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"Death to the Daleks" Production XXX February 23 - March 16, 1974   A trip to Florana is sidetracked when the TARDIS is dragged to the world of Exxilon where the Doctor and Sarah Jane are caught in the middle of a conflict with the Daleks, a group of humans, and the mysterious Exxilons.   Podcaster John S. Drew and writer/editor Jim Beard join forces once again to become the masters of time and space as they watch and review every single episode of the Classic Doctor Who series. In this episode, they discuss Sarah Jane's developing character, the lack of any likable characters, the lack of energy in the overall story.   Please make sure you are subscribed to our podcast via any of the major popular podcasting apps. You can write and comment or ask questions of us via email at thedoctorsbeardpodcast@gmail.com or by joining our Facebook community.   Join our Patreon community where your sponsorship earns you early access to new episodes as well as exclusive content. Click on the link here to take you to the Patreon page.

In this episode of the Who's He? Podcast.... Death to the Daleks | Audio Commentary Part 1 After putting the vote to our listeners, Phil and Scott sat down to record part one of an audio commentary for Death to the Daleks starring Jon Pertwee as the Doctor with Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith. With the Doctor and Sarah Jane stranded on the planet Exxilon, they stumble across a grumpy Scotsman and a ships captain with an ill fitting wig. And to make matters worse the Daleks turn up as well! Marvel as Phil tries (and fails) to explain to Scott how the Doctors companions were written in the 1970's, just before Sarah lamps an Exxilon round the lughole with a starting handle and how Phil used to play Doctor Who as a nipper. Oh and Scott does a swear. Join Phil and Scott next week for part two of the commentary. You can find us on X and Facebook, you can subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Podcasts, Google Podcasts plus many other podcatchers and don't forget to subscribe to our Youtube Channel. #DoctorWho #DeathtotheDaleks #Whoniverse

Daleks are used to being large and in charge, casually exterminating anything that moves with their ray guns and cruising over slave groups in their flying saucers. Take all that away from them, and what have you got? Basically a bunch of scared children, ready to freak out the moment a native gets a little too close with a spear. You get the sense the Doctor would laugh about his enemies' predicament in Death to the Daleks except he's too busy doing a little exterminating of his own, throwing the sentient, malevolent Exxilon city into meltdown, a final act of revenge for putting him through all those lame puzzles on the way in. We're right there with him. Give your own rating for Death to the Daleks on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Subscribe to our newsletter at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠pulltoopen.net⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for extended notes on Death to the Daleks. Please consider ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠becoming a patron⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ of Pull To Open on Patreon. Please review Pull To Open on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow us on: TikTok! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@pulltoopen⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@pulltoopen63⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ X: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@pulltoopen63⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Threads: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@pulltoopen63⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Bluesky: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@pulltoopen⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Please subscribe to our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Play ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pull To Open Bingo⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Story Essentials Season 11, Serial 3 Story number: 71, per the The Pull To Open Codex Writer: Terry Nation Director: Michael E. Briant Producer: Barry Letts Aired 23 February–16 March 1974 Pull To Open: Death to the Daleks Season 5 Episode 2 Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor Music: Martin West/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Thinking Fish⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ©️AnyWho Media LLC 2024 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pull-to-open/support

Tom takes John and Paul to Exxilon in order to show them his Parrinium mine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wait a minute, this isn't Florana! Why, it's Exxilon, and…there's no power. Time to crank open the TARDIS doors and see what's outside. Hopefully not Daleks! Oh no, there they are. Death to them!

when the tardis loses power trapping the Doctor and Sarah Jane on the planet Exxilon they must make an uneasy alliance with a Marine Space Corps expedition and a group of Daleksto find the course but can the daleks be trusted or do they have an alternative motive this is Death to the daleks welcome to regenerated why not take a look at our social media and give us a review on Apple Podcasts merchandise -https://teespring.com/en-GB/stores/regenerated facebook - www.facebook.com/regenerateddoctorwhopodcast/ twitter - twitter.com/Regenerated1963 website - regenerated1963.wixsite.com/regenerated patreon - patreon.com/regenerated buy me a coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/regenerated

  This title was released in April 2021. It will be exclusively available to buy from the Big Finish website until 31 May 2021, and on general sale after this date. The Earth mission to Exxilon is nearing completion after many long years. Enough parrinium has been mined to stop the spread of the deadly space plague. But suddenly, the power-draining beacon from the Exxilon city is inexplicably reactivated, stranding the humans. The Doctor, Leela and K9 are stuck too, right on top of the remains of the city – under attack! Somewhere nearby, the android agent Mark Seven is enacting his secret orders while the Doctor’s estranged future companion, Anya Kingdom, is hoping for redemption. And heading inexorably towards them all… the Daleks!

