#Dalek Films

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As revealed in The Day of The Doctor novelization, the two 1960s Dalek films exist in the main Doctor Who universe, and The Doctor fully knows and adores them, even bringing Peter Cushing to the future past his death to star in more films (Rouge One most likely)

First reference was from the perspective of Kate Lethbridge-Stewart to Clara.

And the others from the perspective of the War Doctor.

This wasn't the first time this was established, as in the Doctor Who Magazine short story "A Visit to the Cinema" in issue 190, we actually see the Third Doctor seeing the films back to back for the first time.

[dalek65daz]

sci fi weekend

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A poster I've made for the Doctor Who episode "The Tomb of the Cybermen", released in 1967.

[ninemelodies]

“sorry, rose.”

[yahoo201027]

Day in Fandom History: April 30…

The Doctor and Rose travel to the year 2012 to answer a distress call and meet a collector of alien artifacts who has one living being locked up in the basement in the form of The Doctor's greatest and oldest enemy. “Dalek” premiered on this day, 20 Years Ago.

[papsiguesss]

Let’s time travel! 🛸💫

Watched Daleks’ Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. last Sunday and had to draw Peter Cushing as Dr. Who because he is one of my favourite silly guys 🥰

[do-you-know-this-dw-story]

dr. who and the daleks (film: 1965)

[m3-mianbo]

List of modern Doctor Who episodes in order of length (well, the top twelve)

• The Power Of The Doctor (1 hour 28 minutes)

• The Day Of The Doctor (1 hour 17 minutes)

• Deep Breath (1 hour 16 minutes)

• The End Of Time Part 2 (1 hour 15 minutes)

• Voyage Of The Dadned (1 hour 11 minutes)

• Revolution Of The Daleks (1 hour 11 minutes)

• The Timeless Children (1 hour 6 minutes)

• The Eleventh Hour (1 hour 5 minutes)

• Journey's End (1 hour 3 minutes)

• The Waters Of Mars (1 hour 2 minutes)

• A Chriktmas Carol (1 hour 2 minutes)

• Last Christmas (1 hour 1 minute)

There are also two other episodes that are 1 hour 1 minute long

There are also twelve episodes of one hour in length

[yaminerua]

randomly one of the Peter Cushing DW movies was on television today and I’d never seen either of them before so I gave it a watch. Quite a different experience but I had fun!! The wee girl who played Susan was adorable tho;; and the Daleks are great as ever. Love all the different colours;;;

Also Bernard Cribbins being in this film made me have to take a moment to be emotional;; Him playing a cop who is trying to deal with a crime and ends up runs into the TARDIS thinking it’s an actual police box was great.

The scene where he’s pretending to be robotified to blend in with the other converted human guards was so funny esp when they’re all sitting down eating what legit just looks like sweets on a paper plate lmfao

[regicidal-defenestration]

ROWAN I wanna start watching Old Who, where should I start

Doctors 1 thru 7 are on tubi but they don't seem to have 8 for some reason :( I could also dig up the TV movie or something, i remember watching at least 1 doctor who movie on vhs at my grandma's but I don't know which one it was

OKAY SO the first rule of watching Classic Who is having fun and being yourself

Further than that:

First Doctor - Start at the start!

Classic move! Put on An Unearthly Child and watch them all in the order that God, or at least the BBC*, intended

(*disregarding the ones, all from the First or Second Doctor's runs, that were purged from the archives as part of due process back then. Some have been reconstructed in a variety of ways, others remain entirely lost)

Pros of starting here: Easy! You get to watch the show develop into what it is today and you don't have to piece together context in ways you might have to to be willing to starting elsewhere

Cons of starting here: The show started very differently to what it is today. The pacing is sometimes slower, sometimes just by the nature of the story, sometimes because they had 2 episodes worth of plot they had to fit into 6 parts

Seventh Doctor - Start at the... end?

