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:
- 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 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.
thumb|300px|right|Part one of Peter Davidson's specialy recorded links.
thumb|300px|right|Part two
