History Recap / DoctorWhoS9E1DayOfTheDaleks

'''Production code:''' KKK[[note]]They ''[[UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan really]]'' should've picked another.[[/note]]

Written by Louis Marks. This four-episode serial first aired from January 1--22, 1972.

** Or the actor realised you can't say "complications" in HulkSpeak.

** Jo asks if the TARDIS working again. The Doctor asks what gave her that idea.

'''Production code:''' KKK[[note]]They ''[[TheKlan really]]'' should've picked another.[[/note]]

'''Production code:''' KKK

Before ''Film/TheTerminator'', there was "Day of the Daleks".

[[caption-width-right:350:[[TheNthDoctor No,]] Creator/TomBaker isn't the solution to the problem, ''put the gun '''down.''''']]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[TheNthDoctor No,]] Creator/TomBaker isn't the solution to the problem, ''put the gun '''down'''''.]]

-> ''You don't understand. No-one who didn't live through those terrible years can understand. Towards the end of the 20th Century, a series of wars broke out. There was a hundred years of nothing but destruction and killing. Nearly seven eighths of the world's population wiped out. The rest living in holes in the ground, starving, reduced to the level of animals...''

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

* HeroicSacrifice: Shura.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: The Controller.

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong

* SpoilerTitle: A particularly bad one as the Daleks hadn't been seen in five years.

* VichyEarth: the Daleks have installed an apparently efficient system of willing human "quislings". It seems the Daleks have learned to keep people in order via more subtle methods than just sticking a radio receiver in their brains. Their collaborators are provided with sharp tailoring, cushy lodgings, blonde female staff and plenty of fruit and nuts. To do their really dirty work, they're employing the Ogrons, a race of interstellar mercenaries. The Daleks themselves remain largely hidden behind the scenes.

* TheXOfY

* CostumeEvolution: For a given definition of "costume," this story introduces a new, dark gray design for the Daleks with black trimming as a means of accommodating their designs for color TV. With the sole exception of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E3DeathToTheDaleks "Death to the Daleks"]], which briefly brought back the silver design (but keeping the black trimming), this look would remain in place for the remainder of the Classic Series, with [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks "Revelation of the Daleks"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks "Remembrance of the Daleks"]] specifically using them for the Renegade faction.

-->''"You tell Captain Yates not to worry. Everything's fine. Tell old Styles too and the Prime Minister. Oh, and, Brigadier, don't forget to tell it to the marines."''
* PantyShot: Well, what do you think happens when Jo [[SkirtsAndLadders climbs down a long ladder whilst wearing a miniskirt]]?

Written by Louis Marks. This serial first aired January 1-22, 1972.

-> ''You don't understand. No-one who didn't live through those terrible years can understand. Towards the end of the 20th Century, a series of wars broke out. There were hundreds of years of nothing but destruction and killing. Nearly seven eighths of the world's population wiped out. The rest living in holes in the ground, starving, almost reduced to the level of animals...''

* EnhancedOnDVD: The DVD special release does an ''extensive'' overhaul of the story. 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.

* 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 travelled 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.

** Apparently no-one in LaResistance made the correlation between their plan to blow up Styles and Styles having supposedly killed the delegates with a bomb that killed him too. They simply assume Styles was a warmonger based in disguise who mistimed his murder attempt.

* IdiotBall: Grabbed by the Daleks with their frontal assault on the peace conference. Not only were the delegates evacuated long before the Daleks got near the house, an obvious alien invasion is just the sort of thing to make the wars the Daleks want to start less likely.

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 fulfil 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.

* LongBusTrip: The Daleks return to the series as a recurrent fixture of the later Pertwee era, having (due to creator [[Creator/TerryNation Terry Nation's]] attempts to sell a separate show featuring them in the USA) been absent from the series since the early [[Creator/PatrickTroughton Patrick Troughton]] serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E9TheEvilOfTheDaleks "The Evil of the Daleks"]] five years and an astounding 145 episodes earlier.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: By this point, the Brigadier's already dealt with a man who can change his face and travels through time, not to mention an incredible variety of aliens, but doesn't seem to believe in ghosts. In fairness, he's right--the "ghosts" the Doctor mentions are ones from the future, not the past.

* HollywoodDarkness: "We'll wait 'til it's light", says the time traveler who's just materialised in broad daylight. ''Presumably'' they were trying to shoot day-for-night, but it... doesn't really work.

Styles is attacked and nearly killed by a guerrilla fighter in futuristic dress, but is saved by the intervention of a big - well - '''go'''rilla fighter, who knocks the assassin out and disappears. The Doctor deduces that the unconscious man is from the future, and that a device found with him is a time-travel gadget.

We discover that in this future, the Earth is ruled by the Daleks, using their ape-like Ogron subjects as heavies. There are also human collaborators, led by "the Controller". Jo and the Doctor are taken prisoner at the Dalek base, but rescued by the guerrillas - who finally get round to explaining that they're trying to kill Styles because they believe he blew up the peace conference, which started a series of wars leaving Earth shattered and ripe for Dalek conquest. They mean to kill Styles first and change "history".

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 fulfil 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.

* AllThereInTheScript: Dialogue cut from the script established that all the Daleks infected with the Human Factor at the climax of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E9TheEvilOfTheDaleks The Evil Of The Daleks]]" had been eradicated, indicating that that story was not the “final end” of the Daleks after all.

-->"Who knows? I may have helped to exterminate you,"

* HollywoodDarkness: "We'll wait 'til it's light", says the time traveller who's just materialised in broad daylight. ''Presumably'' they were trying to shoot day-for-night, but it... doesn't really work.

* {{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 1972 milieu: the Dalek voices were re-created with older, analogue 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.

* VichyEarth: the Daleks have installed an apparently efficient system of willing human 'quislings'. It seems the Daleks have learned to keep people in order via more subtle methods than just sticking a radio receiver in their brains. Their collaborators are provided with sharp tailoring, cushy lodgings, blonde female staff and plenty of fruit and nuts. To do their really dirty work, they're employing the Ogrons, a race of interstellar mercenaries. The Daleks themselves remain largely hidden behind the scenes.

* YouAlreadyChangedThePast: Freedom fighters from a Dalek-dominated future come back to the UNIT era to kill the diplomat they believe incited a nuclear war, but it turns out that they were responsible for the terrorist bomb that started the conflict. Fortunately, the Doctor is able to talk down the bomb-carrier and break them out of their StableTimeLoop.