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 episodes:

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

and also an interview with Terry Nation, Raymond Cusick, John Scott Martin, Roy Skelton , clips from The Daleks, The Chase, surviving clips from The Daleks' Master Plan, Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD, 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 seriels, 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.