So, anyone fancy some Dalek bread?

In the Dalek books of the 60's, the dome lights were to "expel surplus energy" or something. In reality, the reason they synch with dialogue is simply so the viewer knows which Dalek is speaking in a scene with two of the pepperpots having a "conversation". Especially important back in the days of mono sound and black and white 405 line TV (how did we survive?)

Honestly with the whole "Daleks are robots" thing, I've just given up and will quietly respond "I mean they aren't really, but close enough. Let's continue" whenever anyone calls them a robot.

Also, fun fact for no. 6: the Dalek emperor in the comics had a complete crown of about seven dome lights circling around the back of his head.

When I hear the magic words, "Hello, I'm Ellie with WhoCulture!" it makes little fireworks of happiness fire in my brain, much like opening a new issue of Doctor Who Magazine. I love a fresh "issue" of WhoCulture with our best pal, Ellie.

Funny story about Vulcan. In the 19th century it was a theoretical planet in our solar system. So a lot of early Sci-Fi stories include mention of it as a bit of an homage to early astronomy.

04:10 Personally, I always thought the Dalek Gunstick looked more like the business end of a paint roller (without a paint roll on it).

not a dalek story per se, but something from my childhood i have never forgotten. when i was very *very* young, i lived in a children's home called "the grange" in coventry (uk). the building was massive, standing 3 story's above ground and one below. the front entrance (which was rarely used) had a huge wooden door that must have weighed a good few kilos. the other side of the front door showed off a rather grand staircase and an equally grand entrance hall. somewhat surprisingly, there stood an entrance guard that was none other than a full sized dalek, complete with a hinged door at the rear that opened up to reveal enough room for a full sized adult with a small stool. sadly our dalek didnt have any wheels so we werent able to move it about. years later i found out that it had been used in a few of the doctor who episodes but had needed some repair after falling over, breaking the dome. and so was given to the children's home for some reason? the bbc had replaced the dome and put a hard wooden floor in so that no-one could get hurt should this thing fall over. and to be fair, the bloody thing frightened the life out of me the first time i saw it!!!

The “davros is a dalek” situation is like the exact opposite of the Frankenstein’s monster situation!

I always wonder how Ellie's gonna include River in the list 😂

5:50 Maybe that misconception got spread around in the late Tom Baker era and the Peter Davison era after the release of Destiny of the Daleks (apparently the 2nd most watched Doctor Who story on broadcast) which had lines like "The Daleks have finally met a foe worthy of their powers, ANOTHER race of robots." and other lines that imply that the war they were in was a case of robots vs robots.

I love when new WhoCulture videos come out, they just make my day much better

"Daleks can't use stairs" is one of those gripes of mine

The fact that Moffat debunked the idea that Daleks must appear because of a contractual obligation to the Terry Nation estate firmly puts this myth to bed. Not only was he one of the longest-running show-runners/producers of Doctor Who, but his mother-in-law was Terry Nation's agent!

While Davros is not a Dalek, he is genetically similar enough (being a Kaled) to be affected by the Movellan virus as seen in _Resurrection of the Daleks._

I'm sorry, love! But that's NOT a whisk the Daleks tote around, but a camping clothes dryer! I have two of them, my self, and have just decided to use one of them for a fancy dress party later this year when I go as Dalek in a tuxedo! 🥰 BTW, loved the video!

Great video. People calling the Daleks Robots was and is my biggest pet peeve. My all time favourite Dalek stories are The Dalek Invasion of Earth and Genesis of the Daleks.

In Resurrection of the Daleks Davros literally yells "I am not a Dalek!" As he is getting messed up by an anti-Dalek virus. Guess he forgot that Daleks are just a mutated form of Kaled.

I always thought the "egg whisk" was the skeleton of a paint roller.

Enjoyed watching so much Dalek footage. Watching episodes "live", at least in Classic Who when stories usually had 4 or 6 episodes, you know you have to wait until the end of the first episode at least before sighting a Dalek (or part of one!) A shout-out for the superb Peter Miles and his portrayal of Nyder, one of the most evil and coolly nasty minions ('Genesis of the Daleks').

They're not bumps. They're etheric beam locators!

Before I ever got into Doctor Who, I always used to say Daleks looked like bins with flashing lights. Yeah, I thought the bumps were lights 😂

it always INFURIATES ME when someone says daleks are robots. happens around me more than you'd think

It would be awesome if you made one of these about the weeping angels!