Kenny and David have an away day, as they visit planet Exxilon, but Tom is unable to join them as they discuss the start of the Dalek Universe, with River Song and the Queen of the Mechonoids, the Fourth Doctor discovering the Dalek Protocol, and the first three Dalek Universe adventures with David Tennant's Tenth Doctor. This episode is full of spoilers - you have been warned!

Hoo boy! It's not often that John and Taylor come across a story that they both deride (the last one was Sleep No More), but Death to the Daleks (quite the promising title) does not deliver. There are good point and entertaining parts, but join us this time as our dynamic duo does their darnedest to deliver some entertaining commentary on this Dalek story! If we ever decide to do a RiffTrax-esque commentary on a story, this one's at the top of the list.

Hoo boy! It's not often that John and Taylor come across a story that they both deride (the last one was Sleep No More), but Death to the Daleks (quite the promising title) does not deliver. There are good point and entertaining parts, but join us this time as our dynamic duo does their darnedest to deliver some entertaining commentary on this Dalek story! If we ever decide to do a RiffTrax-esque commentary on a story, this one's at the top of the list.

On the planet Exxilon, the Doctor finds himself placed in harm’s way. With Dilbert in the TARDIS and the Bartender back on his shift, is there any hope for our beloved Fruit Pastel?The Doctor - Benji CliffordBellal - Christopher ThomsonDilbert the Dalek - Benji CliffordThe High Priest - Matthew ChambersClergyman - Billy TreacyWritten by - Benji CliffordMusic - Billy TreacyTheme Tune - Benji CliffordSound Design - Billy TreacyCover Art - Billy TreacyProduced by - Benji Clifford & Billy Treacy

This week we cover story #72, Death to the Daleks!  When the Doctor and Sarah Jane are stranded on the planet Exxilon by a power drain, they must work with the humans who are stranded there and even with a group of stranded Daleks to restore power, discover the planet's secrets, and escape with their lives! Outtakes! Discussion of "Death to the Daleks" (Trevor 6.25, Charlie 6.5, David 6.5) Connor's Corner Big Finish audio adventure: "The Mega" (Trevor 7.5, Charlie 5, David 7) Hosts: Trevor  @WhovianTrev    Trevsplace Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Infinite Longbox    The Comic Conspiracy David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian Join us next week for our review of Doctor Who story #73, The Monster of Peladon! You can stream the serial from Hulu+, rent the DVD from Netflix, or buy the DVD from Amazon.com, the WB Shop, or many other fine retailers.

Third Doctor and Sarah Jane"A power failure in the TARDIS draws it off course, and The Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith end up stranded on the bleak planet of Exxilon. They soon meet members of an Earth expedition in a similar situation.  The Humans are searching for a rare mineral, but first they must find out what is draining their power and avoid what’s inside another grounded spaceship – The Doctor’s oldest enemies, the Daleks…"Written By: Terry NationDirected By: Michael Briant

The Randomiser has deposited Will and Matthew in the heart of Jon Pertwee's final season as the Doctor. Which planet are they visiting? How will they fare? And shocking can an episode 1 cliffhanger really be? Find out in episode 20 of Season to Taste! (WARNING: Easter Egg may be musical. Ish.)

