Dalek Episode Guide

Dalek Episode Guide

Below are short summarys of each TV story the Daleks have appeared in.

1. The Daleks

7 x 25mins episodes – ( December, 1963 )

On an ashen planet called Skaro live the last survivors of a nuclear war. While the Thals look like humans, the Daleks are hideously mutated creatures that live inside metal machines. Taking the inhabitants of the Tardis captive, the Daleks decide to use them to lure the Thals into a trap – and exterminate their old enemies once and for all.

2. The Dalek Invasion of Earth

6 x 25mins episodes – ( November, 1964 )

In 2164, the Earth is invaded by the Daleks. Some years later, the Tardis travellers return to London to find it almost deserted, its inhabitants enslaved or worse – turned into lobotomised henchmen, the Robomen. Taken in by a group of rebels, the Tardis crew help launch an attack on a Dalek ship but the attack is a failure and the friends are separated. All roads lead to a Dalek mine in Bedford where the Daleks are drilling deep into the Earth’s core. But for what purpose?

3. The Chase

6 x 25mins episodes – ( May , 1965 )

The Daleks have tracked down the Tardis through time and space. Cue a chase that will take the travellers from the planet Aridius to the decks of the Marie Celeste, a haunted house populated by Count Dracula and Frankenstein’s monster, the top of the Empire State Building and finally to the city of Mechanus, home of the robotic Mechanoids.

4. Dalek Cutaway

1 x 25mins episodes – ( October, 1965 )

A team of Space Security agents led by Marc Cory land on the planet Kembel where they find allies of the Daleks amassing for a conference. Cory tapes a message warning the planet Earth of the Daleks’ plans to invade the solar system but before he can send it he is exterminated by the daleks. However, the tape containing the message survives…

5. The Dalek Master Plan

12 x 25mins episodes – ( November, 1965 )

While Katarine tends to the wounded Steven, the Doctor explores the planet Kembel in search of help. There he encounters Bret Vyon, a Space Security agent on the trail of the missing Marc Cory. The desperate Vyon initially tricks the travellers into helping him flee the planet but eventually he joins them and reveals that the planet is home to the Daleks who are in the final planning stages of a plan to invade the Solar System and build a Time Destructor with the help of delegates from other planets. But when they discover that the Guardian of the Solar System, Mavic Chen, is among the delegates, the Doctor and his friends steal the vital Taranium Core from the Daleks’ Time Destructor and flee the planet using Chen’s ship with the intention of warning the people of Earth that they have been betrayed.

Landing Chen’s ship on the prison planet Desperus while they get their bearings, the travellers are unaware that the ship has acquired a stowaway, a convict called Kirksen, who holds Katarina captive to prevent the ship from going to Earth. As the Doctor and Steven try to persuade Vyon to give in to the convict’s demands, Katarina pulls a lever inside the airlock and both she and the convict are pulled out into deep space towards certain death.

Vyon is also killed by another Space Security agent – his own sister, Sara Kingdom, who had been told by Chen that Vyon was a traitor. When she learns the truth of Chen’s treachery, she joins the Doctor and Steven in their quest to thwart Chen’s plans. The trio return to Kembel to collect the Tardis and from there they escape in time, doggedly pursued by the Daleks in one of their own time ships. As Chen and the Daleks gain ground, the Doctor will be forced to take desperate steps to defeat them…

6. The Power of the Daleks

6 x 25mins episodes – ( November , 1966 )

A man wearing the Doctor’s cloak stands before Ben and Polly and proclaims himself to be a ‘rejuvenated’ Doctor. The Tardis brings them to an Earth colony on the planet Vulcan where a murder investigation grabs the Doctor’s attention. Posing as an Investigator, the Doctor manages to infiltrate the colony, where he learns that a scientist has managed to awaken the metallic occupant of a crashed space rocket. It is a Dalek, and despite its claims to be a willing servant of humanity, the Doctor is instantly alarmed by its presence. Even he can not imagine the true nature of the power of the Daleks, which even now are reproducing at a terrifying rate. Soon, the entire colony will be engulfed with Daleks…

7. The Evil of the Daleks

7 x 25mins episodes – ( May , 1967 )

As the Doctor and Jamie wave goodbye to Ben and Polly, they see the Tardis being taken away on the back of a lorry. The limited trail of clues lead the Doctor and Jamie first to an antiques shop, then to a large country house in the year 1866 where two scientists, Maxtible and Waterfield, are being forced to conduct experiments for a higher power that is holding Waterfield’s daughter Victoria hostage. The Doctor is shocked to learn that this higher power is the Daleks, but that is nothing compared to his surprise when the Daleks insist that he help the scientists with their experiments to identify a ‘human factor’ – with Jamie as their test subject. But why do the Daleks need a human factor? And what does this have to do with the Dalek Emperor, who sits in the heart of the Dalek city on Skaro?