People thought Davros was a Dalek? But....they wanted to kill him in Genesis Of The Daleks because he wasn't a Dalek.....?

"Remembrance of the Daleks" has always been my favourite Dalek story with "Genesis of the Daleks" coming in a close second.

3:30 I'm sure in Genesis of the Daleks the 'a' of Kaled was pronounced exactly like the 'a' of Dalek - i.e. Karled

As a long time Canadian fan, I have always heard Darlek. Perhaps it is due to the accent that we over the pond have always thought it was pronounced with an R.

For #10 so let me this straight, just because the FULL prop isn't in the scene there is no Dahlek in the scene. If that logic holds NEITHER IS THE ACTRESS BECAUSE WE CAN'T SEE PART OF HER!!!

9:20 the planet Vulcan was originally hypothesised to exist in our universe, until astronomers discovered that it didn't. I believe that this is why it has been used in multiple sci-fi franchises, rather than being an "original Roddenberry creation".

Cusick said it could just as easily have been a salt cellar that he used to demonstrate the Dalek's movement.

I love the Daleks! Favourite enemy of the Doctor, well, next to the Master. Favourite story with them would be Remembrance of the Daleks, Resolution and Eve of the Daleks. Can't go wrong with Ace and her baseball bat.

Technically it didn’t start as an egg whisk it was a paint roller with the brush part taken off

Eric Luskin of Chanel 23 was someone in the end who actually championed the show and brought a crew over to do a documentary about Silver Nemesis..... but he did not start out that way. And remember, The Seventh Doctor corrected Ace, at the beginning of Remembrance when she said Darlek while they were driving.

I absolutely love the stolen earth, and Journeys end. Two Brilliant Dalek stories in my opinion. I loved this video, its really interesting to see what we've all been getting wrong, about the Daleks all these years. Thank you for all your awesome Doctor who videos, I look forward to seeing the next one. Allons-y!!!! 💙

The dome lights are called luminosity dischargers and their bumps are called sensor globes or hemispherical detectors

Please do this again but with Cybermen

I know where Darlek comes from. In America, PBS showed Doctor Who and they relied on pledge breaks to fund keeping the program on the air. 2 Huge competitors were Channel 12 and Channel 23 out of Philadelphia and New Jersey. During the breaks, the people who were talking about the show trying to get pledges, had little to no idea what was on the TV. They would read from cue cards or prompts to talk in American English about Doctor Who's foes, The Darleks. Trying to sound British and not having heard the word.

I remember watching the series 1 episode Dalek for the first time and my mum got so excited when the dalek elevated up the stairs to get rose and adam, she said "Finally, they found a way to get them up stairs." 😂😂😊

The imposing shot down the Dalek plunger! Strikes fear in the hearts of viewers everywhere! ;-)

Really enjoyed Day of the Daleks.. Aubrey Woods played a great bad guy in that.

Outstanding sci fi construct your Dalek. Not a great Who fan, but what do you get when a human turns its back on humanity? The Dalek fits the bill in every way.

Ah but you forget that Davros had said himself in story that he used his own cells to create the DALEKs, but I don't understand the spelling considering that Tom Baker had said the DALEK was KALED spelled backwards in an episode. I also love hearing the iconic ELLIE's intro's and outro's to WHOCULTURE videos. will never forget the "IN THE WORDS OF RIVER SONG HERSELF, GOODBYE SWEETY" Thanks Ellie for always making your videos so entertaining and educational for anyone WHO might not be a WHO fan.

When I was a kid there was,and still is, a building just around the corner from where I live that had two roof grills with a dome on top that looked exactly like the back of a Dalek. As a child I would either hide behind my mum or sneak past the building hidden from view of the 'Daleks' by crouching down behind the wall. Least one of them turned around and spotted me. The building is still there. As are the grills. Although the tops are no longer dome shaped. Having been flattened over the years by whatever force was involved in flattening them.

Didn''t know that thing about the BBC being sued by someone who claims he invented Davros as an entry to a competition..

In "Genesis of the Daleks",they actually turned on Davros, speaking for themselves...

Great video!

OK... So now that we are doing things you don't know about that include pronunciation, we need a "10 things you didn't know about Omega" so we can teach Ellie how to say it properly. :) :) :) :)

I laughed way too hard at Dardis.😂

It's not only the planet Vulcan exists in the Dr Who universe. According to the subtitles (7:38) the Doctor discovered a "derel STC". A certain other faction of half human/half machine creatures wish to know more.

