The one where Wilfred shows up a few decades early.
Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. is the 1966 sequel to Dr. Who and the Daleks. The film follows in its predecessor's footsteps: Peter Cushing is Dr. Who, the Daleks are being nefarious and the whole thing is in colour!
Just as the first film was a remake of the TV story "The Daleks", this is a remake of the second Dalek story "The Dalek Invasion of Earth". In it, the Daleks have invaded Earth and are planning to excavate the core and turn the planet into a giant spaceship. Luckily, Dr. Who is on hand to save the day with help from his granddaughter Susan, his niece Louise, and a policeman named Tom Campbell.
Has nothing to do with Earth 2150.
Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. provides examples of the following tropes:
- Actor Allusion: The original trailer describes Ray Brooks as "The boy with the knack". Brooks starred in The Knack... and How to Get It.
- Adaptational Wimp: Louise is significantly less badass than Barbara was in the TV story, with some of Barbara's most impressive moments given to the rebel Wyler.
- Alien Invasion: Guess who!
- Alternate Continuity: Let us count the ways!
- The character of the Time Lord known as The Doctor has become the human scientist called Dr. Who.
- He has a niece as well as a granddaughter.
- Susan is prepubescent.
- His ship is known as Tardis (note the lack of the definitive article) and looks like a jumbled mess inside (even moreso than the canon TARDIS).
- The Anticipator: Dr. Who takes it entirely in stride that Brockley has betrayed him to the Daleks, saying that he expected it (probably in the hope that the Daleks would take him directly to their control room).
- Artistic License – Economics: Brockley is a black marketeer who sneaks into the Dalek mine to exchange food he's found in the abandoned towns for whatever jewelry and other valuables the slave workers have. However even those who collaborate with the Daleks are depicted as living barely above the starvation level, so there's no-one on the entire planet who'd be interested in such trinkets. It's even less plausible than in the TV series, as Brockley says he can easily find valuables in the abandoned towns, so why would he risk his life sneaking into the Dalek mine to barter for them?
- Assembly Line Fast-Forward: Louise's coat gets snagged on a lever that makes a conveyor belt of meals for Robomen turn on. Tom tries to turn it off as it loudly churns out plastic trays of Food Pills, but that only makes the belt go faster. They have to dispose of the meals to hide the fact that they're there, but discover a suction disposal chute that handily does the job (and that they later use to escape after the Dalek spacecraft lands).
- Aside Glance: A witness to the robbery rushes to the police box only to have it dematerialise in front of him, causing the man to Prat Fall on the street and then give the camera an abashed smile.
- Bookcase Passage: Dortmun's bomb factory is entered by pressing the "O" on an official notice reminding the public to boil water. It activates a sliding door and a warning light that someone is coming through.
- Bury Your Disabled: A literal version; to give the others time to escape, Dortmun wheels his chair out in front of a Dalek patrol and starts throwing bombs. Seeing they have no effect, he uses the last bomb to blast a nearby building, burying them all in rubble.
- Cardboard Prison: Invoked by the Daleks as an intelligence test for captives.
- Les Collaborateurs: Susan and Wyler meet two women living near the mine who do work for the Daleks. The women take them into their home, but betray them to the Daleks in exchange for extra food.
- Compressed Adaptation: From six 25-minute episodes (174 minutes) to one 81-minute film. One notable effect is that Dr. Who and David are able to walk from London to Bedfordshire in the same time it takes the Dalek spaceship to fly there.
- Cutting the Electronic Leash: When Dr. Who orders the Robomen to turn on their masters he says the order cannot be countermanded. The Robomen immediately remove their helmets to break the radio link so they won't receive a countermanding order.
- Dead-Hand Shot: Dortmun's hand gives the wheel of his chair a final spin after he's buried under bricks.
- Death by Falling Over: A Dalek gets thrown down a ramp by the rebels, causing it to topple over and blow up. And to think the Daleks thought stairs were bad...
- Death Ray: Though more like a Death Spray with the Daleks. Their Robomen however carry bulky energy rifles.
- Diving Save: After blundering his way onto the Tardis, Tom proves his worth pretty quickly by grabbing Susan just before a metal girder falls on her.
- Doom as Test Prize: Dr. Who, Tom and Craddock escape a Dalek cell only to discover that the opportunity to escape was provided to test whether they were intelligent enough to be turned into a Roboman.
- Dressing as the Enemy: David dresses up as a Roboman and leads a group of rebels aboard the Dalek Saucer in a Trojan Prisoner gambit.
- Dug Too Deep: For once it happens to the villains!
- Faceless Goons: The Robomen wear radio-control helmets while Slave Mooks under Dalek control, but remove the helmets after being Turned Against Their Masters. Some are shown fleeing with the other escapees, implying that their humanity has returned.
