C04S03 The power of the Daleks
Synopsis
The TARDIS brings the Doctor, Polly and Ben to a colony on the swamp planet of Vulcan. Soon after arriving, the Doctor witnesses a brutal murder.
Meanwhile, in another part of the colony an ancient crashed space capsule has been discovered in the swamps. The colony's misguided chief scientist opens the capsule and discovers a group of strange metal 'creatures' inside.
This six-part adventure takes place immediately after the first regeneration, as the Time Lord and his companions, Polly and Ben, do battle with an old foe on the mysterious planet Vulcan. How will Polly and Ben cope with a new Doctor? How will the Doctor take to his new body? And how will they ever overcome the power of the Daleks?
Cover notes
Cast
| The Doctor | Patrick Troughton | listed as Dr. Who |
| Polly Wright | Anneke Wills | |
| Ben Jackson | Michael Craze | |
| The Examiner | Martin King | ep. 1 |
| Quinn | Nicholas Hawtrey | |
| Bragen | Bernard Archard | |
| Lesterson | Robert James | |
| Janley | Pamela Ann Davey | |
| Hensell | Peter Bathurst | |
| Resno | Edward Kelsey | ep. 2 |
| Dalek voices | Peter Hawkins | ep. 2,3,4,5,6 |
| Valmar | Richard Kane | ep. 3,4,5,6 |
| Guard | Peter Forbes-Robertson | ep. 4,5,6 |
| Kebble | Steven Scott | ep. 4,5,6 |
Crew
| Written by | David Whitaker | |
| Title music | Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop | |
| Incidental music | Tristram Cary | |
| Special sound | Brian Hodgson and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop | |
| Sound supervisor | Buster Cole | |
| Grams operator | Lance Andrews | |
| Story Editor | Gerry Davis | |
| Script Editor | Dennis Spooner | |
| Production Assistant | Michael Briant | |
| Assistant Floor Manager | Marjorie Yorke | |
| Costume designer | Sandra Reid | |
| Designer | Derek Dodd | |
| Producer | Innes Lloyd | |
| Director | Christopher Barry |
DVD Extras
| commentary track | ||
| Animation test footage | [disc 1] | |
| ep.1 cut fragment | (easter egg) Animation fragment cut from the original DVD release for complexity reasons [disc 1] | |
| The Derek Dodd Collection [2020] | (easter egg) In the Summer of 2019, a unique collection of film and photographs came to light, related to the original 1966 production of The Power of the Daleks. The material included colour and black and white images taken during the original recording sessions at Ealing Studios and Riverside Studios. The images had been kept by the story's production designer, the late Derek Dodd. [disc 2] | |
| Original title sequence | The original Doctor Who title sequence was created in August 1963 by designers Bernard Lodge and Ben Palmer of the BBC Graphics Unit. The 36 second long film sequence was used to introduce every single Doctor Who episode between 1963 and 1967. The original film negative of that sequence was never formally archived and has been lost since the late 1960s. Recently however, an original film print of the full sequence was discovered in a private collection. This film has now been re-scanned and digitally remastered in high definition and is presented here in full for the first time... [disc 2] |
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| Servants and Masters·The making of The Power of the Daleks | ||
| Original Dalek voice session recording [1966] | ||
| Original Dalek recording | ||
| Telesnap reconstruction | ||
| Surviving footage and original trailer | ||
| photo gallery | ||
| Camera scripts | ||
| Production paperwork |
Special Edition DVD Extras
| Eps. 1,2,3,4,5,6 animation | [disc 1] | |
| Eps. 1,2,3,4,5,6 [2020] | Toby Hadoke Anneke Wills Derek Dodd Michael Bryant |
commentary track [disc 1] |
| Animation gallery [2020] | [disc 1] | |
| Ep. 1 cut fragment [2020] | (easter egg) During production of the final version of The Power of the Daleks animation in 2020, a short section of action was cut from the first episode of the story for practical reasons. This section (lasting for around 16 seconds) features the Doctor playing a recorder in the TARDIS. The section contains no dialogue. However, the sound of the Doctor's feet can be heard tapping on the floor. [disc 1] |
