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My first thoughts reviews of the final episode of Torchwood Miracle Day and Dr Who:The God Complex a briliantly gripping yarn from Toby Whithouse creator of Being Human.

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End theme tune is a remix of the Doctor Who Theme by Tony Gallichan of The Flashing Blade Podcast, Tony can be contacted here show@flashingblade.org.uk

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My first thoughts reviews of the final episode of Torchwood Miracle Day and Dr Who:The God Complex a briliantly gripping yarn from Toby Whithouse creator of Being Human.

You can hear all of Blogtor Who's music here http://soundcloud.com/blogtorwho

End theme tune is a remix of the Doctor Who Theme by Tony Gallichan of The Flashing Blade Podcast, Tony can be contacted here show@flashingblade.org.uk

If you want to send me comments or feedback you can email them to tdrury2003@yahoo.co.uk or contact me on twitter where I'm @tdrury or send me a friend request and your comments to facebook where I'm Tim Drury and look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/3711029536/in/set-72157621161239599/ in case you were wondering.

Summary:
Adam J Purcell, Fake Keith, Jean Riddler and the Real Keith Dunn talk about Doctor Who: The Girl Who Waited and The God Complex, the end of Torchwood: Miracle Day, Arthur Darvill’s Doctor Faustus, find some general news, and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:12 — Welcome!
• 02:04 – News:
• 02:16 — Doctor Who: The Colin Baker elected DWAS Honorary President.
• 03:27 — Alphas: Syphy gives Alphas a second season.
• 05:00 — Misfits: ‘Vegas Baby!’ Internet episode now online.
• 06:06 — Walk for Lis: Ed Russell completes his 168 mile charity walk, in the name of Elisabeth Sladen.
• 07:46 — Benedict Cumberbatch: A busy fellow!
• 08:55 — Sparticus: Leading actor Andy Whitfield is dead.
• 10:09 – Doctor Who: The Girl Who Waited.
• 24:04 – Doctor Who: The God Complex.
• 39:00 – Doctor Faustus at the Globe Theatre.
• 41:23 – Torchwood: Miracle Day episodes 9 and 10.
• 50:31 – Emails and listener feedback.* Hit us yourself atA show@StaggeringStories.net
• 101:12 – Competition Time!
• 103:07 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 103:24 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

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• Staggering Stories.
• Staggering Stories: Podcast Drinking Game, Fifth edition.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Colin Baker.
• Doctor Who Appreciation Society (DWAS)
• Syfy: Alphas.
• E4: Misfits.
• E4: Misfits – Vegas Baby!
• Just Giving: Ed Russell’s Walk for Lis Sladen.
• Wikipedia: Benedict Cumberbatch.
• Starz: Sparticus Blood and Sand.
• Wikipedia: Andy Whitfield.
• BBC: Doctor Who – The Girl Who Waited.
• BBC: Doctor Who – The God Complex.
• Shakespeare’s Globe: Doctor Faustus.
• BBC: Torchwood.
• ‘Who’ – Is The Man Cast.
• Doctor Who Podcast Alliance.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.
• Twitter: Adam J Purcell.

In 2009, much to the delight of, well, people like us, Doctor Who Magazine released "The Mighty 200," a listing of readers' ratings of the existing 200 stories, from "An Unearthly Child" through "Planet of the Dead."  The list rated the stories from best to worst.

We could talk about the latest Matt Smith story, but why do that when every other podcast is?  Instead, we're spending the next five episodes focusing on the five lowest rated stories in DWM's list.  We won't tell you which five they are in case you don't want to know, but we start from number 196 on the list and will work our way down to 200.

And so, without further ado, we discuss the much-maligned "Time-Flight," featuring the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, and Tegan, quite possibly the blandest, beigiest trio ever to travel in the TARDIS (yes, this is Sean writing this).  Does it deserve to be in the bottom five?  Spoiler: One of thinks so.  Oh yeah, there's also talk of "Let's Kill Hitler," two weeks after you've heard every one else's opinion of it.  You might be surprised what we think.

