History Film / DrWhoAndTheDaleks

* OffModel: The comic adaptation is infamous for making [=TARDIS=] [[https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Green?file=Tardis_green.jpg green]] for some reason.

* ATrueStoryInMyUniverse: Later stories in the mainstream Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse imply these films are actually a result of Ian and Barbara selling the "real" story of what happened to them to Creator/AmicusProductions as fiction. It was nearly referenced onscreen in "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor Day Of The Doctor]]" by having the posters appear in UNIT's archive but they couldn't get the rights sorted in time. The novelization actually restored this aspect and makes the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors into massive fans of the film – so much, in fact, that it's hinted they offered Cushing a trip in the TARDIS to star in ''RogueOne'' posthumously!

* ATrueStoryInMyUniverse: Later stories in the mainstream Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse imply these films are actually a result of Ian and Barbara selling the "real" story of what happened to them to Creator/AmicusProductions as fiction. It was nearly referenced onscreen in "Day Of The Doctor" by having the posters appear in UNIT's archive but they couldn't get the rights sorted in time. The novelization actually restored this aspect. A short story referenced this by having the Third Doctor enjoy a day off from UNIT to go to the cinema and watch both films to his immense amusement.

** The character of the Time Lord [[note]](the series didn't name the Doctor's race until [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E7TheWarGames 1969]] and his home planet until [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E1TheTimeWarrior 1973]], but it had been established right from the first episode that he wasn't from Earth.)[[/note]] known as The Doctor has become a human scientist [[invoked]][[IAmNotShazam literally named Dr. Who]].

* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Unlike the main TV series, the Doctor is a human.

* CompressedAdaptation: From seven 25-minute episodes (175 minutes total) to one 79-minute film.

** The character of the Time Lord [[note]](the series didn't name the Doctor's race until 1969 and his home planet until 1974, but it had been established right from the first episode that he wasn't from Earth.)[[/note]] known as The Doctor has become a human scientist [[invoked]][[IAmNotShazam literally named Dr. Who]].

** The character of the Time Lord [[note]](the series didn't name the Doctor's race until 1969 and his home planet until 1974, but it had been established right from the first episode that he wasn't from Earth.)[[/note]] known as The Doctor has become a human scientist [[IAmNotShazam literally named Dr. Who]].

** Ian is Barbara's boyfriend, neither of them is a teacher, and both are [[DawsonCasting "teenagers"]].

** ''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.[[note]]A restoration documentary on Kino Lorber's recent Blu-Ray release reveals this was a deliberate stylistic choice by director Gordon Flemyng, due to the idiosyncrasies of the specific wide-screen format the movie was being shot in -- long story short, the central console would have looked weird in the format (a two-sprocket-hole-per-frame format known as "Techniscope") and wouldn't have worked visually in Flemyng's estimation, so it was removed.[[/note]] Also, no [[SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound vworp noise]].

* ComicBookAdaptation: Creator/DellComics in the US published a one-off adaptation of the film in the mid-1960s, [[MarthDebutedInSmashBros nearly 15 years before any comics based on the TV show appeared in the US.]]

** Dr. Who's ship is known as ''Tardis'' (note the lack of the definite article).

** The Daleks themselves are quite different, both physically and mentally; physically speaking their true form within the robotic suits is green, with webbed hands and a scrawny baby-like form, but still humanoid — as opposed to the grotesque, reddish "squid-skulls" of the series' Daleks. As to mentally, they are "less" AlwaysChaoticEvil than their series counterpart, as it does not seem to have been self-evident to most Dalek soldiers that their higher-ups would order the total extermination of the Thals. Their history is also somewhat different, as they are simply one of many breeds of mutants who were born after the First Dalek-Thal War, who were forced to lock themselves in the robotic suits to escape radiation sickness and because their physical bodies had become gruesome, stunted homunculi — as opposed to having been carefully engineered ''as'' perfect soldiers by [[MadScientist Davros]].
* CanonImmigrant: 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"]].

* StealthSequel: Peter Cushing believed Doctor Who is a future regeneration of The Doctor from the [=TV=] show after having his memory erased and being made to relive old adventures by the Celestial Toymaker.

* CapsLockNumLockMissilesLock: The plot is set into motion when Ian and Barbara lean against Tardis' activation lever while making out. Doctor Who scolds Ian for this, when it was clearly Barbara who started it.

