Daleks

First Appeared in 1963
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The Doctor first encountered the Daleks on the radiation-soaked planet of Skaro, waging war with the peaceful Thals. The Daleks were the mangled and mutated remains of the Kaled people, placed in metal war machines by the Kaled’s chief scientist Davros. Pursuing the Doctor across space and time, the Daleks invaded the Earth, developed the Reality Bomb and tried to imprison the Doctor in the Pandorica. They fought the Time Lords in The Last Great Time War – a conflict so powerful and destructive that the universe was said to convulse. In an effort to save reality, the Doctor used ‘the Moment’ to annihilate both races. But that wasn’t the end of the Daleks….

  • You will be exterminated!

  • We will prepare, we will grow stronger. When the time is right we will emerge and take our rightful place as the supreme power of the universe!

  • Pity? I have no understanding of the word.

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Exterminate! Dalek souvenir magazine out now

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The first of three special editions celebrating Doctor Who's 50th anniversary have been released by the publishers of Doctor Who Magazine, with this issue focussing on the Doctor's greatest enemies – the Daleks!

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Getting to know Who: Genesis of the Daleks

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It’s 1975, and Doctor Who stories have taken a more ‘grown-up’ turn. And nowhere is this more apparent than in Dalek-creator Terry Nation’s war parable – and regular fan favourite - Genesis of the Daleks.

The Doctor confronts Davros in Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks