Would Day of the Daleks Be Better Without the Daleks?
8Futures Trading (Contradicting Doctor Who's “Day of the Daleks”): Perhaps no classic episode benefited more from a “special edition” than Day of the Daleks. Although it tells a solid timey-wimey paradox story, the original version didn’t do justice to Doctor Who’s No. 1 monsters. They only made three rather diminutive props for the story, and the voices made Lumbergh from Office Space sound good. But when you add some convincing disintegration effects and dub new cries of “Exterminate!” from the incomparable Nicholas Briggs, it really levels up this adventure to the compelling return of the mechanical crowd-pleasers that it always should have been. What does that say about the material, though, that relatively superficial enhancements make such a difference? This bears close examination, so Blinovitch limitation effect be damned — let’s go back again to 1972.
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Intro 00:00:00
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Pulse Loop 00:04:15
Whomoji Challenge 00:08:12
POLL to Open 00:13:46
Dates for the 60th! 00:17:57
TL;DW 00:27:12
Day of the Daleks Commentary 00:31:32
Four Questions to Doomsday 01:10:48
What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded 01:12:55
Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:16:05
Final Judgment 01:20:27
Activate the Randomizer! 01:24:55
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Story Essentials
Season 9, Serial 1
Story number: 59, per the The Pull To Open Codex https://bit.ly/3FHKJNK
Writer: Louis Marks
Director: Paul Bernard
Producer: Barry Letts
Aired 1 January – 22 January 1972
Pull To Open: Day of the Daleks
Season 4
Episode 44
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish https://bit.ly/3WagZRq