Into the Dalek (TV story)

Into the Dalek
Doctor:	Twelfth Doctor
Companion(s):	Clara
Main enemy:	Daleks, Dalek Anti-Bodies
Key crew
Writers:	Steven Moffat, Phil Ford
Release details
Story number:	242
Premiere broadcast:	30 August 2014
Premiere network:	BBC One
Format:	1x45 minute episode
Production code:	4.2
Confidential:	Into the Dalek (DWE)
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Into the Dalek was the second episode of the eighth series of Doctor Who produced by BBC Wales, and marked the Twelfth Doctor's first encounter with the Daleks.

Synopsis

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Plot

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Cast

• The Doctor - Peter Capaldi
• Clara - Jenna-Louise Coleman
• Danny Pink - Samuel Anderson
• Journey Blue - Zawe Ashton
• Colonel Morgan Blue - Michael Smiley
• Gretchen - Laura Dos Santos
• Ross - Ben Crompton
• Fleming - Bradley Ford
• School Secretary - Michelle Morris
• Mr Armitage - Nigel Betts
• Courtney - Ellis George
• Dalek (Rusty) - Barnaby Edwards
• Voice of the Daleks - Nicholas Briggs

Uncredited Cast

• Missy - Michelle Gomez

Crew

Visual Effects Milk BBC Wales VFX
Music Murray Gold	Special Effects Real SFX
•  With thanks to the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

General production staff Script department Camera and lighting department	Art department Props Maker - Alan Hardy Graphics - BBC Title Concept - Billy Hanshaw Costume department	Make-up and prosthetics Prosthetics - Millenium FX General post-production staff Special and visual effects Sound Sound Recordist - Deian

Not every person who worked on this adventure was credited. The absence of a credit for a position doesn't necessarily mean the job wasn't required. The information above is based solely on observations of the actual end credits of the episodes as broadcast, and does not relay information from IMDB or other sources.

References

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Story notes

• The conclusion of this story is similar to the conclusion of the Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories Jubilee, where a lone Dalek notices the error of its comrades and stops an invasion.

Ratings

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Filming locations

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Production errors

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.

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Continuity

• The Doctor greets Clara with the coffee he got in Glasgow. (TV: Deep Breath)
• Clara is still getting used to the new Doctor following his regeneration. (TV: The Time of the Doctor, Deep Breath)
• Colonel Blue suspects the Doctor of being a Dalek duplicate. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks)
• 'Rusty' tells the Doctor that he is a "good Dalek." The 'Metaltron' encountered by the Ninth Doctor previously told him that he "would make a good Dalek." (TV: Dalek)
• Rusty sees the Doctor blowing up numbers of Daleks and also the Crucible, when looking into his mind. (TV: Journey's End)
• This is not the first time the Doctor has encountered shrinking for the use of medical purposes. (TV: The Invisible Enemy)
• The mininaturisation technique used to enter Rusty is not unlike that of the Teselecta. The Dalek also houses defensive antibodies just as the Teselecta did. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler)
• The Sixth Doctor met a Dalek that notices an error in the Dalek race, with his then companion Evelyn Smythe helping the Dalek to find this. (AUDIO: Jubilee)
• Rusty's epiphany concerning his people and it's adamance that the Daleks must be destroyed mirrors Dalek Caan after he lost his mind following his breaking of the time-lock. (TV: Journey's End)
• The Doctors dislike to soldiers is very similar to the way the 10th Doctor disliked them.
• Clara is teaching Coal Hill School. (TV: The Day of the Doctor, Deep Breath).

Home video releases

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External links

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