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Caleb Woodbridge, Swithun Dobson and Sarah Burrow discuss 'The God Complex' , episode 11 of Doctor Who series six, penned by Being Human writer Toby Whithouse.

The Doctor, Amy and Rory face their nightmares in an infinite hotel, but has travelling with the Doctor finally become too dangerous? We discuss nightmares, blogger stereotypes, religion in Doctor Who, Rory's lack of faith, the question of what the Doctor believes in, the departure of Amy and Rory Williams, and much more.

Length: 1hr 2 minutes
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This week Tom and Louis take on Doctor Who: "The Girl Who Waited," and attempt to unravel the potent psychological metaphor of the green anchor and the red waterfall. Tom picks on Louis a lot. Like, more than usual. And then they talk about Torchwood: Miracle Day, which is now done. 

Tom's recaps at The Faster Times:

Doctor Who: "The Girl Who Waited" 

http://www.thefastertimes.com/tvrecapsandnews/2011/09/11/doctor-who-recap-series-6-episode-10-rorys-choice/

Torchwood: Miracle Day: "The Blood Line"

http://www.thefastertimes.com/tvrecapsandnews/2011/09/10/torchwood-miracle-day-recap-episode-10-playing-the-field/

DWS06E10 - The Girl Who Waited

Simply chat, music, tech and wine

Welcome to Episode 190 of Geek Syndicate. Join Barry and Dave as they once more guide you through the murky underbelly of Geekdom.

News: Oxicomics launches it's new digital comics distribution service, A canadian production company to bring us Primeval:New World,Bow to the Lego Star Destroyer and Shelock Holmes comes to TV...again.

Week that was: Fallen Skies, Torchwood: Miracle Day, We take a look at some of the new number one's from DC and Battle for LA

Main: We revisit the topic of remakes and reboots

Enjoy

Welcome to Episode 190 of Geek Syndicate. Join Barry and Dave as they once more guide you through the murky underbelly of Geekdom.

News: Oxicomics launches it's new digital comics distribution service, A canadian production company to bring us Primeval:New World,Bow to the Lego Star Destroyer and Shelock Holmes comes to TV...again.

Week that was: Fallen Skies, Torchwood: Miracle Day, We take a look at some of the new number one's from DC and Battle for LA

Main: We revisit the topic of remakes and reboots

Enjoy

Have an interview with Tom MacRae - the guy behind The Girl Who Waited, and then for your audible pleasure, listen to two old fools have a wobble about 6.11: The God Complex.

The DWO WhoCast - Where's it's jelly?

Stacey and Lee are back in the podcasting saddle again! Woo hoo I hear you say - or something like that anyway. In this extra long episode they cover a whole host of news from the small and independent press and review; Those Of No Class, Jennifer Wilde, Hildafolk, Rachel Rising, Predators and Sugar Glider #2. It's good to be back!

Stacey and Lee are back in the podcasting saddle again! Woo hoo I hear you say - or something like that anyway. In this extra long episode they cover a whole host of news from the small and independent press and review; Those Of No Class, Jennifer Wilde, Hildafolk, Rachel Rising, Predators and Sugar Glider #2. It's good to be back!  

Our spotlight on Classic Who takes us to the troubled and very polychromatic tenure of Colin Baker, the sixth actor to take on the role of the Doctor. Join Eric Mendoza, Lindsay Wood, Beverly Brown and Derek Gladu as we review the 1985 serial "The Two Doctors" and discuss the perils of multi Doctor serials, 80's sci-fi fashion mistakes and the ample physical, um, presence of Ms. Nicola Bryant.

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In this episode, we discuss, argue over, and generally ramble on about The Girl Who Waited.

Our spotlight on Classic Who takes us to the troubled and very polychromatic tenure of Colin Baker, the sixth actor to take on the role of the Doctor. Join Eric Mendoza, Lindsay Wood, Beverly Brown and Derek Gladu as we review the 1985 serial "The Two Doctors" and discuss the perils of multi Doctor serials, 80's sci-fi fashion mistakes and the ample physical, um, presence of Ms. Nicola Bryant.

