Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story): Difference between revisions

* [[Dalek]] Voices - [[Brian Miller (actor)|Brian Miller]], [[Royce Mills]]

* [[Dalek Operator]]s - [[John Scott Martin]], [[Cy Town]], [[Tony Starr]], [[Toby Byrne]]

=== Uncredited cast ===

* [[Fifth Doctor Dalek duplicate (Resurrection of the Daleks)|Doctor duplicate]] - [[Peter Davison]]

* [[Tegan Jovanka (Dalek duplicate)|Tegan duplicate]] - [[Janet Fielding]]

== Crew ==

* [[Visual Effects]] - [[Peter Wragg]]

=== Animals ===

* A [[cat]] is mistaken for a Dalek mutant.

=== The Doctor ===

* The Doctor decides that Davros must be killed and accepts the role of executioner with great reluctance. He ultimately does not kill him.

* The Doctor vows to change his ways after the massive death toll and Tegan's stinging criticism of his lifestyle.

* Davros was supposed to be killed off in this story, until the estate of [[Terry Nation]] objected.

* [[Matthew Robinson]] felt the story was convoluted and had too many twists.

* [[Janet Fielding]] walked around the sets kicking scenery to get herself in the mood for Tegan's leaving scene.

* It was [[Rodney Bewes]]'s idea to give Stien a stutter.

* As with most of his other acting work after ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Likely_Lads The Likely Lads]'' (1964-66) and its sequel ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whatever_Happened_to_the_Likely_Lads%3F Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?]'' (1973-74), [[Rodney Bewes]] took the role of Stien mostly just to pay his bills, as his former co-star [[James Bolam]] was refusing to allow the BBC to broadcast reruns of either series due to a royalties dispute. In his later years, Bewes joked that the royalties he got from this story — and the 1976 movie ''The Likely Lads'', whose rights Bolam had less control over — were mostly what kept food on his table until Bolam eventually relented and allowed for repeats and VHS releases of the shows.

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Ball_(actor) Nicholas Ball], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Byrne_(actor) Michael Byrne], [[Tom Chadbon]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Firth Peter Firth], [[Tim Pigott-Smith]], [[Patrick Stewart]] and [[David Warner]] were considered for the role of Colonel Archer.

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Ball_(actor) Nicholas Ball], [[Steven Berkoff]], [[Brian Blessed]], [[Tom Chadbon]], [[Kenneth Cope]], [[Timothy Dalton]], [[Paul Darrow]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gothard Michael Gothard], [[Don Henderson]], [[Martin Jarvis]], [[Michael Jayston]], [[Alfred Lynch]], [[Clive Merrison]], [[Edward Peel]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rhys-Davies John Rhys-Davies], [[Maurice Roëves]], [[George Sewell]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Stewart Patrick Stewart], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Valentine Anthony Valentine] and [[David Warner]] were considered for the role of Lytton.

* [[James Ellis]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Kinnear Roy Kinnear] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Lacey Ronald Lacey] was considered for Stein.

* [[Polly Adams]], [[Honor Blackman]], [[Eleanor Bron]], [[Rachel Davies]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judi_Dench Judi Dench], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Hanley Jenny Hanley], [[Diane Keen]], [[Maureen Lipman]], [[Joanna Lumley]], [[Kate O'Mara|Kate O’Mara]], [[Jacqueline Pearce]], [[Sheila Ruskin]], [[Pamela Salem]], [[Fiona Walker]] and [[Penelope Wilton]] were considered for the role of Dr. Styles.

* The story was originally to have been directed by [[Peter Grimwade]]. When the story was postponed, Grimwade took members of the production team out to dinner, but did not invite [[John Nathan-Turner]] because he had intended to take Nathan-Turner out separately. However, Nathan-Turner felt slighted by the omission and refused to allow Grimwade to direct the story when it was rescheduled for Season 21. [[Matthew Robinson]], who had never worked on the series before but had a "reputation as an action director", was used instead. However, [[Eric Saward]] had already promised Grimwade that he could provide a script for the season, so Grimwade was allowed to write the following story, ''[[Planet of Fire (TV story)|Planet of Fire]]''.

* [[Leslie Grantham]] went on to play the notorious [[Den Watts|"Dirty" Den Watts]] in ''[[EastEnders]]'', again being cast on the recommendation of [[Matthew Robinson]]. Following Den's return to the soap opera in [[2004]], the character addressed another character, a temporarily wheelchair-bound [[Ian Beale]], as "Davros"; and encountered a police officer named "Kiston".

* Davros shows knowledge of the Time Lords — something that had never been said in front of the character in his past two appearances.

* The Daleks know of [[Gallifrey]] and want the Doctor's duplicate to assassinate the [[High Council of Time Lords|High Council]]. They previously had not shown such knowledge before this story. [[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'' had however featured a Dalek being taken to Gallifrey (though not surviving to report back what it had seen) and included a line saying that the Daleks had historically not been allowed to participate in the Gallifreyan war games because they "played too well" (possibly implying that, prior to them being banned, the Daleks had taken part in the games at least once at which point they "played too well").

=== Ratings ===

* Region 2 - [[18 November (releases)|18 November]] [[2002 (releases)|2002]]

::PAL - [[BBC DVD]] BBCDVD1100

* Region 1 - [[1 July (releases)|1 July]] 2003

::NTSC - [[Warner Video]] E1759

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