The city is screaming while Scott and Matt really love parts of the Jon Pertwee 4-part serial “Death to the Daleks”. The Doctor and Sarah Jane are trapped on the planet Exxilon and forced into an alliance with Marine Space Corps … Continue reading →

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: , 225 – "Asylum of the Daleks" episode The unique logo from the title sequence, mimicing the distinct bodywork. Cast () () () Others – Oswin – Darla von Karlsen David Gyasi – Harvey – Cassandra – Voice of the – Dalek 1 – Dalek 2 – Photoshoot PA (uncredited) Production Writer Director Producer Marcus Wilson Executive producer(s) Caroline Skinner Series Length 48 minutes Originally broadcast 1 September 2012 Chronology ← Preceded by Followed by → "" (episode) (mini-serial) "" "Asylum of the Daleks" is the first episode of the of the British science fiction television series . This episode marks the return of the . It was broadcast on , and on 1 September 2012, and will be on in on 8 September 2012. The episode features the alien time traveller the () being captured by the , along with his () and (), who are about to divorce. They are sent by the Daleks to the Asylum, a planet where insane Daleks are exiled, to enable the Asylum to be destroyed before the insane Daleks can escape. The Doctor is helped along the way by Oswin (), a woman who lives on a spaceship that crashed on the planet a year ago and has been trapped there since then. Coleman makes her first appearance in Doctor Who in this episode, before returning as the Doctor's new companion in ; her appearance was successfully kept a secret from the general public prior to the episode's broadcast. Contents Plot Prequel A prequel was released to iTunes, Zune, and Amazon Instant Video on 2 September, 2012 for US subscribers for the series. As the Doctor has tea, a hooded messenger informs him that a woman, Darla von Karlsen, requests his help in freeing her daughter. The messenger provides space-time coordinates to the planet Skaro. is a different five-part mini serial prequel to this episode, which was released serially in the week leading up to the premiere. The fifth part hints at Amy and Rory's divorce. Synopsis is lured to the ruins of , original homeworld of the Daleks, by a humanoid Dalek "puppet", Darla, who teleports him to the Parliament of the Daleks. There he is reunited with and , who have been similarly kidnapped from present-day Earth, just after Rory has delivered Amy their divorce papers. Within the Parliament, the Prime Minister of the Daleks explains to them that the Daleks have a planet known as the Asylum, where they keep Daleks which have gone insane; the Daleks are unwilling to engage with the inmates themselves, as destroying such pure hatred face-to-face would contravene their sense of "beauty", much to the Doctor's revulsion. The Parliament has received a transmission of the "" from from a woman, Oswin Oswald. She is on board the Alaska, a ship which has crashed into the Asylum, and claims to have been fending off Dalek attacks for a year. The crash of the Alaska has ruptured the planet's force-field, thus risking the escape of the planet's inmates. The Parliament now wishes to destroy the planet remotely to prevent this, but the force-field is not ruptured sufficiently to allow that. The force-field can only be deactivated from the planet itself but, afraid to face such a mission themselves, the Daleks of the Parliament task the Doctor, Amy and Rory with doing so. The three are given bracelets to protect them from the planet's nanogene cloud, which would convert them into Dalek puppets to serve the facility's security systems, before being dropped through the force-field breach via a gravity tunnel onto the surface of the planet. The Doctor and Amy land close to each other and are discovered by Harvey, another survivor from the Alaska. Rory, however, is dropped to the bottom of a long shaft into the Asylum—there he accidentally awakens some of its inhabitants, but is saved and guided to a safe room by Oswin, who has accessed the computers. Meanwhile Harvey is revealed to be a Dalek puppet, converted by the nanogene cloud. A similar fate has befallen the corpses of other Alaska survivors, who re-animate and attack the Doctor and Amy, stealing her nano-field bracelet just before the pair are saved by Oswin and guided to Rory. Now unprotected from the nanogenes, Amy begins to be converted into a Dalek puppet and begins experiencing memory loss and hallucinations. The Doctor guesses that the Daleks will destroy the planet as soon as he deactivates the force-field, before he and his companions can escape. However, he realises that Rory's hideout is a telepad via which they can teleport onto the Dalek Parliament ship. Oswin agrees to deactivate the force-field in return for the Doctor coming to save her. While the Doctor is gone, Rory tries to give Amy his bracelet. The Doctor explained that love slows the Dalek puppet conversion, and Rory justifies that by "coldly and logically" asserting that he has always loved her more than she loves him, thus he would be converted more slowly, invoking