Grey Dalek (Robots Ad)
Several Daleks, including a Grey Dalek, a Skaro City- or Mechanus Attack-like Blue Dalek, and a Gold Dalek, were employed at a dysfunctional call centre for a banking company, alongside various other robotic beings.
After a caller guilelessly tried to get through to the services they needed, the call was transferred by the B9 Robot to John Robot. John then attempted to pass the call to a Grey Dalek, who was flanked by the Blue Dalek. However, because the Dalek could not hold a phone receiver in its manipulator arm, the phone instead dropped to the ground. This angered the Grey Dalek, who began shouting "Exterminate! Exterminate! Destroy!" and firing at John while a frantic B9 Robot again repeated "Your call is important to us!" to no one in particular. (TV: Robots Ad [+]Loading...["Robots Ad (TV story)"])
Behind the scenes
This Dalek and the Gold Dalek, among the props provided by Retro Universal Robots at the behest of BBC Worldwide, were both played by the same Dalek operator, Andrew Corson, in different shots that were then spliced into the same edit.
One scene ultimately deleted from the finished product saw the Grey Dalek enter a small "confrontation" with a white Imperial Dalek when the two faced each other at a corridor junction that was too narrow for the two of them to pass at the same time. The White Dalek was on set throughout the production but is not visible in any of the shots used in the final edit.[1]
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 9 March 2005 ANZ Bank Advert. Facebook. Archived from the original on 7 September 2024. Retrieved on 7 September 2024.
