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Released in 1966, '''Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.''' was the second and final feature film based on the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' television series. Adapted from the television serial [[DW]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'', the colour film stars [[Peter Cushing]] as a human scientist named "[[Dr. Who (Dalek movies)|Dr. Who]]".

Policeman Tom Campbell stumbles into the TARDIS on a normal day and ends up being taken to 2150 A.D. by Dr. Who. The future seems to be deserted, but the group soon finds out that the world is currently being controlled by the evil Daleks. Those who have still survived are in hiding, to prevent them from being turned into Robomen. Dr. Who teams up with the survivors in order to take down the Daleks.

[http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Tom_Campbell Tom Campbell] a policeman is on his usual rounds when he is attacked by a man who has been sitting in his car outside a shop. After he has been beaten up he sees a nearby jewelery shop explode and two men emerge with bundles of stolen goods. They run into the waiting car and escape. In a daze Tom staggers towards a police box and opens it to discover it is the Doctor's TARDIS. His injuries, combined with the shock of the TARDIS, cause him to faint. The Doctor uses his scanners to see that there is a kerfuffle outside and leaves with Tom on board before any one else makes the same mistake as he did.

== Cast ==

* More than 40 years later, co-star [[Bernard Cribbins]] returned to the world of ''Doctor Who'', voicing a character for the 2007 [[Big Finish Productions]] audio drama ''[[Horror of Glam Rock]]'' and, later, making several appearances as [[Wilfred Mott]] beginning in [[DW]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]''.

* [[Philip Madoc]] later appeared in four television stories: ''[[The Krotons]]'', ''[[The War Games]]'', ''[[The Brain of Morbius]]'' and ''[[The Power of Kroll]]''.

* The film's original trailer had no (direct) references to Doctor Who, TARDIS, or Daleks.

* A third film, based on [[DW]]: ''[[The Chase]]'' and titled ''Daleks vs. Mechons'', was filmed but subsequently lost in a fire. A trailer discovered in the basement of a church in northern England in 2009. ''The supposed "trailer" was fanmade, as the graphics were too advanced for circa 1967. Although a third film was planned as an adaptation of "The Chase", it was shelved with no work done following the second movie's failure at the box office.''

* [[Shepperton Studios]], Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK

* When the van rams through the ranks of blue/silver Daleks in the street, some of those knocked flying and destroyed are clearly seen to be completely empty casings.

* Wires are visible on the Dalek saucer in almost all shots of it flying.

* If Tom was taken back to a few minutes before he met the Doctor he would have encountered a previous version of himself - an event that causes time lapses.

Here are a few of the notable plot changes made between the TV version of the story and the film (not including the fundamental differences involving the character of Dr. Who himself):

No novelisation of the screenplay was ever published, however the original teleplay, ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'' was eventually novelised by [[Terrance Dicks]] in [[1977]] as ''[[Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth]]''.

[[Dr. Who and the Daleks]]

* [http://www.drwhoguide.com/cushing.htm The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of '''The Dalek Movies''']

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