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Name – Daleks
Species – Daleks
Planet – Skaro
Temperament – Extremely Hostile to all life forms
Appearances – The Daleks, Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Chase, Mission to The Unknown, Dalek Masterplan, Power of The Daleks, Evil of The Daleks, Day of The Daleks, Death to The Daleks, Genesis of The Daleks, Destiny of The Daleks, Resurrection of The Daleks, Revelation of The Daleks, Remembrance of The Daleks, Dalek, Bad Wolf, The Parting of The Ways, Army of Ghosts, Doomsday, Daleks in Manhattan, Evolution of The Daleks, The Stolen Earth, Journey's End

The Daleks first appeared in the adventure titled The Daleks, in which they were confined to their own underground city on the nuclear war devastated planet of Skaro. They were dependent on static electricity under the floors of the city and could not leave it. They are defeated by The Doctor cutting off their power.

Dalek City Corridors

Daleks Capture The Doctor and Susan


When they invade Earth in 2164 for Dalek Invasion of Earth, they have got over that problem and they have small satellite dishes on their backs for communicating with their mother ship. They had robomen – humans converted to obey them and had most of humanity as slaves. Until The Doctor turned up to help rally the resistance movement.


Aboard Their Time Machine

In The Chase, the Daleks have a time machine of their own and follow The Doctor and companions through time and space, trying all means to defeat him, including making a robot clone of The Doctor to kill his companions. After they have been defeated, Ian and Barbara use their time machine to travel back home to 1960s London.

Meeting Dracula

On The Marie Celeste


Mission to The Unknown sees the Daleks making a Treaty with the representatives of seven planets in which they agree to conquer Earth. They appear friendly to the delegates.


Dalek Scorched Earth Policy

The Dalek Master Plan sees that pledge to conquer Earth and destroy humanity put into action. The Doctor and his companions not only have to fight the Daleks, but also their allies who believe the Daleks are working for their glory. The Daleks seek to use the Time Destructor, which will wreak havoc on the whole galaxy. The Doctor manages to stop them, but there are enormous casualties, among them Katarina who dies bravely, trying to stop a maddened victim of the Dalek’s machinations from exposing a whole space ship to the vacuum of space, and Sara Kingdom who is rapidly aged and killed when the Time Destructor is activated.

Daleks With Mavic Chen


Ben, Polly, Meet The Daleks

In the Power of The Daleks, the first adventure for The Second Doctor, three Daleks have crash-landed on a human colony and the ambitious scientist, Lesterson, believes he can control them and use them as slaves for the good of the humans. The Daleks allow him to believe that will happen for a long time, but they are secretly constructing an assembly line to create more Daleks. When they show their true colours it is up to The Doctor to destroy them by turning their own power source into a weapon of destruction.

Defunct Daleks In Cobwebs

Lesterson Wants to Make Them His Slaves

Too Many Daleks To Handle

Dalek Assembly Line


In the Evil of The Daleks, we see for the first time a definite hierarchy among the Daleks. There were always leaders, but now we see a Dalek Emperor who looks distinctly different from the others, and also black Daleks who are the ‘elite’. And the Dalek Emperor has ambitions. He is conducting experiments with what is called “The Human Factor” and the “Dalek Factor” wishing to isolate the genes which make humans creative and compassionate and those which make Daleks ruthless killers. For a while, The Doctor thinks it is possible for there to be Human Daleks which have compassion and will not just be killing machines, but the Dalek Emperor undoes the work and plans to create Humans with Dalek ruthlessness. Of course, The Doctor defeats the plans and believes he has destroyed the Daleks completely.

Dalek and Waterfield

Dalek Emperor

Destruction of The Daleks


Gold Dalek

The Day of The Daleks was a complicated plot in which 22nd century rebels try to change the past to assure their future and the Daleks try to stop them. It is an example of the Daleks using humans and other species for their own ends. They have a human quizling who informs on the other humans, and the Ogrons, a semi-sentient race who act as their advance troops.

Daleks Lay Their Plans

Ogron Servants of The Daleks

Challenge From UNIT

Daleks and Ogrons On A Country Ramble


Dying Dalek

In Death to The Daleks there is a unique case where the Daleks are, at FIRST, powerless, and so are the humans who have crashed on the planet Exxilon along with them. They appear to join forces with the humans, and with The Doctor and Sarah Jane who make up a third contingent. Soon, however, they are back to their wicked ways, trying to be masters of all they survey. They are defeated, eventually, only by a human who blows himself and the Dalek ship up, a thoroughly unsettling conclusion.

