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== Behind the scenes ==
== Behind the scenes ==
* [[John Scott Martin]], who operated the Gold Dalek in both ''Day of the Daleks'' and ''Frontier in Space'' episode six, was credited as "[[Chief Dalek]]" in the ''[[Radio Times]]'' on both occasions.
* ''[[The Universal Databank]]'' identifies the Gold Dalek seen in ''Day of the Daleks'' as a "Dalek [[Warlord]]" and potentially an "[[avatar]]" of the [[Black Dalek]]. It is claimed that both Black Daleks and Gold Daleks were below the [[Emperor Dalek]]'s [[Dalek Council]].
* ''[[The Universal Databank]]'' identifies the Gold Dalek seen in ''Day of the Daleks'' as a "Dalek [[Warlord]]" and potentially an "[[avatar]]" of the [[Black Dalek]]. It is claimed that both Black Daleks and Gold Daleks were below the [[Emperor Dalek]]'s [[Dalek Council]].
* ''[[The Dalek Handbook]]'' classes the Gold Dalek as a [[Dalek Commander|Commander]], subordinate to the [[Dalek Supreme (Planet of the Daleks)|Dalek Supreme]] and above the [[grey Dalek|grey]] [[Dalek Leader]]s. In their list of real world [[paradigm]]s, ''The Dalek Handbook'' counts the Gold Dalek in a "1972-1985" paradigm with the grey Daleks and the Dalek Supreme.
* ''[[The Dalek Handbook]]'' classes the Gold Dalek as a [[Dalek Commander|Commander]], subordinate to the [[Dalek Supreme (Planet of the Daleks)|Dalek Supreme]] and above the [[grey Dalek|grey]] [[Dalek Leader]]s. In their list of real world [[paradigm]]s, ''The Dalek Handbook'' counts the Gold Dalek in a "1972-1985" paradigm with the grey Daleks and the Dalek Supreme.

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The Time Lords believed the Gold Dalek who oversaw Operation Divide and Conquer and the Time Paradox Incident to be a subordinate "outpost commander" who deputised for the Dalek Supreme. They likened this subordinate status to the spaceship commander who served under the Supreme Controller of the Dalek Earthforce. (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual) By one account, during the Time Paradox Incident, the Gold Dalek was itself supported by a Black Dalek. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks)

The Dalek Survival Guide noted this unit as a Dalek Supreme yet also claimed the Dalek was never called by that rank, leading to the theory that it was actually a sub-commander or Chief. (PROSE: Dalek Survival Guide) Other Daleks of the same casing design were concretely called Supremes, however. (AUDIO: Poison of the Daleks, Eye of Darkness) According to human historians in the post-Time War universe, the Gold Dalek was a member of the Dalek Supreme Council. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe)

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