Here is an old interview from Doctor Who Magazine in which Jean Marsh talks about playing Sara Kingdom in The Dalek’s Masterplan and her return to Doctor Who in the 7th Doctor story Battlefield.

In a week that has had spurious rumours of a new Doctor Who film featuring Jonny Depp as the Doctor, battling both the Daleks and the Ebola virus (!), I thought it might be nice to glance back at the two Dalek films that weren’t just the products of someone’s over-active imagination. Well, OK, maybe [...]

Dalekmania (1995) This is a now out-of-print video/DVD documentary about the two Peter Cushing Dalek fims of the 1960s. Links to download Dalekmania at the bottom of this post, “A trip to the cinema for two kids lands them in the world of Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965). A behind-the-scenes documentary about the two [...]

The chances are that you are probably familiar with the two films based on Doctor Who, starring Peter Cushing as the Doctor – or rather, as “Doctor Who” as he is called during the films (this presumably means his grand-daughter was Susan Who too…). The first of these films was entitled”Dr. Who and the Daleks”, [...]

There have been several series of picture cards devoted to Doctor Who over the years. These include a set of 36 cards given away in 1967 with Walls ‘Sky Ray’ ice lollys. The cards featured a somewhat long-haired doctor based on Patrick Troughton joining forces with the ‘Sky Ray Space Raiders’ to battle the Daleks. [...]

The Outlaw Planet This text story was featured in “The Dalek Outer-Space Book” way back in the 1960s. It (re)introduces Sara Kingdom (who appeared in “The Dalek Master Plan” and was played by Jean Marsh) as well as other characters from the SSS (Space Security Service) set up to combat the Dalek threat. Several of [...]

Evil of the Daleks Dalek: There is only one form of life that matters: Dalek life. Obey your orders…

Terry Nation, the (real life) creator of the Daleks attempted to launch his creations in their own TV series several times. This sadly never quite happened, although in the 1960s the Daleks did have a successful run of stories without the appearance of the Doctor in the “TV21″ comic as well as in annual-type books [...]