- Failed a Spot Check: The message written by Susan is in plain sight on the sliding door, yet Dr. Who and David fail to notice it.
- Faint in Shock: After being coshed on the head by villains who then smash-and-grab a jewelers, Special Constable Tom Campbell staggers for the nearest police box only to find it Bigger on the Inside and holding a Mad Scientist Laboratory instead of a telephone. His response is to give a painful smile and collapse on the spot.
- Gilligan Cut: Susan says they'll meet up with her grandfather in Watford. Cut to Dr. Who studying a map, saying they'll bypass Watford as it's full of Daleks.
- Hand Gagging: Wyler and then Tom to Louise to stop her crying out in shock at their sudden appearance. Later Wyler does this to Susan to wake her up quietly. The Italian advertising even added an image of a Roboman doing this trope to Louise onto the poster.
- Hand Wave: The Daleks' Evil Plan to turn Earth into a Planet Spaceship is made slightly more understandable when they talk of piloting the planet to Skaro, so presumably their intention is to move their civilization from their own devastated world to a relatively intact one.
- "Hey, You!" Haymaker: At the end of the movie, Tom taps the driver of the getaway car on the shoulder through the open window, then punches him the face when he turns round. He then takes the driver's place and knocks out the other two robbers when they pile inside, driving off with them all unconscious, contemplating his promotion.
- Highly-Conspicuous Uniform: The Robomen, who were dressed in tattered clothing on television, now wear shiny black latex jumpsuits and radio-control helmets with face-concealing goggles.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: David somehow manages to shoot a Roboman off a bridge by awkwardly spinning in place with a rifle, over which a firing sound is dubbed.
- Hope Spot: Wyler realises that their hosts have betrayed them, quietly wakes up Susan and opens the window...to find a Dalek waiting outside.
- Indy Escape:
- Played with when Tom is shown fleeing as the big round bomb goes careening down a mine shaft, but he's actually trying to flee the area before it explodes.
- Susan nearly gets killed because both Wyler and her grandfather are struggling (from opposite sides of the corridor) to pull her out of the way of an out-of-control Dalek hurling towards them.
- Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard: Averted unlike the TV series, as Dr. Who uses a plastic comb that Tom has to trip the magnetically-sealed door for the above-mentioned Doom as Test Prize. Perhaps it was an Intelligence and Grooming Test?
- Look Behind You: Played straight when Dr. Who shouts, "Look!" and all the Daleks in the room look where he's pointing, enabling him to rush over to the radio control and order the Robomen to attack their masters.
- Not a Zombie: Conway and Tom see Craddock nearby and call out to him, but he's long since been turned into a Roboman and attacks him, forcing Conway to give his own life so Tom can get away.
- Peek-a-Boo Corpse: Tom sees a foot sticking out from some cardboard boxes, so he hefts his crowbar and knocks the boxes aside...only to have a dead Roboman topple out into his arms.
- Power Glows: While in the bomb shaft, Tom sees the light of the Dalek control room glowing overhead.
- Power Pincers: Not all Daleks are suckers.
- Public Secret Message: While prisoner in the Dalek control room, Dr. Who sees Tom hiding in the bomb shaft, so delivers loud exposition on why the bomb being deflected from its course would be very bad for the Daleks. Tom then climbs down and lays some scaffolding across the shaft to deflect the bomb down another shaft.
- Put Down Your Gun and Step Away: Brockley holds a knife to Who's throat until David hands over his rifle. He decides to keep it as 'payment' for helping them get into the mine.
- Pretend to Be Brainwashed: Tom has to pretend to be a Roboman after getting stuck on the Dalek spaceship. Played for laughs when he has to eat Food Pills in unison with the others.
- Product Placement: Sugar Puffs helped finance the film. It shows.
- Promoted to Love Interest: Inverted. As a consequence of Susan being a little girl in this version instead of a teenager, the movie drops the romantic subplot and David becomes just another rebel.
- Pun: Who quips, "There's always an answer to be found, if you dig deep enough."
- Ramming Always Works: Daleks which shrugged off the bombs Dortmun created are knocked down and exploded by Wyler ramming them with a small delivery van.
- Resistance Is Futile: The rebels listen with stony faces to a radio demand from the Daleks that they surrender themselves. They're not even referred to as rebels as in the TV series but "Survivors of London".Black Dalek: ATTENTION, ATTENTION! SURVIVORS OF LONDON! THE DALEKS ARE THE MASTERS OF EARTH! SURRENDER NOW, AND YOU WILL LIVE. RESIST, AND YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED. SHOW YOURSELVES IN THE STREETS IMMEDIATELY, AND OBEY THE ORDERS OF YOUR MASTERS—THE DALEKS!Dortmun: Obey motorized dustbins! We'll see about that! Good—keep that gun well oiled. We'll show them who the masters are! We'll show them!
