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|read by = [[Nicholas Briggs]] | |||
|publication = [[Terry Nation's Dalek Annual 1978]] | |publication = [[Terry Nation's Dalek Annual 1978]] | ||
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* The [[ADF]] is specifically mentioned in this story, though none of the ADF regulars appear. Shannon's status as an ADF pilot can be inferred from the fact that he believed an ADF search party would have looked for him for six months before he would have been declared "missing in action", and from the fact that he remembers a "training officer's voice drilling facts" into his head about the Daleks. | * The [[ADF]] is specifically mentioned in this story, though none of the ADF regulars appear. Shannon's status as an ADF pilot can be inferred from the fact that he believed an ADF search party would have looked for him for six months before he would have been declared "missing in action", and from the fact that he remembers a "training officer's voice drilling facts" into his head about the Daleks. | ||
* This story claims that there is one tiny spot on a Dalek where a precise blow or projectile will render the creature incapacitated — rather like a [[Sontaran]] [[probic vent]]. This feature of Dalek anatomy certainly wasn't mentioned in any television story, and it isn't known to have recurred in stories in other media. | * This story claims that there is one tiny spot on a Dalek where a precise blow or projectile will render the creature incapacitated — rather like a [[Sontaran]] [[probic vent]]. This feature of Dalek anatomy certainly wasn't mentioned in any television story, and it isn't known to have recurred in stories in other media. | ||
* This story was later released as part of ''[[Daleks Destroy: The Secret Invasion & Other Stories]]'', read by [[Nicholas Briggs]]. | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
