#Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 AD

[marchentraume]

I learned today Peter Cushing was The Doctor for two films (that I need to watch) and have been giddy over it since 🥰

Just a short edit because I just used what I could find haha

[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 !

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Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150AD by Daryl Joyce

[sandymybeloved]

saw this poll about companions, now im curious about doctors

define played the doctor as loosly as you wish

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

daleks’ invasion earth 2150 A.D (film: 1966)

[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

[scifipinups]

Jill Curzon Dalek's Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966)

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[rowesam]

THIS ENERGY FOR 2024 OR GO HOME!!!!!!

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Created by Clayton Hickman

[advoirsmovies]

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.

Poster credit: Harnois75 on DeviantArt

2023 05 17

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Dalek Flying Saucer, Daleks' Invasion of Earth 2150 A.D.

[paulgadzikowski]

Uh, no. He mans, "You mean, there's going to be a second one?" But, while it occurs to me belatedly that there is probably no way without access to my spreadsheet to know it, this cartoon's set after Dr. Who and the Daleks but before Daleks' Invasion of Earth 2150 AD.

Well, maybe, if you went to IMDb and figured out when was the second film's premier date, and also the airdates of the serial when the Doctor's companions wore the clothing they're pictured in here. Granted, that'll be why I put them in it, but I'm the kid of guy who tracks his fancomic in a spreadsheet.

Still, I think I'd've drawn Dr. Who's expression just a little differently if I'd meant to show that the Doctor's implication was that all Dr. Who's Dalek encounters were behind him.

Also may I say, apropos of nothing else in this post, I'm still pissed off that the new text editor here at Tumblr (which I call "new" though I've been forced to use it daily for the almost-a-year since I started this second blog) responds to attempt to replace selected text with a double-quote or single-quote quotation mark by enclosing the selected text in quotation marks. NO OTHER TEXT EDITOR IN THE WORLD DOES THAT. NONE (that I know of, and in any case it must be exceedingly rare for me never to have encountered it elsewhere). nO oNe oN eArTh (I feel confident to say, even if there are other text editors doing this) HAS REFLEXIVE KINESTHETIC MUSCLE MEMORY EXPECTING THAT TO HAPPEN INSTEAD OF THAT THE SELECTED TEXT WILL BE REPLACED BY THE NEWLY TYPED TEXT - THE WAY SELECTING AND TYPING WORKS IN EVERY OTHER TEXT EDITOR EVER, INCLUDING THIS ONE, EXCEPT IN THIS ONE CASE. WHOSE

STUPID FUCKING IDEA

WAS THIS

[Image description: Preview panel for the comic strip at the link below. Dr. Who and his granddaughter Susan of the Dalek movies and Steven, Dodo, and the Doctor, tetchy incarnation, of Doctor Who stand talking outside their respective TARDISes. The Doctor is saying, “On other fiction planes, no one knows anything of you but your two run-ins with the Daleks. Do you regularly travel the universe as I do?“ Unfortunately there are not image descriptions at the main Hero Of Three Faces site. End description.] 

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Thanks for reading.

[adventure-showdown]

What is your favourite Doctor Who story?

ROUND 1 MASTERPOST

synopses and propaganda under the cut

Dr Who and the Daleks

Synopsis

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.

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

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.

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

Doctor in Distress

Synopsis

this is a song released in 1985

Propaganda  

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

Propaganda anonymous

I’m gonna Spend my Christmas with a Dalek

Synopsis

this is a song realeased in 1964

Propaganda

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)