Doctor Who: Podshock - Episode 255
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Caleb Woodbridge and Swithun Dobson discuss the finale of Torchwood: Miracle Day, The Blood Line. Has Miracle Day given Torchwood a new lease of life or reduced it to shambling corpse?

We discuss Holocaust parallels, dystopian futures, sympathy for the devil (or at least Oswald Danes), the clash between its high concept science fiction concept and its action-thriller format, and deliver our verdict on the series as a whole!

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes
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Have you stuck with Torchwood through to the end? What did you think of the conclusion to Miracle Day? Do you want to see more from the Torchwood team, and if so, where should the show go next?

On paper, "The Girl Who Waited" was brilliant. Karen Gillan? A revelation. So why did I take a 45-minute walk around the neighborhood, grinding my teeth, trying to figure out how I felt about the episode?

Thanks to Huw at thirteenfaces.com for linking me to Emily Asher-Perrin's essay at tor.com on the relationship of the Doctor, and Doctor Who, to children. It was the whack on the side of the head that helped me understand my reaction.

This month a hen-pecked trio of Matt, Kehaar and Special Guest Barry of Geek Syndicate and Unseen Shadows fame tackle the leaders of the Star Trek universe - starship captains.

This month a hen-pecked trio of Matt, Kehaar and Special Guest Barry of Geek Syndicate and Unseen Shadows fame tackle the leaders of the Star Trek universe - starship captains.

In this episode, Ian Redman and David Morgan take a look at the eighth episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day, ‘End of the Road’.

Martyn’s attempted retirement fails. Vodka is drunk and reaction is given to Doctor Who: The Girl Who Waited and the new Fantom Films radio comedy, Fight For The Remote.

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Here is the explanation of the Blessing as seen in Torchwood Miracle Day

With a title like The Girl Who Waited, it wasn't hard to figure out who this episode would focus on. Doctor Who presents us with another standalone episode, which Trevor, James and Tom share their thoughts on this week. We also announce details of an exciting competition!

With a title like The Girl Who Waited, it wasn’t hard to figure out who this episode would focus on.

Doctor Who presents us with another standalone episode, which Trevor, James and Tom share their thoughts on this week.

We also announce details of an exciting competition!

With a title like The Girl Who Waited, it wasn’t hard to figure out who this episode would focus on.

Doctor Who presents us with another standalone episode, which Trevor, James and Tom share their thoughts on this week.

We also announce details of an exciting competition!

With Summer Coming to end and most of us recovering still from our stint at Dragon*Con we thought it would be a perfect time to review how we did with our Summer Movie predictions, and then talk about what new fall TV shows we are looking forward to this year. Then, we take a look … Continue reading →

In Episode 12 After some Motes of News the Villain Randomizer shows us The Ice Warriors, after which Shannon & Steve give their thoughts on the latest Episode: The Girl Who Waited.

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In a series of overcomplicated and underwhelming narratives ‘The Girl Who Waited’ is the episode MrTARDIS has been waiting for all year. The Girl Who Waited - by Tom MacRae Starring: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan & Arthur Darvill Amy is trapped in a quarantine facility for victims of an alien plague on Apalapucia – a plague that can kill the Doctor in a day. The Doctor can use the TARDIS to smash through time and break in, but then Rory is on his own. He must find Amy and bring her back to the TARDIS before the alien doctors can administer their deadly medicine. Rory is about to encounter a very different side to his wife. Can he rescue Amy before she is killed by kindness? Doctor Who belongs to the BBC. This video is for educational and critical purposes only and is protected under fair use. Be sure to comment and subscribe!

