Unknown (novelisation)"] places the Movellan Wars a thousand years or more before 4000. The Dalek Handbook [+]Loading...["The Dalek Handbook (reference book)"] and PROSE: Resurrection of the Daleks places this story in 4590. However, AUDIO: Neverland [+]Loading...["Neverland (audio story)"] dates this the Dalek-Movellan War in 4-X-Alpha-4 to 4949, placing this story in 5039.

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