Doctor Who and his companions are hurled into the future and make a horrifying discovery: the Daleks have conquered Earth! The metal fiends have devastated entire continents and turned the survivors into Robomen.
Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966) was never meant to be canon, but it’s nice to see Doctor Who was always the same high stakes, silly show.
Peter Cushing doesn’t have Matt Smith’s flair, but still makes a decent Doctor. Donna Noble’s grandfather (Bernard Cribbins) is a main character and that’s fun. Love the spacecraft.
Basically, it’s a longer episode and that’s not a complaint.
Accidentally thrown together, Dr. Who, his granddaughters Barbara and Susan, and their friend Ian cross the universe in Who's new invention, the space and time machine known as "Tardis". When they land on the planet Skaro, the travellers meet the kind and placid Thals, who live in fear of the dreaded Daleks. Somehow, Dr. Who and his party must find a way to help the Thals overcome the deadly mutants who live inside impenetrable metal casings.
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Daleks’ Invasion of Earth 2150 AD
Synopsis
Policeman Tom Campbell stumbles into Tardis on a normal night and ends up being taken to 2150 A.D. by Dr. Who. In the future, Earth seems to be deserted, but the group soon finds out that the world is controlled by the evil Daleks. The human survivors hide, lest they be turned into Robomen. The Doctor teams up with the survivors to take down the Daleks.
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Doctor in Distress
Synopsis
this is a song released in 1985
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EIGHTEEN MONTHS IS TOO LONG TO WAIT! BRING BACK THE DOCTOR, DON'T HESITATE! (anonymous)
Doctorin’ the TARDIS
Synopsis
this is a song realeased in 1988
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I’m gonna Spend my Christmas with a Dalek
Synopsis
this is a song realeased in 1964
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I'm gonna spend my Christmas with a Dalek,
And hug him underneath the mistletoe
And if he's very nice
I'll feed him sugar spice
And hang Christmas stocking from his big lead toe
And when we both get up on Christmas morning
I'll kiss him on his chromium-plated head
And take him in to say hi to Mum
And frighten daddy out of his bed
I mean this singer clearly has a weird think for a Dalek. Also it would never be nice (Anastasia Cousins)
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I grew up watching Cribbins, at first at the age of 7 in the Railway Children then in series 4 of Doctor Who as Wilfred Mott at the age of 9. Wilf quickly became one of my all time favourite companions and characters in the show period. He still is.
I’m pretty sure everyone in the U.K. is mourning the loss of Cribbins. I now feel even more privileged to have seen Dr Who: Dalek Invasion of Earth 2150 AD at the cinema the other week, because he was fantastic in it as he was in anything.
To quote my mum: ‘the world has ended’ or at least it feels like it, because the impact he has had really did span generations.
a brief glimpse of Dalek design history, as per my silly little headcanons
Prototype Dalek (Genesis Of The Daleks)
City Dalek (The Daleks)
Spaceflight-Era Dalek (The Dalek Invasion Of Earth)
Frontier-Era/Renegade Dalek (Resurrection of the Daleks)
Imperial-Era Dalek (Remembrance Of The Daleks)
Empire-Era Dalek (The Dalek's Master Plan, Big Finish audios, etc)
Time War/Post-Time War-Era Dalek (Dalek (2005))
New Paradigm-Era Dalek (Victory Of The Daleks)
Ascendant Dalek (Paradigm Shift [my fanfic])
design notes:
Genesis Dalek was inspired by a concept done by Librarian-Bot on DeviantArt, but I tried to blend some elements from the Renegade design as a nice little nod to the fact that the episode just reused the same prop they had been using as "the Prototype Dalek"
On the Spaceflight/Earth Invasion Dalek, I swapped out the City Dalek eyestalk for the ones used on the props in Dalek's Invasion Earth 2150 AD (1966), mostly so they look a little more unique, since the canon model was essentially just City Daleks with a bigger fender and a radio dish hot-glued onto the back.
I don't have much to say about the Frontier/Renegade model, except that I'm really satisfied with how the eyestalk turned out, a nice blend of old and new designs.
I added some more detail to the Imperial Dalek design, because the canon design does not translate well into the Roblox Studio engine and looked rather flat and boring. I added some bolts to the shoulder slats, added a metal outline to the hexagon piece, and also copied the plunger shape and re-aligned it with the eyestalk to give it something a little more distinctive. Plus, in my honest opinion, white and gold are just not great Dalek colours to begin with. Used Glass material instead of Metal material to give it that "too clean" look (and also cause the metal texture doesn't look great in pure off-white). Also made the fender gold, because white on white is just tacky I'm sorry it looked bad, guys. You need to have contrast!
For the Empire Dalek, I was trying to imagine what the Daleks in most of the Big Finish audio dramas should look like, since my visualizations are always a little hazy when I'm listening to those stories. After a deep-dive into the wiki, I finally settled on something that really blended the old with the new, in a way that makes it slightly more clear that these are the Daleks that immediately preceed the Time War variant. So they ended up with the smaller fender, apple-eye, retro ray-gun, and collar sections, with a darker version of the silver-blue paintjob, but the general outline is essentially just the Time-War Dalek with a few changes
For both Time War Daleks, Empire Daleks, and Ascendancy Daleks, I found a font online to make custom ID tags
New Paradigm Dalek is the least altered model. It's perfect no notes. Clunky and sleek at the same time I love it. Actually, one note: I tweaked the colours slightly and swapped out the SmoothPlastic texture for the Metal texture. Now they look like the galaxy's deadliest sports cars and I am here for it
The Ascendancy Dalek is a custom design I whipped up; essentially I just ported pieces from the Paradigm model onto the Time-War frame and re-adjusted them to fit better. (including the funky vent on the back, you can't see it here). Essentially, I really liked the idea that Asylum Of The Daleks put forth; where the New Paradigm became the dominant and ruling caste of their new Empire, but I thought rolling back to the Time War Dalek design was just a lame move, frankly.
Anyway my lore for them: As the New Paradigm began their expansion, reclaiming the territories that their ancestors fallen empire had lost in the wake of the Time War, they encountered many other Dalek hold-outs from ages past that had survived. After many costly and brutal encounters with other factions, the Paradigm realized that their limited resources could not maintain this crusade forever, at least not until they could compile enough research data to begin making their own Progenitor Devices. So instead, as the hunt for more Progenitor Devices to study took priority over their need to conquer all impure Daleks, the New Paradigm began offering a choice to other Dalek hold-outs: be exterminated or submit to the rule of their new empire. Those who surrendered became part of the Ascendant Caste, and were supplanted into new travel machines that were constructed to resemble the New Paradigm's bio-engineered shells, creating an uneasy alliance between the pure New Dalek Paradigm and the conquered factions. How long such an alliance could possibly last, who's to say.
Russell T Davies Criticises BAFTA for Failing to Honour Bernard Cribbins
Russell T Davies Criticises BAFTA for Failing to Honour Bernard Cribbins
Russell T Davies has slammed the British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) for failing to include Bernard Cribbins in its In Memoriam video at its 2023 ceremony, an event hosted by Richard E Grant. The BAFTA ceremony was shown on BBC1 on Sunday 19th February, 2023.
Bernard Cribbins’ career spanned seven decades. He played Tom Campbell in the movie Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD and…