Ian Dave and Mike wait forever to get this commentary up, but luckily no one gets (any more) grey hair - This weeks Commentary: The Girl Who Waited

Sitting down to discuss the latest episode of Doctor Who: The Girl Who Waited, Alan forgets to introduce himself, and then is joined by Derek and Eddie in a conversation that gets entirely too distracted by the colour of Amy’s hair…

Ian Dave and Mike wait forever to get this commentary up, but luckily no one gets (any more) grey hair - This weeks Commentary: The Girl Who Waited

Ian Dave and Mike wait forever to get this commentary up, but luckily no one gets (any more) grey hair - This weeks Commentary: The Girl Who Waited

Ian Dave and Mike wait forever to get this commentary up, but luckily no one gets (any more) grey hair - This weeks Commentary: The Girl Who Waited

With a title like The Girl Who Waited, it wasn't hard to figure out who this episode would focus on. Doctor Who presents us with another standalone episode, which Trevor, James and Tom share their thoughts on this week. We also announce details of an exciting competition!

With a title like The Girl Who Waited, it wasn’t hard to figure out who this episode would focus on. Doctor Who presents us with another standalone episode, which Trevor, James and Tom share their thoughts on this week. We also announce details of an exciting competition!

This week, the projecteers get stuck in to this year's (not so) Doctor lite episode "The Girl Who Waited", and episode 9 of Torchwood "The Gathering". Also included are the usual spattering of news, pathetic nob gags and general drunken shenanigans.

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Oh Amy, Amy, Amy...
Don't it just kill ya??
Amy, Rory and The Doctor meet in a white room and the fun begins.

The Happiness Patrol puts a magnifying glass to it all and Tim Drury joins us from the podcast 'Tim's Take On'.

Also, we officially announce 'The Doctor Who Podcast Exchange Program' were other podcasters trade members with us for an episode and vice versa! WOO-HOO!

Lela is out and about leaving Lew, Nancy and Dale W. to tend the store.