his 2000-year vigil "". Amy angrily replies that she loves him equally, but gave him up since she is infertile as a result of the events of "" and thus unable to bear the children she knows that he has always desired. They then realise that the Doctor has already given Amy his own nano-field bracelet but didn't tell them, in order to allow the two to converse and reconcile. The Doctor makes his way to Oswin, venturing through the 'intensive care section', containing Daleks who survived encounters with him. They begin to re-activate, but he is saved from them by Oswin, who deletes the Doctor from the Daleks' collective, , leaving them with no memory of him. The Doctor enters Oswin's chamber only to discover to his horror that she has been fully converted into a Dalek. Unprotected from the nanogenes for nearly a year, she could not prevent herself from being converted in order to preserve her genius-level intellect for Dalek use. Unable to cope with her conversion, her mind retreated into a fantasy of survival as a human, which was picked up as the Carmen transmission. Oswin is nearly overcome by a Dalek personality at this revelation, though she still possesses human emotions and is unable to kill the Doctor. Oswin fulfils her promise of deactivating the force-field, on the condition that the Doctor remember her as the human she once was. The Doctor returns to Amy and Rory and teleports them back to his TARDIS, which is on board the Parliament ship, as the planet is destroyed. The Daleks fail to recognise him due to his removal from their hive intelligence. He leaves the ship and drops the reunited Amy and Rory back home. He then departs alone, delighting in the Dalek Parliament's closing question to him: "Doctor who?". Continuity In her opening speech, Darla refers to the Doctor fighting in the and then dying. The Doctor appears to die in the episodes "" and "". The nanogenes are mentioned in the two-parter ""/"", also written by Moffat. In the closing exchange in the Parliament, the Doctor refers to one of his nicknames as "The Oncoming Storm", first mentioned in the episode "". The final question of "Doctor who?", besides being an obvious callback to the programme's title, is the "question that must not be answered" that Dorium asks at the end of "The Wedding of River Song". Some of the Daleks are survivors of previous encounters with the Doctor on Spiridon (), Kembel ("" and ), Exxilon (), Aridius (), and Vulcan ().[] Production "Asylum of the Daleks" contained many variations of Daleks from the programme's 50-year history, and was intended to make them appear scary again. "Asylum of the Daleks" contains every kind of Dalek that has ever faced the Doctor, including the from the 1988 story, . Executive producer announced in 2011 that he intended to give a "rest" to the Daleks. The reason for the rest was that Moffat felt their frequent appearances made them the "most reliably defeatable enemies in the universe". Moffat recalled that the Daleks were remembered for being scary, but due to their legacy as British icons they had become "cuddly" over the years and their true menace forgotten; with "Asylum" he intended to make them scary again, reminding the audience of their intentions. He thought the best way to do this would be to show Daleks that were considered even madder than usual. Gillan admitted that she had not been scared of the Daleks before working on the episode. It is also the first Dalek story Moffat has written for the show; he stated that he "couldn't resist" the opportunity. In March 2012, it was announced that would replace Gillan and Darvill as the next companion, first appearing in the . It was Moffat's idea to have her appear in "Asylum of the Daleks" as the character of Oswin. He intended to keep it a secret, and thanked the press and fans that it was not leaked. Whether Coleman's later character is the same as Oswin has yet to be confirmed. According to , the production team located the remaining models of the various versions of the Daleks and shipped them to the studios in . This included a Dalek owned by , Moffat's predecessor. Executive producer Caroline Skinner knew Davies well and asked to borrow his replica. She stated that he was "thrilled" that it was canonised. The total number of different Daleks was around 25, with models from 1963 to 2010; Skinner said that "there was just a real magic and sense of history about having them". Many of the props were built from scratch. The snow scenes on the asylum planet were filmed during the production of "" when the production team realised they were near the snow resort in . Broadcast and reception "Asylum of the Daleks" was preview screened at on 14 August, and at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival during 23–25 August. On 25 August it was also screened in New York City and Toronto. "Asylum of the Daleks" was broadcast on 1 September 2012 on in the United Kingdom, in the United States, and on in Canada, and on 2 September on the service. It will premiere on 8 September 2012 on in Australia, and on 13 September on in New Zealand. Overnight viewing figures for the UK showed