Do you think that Slyther gave the inspiration for the New Who Slitheens? The name is similar and their appearance has some elements that could be an interpretation of the earlier shape shifting monsters (they kept changing shape that is).

It kind of looked like a Cybermat!

@@colinp2238 I wonder if it was the inspiration for the Rutons???

THIS!!! And it's broken my heart since I was 11 that The Daleks series was never made. The BBC recently made a short animated version of a Daleks series based largely on David Whitaker's The Dalek Chronicles comics, and remade Mission to the Unknown with actors and everything. These were a blast but they were light, and it's high time they take it further and allow the Daleks to be the truly ruthless and genocidal nuclear, biological (Slythers and Varga Plants!!!), and chemical warfare threat they used to be in the original Doctor Who series. The Daleks of the new Doctor Who series are profoundly hamstrung from their true menace by the lighter tone of the new series combined with the Doctor's now Jesus-level powers. It doesn't help that the Daleks have long mostly been caricatures of themselves. The heart of the Daleks is to be found in the original 1963 serial, before they became caricatures- they were much more interesting as originally conceived, not as evil but simply ruthlessly determined to survive no matter the cost. Remember- the Thals started the war! The premise of the original serial was that only one of these two peoples could now survive on Skaro. One of these tribes must be exterminated. That's a lot stronger and more nuanced and sympathetic than what they became from The Dalek Invasion of Earth on. The Dalek voices from that initial serial were also far more full of nuance and far more conversational than they have been ever since. They would be more effective and a lot scarier and a lot less annoying to non-fanatics if they talked like this normally and save the full Nick Briggs for when the Scheiße gets real. Doctor Who is always at its strongest when the horror element is emphasized, and not undercut by self-parody. It seems downright sexist that Jodie Whitaker as the 13th Doctor has been given a run of mostly lightweight episodes, not touching the dark depths that the previous new Doctors seem to have enjoyed, typically after an initial uneven series of silliness. She's had two mostly silly series- though the Byron/ Shelleys and Cybermen stuff etc is going in the right direction- and they're already talking of replacing her? Too soon. They need to put her through the kind of dark and rich stuff that Tennant, Capaldi, and even Smith got to enjoy by the end of their runs- the best of it among the strongest Doctor Who ever. But the Daleks now are rarely a part of that level of fear, except for the odd and excellent cameo that thinks outside the box. These are all things that should be returned to- to make the Daleks interesting again. Interesting enough to carry their own series! This is just some friendly advice to Nick Briggs and the rest of the Doctor Who team based on a lifetime in fear of Doctor Who (On PBS it came on after Mister Rogers and Sesame Street weekday afternoons when I got home from school in Colorado! Goddamn, the fear!!) from a former Weird Tales assistant editor under Scithers and Schweitzer. In fact, on that note a good rule of thumb would likely be that the Daleks should be as alien and ambiguous and hard to comprehend in many respects as the Mi-Go (The Whisperer in Darkness) and Elder Ones (At the Mountains of Madness) of Lovecraft's fiction that seem in many ways to have likely inspired the Daleks- the brain jars, the shoggoth slaves (Slyther anyone?), the vast swathes of time and distance, the resurrections after long periods of stasis, the ruthless biological experiments, etc etc. “God, what intelligence and persistence! What a facing of the incredible, just as those carven kinsmen and forbears had faced things only a little less incredible! Radiates, vegetables, monstrosities, star spawn -- whatever they had been, they were men!” C-thu-lhu fh-tag-n R'l-yeh!!

With Russell T Davis returning as showrunner I could see him planning out new spinoffs for Doctor Who. perhaps he could return to the original idea of the Dalek spin off the destroyers? Think about it the concept of a show center around humans going to war and barely surviving against the Daleks without the doctor by there side would make a great dark gritty series.

@@Howyaduing Hells yeah! I would argue that the SSS concepts of Doctor Who and The Destroyers eventually became the Terran Federation of Blake's Seven. Which itself I consider a spinoff of Doctor Who, given who worked on it and the fact that that it was Nation's intention that the Daleks appear.

Can confirm.

Mandolinic Naughty.

Especially now the BBC has moved there.

Council blamed the Daleks but I reckon the Salford Regeneration Scheme had just got a bit out of hand by 2150AD

In the film dalek invasion earth with Peter Cushing It was Bedfordshire I remember Peter Cushing said we can’t go to Watford the place Is crawling with daleks

They're so we'll done aren't they!