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| Eps. 1,2,3,4,5,6 reconstructions | Original or narrated audio options [disc 2] | |
| Power of the Daleks audiobook [1993] | [disc 2] | |
| BBC1 trailer [1966-11-04] | [disc 2] | |
| Surviving footage | The power of the Daleks was never formally archived by the BBC film and videotape archive. The last known complete set of film recordings are believed to have been destroyed in 1975. Today, no complete film recordings are know to exist of any of the six episodes of The power of the Daleks. This compilation represents all of the footage still known to exist. [disc 2] |
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| Original title sequence | The original Doctor Who title sequence was created in August 1963 by designers Bernard Lodge and Ben Palmer of the BBC Graphics Unit. The 36 second long film sequence was used to introduce every single Doctor Who episode between 1963 and 1967. The original film negative of that sequence was never formally archived and has been lost since the late 1960s. Recently however, an original film print of the full sequence was discovered in a private collection. This film has now been re-scanned and digitally remastered in high definition and is presented here in full for the first time... [disc 2] |
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| Dalek recording session [1966-09-12] | Recorded at BBC Maida Vale Studios [disc 2] | |
| Incidental Music | Presented here in full, the incidental music used in The power of the Daleks was composed by Tristram Cary. The score was made up entirely of pre-existing tracks that Cary had previously composed for earlier Doctor Who stories. These tracks were then creatively re-deployed in The power of the Daleks. Most of the music was orinally composed for the very first Dalek serial in 1963, with the rest being drawn from Cary's score for the 1965/66 Dalek story, The Daleks' masterplan. [disc 2] |
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| Photogrammetry [2019] | Photogrammetry is a technique whereby multiple images of a place or object can be used to recreate that place or object as a 3 dimensional 'model' inside a computer. Once inside the computer, a virtual camera can then be moved around the place or object, allowing a view of that place or object as if it was really there. Three photogrammetry views of the original sets from The power of the Daleks have been created here using photographs taken in Riverside Studios, Studio 1 in late 1966 during the original production. [disc 2] |
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| photo gallery | [disc 2] | |
| The Derek Dodd Collection [2020] | (easter egg) In the Summer of 2019, a unique collection of film and photographs came to light, related to the original 1966 production of The Power of the Daleks. The material included colour and black and white images taken during the original recording sessions at Ealing Studios and Riverside Studios. The images had been kept by the story's production designer, the late Derek Dodd. [disc 2] | |
| From script to screen [2020] | [St. Helen's Church Hall, North Kensington] [Z Cars] {Softly Softly] (William Hartnell) (Rupert Davies) (Michael Hordern) Patrick Troughton [Sherlock Holmes, The devil's foot] [Adam Adamant Lives!, D for Destruction] (Adoph Hitler) [Robin Hood] [The Viking Queen, film] (Nicola Pagett) Michael Craze (Anneke Wills) (Gerry Davis) (Terry Nation) [The Baron] (David Whitaker) (Dennis Spooner) [Stingray] [Fireball XL5] [Thunderbirds] [ITC] (James Stewart) [Destry rides again] (Christopher Barry) Graeme Harper (Bernard Archard) [Spycatcher, Three from Spain, drama serial] (Robert James) [Dr. Finlay's Casebook, The spirit of Dr. McGregor] [Smugglers' Bay (and yes, that is Frazer Hines in the feature stills)] (Derek Dodd) (Jack Robinson) (Cynthia Hood) (Colin Green) (Ann Hollowood) (Raymond P. Cusick) (Shawcraft Models) ("Incubator Dalek" @ 15:24, used in ep. 4) [Stage 2, Ealing Film Studios] {Arriflex 35 2C} Pamela Ann Davy (Steven Scott) [Studio 1, Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London] [Triumph Films] [Alliance Films] Clive Doig [Lime Grove Television Studios] [Six-Five Special] [Dixon of Dock Green] [Quatermass and the Pit] (Ialia Conti Stage School) (Shaun Sutton) [Huntingtower, TV series] [The Silver Sword, TV series] (Doug Routledge) (Martin Dilly) (Gerry Tivers) {Pye Mk. V Image Othicon cameras} [ATV, Elstree Studios] {zoom len by Evershed Power Optics} [Mill Hill Amateur Operatic Scociety, north-west London] (Campbell Logan) |