Dalek Bonfire?



Frontier in Space saw the Daleks getting involved in a complicated plot to start a war between the Humans1 and Draconians, aided and abetted by The Master.


Planet of the Daleks has invisible Daleks fighting the Thals for possession of Spiridon, with and without the help of the invisible native Spiridons themselves. The Dalek army was defeated by trapping the whole lot in super-cold liquid ice.


Genesis of the Daleks saw The Doctor taken back to the very beginning of the Dalek existence, where he meets their Creator, Kaled scientist, Davros. Davros created the Daleks as a way of ensuring the continued survival of the Dalek race. But he went beyond that and made them ruthless killers of all species other than Daleks. The Doctor has an opportunity to destroy the embryo Dalek creatures but cannot commit genocide. In the end the Thals trap the Daleks in their underground city, delaying their progress but not stopping them. It was believed that Davros had been killed by his own Dalek creations whom he made without pity.

Doctor and Davros

Daleks in Kaled City

Davros and His Creation

Davros and Snyder

The First Confrontation Between Dalek and Doctor


In Destiny of the Daleks, Davros is leading a group of Daleks who have been fighting a race called the Movellans. Both sides have reached a standstill because both use logic in their battle strategy and neither can beat the other. Davros wants The Doctor to help the Daleks defeat the Movellans with illogic. But The Doctor has no intention of doing that. Eventually he has no choice but to destroy the Daleks while Davros is taken prisoner by his former human slaves and sent to cryogenic prison for his crimes against humanity.

Daleks Interrogate Romana

It's Behind You!


Davros Again

Resurrection of the Daleks takes place ninety mind-numbingly boring years later in Davros’s personal time. He is a cryogenic prisoner on board a prison space ship. The Dalek Supreme and his squad of Daleks, along with hypnotised and processed humans who act much as the Robomen did in Invasion of Earth, attack the prison ship to rescue Davros because they need him now. They have lost the war with the Movellans because they developed a virus that kills the Dalek mutants. This, The Doctor eventually uses to kill the Daleks and prevent any further human deaths, despite his own reservations about doing so.

Davros and his Daleks

Daleks and Human Slaves

Turlough Hides from Dalek

The Doctor Has Davros At His Mercy

Daleks Attack Davros


Davros Diminished

Revelation of The Daleks sees Davros even more completely degraded. Now he is little more than a head kept alive by technology. He is hiding out on a planet called Necros, where a cryogenic funeral home which as well as burying the dead, keeps thousands of nearly dead people who are waiting for cures that, in many cases, have already been found. Davros has already made a lucrative deal to use the bodies for processing as food, but that is only a sideline to his plan to use the brains of the ‘livestock’ to create new Daleks through a slow, painful mutation process. In the course of the bloodbath that ensues, it becomes clear that Davros is creating these new Daleks to be loyal to him alone. When another faction of Daleks arrives from Skaro they order his new Daleks destroyed and Davros arrested for crimes against the Daleks.

Human Being Mutated To Dalek

Daleks And Human

White Daleks


Special Weapons Dalek

Remembrance of the Daleks sees a state of civil war between Daleks loyal to Davros – who has an all encompassing Dalek-like casing now and calls himself the Emperor Dalek, and another faction. This battle is being played out on Earth in 1963, and The Doctor seeks to stop them, while protecting humanity. Again, some humans are being used as pawns in Davros’ game. This time they need not hypnosis, only the misguided politics of Mr Ratcliffe, who believes the Daleks will help him to achieve a racially pure Britain. He and his men are eventually eliminated. They were always just tools to be used by the Daleks. The real objective was a Time Lord weapon called The Hand of Omega which Davros wanted to destroy the Time Lords with. Instead, it destroys Skaro and the Dalek ship, but Davros apparently escaped. Alive? Who knows. So far he has not returned.

Daleks in Totters Lane

Daleks Kill The Traitor, Ratcliffe

Davros

Dalek Emperor Davros



In Dalek, it was revealed that the Daleks were responsible for the destruction of Gallifrey in the Time War. The Doctor had believed that all the Daleks were destroyed. But when one was discovered alive, in a bunker under Utah’s salt plains owned by eccentric millionaire Henry Van Statten even that certainty was destroyed. This one battered and dysfunctional Dalek had fallen to Earth in the Ascension Islands in the 1960s and burned in the crater it formed for several days before anyone could get near it. It was sold at auction as a curiosity until Van Statten’s agents bought it. He was trying to make it talk, knowing that it was an intelligence when The Doctor arrived, tracking its distress signal. The Dalek was reactivated when Rose touched it. Her time traveller DNA allowed it to regenerate itself into a shiny, new, fully active Dalek and it went on a killing spree, seeking those who had imprisoned and tortured it. Rose’s DNA, however, was changing it. It was beginning to doubt its purpose.

