#Daleks' Invasion of Earth 2150 AD

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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

[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

[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

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

[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 !

[randomnessoffiction]

[rowesam]

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

[lonelya1ienmovies]

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.

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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)

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The Dalek bendy toy factory was the warehouse used in Daleks invasion earth 2150 AD

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Send In The Drones

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.