History Trivia / DrWhoAndTheDaleks

* DyeingForYourArt: The male Thal extras, largely performed by Covent Garden porters, negotiated a special fee for having to have their chest- and arm-hair shaved.

* PropRecycling: Some of the Dalek models built for the film would find their way back into the tv series in the following years. In another rather amusing example, for a long time it was thought that the movie's TARDIS met its end in an episode of ''Series/TheNewAvengers'' in 1976, blown to pieces by an exploding pram, but some detective work from the [[http://www.dalek6388.co.uk/ Dalek6388]] site discovered that was actually Creator/PinewoodStudios' prop (each studio having a police box prop to play actual police boxes). The Shepperton prop used for the movie made various appearances in movies and television until 1971, playing a regular old police box once more.

* RoleReprise: Though uncredited, Peter Hawkins and David Graham reprised their roles as the Dalek voices.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Creator/TheBBC doesn't own this movie; nor does it own the sequel, ''Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD''. Both are owned by Creator/StudioCanal.

* OneTakeWonder: As an incentive Roberta Tovey (who was 11 at the time the film was produced) was paid a [[UsefulNotes/OldBritishMoney shilling]] (5p) by director Gordon Flemyng every time she did a scene in one take. She made so much money, Flemyng didn't offer her the same deal for the sequel.

* PropRecycling: Some of the Dalek models built for the film would find their way back into the tv series in the following years. In another rather amusing example, for a long time it was thought that the movie's TARDIS met its end in an episode of ''Series/TheNewAvengers'' in 1976, blown to pieces by an exploding pram, but some detective work from the [[http://www.dalek6388.co.uk/ Dalek6388]] site discovered that was actually Creator/PinewoodStudio's prop (each studio having a police box prop to play actual police boxes). The Shepperton prop used for the movie made various appearances in movies and television until 1971, playing a regular old police box once more.

* PropRecycling: Some of the Dalek models built for the film would find their way back into the tv series in the following years. In another rather amusing example, for a long time it was thought that the movie's ''Tardis'' met its end in an episode of [[Series/TheAvengers1960s The New Avengers]] in 1976, blown to pieces by an exploding pram, but some detective work from the [[http://www.dalek6388.co.uk/ Dalek6388]] site discovered that was actually Pinewood Studio's prop (each studio having a police box prop to play actual police boxes). The Shepperton prop used for the movie made various appearances in movies and tv until 1971, playing a regular old police box once more.

* RoleReprise:
** Though uncredited, Peter Hawkins and David Graham reprised their roles as the Dalek voices.

** In a reverse of this, the Dalek models used in this story were eventually reused in the actual series.

** Originally the Daleks were to be armed with flamethrowers, but these were vetoed on health and safety grounds and because they were considered too frightening for a young audience. Instead, the guns produced jets of CO2 gas from internally mounted fire extinguishers.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: It was planned to show one of the denizens of the swamp of mutations, but the prop constructed for the sequence was deemed rather unconvincing. In contrast, a writhing creature designed to be glimpsed inside a Dalek casing was judged too unsettling for the family audience the film was aimed at[[note]]the producers, in fact, prided themselves on not relying on gore, shock and sex like their rivals at Hammer, and Milton Subotsky himself apparently demanded the full shots of the Dalek mutant removed as he felt they were just "shock and horror for shock and horror's sake"[[/note]].

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: It was planned to show one of the denizens of the swamp of mutations, but the prop constructed for the sequence was deemed rather unconvincing. In contrast, a writhing creature designed to be glimpsed inside a Dalek casing was judged too unsettling for the family audience the film was aimed at[[note]]the producers, in fact, prided themselves on not relying on gore, shock and sex like their rivals at Hammer, and Milton Subotsky himself apparently demanded the full shots of the Dalek mutant removed as he felt they were just "shock and horror for shock and horror's sake".

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: It was planned to show one of the denizens of the swamp of mutations, but the prop constructed for the sequence was deemed rather unconvincing. In contrast, a writhing creature designed to be glimpsed inside a Dalek casing was judged too unsettling for the family audience the film was aimed at.

* OneTakeWonder: As an incentive Roberta Tovey (who was 11 at the time the film was produced) was paid a shilling (5p) by director Gordon Flemyng every time she did a scene in one take. She made so much money, Flemyng didn't offer her the same deal for the sequel.

* RoleReprisal:

* RoleReprisal: Though uncredited, Peter Hawkins and David Graham reprised their roles as the Dalek voices.

** In a reverse of this, the Dalek models used in this story were eventually reused in the actual series.

* RoleReprisal: Though uncredited, Peter Hawkins and David Graham reprised their roles as the Dalek voices.