[disc 3] |
| Behind the scene [2020] | [Ealing Film Studios, Model Unit] Mike Tucker [Herts Plastic Moulders Ltd., Hertford] [F. W. Woolworth & Co. Ltd.] (Matthew Doe) [BBC Television Centre] John Kelly {Arriflex 16 BL} [Z Cars] |
In the September of 1966, the Doctor Who production team spent two days at Ealing Studios in West London, filming a number of miniature effects scenes for their latest Doctor Who story, The power of the Daleks. Of the footage filmed over those two days, only fragments now survive in the archives. the rest is lost. In early 2020, a team based at Ealing Studios, set out to re-film some of this now lost footage. Using only black and white film stock that was available in 1966 and copies of the original miniature sets and Dalek props... [disc 3] |
| Servants and Masters - The making of The power of the Daleks [2016] | (William Hartnell) Christopher Barry Derek Dodd Anneke Wills (Patrick Troughton) Andrew Beech Bernard Archard (Sydney Newman) Kim Newman (David Whitaker) (Dennis Spooner) Nick Briggs (Robert James) (Arthur Swinson) (Michael Craze) {Meccano} [Metropolis, film] (Fritz Lang) (William Cameron Menzies) [Things to come, film] [Lanzarote] (Raymond P. Cusick) [Ealing Studios] (Peter Sargent) (Peter Hawkins) Tristram Cary |
[disc 3] |
| A handful of horrors – I don't like my monsters to have Oedipus complexes [1968-01-27] | Alan Whicker Christopher Lee [The brides of Fu Manchu] Elizabeth Lachman Barbara Steele Terry Nation Peter Darryl Milton Subotsky [The blob] (Screaming) Lord Sutch |
The first episode from the 1968 series of Wicker's World [disc 3] |
| Daleks: the early years [1992] | Peter Davison [MOMI : Museum of the Moving Image] Terry Nation (Georgian State Dancers) Raymond P. Cusick (Ridley Scott) (Barry Newbery) sp? John Scott Martin Roy Skelton (Peter Hawkins) (Shawcraft Models) (Spencer Chapman) [Ealing Studios] (Douglas Camfield) [Threshold House] [Late Night Lineup] [Noel Edmonds Show] (David Whitaker) (Biddy Baxter) (Bill Roberts) [Television Center] (Chris Trace) (Nancy Bank Smith, The Guardian critic) (Patrick Troughton) |
This programme was originally produced for a BBC video cassette release, and made available on the now defunct VHS video format. [disc 3] |
| Robin Hood, ep. 2, The Abbot of Saint Mary's [1953-03-24] [2019] | All that survives of the BBC's 1953 production of Robin Hood. The material is from the second episode of the series, 'The Abbot of Saint Mary's'. It is the earliest surviving television performance featuring Patrick Troughton and one of the earliest surviving recordings of a British television drama of any kind. [disc 3] | |
| BBC South Today [1966-05-19] [2020] | BBC Week in South Hampton [disc 3] | |
| BBC Wales Footage [2020] | Recovered as part of the BBCs massive archive digitisation project, two clips from BBC Wales, 1967 [disc 3] | |
| Blue Peter | Valerie Singleton Peter Purves John Noakes |
1967 Design a monster competition |
| Newsnight | ||
| BBC Breakfast Report | ||
| Animation trailers | ||
| Animation test footage | ||
| Animatics | ||
| BBC Radio spots | ||
| Expanded viewing notes | ||
| Radio Times listings | ||
| Audience research report | ||
| Character notes | ||
| Programme as broadcast report | ||
| Camera scripts |
BluRay Extras
Loose Canon Extras
Commentary
| serial code : | EE |
| episode count : | 6 |
| initial broadcast date : | 1966-11-05 |
| DVD release date : | 2016 |
| DVD SE release date : | 2020 |
| BluRay release date : | |