KKK. Day Of The Daleks

  • Script Editor: Terrance Dicks;
  • Writer: Louis Marks;
  • Produced by: Barry Letts;
  • Director: Paul Bernard;
  • Designer: David Myerscough-Jones;
  • Incidental Music: Dudley Simpson;
  • Fight Arranger: Rick Lester (4);
  • Daleks Originated by: Terry Nation;

Programme Description

The Third World War is close to breaking out; the Chinese delegates refuse to attend, and without their attendance war is inevitable. Sir Reginald Styles hopes to fly out to Peking to convince them to attend, but during the evening before he is attacked.

U.N.I.T. is called in when the next morning when Styles claims that nothing happened. The Brigadier and his troops search the grounds of the house, and find a stunned soldier, who later disappeared, an advanced gun and a time machine.

The Doctor travels into the future pursuing Jo, who accidentally activated the device. In the future he finds that war did take place, and with the Earth weakened the Daleks took over, although a group of resistance has formed.

They thought Styles deliberately blew up his house, and planned to travel back in time to kill him first. The Doctor finds that it was in fact a member of the group left in the past that blew up the house, and started the war.

The Doctor returns to the present, and is followed by the Daleks. The Doctor finds the left behind person, who plans to blow up the house. When the person learns that the Daleks are around he tells the Doctor to let them in and clear the house. The Doctor does so, and when the house explodes the Daleks are destroyed and the peace conference is saved.

Regular Cast

  • Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart: Nicholas Courtney;
  • Sergeant Benton: John Levene;
  • Jo Grant: Katy Manning;
  • Captain Yates: Richard Franklin;

Guest Cast

  • Anat: Anna Barry;
  • Boaz: Scott Fredericks;
  • Controller of Earth Sector One: Aubrey Woods;
  • Daleks: Murphy Grumbar, John Scott Martin, Rick Newby;
  • Dalek Voices: Oliver Gilbert, Peter Messaline;
  • Ogrons: Maurice Bush, Rick Lester, David Joyce, Frank Menzies, Geoff Todd, Bruce Wells (2-4);
  • Shura: Jimmy Winston (1,2,4);
  • Girl Technician: Deborah Brayshaw (1,3);
  • UNIT Radio Operator: Gypsie Kemp (1-2);
  • Sir Reginald Styles: Wilfred Carter (1,4);
  • Miss Paget: Jean MacFarlane (1,4);
  • Guerilla: Tim Condren (1);
  • Monia: Valentine Palmer (3-4);
  • Senior Guard: Andrew Carr (3-4);
  • Guard at Work Centre: George Raistrick (3-4);
  • Manager: Peter Hill (3);
  • Television Reporter (Alec Macintosh): Alex Macintosh (4);

  • UNCREDITED CAST:
  • UNIT Guard: David Melbourne (1);
  • Style's Aid: Desmond Verlini (1);
  • UNIT Personnel: Barbara Chambers (2); Leon Maybanks (2);
  • Dalek Guard: Brychan Powell (2);
  • Girl Technicians: Scarlett O'Hara, Alison Daumler, Karen Butch;
  • Extras at Peace Conference: (all 4) Charles Aday-Gray, Donald Baker, Robert Bauld, Robert Baldwin, Keith Beresford, Terence Brown, Betty Cameron, Ron Collins, Alan Coper, Jane Cousins, BJ Crane, Michael Culling, Jeanne Doree, Richard Eden, Sue Farebrother, Iris Fry, Pat Gorman, Beverley Grant, Ted Heath, Paul Hickin, Ron Hicks, Nick Hobbs, Christopher Holmes, MJ Howes, Derek Hunt, Gaynor Jackson, Suzanne Jackson, Brian Justice, Sam Mansaray, David Melbourne, R Pickford, Michael Potter, Brychan Powell, Hugh Price, Terence Price, Anne Priestley, Colin Richmond, Hugh Rodgers, Stan Ross, Len Saunders, Basil Tang, Pat Taylor, Harry Tierney, Terry Walsh, Glen Whitter, Eileen Winterton, Vincent Wong, JH Wright;

Transmissions

ChannelEpisodeTitleDateViewersPosition
BBC 1 304 Episode One Sat 1 Jan 1972 117:50 - 18:15 9.8M 38th
BBC 1 305 Episode Two Sat 8 Jan 1972 817:50 - 18:15 10.4M 29th
BBC 1 306 Episode Three Sat 15 Jan 1972 1517:50 - 18:15 9.1M 38th
BBC 1 307 Episode Four Sat 22 Jan 1972 2217:50 - 18:15 9.1M 40th

Repeat Transmissions

ChannelTitleDateViewersPosition
BBC 1 Edited Compilation Mon 3 Sep 1973 19:00 - 20:00 7.4M 32nd

Locations

  • Harvey House, Green Dragon Lane, Brentford, Middlesex;
  • Bull's Bridge, Hayes, Middlesex;
  • Burnham, Bucks;

Studios

  • Television Centre Studio 4;
  • Television Centre Studio 8;

Bloopers and Mistakes

If you look at the Daleks' screen on which the Controller is depicted (in the upper-right corner) you can not only see that it's a video overlay, but you can see the edges of the screen waver noticeably as the switcher's hand jiggles!

Katy Manning's red knickers appear quite a few times: When she's getting up from sitting on the floor, when she's climbing down a wall, and basically when ever she makes a sudden movement, when she's travelling through time; when she moves closer to the Doctor and says, "You shouldn't have said that, you don't know the whole picture", when she runs up the stairs out of the cellar, etc. etc...) (But interestingly enough, it isn't Katy Manning who's climbing down that wall - it's her stunt double, who happens to be male! [This is according to Jon Pertwee at a convention...])

When Styles's house is being attacked by the Ogrons, the male freedom fighter (in studio) loses his hat while running out to fight. In the next shot (on location) he has it back on again.

At the start of this story, when the Doctor is messing around in the TARDIS trying to get it working, he hands a clipboard and pen to Jo. As he does so, the pen falls off the board and gets stuck about halfway down the console where it stays for several more shots. But then Jo hands the clipboard back to the Doctor with the pen, and no sign of her having gone to fetch the errant writing implement.

Watch the scene where the controller is reporting the status of what is going on in the future. The camera pulls right back to show who he has been reporting to - the Daleks. The boom operator forgets to move out of the way and the boom mike is still easily seen sitting above the controller's head.

This story was also the first to have a small Frank Bellamy illustration accompanying each episode billing in the magazine.

Notes and Trivia

Episode One of this story was accompanied by a Radio Times cover and a competition to win a Dalek.

Working Titles

The Time Warrior
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