Torchwood, The Girl Who Waited, and other things this week on

The Happiness Patrol Episode 69: Amy, Amy, Amy

Taken from wikipedia with thanks and respect ay of the Daleks is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 1 January to 22 January 1972. Contents [hide] 1 Synopsis 2 Plot 2.1 Continuity 3 Production 3.1 Cast notes 4 In print 5 VHS, Laserdisc and DVD release 6 References 7 External links 7.1 Reviews 7.2 Target novelisation [edit] Synopsis Rebels from a future Earth conquered by the Daleks travel to the 20th Century to prevent that from happening. But will their actions prevent that future, or make it inevitable? [edit] Plot This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. (June 2011) Sir Reginald Styles, a British diplomat trying to organise a peace conference to avert World War III, is in his study at the government-owned Auderly House when a soldier dressed in grey camouflage and wielding a futuristic looking pistol bursts in and holds him at gunpoint. However, before the guerrilla can fire, he vanishes, leaving Styles to shakily tell his secretary he has been visited by a ghost. As the conference is of vital international importance, UNIT is called in. The Chinese have pulled out of the conference and Styles will be flying to Peking to try to persuade them to rejoin, and nothing must interfere with the conference's success. However, when the Third Doctor, Jo and the Brigadier go over to Auderly House, Styles denies ever seeing the "ghost", even though the Doctor notes the presence of muddy footprints in the study. The guerrilla reappears on the grounds in a vortex-like effect, but he is intercepted by two huge humanoid aliens, Ogrons, who attack him and leave him for dead. UNIT soldiers discover the severely injured guerrilla and take him to the hospital while the Doctor examines his weapon and a small black box that was found in a nearby tunnel system. Styles leaves for Peking, while the Doctor discovers that the pistol, which is an ultrasonic disintegrator, is made of Earth materials, not alien, and that the box is a crude time machine, complete with a miniature dematerialisation circuit. As he tries to activate it, the vortex effect appears again and the guerrilla vanishes from the ambulance. The temporal feedback circuit on the time machine also overloads — as the Doctor explains to the Brigadier, it has blown a fuse. Since everything seems to be centred on Auderly House, the Doctor decides to spend the evening there. The night passes without incident, but in the day, three guerrillas appear from the time vortex — Anat, a woman who is in command of the mission, along with two men, Boaz and Shura. They come across a UNIT patrol and disintegrate the two soldiers while making their way to the house. In the study, the Doctor tries to reactivate the time machine, causing an alert to be sounded in the 22nd Century. Shura enters the house, but the Doctor subdues him with some Venusian karate. Shura begs the Doctor to turn off the box, as in the future, a human Controller reports to the Daleks that the machine has been activated. The Daleks command that once the spacetime coordinates of the box are confirmed, whoever is using that device must be exterminated. In the present, Anat and Boaz enter with Jo as their prisoner and demand that the machine be deactivated. The Doctor complies, and the conversation makes it apparent that the guerrillas believe that he is Styles, whom they are apparently here to assassinate. The Doctor shows them a newspaper to convince them otherwise, and Anat demands to know who the Doctor is. When Captain Mike Yates and Sergeant Benton enter the house to search for the missing patrol, the guerrillas usher the Doctor and Jo into the cellar where they tie them up. Finding the Doctor and Jo gone, Yates contacts the Brigadier, who tells them to search the grounds again. In the future, the Daleks order the Controller to send troops to the frequency they detected earlier, and activate a time vortex magnetron, so that anyone travelling between the two time zones will be drawn to the Controller's headquarters. In the past, Anat sends Shura to contact the future for more orders, but Shura only manages to retrieve a bomb from near the tunnel before being attacked by Ogrons. He is wounded, but manages to stumble away. In the cellar, Jo asks the Doctor why, if the guerrillas wanted to kill Styles, they do not just travel back to the previous day to try again, and the Doctor says that this is due to the "Blinovitch Limitation Effect". Before he can explain further, they are ushered back up to the study — the Brigadier is calling on the house phone. The Doctor is forced to pretend over the telephone that everything is fine at Auderly House. The Brigadier tells the Doctor that Styles has convinced the Chinese to rejoin the conference and that the delegates will arrive the next day. The Brigadier asks for reassurance that everything is all right, and the Doctor tells him it is, but the Brigadier gets suspicious when the Doctor asks him to also "tell it to the Marines." The Brigadier decides to go to the house and see for himself. Jo frees herself from her bonds and threatens to destroy the box the first guerrilla used, but Anat and Boaz tell her that it only worked for that person. Suddenly, the time vortex effect activates and Jo vanishes into the future, appearing in the Controller's headquarters due to the vortex magnetron. There, the Controller ingratiates himself with Jo, who tells him everything, including the exact time and location where she came