History Recap / DoctorWhoS9E1DayOfTheDaleks

* {{Retraux}}: The Special Edition" DVD release has a brand-new version of the "only three Daleks" onslaught, new voices by Dalek aficionado Nicholas Briggs, and new CGI sequences. An ''unbelievable'' amount of care was taken to ensure that nothing would look out of place within the 1973 milieu: the Dalek voices were re-created with older, analog equipment (also, Briggs uses a slightly less-deranged voice set than he does on the New Series); the new film sequences were done with a period BBC film camera; and the CGI was made to look a little more like a model set.

* PeaceConference: The [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E2TheMindOfEvil last one]] obviously didn't work, so another one is held to stop a situation turning into WorldWarThree. A bomb going off starts that war and leads to the Daleks taking over Earth, which was what some guerrillas have traveled back in time to prevent by killing the man they thought was responsible. He wasn't and by blowing up the conference themselves, they caused their own problem. The Doctor is able to prevent this from occurring.

The Doctor realises that this is a StableTimeLoop - that the explosion was actually caused by the guerrillas: specifically by Shura, the injured man left behind in the 20th century, trying to fulfill his mission. He gets back to the 20th century in time to have Styles' house evacuated and the pursuing Daleks and Ogrons are destroyed when Shura detonates his bomb.

* TheQuisling: The Controller, name-dropped as such by the Doctor, though he also fulfills the RedemptionEqualsDeath trope.

* BatmanGrabsAGun: Near the end of episode two, the Doctor fires one of the guerrillas' disintegrator guns in self-defence at an Ogron, vaporising it. This is one of only a handful of occasion where the Doctor uses deadly force against an opponent other than a Dalek or Cyberman. In the special edition, the Doctor also kills a second Ogron inside the house with the disintegrator pistol.

* EnhancedOnDVD: The DVD special release does an ''extensive'' overhaul of the episode. It adds a lot of CGI in place of the primitive green screen-esque colour separation overlay effects (the monitors look more futuristic, the Dalek headquarters exterior shot is completely different and the building looks more intimidating with flying vehicles in the background), laser blasts, the extermination effect is not the screen flashing and streamers popping out of the Daleks but actual blue energy beams coming out of the guns and people turning see-through with visible skeletons when hit and Ogrons being more graphically disintegrated (controversially adding a scene where the Doctor [[BatmanGrabsAGun kills another Ogron]]). It also has veteran Dalek voice actor Creator/NicholasBriggs portray the Daleks in place of the original and admittedly shaky voice acting. (The series had tried to write off the Daleks and thus didn't have a go-to actor portrayal ready and able, and so the producers brought on two actors, Oliver Gilbert and Peter Messaline, who hadn't been as versed with Dalek voices and by now were out of practice. Neither Messaline nor Gilbert had ever been featured in ''any'' Doctor Who media before, nor since. Roy Skelton would later be called back (alongside future Davros actor Michael Wisher) and become the definitive classic series' voice of the Daleks.) Most notably, the climactic battle at Auderly House had entire sequences re-filmed ''decades'' after the serial had been released through funding by 2 entertain to show a true army of Daleks and Ogrons duking it out versus using new and borrowed costumes, when the original tried to create the illusion of an army by re-using the same shots of only a few Daleks and Ogrons rather unconvincingly. In fact, the production team may have possibly been limited to '''two''' Daleks by Creator/JonPertwee's estimate (again, the series nearly wrote off the Daleks and didn't have that many props on hand), nowhere near enough to depict a fearsome battle.

* BatmanGrabsAGun: The Doctor disintegrates an Ogron with a laser gun.

* CrapsackWorld: Future version of Earth, ruled by Daleks

* {{Jerkass}}: Captain Yates suddenly turns into one for this story, in particular during the first episode, when Jo fetches Benton some food and drink, only for Yates to chase Benton away and take it for himself. When Jo calls him out on it, Yates flat-out admits abusing his rank for the sake of feeding his face.

* TheQuisling: The Controller, though he also fulfills the RedemptionEqualsDeath trope.

