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'''''Dr. Who and the Daleks''''' is a 1965 film that cashed in on the craze of Dalekmania by adapting the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks "The Daleks"]] into a cinema spectacle. It features the Daleks (IN COLOUR!) battling against Creator/PeterCushing as Dr. Who.

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'''''Dr. ''Dr. Who and the Daleks''''' Daleks'' is a 1965 film that cashed in on the craze of Dalekmania by adapting the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks "The Daleks"]] into a cinema spectacle. It features the Daleks (IN COLOUR!) battling against Creator/PeterCushing as Dr. Who.
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''Dr. Who and the Daleks'' is a 1965 film that cashed in on the craze of Dalekmania by adapting the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks "The Daleks"]] into a cinema spectacle. It features the Daleks (IN COLOUR!) battling against Creator/PeterCushing as Dr. Who.

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''Dr. '''''Dr. Who and the Daleks'' Daleks''''' is a 1965 film that cashed in on the craze of Dalekmania by adapting the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks "The Daleks"]] into a cinema spectacle. It features the Daleks (IN COLOUR!) battling against Creator/PeterCushing as Dr. Who.
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'''''Dr. Who and the Daleks''''' is a 1965 film that cashed in on the craze of Dalekmania by adapting the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks "The Daleks"]] into a cinema spectacle. It features the Daleks (IN COLOUR!) battling against Creator/PeterCushing as Dr. Who.

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'''''Dr. ''Dr. Who and the Daleks''''' Daleks'' is a 1965 film that cashed in on the craze of Dalekmania by adapting the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks "The Daleks"]] into a cinema spectacle. It features the Daleks (IN COLOUR!) battling against Creator/PeterCushing as Dr. Who.
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''Dr. Who and the Daleks'' is a 1965 film that cashed in on the craze of Dalekmania by adapting the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks "The Daleks"]] into a cinema spectacle. It features the Daleks (IN COLOUR!) battling against Creator/PeterCushing as Dr. Who.

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''Dr. '''''Dr. Who and the Daleks'' Daleks''''' is a 1965 film that cashed in on the craze of Dalekmania by adapting the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks "The Daleks"]] into a cinema spectacle. It features the Daleks (IN COLOUR!) battling against Creator/PeterCushing as Dr. Who.
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'''''Dr. Who and the Daleks''''' is a 1965 film that cashed in on the craze of Dalekmania by adapting the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks "The Daleks"]] into a cinema spectacle. It features the Daleks (IN COLOUR!) battling against Creator/PeterCushing as Dr. Who.

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'''''Dr. ''Dr. Who and the Daleks''''' Daleks'' is a 1965 film that cashed in on the craze of Dalekmania by adapting the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks "The Daleks"]] into a cinema spectacle. It features the Daleks (IN COLOUR!) battling against Creator/PeterCushing as Dr. Who.
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1965 film that cashed in on the craze of Dalekmania by adapting the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]]" into a cinema spectacle. It featured the Daleks (IN COLOUR!) battling against Creator/PeterCushing as Dr. Who.

It was followed a year later by ''[[Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 AD]]'', which did nowhere near as well.

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'''''Dr. Who and the Daleks''''' is a 1965 film that cashed in on the craze of Dalekmania by adapting the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]]" [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks "The Daleks"]] into a cinema spectacle. It featured features the Daleks (IN COLOUR!) battling against Creator/PeterCushing as Dr. Who.

It was followed a year later by ''[[Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 AD]]'', ''Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD'', which did nowhere near as well.well.



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!!Tropes used in this film:!!''Dr. Who and the Daleks'' provides examples of the following tropes:



** ''Tardis'' is still a police box that's BiggerOnTheInside (somehow), but its interior consists of only one room built very haphazardly. There's no hexagonal console, time rotor, or roundels — just a great many random buttons, wires, and switches...and a single lever is all that controls the space/time travel mechanism. Also, no [[MostWonderfulSound vworp noise]].
* CanonImmigrant / DevelopmentGag: The Daleks were supposed to have flamethrowers, which were scrapped for the infamous fog cannons. However, flamethrowers were included with the Daleks in regular canon, in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Master Plan]]".

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** ''Tardis'' is still a police box that's BiggerOnTheInside (somehow), but its interior consists of only one room built very haphazardly. There's no hexagonal console, time rotor, or roundels -- just a great many random buttons, wires, and switches...switches... and a single lever is all that controls the space/time travel mechanism. Also, no [[MostWonderfulSound vworp noise]].
* CanonImmigrant / DevelopmentGag: The Daleks were supposed to have flamethrowers, which were scrapped for the infamous fog cannons. However, flamethrowers were included with the Daleks in regular canon, in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan "The Daleks' Master Plan]]".Plan"]].



* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Antodus.]]

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* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Antodus.]][[spoiler:Antodus]]


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** Susan is a little girl of about eleven.