8. Day of the Daleks

4 x 25mins episodes – ( January , 1972 )

An assassination attempt on Sir Reginald Styles, a prominent diplomat, brings the Doctor, Jo and UNIT to a country house. When the assassins return, they find the Doctor waiting for them. Believing the Doctor is Sir Reginald, they threaten to kill him for causing the Third World War and causing the horrific future that they have come from. As the Doctor tries to reason with the group, Jo accidentally activates the device that enables them to travel through time and finds herself in the 22nd Century. She is soon befriended by the Controller, a man who seems only too willing to make her comfortable. But the Controller is also making sure that Jo doesn’t learn of the conditions his people live in, of the slave gangs, the cruel alien guards and their masters… the Daleks.

9. Frontier in Space

6 x 25mins episodes – ( February , 1972 )

A trade dispute between the Draconian and Earth empires has been worsened by acts of piracy that each side blames the other for. As the Doctor and Jo try to convince anyone who’ll listen that the true culprits are a band of Ogron mercenaries, the Master continues to to push both empires to the brink of all-out war. But the Master is not the only antagonist here, as the Doctor and Jo discover when they eventually reach the planet of the Ogrons.

10. Planet of the Daleks

6 x 25mins episodes – ( May , 1973 )

Wounded by a gunshot during their escape from the planet of the Ogrons, the Doctor fights for his life. He manages to send a message to the Time Lords before falling into a coma. When the Tardis comes to a stop on the deadly jungle planet Spiridon, Jo has no choice but to explore in the hope of finding help for her stricken friend. Spiridon is littered with venom-spitting plants, ferocious animals – and, deep within the frozen heart of the planet, ten thousand Daleks.

11. Death to the Daleks

4 x 25mins episodes – ( February , 1974 )

The planet Exxilon boasts one of the great wonders of the known universe – a living, thinking city. But when the Tardis, an Earth space ship on an emergency mission and a Dalek saucer are drawn down onto the planet’s surface, all three parties are forced into an uneasy alliance to break into the city. All they have to do is get past the arrows of the savage Exxilon warriors, bypass the metallic roots that snake around the caverns beneath the city and survive a series of deadly traps…

12. Genesis of the Daleks

6 x 25mins episodes – ( March , 1975 )

The Time Lords intercept the Nerva transmit beam and send the Doctor, Sarah and Harry to the planet Skaro, where they instruct him to change history and do everything he can to try to prevent the creation of the dreaded Daleks – or at the very least, change their genetic make-up so they become less of a threat to the Universe. But crippled Kaled scientist Davros, a twisted genius confined to a motorised wheelchair, is determined to press on with his plans to create the ‘Mark III Travel Machine’ to house the mutated future form that the Kaleds will evolve into…

13. Destiny of the Daleks

4 x 25mins episodes – ( September , 1979 )

Exploring a ruined city on a planet soaked in radiation, the Doctor finds himself trapped beneath some rubble. While the newly regenerated Romana returns to the Tardis to fetch K-9, the Doctor is rescued by a race of beautiful aliens, the Movellans. Aboard the Movellan ship, the Doctor learns that the planet they call D 5 Gamma Z Alpha is actually Skaro, the original home of his – and their – deadliest enemies, the Daleks. Deep below the planet’s surface lies something the Daleks desperately want that will help them in their war against the Movellans who, like the Daleks, are slaves to logic. The Doctor fears he knows what they seek. But surely, centuries after the Daleks themselves killed him, their creator Davros can be of no use to them?

14. Resurrection of the Daleks

2 x 50mins episodes – ( February , 1984 )

Prisoners from the future are shot dead on the streets of 1980s London by sinister policemen. A nearby warehouse is cordoned off by soldiers called in to investigate a possible unexploded bomb. And on a prison ship in deep space, the Daleks begin to exterminate all who stand between them and the prison’s only inmate – the Daleks’ creator, Davros.

15. Revelation of the Daleks

2 x 45mins episodes – ( March , 1985 )

The Doctor brings Peri to the planet Necros to mourn the loss of his friend, Arthur Stengos. But Stengos is not the late lamented stiff everyone has been led to believe. The creator of the Daleks, Davros, has installed himself as the ‘Great Healer’ and is using the planet’s ‘Tranquil Repose’ mortuary to resource both a food processing scheme and his greater plan – self-replicating Daleks. But this is one revelation too far as various employees of the Great Healer conspire against him.

