Story #10 "The Dalek Invasion Of Earth"

Season

2

Writer

Terry Nation

Book/CD

 X

Episodes

6

Director

Richard Martin

Vid

 X

Story code

K

Producer

Verity Lambert / Mervyn Pinfield

DVD

X

Episode Details

Episode

DR MM:SS

TX dd/mm/yy

RPT TX dd/mm/yy

In BBC Archive

1

23:42

21/11/1964

Y

2

24:19

28/11/1964

Y

Cast Details

Regular Cast

William Hartnell (First Doctor) , Carole Ann Ford (Susan Foreman) , Jacqueline Hill (Barbara Wright) , William Russell (Ian Chesterton)

Guest Cast

Bernard Kay (Carl Tyler) / Peter Fraser (David Campbell) / Alan Judd (Dortmun) / Martyn Huntley (Roboman) / Peter Badger (Roboman) / Robert Jewell (Dalek) / Gerald Taylor (Dalek) / Nick Evans (Dalek) / Kevin Manser (Dalek) / Peter Murphy (Dalek) / Robert Aldous (Insurgent) / Peter Hawkins (Dalek Voice) / David Graham (Dalek Voice) / Ann Davies (Jenny) / Michael Goldie (Craddock) / Michael Davis (Thomson) / Richard McNeff (Baker) / Graham Rigby (Larry Madison) / Nicholas Smith (Wells) / Nick Evans (Slyther) / Patrick O'Connell (Ashton) / Jean Conroy (The Women in the Wood) / Meriel Hobson (The Women in the Wood)

Synopsis

The Doctor and his companions arrive on Earth of the near future only to find it has been invaded by the Daleks who have turned the human race into slaves. What is the purpose behind the enormous mining project the Daleks are undertaking? Can the Doctor and his companions help the human resistance movement to foil the Daleks plans?

Notes

1. The first departure of an original cast member.
2. This was Carole Ann Ford's last regular appearance as Susan. She actually cried while filming the final scenes as Susan. She reprised her role as Susan in DW: The Five Doctors (which starred Peter Davison as the Doctor) alongside Richard Hurndall as the First Doctor, and briefly inDW: Dimensions in Time alongside Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor.
3. All episodes exist in 16mm telerecordings.
4. The Waking Ally was also held by the BBC in 35mm in 1978.
5. Negative film prints of all episodes were recovered by the BBC in 1978.
6. Arabic prints of World's End, The Daleks, The End of Tomorrow and Flashpoint are all held by the BBC.
7. The story went by the working titles The Daleks, The Return of the Daleks, and The Invaders.
8. This story was filmed along with Planet of Giants as part of the first series bloc of stories.
9. William Hartnell does not appear in The End of Tomorrow due to an injury although his stand-in Edmund Warwick does.
10. This was David Whitaker's final story as story editor.