I watched Doctor Who from the first episode in November 1963. It was an instant hit, and the BBC had to repeat the first episode a week later, before broadcasting the second episode, because of the requests from people who had missed it. The Beeb had never repeated a science fiction drama before that. To a child, the Daleks were the scariest dustbins [trashcans] ever invented. When the Daleks first appeared, on a Saturday night, during the second or third season, all of the kids in our local school were going around the playground on Monday morning with one eye shut, and arms extended, repeating 'Ex-Ter_Mi-Nate! in freaky voices. The school teachers hadn't a clue about what was going on. But at least we had learned a new word. The craze went on for months. The other really scary villains in early Who stories were the Cybermen. Somehow they were much more frightening than the later Cybermen. Next up were the Silurians; another recurrent theme. There were also a few other early robotic enemies, such as the Krotons and the Jumblies, but the Jumblies in particular were a joke in comparison to the Daleks. One big thing was that there was never any blood and gore. Kids don't need to be shocked by seeing it; a good story leaves all of that up to the imagination. That art is mostly lost nowadays. Daleks evaporated people, and Cybermen turned them into robots. That's where the scriptwriters exercised a great deal of skill, much of which is lost to modern writers and producers. Modern Doctor Who stories are rubbish, despite the much flashier sets, and the sexual content detracts from good storytelling with a moral to it. Why isn't the Doctor a paragon of goodness, who never resorts to needless violence, whilst rescuing the Earth from evil; something wholesome for youngsters to look up to and emulate? What's wrong with 'keeping it clean'? All that is happening nowadays is that children are being taught to accept and copy violence. And then we wonder why it's becoming much more difficult to bring up our offspring as decent human beings who add to society, rather than destroying it. After more than 60 years of the series' history, I've found the last few years of tales to be not worth watching. And that's sad. I'll watch the surviving classic stories, wobbly sets and all, over and again, and enjoy both the tales and the skills of the characters. But today's stories are one-shot ponies, at best. They're more likely to be turned off part way through an episode.

Supreme Dalek leader is unimpressed.

Ha Ha !

this is my childhood this is the first video i watched this is the best

I remember watching this montage when I was in middle school. It still cracks me up.

It's now 2024 and the Daleks are standing in the UK General Election. Vote for our alien overlords

Best "Baddies" ever created.

0:34 dalek: I rule them all I am the master

0:34 Dalek: I rule them all I am the master

"You will accept the fruit basket! You will accept! You will accept!"

There's also a blooper where a Dalek chasing the Doctor gets lost and of course, the one where the Doctor Donna starts playing with a group of them.

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Looks like first daleks were very fragile

Dalek - "You are a putz, you are a putz" PT -" Where did you learn that?" Dalek - "The guest star taught me" PT - "Bernard, have you been teaching the Daleks naughty Yiddish slang again?" BB - (low chuckle) "Well, they only arsked"!

I did not knew Daleks are funny and crazy 😂

Daleks at one moment are the most dangerous beings in the entire universe or even multiverse, at another they are that

this video is so epic

I see that production of "Springtime for Davros" is moving along well.

daieks

1:53 Defenestration of the Daleks.

Its funny how weak they where back then one was betten by a dame hat then another betten by a golf club now it takes a rpg (if your lucky)

The most dangerous species in the universe

Wait till ELEVATE

From comical (oldWho) to terrifying (early nuWho), and then back to comical (wokeNuWho).

this is literally the worst thing I have ever seen 🤣🤣🤣

1:42 I always laugh at that part.

Dizzy, Dizzy, Dizzy Daleks should've been on here

Anyone know which episodes had the dalek getting hit by the truck and the dalek falling off a boat into the sea?

"Why do you have chairs on a Dalek ship anyways?" "Girl, stfu"

Swriously these guys at times are so comedic and just absolutly ADORABLE. the desighn of their metal body is so fukcing cute, a large mechanical box with 2 little arms one being a pluge, and a single eye stalk that rotats around, with the eye stalk rotating eractically and the arms only slighty moving it's so cute, they're even more adorable in their lego desighn.

Patrick steward's first job at the Beeb was as a Dalek Operator.

I want the 'In case of Daleks, use stairs" sign

Lmao I love the "in case of Daleks, use stairs"

Did...did that Dalek just commit suicide at 0:27?

2:39 A trans rights Dalek? Ain't that backwards!

this video made the daleks look more cute than terrifying

0:52 a dalek has a seizure

I loved seeing Ace beating up a Dalek with a Baseball Bat.

0:30: Oh my lord... can you imagine that in the modern series? The Cult Of Skaro on the run until suddenly a besuited man picks up Dalek Jast and bodyslams him into the tiles as if the alien is little more than an empty dustbin?

Behold the most feared creatures in the galaxy, a compost bin with the inability to traverse uneven terrain

The daleks were just pathetic before 2005. Did they have the idea of daleks being creatures inside casings in the classic episodes or where they just considered robots?

this is the best thing on the internet /hj

i love barbie dalek at the end

That's the first time I've ever seen the William Hartnell inside a Dalek clip! Amazing - thank you!

Sorry, but this was one reason I could never take Dr. Who seriously.

Sorry guys, Tennant’s last line SUCKS! “I don’t want to go” is a pathetic way to go. I hope he gets a better send off this year when he regenerates into Ncuti.

7th's arrival was so funny.

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Wouldn't be quite so scary if they could still be defeated by being run over with a truck.