History Recap / BigFinishDoctorWho032TheTimeOfTheDaleks

* ExactTimeToFailure: The [[ILoveNuclearPower Nuclear Reactor]].

* InsistentTerminology: "[[CrowningMomentOfFunny You mean]] [[FluffyTheTerrible TED]]?"

* ContinuityNod: The Doctor mentions when the Daleks invaded Gallifrey. Considering the nature of the series (And when it was made), this is most likely a reference to [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho011TheApocalypseElement The Apocalypse Element]] with the Sixth Doctor.

The general's up against a rebellion, who are clinging to what's left of their RippleEffectProofMemory in order to protect Shakepeare's heritage. She's also working together with the Daleks to create a time machine. The Daleks, for their part, need a time machine for their own purposes, and claim that they've already been to Gallifrey and (after [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho011TheApocalypseElementa bit of a failed invasion]]) made their own Eye of Harmony. The last bit of work can be done by the Doctor. They take Charley along in order to secure the Doctor's help. The Doctor isn't exactly up for it, but he's intrigued by the general's time portals, which also happen to lead back to all the eras of [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho030SeasonsOfFear "Seasons Of Fear"]]. (Well, that explains a thing or two. [[TimeyWimeyBall Probably]].)

The general's up against a rebellion, who are clinging to what's left of their RippleEffectProofMemory in order to protect Shakepeare's heritage. She's also working together with the Daleks to create a time machine. The Daleks, for their part, need a time machine for their own purposes, and claim that they've already been to Gallifrey and (after a bit of a failed invasion) made their own Eye of Harmony. The last bit of work can be done by the Doctor. They take Charley along in order to secure the Doctor's help. The Doctor isn't exactly up for it, but he's intrigued by the general's time portals, which also happen to lead back to all the eras of [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho030SeasonsOfFear "Seasons Of Fear"]]. (Well, that explains a thing or two. [[TimeyWimeyBall Probably]].)

* {{Pun}}: The Doctor makes another doozy.
--> "If you know so much about it, then you fix the clock. I'm on strike! Eh? Strike? Clock?"

* BigNo: [[spoiler: Major Ferdinand]]!! [[BigNo Noooooo!!!]]"
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: General Learman gets converted into a Dalek]].
* CallBack: The Dalek that ends up in ancient Rome is the one that was destroyed in [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho030SeasonsOfFear "Seasons Of Fear"]]. [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho030SeasonsOfFear Lucillius]] gets to kill him.

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: [[spoiler: The kitchen-boy, William Shakespeare]], though it's not played for laughs.
* FluffyTheTerrible:

* GroundHogDayLoop: [[spoiler: The Daleks are stuck in this at the end of the story. Forever forced to re-enact this adventure.]]

* HandyRemoteControl: The [[spoiler: Master Clock]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Major Ferdinand]]
* HiddenInPlainSight: [[spoiler: William Shakespeare is the 10 year old boy wandering around]].
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: Namedropped [[spoiler: By the Bard himself]].

* ItsAllAboutMe: General Learman [[spoiler: rips time and space apart so everybody forgets Shakespeare so SHE can remember him with her RippleEffectProofMemory. Because no one else is entitled to.]]

---> Daleks: "[[spoiler: We are the Masters of Time!! We are the Masters of Time!!]]"

* [[spoiler: RewardedAsATraitorDeserves]]: General Learman.
* RoboSpeak:

The final part of the cross-Doctor Dalek Empire arc. It sees the Eighth Doctor's first run-in with the Daleks, the culprits behind all the continuity conundrums in his stories, and the reason why a certain famous poet keeps cropping up in his conversations.

[[caption-width-right:350:In which a crapload of [[TimeParadox time paradoxes]] [[OhCrap hit the fan.]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:All those [[TimeParadox time paradoxes finally hit the fan.]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:some caption text]]

THe Eighth Doctor's first run-in with the Daleks.

The Eighth Doctor is shocked that Charley has never heard of William Shakespeare, something that should be quite, quite impossible. When he remembers that [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho028InvadersFromMars Orson Welles suffered from the same problem]], he gets just a bit scared. He travels to Britain in the near future and discovers a general obsessed with Shakespeare, and more disturbingly, Daleks who quote Shakespeare and profess an appreciation for Earth's greatest playwright.

* IncrediblyLamePun: The Doctor makes another doozy.
--> "If you know so much about it, then you fix the clock. I'm on strike! Eh? Strike? Clock?"

* YouHaveFailedMe: The Dalek that fails to uphold security has to give up it's casing for the BodyHorror trope listed above.

* HandyRemoteControl: The [[spoiler: Great Clock]]

* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice]] Major Ferdinand