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The 1966 Dalek invasion of Earth was a fake Dalek invasion of Earth created as a tourist attraction by the Dalek Dome entertainment company, using fake Daleks who believed themselves to be real. It began during the World Cup Final at Wembley Stadium in 1966. As the invasion progressed and spread across the Earth, however, the "Daleks" fought the newly-regenerated Fourteenth Doctor and successfully cornered him, firing on him to exterminate the Doctor. Upon realising he was not dead despite being shot multiple times, however, the Doctor began to suspect the Daleks invading the Earth were not real Dalek units, despite the Supreme Dalek indeed believing itself to be real.
History
The attraction
The 1966 Dalek invasion of Earth was an attraction created by the Dalek Dome, an entertainment company which used the campaigns and horrors carried out by the Daleks as inspiration. The fake Daleks involved in the "invasion" believed themselves to be real. Time tourists were offered the attraction as an experience. Versions of the attraction included an invasion by Imperial Daleks or an invasion by Bronze Daleks. Starting points for the invasion included Shea Stadium during a concert by the Beatles or the 1966 World Cup Final. (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"])
The newly regenerated Fourteenth Doctor (TV: The Power of the Doctor) received a distress signal from the TARDIS and arrived during the 1966 World Cup Final, searching the crowd for a group of four alien time tourists. Their encounter was interrupted by the arrival of a flying saucer above the Stadium, which unleashed a horde of Bronze Daleks, who began their attack by exterminating the players on the field. Across the Earth, Bronze Daleks attacked and exterminated. Egypt was lit aflame, with the Sphinx being destroyed. The Doctor believed the invasion to be real.
With the royal box having been evacuated, the Doctor made his way there to get the Daleks' attention using his sonic screwdriver. The Supreme Dalek ordered his exterminaton so the Daleks abandoned their attack to converge on him instead, to the annoyance of the tourists who decided to travel to other parts of London and San Francisco to witness the Daleks invading and killing. At Wembley, the Daleks pursued the Doctor out of the stadium to his TARDIS, which a saucer seized before he could enter. The Supreme ordered the Daleks not to engage in discourse with the surrounded Doctor, instead telling them to simply exterminate him. However, after all the lasers hit their target, the Doctor still stood alive, much to the surprise of the Daleks and the Doctor alike.
With subsequent shots also hitting their mark but not killing the Doctor, the enraged Supreme ordered the Doctor be taken to its command saucer. Meanwhile, Daleks on hoverbouts carved into Mount Rushmore with their lasers, adding the casing of a Supreme Dalek to the statue of American Presidents. The family of time tourists took a photo before the new monument. On the command saucer, the Doctor scanned himself with the sonic screwdriver rather than submit to Dalek scans, finding that all his readings were normal and therefore he should not be immune to Dalek blasts. Throwing himself onto the Supreme's casing to annoy it, the Doctor offered to uncover what was going on if the Daleks withdrew their invasion forces, which was transmitted to the invasion force as a temporary retreat. Across the Earth and above it, Daleks flocked back to their saucers, with the family, currently in the ruins of Egypt, noting the Daleks were not supposed to leave yet.
As the saucers pulled back from Earth, the Doctor scanned the bronze Daleks before him in the command room, finding that all the drones before him shared the exact same traits. More than mere clones, the Daleks were the same biologically, atomically, and chemically, which the Doctor declared was proof they were not real Daleks. The Supreme, however, decried this as a lie and ordered its fleet to enter Formation Red Icosahedron around the Earth to prove they were real. Surrounding the planet, the Dalek saucers fired and appeared to destroy the planet, horrifying the Doctor. However, just as the Daleks prepared to take the Doctor to Skaro to be studied for his apparent immunity to extermination, two Dalek Dome employees arrived and took the Doctor away via dematerialisation, with the Daleks failing to detect the two employees due to shielding. Nevertheless, the Supreme gloated in victory at having captured the Doctor's TARDIS. (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"])
The attraction breaks apart
Unable to shake the Doctor's suspicions, the Supreme ordered a sub-atomic analysis conducted, one that confirmed that all of the Daleks were identical on an atomic level. With the Supreme's fears rousing Specimen Six Sigma from its slumber, the Dalek Dome's operators ordered the simulation shut down. Detecting the collapse of local space, the Supreme contacted Georgy Gold inside the Doctor's TARDIS, tricking her into opening the doors. Entering, the Supreme and two Bronze Dalek constructs managed to survive the collapse of the simulation and enter N-Space.
Exposure to the TARDIS's vast reserves of artron energy temporarily stabilized the three Daleks, allowing them to exist in the real world but the Doctor was able to keep them talking long enough for the energy to wear off and them to dissolve into fluid.
Witnessing everything, Georgy Gold fled into the Golden City Zone, hoping to form an alliance with them to save all the psychoplasm constructs, leading to the 2323 Dalek invasion of Earth. (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"])
Behind the scenes
- The cover of Doctor Who Magazine #585 featured a live-action version of the Dalek invasion on the cover and as a full-size poster inside.