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The Daleks attempt using the anti-radiation drugs, but discover that they are fatal to Daleks. They conclude that Daleks need radiation to survive and decide to bombard the atmosphere with more radiation. In the ensuing chaos, the Doctor and his companions escape with the Thals, and learn their version of the history of their planet.
Dalek locomotion is usually shown as a gliding movement a few centimetres above the ground. The Dalek Book (1964) indicates that traction is provided by a large, omnidirectional rotating metal sphere, [4] while in the serial Death to the Daleks (1974) the Doctor states that they move by psycho-kinetic power. [24]
Planet of the Daleks is the fourth serial of the tenth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 7 April to 12 May 1973. It was the first Dalek story to be written by their creator Terry Nation since 1965’s The Daleks' Master Plan.
The production team only had three Dalek props available for use during the production of this serial, [4] so only three Daleks appear on screen at any one time. One of the Daleks is painted gold, so only two regular casings are seen in shot. Film editing is used to attempt the illusion of more than three Daleks.
Dalek Annual 1978 Writers: Uncredited. Artists: Uncredited. World Distributors (Manchester), Ltd. Hardcover, 62 pages. ISBN 0-7235-0421-0. One comic strip, three illustrated text stories and sixteen features. The comic strip is a re-print of the TV Century 21 Dalek story The Rogue Planet. Comic strip story: The Rogue Planet.
Writer David Whitaker omitted An Unearthly Child from the first spin-off novelisation, Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (later retitled Doctor Who and the Daleks and Doctor Who – The Daleks), with Ian and Barbara's entrance into the TARDIS leading directly into an adaptation of the second televised serial, The Daleks.
Reaching Tardis, Susan collects the drugs and then encounters Alydon, leader of the Thals, a species that fought the Daleks in an atomic war centuries previously. Alydon gives Susan a second container of anti-radiation drugs to use if the Daleks break their promise.
The "Mechanoids" also battled the Daleks in the pages of the comic TV Century 21 in 1965 and 1966. The publication featured a weekly one-page series, The Daleks, which depicted the metal monsters in full color as galactic conquerors. The Mechanoids were introduced to the series in issue 47 (11 December 1965), beginning a five-issue story about ...