* CapsLockNumLockMissileLock: The plot is set into motion when Ian and Barbara lean against Tardis' activation lever while making out. Doctor Who scolds Ian for this, when it was clearly Barbara who started it.

* RecursiveCanon: Later stories in the mainstream Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse imply these films are actually a result of Ian and Barbara selling the "real" story of what happened to them to Creator/AmicusProductions as fiction. It was nearly referenced onscreen in "Day Of The Doctor" by having the posters appear in UNIT's archive but they couldn't get the rights sorted in time. The novelization actually restored this aspect. A short story referenced this by having the Third Doctor enjoy a day off from UNIT to go to the cinema and watch both films to his immense amusement.

* AlternateContinuity: Let us count the ways!

** The Daleks themselves are quite different, both physically and mentally; physically speaking their true form within the robotic suits is green, with webbed hands and a scrawny baby-like form, but still humanoid — as opposed to the grotesque, reddish "squid-skulls" of the series' Daleks. As to mentally, they are "less" AlwaysChaoticEvil than their series counterpart, as it does not seem to have been self-evident to most Dalek soldiers that their higher-ups would order the total extermination of the Thals. Their history is also somewhat different (though in this case, it's more EarlyInstallmentWeirdness than anything else, since many facts about the Daleks' origins hadn't yet been established when the movies were scripted), as they are simply one of many breeds of mutants who were born after the First Dalek-Thal War, who were forced to lock themselves in the robotic suits to escape radiation sickness and because their physical bodies had become gruesome, stunted homunculi — as opposed to having been carefully engineered ''as'' perfect soldiers by [[MadScientist Davros]].
** These aren’t really canon differences, at the time the film was made, in the series Daleks were portrayed as a hand like creature, rather than a squid. Davros and genetic engineering came later, in their early appearance they were just injured and mutated Dals. They were even polite, saying “please” and “thank you”. So you could say the film followed Dalek lore, it is the main series which did not.

** ''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.[[note]]A restoration documentary on Kino Lorber's recent Blu-Ray release reveals this was a deliberate stylistic choice by director Gordon Flemyng, due to the idiosyncrasies of the specific wide-screen format the movie was being shot in -- long story short, the central console would have looked weird in the format and wouldn't have worked visually in Flemyng's estimation, so it was removed.[[/note]] Also, no [[SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound vworp noise]].

** ''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 [[SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound vworp noise]].

* AccentAdaptation: The filmmakers on the set didn't fully understand that the Daleks' dome-lights were supposed to be keyed to their speech. The audio engineers still used the lights to pace the Daleks' speech, resulting in voices that are as harsh as the TV series and excruciatingly stilted to boot.

** Susan is a little girl of about eleven (where in the original she was a 15 year old teenager or equivalent).

* 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"]].

* 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. As another example, when TV!Susan is surprised by the Thal, she is deeply disturbed and has a long bout of HeroicBSOD. Movie!Susan is just annoyed that nobody seems to believe her that there are other people alive on the planet, though she does freak out slightly at the initial tap on the shoulder.

* StealthSequel: Peter Cushing believes Doctor Who is a future regeneration of The Doctor from the [=TV=] show after having his memory erased and being made to relive old adventures by the Celestial Toymaker.

* StealthSequel: Peter Cushing believe he's a future regeneration of The Doctor from the [=TV=] show after having his memory erased and being made to relive old adventures by the Celestial Toymaker.

* ATrueStoryInMyUniverse: Later stories in the mainstream Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse imply these films are actually a result of Ian and Barbara selling the "real" story of what happened to them to Creator/AmicusProductions as fiction. It was nearly referenced onscreen in "Day Of The Doctor" by having the posters appear in UNIT's archive but they couldn't get the rights sorted in time. The novelization actually restored this aspect. A short story referenced this by having the Third Doctor enjoy a day off from UNIT to go to the cinema and watch both films to his immense amusement.

* ATrueStoryInMyUniverse: Later stories in the mainstream Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse imply these films are actually a result of Ian and Barbara selling the "real" story of what happened to them to Creator/AmicusProductions as fiction. It was nearly referenced onscreen in "Day Of The Doctor" by having the posters appear in UNIT's archive but they couldn't get the rights sorted in time. The novelization actually restored this aspect.