from. The Daleks use this information and send a Dalek supported by Ogrons to the present, where they attack the house. Anat and Boaz fire back, and flee towards the tunnels. The Brigadier arrives just in time to gun down an Ogron, and the Doctor commandeers his jeep in pursuit of the two guerrillas. In the tunnels he meets a Dalek, and runs away, finding Anat and Boaz just as they activate their time machines, and is swept up in the same vortex. In the 22nd Century version of the tunnels, the Doctor and the guerrillas are separated when Ogrons pursue them. The Doctor climbs out of the tunnels onto the surface, where he sees a Dalek order Ogrons to exterminate some rebels. When the Controller informs the Daleks that Jo mentioned a "Doctor", the Daleks react violently, declaring that the Doctor is an enemy of the Daleks and must be exterminated. The Doctor stumbles into what appears to be a factory, and sees humans being used as slave labour, guarded by other humans. He is captured by an Ogron, and is being interrogated when the factory manager comes in and persuades the interrogator to let him speak to the Doctor. When they are alone, the manager asks the Doctor which guerrilla group he comes from, but the Doctor says he is not part of any group. Before any further conversation can take place, the Controller arrives, and takes the Doctor to see Jo. The manager contacts the guerrillas, who have made it back to their base with their leader, a man named Monia. The manager tells them of the Doctor, but he is discovered by an Ogron and killed. Monia decides that they must rescue the Doctor, because he seems to be the only man the Daleks are afraid of. After an abortive escape attempt, the Doctor is strapped down to a Dalek mind analysis device, where images of the Second and First Doctors confirm to the Daleks that he is indeed their sworn enemy. The Controller bursts in, saying that using the mind analysis device will kill the Doctor. They should keep the Doctor alive for information on the rebels, and he will question the Doctor personally. The Daleks gloat to the Doctor that they have discovered time travel, invaded Earth again, and changed the course of history. The Doctor calls the Controller a traitor, and the Controller explains that at the end of the 20th Century, a hundred years of devastating worldwide wars began, killing 7/8ths of the population and forcing the rest to live in little more than holes in the ground. It was during this period that the Daleks invaded, conquering the world and using it for raw materials to fuel the expansion of their empire. Some humans cooperated — the Controller's family have been officials for three generations. The Doctor calls them a family of quislings. The rebel guerrillas attack the Controller's base and rescue the Doctor. Monia is about to shoot the Controller but the Doctor tells him not to — the Daleks would have used somebody else in any case. The rebels take the Doctor back to their hideout and tell him the rest of the story. Styles organised the peace conference, and when Auderly House was blown up, everyone was killed. The rebels believe that Styles engineered the whole thing, and caused the century of war that followed. That was why they used Dalek-derived time travel technology to travel to the past, to kill Styles before he could destroy the peace conference. They used the tunnels because that is the only common location shared by the two time zones. The Doctor is sceptical, believing Styles to be stubborn but basically a good man. When the Doctor finds out that the rebels brought a bomb made of dalekanium with them, a powerful and unstable explosive that will affect even Dalek casings, he realises that the rebels are caught in a predestination paradox. They will cause the very explosion they went back in time to prevent, and create their own history. Indeed, back in the 20th Century, Shura has found his way into Auderly House and plants the bomb in the cellar. The Doctor and Jo make their way back to the tunnels so they can travel back and stop Shura, only to run into an ambush the Controller has set up. The Doctor convinces the Controller that he has the means to stop the Daleks even before they have begun, and the Controller lets him go, only to be betrayed by the interrogator and exterminated by the Daleks. The Daleks send a strike force to the 20th Century to ensure their version of the future is preserved, and attack as the delegates arrive at the house. In the ensuing battle between the Daleks, Ogrons and UNIT, the Brigadier evacuates the delegates. The Doctor, back in the present, makes his way down to the cellar to try to convince Shura not to activate the bomb; Auderly House is empty, it will all have been for nothing. However, once Shura hears that the Daleks are entering the house, he tells the Doctor and Jo to leave — he will take care of the Daleks. The Brigadier tells his men to fall back to the main road as the Daleks search the house for delegates. Shura detonates the bomb, destroying the house and everything in it. The Doctor tells Styles that it is now up to him to make the conference a success. Styles assures the Doctor it will be, because they know what will happen if they fail. The Doctor, nodding at Jo, says that they know too. [edit] Continuity The Blinovitch Limitation Effect is never explicitly laid out, but the Doctor cites it as a means to explain why a time traveller cannot redo his own actions. Dalekanium is presented in this serial as an unstable explosive in the alternate future. In The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Dortmun