In Rembrance of the Daleks, Davros was revealed as the Emperor Dalek.

Those dancers just look creepy now that the Dalek likeness is planted in my head.... ;-)

4:48 you’re forgetting the ones that swapped the energy weapon for a machine gun.

The word for "far" or "distant" in most Slavic languages is "daleko" with the a short as in cat and the single stress on the o. Possibly just coincidence.

The Dead Planet used to be the common collective name for the 7 part first Dalek serial, so it is/was the first appearance of a Dalek. (no idea why or who decided to change it, it's a much better name than The Daleks If anyone knows, feel free to enlighten me, I first noticed the change in Doctor Who Magazine)

The Recon Dalek wasn't actually remote controlled. Once the casing was completed the Recon Dalek got off Lin and jumped inside, and presumably left it while the Doctor melted it. The Defence Drones were just mobile watercannons and tear gas dispensers until the cloned Dalek mutants were transmatted into the casing, and THEN they started exterminating everything.

Dome lights? Dome lights? They are luminosity dischargers, thank you very much!

The head light is also the special weapon Dalek with none

I always thought that Tennant says dalek right, sounds more alien and feel like the R isn’t rlly heard

{1} A minor quibble, at best. {2} There has never been a mention of 'DARDIS' in all my time as a Doctor Who fan. I know SIDRAT, but the Dalek time machine is just the Dalek time machine, end of story. {3} When I was a child, I thought they were called Garlics, but that was because I wasn't use to people with accents. My mother and I joked about it afterwards, 'cause it was still funny. {4} Let's be honest, this is a case of calling a spade a spade. It looks like an egg whisk, and that's just what you end up calling it because it's funny. We all know they didn't start out that way, though, except the plunger. That's iconic. {5} I mean, *of course* special Daleks are going to look different. They have their pomp and circumstance too! {6} People may think they're robots, but the Doctor has always corrected anyone in-universe who thought so. People just don't pay attention. {7} As I understood it, Terry Nation's agreement was that the show should USE the Daleks regularly, because contract negotiations are weird, sometimes. I think the wording is actually that there must be an episode *featuring* the Daleks. Featuring can be interpreted as 'There were Daleks on-screen for some reason.', so that covers any episode in which it wasn't a Dalek-centric episode. {8} Daleks don't NEED Davros as a spokesperson. It's just that, sometimes, you want someone to break up "TALKING LIKE THIS!" with a more eloquent speaker. Davros is the answer to that because Daleks and long speeches tend to get awkward, after a while. You don't want Tom Baker listening to a DALEK going on about the morality of releasing an unstoppable virus across the universe, as Davros did. {9} Their look was not based upon a pepperpot. That is what people equate them to - that and trashbins - after th fact. {10} And finally, Davros is not technically a Dalek, but the Daleks are all - in essence - Kaleds, like he is. Because he is a Kaled mutant and the Daleks are Kaled mutants, the Movellan virus had an effect on him, but not a total one, since he was able to escape in Resurrection of the Daleks. (It's that darned life support system he's got.) What's odd is that the virus has an effect on their poly-carbide armor, making one harken back to *another* virus that is very deadly and has had an effect on plastic (The Andromeda Strain).

With the third dome light arguments the cannon dalek doesn't have some lights and it's used mostly only as a canon and less as a transport and technology interacting dalek and more as only a weapon, so the one with more lights being higher powered than the cannon in a social and legal or governmental sense

Weren't the orbs on the Dalek base sometimes used as mini bombs? In Resolution, they had missile launchers hidden behind them.

This is an entire list of ‘umm, well AKSHUALLY…’ level facts.

Definitely had some Mandela effect there because I was so sure the Daleks were spelled Darleks. Yowza! O_O

Other Daleks that don't have two dome lights: The emperor and the Special Weapons Dalek.

I can picture the main voice of Channel 12, so authoritative, the station announcer with glasses, standing around with the old Doctor Who Fan Club from New Jersey answering phones....The Prydonians of Princeton proudly talking about Darleks even while he had guests like Jon Pertwee himself there to help drum up support.

So glad you included 'Darlek', my mum and dad always called them that in the 80s.

Ellie at 2:17 you pronounced the story as: The Quantum Arch Angel. It should be pronounced: The Quantum Ark Angel. Sorry for being pedantic 😅

Third dome light could just be something that those daleks have as a way of communicating orders with every Dalek at once, it may be annoying if all daleks were in the global channel

I can only imagine Leonard Nimoy standing next to a Dalek on the planet Vulcan saying, ":Live Long and Exterminate"!!!!! Hahahahaha!🤣🤣🤣

Literally just watching this to see how many i know. Once i have, there will be an edit (probably after a scroll) saying how many i knew and which ones i did/didnt Edit: surprisingly, the only one I didnt know was number 4. However, I do have something to say about 6. The Red Supreme having a third light isn't the only Dalek to have one, so I believe that it is about identifying a higherarchy within the Daleks. In the short online animated series DALEKS, the emperor had 4 lights on its dome. So I think that it was something the Daleks adapted in the Time War as there are other Daleks within there that have multiple lights on the dome, such as the Time Controller Dalek (I believe also has three, don't quote me, may have two double check)

Davros is basically a Dalek. A Kelad scientist who hasn't made the full transition. Not the exact same thing, but close enough.

Vulcan is an actual star system. Thats why it appears in pop culture so often.

I have never thought of of a salt shaker (or pepper pot as you say in the UK). They have always looked like small tanks to me, with the eyestalk resembling a turret. I do admit to calling them Darleks as a child, until I saw the spelling & corrected myself. I can confirm that to someone raised to speak American English it does sound like many of the British actors are making an R sound.

2:33 What's the common name for that chemical compound comprising two parts hydrogen to one part oxygen? Is there an r between the a and the t?

The Darlek name origin has always been tied to twisting and making words from Irish/Scottish Gaelic in my opinion.

Davros is essentially Klaus Schwab isn't he. There's only one letter's difference between Davros and Davos, for a start.

As always great, fun video, thanks. The Daleks whose history off screen is as compelling as on. In the classic era was a gap of five years between Dalek centered episodes The Evil of the Daleks 1967 then Day of the Daleks 1972. 11 seasons didn't appear or cameo appearance(classic era). Favourite Dalek story, thats tough, my favourite Dr who story is Genesis of the Daleks so really say the same for Dalek story.

Someone needs to watch Hurt War Do as in the Barn, the box eventually became Rose Tyler

When I first started watching Doctor who as a young American I had for a very long time thought they were called garlics

Call me controversial but I love the new paradigm daleks

minor adjustment. Davros is technically an unevolved Dalek. the Daleks are supposed to be the Kaleds final evolutionary form.

wait hold on that Steve Clark design looks EXACTLY like Davros. How did he lose that case??

5:25 sorry but its more like a ponytail on its placement right behind the scalp of the dalek

I’m Northern Irish, so “Dah-lek” does roll off the tongue for me.

Number 11: Stef Coburn's dad had nothing to do with their creation.

That’s me! I am Garlek Bread literally everywhere (excluding YT)

I always thought it pronounced "Dah-Lek" with a silent "H"

That chilling voice... WOULD YOU LIKE A CUP OF TEA❓❓

Didn't realize I was so early, I thought it said 1 month not 1 minute. Love WhoCulture, thanks for another great video!

in case anyone, like me, was wonderin, she saying mad Kaled scientist, the Kaleds are the original people mutated and irradiated and put into the dalek shell

Dah-lek. To be honest, I have never thought of putting an R in there 😅

The name Vulcan has nothing to do with Spock. In the early days of astronomy, it was thought there was another planet between Mercury named the Sun, they named it before it was found,. then Einstein turned up with his laws of relativity and planetary motion, telling every one that's how it works, so there is no extra planet.

Daleks are the end form of the Kaled people as Davros envisioned them - Davros would be a few steps back on a few potential forks in the road. The Thals - though a different race of the same world - never end up as Daleks as they naturally breed and were not created in a lab.

* Another thing that might have been mentioned perhaps is how people doing impressions of Daleks always say "I am a Dalek". Why would they need to introduce themselves by saying that? Surely it's pretty bloody obvious

I had an acquaintance that tried to "correct" my pronunciation of Daleks by saying it was "Darleks" with heavy emphasis on the erroneous "r". It was either that or they thought I was pronouncing the name with the r and pronounced some even weirder way.

Try watching this video with the subtitles on to see how many different ways DALEK can be spelt

I never noticed before, Missy tickling that dalek's... yeah....

That's a good list.

11:03 as if the BBC did not rip of that design for Davros.