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205 – "Victory of the Daleks"
Doctor Who episode
Three large, identical gold-coloured cylindrical metal objects face the viewer. Each cylinder is rounded on the top and slightly wider at the bottom. The bottom half is covered with small round hemispheres, geometrically arranged. Two metal rods protrude in parallel from the center of each object; the rod on the viewer's left ends with an attachment resembling a black sink plunger. Above and on either side of the projecting rods are vertical slats, affixed with heavy rivets. Above these are three horizontal slats, topped by a dome. From the center of the dome, a third rod protrudes, with a blue lens affixed to its end. Also attached to the dome are two lights, which project at forty-five degrees from the plane of the horizontal slats.
The Doctor looking at the five new Daleks featured in this episode immediately after their creation.
Cast
Others
Production
Directed byAndrew Gunn[5]
Written byMark Gatiss
Script editorTBA
Produced by Peter Bennett[5]
Executive producer(s)Steven Moffat
Piers Wenger
Beth Willis
Production code1.3[4]
Series2010 series
Running time45 minutes [6]
First broadcastApril 17, 2010 (2010-04-17)[1]
Chronology
← Preceded by
"The Beast Below" 		Followed by →
"The Time of Angels"
List of episodes (2005–present)

"Victory of the Daleks"[2] is the third episode in the 2010 series of British science fiction television series Doctor Who. This was the first encounter between the Daleks and the Eleventh Doctor. It was first broadcast on 17 April 2010.

Plot

At the start of the episode, the TARDIS materialises in the Cabinet War Rooms during World War II, in response to Winston Churchill's call for help at the end of The Beast Below. The Doctor is greeted by the Prime Minister, who The Doctor recounts past experiences with, revealing to Amy that they are friends. They soon learn that they have arrived one month after Churchill called, due to the new TARDIS still being rather innaccurate. When a Luftwaffe squadron approaches London, Churchill takes The Doctor and Amy to the roof in order to show them his latest weapon [7][8] . As a squadron of German Heinkels comes into view over Blitz-torn London, they are shot down by energy weapons with amazing precision by the "Ironsides". Professor Bracewell, the man in charge of the "Ironside" project, reveals at the Doctor's request a camoflaged, Union Flag-wearing and obedient Dalek.

Although the Doctor says they are alien, the Professor insists that he invented the "Ironsides", and that they are docile, offering to help their human colleagues and serving them cups of tea. Churchill defends them, thinking of the victories he could have. The Doctor tries to get Amy to tell Churchill about how the Daleks invaded Earth, but Amy has no recollection of any planets in the sky or the Dalek invasion, with no reason why she would have missed them.

The Doctor, intent on proving the Daleks' evil, goes to the Professor, their "creator". The Doctor asks Professor Bracewell how he came up with the idea for the Daleks. To answer this the Professor shows The Doctor several other highly advanced inventions he came up with. When the Daleks and Churchill enter the room, The Doctor repeatedly strikes a Dalek with a large, heacy wrench, trying to make it react. He tells them how he has defeated them, how he is their greatest enemy, and eventually that "I am the Doctor, and you are the Daleks!", before kicking the Dalek across the room. The Dalek recovers and reverts to its true personality, and revealing its true identity. The other Dalek then replays what the Doctor said, before transmitting the "testimony" to the Dalek ship, behind the moon. As two soldiers run in to stop the no-longer-obedient Daleks, they are exterminated. The Professor yells at them to stop, as he is their creator. One of the Daleks shoots his hand, leaving only exposed wiring, revealing Bracewell to be an android. They reveal that they are his creator, and then teleport away.

The Doctor runs to the TARDIS, telling Amy to stay behind as it is too dangerous. He then materialises in the Dalek ship. The Doctor pretends to be brandishing a TARDIS self-destruct control (a Jammy Dodger), so the the Daleks do not exterminate him. The Daleks reveal that one ship survived the destruction of the Dalek race in Journey's End, and that it went after the last reamining "Progenitor". The Doctor figures out that they built Professor Bracewell because the Progenitor Device did not recognise them as Dalek; they were grown from Davros' cells. If the Daleks became part of the army, Winston Churchill would lure The Doctor in, and the Doctor would confirm them as Daleks. The Progenitor accepted this as proof, because The Doctor is the Daleks' greatest enemy.