* PeaceConference: The [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E2TheMindOfEvil last one]] obviously didn't work, so another one is held to stop a situation turning into WorldWarThree. A bomb going off starts that war and leads to the Daleks taking over Earth, which was what some guerrillas have traveled back in time to prevent by killing the man they thought was responsible. [[spoiler: He wasn't and by blowing up the conference themselves, they caused their own problem. The Doctor is able to prevent this from occurring.]]

-->''"I assure you, Brigadier, there's nothing to worry about. Tell Styles that. Tell the Prime Minister. And, Brigadier, be particularly sure to tell it to the Marines."''

-->''"I assure you, Brigadier, there's nothing to worry about. Tell Styles that. Tell the Prime Minister. And, Brigadier, be particularly sure to tell it to the Marines."''

* TimeyWimeyBall: One of the earliest in ''Doctor Who''. Had already been touched on in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27TheSpaceMuseum The Space Museum]]" but this could be seen as the TropeCodifier.

* PantyShot: Well, what do you think happens when Jo climbs down a long ladder whilst wearing a miniskirt?

-->[[Recap/DoctorWho8E4ColonyInSpace Oh, being dragged off to an alien planet five hundred years in the future, for example. Oh, you know, all that business with the miners and the colonists]].

* ContinuityNod: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E2TheMindOfEvil This is the second time UNIT has provided security for a peace conference (and once more the problem is due to the Chinese)]].

* JustAKid: The female resistance officer calls Jo a "stupid child". [[TakeThat It takes one to know one.]] ''[[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch Bitch.]]''

* OutOfCharacterAlert / QuietCryForHelp: The Doctor finds a subtle way to secretly call for help when he is held prisoner and forced to phone the Brigadier:

* PeaceConference
* PillarOfLight: In the DVD special edition, the Daleks' Time Vortex Magnetron creates one.

* TimeyWimeyBall: One of the earliest in ''Doctor Who''. Had already been touched on in "The Space Museum" but this could be seen as the TropeCodifier for Doctor Who.

* TheXOfY

* NewscasterCameo: Reporter Alex MacIntosh appears as himself reporting on the peace conference.

* UnusualHumanInterface: The BridgeBunnies are always waving their hands vaguely over their consoles, implying some kind of motion-activated control system.

* JustAKid: The female resistance officer calls Jo a "stupid child". It takes one to know one. ''[[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch Bitch.]]''

The one with a three-Dalek army. Until 40-some-odd years later when they decided to do a reshoot.

* EnhancedOnDVD: The DVD special release does an ''extensive'' overhaul of the episode. It adds a lot of CGI in place of the primitive green screen-esque colour separation overlay effects (the monitors look more futuristic, the Dalek headquarters exterior shot is completely different and the building looks more intimidating with flying vehicles in the background), laser blasts, with people and Ogrons being more graphically disintegrated (controversially adding a scene where the Doctor [[BatmanGrabsAGun kills another Ogron]]). It also has veteran Dalek voice actor Creator/NicholasBriggs portray the Daleks in place of the original and admittedly shaky voice acting. (The series had tried to write off the Daleks and thus didn't have a go-to actor portrayal ready and able, and so the producers brought on two actors, Oliver Gilbert and Peter Messaline, who hadn't been as versed with Dalek voices and by now were out of practice. Neither Messaline nor Gilbert had ever been featured in ''any'' Doctor Who media before, nor since. Roy Skelton would later be called back (alongside future Davros actor Michael Wisher) and become the definitive classic series' voice of the Daleks.) Most notably, the climactic battle at Auderly House had entire sequences re-filmed ''decades'' after the serial had been released through funding by 2 entertain to show a true army of Daleks and Ogrons duking it out versus using new and borrowed costumes, when the original tried to create the illusion of an army by re-using the same shots of only a few Daleks and Ogrons rather unconvincingly. In fact the production team may have possibly been limited to '''two''' Daleks by Creator/JonPertwee's estimate (again, the series nearly wrote off the Daleks and didn't have that many props on hand), nowhere near enough to depict a fearsome battle.

* PantyShot: Well what do you think happens when Jo climbs down a long ladder whilst wearing a miniskirt?

The one with a three-Dalek army.

* ContinuityCavaclade: Images of the previous Doctors appear on the Daleks' monitor screen as they interrogate him.