The Daleks

Story Code: B / Season 1	UK Airdate: 21 Dec 1963 to 1 Feb 1964	Doctor: William Hartnell
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We have called this story by this title rather than "The Mutants", the one by which the BBC actively marketed the serial in 1964, to avoid confusion with the Jon Pertwee serial of the same name.

This story aired in the following countries. They are listed in chronological order according to known airdate. If no month is noted, the actual airdate is not confirmed, and is a close approximate. (Refer also to Selling Doctor Who for expanded airdates.)

Listing for The Daleks episode 1; Rhodesia Herald, 24 October 1965

New Zealand	Oct 64	b/w
Australia	Feb 65	b/w
Canada	Feb 65	b/w
Singapore	May 65	b/w
Gibraltar	May 65	b/w
Malta	Jun 65	b/w
Aden	Aug 65	b/w
Nigeria	Aug 65	b/w
Rhodesia / Zimbabwe	Oct 65	b/w
Zambia	Nov 65	b/w
Trinidad & Tobago	Nov 65	b/w
Bermuda	Jan 66	b/w
Uganda	Feb 66	b/w
Jamaica	Mar 66	b/w
Cyprus	Apr 66	b/w
Ghana	Apr? 66	b/w
Barbados	May 66	b/w
Hong Kong	May 66	b/w
Kenya	Jul 66	b/w
Thailand	Sep 66	b/w
Mauritius	Nov 66	b/w
Venezuela	Mar 67	b/w
Tunisia	Apr 67	b/w
Sierra Leone	May 67	b/w
Mexico	Mar 68?	b/w
Morocco	68?	b/w
Saudi Arabia	68?	b/w
Iran	Jan 69?	b/w
Chile	Feb 69	b/w
Jordan	69?	b/w
Libya	Dec 69?	b/w
Ethiopia	Nov 70	b/w
Costa Rica	Jul 71	b/w
Algeria	Jan 74	b/w

• New Zealand sent its prints to Denmark in 1968, but the serial did not play there.
• It has been reported that Cyprus sent its prints to Uganda - and yet, Uganda screened the serial two months before Cyprus! Or was Uganda merely an intermediary in the bicycling process, receiving and sending on the films without screening them? (See Bicycling Chains for more on this...)
• A print of part 5 was located in private hands in early 2004; the collector had acquired the film from the BBC circa late 1972. That it was in English suggests it may have been returned recently from Ethiopia -- the series had completed its run in April 1972. However it could have been a spare copy held by the BBC.

US TV Guide descriptions (1960s Hartnells on CBC)

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• Episode 1: Dr. Who lands his rocket on a distant planet and finds that all the vegetation has been petrified.
  
• Episode 2: Dr. Who and his friends find themselves at the mercy of the Daleks, the only survivors of a neutron war.
  
• Episode 3: Dr. Who, Susan and their reluctant passengers escape from the Daleks.
  
• Episode 4: In their escape from the Daleks, the earthlings panic, and lose an important part of their equipment.
  
• Episode 5: Dr. Who and his friends ask the Thals to help them attack the Daleks.
  
• Episode 6: Ian enters the caves leading to the ciy of the Daleks.
  
• Episode 7: Dr. Who attempts to bribe the Daleks.
  

Reissue

• The serial was reissued by the BBC in late 1985, and sold to:

United States

from Sep 85

b/w

• Newspapers occasionally refered to this serial as Day of the Daleks.

US TV Guide descriptions

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Title: The Daleks

• Episode 1: The Doctor arrives on the planet Skaro, where a group of humans known as the Thals is menaced by the evil Daleks.
  
• Episode 2:
  
• Episode 3:  
  
• Episode 4:  
  
• Episode 5:  
  
• Episode 6:  
  
• Episode 7:  
  
• Compilation: The Doctor arrives on the planet Skaro, where a group of humans known as the Thals is menaced by the evil Daleks.

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