History Recap / DoctorWhoS2E2TheDalekInvasionOfEarth

* WeaksauceWeakness: The Daleks use wireless power transmission to remove their reliance on static electricity to ambulate. Susan and David blow up the transmission mast at the mine, rendering the Daleks helpless as the prisoners and Robomen revolt. Unfortunately the Daleks have removed this vulnerability in later appearances.

** At the start of the serial the Doctor is disturbed that he can't hear the chimes of Big Ben. After the Daleks are destroyed he returns to London and hears it chime as the city is being rebuilt.

* LogicBomb: Wells tries to excuse the presence of two escapees by telling a Roboman that he took them from another work detail. The Roboman clubs him to the ground, saying he should have referred all decisions to his 'masters'. Ian tries to help Wells and when the Roboman tells him to obey orders and leave him, Ian responds by telling the Roboman to "get new orders." The Roboman promptly leaves to do so.

* FlyingSaucer: Back when this was de rigueur for all alien invaders, though [[ZeerustCanon the trope would be continued into New Who]].

* EarlyInstalmentWeirdness: While other Nazi allegories remained with the Daleks, their [[StrangeSalute habit of jerking their plungers upward in mimicry of the fascist salute]] was dropped, presumably because it looked rather silly.

* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: The full spectrum of human behaviour is shown. Dortmun, the crippled RebelLeader who's willing to throw away lives just so humanity can be DefiantToTheEnd. Jenny--who keeps up a JerkassFacade but still helps Barbara--is contrasted with the women who casually betray them to the Daleks for extra food rations. Tyler refuses to make friends for fear he might lose them, but likewise helps the Doctor. Wells helps his fellow slave workers in partnership with Ashton, the amoral blackmarketeer who exploits them.

* TakeOurWordForIt: [[EarthThatUsedToBeBetter Magnificent future London]] with its heliports, moving pavements and [[SpaceX astronaut fairs]], before the Daleks bombed it back to TheSixties.

* ImStandingRightHere: The Doctor {{stage whisper}}s to Ian ''while standing right next to a Dalek'' that they need to pit their wits against the alien invaders. Naturally the Dalek replies that it can hear everything he's saying and ResistanceIsUseless. The Dalek then makes a point of letting the Black Dalek know what the Doctor said.

** ** The Daleks need slave workers and Robomen so [[PragmaticVillainy they're willing to take prisoners]] rather than just exterminating anyone who resists. However after the attack on his spaceship, the Black Dalek loses patience and gives orders that the remaining rebels be tracked down and killed. Supreme Command follows this up with an order that London be destroyed with firebombs to eliminate any survivors in hiding.

* FromACertainPointOfView: Even the Daleks do this, with one of them complaining of the "unprovoked" attack by the rebels on their spaceship. Given that they've already killed billions of humans, one would hate to consider what the Daleks consider a provoked attack!

* ApocalypseLogistics:

** Barbara tells the Black Dalek that the humans are about to launch an uprising that involves the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution Boston Tea Party]], [[UsefulNotes/RobertELee's General Lee's]] Fifth Cavalry, and [[UsefulNotes/HannibalBarca Hannibal]] crossing the Alps. The Black Dalek demands of his minions why he wasn't informed of all this earlier.

* OurDoorsAreDifferent: A fan-like door that pivots at the base is used at the entrance to the Dalek control room at the mine.
* PeskyPigeons: The Doctor comments on the [[ItsQuietTooQuiet lack of birdsong]], but even the Daleks have been unable to exterminate all the pigeons in Trafalgar Square!

* OperationX: Project Degravitate. Doesn't quite have the same ring as their usual CatchPhrase.

* AfterTheEnd: Most of the human race is dead, their cities are deserted and the survivors are more concerned with just staying alive than fighting back.

* AllWomenLoveShoes: Susan mentions having dozens of pairs of shoes.
* AlmostKiss: Susan and David actually start, but the sudden appearance of the Doctor from off camera cuts it short.

* BBCQuarry: An actual quarry was used for scenes set in the quarry. Albeit one on future Earth run by the Daleks.