The Seventh Doctor, particularly when he's joined by Ace McShane at the end of s24, is arguably the most similar to modern DW. The first Classic Who episodes I ever watched were Dragonfire and The Happiness Patrol after I was given them on DVD as a gift

Pros of starting here: we've got drama we've got a Doctor who's a little bit fucked up with his schemes we've got a teenager willing (for better or for worse) to jump into the fight, it's often familiar to a modern DW watcher and as good a place as any to start. Also has a incredibly high proportion of banger serials, something I realised later down this post when trying to pick a few to recommend

Cons of starting here: plot threads that never develop into what they promise, due to the show getting cancelled in series 25. You may also be left with the reasonable question of "okay so I've watched the end bit of DW, now what?"

Eighth Doctor - Why is my tumblr mutual abnormal about this man

Never got a TV series :(. He has like three televised appearances: a minisode made for the show's 50th anniversary, a cameo in an episode made for the BBC's 100th anniversary, and the TV movie Doctor Who (1996), which was an attempt at bringing the show back after it got cancelled in 1989

Pros of starting here: doesn't directly follow on from any previous stories and since you already know who these guys (the Doctor and the Master) are, you know all the relevant backstories (other than a few new pieces of lore they throw in just for this film, to really piss off a certain kind of diehard DW fan)

Cons of starting here: as much as I love it dearly, and regard it as a masterpiece of cinema, I do acknowledge it would be massively improved by, for example, a coherent plot. There's a reason it took until 2005 for the show to come back properly and it wasn't because everybody at the time loved this film

Addendum - Watching orders are overrated

The order I've been watching Classic Who in has gone 7 -> 5 -> 3, excluding the odd single serials I've watched from 1, 4, and 6. The world can be your oyster if you're willing to sometimes skim some character's wiki page to find out who they're supposed to be. Some ones I recommend(*) and ones I haven't seen but have been reliably recommended by friends(+) are:

First Doctor

The Romans (+)

The Gunfighters (+)

-> DW's first musical serial!

Second Doctor

The Tomb of the Cybermen (+)

Fury from the Deep (+)

The War Games (+)

Third Doctor

Spearhead from Space (*)

Inferno (*)

The Curse of Peladon (*)

-> Really this is because I am just so delighted by Alpha Centauri whenever it appears

The Green Death (*)

Fourth Doctor

The Ark in Space (+)

Horror of Fang Rock (+)

City of Death (*)

-> Co-written by Douglas Adams this one, and is one of those stories that's pretty much as good as everyone says it is

Fifth Doctor

Castrovalva (*)

-> Does follow directly on from the previous serial Logopolis, featuring companions introduced throughout s18, but at the time of writing I still haven't watched Logopolis so you're probably fine? Good serial for fans of fucked up architecture and blonde men in distress

Earthshock (*)

The Caves of Androzani (*)

Sixth Doctor

Vengeance on Varos (+)

Revelation of the Daleks (+)

Seventh Doctor

Remembrance of the Daleks (*)

The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (*)

-> Occupies an interesting place in DW history as it is in pretty much direct response to fans at the time, to the extent they kill off a parody of an obsessive DW fan who may or may not be Chris Chibnall. Mostly I'm recommending it because it has really really good clown costuming

The Curse of Fenric (*)

Survival (*)

-> Lesbian furry serial

[radiofreeskaro]

Radio Free Skaro #1008 - In Some Form or Another - #DoctorWho Season 2 launch! - New trailers and discussion! - Jane Tranter on the future of Doctor Who

[doctormastertardis]

For the first time in my life, I am finally watching the 2-Part Classic Doctor Who FILMS with Peter Cushing. I hope the TV series acknowledges these films as "canon" in a parallel universe. And I hope we see THIS parallel universe in the TV series!!!

Maaaaaybe these two films could be part of the Timeless Child Arc!!!!! I have so many ideas on how to integrate these films within the canon we have now. Much excited !

[pixiedeadbeat]

Peter Cushing as Dr Who, in the film version of Dr Who in the 1960’s.

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A poster I've made for "Doctor Who Flux", a season released in 2021.

[yahoo201027]

Day in Fandom History: April 21…

The Doctor takes Martha to 1930s Manhattan, New York during the Great Depression where people are disappearing from left to right and it looks like the Daleks may have something to do with it. “Daleks in Manhattan” premiered on this day, 18 Years Ago.

[wheresjonno2023-complete]

He is with The Doctor, btw.

But it's not 60s doctor who.

Could be any Doctor from 5 onward.

He's with the one played by Peter Cushing