The Daleks in Colour (TV story)

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The Daleks in Colour was a colourised 75-minute re-cut and updated edition of The Daleks, the second serial of season 1 of Doctor Who.

This new edition was broadcast as part of the 60th Anniversary of the show and was subsequently added alongside its 7-part black-and-white counterpart on BBC iPlayer as part of the Whoniverse roster of material.

Synopsis

The TARDIS has brought the travellers to the planet Skaro where they meet two indigenous races — the Daleks, malicious mutant creatures encased in armoured travel machines, and the Thals, beautiful humanoids with pacifist principles. They convince the Thals of the need to fight for their own survival.

Joining forces with them and braving Skaro's many dangers, they launch a two-pronged attack on the Dalek city. The Daleks are all killed when, during the course of the fighting, their power supply is cut off.

Plot

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Cast

Crew

Uncredited crew

Worldbuilding

Culture

Daleks

  • The creatures inside the Dalek armours cannot survive for very long outside their protective casings, indicating their casings employ crucial life support systems.
  • The Daleks use a paralysing ray against Ian Chesterton, which affects the mobility in his legs.
  • After some of their own have been poisoned by the Thal anti-radiation drug, the Daleks determine their race need radiation.

Skaro

Thals

  • Antodus mentions Amezus, one of the members from their previous expedition.

Foods and beverages

The Doctor

  • The Doctor has a pair of reading glasses he uses to examine written and illustrated works.
  • The Doctor has knowledge of the star systems on an astrological chart belonging to the Thals.

Technology

  • The Doctor's TARDIS uses mercury as a fluid.
  • The Doctor calls the radiation measuring equipment in the city "advanced". The equipment includes something that resembles a seismograph and a dial with the word DANGER.
  • Daleks draw static electricity from the metal floors.
  • The Doctor tells Ian a neutron bomb destroys life. The Daleks plan to launch another neutron bomb but abandon the idea as it takes too long.
  • Daleks can create food using synthetic sunlight.
  • The Doctor compares the TARDIS food machine process of producing different flavours to combining primary colours.

Illnesses

  • Barbara has a headache.
  • The Doctor and his companions suffer from radiation exposure.

Story notes

Deviations from the original serial

The Dalek ray blast visual effect.
  • Rels, the Dalek unit of time, are used by the Daleks when counting down the detonation of the neutron bomb.
  • Updated visual effects are used for the Dalek ray blast.
  • Visual effects are used to show the TARDIS materialising and dematerialising.
  • The reprise from An Unearthly Child and the cliffhanger leading into The Edge of Destruction have been removed.
  • Significant changes are made to the soundtrack, incorporating parts of Tristram Cary's score for The Daleks' Master Plan, along with newly-composed music by Mark Ayres.
  • Mentions of Dals have been removed from the dialogue, and sentence mixing is used to update references to the Daleks' ancestry; in the Doctor's interrogation when the Daleks explain their origins, the phrase "our Dalek forefathers" is edited to say "our Kaled forefathers".
  • Several flashbacks to earlier moments in the story have been added.
  • Hartnell's flubbing of the line "It's possible that they may have been anti-radiation gloves… drugs" is corrected so that he says "anti-radiation drugs".
  • The Cloister Bell is added when the TARDIS fails to take off.
  • Inserted the Dalek catchphrase "Exterminate!", which is only common in later stories.

Ratings

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Myths

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Filming locations

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

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Home video releases

DVD and Blu-ray releases

The Daleks in Colour was released on DVD and Blu-ray as two-disc releases on 19 February 2024 in region 2/B, 19 March 2024 in region 1/A and 4 September 2024 in region 4/B. A limited edition Blu-ray Steelbook would also release in region 2/B on the same day as the DVD and standard Blu-ray.

Special Features

(All special features besides for the “Making of” feature are for the original 7 part version of The Daleks, which it, and all other special features are presented on the second disc.)

(Do note that on all releases, including Blu-ray, the second disc is presented only as a DVD and is a reprint of the DVD for The Daleks originally released in 2006 alongside An Unearthly Child and The Edge of Destruction in the box set The Beginning, with only a new disc label distinguishing itself from the original release.)

  • DVD cover

    DVD cover

  • Blu-Ray cover

    Blu-Ray cover

  • Steelbook front cover

    Steelbook front cover

  • Steelbook back cover

    Steelbook back cover

  • Steelbook full cover

    Steelbook full cover

Digital releases

Following its television premiere, The Daleks in Colour was added to BBC iPlayer's Whoniverse catalog of Doctor Who content.

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 INFO: "The Ordeal"
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 INFO: "The Survivors"
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 INFO: "The Rescue"
  4. ↑ INFO: "The Forest of Fear"
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 INFO: "The Dead Planet"
  6. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/C0K_XWRK0-c/
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