Revelation of the Daleks (TV story): Difference between revisions

* The story was supposed to end with the Doctor saying "Blackpool" to Peri, however this was cut prior to transmission (as a result it ends with the Doctor saying the letter 'B'. This was to have lead into the story ''[[The Nightmare Fair (TV story)|The Nightmare Fair]]'', production of which was cancelled due to the hiatus, though it was later adapted as [[The Nightmare Fair (novelisation)|a novel]] by [[Target Books]] and [[The Nightmare Fair (audio story)|a Big Finish Productions audio story]]; the adventure would have featured the return of [[the Celestial Toymaker]], last seen in 1966.

* This was the last ''Doctor Who'' story to alternate between video and film, with film being used for exterior locations, a practice that had been in place since ''[[The Reign of Terror]]'' in 1964 and in many other British television productions, although it had been falling out of favour since the start of the 1980s. Discounting the 1996 telefilm, it wasn't until ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'' in 2005 that a film-like look was once again applied to ''Doctor Who'', although in fact the series is recorded on standard-definition video and then "filmized". Therefore ''Revelation of the Daleks'' remains the last standard television story to use true film.

* This was the final serial to use [[Peter Howell]]'s arrangement of the "Doctor Who Theme" that had been introduced in [[1980]].

* Following the broadcast of this serial, the BBC decided to postpone the broadcast of the next season of ''Doctor Who''. Although frequently called an "eighteen-month hiatus", the broadcast of the next episode of ''Doctor Who'' was only delayed by about nine months. It actually marked a return to an autumn premiere, as had been the standard during most seasons of the [[William Hartnell|Hartnell]], [[Patrick Troughton|Troughton]] and [[Tom Baker]] eras. While this was technically the longest break between seasons of the 1963 version of the show, it was not entirely without precedent. Throughout the show's broadcast history, the BBC changed the time of year in which the show was broadcast, meaning that there was no "standard" gap between seasons. Viewers then used to a gap of only about three months between seasons were forced to endure a six-month gap between [[Season 6|Seasons 6]] and [[Season 7|7]]. A gap of six months then became the ''de facto'' standard of the [[Jon Pertwee|Pertwee]]/[[Tom Baker|Baker]] eras. However, the exact inverse of what happened between Seasons 22 and 23 occurred between [[Season 12|Seasons 12]] and [[Season 13|13]]. Then, the BBC moved the broadcast of ''Doctor Who'' up by a quarter, collapsing the gap between the two seasons to just three months in its desire to return the show to the autumn schedule. Things changed substantially immediately upon Baker's departure. Viewers had to wait nine months between his [[Logopolis (TV story)|final story]] and [[Peter Davison]]'s [[Castrovalva (TV story)|first]]. The new twice-weekly broadcast schedule reduced the total time for a broadcast season to just three months. Nine-month gaps became the standard for the rest of the original series' run. Viewed in this light, an eighteen-month gap was the equivalent to the nine-month gap between Seasons 18 and 19.

* "Moonlight Serenade" by Glenn Miller is being played by the DJ. The same song was also heard in ''[[The Empty Child]]''. Both stories involve people speaking with American accents, despite not being from America — namely, the [[DJ (Revelation of the Daleks)|DJ]] and [[Jack Harkness]] respectively.

* In the fan novelisation, it is mentioned that the Doctor was in his [[Second Doctor|second incarnation]] when he last met Arthur Stengos, and at the time was travelling in the TARDIS with [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]] and [[Zoe Heriot|Zoe]]. This was not derived from any information given in the televised version.

* When this story was broadcast in the United States, Australia and New Zealand, it was as four twenty-five-minute episodes. "Part One" sees Natasha and Grigory hiding in the catacombs as Takis and Lilt are wheeling a body through the tunnels, while the cliffhanger in "Part Three" features either the Doctor telling Peri that she's in great danger, or — in some edits of the story — Davros ordering his Daleks to kill the DJ.

* Coincidentally, [[Jenny Tomasin]]'s {{wi|Upstairs, Downstairs (1971 TV series)|Upstairs, Downstairs}} co-star [[Simon Williams]] would later play [[Ian Gilmore|Group Captain Ian Gilmore]] in the next televised Dalek story, [[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]''.

* The complete footage of the Doctor finishing his line "...Blackpool" at the end of the episode (a scene that was cut, being replaced by a freeze-frame in the finished programme) now no longer exists.

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[[File:Can_you_move_yor_legs.jpg|thumb|Orcini appears to move through Davros.]]

* Davros' chair is missing a bit of its base when hovering, leading to Orcini passing his leg through it. (This error has been corrected for the BBC DVD release.)

* The grey Dalek that is destroyed in Davros' laboratory clearly switches props from fully-functional Dalek to 'stunt' Dalek as it is exploded: the prop that is blown up has a lighter coloured mesh around its mid-section than the fully functional Dalek.

* When Orcini kills one of the guards during Part 2, the gun he uses doesn't appear to fire — yet the guard drops dead anyway.