* TheBigDamnKiss: Susan and David -- a Time Lady and a human celebrating their newfound love in the middle of a massive interstellar war.
* BlackMarketProduce: An old woman reports the main characters to the Daleks and is rewarded with food, including an orange. "I haven't tasted an orange in years..."
* BondVillainStupidity: Instead of just Exterminating Barbara and Jenny, the Daleks leave them to die in an explosion. They live.
* BookEnds: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild the first serial of the show]], and by extension, the first story with Susan, the Doctor bitterly notes how he and Susan are exiled from their home planet before pondering that "one day, we shall get back; yes, one day." In the last episode of this serial, and by extension, the ''last'' episode with Susan as part of the main cast, the Doctor starts his farewell speech with the words "one day, I shall come back; yes, I shall come back."
* BriefAccentImitation: Barbara imitates a Dalek voice over a Dalek radio.
* BuryYourDisabled: Dortmun, the wheelchair-bound leader of the rebels, dies facing off against the Daleks.
* CanonImmigrant: The look of the Daleks' flying saucers, which first appeared on the DVD release as replacement special effects, and later appeared in the series itself, was originally from the comic strips.
* CantYouReadTheSign: A malfunctioning Roboman staggers past a sign saying it is forbidden to dump bodies in the river and then [[SuicideBySea throws himself into the river]].
* CarFu: Barbara Wright runs down a few Daleks in a lorry.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: While more developed than the last time we saw them, now being the utterly ruthless Nazi-analogues we know them as today, the Daleks seem to have a lot in common with the Cybermen this serial.
** The Daleks get overpowered by a mob of humans and [[HeelFaceTurn robomen]]. Later Daleks would have just exterminated the lot easily.
** The Daleks have already been deactivated at the time, since they're dependent on radio signals in order to operate on Earth, and Susan and David blew up the local mast. This is another [[WeaksauceWeakness weakness]] that will never be seen again.
* LesCollaborateurs: The women in the wood who betrayed Barbara and Jenny to the Daleks in exchange for food.

* CrapsackWorld: Earth has been conquered and subjugated by the Daleks, with humans reduced to working as slaves in mines and some irreversably converted into mindless robomen. Food is so scarce that the humans who still have their own minds are willing to betray others to the Daleks in exchange for food.
* CreatorInJoke: Several signs read "VETOED" throughout the serial. Supposedly part of the resistance code, this was actually a joke from the production designers, in particular Spencer Chapman. If sets were too ambitious, then the designs would be stamped with the word "VETOED" and handed back to the designers.

* DayOfTheJackboot: Despite being set in the 22nd century, uses just about every common trope imaginable from the "Third Reich conquers the UK" AlternateHistory subgenre, such as LaResistance, LesCollaborateurs, black marketeers and a bombed-out London--many of which [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything would have been familiar to viewers]].

* EarlyInstalmentCharacterDesignDifference: The Daleks' design continues to evolve. Here, they have clunky looking satellite-style disc aerials on the backs of their casings, conceived by the designers as a wireless power supply (the original Daleks had been unable to leave their city as they drew electrical life-support power from the floors).
* EarthThatUsedToBeBetter: In the 22nd century the Daleks occupy the planet for a whole decade.

* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: The story opens with the image of a [[WasOnceAMan roboman]] staggering in agony to a festering river and [[DrivenToSuicide drowning himself in despair]], and later shows Barbara chained to a wall with a neck cuff.

* FateWorseThanDeath: Being a Roboman is said to be this.
** DrivenToSuicide: As seen in the beginning of this story, Robomen eventually malfunction and kill themselves.
%% * TheFutureIsNoir
* FutureSocietyPresentValues: Dortnum has some very 1960s attitudes towards women, such as StayInTheKitchen and so on, despite being from 2174.
* HandWave: As the first (of very many) examples of attempting to explain how the Daleks can still be around despite being totally destroyed in their last appearance, the characters decide that this must be an earlier point in history, and they really were destroyed forever last time.
* HeroicSacrifice: A ton of them. If there is a character that's not The Doctor or a companion, there is a 1 in 2 chance they will die trying to protect someone. And most of the others die anyways.

* IdiotBall: The Doctor shows a rare case of it on the Dalek spaceship. After discovering that his cell contains [[LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard exactly what they need to escape captivity]] he tries to escape. It turns out it was an intelligence test to find suitable cyborg zombies.

* ItsQuietTooQuiet: The Doctor seems ill at ease and when his companions call him out on this, he points out that they've been there for nearly twenty minutes and not heard anything. "No sound of birdsong, no voices, no sound of shipping, and not even the chimes of old Big Ben. It's uncanny. Uncanny."
* KarmaHoudini: The two women who sell out Barbara and Jenny to the Daleks are never seen again afterwards and presumably went on with their lives after the Daleks were defeated.
* LogicBomb: Ian breaks a Roboman by telling him to "get new orders."

* NoPeripheralVision: The Doctor avoids the Daleks by pressing himself up next to a door. It works.
** Slightly justified as later we get a Dalek POV shot that reveals the limitations of the eyestalk. It still doesn't excuse the Dalek who looks ''right at The Doctor''. [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall And you.]]

