Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks (1974)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 23 February 1974 - 16 March 1974
Number of Episodes: 4
Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Barry Letts

SCRIPT
Script: Terry Nation
Story Editor: Terrance Dicks, Robert Holmes (uncredited)

DIRECTION
Director: Michael Briant

PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Derek Slee
Film Camera: Bill Matthews

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Bob Rymer

MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranged By: Delia Derbyshire
Incidental Music: Carey Blyton
Incidental Music Performed By: The London Saxaphone Quartet

SOUND
Studio Sound: Richard Chubb
Special Sounds: Dick Mills

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Magdalen Gaffney, Cynthia Goodwin
Costumes: L. Rowland Warne
Masks: John Friedlander

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Jim Ward

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Colin Green

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Chris D'Oyly-John
Assistant Floor Manager: Richard Leyland

STUNTS
Fight Arranger: Terry Walsh

CAST
Jon Pertwee (The Doctor)
Elizabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith)
Duncan Lamont (Lt Dan Galloway)
Julian Fox (Lt Peter Hamilton)
Joy Harrison (Jill Tarrant)
Murphy Grumbar, John Scott Martin, Cy Town (Daleks)
Michael Wisher (Dalek voices)
John Abineri (Captain Richard Railton)
Neil Seiler (Commander Stewart)
Mostyn Evans (High Priest)
Terry Walsh (spaceman)
Arnold Yarrow (Bellal)
Roy Heymann (Gotal)
Steven Ismay, Terry Walsh (zombies)
Leslie Bates, Bob Blaine, Derek Chafer, Terry Denville, Steven Ismay, Kevin Moran, Roy Pierce, Dennis Plenty, Mike Reynel, David Rolfe, Terry Sartain, Nigel Winder (Exxilons – uncredited)

PLOT SUMMARY

The Doctor encounters a Marine Space Corps team on the planet Exxilon who are searching for a cure to a plague that is sweeping the galaxy. Also on the planet are the savage indigenous tribe and a group of Daleks.

Even bearing in mind the wretched Destiny of the Daleks (1979), this may be the worst Dalek story ever. The sight of a few powerless Daleks wobbling along a gravel pit truly undermines their position as the greatest Doctor Who villains. The story itself is The Power of the Daleks (1966) with the macguffin changed.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video

1974
February
23: UK - Part One first television broadcast (on BBC1)

March
2: UK - Part Two first television broadcast (on BBC1)
9: UK - Part Three first television broadcast (on BBC1)
16: UK - Part Four first television broadcast (on BBC1)

The Exxilons - working title

BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.258-260
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker)

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

aliens, time travel

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009