that it was watched by 6.4 million viewers, the lowest overnight figure for a premiere episode of the revived series; however, viewing patterns indicate that fewer people watch Doctor Who live, and it won its timeslot. It was also the most-viewed episode on BBC's online the day that it aired. It achieved an of 89, the highest for a series opener of Doctor Who. Critical reception "Asylum of the Daleks" received positive reviews from critics. Dan Martin of praised Moffat's "script packed with ace curveballs and zappy dialogue" and Nick Hurran's direction. He also was pleased that the asylum setting could explore the Daleks while making it reminicent of the classic series. reviewer Gavin Fuller gave it four out of five stars, describing it as a "confident opener" and highlighting the concept and set design of the asylum. He particularly praised Coleman, who he called "the star of the episode". Michael Hogan, also writing for The Telegraph, gave "Asylum of the Daleks" a slightly higher rating of four and a half stars out of five, also commending Coleman as well as many details of the script. Neela Debnath of commented positively on the show's continuing exploration of the Daleks and the more "adult tone", praising the peformance of the three leads. writer Patrick Mulkern stated that it "ticks all [his] boxes as a Doctor Who fan of more than 40 years standing", describing it as "clever, fast, funny, eerie, surprising and tearjerking". Nick Setchfield of gave the episode five out of five stars, calling it a "strong, cinematically-minded series opener" which succeeded in making the Daleks scary. He also praised Coleman's debut, Smith's performance, the special effects, and Amy and Rory's emotional subplot. reviewer noted that the plot "is mostly just an excuse to explore the Doctor's ongoing relationship with the Daleks, and to show how sad it's gotten". 's Morgan Jeffery also awarded it five stars, though he felt Amy and Rory's breakup was "a little difficult to buy" as it was resolved quickly, even if the situation was "sensitively handled" and "deftly performed". 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Travelling through space, the suffers an energy drain and crash-lands on the planet Exxilon. The and venture outside to investigate the cause of the interference, and become separated. The Doctor is captured by the planet's inhabitants - the savage Exxilons - but escapes. Sarah is attacked by one of the creatures in the TARDIS, and flees into the night, finding a huge white City with a flashing beacon. When daylight arrives, the Doctor is found by a party of the Marine Space Corps; they take him to their ship, which has been stranded by a power drain. They are on an expedition to mine "Parrinium" - a mineral abundant only on Exxilon - which can cure and give immunity to a deadly space . The lives of at least 10 million people depend on the expedition's obtaining the Parrinium and leaving the planet within a month. They show the Doctor some photos they have taken of the nearby City - which the Exxilons worship, sacrificing anyone who ventures too close to it. Sarah does so, and is captured and taken to the Exxilons' caves to be sacrificed by their High Priest. A ship containing four now arrives; both the Daleks' ship and their weapons have been rendered useless by the energy drain. The Daleks claim that several of their planetary colonies are suffering from plague; thus they need Parrinium for the same reason as the humans. The Daleks, the Doctor, and the humans form an uneasy alliance to obtain Parrinium and escape Exxilon. While the allies are making their way to the humans' mining dome, the Exxilons ambush them, killing a human and a Dalek and capturing the others. The prisoners are taken to the Exxilon caves where the Doctor interrupts Sarah Jane's sacrifice; therefore, he is also condemned to death. When the dual sacrifice commences, a second party of Daleks, who have replaced their energy weapons with , attack in force, killing a number of Exxilons. They then force the Exxilons and humans to mine Parrinium. The Doctor and Sarah flee into underground tunnels. The Doctor and Sarah meet a group of subterranean, fugitive Exxilons. Their leader, Bellal, explains that the City was built by the Exxilons' ancestors, who were once capable of space travel. The ancient Exxilons built the City to be capable of maintaining, repairing, and protecting itself. However, fitting the structure with a brain meant that the City no longer needed its creators. On realising this, the Exxilons had tried to destroy the City, but, instead, the City destroyed most of them; the savage surface dwellers and Bellal's group are the only survivors. Bellal's people seek to complete their ancestors' last, failed act - to destroy the City and ensure their race's survival. Bellal sketches some of the markings on the City wall, which the Doctor recognises from a temple in Peru. Bellal also explains that the City supports itself through underground 'roots' and the aerial beacon. The Doctor realises that the beacon must be the cause of the energy drain, and decides to go to the City and