Dr. Who and The Daleks - Production

Production

• In 1995, a documentary about the two Dalek films, Dalekmania, was released; it revealed details about the productions, spin-offs, and publicity.
• The actor Barrie Ingham discussed the production in an interview in Australia in 1976 for the Doctor Who fanzine Zerinza.
• Originally, the Daleks were going to be armed with flamethrowers, but these were vetoed (for fear of being too frightening, and also for health and safety reasons) and replaced with smoke projectors. Flamethrowers were, however, later incorporated into the Daleks seen in the TV serial The Daleks' Master Plan broadcast later in 1965.
• The Daleks were slightly redesigned from their appearance in the television series, most noticeably in the rounded bases. Three of the movie Dalek models were hired by the BBC and used in the serial The Chase. As the film was not released until after The Chase, this film actually marks those movie Daleks' second appearance.
• David Whitaker novelised the original television serial in 1964 as Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (later retitled Doctor Who and the Daleks). Although not strictly a novelisation of the film, there are some similarities in that the book has Ian joining the TARDIS crew for the first time as he does here (even though he actually joined the Doctor in a previous serial in the television version).
• The Dalek props seen in the film are taller than the TV Daleks, having large bumpers at the base (Possibly to make them more imposing - the TV Daleks were only about five feet high).
• All of the Daleks featured large, distinctive dome lights and a number were fitted with a two-jawed mechanical claw instead of a plunger.
• Some of the Daleks used in the background for 'crowd scenes' were constructed from moulded fibreglass, and can be distinguished by the slightly different shape of the brass collars around their midsections.
• A number of Daleks were displayed on the back of a truck at the Cannes film festival for publicity. Single Daleks were also sent further afield, one making an appearance at a cinema in Sydney, Australia, before apparently being thrown out or "lost".
• Music from this film has been released on Dr. Who & the Daleks by Silva Screen Records.