Blue Dalek (Robots Ad)
Several Daleks, including a Skaro City- or Mechanus Attack-like Blue Dalek, a Gold Dalek, and a Grey Dalek, were employed at a dysfunctional call centre for a banking company, alongside various other robotic beings.
After a caller guilelessly tried to get through to the services they needed, the call was transferred by the B9 Robot to John Robot. John then attempted to pass the call to the Grey Dalek, who was flanked by the Blue Dalek. However, because the Dalek could not hold a phone receiver in its manipulator arm, the phone instead dropped to the ground. (TV: Robots Ad [+]Loading...["Robots Ad (TV story)"])(TV: Robots Ad [+]Loading...["Robots Ad (TV story)"])
Behind the scenes
The Daleks seen in the Robots Ad [+]Loading...["Robots Ad (TV story)"] were depicted by props provided by Retro Universal Robots at the behest of BBC Worldwide. While the Gold Dalek and Grey Dalek were both played by the same Dalek operator, the props' own builder Andrew Corson, the Blue Dalek was operated by a different member of the crew whose name was not recorded.[1]
The prop was one of the seven main Daleks built by Corson for Canberra Daleks & Robots. According to its blurb on the official website, it was specifically intended as a replica of the Gold Dalek used in TV: Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. [+]Loading...["Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (theatrical film)"].
The Blue Dalek was built in 1998/99. The Blue Dalek is the movie version of the Worker Dalek from the first Doctor Who movie. There are no slats around the mid-section that later appeared in the second movie. In the TV series, the Worker Dalek was silver and then variations of grey throughout the 70s. "This was my fifth and supposedly final Dalek and my main motivation for building it was that it would be my last. I wanted it to be different from the others, so I decided to go for the first movie Dalek colour scheme. I took great care to get the colours exact and it is probably the best finshed Dalek."
For its spear-carrying appearance in the Robots Ad, the Blue Dalek was outfitted with small, TV-style luminosity dischargers, unlike the larger, angular ones seen in the film and of which the prop also sports variations in its official profile pictures on the Retro Universal Robots website. This change made it resemble the "television-ified" movie Daleks infamously used in TV: The Chase [+]Loading...["The Chase (TV story)"].
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 9 March 2005 ANZ Bank Advert. Facebook. Archived from the original on 7 September 2024. Retrieved on 7 September 2024.
- ↑ About. Canberra Daleks & Robots. Archived from the original on 7 September 2024. Retrieved on 7 September 2024.