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves:
- Brockley leads the Daleks to the hut where the Dr Who is hiding, then has an Oh, Crap! when only one Dalek escorts the prisoner away while the remainder remain pointing their weapons at him. He flees into the hut which is easily destroyed by the lethal fire extinguisher thingies.
- Averted with the two women who are even rewarded with a sack of food. Then again Brockley is an active security risk (he's moving in and out of the mine on a regular basis and even helps smuggle rebels inside) whereas the women are useful to the Daleks (as they themselves note).
- Rebel Leader: Dortmun. The Doctor is assumed to be a rebel leader also, presumably because Brockley told the Daleks of his plan to infiltrate the mine and stop their activities.
- Rock Beats Laser:
- During the assault on the Dalek saucer, Wyler knocks out a Roboman who is armed with a laser by hitting him in the head with a brick.
- A Dalek has just noticed Tom when some escapees throw a tarpaulin over its head. Works better than a paintball gun!
- Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Tom has the time travelers drop him off a couple of minutes before the robbery, so he can capture them in the act.
- Spectacular Spinning: The Dalek Flying Saucer has two rows of windows that spin in opposite directions, which was a fairly cool effect for 1966.
- Subverted Catchphrase: A Dalek gives one that's even more chilling than their normal version.Dalek: YOU WILL BE ROBOTIZED!
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Louise and Tom replace Barbara and Ian.
- Swirly Energy Thingy: The Space-Time Vortex in the opening credits.
- Tastes Like Friendship: Zigzagged
- Brockley invites David to help himself to the can he was cooking up, only to kick it over as he reaches for it. We then cut to his partner in crime Conway who has scrounged up a tin of food for Tom and Louise that he hands over without charge.
- The two women offer Wyler and Susan soup, even though they don't have much, but it's only to delay their guests so they can sell them out for more food.
- Techno Babble: See the explanation for the TARDIS interior in the last movie? Dr. Who manages to out-BS that. Space, of course, cannot be the "fifth dimension" because space is already the first, second and third dimensions!Dr. Who: Just as time should be considered the fourth dimension, so Space should be the fifth dimension, for Space knows no boundaries and is timeless.
- Traitor Shot
- When the younger woman advises the older woman to give their guests soup (ensuring they'll stay longer) she gives a Meaningful Look that makes it obvious what she's up to even before she goes to the camp to deliver the clothing.
- Philip Madoc's character has a Slasher Smile to make it clear what an amoral creep he is before the inevitable betrayal.
- A Taste of the Lash: The Robomen use whips on the slaves working in the mine.
- Trojan Prisoner: David dresses up as a Roboman and leads a group of rebels aboard the Dalek Saucer disguised as a group of prisoners.
- Twisted Ankle: Gender-Inverted as it's Wyler who has one and so has to be helped by little Susan.
- We Have Reserves: A Roboman brings in a couple of prisoners and tell the Daleks that they killed two of his patrol. Instead of killing them on the spot, the Dalek says the dead men will be replaced, then allocates the two men to be tested for their suitability to become Robomen, only killing one of them when he tries to flee.
- Weapons That Suck: Dr. Who plans to deflect the Dalek bomb from its course down another shaft to disturb the Earth's magnetic field, which will create a powerful magnetic force that will "suck the Daleks into the core of the Earth!" Not sure if it's that powerful, but the motorized dustbins are shown going haywire or crumpling under the forces unleashed.
- We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future: This is what gives Dr. Who the "Eureka!" Moment on how to destroy the Daleks, as they're using human slave workers in the mine because they're worried about the magnetic forces of the Earth's core affecting their metallic bodies and equipment.
- Whip of Dominance: The Robomen are the main enforcers to the Dalek invaders, and carry whips to both control the enslaved population and as weapons when dealing with the rebels during the assault on the saucer. Ironically the Robomen themselves are Slave Mooks who went through Unwilling Robotization.
- Who Would Be Stupid Enough?: When our heroes tell Brockley they want to get into the mine, he comments that most people want to get out of it.
- What Year Is This?: Tom answers this question without issue, assuming the time travelers are checking for a concussion after the Tap on the Head he got from a robber.
- You Are Too Late: After being rescued by the rebels from Unwilling Roboticisation, Tom tries to free Craddock from his booth but it's jammed shut. After he's forced to leave, the booth unlocks and Craddock steps from it as a fully converted Roboman.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Philip Madoc's character is "rewarded" by the Daleks with extermination.
