Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)

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Synopsis

Plot

In a deserted urban street, a group of panicked ragged fugitives in futuristic uniforms try to run from two policeman. The policemen shoot the fugitives with machine guns, whereupon both the policemen and the corpses glow and vanish.

Elsewhere, the Doctor's TARDIS has gotten caught in a time corridor. The Doctor manages to free it and it then materialises in present day London, in some docklands, within sight of Tower Bridge not far from the shooting of the fugitives. They poke their noses into some nearby warehouses, and find a survivor of the massacre, a middle-aged man named Stien.

Far in the future, Daleks attack a space station. Their aim is to rescue their creator, Davros, who has been held there in suspended animation since his capture by Human. They want him to help them find an antidote to the Movellan virus.

In addition, the Daleks have constructed android duplicates and installed some of them in key positions of authority on Earth. They now intend to send duplicates of the Doctor and his companions to Gallifrey in order to assassinate the High Council of the Time Lords.

These plans ultimately fail, however, as one of their duplicate humans, Stien, rebels and destroys the space station. Davros is unable to find a cure for the virus but has an escape pod ready in case of problems.

Commander Lytton, an alien mercenary working for the Daleks, escapes to Earth. Tegan, sickened by all the killing she has seen, decides to remain on her home planet.

Cast

Crew

References

  • The Cloister Bell can be heard ringing when the Doctor is trying to free the TARDIS from the Daleks' time corridor.
  • There are cylinders of the Movellan virus stored on Earth.

Story Notes

  • This story had the working titles of: Warhead, The Return, The Resurrection
  • Although recorded as four separate episodes it was broadcast as two 45 minute episodes in order to free up transmission slots for the broadcast of the Winter Olympics.
  • An article by Russell T. Davies in the Doctor Who Annual 2006 suggested that the Dalek Supreme's attempt to assassinate the High Council was one of the initial clashes in the Time War mentioned in the 2005 series.
  • Eric Saward was unsatisfied with the story, saying in a DVD commentary that it that it was too frantic, with too many ideas.
  • John Nathan-Turner hated the dalek-like helmets of Lytton's troops, but did not have the time to change them.

Ratings

  • Part 1 - 7.3 million viewers
  • Part 2 - 8.0 million viewers

Myths

  • It was due to the success of the double-length episode format of this story that the BBC decided to adopt the same format for the whole of the following season. (It had already been decided before this that season twenty-two would consist of thirteen episodes of approximately forty-five minutes each).

Location Filming

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Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

  • Davros, although aware of the Movellan War, is surprised and fascinated by the problem of the impasse. Yet in Destiny of the Daleks he was aware of the problem.
  • Despite having spent his time in suspended animation he has been able to make his mind control device and has learnt enough about Time Lords to deduce that they're 'all soft'.
  • Davros appears to distrust the Daleks, and declares that they will not abuse him again. Yet in Destiny they were slave-like in their obedience. (Perhaps he is referring to their betrayal in Genesis of the Daleks).
  • Who are the prisoners who escape at the start? (Duplicates? The originals of duplicates? Why use duplicates as soldiers, rather than to infiltrate?)
  • Why are the cylinders of Movellan virus left on 1984 Earth, a planet that the Daleks want to invade? It's a bit like the Allies hiding an atom bomb in Berlin. When Tegan handles a cylinder she remarks on how light is. But later it takes two Dalek agents to lift one.
  • How do the Daleks have duplicates of Tegan and Turlough? The 1984 earth soldiers appear to be duplicated in an extraordinarily short time. And why do the Daleks make such a fuss to keep the Doctor alive to clone him, when they can clone dead people as well? They needed him alive to copy his memories as well.
  • How are the Daleks able to view what's going on inside the station from their own ship? (They could have hacked into the stations survallience systems)
  • Why does Davros immediately assume (correctly) that Lytton and his troopers are working for the Daleks after they unfreeze him? (The Daleks are likely the only creatures in the universe that would want Davros free. The obviously Dalek-inspired design of Lytton's headgear probably also helped convince Davros that his creations were behind the attack.)
  • Why do the duplicated Earth soldiers attack Davros's Daleks with weapons they know will not harm them? (It was the only thing they could do in the situation. They hadn't been given any other weapons, as doing so would have aroused suspicions about them (and the Daleks accidentally did so anyway by giving Archer a duplicate gun belt))
  • When the Doctor is captured by the Daleks he asks where Davros is. But he does not know that the Dalek ship is docked onto the prison ship where Davros was held, let alone that he has been released.
  • The Dalek plan to infiltrate earth with their duplicates is one of the weak points of the multi-layered (and confusing) plot. The Dalek plan is never really explained. At the end of the story the Dalek Supreme tells the Doctor that the duplicates have infiltrated earth. The Doctor explains to Tegan and Thurlough that these duplicates will become unstable like Stein. Does this mean they will die, or that they will lose their Dalek conditioning? In the meantime, could not they create chaos on earth?
  • In the warehouse, a Dalek is disorientated and pushed out onto the street below. The prop that is used for the ejection bears little resemblance to the Dalek in the combat scene. Most notably, its eye stalk is ridiculously short.

Continuity

DVD, Video, and Other Releases

DVD Releases

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Released as Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks, the UK DVD release came with an additional rubber case that went over the top of the standard packaging.

Released:

PAL - BBC DVD BBCDVD1100
NTSC - Warner Video E1759

Contents:

Rear Credits:

Video Releases

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Released as Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks.

Released:

  • First Release:
PAL - BBC Video BBCV5143
NTSC - Warner Video E1261

Notes: Presented in the non-broadcast (original edit) four part format.

  • Second Release:
PAL - BBC Video BBCV7253

Notes: W.H. Smith exclusive as part of the The Davros Collection box set.

Novelisation

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