![]() ![]() Fortunately, Dalek creator Terry Nation approved the scripts, calling them ” a very good and exciting batch of episodes”. No Daleks featured in Marks’ initial submission they were an adornment from Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks, who wanted to launch their third season with a bang. And while Frederick Forsyth’s bestseller deals with a plot to assassinate Charles de Gaulle, scriptwriter Louis Marks depicts an attack on fictional peacemaker Sir Reginald Styles, albeit with assassins from the future, trapped in a temporal paradox. The title echoes The Day of the Jackal, recently published in 1971. ![]() The day of the Daleks was nigh, but would it be worth the wait? And the event was captured by Frank Bellamy’s dramatic artwork on the Radio Times cover. But it ensured that 9.8 million viewers caught the Daleks’ return to Doctor Who after an absence of four and a half years – for the first time in colour. This footage sadly doesn’t feature in the actual episodes and has now been lost in time. The specially shot film showed Daleks gliding alongside the Thames, chanting “Exterminate! Exterminate!” Tremendously exciting! And then BBC1 began trailing a brand-new series coming on New Year’s Day. First, on 28 December, we were treated to a “complete adventure” repeat of The Daemons – in effect, a Christmas special and, with 10.5 million viewers, the highest-rated episode since 1965. What bliss it was being a Doctor Who fan in the Christmas holidays in 1971. Ogrons – Rick Lester, Maurice Bush, David Joyce, Frank Menzies, Bruce Wells, Geoffrey Todd ![]() Studio recording: October 1971 in TC4, October/November 1971 in TC8īrigadier Lethbridge Stewart – Nicholas Courtneyĭalek voices – Oliver Gilbert, Peter Messaline ![]() Location filming: September 1971 at Dropmore Park, Burnham, Bucks Bull’s Bridge, Grand Union Canal, Hayes, Middlesex Harvey House flats, Brentford, Middlesex ![]()
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