16. Remembrance of the Daleks

4 x 25mins episodes – ( March , 1985 )

In 1963, the Doctor came to Earth to hide the Hand of Omega, an artefact from the Dark Times of Gallifrey. But then a pair of interfering school teachers forced him to make a hurried departure. A few months later his future self and new companion Ace return to finish the job only to discover that two warring factions of Daleks are also after the Hand of Omega…

17. Dalek

1 x 45 minute episode – ( April , 2005 )

Deep underneath the plains of Utah lies a museum of alien artefacts owned by billionaire Henry Van Statten. Pride of his collection is a living alien locked inside its own metallic life support system. When the Tardis locks onto the alien’s distress signal the Doctor and Rose respond. But the Doctor is horrified to discover that the alien is a survivor of a race he was convinced had been destroyed in the last Great Time War. But even when it’s outnumbered, one solitary Dalek can be a deadly thing, which is why the Doctor is determined to see it dead…

18. Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways

2 x 45 minute episodes – ( June , 2005 )

The time travellers find themselves trapped in futuristic game shows with deadly consequences for the losers. They’re back on Satellite Five, 100 years after their previous visit. But the after-effects of the Doctor’s previous interference become clear when Rose is kidnapped and a fleet of hidden space-ships makes its presence known…

The Last Great Time War came to an end when the Doctor sacrificed his own people in a desperate bid to destroy the Daleks and wipe them from time. The grief that he carried with him has been softened slightly by his friendship with Rose Tyler. Now the Daleks have returned, and the Doctor is faced with the choice of destroying all life on Earth to rid the planet of the Daleks. But it’s a choice he cannot make with Rose watching him, so he tricks her into returning back home to her mum and boyfriend. Only when the situation looks lost does Rose realise the significance of a phrase that has followed her around ever since she first met the Doctor – ‘Bad Wolf’. Suddenly, she knows that if the Doctor is facing certain death, her place is by his side. But how can she persuade the Tardis to take her there? And even if they succeed in defeating the Daleks, can life ever be the same for them again?

19. Army of Ghosts/Doomsday

2 x 45 minute episodes – ( July , 2006 )

Earth has begun to receive regular visits from ‘ghosts’, spectral figures who appear all over the planet. Their visits coincide with experiments at the top of the secret London headquarters of the Torchwood organisation. No-one knows that the spectres are Cybermen breaking in from a parallel world. but they are not the only alien invaders. At the top of the Torchwood Tower lies a Void Sphere – a craft capable of crossing the void between dimensions. And inside the Void Sphere waits a nasty surprise for the Doctor and Rose…

The Cybermen view it as war – their adversaries consider it ‘pest control’. But for the people of Earth it could lead to the destruction of the planet. Some call it Doomsday. For Rose, it was the day she died…

20. Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks

2 x 45 minute episodes – ( April , 2007 )

Back in ‘old’ New York, The Cult of Skaro are hiding in the basement of the Empire State Building during the great depression. The Doctor and Martha meet the homeless inhabitants of Hooverville, learn that people have been going missing and make a horrible discovery as the Daleks unveil their most disturbing plan yet.

As the other members of the Cult of Skaro come to terms with Dalek Sec’s sacrifice, the Doctor finds himself persuaded to help with their experiments. But why have the Daleks taken such an interest in the construction of the Empire State Building? And what is the purpose of their hideous pig mutants?

21. The Stolen Earth/Journeys End

2 episodes, 50mins and 65mins – ( June , 2008 )

Earth’s greatest heroes assemble in a time of dire need, in tonight’s penultimate episode in this series of Russell T Davies’s Bafta Award-winning time-travelling drama. But can the Doctors secret army defeat the might of the new Dalek Empire?

With battles on the streets and in the skies, the Doctor and Donna must brave the Shadow Proclamation to find out the truth. However, a fearsome old enemy waits in the shadows…

The Doctor is helpless, and even the Tardis faces destruction. The only hope lies with the Doctor’s secret army of companions – but as they join forces to battle Davros himself, the prophecy declares that one of them will die.

22. Victory of the Daleks

1 x 45 minute episode – ( April , 2010 )

In World War 2 a Dalek survivor has convinced a scientist that he created the Dalek. A new army of redesigned Daleks are created using materials from Earth, they are painted in British colours.