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** Susan is a little girl of about eleven.eleven (where in the original she was around 200 years old, or whatever the Time Lord equivalent for the age 15 is).
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1965 film that cashed in on the craze of Dalekmania by adapting the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]]" into a cinema spectacle. It featured the Daleks (IN COLOUR!) battling against Creator/PeterCushing as [[IAmNotShazam Dr. Who]].

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1965 film that cashed in on the craze of Dalekmania by adapting the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]]" into a cinema spectacle. It featured the Daleks (IN COLOUR!) battling against Creator/PeterCushing as [[IAmNotShazam Dr. Who]].
Who.



** The character of the Time Lord [[note]](The series didn't name the Doctor's race until 1969 and his home planet until the early 1970s, but it had long been established that he wasn't from Earth.)[[/note]] known as The Doctor has become a human scientist called Dr. Who.

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** The character of the Time Lord [[note]](The series didn't name the Doctor's race until 1969 and his home planet until the early 1970s, but it had long been established that he wasn't from Earth.)[[/note]] known as The Doctor has become a human scientist called [[IAmNotShazam literally named Dr. Who.Who]].
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1965 film that cashed in on the craze of Dalekmania by adapting the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]]" into a cinema spectacle. It featured the Daleks (IN COLOUR!) battling against Creator/PeterCushing as Dr. Who.

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1965 film that cashed in on the craze of Dalekmania by adapting the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]]" into a cinema spectacle. It featured the Daleks (IN COLOUR!) battling against Creator/PeterCushing as [[IAmNotShazam Dr. Who.
Who]].
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* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: ''I Am The Doctor'' by John Peel, an unofficial 2007 magazine oneshot in which the ten Doctors described themselves in their own words, also included a piece by Barbara (TV version) describing how she and Ian sold the details of their first two Dalek encounters to a film studio, and how much the resulting movies changed everything.
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*** Not to put to fine a point on it,Tardis looks like a mad scientist's garage.
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*** Not to put to find a point on it,Tardis looks like a mad scientist's garage.

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*** Not to put to find fine a point on it,Tardis looks like a mad scientist's garage.
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*** Not to put to find a point on it,Tardis looks like a mad scientist's garage.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: Multicolored Daleks, ''well'' before StevenMoffat would try to bring them back.
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*OlderThanTheyThink: Multicolored Daleks, ''well'' before StevenMoffat would try to bring them back.
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1965 film that cashed in on the craze of Dalekmania by adapting the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]]" into a cinema spectacle. It featured the Daleks (IN COLOUR!) battling against PeterCushing as Dr. Who.

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1965 film that cashed in on the craze of Dalekmania by adapting the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]]" into a cinema spectacle. It featured the Daleks (IN COLOUR!) battling against PeterCushing Creator/PeterCushing as Dr. Who.

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** ''Tardis'' is still a police box that's BiggerOnTheInside (somehow), but its interior consists of only one room built very haphazardly. There's no hexagonal console, time rotor, or roundels —
just a great many random buttons, wires, and switches...and a single lever is all that controls the space/time travel mechanism. Also, no [[MostWonderfulSound vworp noise]].
* CanonImmigrant / DevelopmentGag: The Daleks in this film were supposed to have flamethrowers, which were scrapped for the infamous fog cannons. However, flamethrowers were included with the Daleks in regular canon, in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Master Plan]]".

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** ''Tardis'' is still a police box that's BiggerOnTheInside (somehow), but its interior consists of only one room built very haphazardly. There's no hexagonal console, time rotor, or roundels
just a great many random buttons, wires, and switches...and a single lever is all that controls the space/time travel mechanism. Also, no [[MostWonderfulSound vworp noise]].
* CanonImmigrant / DevelopmentGag: The Daleks in this film were supposed to have flamethrowers, which were scrapped for the infamous fog cannons. However, flamethrowers were included with the Daleks in regular canon, in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Master Plan]]".

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This 1965 film cashed in on the craze of Dalekmania by adapting the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]]" into a cinema spectacle. It featured the Daleks - IN COLOUR! - battling against PeterCushing as Dr Who.

It was followed a year later by ''[[Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 AD]]''.

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This 1965 film that cashed in on the craze of Dalekmania by adapting the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]]" into a cinema spectacle. It featured the Daleks - IN COLOUR! - (IN COLOUR!) battling against PeterCushing as Dr Dr. Who.

It was followed a year later by ''[[Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 AD]]''.
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: The Daleks and the Thals, who both speak and read perfect English. There is no mention of an equivalent for the TV show's translation circuit, and it is unexplained how either race is able to communicate with Dr. Who and his companions.

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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: The Daleks and the Thals, who both speak and read perfect English. There is There's no mention of an equivalent for the TV show's translation circuit, and it is unexplained how either race is able to communicate with Dr. Who and his companions.



** The character of the Time Lord[[note]]When the movie was made, the series had not yet named the Time Lords, nor their home planet, but it had established that the Doctor wasn't from Earth.[[/note]] known as The Doctor has become a human scientist called Dr. Who.

