B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (284 page)

In the Virgin edition of
Ahistory
, it was speculated that it coincided with the Daleks developing an internal power supply - in
The Daleks,
they took static electricity up through the floor and so couldn’t leave their city. In
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
, they had a disc resembling a satellite dish fastened to their backs; the Doctor and Ian speculate that it allows them free movement. In the first two Dalek stories, they have “bands” rather than the “slats” seen in all other stories. In
The Power of the Daleks,
they are dependent on a static electricity generator. In all subsequent stories - all of which (apart from the prototypes seen in
Genesis of the Daleks
) have Daleks originating from after
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
- none of these restrictions seem to apply. We are explicitly told they move via “psychokinetic power” in
Death to the Daleks
.

The Daleks are confined to the First Segment of Time, according to
The Ark
. We might speculate that the end of the Middle Period of Dalek history comes with either their defeat at the hands of the Movellans (
Resurrection of the Daleks
), or shortly afterwards with Skaro’s destruction (
Remembrance of the Daleks
).

As we’ve now seen the end of Dalek history (the Daleks withdrawing from history to fight the Time War, as recounted by Jack in
Bad Wolf
), we can perhaps speculate that the “early period” Daleks have bands and are dependent on externally-generated static electricity; the “middle period” Daleks are the slatted ones familiar from the original TV series and now we can add the “late period” Daleks seen in the new television series, which seem significantly more mobile and advanced than their forebears.

[
360
]
The Dalek Invasion of Earth

[
361
] The Arcturus attacks take place at “the beginning of the year” according to
Lucifer Rising
. Sifranos is also mentioned in
GodEngine.

[
362
]
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
,
Legacy of the Daleks.

[
363
]
Lucifer Rising

[
364
]
GodEngine
(p3).

[
365
]
The Dalek Invasion of Earth

[
366
]
The Final Sanction
(p75, p178).

[
367
] According to Vicki in
The Chase
and
Salvation
(p58).
The Indestructible Man
said New York was destroyed in a nuclear assault in 2068, but it was evidently rebuilt. Even after its second devastation it seems to recover somewhat, as
Fear Itself
(PDA) says that New York’s waterways are a tourist attraction near the end of the twenty-second century.

[
368
]
Nekromanteia

[
369
]
Legacy of the Daleks
(p45).

[
370
]
The Mutant Phase
, although this occurs in an alternate timeline.

[
371
]
GodEngine
(p107).

[
372
]
Head Games
(p157).

[
373
]
GodEngine

[
374
]
Fear Itself
(PDA), and referencing the weapon of choice of Abslom Daak.

[
375
]
An Earthly Child

[
376
]
Genesis of the Daleks
. It is confirmed in
GodEngine
that this invasion takes place at the same time as the Dalek Invasion of Earth.

[
377
] Dating
GodEngine
(NA #51) - The year is given (p3).

[
378
]
The Dalek Invasion of Earth

[
379
]
GodEngine

[
380
] Dating
The Mutant Phase
(BF #15) - The year is given as “2158”.

[
381
] Dating
Renaissance of the Daleks
(BF #93) - The date is given, and re-confirmed as being “a year” after the Daleks should have invaded Earth in 2157. Vague mention is made of a “new Dalek homeworld”.

[
382
]
War of the Daleks

[
383
] “Three years” after
GodEngine
(p214).

[
384
]
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
,
The Mutant Phase.

[
385
]
GodEngine
(p11).

[
386
]
Alien Bodies

[
387
] Dating
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
(2.2) - There are two dates to establish: the date of the initial Dalek invasion, and the date of this story, which takes place after the Daleks have occupied Earth for some time. To start, the Doctor and Ian discover a calendar dated “2164” in a room that “hasn’t been used in years” and Ian remarks that “at least we know the century”. Arguably, the Doctor’s recollection of the calendar is why Ben comments in
The Forbidden Time
that the Doctor told him about “that Dalek invasion in 2164”. The prisoner Jack Craddock later says that the Daleks invaded “about ten years” ago.

