The Dalek Invasion of Earth

Information

Writer: Terry Nation
Director: Richard Martin
Script Editor: David Whitaker
Producer: Verity Lambert, Mervyn Pinfield (associate producer)
Executive Producer(s): None

Originally Broadcast: 21st November - 26th December 1964
Episodes: 6
Duration: 25 mins each episode
Production Code: K
Series: 2
Story Number: 10
Enemy: The Daleks
Setting: Earth. England

Synopsis

The TARDIS materialises in London sometime after the year 2164. Dalek invaders are now ruling the Earth with the aid of humans converted into zombie-like Robomen, but they are opposed by a group of resistance fighters led by the wheelchair-using Dortmun.
The travellers discover that the Daleks have established a huge mine in Bedfordshire, their aim being to remove the Earth's core using a huge bomb and replace it with a powerful drive system so that they can pilot the planet around the galaxy. Ian manages to create a barrier in the shaft in order to intercept the bomb. The resulting explosion destroys the Daleks and their mine and creates a huge volcanic eruption.
Susan has fallen in love with resistance fighter David Campbell, and the Doctor decides to leave her on Earth to find a new life with him, while he continues on his travels with Ian and Barbara.

Cast

The Doctor - William Hartnell

Ian Chesterton - William Russell

Barbara Wright - Jacqueline Hill

Susan Foreman - Carole Ann Ford

Carl Tyler - Bernard Kay

David Campbell - Peter Fraser

Dortmun - Alan Judd

Robomen - Martyn Huntley, Peter Badger

Dalek Operators - Robert Jewell, Gerald Taylor, Nick Evans, Kevin Manser, Peter Murphy

Dalek Voices - Peter Hawkins, David Graham

Insurgent - Robert Aldous

Jenny - Ann Davies

Jack Craddock - Michael Goldie

Thomson - Michael Davis

Baker - Richard McNeff

Larry Madison - Graham Rigby

Wells - Nicholas Smith

Slyther Operator - Nick Evans

Ashton - Patrick O'Connell

The Women in the Wood - Jean Conroy, Meriel Hobson

Story Notes

• The first departure of an original cast member.
  
• All episodes exist in 16mm telerecordings.
  
• The Waking Ally was also held by the BBC in 35mm in 1978.
  
• Negative film prints of all episodes were recovered by the BBC in 1978.
  
• Arabic prints of World's End, The Daleks, The End of Tomorrow and Flashpoint are all held by the BBC.
  
• The story went by the working titles The Daleks, The Return of the Daleks, and The Invaders.
  
• The story was the basis for the movie Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD staring Peter Cushing.
  
• This story was filmed along with Planet of Giants as part of the first series bloc of stories.
  
• William Hartnell does not appear in The End of Tomorrow due to an injury although his stand-in Edmund Warwick does.
  
• This was David Whitaker's final story.
  
• The character of Jenny was originally intended to be Susan's replacement although this was halted over uncertainty about the future of the series. The original concept had a girl called Saida played by Pamela Franklin stowing away on board the TARDIS in the last episode.
  
• The name of episode 1 is a pun based on the fact the TARDIS lands at World's End, in Chelsea.
  
• Footage from the end of episode 6 ("one day, I shall come back- yes, I shall come back. Until then there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forwards in all your beliefs and prove to me I'm not mistaken in mine.") was used as an introduction to The Five Doctors.
  

Preceded by: Planet of Giants - Followed by: The Rescue