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** The character of the Time Lord[[note]]When the movie was made, the Lord [[note]](The series had not yet named didn't name the Time Lords, nor their Doctor's race until 1969 and his home planet, planet until the early 1970s, but it had long been established that the Doctor he wasn't from Earth.[[/note]] )[[/note]] known as The Doctor has become a human scientist called Dr. Who.



** Dr. Who's ship is known as ''TARDIS'' (note the lack of the definite article).
** ''TARDIS'' is still a police box that is BiggerOnTheInside (somehow), but its interior consists of only one room, and it's built very haphazardly. There's no hexagonal console, time rotor, or roundels--there are many random buttons, wires, and switches, and a single lever is all that controls the space/time travel mechanism. Also, no [[MostWonderfulSound vworp noise]].
* CanonImmigrant[=/=]DevelopmentGag: The Daleks in this film were supposed to have flamethrowers, which were scrapped for the infamous fog cannons. However, flamethrowers were included with the Daleks in regular canon, in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Master Plan]]."

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** Dr. Who's ship is known as ''TARDIS'' ''Tardis'' (note the lack of the definite article).
** ''TARDIS'' ''Tardis'' is still a police box that is that's BiggerOnTheInside (somehow), but its interior consists of only one room, and it's room built very haphazardly. There's no hexagonal console, time rotor, or roundels--there are roundels —
just a great
many random buttons, wires, and switches, switches...and a single lever is all that controls the space/time travel mechanism. Also, no [[MostWonderfulSound vworp noise]].
* CanonImmigrant[=/=]DevelopmentGag: CanonImmigrant / DevelopmentGag: The Daleks in this film were supposed to have flamethrowers, which were scrapped for the infamous fog cannons. However, flamethrowers were included with the Daleks in regular canon, in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Master Plan]]."Plan]]".



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** The character of the Time Lord known as The Doctor has become a human scientist called Dr. Who.
*** When the movie was made, the Doctor of the TV series was not yet specified as a "Time Lord," and the show still implied that he built the timeship himself.
**** It was ALSO implied that The Doctor was an alien in the series.

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** The character of the Time Lord Lord[[note]]When the movie was made, the series had not yet named the Time Lords, nor their home planet, but it had established that the Doctor wasn't from Earth.[[/note]] known as The Doctor has become a human scientist called Dr. Who.
*** When the movie was made, the Doctor of the TV series was not yet specified as a "Time Lord," and the show still implied that he built the timeship himself.
**** It was ALSO implied that The Doctor was an alien in the series.
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This 1965 film cashed in on the craze of Dalekmania by adapting the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]]" into a cinema spectacle. It featured the Daleks - IN COLOUR! - battling against PeterCushing as Dr Who.

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This 1965 film cashed in on the craze of Dalekmania by adapting the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]]" into a cinema spectacle. It featured the Daleks - IN COLOUR! - battling against PeterCushing as Dr Who.

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** Susan is a little girl of about twelve.

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** Susan is a little girl of about twelve.eleven.


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* LittleMissBadass: The movie's eleven-year-old Susan is considerably bolder than the TV show's fifteen-year-old Susan, who only returned to the TARDIS from the city after much prodding.
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: The Daleks and the Thals, who both speak and read perfect English. There is no mention of an equivalent for the TV show's translation circuit, and it is unexplained how either race is able to do this.

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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: The Daleks and the Thals, who both speak and read perfect English. There is no mention of an equivalent for the TV show's translation circuit, and it is unexplained how either race is able to do this.communicate with Dr. Who and his companions.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Antodus.]]
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This 1965 film cashed in on the craze of Dalekmania by adapting the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]]" into a cinema spectacle. It featured the Daleks - IN COLOUR! - battling against PeterCushing as Dr Who.

It was followed a year later by ''[[Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 AD]]''.

!!Tropes used in this film:

* AlternateContinuity: Let us count the ways!
** The character of the Time Lord known as The Doctor has become a human scientist called Dr. Who.
** Susan ''and'' Barbara are both his granddaughters (with the surname Who, to boot).
** Ian is Barbara's boyfriend, neither of them is a teacher, and both are teenagers.
** Susan is a little girl of about twelve.
** Dr. Who's ship is known as ''TARDIS'' (note the lack of the definite article).
** ''TARDIS'' is still a police box that is BiggerOnTheInside (somehow), but its interior consists of only one room, and it's built very haphazardly. There's no hexagonal console, time rotor, or roundels--there are many random buttons, wires, and switches, and a single lever is all that controls the space/time travel mechanism. Also, no [[MostWonderfulSound vworp noise]].
* CanonImmigrant[=/=]DevelopmentGag: The Daleks in this film were supposed to have flamethrowers, which were scrapped for the infamous fog cannons. However, flamethrowers were included with the Daleks in regular canon, in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Master Plan]]."
* CompressedAdaptation: From seven 25-minute episodes (175 minutes total) to one 79-minute film.
* SequelHook: At the end, our heroes try to get back to London, but end up in the middle of an ancient Roman battle.
* {{Zeerust}}: The Daleks' colourful fortress, big time. The Dalek control room even has lava lamps, which probably still seemed incredibly futuristic in 1965.

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