The Daleks then tell The Doctor to leave, or they will destroy London. The Doctor says they do not have that power. The Daleks then fire a ray turning all of London's lights on, making them an easy target to the incoming Luftwaffe bombers, and rendering London's blackout efforts ineffective. Then the Progenitor completes its process, and creates 5 "pure" Daleks, larger, more imposing and presumably more powerful than their antecendents, which disintegrate the original Daleks, who willingly offer themselves for extermination. In the Cabinet War Rooms, Amy and Churchill realise they can use Professor Bracewell to fight back against the Daleks. Stopping him from committing suicide, they convince him to help them send some adapted Spitfires to the Dalek ship, equipped with Dalek laser cannons and anti-gravity technology. The Daleks discover The Doctor has not really got a self-destruct device, just as the Spitfires begin their attack. The Spitfires destroy the Dalek transmitted, assisted by The Doctor. The Daleks then tell the Doctor to stop the destruction of their ship or they will destroy the Earth using an "oblivion continuum" bomb concealed inside Professor Bracewell.

The Doctor hurries back to Earth, in order to stop the detonation but leaving the Daleks to escape. He reveals the bomb inside Bracewell, realising that the only way to stop it exploding is to convince Bracewell that he is a human, not a bomb. He tries to remind the Professor of all his memories and how they hurt, but he cannot seem to stop the countdown. As the Oblivion Continuum approaches detonation, Amy steps in and asks him if he has "ever fancied someone [he] shouldn't". While dwelling on this, the countdown retreats to zero, cancelling the detonation. The Doctor immediately dashes to stop the Daleks, but he is told by the Professor that they have escaped. For a few moments, he feels that he has lost, but Amy reminds him that he saved the Earth.

After bidding farewell to Churchill and his staff, The Doctor is puzzled that Amy did not remember the Daleks from the events portrayed in The Stolen Earth and Journey's End, and the TARDIS dematerialises. Behind the spot where it stood, a crack with a light shining through is visible, as seen previously in The Eleventh Hour and The Beast Below.

Continuity

  • The Doctor comments on how he knows the Daleks and has battled them many times, including him sending them back into the void, as seen in Doomsday.
  • The Doctor refers to the events of The Stolen Earth and Journey's End when talking Amy about the Daleks.
  • At the end of the episode a crack is shown in the wall behind where the TARDIS had been parked, this has been a recurring theme since The Eleventh Hour.
  • The remaining Daleks (prior to the creation of the new ones at the end of the episode) are the reminants of the Dalek force that was seen in Journey's End.

Broadcast

DVD release

A Region 2 DVD and Blu-ray[9] containing this episode together with "The Eleventh Hour", "The Beast Below" and special features is planned to be available from 7 June 2010.[10]

References

  1. ^ Doctor Who magazine issue 420, page 10
  2. ^ a b c Doctor Who Magazine, issue 418, 5 February 2010
  3. ^ a b "First Smith 'Doctor Who' titles confirmed". 3 February 2010. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h Doctor Who Magazine, issue 419, 4 March 2010
  5. ^ a b Doctor Who Magazine, issue 417, 3 January 2010, "Shooting on Matt Smith's first series enters its final stages..." p.6 Cite error: The named reference "DWM417" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Radio Times TV Listing for 17 April 2010".
  7. ^ "Radio Times". 3 April. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. ^ "Network TV BBC Week 16: Saturday 17 April 2010" (Press release). BBC Press Office. 1 April 2010. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
  9. ^ "Matt Smith - First DVD release date". Doctor Who News Page. 2 March 2010. Retrieved 17 March 2010.
  10. ^ "Doctor Who: Series 5, Volume 1 (DVD)". BBCShop.com. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
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