Why the quotation marks? Are you implying the DVDs aren't official?

Thank you!

Ashton's ansesstor also disliked this. I should know cos he sells drugs down my road...

Great to hear! 😀

Thank you. That’s really appreciated!

Thank you! 🙂

i think the toxic tone comes from the new who prog. God bless the classics.

@@Amaryllis28 Umm sorry to disagree but all the toxicity I've encountered comes from old Who fans objecting to "new" Who.....

Ahhaaaa and there we have the answer dear Marcus. . What we have now (and have had for the past couple of years) is NOT Dr.Who. Not even a shadow. Dr.Who fans are all charming fluff buckets... mind you we did kick off a bit when Peter Davison took over from Tom...And again every-time John Nathan -Turner popped up in one of his Hawaiian shirts :/

@@nygelgharrot4024 Well I can assure you I've encountered some hardcore DW "fans" that definitely aren't "charming fluff". Anyhow let's not get into this here.... Besides, I'm specifically a Dalek enthusiast more than I am a Doctor Who fan...... Cheers X

Thank you! 😂

Thank you Kevin. That’s really appreciated!

My bad! I should have made it clear that it’s pure conjecture on my part! Oops! I’m sure I’ll be answering this question over and over! 🙈 ~ Gav

@@Dalek6388 Not that you intended it, but to me, personally, it resembles an oversized, "gun metal" grey CyberMat. Sincerely, Bill

Glad you liked it and thank you! I have my piece of fibreglass too!

Thank you’

I hope you are enjoying the videos!

Imagine a new Dr Who story in which some very battered 1960's Daleks emerge from the Lake at Cliff Reach Blue Water with a slyther or 2, take over the police station there and start converting police officers into robomen (not much change) and no one notices. We've seen zombies in a shopping mall but have we seen daleks in shops?

Of course, the changes did leave some plot holes, but glad to see that the film version worked to correct them.

Thank you!

Thanks!

Stuart my dear old chum. How right you are. Isn't this just the BEST channel. It's like having proper Dr.Who back. And of course ALL the best people come here :)

@@nygelgharrot4024 Absolutely. Where you been keeping yourself? Goodness. You've made my day. 😁

Seeing your little face smiling at me from the comments made my day too. I subscribed to your channel a few months ago. I'm well. Do drop me a line... www.nygelgharrot.co.uk We shall have a good old fashioned Scottish knees up :)

Thank you Matt!

Thank you!

Yes! I considered covering their appearance in Big Finish, in “Masters of Earth.” I also pondered explaining the Waking Ally too, but it’s actually not very interesting! Wyler was asleep for a bit ... and then woke up! 🤣

@@Dalek6388 Wait, THAT'S who The Waking Ally is?! Had always wondered. Fantastic video as always by the way!

It's funny how the 10nth doctors Stolen Earth arc finally explained why the daleks wanted to tow the earth halfway across the universe.

Dalek 63•88 Thanks for clearing that up! Will definitely check out ‘Masters of Earth’. And thanks for showing Raymond Cusick’s original Dalek mutant design, I’ve never seen that before - would’ve been interesting to see it realised on the screen. It appears to be gasping in surprise.

Yes! Take a look at our two Shepperton videos beginning with part one here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zt-Vgrtzs7G1pKc.html

Gav has done a great job with that!

😝

Well that bit of fibreglass was part of the Death Zone Dalek so it’s pretty close!

Hopefully more to come!

If we can find an interesting enough angle then yes it’s a possibility!

Lets hope that there are no complexions... BOOM BOOM Happy Times and Places.

John A Shawcraft were at 69 Rockingham Road, UB8 2UA.

endofthelane1 Oh my god... thank you so much - I just Googled that road and I know exactly where it is (not far from where I'm working!) I'm SO doing that during my lunch-hour on Monday!

I thought that

Woah. As a kid I used to draw Dalek variants that I called Dalmats, basically the dome section crawling on the floor. Not thought of that in years.

@@aukondk you have copyrighted them 👍😁

Stephen Ward ooh, I like the sounds of that, not something we’ve seen before, I dong think, Dalek/Cyberman mash ups, and I bet they could do it well, now.

Interesting. I’d never heard of a dude venting revolver before now! Now I get why it looks so odd!

@@Dalek6388 Dude venting? Darned auto-correct i suspect.

Ha oh yeah!