DOCTOR WHO - THE DALEKS (1963) [DVD]

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For items that are dispatched using our standard service, we ask that you wait 14 days from the date of dispatch before reporting any items as undelivered. Placing the Daleks in a historical setting is an underused but very satisfying conceit and the period details are convincingly presented.

Doctor Who - Series 13 - Flux (includes 4 Exclusive Artcards Doctor Who - Series 13 - Flux (includes 4 Exclusive Artcards

Once again, the season ends on a downer, Donna’s ‘death’, but unlike the Doctor’s regeneration in The Parting Of The Ways, these scenes appear to be just delaying the end of the episode.The fear shown by Jack Harkness, Martha Jones and Sarah Jane, matched by the grim resolve of Rose, serves to demonstrate the gravity of the Dalek invasion.

Doctor Who - The Monsters Collection: The Daleks [DVD

While I can’t blame them for attempting this, I would suggest that it could be done in a cheaper and, perhaps, a less cynical way. The first episode in the box set reintroduces the Daleks by surprisingly presenting them in the singular. The original 1967 master recordings of 'The Evil of the Daleks' were lost soon after the programme's original transmission. This is what made the ‘Bad Wolf’ arc so appealing, it played on the fans’ natural OCD desire to organise and tidy, to connect and link and catalogue.The presence of familiar faces, and of characters who are aware of the Daleks makes the monsters introduction one of the most emotive and exciting of the series. I’m not a huge fan of the endlessly repeated ‘surprise’ appearances of Daleks at the end of the season, but if you are going to include them, it is best to make them the centre of the story. With the exception of Bad Wolf/ The Parting Of The Ways, I’ve always found the penultimate episode of the seasons to be more satisfying than the last and, for me, The Stolen Earth/ Journey’s End did not break this trend. Certain items can take longer to source than the estimated week, particularly during busy trading periods and may take longer to arrive at ourwarehouse. The very existence of this box set could be a comforting reassurance to fans that everything has a destiny, that the Doctor’s story is pre-ordained, particularly apt when considering the ultimate example of retcon/loose-end tying in The Stolen Earth/ Journey’s End.