The Evil of the Daleks

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Casting

Patrick Troughton only appears in pre-filmed insert scenes for the fourth episode, as he was on holiday.

The actor who would give Alpha, Beta and Omega their voices, Roy Skelton, would later go on to be the voice of "Zippy" on the 1970s ITV children's show "Rainbow".

John Bailey, who played Edward Waterfield, had previously appeared in the William Hartnell story The Sensorites, and would later appear in the Tom Baker story The Horns of Nimon.

Features guest appearances by Windsor Davies, Brigit Forsyth and Marius Goring. See also Celebrity appearances in Doctor Who.

Missing episodes

"The Evil of the Daleks" was wiped from the BBC's archives in the late 1960s. Episodes one to six were wiped in August 1968, and episode seven wiped in September 1969. Only episode two remains, in a telerecording found at a car boot sale then returned to the archive in May 1987.

In 2004, analysis of the repeated clip used in "The Wheel in Space" episode six revealed it to be from episode one rather than episode two, as had been long believed. This, however, only constitutes a few frames of recovered footage.

The discovery of a behind-the-scenes film, "The Last Dalek", made by the special effects team as they worked on the story's conclusion, facilitated a recreation of the climactic battle scenes. This recreation, along with the entire film, have been made available in different forms on various Troughton releases. In addition, telesnaps exist for the entire story.

On youtube there is a reconstruction of episode one using telesnaps and surviving footage.

Broadcast and reception

The story was repeated in 1968 at the end of Season 5. At the end of "The Wheel in Space", the Doctor used a telepathic display machine to show new companion Zoe Heriot the sort of monsters she would face if she joined the TARDIS crew, and shows a clip from the end of episode 1 of "The Evil of the Daleks". Over the following weeks (bridging the gap between Seasons 5 and 6) the entire story was shown, narration over the opening scene of episode 1 reminding viewers of the reason for the repeat. This was the only time any "Doctor Who" episodes (other than the first episode) were reshown in the 1960s. Ironically, Zoe herself would never encounter the Daleks on television; decades later, the Big Finish Productions audio story "Fear of the Daleks" would tell of an encounter between Zoe and the Daleks, set immediately after the Doctor's telepathic re-run.

In 2006, the BBC and the Terry Nation estate licensed a stage version of the serial, adapted for the theatre by Nick Scovell with an orchestral score by Martin Johnson. [ [http://www.evilofthedaleks.co.uk The Evil of the Daleks - Doctor Who: On Screen, In Script, On Stage ] ] It was performed at the New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth in October.

Commercial releases

As with all missing episodes, off-air recordings of the soundtrack exist due to contemporary fan efforts. In 1992 these were released on audio cassette, accompanied by linking narration from Tom Baker. In 2003, the remastered soundtrack was re-released with new narration by Frazer Hines, in the "Doctor Who: Daleks" collector's tin, alongside the soundtrack to "The Power of the Daleks" and a bonus disc featuring "My Life as a Dalek", a historical documentary presented by Mark Gatiss. In 2004, this version saw subsequent individual release. See List of Doctor Who audio releases.

The sole surviving episode was featured in the "Daleks: The Early Years" VHS video and, in November 2004, in the "Lost in Time" DVD set.

In print

Virgin Books published a novelisation of this serial by John Peel in August 1993. To date it is the last serial of the original series to be novelised (there are currenty five serials that, due to complex licensing, are unavailable for adaptation). Although published by Virgin, it was released under the Target Books banner, as had all previous novelisations. It was, however, not the final book of the Target line; that was the radio play novelisation "The Paradise of Death".

References

External links

*BBCCDW|id=evildaleks|title=The Evil of the Daleks
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/photonovels/evilofthedaleks/ Photonovel of "The Evil of the Daleks" on the BBC website]
*Brief |id=ll | title=The Evil of the Daleks
*Doctor Who RG | id=who_2l | title=The Evil of the Daleks
* [http://www.doctorwholocations.net/stories/evilofthedaleks Doctor Who Locations] - The Evil of the Daleks

Reviews

*OG review | id=ll | title=The Evil of the Daleks
*DWRG | id=evil | title=The Evil of the Daleks

Target novelisation

*OG review | id=ll-book | title=The Evil of the Daleks (novelisation)
*DWRG | id=evilnov | title=The Evil of the Daleks (novelisation)
* [http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~ecl6nb/OnTarget/newads/evilcov.htm On Target — "The Evil of the Daleks"]