However, it seems that someone was printing calendars after the invasion - in
The Daleks’ Master Plan,
the Doctor urges Vyon to “tell Earth to look back in the history of the year 2157 and that the Daleks are going to attack again”. In
The Space Museum
, Vicki states that the Daleks invaded Earth “three hundred years” before her own time [c 2193]. In
Remembrance of the Daleks
, the Doctor states that the Daleks conquered Earth in “the twenty-second century”.

In
Lucifer Rising,
the Doctor says that the Daleks invade in “2158” (p337).
GodEngine
dates the invasion to 2157; the TV story to “ten years” later (p240).
The Mutant Phase
sets the TV story in “nine years” [2168]. It’s “a few decades” after
No Future
[c.2000], “two centuries” after
Head Games
(p157) [c.2201], it’s “2157” in
Killing Ground
(p48), and “2154” in
Return of the Living Dad
(p241).

A production document written in July 1964 gave the date as “2042”. The trailer for the 1964 serial claimed the story was set in “the year 2000” (and, unlike
The Power of the Daleks
, that’s explicitly contradicted in the story itself), and in
Genesis of the Daleks
, the Doctor talks of the Daleks’ extraction of the Earth’s magnetic core in “the year 2000”, apparently referring to this story (although he seems to be remembering the movie version, which was set in 2150).

Radio Times
consistently dated the story as “2164”, as did
The Making of Doctor Who
second edition,
The Doctor Who File
and even the 1994 radio play
Whatever Happened to... Susan Foreman?
. The first edition of
The Programme Guide
set the story “c2060”, the second “2164”, while
The Terrestrial Index
said “2167”. “A History of the Daleks” (
DWM
#77) set the story in “2166”.
The Discontinuity Guide
suggested a date of “2174”. In John Peel’s novelisation of
The Chase
, Vicki says that the Daleks will destroy New York “one hundred years” after 1967.

In “The Forgotten”, the tenth Doctor claims to have never seen Susan since they parted ways during the Dalek Invasion. But as his memory isn’t the most reliable when he says this, it’s perhaps best ignored - it would contradict not just tie-in stories such as
An Earthly Child
and
Legacy of the Daleks
, but
The Five Doctors
also.

More detail of the Dalek invasions of both Earth and Mars is given in
Benny: Beige Planet Mars
.

[
388
]
GodEngine

[
389
]
To the Death
, although it’s possible the eighth Doctor returned the key to Susan, off screen, as a keepsake.

[
390
]
Here There Be Monsters
. This presumably changes later in Susan and David’s marriage; by
Legacy of the Daleks
, he’s certainly aware that she’s aging slower than a human.

[
391
]
The Crystal Bucephalus, GodEngine.

[
392
]
An Earthly Child

[
393
]
The Final Sanction

[
394
]
Legacy of the Daleks

[
395
]
Cold Fusion

[
396
]
The Final Sanction
(p75).

[
397
] The Alliance

The Terrestrial Index
suggested that a group that included Earth, Draconia and perhaps the Thals, who were all “united to attack and punish the Daleks”. This contradicts what we are told on screen [q.v. “The Dalek Wars”], and the Alliance is never referred to on television. The Alliance is mentioned in
Original Sin
(p286), and this revised account of its origins appears in
Lords of the Storm
(p201).

[
398
] Dating
The Chase
(2.8) - The Daleks launch an attack against their “greatest enemies” - the first Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan - in revenge for
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
. The fact they don’t know Susan has left and Vicki has joined the TARDIS crew indicates that this is relatively soon after their defeat. No date is given, but as the Daleks are based on Skaro here, but will be confined to their city by
The Daleks
, this has to be substantially before then. The Dalek time machine was named the DARDIS in the script but not on screen.

[
399
]
Day of the Daleks

[
400
] Reconciling the first Dalek story,
The Daleks
, with the other Dalek stories is difficult. There was no intention to bring back the Daleks, and the first story is a self-contained story about a war confined to Skaro, that sees the Daleks killed off at the end. From
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
, the Daleks became galactic conquerors - they invade and occupy the Earth, go on to invent time travel, twice threaten to conquer the entire galaxy, then go off to fight a mutually destructive war with the Time Lords.