Trivia / BBC Books Doctor Who Graphic Novels

• Recycled Script: The Dalek Project has a truly astonishing level of plot similarity to the TV story "Victory of the Daleks". The BBC has claimed that the two stories were conceived separately at the same time and the similarities were pure coincidence (which led to the novel being the second one to be published despite being created first).
• What Could Have Been
  • The Dalek Project was initially conceived as a Tenth Doctor story in 2008 before being put aside in light of the upcoming Eleventh Doctor. The Only Good Dalek was made as a future space story in contrast to the historical Earth setting of The Dalek Project, which was ultimately repurposed as an Eleventh Doctor story as well.
  • The initial draft for The Only Good Dalek featured the 2005 rather than the 2010 Dalek model, as Justin Richards had not yet been informed of the coming redesign. He originally wrote that the captive Daleks had their solar panel slats removed so that they were forced to draw static electricity from the floor like the original Daleks; when he found that the new Dalek model naturally had no slats on their middle sections, he introduced a power inhibitor.