Doctor Who Rewind - The Day Of The Daleks
Doctor Who Rewind - The Day Of The Daleks
At last the third Doctor meets his his oldest enemy with the help of a bit of time travel, in this ninth series opener.
When Sir Richard Styles, a British Diplomat who is tring to organise a peace conference to stop world war three, is almost killed by a strange man (a rebel guerrilla) armed with a futuristic pistol, who suddenly vanishes into thin air, the Doctor and UNIT are called in to investigate.
The Doctor discovers that a group of future earthlings from the 22nd Century are being controlled by the Daleks who have access to special time machine boxes that can be activated and send people back in time.
The Doctor is accidentally transported to the future to try and find Joe Grant who is already being held prisoner by the controller. He see's huge factories of human slaves being controlled by alien Orgons.
The Doctor is captured by the Orgons and he is hooked up to a Dalek mind analysis device, where images of his former selves are seen. The Daleks see their old enemy and gloat that they have discovers time travel and have changed the course of human history.
The controller tells the Doctor that that at the end of the twentieth century, a hundred years of war began, killing 7/8ths of the population and forcing the rest to live in holes in the ground. It was then that the Daleks invaded, using earths raw materials to expand their empire.
The rebel guerrillas attack the Controller's base and rescue the Doctor. The rebels take the Doctor back to their hideout and tell him the rest of the story. Styles organised the peace conference, the rebels believe that Styles engineered the whole thing, and caused the century of war that followed. That was why they used Dalek-derived time travel technology to travel to the past, to kill Styles before he could destroy the peace conference. They used the tunnels because that is the only common location shared by the two time zones.
The Doctor is sceptical, believing Styles to be stubborn but basically a good man. When the Doctor finds out that the rebels brought a bomb made of dalekanium with them, a powerful and unstable explosive that will affect even Dalek casings, he realises that the rebels are caught in a predestination paradox. They will cause the very explosion they went back in time to prevent, and create their own history. Indeed, back in the 20th Century, A rebel (Shura) has found his way into Auderly House (the house where Styles lived) and plants the bomb in the cellar.
The Doctor and Jo make their way back to the tunnels so they can travel back and stop Shura, only to run into an ambush the Controller has set up. The Doctor convinces the Controller that he has the means to stop the Daleks even before they have begun, and the Controller lets him go, only to be betrayed by the interrogator and exterminated by the Daleks. The Daleks send a strike force to the 20th Century to ensure their version of the future is preserved, and attack as the delegates arrive at the house. In the ensuing battle between the Daleks, Ogrons and UNIT, the Brigadier evacuates the delegates. The Doctor, back in the present, makes his way down to the cellar to try to convince Shura not to activate the bomb; Auderly House is empty, it will all have been for nothing. However, once Shura hears that the Daleks are entering the house, he tells the Doctor and Jo to leave — he will take care of the Daleks. The Brigadier tells his men to fall back to the main road as the Daleks search the house for delegates. Shura detonates the bomb, destroying the house and everything in it.
The Doctor tells Styles that it is now up to him to make the conference a success. Styles assures the Doctor it will be, because they know what will happen if they fail. The Doctor, nodding at Jo, says that they know too.
So, this story is essentially related to the The Terminator movie and you have to wonder if it influenced James Cameron.
The original tv story is blighted by a low budget feel. Only about three Daleks were available on set so lots of different tricks and shots had to be used to make them look like an army.
Luckily, for the 2011 production of the DVD new scenes and fx were shot and edited into the existing footage to make a cast improvement. This has been done so well that it is hard to make our the old from the new.
Next up on Doctor Who Rewind, we venture to planet Peladon.
At last the third Doctor meets his his oldest enemy with the help of a bit of time travel, in this ninth series opener.
When Sir Richard Styles, a British Diplomat who is tring to organise a peace conference to stop world war three, is almost killed by a strange man (a rebel guerrilla) armed with a futuristic pistol, who suddenly vanishes into thin air, the Doctor and UNIT are called in to investigate.
The Doctor discovers that a group of future earthlings from the 22nd Century are being controlled by the Daleks who have access to special time machine boxes that can be activated and send people back in time.
The Doctor is accidentally transported to the future to try and find Joe Grant who is already being held prisoner by the controller. He see's huge factories of human slaves being controlled by alien Orgons.
The Doctor is captured by the Orgons and he is hooked up to a Dalek mind analysis device, where images of his former selves are seen. The Daleks see their old enemy and gloat that they have discovers time travel and have changed the course of human history.
The controller tells the Doctor that that at the end of the twentieth century, a hundred years of war began, killing 7/8ths of the population and forcing the rest to live in holes in the ground. It was then that the Daleks invaded, using earths raw materials to expand their empire.
The rebel guerrillas attack the Controller's base and rescue the Doctor. The rebels take the Doctor back to their hideout and tell him the rest of the story. Styles organised the peace conference, the rebels believe that Styles engineered the whole thing, and caused the century of war that followed. That was why they used Dalek-derived time travel technology to travel to the past, to kill Styles before he could destroy the peace conference. They used the tunnels because that is the only common location shared by the two time zones.
The Doctor is sceptical, believing Styles to be stubborn but basically a good man. When the Doctor finds out that the rebels brought a bomb made of dalekanium with them, a powerful and unstable explosive that will affect even Dalek casings, he realises that the rebels are caught in a predestination paradox. They will cause the very explosion they went back in time to prevent, and create their own history. Indeed, back in the 20th Century, A rebel (Shura) has found his way into Auderly House (the house where Styles lived) and plants the bomb in the cellar.
The Doctor and Jo make their way back to the tunnels so they can travel back and stop Shura, only to run into an ambush the Controller has set up. The Doctor convinces the Controller that he has the means to stop the Daleks even before they have begun, and the Controller lets him go, only to be betrayed by the interrogator and exterminated by the Daleks. The Daleks send a strike force to the 20th Century to ensure their version of the future is preserved, and attack as the delegates arrive at the house. In the ensuing battle between the Daleks, Ogrons and UNIT, the Brigadier evacuates the delegates. The Doctor, back in the present, makes his way down to the cellar to try to convince Shura not to activate the bomb; Auderly House is empty, it will all have been for nothing. However, once Shura hears that the Daleks are entering the house, he tells the Doctor and Jo to leave — he will take care of the Daleks. The Brigadier tells his men to fall back to the main road as the Daleks search the house for delegates. Shura detonates the bomb, destroying the house and everything in it.
The Doctor tells Styles that it is now up to him to make the conference a success. Styles assures the Doctor it will be, because they know what will happen if they fail. The Doctor, nodding at Jo, says that they know too.
So, this story is essentially related to the The Terminator movie and you have to wonder if it influenced James Cameron.
The original tv story is blighted by a low budget feel. Only about three Daleks were available on set so lots of different tricks and shots had to be used to make them look like an army.
Luckily, for the 2011 production of the DVD new scenes and fx were shot and edited into the existing footage to make a cast improvement. This has been done so well that it is hard to make our the old from the new.
Next up on Doctor Who Rewind, we venture to planet Peladon.
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