Death - Rather than live as a hybrid with Human DNA and Human feelings, the lone Dalek chose self-destruction, imploding within a bubble created by explosive globes from its own body.

 



In the year 200,100 the Human race is controlled by its TV game shows, operated from Satellite Five. It doesn’t take The Doctor long, though, to realise this is all just a front. The horrifying truth is that the losers of the game shows have been transported to the Dalek mothership, hidden at the edge of the solar system. There their bodies are used to create the Dalek mutants inside the metal shell. The Dalek emperor is preparing a fleet to finally conquer Earth and make it the base of his empire. The planet is being systematically destroyed as The Doctor’s attempts to defend Satellite Five are slowly brought down.

Death – The Daleks on the Satellite, the Emperor and his fleet are destroyed by Rose when she absorbs the time vortex and uses it as a weapon against them all.


 

Doomsday - A group of four Daleks, the Cult of Skaro, unusual in that they have names – Dalek Sec, Dalek Thay, Dalek Caan and Dalek Jast have travelled through the void in a Void Ship. They survived the Time War because they ran from it before the fleet was destroyed. They had a mission, to discover the secret of their most prolific enemy – humanity and become stronger by being like them. They had a device with them called The Genesis Ark. This turned out to be a piece of Time Lord technology, a prison ship that was bigger on the inside. And it contained thousands of Daleks.

Death. All but the four Cult of Skaro Daleks were sucked into the void and destroyed.



The Cult of Skaro used an emergency temporal shift to escape their destruction at Canary Wharf. They landed in New York in the early 1930s and hatched a plot to continue their Human Dalek experiments. This time they went further than ever. Dalek Sec had his DNA fused to a man and emerged from his Dalek case as a ‘Human Dalek’ – Human body with a face resembling that of a Dalek mutant. But the result did not please the other three Daleks, who believed that he was not longer true and pure Dalek and they rebelled and made him their prisoner. They created an army of Human Daleks who were ordinary Humans infected with Dalek DNA, but also with Time Lord DNA because The Doctor had intervened in the conversion. They, in turn, rebelled against the Daleks.

Death. Human Dalek Sec was killed by two of the remaining ‘pure’ Daleks when he tried to stop them killing The Doctor.

Dalek Jast and Dalek Thay were killed by the Human Dalek army when they rebelled.

 

 

 

The Human Dalek army were exterminated by Dalek Caan in reprisal for their rebellion. Dalek Caan, now officially the last Dalek in existence, escaped by emergency temporal shift.


In The Stolen Earth and Journey's End the Daleks, under the Imperial Dalek, a new, red Dalek with gold armour plating, the Earth and twenty-six other planets are Stolen and hidden in the Medusa cascade. The Daleks plan to use them as a power source to wipe out every other form of life in the universe but Dalek life. The scheme was developed by Davros, who was saved from annihilation during the Time War by Dalek Caan, who used emergency temporal shift to reach him. The effort cost Dalek Caan serious physical and mental damage. At least it was believed so by Davros and the Imperial Dalek. In fact, Dalek Caan had turned fifth columnist and had devised the plan in order to draw The Doctor to them, knowing he would destroy them once and for all.

Taking the Tardis

 

Dalek in Torchwood

Dalek Caan

Davros and his creations

Death: All of the Daleks, including the Imperial Dalek, Dalek Caan and Davros were believed to have been killed when the half-Human doctor turned their own weapons against them and then destroyed the crucible.

Death of the Daleks?


The Daleks of 1941 in Victory of The Daleks were painted in military khaki and sported Union Flags. They claimed to serve the British war effort and worked as administrative clerks and served tea as well as destroying enemy planes. The Doctor, however, saw through their plan. Later, he witnessed the destruction of the impure Daleks by the new paradigm.

The bigger, stronger Daleks with their colour co-ordinated outer casings have an organic eye in their eyestalk and claim to be pure Dalek. Their ship is capable of time travel and may turn up in any time and any place.


Daleks were prominent in the Alliance that tried to prevent the end of the universe by trapping The Doctor in the Pandorica. Later, when the universe was shrinking, a fossilied Dalek was revived by the Pandorica and caused problems until it came up against River Song.