Daleks: The Early Years

Daleks: The Early Years was a video containing rare episodes from early Dalek stories. It was presented by Peter Davison and contained the following full episodes:

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The UK cover

• The Daleks' Master Plan, Episodes 5 and 10
• The Evil of the Daleks, Episode 2

and also interviews with Terry Nation, Raymond Cusick, John Scott Martin, Roy Skelton; clips from The Daleks, The Chase, The Daleks' Master Plan (surviving clips), Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., The Power of the Daleks and The Five Doctors; the BBC trailers for The Dalek Invasion of Earth, an outtake from The Five Doctors and an extract form I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek.

Behind the scenes

• This was part of a series of videos produced by John Nathan-Turner intended to release rare episodes and incomplete serials, as well as interveiws and other extras that wouldn't have seen a video release at the time.
• All British releases were handled by BBC Worldwide, Australasian releases by Polygram and American releases by CBS/Fox
• The video was classified U in the UK and PG for 'Low Level Violence' in Australia.
• It was released on 06/07/1991 in the UK, 1992 in America and on 03/02/1993 in Australia.
• The arrangement of the Doctor Who theme used for this and succeeding Years releases was originally arranged by Keff McCulloch for the 1989 album Doctor Who: Variations on a Theme.
  

See also

Six similar videos were later released up to 1994, they were

• The Hartnell Years
• The Troughton Years
• The Pertwee Years
• Cybermen: The Early Years
• The Tom Baker Years
• The Colin Baker Years

In 1993 the BBC refused to fund production of The Davison Years and The McCoy Years.