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Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)

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Asylum of the Daleks was the first episode of the seventh series of Doctor Who produced by BBC Wales. It was the first television story to prominently feature the Daleks since 2010's Victory of the Daleks, following their deliberate side-lining.

Synopsis

Kidnapped by his oldest enemies, more powerful than ever, The Doctor is forced on a mission - to a place even the Daleks are scared of... the Asylum. A planetary prison confining the most terrifying and insane of their kind - The Doctor and ex-companions Amy and Rory must find a way to escape. But with Amy and Rory's marriage in meltdown, it is up to the Doctor to save his oldest enemies... and his friends' marriage.

Plot

On Skaro, a woman called Darla meets the Doctor in a huge Dalek statue. She asks the Doctor to save her daughter from a Dalek prison camp, and she says she escaped before. It turns out she is a Dalek puppet, with an eyestalk inside her head. She shoots the doctor, as a Dalek saucer arrives.

On Earth, Amy Pond is posing for the camera when her secretary tells her that her husband wants to see her. She remarks that she doesn't have a husband anymore. She walks in to a make up room, where Rory asks her to sign the divorce papers. Once done so, he leaves as Amy's make-up artist enters. It turns out she is also a Dalek puppet and she teleports Amy away.

Rory gets on a bus, and the bus driver turns out to also be a Dalek puppet who in turn teleports Rory to the Daleks.

He wakes up to see Amy, and looks outside a small window to see lots of Dalek saucers. The Doctor enters with a Dalek and they are taken to the Parliament of the Daleks. The Daleks ask him to save them, and he remarks that this was new.

The Daleks bring them to a planet they call the Asylum; a place that the Doctor has heard of only in legened. He explains that it's a place where the Daleks dump those of their kind who go wrong; the insane, the battle-scarred and the uncontrollable. The whole planet is automated and surrounded by an impenetrable shield but the Daleks have detected a signal of unknown origin on the planet. The Doctor traces the signal to a woman called Oswin Oswald who has been hiding out on the remains of a crashed starliner for a year.

The Doctor realises when the star liner crashed it ruptured the planet's shield leading to the risk of the inmates escaping. A planet of insane Daleks roaming free is something that scares even the Daleks, who captured the Doctor and his allies to deal with the threat. The shield is still strong enough to resist an assult from orbit so the Doctor and the Ponds will be sent down to the planet to deactivate the shield so the planet can be "cleansed". The three are given protective bracelets so they will not be affected by the Nanocloud that surrounds the planet and are sent down.

Cast

Crew

General production staff

Script department

Camera and lighting department

Art department

Costume department

Make-up and prosthetics

Movement

Casting

General post-production staff

Special and visual effects

Sound



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

Daleks

  • The Daleks have a Prime Minister.
  • The Daleks refer to the Doctor as the "Predator of the Daleks".

Individuals

  • Amy can no longer have children due to what happened on Demons Run.

Music

Planets

  • Skaro is the original planet of the Daleks, it still exists with the remains of a large Dalek-shaped building.

Transport technology

  • The Doctor brags that he has exceptional aim with teleports after he teleports himself and the Ponds into his TARDIS.

Story notes

  • This story premiered in Australia on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's on-demand and catch-up service iView at 5.10am AEST; immediately following the UK broadcast. This was the first time Doctor Who had debuted on Australian TV in this way. A traditional free-to-air screening on ABC1 will follow on the 8 September.[1]

Ratings

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Filming locations

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Production errors

  • The first Dalek Rory approaches inside the asylum has indicators on both sides from his perspective, but when the camera is behind the Dalek the light on the right hand side is missing.
  • The Doctor has a plaster on his finger that keeps disappearing and reappearing.

Continuity

 
A special weapons Dalek.

Home video releases

DVD releases

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Blu-ray releases

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External links

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Footnotes

  1. The Doctor To Premiere On iview. ABC TV Blog (28 August 2012). Retrieved on 2 September 2012.


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