also calls the material that Dalek casings are made of dalekanium. This is continued in "Evolution of the Daleks". To explain the return of the Daleks after their "final end" (as stated by the Second Doctor in The Evil of the Daleks), lines were scripted to reveal that the humanised Daleks had lost the civil war seen in Evil, placing this story after Evil in the Daleks' own chronology. However, this scene was ultimately not filmed. The Doctor, in an unusual instance, is seen to both hold and use a gun to eliminate an enemy, in this case an Ogron, near the end of episode 2. [edit] Production Serial details by episode EpisodeBroadcast dateRun timeViewership (in millions)Archive "Episode One" 1 January 1972 23:36 9.8 PAL 2" colour videotape "Episode Two" 8 January 1972 23:52 10.4 PAL 2" colour videotape "Episode Three" 15 January 1972 24:18 9.1 PAL 2" colour videotape "Episode Four" 22 January 1972 24:17 9.1 PAL 2" colour videotape [1][2][3] Working titles for this story included The Ghost Hunters and Years of Doom.[3] The production team only had three Dalek props available for use during the production of this serial, so only three Daleks appear on screen at any one time. One of the Daleks is painted gold so only two regular casings are seen in shot. Film editing is used to attempt the illusion of more than three Daleks. As originally written, the serial revolved around the Ogrons instead of the Daleks. It was planned to bring the Daleks back at the end of the season, in a serial called The Daleks in London by Robert Sloman. This plan was dropped when the production staff realised that the show would not have a hook to entice viewers (after the Third Doctor's introduction in Season 7 and that of the Master in Season 8), and Sloman's serial was allegedly shaping up to be too similar to The Dalek Invasion of Earth. Instead, writer Louis Marks was asked to alter his serial to include the Daleks. Early in the first episode, there is a scene where the Doctor and Jo are working on the TARDIS console in the Doctor's lab. A mistake by the Doctor causes another Doctor and Jo to briefly appear at the entrance to the lab. Originally the serial was to end with a scene where the Doctor and Jo went back to the lab, and saw their earlier selves working at the TARDIS console. However, the last episode was overrunning and director Paul Bernard decided to cut the scene, which he personally disliked. Script Editor Terrance Dicks tried to persuade Bernard to put it back in, but Bernard refused and producer Barry Letts agreed that it should be cut. Dicks would later restore the scene in his novelisation of the story. It should be noted that this story features the TARDIS console once more outside of the TARDIS itself, as in The Ambassadors of Death and Inferno. Osterley Park was originally proposed as the setting and location for Day of the Daleks. The name was changed to Auderly in the finished programme, and renamed Austerly in the novelisation. Terry Nation, who penned the first story The Daleks in 1963, was given an on-screen credit at the end of all four episodes of this story as having originated them. [edit] Cast notes Scott Fredericks later played Max Stael in Image of the Fendahl. [edit] In print The novelisation of this serial, by Dicks, was published by Target Books in April 1974. There have been Dutch, Turkish, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese language editions. A Brazilian edition, separate from the Portuguese version, was published with the title Doutor Who e a Mudança da História (Doctor Who and the Change in History). Doctor Who book Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks Series Target novelisations Release number 18 Writer Terrance Dicks Publisher Target Books Cover artist Chris Achilleos ISBN 0-426-10380-7 Release date April 1974 [edit] VHS, Laserdisc and DVD release The story was first released on VHS and Betamax in an omnibus format in 1986 (with the story mistitled as The Day of the Daleks on the VHS box art) and re-released in episodic format in 1994. The previous omnibus edition VHS remained as the release for the United States and Canada. This story was released on Laserdisc twice, first in an omnibus format in the US in 1992, and later in episodic format in the UK in 1996. A DVD release has been confirmed for 12 September 2011.[4] [edit] References ^ Shaun Lyon et al. (31 March 2007). "Day of the Daleks". Outpost Gallifrey. Archived from the original on 18 May 2008. Retrieved 31 August 2008. ^ "Day of the Daleks". Doctor Who Reference Guide. Retrieved 31 August 2008. ^ a b Sullivan, Shannon (17 May 2005). "Day of the Daleks". A Brief History of Time Travel. Retrieved 20 December 2006. ^ http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2010/10/day-of-daleks-on-dvd-in-2011.html [edit] External links Day of the Daleks at BBC Online Day of the Daleks at Doctor Who: A Brief History Of Time (Travel) Day of the Daleks at the Doctor Who Reference Guide [edit] Reviews Day of the Daleks reviews at Outpost Gallifrey Day of the Daleks reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide [edit] Target novelisation Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide On Target — Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks [hide]v · d · eDoctor Who season 9 serials Day of the Daleks • The Curse of Peladon • The Sea Devils • The Mutants • The Time Monster [show]v · d · eDoctor Who: Dalek television stories [show]v · d · eDoctor Who: UNIT television stories [show]v · d · eNovels and novelisations featuring Daleks