resolve the problem. The Daleks separately come to the same conclusion and create two timed explosives to destroy the beacon. One Dalek supervises two humans placing the explosives, but one of the humans, Galloway, secretly keeps one bomb. Two other Daleks enter the City to investigate the superstructure, but the Doctor and Bellal enter the City just before them. The two parties then proceed through the City, passing a series of progressive intelligence tests. The Doctor reasons that the City has arranged the tests so that only lifeforms with knowledge comparable to that of the City's creators would reach the brain, allowing the City to add the knowledge of the survivors to its databanks. On reaching the central chamber, the Doctor begins to sabotage the City's computer brain; the machine responds by creating two Exxilon-like '' to 'neutralise' the Doctor and Bellal. The pair are saved when the Daleks enter and fight the antibodies, and the Doctor and Bellal escape as the City's sabotaged controls begin to malfunction. When the bomb on the beacon explodes, all power is restored. The Daleks order the humans to load the Parrinium onto their ship. On leaving Exxilon, the Daleks intend to fire a plague missile onto the planet, destroying all life and making future landings impossible, so that they will have the only source of Parrinium. Their true intention for hoarding Parrinium is to blackmail the galactic powers to accept their demands; refusal would mean the deaths of millions. As their ship takes off, Sarah reveals that the Daleks have only bags of sand while the real Parrinium is on the Earth ship, which is now ready to take off. Galloway has smuggled himself and his bomb aboard the Dalek ship; he detonates the bomb, destroying the Dalek ship before it fires the plague missile. Back on Exxilon, the City disintegrates and collapses, the Doctor sadly commenting that the Universe is now down to 699 Wonders. Continuity Death to the Daleks is also the name of a spin off by in the series. The Doctor attempts to destroy the Exxilon supercomputer by feeding it illogical paradoxes. This is the same tactic he used against the mad BOSS computer in the previous season. This is the only other story where the Daleks do not fire their energy weapons, due to the Exxilon power drain (although they technically do "fire" them, albeit without any success). This marks the last appearance of the TARDIS Console Room until . Sarah later references this story in . Production Serial details by episode EpisodeBroadcast dateRun timeViewership (in millions)Archive "Part One" 23 February 1974 24:32 8.1 PAL 2" colour videotape "Part Two" 2 March 1974 24:25 9.5 PAL 2" colour videotape "Part Three" 9 March 1974 24:24 10.5 PAL 2" colour videotape "Part Four" 16 March 1974 24:35 9.5 PAL 2" colour videotape Working titles for this story were The Exilons and The Exxilons. This is one of two Third Doctor serials (the other being ) to still have a 90-minute PAL studio recording tape. The incidental music for this serial was composed by and performed by the London Saxophone Quartet. Missing episodes Episode one of this story was missing from the BBC archives, when they were first fully audited in 1978; eventually, a 525-line recording was recovered from an overseas television station. A low-quality recording was subsequently recovered, albeit with the opening scene missing. In 1992, this was followed by the recovery of a better-quality 625-line PAL recording from a shipment of episodes returned from . In Print book Death to the Daleks Series Release number 20 Writer Publisher Cover artist ISBN Release date 20 July 1978 Preceded by ' Followed by ' A novelisation of this serial, written by , was published by in July 1978. A was published in 1990 by . VHS and DVD releases The serial was released on video in an format in July 1987, the first Doctor Who video to be released on just , instead of both VHS and . As the PAL version of episode one was not yet known to exist, this used the NTSC version of the episode. An episodic release (with the PAL version of episode one) was released on 13 February 1995, although episode two was slightly edited due to BBC Video mistakenly using a cut version of episode 2 returned from ABC TV in Australia (episodes 3 & 4 were also from ABC TV), instead of the UK master tapes of episodes 2-4. The serial will be released on in the UK on 18 June 2012. The region 1 release date is 10 July 2012. References Shaun Lyon et al. (31 March 2007). . Outpost Gallifrey. Retrieved 30 August 2008.[] . Doctor Who Reference Guide. Retrieved 30 August 2008. Sullivan, Shannon (7 August 2007). . A Brief History of Time Travel. Retrieved 30 August 2008. . A Brief History of Time (Travel). Retrieved 31 December 2006. External links Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: at at at the Fan reviews reviews at reviews at Target novelisation reviews at [] Classic seasons (1963–89): Revived series (2005–present): Death to the Daleks []  Links to related articles View page ratings Rate this page Trustworthy Objective Complete Well-written I am highly knowledgeable about this topic (optional) :