Resurrection of the Daleks

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*The working titles of this story were "The Warhead", "The Return", and "The Resurrection".
*The story was originally due to be produced as the climax of Season 20. However due to industrial action, the story was cancelled. With minor rewrites, the serial was resurrected for Season 21. Because of the delay, Michael Wisher, who had originated the role of Davros, was unavailable, and the role was given to Terry Molloy instead.
*The story was originally supposed to be directed by returning director Peter Grimwade. When the electricians' strike forced the postponement of the story, Grimwade took the cast and crew out to dinner, but did not invite John Nathan-Turner, because he had intended to take Nathan-Turner out separately. But Nathan-Turner felt slighted by the omission and refused to allow Grimwade to direct the story when it was re-scheduled for Season 21. However, Saward had already promised Grimwade that he could provide a script for the season, so Grimwade was allowed to write "Planet of Fire".
*This serial was partly shot in Shad Thames.
*Director Matthew Robinson stated on the DVD commentary that, much to his surprise, the aspect of the story that the BBC received the most complaints about was not the graphic violence of the serial, but rather that one of the prison crew is seen to be smoking a cigarette early in the first episode.

tory format

This story was intended to be four parts of the usual 25-minute length. However due to the BBC's coverage of the Winter Olympics held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, the series' regular slot was not available. Rather than interrupt transmission, the decision was taken to transmit the story as two double-length episodes (45 and 50 minutes, respectively), on back-to-back Wednesdays rather than the normal Thursday/Friday timeslot of the Fifth Doctor-era stories. It is often asserted that it was directly because of the success of the two-part experiment that the following season was produced in the same format. However, this decision had already been taken.

The first copy of the story to be sold to American PBS stations by the BBC was done in the original four-part serial format, which was then consolidated into a single episode of approximately 90 minutes in length, for those stations that preferred that format. However early edits of Parts Two, Three and Four were included by error, including some extra scenes not used in the final four-part cut, while also some episodes had a raw soundtrack, lacking sound effects and music, and the 90-minute version incorporated the mistake. Some stations who bought the story proceeded to broadcast it in that form anyway.

Outside references

*The serial has been widely reported to contain a higher body count than "The Terminator". Seven people are killed within the first minute of episode one. Estimates have placed the actual bodycount in the range of 60-76, roughly the combined bodycount of the first five "Friday the 13th" films.

In print

[
Paul Scoones] This is one of five "Doctor Who" serials that were never novelised by Target Books as they were unable to come to an agreement with Eric Saward and Daleks creator Terry Nation that would have allowed Saward or another writer to adapt the script; although Virgin Books (the successor to Target) did announce plans to publish a novelisation by Saward in the early 1990s, this ultimately did not occur. A fan group in New Zealand did publish an unofficial novelisation of the story in 2000, later republishing it as an online eBook titled [http://nzdwfc.tetrap.com/archive/resurrection/ "Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks"] .

Broadcast, VHS and DVD releases

*This story was released on VHS in November 1993.
*Both the VHS (now out of print) and DVD releases of this story reverted to the four-episode format. The previously unused episode breaks are when the first Dalek comes through the time corridor in the warehouse, and in the second half of the story, when Davros begins preparing the Movellan virus, promising to exact vengeance on the Doctor and set himself up as the leader of a new Dalek race.
*This story was released on DVD in the United Kingdom on November 18, 2002. Special features include deleted scenes, trailer and a 5.1 digital surround sound mix. It was released in 2003 as part of a limited run box set with The Dalek Invasion of Earth and Remembrance of the Daleks [ [http://www.timelash.com/tardis/display.asp?1091 The TARDIS Library: 40th Anniversary Dalek box set ] ] and in 2007 as part of a box set that contains Genesis of the Daleks, Destiny of the Daleks, Revelation of the Daleks and Remembrance of the Daleks.

References

External links

*BBCCDW | id=resurrectiondaleks | title=Resurrection of the Daleks
*Brief | id=6p | title=Resurrection of the Daleks
*Doctor Who RG | id=who_6p | title=Resurrection of the Daleks
* [http://nzdwfc.tetrap.com/archive/tsv30/missingresurrection.html "Missing Scenes Resurrection"] in [http://nzdwfc.tetrap.com/ "Time Space Visualiser"]

Reviews

*OG review | id=6p | title=Resurrection of the Daleks
*DWRG | id=resu | title=Resurrection of the Daleks

Fan novelisation

* [http://nzdwfc.tetrap.com/archive/resurrection/ "Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks"] ebook
*OG review | id=fan-resurr | title=Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks