Victory of the Daleks (TV story)

Victory of the Daleks
Doctor:	[[doctor::Eleventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Amy Pond
Main enemy:	Daleks
Main setting:	Earth, 1941, World War II
Key crew
Writer:	Mark Gatiss
Director:	Andrew Gunn
Producer:	Peter Bennett
Release details
Story number:	205
Release number:	Series 5
Premiere broadcast:	17th April 2010
Format:	1 x 45 minute episode

Victory of the Daleks is the third episode of Matt Smith's first series. It marks the re-appearance of the Daleks and the Eleventh Doctor's first encounter with them.

Synopsis

The Doctor and Amy are called to London during World War II by an old friend of the Doctor: Winston Churchill. To the Doctor's horror he finds the Daleks posing as a manmade "secret weapon" that Churchill calls "ironsides" and hopes will win him the war.

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Dalek serving tea

Cast

• The Doctor - Matt Smith
• Amy Pond - Karen Gillan
• Winston Churchill - Ian McNeice
• Edwin Bracewell - Bill Paterson [1]
• Blanche - Nina De Cosimo [2]
• Lilian - Susannah Fielding [3]
• Peter - James Albrecht [4]
• Captain Childers - Tim Wallers[5]
• ARP Warden - Colin Prockter[6]
• Civil Servant - Jamal Nasir[7]
• Spitfire Pilot - Mark Gatiss
• Dalek (Operator) - Barnaby Edwards
• Dalek (Operator) - Nicholas Pegg[8]
• Dalek (Voice) - Nicholas Briggs[9]

Crew

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References

• The trailer (at the end of DW:The Beast Below) includes a Dalek saying, "I am your soldier." This is an obvious paraphrase of the Dalek line, "I am your servant." from DW:Power of the Daleks.

Story Notes

The three different covers of the Radio Times

• Colin Prockter previously appeared as the Head Chef in DW: The Long Game.
• Winston Churchill wants the Doctor's TARDIS key.
• Like DW: The Unquiet Dead in Series 1, this episode is the third in the series, is a pseudo-historical, is penned by Mark Gatiss, and is both preceded and followed by two episodes by the head writer.
• Ian McNeice previously portrayed Winston Churchill in the Royal National Theatre's 2008 production of Never So Good.
• This is the second Dalek episode in the new series to use the infamous "___ of the Daleks" title scheme, the first being DW: Evolution of the Daleks.
• The red, blue and yellow Daleks were revealed in the Radio Times and the colours were used to symbolise the different colours of the British Parliment parties, Labour (red), Conservative (blue) and Liberal Democrats (yellow). The yellow Dalek issue was produced with less quantity and are therefore harder to get than the blue and red.
• Mark Gatiss said in the Radio Times: "They're bigger than they've ever been; and in technicolor!" This would show that the new Daleks shall be different colours like the 'classic' Daleks of the earlier eras.

Ratings

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Red, Blue and Yellow Daleks

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Filming Locations

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Rumours

• Adolf Hitler is rumoured to make a brief appearance.
• There will be many types of different Daleks. 6 have currently been seen. 4
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  The new White Dalek
  white/grey, red, blue and yellow Daleks with new eyestalks, a khaki-coloured Dalek with utility belt and a Union Flag where the normal Dalek ID is below the eyestalk and the gold Dalek of the Russell T. Davies era.
• Steven Moffat stated in a TalkTalk interview, that half-an-hour through this episode, you will have a 'revelation' and will have to watch the episode again to understand.
• The Daleks will survive the end of the episode or, possibly, actually triumph for the first time (since they always survive, anyway). In DWM #420, Steven Moffat says "I can see you all smirking at the title, and thinking 'Oh, I bet it's not a victory.' Yeah? Do you think?"and Mark Gatiss says "The reason it's called Victory of the Daleks is cos they win. They win."
• Teasers from Digital Spy have implied that despite the Battle of Canary Wharf and the War in the Medusa Cascade, Amy will not recognise the Daleks. [10]
• A publicity picture for this episode shows Bracewell with a mechanical hand, showing that he may be either an Android or Cyborg.[11](This could mean that the Daleks created Bracewell to claim he created the Daleks, so that they would gain support of the British so that they could rebuild themselves.)

The Eleventh Doctor with the 'Dalek Plan'

Production errors

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Continuity

• In a leaked audio clip, the Doctor mentions sending the Daleks back into the Void and saving the whole of reality from their efforts. (DW: Doomsday, The Stolen Earth/Journey's End)
• Subservient Daleks is also the theme of the first Second Doctor adventure. (DW: The Power of the Daleks)
• The end of DW: The Beast Below directly follows up into this story.
• The Dalek Saucer seen in the dogfight with the Spitfires is the same sort as those from DW: Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways and DW: The Stolen Earth/Journey's End

DVD/Blu-Ray release

• BBC Video - Doctor Who Series Five - Volume One is scheduled for release on DVD and Blu-Ray on 7th June 2010 (UK only), featuring The Eleventh Hour, The Beast Below, Victory of the Daleks, and the featurette The Monster Diaries.

External Links

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