Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks (1984)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 8 February 1984 - 15 February 1984
Number of Episodes: 2
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: colour     videotape     16mm
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: John Nathan-Turner
Production Manager: Corinne Hollingworth

SCRIPT
Script: Eric Saward
Story Editor: Eric Saward

DIRECTION
Director: Matthew Robinson

PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Ron Bristow
Camera Supervisor: Alec Wheal
Film Cameraman: Ian Punter

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Videotape Editor: Hugh Parson
Film Editor: Dan Rae

MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranger: Peter Howell
Incidental Music: Malcolm Clarke

SOUNDS
Studio Sound: Scott Talbott
Film Sound: Bob Roberts
Special Sounds: Dick Mills

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Designer: Eileen Mair
Costume Designer: Janet Tharby

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Designer: Peter Wragg
Video Effects: Dave Chapman
Vision Mixer: Paul Wheeler
Title Sequence: Sid Sutton

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: John Anderson

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Associate: June Collins
Production Assistant: Joy Sinclair
Assistant Floor Manager: Matthew Burge
Technical Coordinator: Alan Arbuthnott

CAST
Peter Davison (The Doctor)
Janet Fielding (Tegan)
Mark Strickson (Turlough)
Terry Molloy (Davros)
Rodney Bewes (Stein)
Rula Lenska (Dr Styles)
Maurice Colbourne (Commander Lytton)
Del Henney (Colonel Archer)
Chloe Ashcroft (Professor Laird)
Philip McGough (Sgt Calder)
Jim Findley (Lt Mercer)
Les (Leslie) Grantham (Engineer Kiston)
John Scott Martin, Cy Town, Tony Starr, Toby Byrne (Dalek operators)
Brian Miller, Royce Mills (Dalek voices)
Sneh Gupta (Osborn)
William Sliegh (Galloway)
John Adam Baker, Linsey Turner (crewmembers)
Mike Mungarvan (soldier)
Roger Davenport (1st trooper)
Mike Braben, Michael Jeffries (policemen - uncredited)
Mike Mungarvin, Simon Crane (soldiers - uncredited)
George Christie, Mair Coleman, Alan Crisp, Della McCrae, Ranjit Nakara, Rudolf Ramillo, Alan Crisp (escapees - uncredited)
Nicholas Curry (chemist - uncredited)
Pat Judge (man with metal detector - uncredited)
Michael Eriera, Kevin Goss, Barney Lawrence, Tony Liotti, Sean McCabe, Martin Nelson, Robert Peters, Alan Riches, Trevor St John Hacker, Jeff Wayne, Christopher Wolf, Tim Lawrence, Adrian Scott, Robert Peters, Derek Holt, Ulric Brown (troopers - uncredited)
Graham Cole, Eric Corlett, Ian Marshall Fisher, Robert Goodman, Karen Halliday, Penny Lambirth, Kenneth Lawrie, Kevin O'Brien, Ginny Rose, Nigel Tisdall, Mike Vinden (crewmembers - uncredited)
Peter Roy (walk-on - uncredited)
Albert Welch (tramp - uncredited)
Ginny Rose, Eric Corlett, Graham Cole, Kenneth Lawrie, Ranjit nakara, Della McCrae, George Christie, Alan Crisp, Mair Coleman (duplication bodies - uncredited)

PLOT SUMMARY

The TARDIS lands by Tower Bridge in London in an area where Daleks have set a trap for the Doctor. The Daleks have created a race of human duplicates which they intend to use to conquer Earth. Tegan leaves The Doctor at the end of the adventure sickened by all the killing she has seen.

Simple Dalek plot with a lot of loose ends and cul-de-sacs which appeared excellent at the time thanks to the re-appearance of the show's most famous monsters in a strong adventure story. Now, the subsequent more intriguing Dalek stories have slightly diminished its status. Depicting the police as villains caused a bit of consternation in the British newspapers but those sequences now work the best. Tegan says goodbye in a final scene that works well in itself but appears rather tacked on (which in the script stage it was).

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video

1984
February
8: UK - Part One television broadcast (on BBC1)
15: UK - Part One television broadcast (on BBC1)

The Return
Warhead

BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.452-455
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker)

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

aliens, time travel

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009