Daleks: The Early Years
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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: "Counter Plot"[1]
- The Daleks' Master Plan: "Escape Switch"
- The Evil of the Daleks episode two
as well as 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 A.D., 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 from "I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek" by The Go-Go's.
Credits
- Presented by - Peter Davison
- With - Terry Nation, Raymond P. Cusick, John Scott Martin, Roy Skelton
- Special Thanks to Museum of the Moving Image, South Bank, London and KRMA TV, Denver, USA
- Doctor Who theme composed by Ron Grainer
- Theme arranged and performed by Keff McCulloch
- Production assistant - Ingrid Taylor
- Make-up - Erika Wareing
- Cameraman - Mike Winser
- Post production - Ace Editing
- Sound - Tim Davies
- Lighting - Ian Dow
- Written and produced by John Nathan-Turner
Notes
- This was one of a series of videos produced by John Nathan-Turner intended to release rare episodes and incomplete serials, as well as interviews 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 6 July 1991 in the UK, 1992 in America and on 3 February 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.
- Peter Davison mistakenly referred to the first episode of The Daleks as 'The Dead City' rather than 'The Dead Planet'.
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
References
- ↑ Both this episode and "Escape Switch" were at the time the only instalments of the story known to exist.