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Wells uses this against the Daleks in his first scene.
* PatrollingMook: The Robomen.
* PeopleInRubberSuits: The Slyther, which, curiously, is considered by fans to be the first true "monster" of the series (the first non-humanoid, non-robotic adversary).
* ThePowerOfLove: Larry uses this in an attempt to free his Robotized brother of the Dalek conditioning. Sadly, it doesn't work out so well, and they end up killing each other instead.
* PsychoticSmirk: The Doctor gives one when he knows he's got the Daleks beaten at the end.
* TheQuisling: An old woman and her daughter hand characters over to the Daleks and are rewarded with food.
* RightHandAttackDog: The Slyther - a man-eating creature the Black Dalek keeps as a "pet".

* SceneryPorn: The story benefited from heavy PropRecycling[[invoked]] of the Creator/PeterCushing Dalek movie, meaning the Dalek ship interiors looked brilliant, and also delivered some gorgeous shots of an abandoned London.

* SoundOnlyDeath - As Susan and David crouch in a corner hiding from the Daleks we hear a man in the street begging a Dalek for his life before he gets killed.
* StayInTheKitchen: PlayedWith. Barbara and Susan get taken in from wandering around unprotected by [[LaResistance the Resistance against the Daleks]], and their leader presses them on their useful skills. He asks Barbara if she can cook - she says she can get by - and then asks Susan what she does, who replies "[[SnarkBall I eat]]". In response, the leader clarifies that he's not asking for gender-based reasons - the resistance is just currently short on cooks. Susan's sarcasm is confirmed when we later see her cook an apparently delicious rabbit stew from a wild rabbit she hunted and prepared herself.
* SubhumanSurfacingShot: The cliffhanger of the first episode features a Dalek slowly and ominously emerging from the River Thames - which was repeated in the story's film adaptation ''Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD''.
* TemptingFate: Ian doesn't mind if they've finally been returned to Earth a year or two out.

* TooMuchInformation: One sign which [[{{Blooper}} appears in shots it shouldn't appear in]][[invoked]] reads "It is forbidden to dump bodies into the river."
--> '''The Doctor''': [[ComicallyMissingThePoint "Stupid place to put a poster. Right under a bridge where nobody can read it or see it."]]
* TrojanPrisoner: Barbara has an attempt at this. The Daleks are ''not'' amused.
* UnwillingRoboticisation: The Robomen. Jenny:
-->There aren't that many Daleks on Earth. They needed helpers. So they operated on some of their prisoners and turned them into robots... The Transfer, as the Daleks call the operation, controls the human brain. Well, at least for a time... I've seen the Robos when they break down. They go insane. They smash their heads against walls. They throw themselves off buildings or into the river.
** It's clearly implied they are effectively dead from the moment the transfer is carried out – there is no way they can be "cured" or "freed" as the film versions possibly can; the only freedom is death. In some ways, they make the Cyber-alternative look almost merciful. But then, that's the Daleks for you...
* VichyEarth: In the 22nd Century the Daleks have wiped out 9/10ths of the population with a plague, leaving the strongest as slaves. The Dalek Supreme rules the planet from his unlikely capital in Bedfordshire. While there are only a small number of Daleks overseeing proceedings, the population is kept under control by the Robomen who are unwillingly made to do their bidding via intrusive cranial cybernetics.
* VillainWorld: The Daleks have taken over the Earth. Since the Daleks are Nazi expies and both stories were made in the sixties, the iconic image of Daleks on the streets of London was pretty powerful for its time.

%%* TheXOfY

->''"He knew you could never leave him."''
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* DayOfTheJackboot: Despite being set in the 22nd century, uses just about every common trope imaginable from the "Third Reich conquers the UK" AlternateHistory subgenre, such as LaResistance and LesCollaborateurs.

** It's clearly implied are effectively dead from the moment the transfer is carried out – there is no way they can be "cured" or "freed" as the film versions possibly can; the only freedom is death. In some ways, they make the Cyber-alternative look almost merciful. But then, that's the Daleks for you...

'''Production code:''' K

Written by Creator/TerryNation. This six-episode serial first aired from November 21 to December 26, 1964.

Episodes: "World's End", "The Daleks", "Day of Reckoning", "The End of Tomorrow", "The Waking Ally", "Flashpoint".

!!Tropes

->''What do you get when you cross a Dalek platoon with a truck?''

* VichyEarth: In the 22nd Centry the Daleks have wiped out 9/10ths of the population with a plague, leaving the strongest as slaves. The Dalek Supreme rules the planet from his unlikely capital in Bedfordshire. While there are only a small number of Daleks overseeing proceedings, the population is kept under control by the Robomen who are unwillingly made to do their bidding via intrusive cranial cybernetics.

"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild One day, I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back.]] Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs, and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine. Goodbye, Susan. Goodbye, my dear."

->''"[[AC:We are the masters of Earth!]]"''

->''[[AC:We are the masters of Earth!]]''

The one where Barbara runs over some Daleks. Also the one where Susan says farewell.

** Also counts as SlaveMooks.